@worldnamer We went 15? I think.

@worldnamer And then the final battle was anti-climactic as we just exploded with good luck. I don't think we lost a single named character. That I cannot blame on the system or gm, sometimes a run of luck happens. But I felt that it was a bit cheap in the end. Pics done by me of my Commander and Lt. characters.

@worldnamer It didn't matter because it was never addressed... we just went to the next junction. As for time, we got to Skydagger very quickly. Then our prep for the siege really came down to mechanical choices... despite having considerable time to train and engineer a stout defense. I've read a lot of military history, I've played a lot of wargames, I just felt like it didn't matter what ideas we came up, we were regulated to making these abstract, mechanical choices.

@chloethecartographer I look forward to the next one.

@worldnamer yes... kinda..... I think that was a big issue. Like because the Horde was revealed to having a flying corp, I took the forest route, to prevent/limit aerial recon and to slow an undead army that had no idea what the forest was (also revealed in the fiction). And that came out to naught. It didn't do anything mechanically and we were going to run into the Horde outlier forces no matter what we planned or did.

@worldnamer I was in a Band of Blades game. I really appreciate the amount of work that went into the world. It wasn't, however, a raging success. It felt very railroady to me the way we played it. Like, I came up with ideas on how to slow the horde down, how to navigate the woods, how to send out scouting parties and all of that was met with... nothing....the only way we moved forward was to roll dice and deal with the consequences. Love the idea though. I am so glad I played it.

@Judd Nice reply Judd. I liked the bit about captured by Strahd and how to make that a cool opportunity.

@chloethecartographer That is a spectacular map!!!!