HOUSE BOLTON FACTION OVERVIEW – A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game – 2024 Edition

“Lord Bolton, he used to say a naked man has few secrets, but a flayed man’s got none.” – Theon Greyjoy

“Every great lord has unruly bannermen who envy him his place. My father had the Reynes and the Tarbecks, the Tyrells have the Florents, Hoster Tully had Walder Frey. Only strength keeps such men in their place. The moment they smell weakness …. during the Age of Heroes, the Boltons used to flay the Starks and wear their skins as cloaks.” – Jaime Lannister to Brienne of Tarth

In the cold tundra of the North past the noble battlements of Winterfell, lies the cold dark denizens of the Dreadfort. Home to the cunning and manipulative House Bolton, governed by The Leech Lord, Roose Bolton.

For years Roose has fought, served and carried for the Wardens of the North quietly waiting for an opportunity to lay claim to the title himself. The war of the five kings may be the opportunity. Who can really believe a House that not only flayed its enemies, but wore their skins as cloaks would ever truly be honourable.

In the game House Bolton lay down a barrage of panic tokens, not only to push through their panic damage but to spend as currency. Truly representative of a House that uses terror pay off their debts.

They offer a budding general a decent amount of healing potential and can hit quite hard with the right cards. They can heal up when they need to but not as efficiently as the servants of House Greyjoy. They can get the big impact turns when needed but can’t have as many as House Stark. And they offer some control in the form of punishing/stopping the opponent doing what they want, but not as much as House Lannister can. Jack of all, master of none….

As a brand new mini faction options may be slightly limited, but despite this putting up some slight limitations, we have plenty of new stuff to talk about. Join Grant in the latest episode of our Faction Overview series when he is joined by the North’s very own Aaron Taylor aka “Midnight” to discuss the most cunning and ruthless of Houses.

Unfurl the Banners of a House Bolton for now is the time of The Red Kings….

Let us know in the comments what your favorites are, which tricks we’ve missed, and how you play your House Boltons! Grab a goblet of Claret as “we drink and know things” together!!

Intro: 00:00:00
Units: 00:05:53
Attachments: 00:27:20
Commanders: 00:45:45
NCU’s: 00:56:55
Final Thoughts: 01:10:51

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how’s it going the song of and fire fans it’s Grant from ye catch Miniatures here bringing you the next installment of our faction overview series for A Song of Ice and Fire the Miniatures game and today we’re going to be having a look at House Bolton now if you’ve been around the community and around the game for a little while you’ll understand that House Bolton are quite a tricky faction to get your head into and to make work if you check out the stats on song of w and fire stats you’ll see that they’ve been extremely low for the for basically their entirety of their existence but it’s quite cooling that a low ranking faction does attract more competitive players because they enjoy their challenge which is really cool and you also find that the people playing them that aren’t super super competitive playing for the fluff reasons because they are a very very fluffy faction you know the stuff that their cards do the stuff that that the units want to do is all really focused around the Panic stuff but because they’re so difficult to make work it’s taking us a little while to decide exactly who it is we need on Bard to talk about these guys and how to make them work and to give you some really good advice so had a conversation with somebody and they really seem to understand what it is that they’re trying to do as a faction so I thought instead of having a load of conversation with him on Facebook I’ll bring him onto the channel to have a chat and that’s Aaron Taylor AKA midnight Aaron is part of the Dead meta gaming guys up north in Darlington they run their own tournaments to great success and that’s run by um Aaron and Allen and they’ve been around the community since day one they’ve played the game for a very long while one of if not the largest song of R and fire community in the UK they’re very much present at all major tournaments which is really cool so yeah I’m not going to get too much into what Bolton’s do now and I won’t get too much in a dead metagame because I’m sure aon’s going to speak to us a little bit about it before we get started but without further Ado welcome to the facts and overview series of House Bolton let’s go get [Music] Aaron how’s it going s and fire fans it’s GR from ye catch Miniatures here bring you the next installment of our faction overview series and I’ve got on the call me right now Aaron Taylor AKA midnight from dead meta gaming how’s it going Aaron yeah fantastic