A Foray into Five Leagues

This is where I’ll start detailing my Five Leagues play-through. I won’t go into the rules too much, partly because, like all rules, they can make dry reading, but mostly to try and maintain a sense of immersion. I will need to clarify/explain some things like choices and results, but on the whole, I’ll try to keep things narrative.

If anyone wants to ask anything, please feel free to chime in at any time. If anyone wants to play along, you can pick up your own copy of Five Leagues from the Borderlands here. You can easily play using just dice, pencil and paper. Minis and scenery are optional – just use either graph paper or a battlemat and meeples, pogs, pawns, standees, 2D paper tokens pasted onto bits of card, whatever you have to hand.

My Warband: The Felhunters
The Heroes:
Vulfila – male (Avatar)
Agility 1        Speed 5         Combat Skill 0            Toughness 4               Will 2             Luck 1
Skills: Scrounging – When Looting, roll a 6 for a bonus Loot roll.
Quality warhammer (+1 vs Armour)
Full Armour, Shield

Evoric – male (Retainer) If within 6” of the Avatar, they will be unaffected by any game rule that forces them to flee or would paralyze or penalize them due to terror or fear.
Agility 1        Speed 4         Combat Skill 1            Toughness 3               Will 0             Luck 1
Skills: Tactics – Gain a +1 bonus when rolling to Seize Initiative.
Quality bastard sword (+1 vs Toughness)
Partial Armour, Helmet

Hathus – male
Agility 2        Speed 4         Combat Skill 0            Toughness 3               Will 0             Luck 2
Skills: Endurance – Reduce combat injury recovery time by 1 turn.
Self-bow (Range 18”. Ammo limit after first shot), dagger (If enemy is Armoured, add +1. If no other weapon, +1 Agility)
Light Armour

Avina – female
Agility 2        Speed 4         Combat Skill 1            Toughness 3               Will 0             Luck 2
Skills: Foraging – Roll 2 additional dice when Foraging.
Dagger (If an enemy is Armoured, add +1. If no other weapon, +1 Agility), quality Longbow (Range 24” Ammo limit after first shot)
Light Armour

Their followers:
Follower Base stats:   Agility 1        Speed 4         Combat Skill 0            Toughness 3

Edvard is a Hopeful Youth (male).
Skill: Gambling – Increase winnings by +1 when Gambling.
Cudgel (If an enemy is Armoured, add +1. If no other weapon, +1 Agility)
Light armour

Lars is a Hired Guide (male).
Self-bow (Range 18”. Ammo limit after first shot), dagger (If an enemy is Armoured, add +1. If no other weapon, +1 Agility)
Militia armour

Ulrik is a Stout Yeoman with an unusual background (male). Witch slayer – Unaffected by any form of sorcery or magic, whether benign or malign.
Hunting spear
Militia armour

Katrine is a Roving Wanderer (female). [Her Agility is 2 due to dagger]
Dagger (If the enemy is Armoured, add +1. If no other weapon, +1 Agility)
Militia armour

Warband Loot: 15 gold coins.

Stash: Two doses of Medical Herbs.

Story Points: 6

The warband was generated using the standard rules from the game. I’ll be playing the campaign on what’s called ‘warband level’ which is effectively vanilla standard. There is an easier version and a few more difficult/challenging levels, but for now, I thought I’d keep things relatively simple.

These are the additional/expansion packs I will be playing with: