Hello? I've never really known how to start one of these, so lets just jump into it and forego the pleasantries.
Basically, I started playing miniature wargames back when I was 8, when my dad brought home a box set for Warhammer 5th edition. Over the next 9 years I played Warhammer, warhammer 40 and their spin offs, and sadly, grew disinterested in the game. For the most part I found problems in the game and how the company was managing the series that had made such a huge impact in my childhood and with the exception of Mordhiem, as well as a brief sojourn into playing war of the rings when it was first released, I really haven't done any modelling or playing to speak of over the last few years.
So while always trying to find something that gets my attention as a game in the same way that Mordhiem did (and still does, making it GWs best made model game since Necromunda, the first few 6th edition warhammer books and Gorkamorka) me and my dad looked around and tried this and that. We even tried out a homemade LoTR Mordhiem mash-up, but that never even left playtesting.
But a few weeks back, my dad found the sight for splintered light miniatures and through them and their beautiful models, the Song of series of games. So looking it up and reading reviews, we decided to give it a try and ordered the books. And honestly, they have one of the best books out for skirmish games I have ever seen, putting it up there with necromunda and mordhiem for me (which while may be not high to others, is the holy grail of skirmish gaming to me).
The game has the perfect combination of ease of play, affordability of models and books, replayability and good game balance (a major must and a game breaker with many games.). So we decided to play the Song of Splintered Lands Standalone game, which is partly inhabited by redwall-esque humanized animals, dwarves, kobolds, beasts, and goblins to name a few of the factions. And since I never like the good guys, and am a certified Skaven lunatic, ferret owner and lover of the bad guy, I decided to side up with the flowering, rebellious animals in the animal civil war. Populated by wily weasils, rabid rats, and foxes (couldn't think of a f word) to name a few of the bloodthirsty animals, it looks like this could be alot of fun.