thank you uh thank you for having me on and yeah I’m I’m looking forward to breaking down some uh factions yeah well we need your help mate we need your help they’re um they they’re very low on the rankings at the minute so we need an expert to come on to show the world how to win tournaments with uh with a limited amount of units and uh and attachments uh well I’ll we’ll certainly give it a goore well M you can lead a hor to but you can’t make it drink well you can lead a hor to but you can’t fly it apparently um hi okay man so just first off you know I know that you’re you’re sort of widely known in the community but I don’t if you want to give us s rundown of who you are a little bit about your club and your your your your experience in the song of w and fire uh yeah so uh my name’s Aaron I’m midnight on the discords uh I created dead meta gaming uh a few years back just to kind of bring uh our local community together uh as as a gaming group that would be uh recognized whenever we went to tournaments and things like that um we’ve been playing a song r on fire for for quite a while um I think since 20120 maybe 2019 is um and we travel I’ve traveled to lots and lots of different tournaments uh usually with a a big cohort of the of the lads uh and uh myself personally I I usually play us quite well um uh I’m going to put that down more to luck than anything um but yeah uh bolon is a is something I’ve been really trying to crack uh so I’m excited excited for this awesome awesome great stuff so what we do eron is normally when we so we do these things what I’ll do is I’ll I’ll open the floor for 30 seconds just you to give me a quick rundown or give the listeners a quick rundown of what the bottom play style is what their faction identity is and what they’re trying to do with as a faction as a whole yeah uh so so Bolton’s um it took me a while to try and think of what I thought the the faction breaked out like what their identity was and the the easy one is panic um they they do a lot around panic and they they cause a lot of Panic checks a lot of morale checks things like that um but if you delve deeper into it I think it’s I think it’s more the Panic toen is their identity they they do a lot with the toen uh the condition talken panic and they use that to to manipulate um the game into their favor so they can they can like expend Panic tokens for things more than Panic checks so I would say as an overarching thing I would say toen player would be their their identity around the Panic talken yeah that’s quite interesting really because when you sort of think of B ones and what we what you initially you think they’re about is about Panic test but you abolutely spot on there it’s more about the Panic token itself and being able to spend it as currency which is it’s really cool which to be fair is exactly what Bolton do yeah Okay cool so let’s get stuck into it then so um first up on screen we’ve got the Cutthroat so this is a fiveo unit we’ve seen it in the the game uh since it’s its initial release but uh this is different artwork um they’re a fivepoint unit they have movement of five they have the ruthless aggression attack profile of 764 hitting on a 3 plus they have a five plus armor save and a 7 plus morale and the ruthless aggression attack comes with the vicious keyword and states that when attacking enemies that have not activated this round they may roll attack Dice and the defender becomes vulnerable so this is a really really cool fiveo unit Aon we’ve seen it quite a lot in different various different factions but do you want to give us a breakdown of where their place is within the bottom faction itself um yeah it’s a fantastic little unit for Five Points you couldn’t really ask for more uh I would say this is more of the on the aggressive side for boltons um they have another fivepoint unit which I’m sure we’ll be covered later which is more on the defensive side uh this unit hits like a little truck uh seven dice hitting on threes with the potential to make somebody vulnerable uh you you can get a lot of a lot of damage through with that um with with them being uh the morale 7 uh I think they are quite susceptible to to kind of being a bit of a glass Cannon but uh all round just solid unit hits hard and quite quick I think with the cut throws because they’ve been around a little while I think sometimes they’re quite easy to sort of look over for some of the other newer units but they are really good being able to roll when you’re attacking an enemy that hasn’t activated obviously opens up the opportunity to charge over bogs and not have to worry about you know the disorderly charge unless you obviously want to play tactic cards but you know you’re getting your R rolls yeah exactly they’re they’re a solid solid unit that that has quite consistent damage output um I think that consistency drops off the later you use them in the round so you are kind of encouraged to to use them earlier on maybe they’re