
However, if you're the sort of person who sees this, and continues to crave more (or if you just enjoy a good tabletop experience), then A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game might just be the thing you need. Here's why you should join the battle for the Iron Throne! Initially familiar, but ultimately unique From the original, incomplete book series, to the HBO adaptation that's kept the world entranced for ten years, to the myriad of physical and digital games, to the comics, there's something for everyone. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is an inescapable media juggernaut. It's a great way to add strategy to what would normally appear as a very simply gameplay system.George R. So, yes, while there's an area control, dice chucking good time happening on the main battlefield, you've got a HIGHLY competitive worker placement game happening at the SAME TIME, and I think that's just incredibly smart. Pro Tip: If your opponent is playing Cersei, ALWAYS claim the crown before they do. These NCUs can claim an open Zone on the Tactics Board which not only triggers an effect, like restoring Wounds to a Unit or giving a Unit a free Attack, but the symbols associated with each Zone have synergy with different Tactics and Character Cards, upgrading the effect of those Cards if you control a specific symbol on the Tactics Board!

This is the Tactics Board, and on your turn, instead of moving one of your army Units, you can activate a Non-Combat Unit, characters who have no right on the battlefield per se, like Sansa Stark or Cersei Lannister, but can help influence the outcome by raising support or bribing soldiers. And that's AWESOME! Because, let's be honest, the horse decapitating, man impaling, skull crushing Mountain would definitely lead an army differently than the expert dueling, opportunistic, king slaying Jaime, right? This means that if we're both playing as Lannisters, but if I have Jaime as my Commander and you have The Mountain as yours, we will both have VERY different tricks and play styles. The Commander is a free character that adds unique cards to the Tactics Deck.

You see, each player gets what's called a Tactics Deck which is made up of all the sneaky, tricksy stuff that you can do on your turn, and a lot of times on your opponent's turn, when the time is right. You also have named fan favorite characters such as the Hound or Bronn, that you can add to these units (for a cost) which give them additional abilities or modified stats.īut the most important choice you'll have to make is in your Commander.


If the players were going to play a 30 point game, this player would have 25 more points to spend to fill out his army. For example, a unit of 12 Stark Sworn Swords (4 of whom are pictured above) costs 5 points.