the prime target for the swords pack or um if you want to if you want to activate them as your first activation say like round two or three when you’re just finishing setting up them charges yeah definitely great unit great unit um next up we have the Dreadful Spearman so this is the second fireo unit you just alluded to they are brand new for the um uh for the Bolton release they’re not a nutrient that can be shared by other units like some of the other bot units are they’re purely house bottom um they are a movement five they have the impaling spear attack profile which is a 774 so that standard uh non-degrading attack profile for the first two ranks that we always see on Spearman um hitting on a four plus with a four plus armor save and a 7even plus morale they have the order set for charge so when this unit is successfully charged from the front or flank if this unit is not engaged with another enemy it performs one melee attack action on the attacker before they perform their melee attack and the impaling spear attack profile is after completing this attack if this destroyed an enemy rank or enemies in short range of the attacker become panicked now when these were first released on paper they looked really really good to me I’ve really I’ve got two units in my garage that are I’m trying to make work um I’m not having great success of them but I’m hoping you’re about to give me the uh unlock the secrets of dread FKS bearman Aaron so uh these guys are actually I I love these guys uh and I think they possibly uh there could almost be an auto include depending on your commander um so these guys are really good when you can give them um H uh horrific Visage if you give these guys horrific Visage it makes them just an absolute nightmare to charge um so somebody like the Ramsey Commander when he’s in there um you set for charge first then you you take the horrific Visage so you’re going to be taking damage from the the set for charge attack which then if you destroy a rank everybody within short range of the Spearman is going to become panicked including the unit that has just charged you so then when they go to hit you before performing the melee attack the uh the horrific Fage kicks in which you can then expend the Panic token on to cause even more damage so these guys on their own I would would say quite an average unit but I’d say these these are one of the one of the units that benefits the most from the the ever increasing number of Buffs that Bolton kind of dish out periodically through the game or through through attachments automatic straight away then this conversation is is is paying me dividends touch so yeah I I genuinely love these guys and uh I’m I’m looking at building lists around around to to dread fought Spearman because I think I think they they they’re such an untapped unit I don’t think people are exploring them as much as they should be yeah and I think you know um there’s such great sculps as well so when you can actually get a use on a battle I know some people are a bit skeptical with the big shoulder pads but that’s not every single sculp that’s just one of the sculps I really like sculp I think they’re really cool I think you know they’re very chosy sanesi dark healthy looking I really like them so any reason to get these guys on the table I’m all four oh yeah definitely uh next up we have this uh the next uh pure Bolton unit so you can’t set this neutral this is purely a a Bolton unit this is the Dreadful archers um they’re a Sixpoint unit they have movement of fire they have a long ranged ruthless volley attack which is a 774 3 plus to hit they have a short sword attack profile for melee which is a 543 hitting on a 5 plus they have a six plus armor save and a 7even plus morale and they come with a ruthless volley uh rule which is really cool because it’s very similar to the Stark archers which is really which is you know because obviously both Northern houses I quite like how that ties together so they ignore units and terrain when determined line of sight when attacking enemies uh engaged enemies it gains precision and may roll in your attack dice your friendly units engaged with that enemy suffer one wound on top of the panic test it will usually suffer um I really like these guys there and I think only beef for these is they got a six plus armor save and they’re quite clearly encased in baked bean can so I would like to have see more armor but you know they’re range unit range units tend to have a really bad armor save but yeah how are you using these guys um first off I wholeheartedly agree with you about the armor save uh they look just as armored as the uh rela light Bringers yet their save is far worse yeah um these guys absolute stars of the show of any any game that you have with them these guys will be the workor of the list um they they put out so much damage uh and that the Precision and rerolls when when you’re attacking engaged enemies that UPS their damage output no end um again these guys only get better with the the uh attachments that you can put in so uh sour Allen is actually an unbelievable addition to this unit being able to give that that uh range attack critical blow for for lightly armored things just to wipe a unit off the board or uh the potential to give it sundering uh for the the more heavily armored units these guys are amazing absolutely amazing that’s really cool be having success with mate because I think yeah they’re great great unit of um yeah and those rolls for ranged attacks it’s I usually play Starks we have been playing Stars quite a bit recently having Joan there for rolls you don’t realize how beneficial the r rolls are to the range attacks yeah exactly especially with the the s seven uh three ranks two ranks thatat line is is amazing yeah totally agree mate totally agree so next up we have one of the uh the uh older Bolton units so these are the bolt Bolton blackards they are a Sixpoint unit they have a movement of four they’ve got a spiked flow attack profile which is attack with 654 hitting on a four plus they have a three plus armor save and a six plus morale they have the spiked flow attack which comes with a vicious um keyword and they come with horrific Visage built in so each time an enemy performs a melee attack on this unit before resolving that attack Target the attacker they suffer one panic test with minus one to their role for each remaining rank in this unit so you’ve obviously obviously touched on horic Visage from a different attachment but these guys have it built in innately um these guys have been around the game for quite a while now they’re a great unit you see them in a lot of different armies under the neutral Banner but in Bolton Aaron how are they how are they performing for you uh pretty much exactly the same game plan with these guys as they are as the neutral counterparts uh so they’re they’re a commander bunker these guys are excellent for Roose Commander to sit in uh with his intimidating presence and his spread fear they they just trundle up the middle of the board and say to your opponent you have to get rid of me um they they’re very tough to kill they’re a prime target for your your archers to shoot into combat with um and yeah they’re a they’re a solid roadblock uh with a bit of the card play that the boltons have you can you can make these guys a bit bit surprisingly Killy if that makes sense um there’s a there’s a card to give them sundering and then vicious and sundering obviously affecting saves then the morale checks uh if they do they the pack more of a punch than you would expect and I think that’s that’s something that makes them stand out in the the Bolton only faction uh against the the neutral ones that people can take do you run more than one unit or just use the one unit for the commander bunker um I I’ve been running loads and loads of wacky and wonderful lists at the minute and uh the most I’ve ran is two and that’s basically you have two units on each flank and and you run up and they are they’re just going to sit on the objective so something like Game of Thrones where there’s there’s five objectives they’re going to be the ones that you run two units they’re going to go sit on the objectives and your opponent has to come and move them because they aren’t they aren’t going anywhere yeah yeah I mean they’re really good for H and ready as well because you just park the objective take the wall hits it’s very much like throwing sticks at a wheelie bin nothing’s happening yeah exactly okay cool uh next up we have the bastards girls again it’s a newe unit but this is we’re talking about these in context of House Bolton so they seven-point unit so a pricey unit and starting to get to the stage where you really do expect work out of it for the points you pain they have got a 6 in movement they have got the long range trackers bow which hits in a plus with a 444 so there’s absolutely no fall off there of the dice they always roll in the four dice they have a blade and Fang attack profile which is a 664 so again a very very slight depreciation on on the dice roll on the dice number that hits a three plus they have a six plus armor save and a five plus morale they have the AL charging volley so after this unit completes a ranged attack this unit performs one charge action on the defender and they come with the ranged attack tracker bow after completing this attack the defender becomes vulnerable and the blade and Fang is the melee attack and that comes with via so there a lot of text on this card Aaron and we know that barcel girls work well but do you want to talk to us a little bit about where their place is in House Bolton I I think they’re one of the best units that boltons have uh at their disposal I think you this is a unit that you can’t really talk about just as a unit on its own um because of the the bastard boys um that you have available as attachments in in Bolton these guys their role is really dependent on which one of them you put into this unit um so we’ve mentioned SAR Allen that makes this unit incredibly Killy uh being able to to proc his ability on both the range attack choosing critical blows undering or making them panicked and then choose another a different ability on the blade and Fang attack after you’ve charged in um it makes these guys hit like an absolute truck you’ve also then got the reliability aspect of them if you want to almost guarantee the charges then Ben bones is the one that goes in there um and these these attachments are are free uh the first bastard boy that you put in is free Ben bones is is a free attachment that can go in these guys so I think depending on the one that you want to put in in changes the role of these um you you can use them as a kind of a shock and or troop to to race up the board and get into you uh your opponent’s backline and that can cause absolute Havoc four attacks on a range attack it’s not huge but when you’re shooting somebody with four dice in the flank or the rear that that’s going to cause a lot of damage and then you’ve got the the potential charge coming in as well it it’s really really effective um I have been toying with a list with these guy that is solely based around this unit um and it’s all about uh V or H recycling his his Commander cards um to get the start of round free attack thing and you just you cycle it with these guys and I’m I’m actually going to try that list out today um to to see if it’s viable or not yeah I really like how so the we’ll get into the bast boys when we come around to attachments but it’s really cool that it it really adds that different layer different element to list building which is really cool because you know again it’s you mentioned here to bastard girls but it’s it’s across the faction you got your first bastard boy being a free attachment means that you can really sort of just tell your units to whatever role you need them to fill yeah uh I I do I think the the rest of the units in the in the faction they they you don’t see as big a change in their play Styles between the different attachments you put as you do with the bastard girls I think these guys are really the ones that depending on which attachment they’ve got in them they their role completely changes they can be an absolute Powerhouse that just annihilates your opponent units um or there can be more of a harassment unit okay good so give give us a the attachments and what sort of Ro role they play for you so you mentioned Ben bones and sah alen but are there any other attachments and what sort of role would they fulfill with that attachment uh so if they’re if they’re going to be out on their own kind of on the flanks um then Brun is quite a good attachment in there to give them the uh give them the motivated by coins so you can do lots and lots of little uh shots so you’re you’re pretty much always guaranteed free shot each round because your opponent can only take the swords or the bags they can’t take both at once um so Bron’s a good little attachment in there um you’ve got the bolt and flare which you can kind of capitalize on the The Vicious aspect of them to to get them spread fear triggers off after they’ve charged in um demon dance for me he’s one of the bastards boys uh boldness and courage because you’re getting two attacks out of this unit um it you’re effectively getting plus two dice yeah so so that’s that’s really good that makes them hit quite hard um if they’re going to be floating about away from because they’re so fast they’re going to be away from your the rest of your units um so you can use them as sort of a standalone unit and you want to have them so that they’ve got a bit of survivability so you can you can put the The Dread fart captain in to give them pray on fear um or you can put Grunt in there was another one of the basted boys he gives him resilience I know resilience isn’t isn’t as effective on a sixup save but I would argue I know some people don’t think it’s as effective but I would argue it’s more effective um purely because a sixup save if you get hit six times statistically you’re saving one of them you lose five dudes with resilient you’re now losing two yeah so yeah uh I think they’re they’re they’re really good cool cool um you know just just to show how effective resilience is on on a l so you know Dr men exist and they’re a pain yes yes they do and next up we have original Powerhouse unit of the game they’ve seen many different tweaks over different versions different seasons different updates we have the Bolton flade men coming in at eight points now for eight points you want these guys really performing which I think they have the capability of doing it they have a five plus uh oh sorry a 5 in movement they have the war flare attack ability a 64 on a three plus they have a three plus armor save and a six plus morale they have the Cavalry rule so each model in this unit has three wounds at the start of this unit’s activation it may perform one maneuver action so that gives you the maneuverability of of of Cavalry and that’s inate so that can’t be turned off the Warlow attack ability comes with vicious buil-in and when charging you gain critical blow uh they come with intimidating presence enemies engaged with this unit suffer minus one to morale rolls and plus one wound from failing Panic test now yeah I mean I’ve introduced them Aaron they’re a they’re a extremely powerful unit back in the day I don’t think they’re much less powerful now uh how how are you using your Flav men in House Bolton uh you run two of them is is basically it you’re you’re now the only faction that has access to two flaired men two flaired men is is still just as powerful as it used to be um it’s they’re an absolute truck of a unit on the charge that cause horrendous amounts of damage um again there’s there’s lots of Buffs you can give to these guys through your tactic cards and stuff um but yeah on the charge absolute Powerhouse hit like a truck and then surprisingly annoying to get rid of with with the healing that they’ve got in the faction uh and the the fact they’re on a three up armor save and a six up morale so better than average morale better than average save it’s going to take you a while to chew through these guys yeah I W weren’t doing it too long but just obviously when bolans came out they weren’t allowed access to neutrals but they have got access to neutrals now do you find yourself running any of the Hedge nights inside this unit um the one that I would be most likely to run uh are that always interest me but unfortunately is always the the first casualty of list building when you find yourself you need a point elsewhere is the the glory Seeker um purely because of the the Synergy between flared men with the glory seeker and the the Bolton uh The dreadfall Archers um you shoot in the combat with the dread for Archers you get your rerolls you get your Precision when they’re suffering a panic check the enemy is being affected by the intimidating presence um obviously your flared men then need to take a panic check you’ve got the iron resolve from Glory Seeker to make you a five up uh morale and then minus one wound if he do fail but then each time you suffer the Panic check uh you’ve got the stubborn tenacity so that when you pass an enemy the enemy you’re engaged with suffers an additional wound so kind of all gels together yeah yeah be honest I feel that’s what Bolton really need is when everything when all the cogs uh greased up and moving as one I feel like they they have got a lot of play into into competitive games but it’s it’s making sure that you understand those which is what you’re here for to show us how to play Bolton I certainly certainly try right so that’s all the units again it’s very limited amount of units CU they’re a very new faction um so we look at the attachments and we’re going to start with the uh unnamed attachments you mentioned them briefly before we’ll go through in more detail here we have on screen The Dread for Captain with prayon fear each time an enemy engaged with this unit fails a panic test this unit restores two wounds now that’s not an order so that happens every single time an enemy fails a PAN test engage with a unit and the bolt and flare with the order spread fear when an enemy engaged with this unit fails a panic test Target one other enemy in long range of this unit It suffers one panic test with minus one to their role for each remaining rank in this unit on a failure It suffers plus one wound now both of these guys are coming in at one point so these two attachments Aaron do you want to talk a little bit about them where you use them what they what sort of game play they’ve got for you yeah yeah uh so the the dreadfall captain uh excellent for adding a bit of survivability to your your infantry units uh kind of bringing out that that cockroaches game plan similar to sort of the the G Joy game plan with lots of incremental healing um excellent in Black Guard if the enemy are taking a panic check just from from having to attack you then why not get some benefit more benefit if they fail that uh with a bit of healing uh excellent embased girls for the uh if they’re out on their own kind of give keeping them topped up with the healing um solid little attachment is the dread F Captain the flare I I really enjoy using a Bolton flare in a Roose Bolton list so you can have the the the double spread fear kind of player so one unit fails a panic check that’s engaged with Roose he pings it to a unit that’s engag with your Bol and flare and then your Bolt And Flare pings it back to the one that’s engaged with roots so you kind of you’re sort of daisy chain you spread fears to to cause lots of panics and additional wounds through that um there they’re a they’re a good onepoint attachment um I I think they’re they’re excellent they they’re going most infantry units because most of your stuff is causing panic checks so if you’re if you’re struggling for an attachment to put in there a Bolton flare never goes wrong to be to be fair I don’t think there’d be they’re not an an exceptional like wow I must I must include them but they’re never a bad include um we we do see this you just mentioned there we do see on the Roose command as well which he’s got other stuff the in play that makes even worse which is which is awesome yeah totally agree yeah Okay cool so that’s the um the unnamed attachments then we look at some of the bast boys now we’ve made a reference to these quite a bit during this conversation so first of what I will say is anything with the um title bastards Boy comes with this small little piece at the bottom which is the first bastards boy attachment included in your army is free now all Bast boys are one point so it’s just you’re getting that one point for one point for free uh we have grunt on screen so he has the older resilience uh when an enemy is performing an attack on this unit after the attack dice are rolled this unit only suffers one wound for every two unblocked hits that’s a really cool ability we have Damon dance for me it comes with boldness and courage which affects both ranged and melee so each time his unit attacks if it has four ranks it gains plus one attack D otherwise is treated as having plus one rank for attack Di and we have Skinner B’s boy he comes with we can resolve each time an enemy engage with this unit FS a panic test that enemy becomes weakened um as as we’ mentioned earlier and it’s very much a toall box really helps you to sort of tailor your your units to what you want them to to do but do you want to talk to us a little bit about these three guys yeah absolutely um I you should always include one of them in your list there is no point not to the first one you include is free so it all depends on where you’ve got space for them for me um grunt I I really like grunt he adds a lot of survivability to a unit um the the the lower the save the more advantageous having resiliences on the unit so somebody like grunting the bastard girls or the um the cut throats is is really really nice um I I do quite enjoy sticking him in uh a unit of the blackards just just again for more you have to come and move me I’m not going anywhere situation um yeah very good very solid resilience is a a lovely little order to have um Damon D me one point slash free boldness and courage on a unit it I don’t think that needs explaining I think that’s that’s excellent value adding dice to things uh for free effectively is is always going to be good um I think he actually gets the most use in the Cutthroats um making them 876 is is hitting on threes that’s an amazing sat line with vicious the potential for full rerolls and the potential for vulnerable tokens uh I think that’s where he he kind of belongs for me in in the things that I’ve been playing and testing uh I’d agree with that totally yeah he he turns them turns them from the the mini Powerhouse that they potentially are into a a much larger damage causing unit yeah uh Skinner straight away for him the home for him is is in the blackards um he he UPS their defensiveness no end uh because they’re coming in they take the horrific Visage they’re at minus three possibly minus four cuz that you want corpse piles so minus four um the the boltons can dish out corpse piles of their own uh so potentially a minus five minus six check if they fail that they become weakened that that makes you take less hits on your three or Arma save the it’s a no-brainer um also a slight argument for putting him into the the bastard girls or the Cutthroats uh as they’ve all got vicious as well so so they they do attack the the Panic stat of your opponent um because they’ve they’ve got such a low armor save this guy kind of blunts the the hit back so it does make them a bit more survivable been a faction that has lots of access to a vicious he has got know you’re going to get you’re going to get payment at that point or zero points your first one absolutely and next up on screen we have the last bastard boy which we spoke about quite a bit sour Ellen we’ve got Ben bones and still Shanks Walton so sour land Bast boy so he has the rule where he the first one’s free in your army uh brutal sadism so it’s ranged and melee so before rolling attack dice choose one the attack dice gains critical blow attack gains sundering or the defender becomes panicked after the completing this attack if it did not destroy an enemy rank the attacker suffers two wounds um it’s also worth mentioning now that it’s not an optional thing you have to do it it’s because it’s before R attack I choose one we have Ben bones kennel master sium this unit may always roll charge distance dice enemies this unit successfully charge become panicked and again we have reduction in his cost but this time we reduce this attachments cost by one if he’s attached to a unit of bastards skills and we have still Shanks Walton Relentless soldier with the older Sentinel after another friendly unit in long range is attacked this unit performs one charge or maneuver action if charging it must Target the attacker and he comes with roose’s vessel so this model counts as Roose Bolton for all game effects and that’s obviously inates that can’t be turned off um that really comes into its own with one of ru’s tactic cards but we’ll get to that when we come to uh you explain them so do you want to talk to you a little bit about these attachments Aaron absolutely uh SAR Allen hands down I’m I’m going to put an argument forward for the best attachment ever created in in the game wow um this this guy is absolutely unreal uh because because the brutal sederson works on the on Mel and ranged it’s it’s such a it’s it gives you such a toolbox to work with that that you should have an answer to almost everything um I mean I’m going to be I’m going to be trying him out against um the barathan Cavalry to to see if he if he does live up to my expectations but I think this guy is just so good you’re dealing with low low armor stuff you give your attack critical blow you’re dealing with high armor stuff you give yourself suering you need to attack the the uh stats of the unit so you give them panicked um if you don’t destroy a rank obviously that’s better against infantry than it is Cavalry you’ve got less wounds to chew through per rank um you’re going to suffer two wounds you’re not too bothered about that suffering the two wounds to be honest that that isn’t a huge drawback um you you stick this guy in your archers and if your archers are on seven dice shooting into combat with full rerolls and you give these guy them guys critical blow you are going to kill a rank 100% so there is zero downside to him going in archers um you stick this guy in bastard girls you you’re getting two taxs out of them using their order and you can give the the the initial shot you can give it critical blow or sundering you can double whammy them so you can make them panicked uh from your shot and then after completing that you’ve got their ability which then puts a vulnerable on them so then when you charge in you can give yourself the critical blow they’ve already got the vicious they’ve then got the panicked and the vulnerable token on them so you they is so good especially for free as well it’s this um it’s so good for free I mean I I always and he’s and we we spoke about it right at the very beginning and when you said that their their faction thing is to basically spend Panic tokens and it’s sometimes just been able to pop the Panic token out for maybe like a FL has no secrets secrets for the healing that yeah a he keeps man alive yeah yeah yeah that’s the one yeah yeah it’s really really good so can’t interrupt you mate I took you off your FL G no no that’s fine um uh I think he’s he’s excellent he he’s such a a good he basically he’s the one that you you you choose the unit that you want him to go in that you want to be your toolbox unit whether that’s your Cutthroats because you give Cutthroats critical blow suddenly you you they become an absolute truck uh when they’re hitting give them suering that’s again it’s I do you know I can’t explain how good he is he’s he is so good and he’s so fun to play as well because you’ve always got that chance of damaging yourself which happens far far less than you would expect it to uh moving on to Ben bournes uh he he fulfills a very similar role as as sour Allen in the the bastard girls obviously becomes free in the bastard girls uh not in any other unit but the ability to always rly charge dice that’s in there to specifically be working with order H and when you successfully charge charge you make the enemy Planet so again you’ve got that double token whammy of the the vulnerable and the panicked um uh the ability to roll charges that’s that’s always really good um it means you’ve you’ve got more you’re more likely to to succeed at the the longer charges the five UPS uh the five up charges and things like that so I think I think a five up charge is a is a 33% chance but you throw a roll in there I think it goes to a 55% chance so with a five up charge over half of your charges are going to be successful with this guy yeah and they say we pass kills it basically gives you a built-in devastating impact doesn’t it yeah yeah um I think is cool and the model is quite cool I’ve painted uh I’ve painted mine up as sort of like Park gorsley so my Ben bones is holding a little ghost puppy oh nice um so I quite like the model for him he’s really cool little puppy is really really good I really like it yeah really it’s just full of character you feel older B sculps really full of character even Sarah alen just looks absolutely manal that the ACT sculpt to him yeah yeah he’s he looks wild I think is the best way to put it yeah well he’s making me [Laughter] panic okay steel Shanks uh steel shanks one point Sentinel amazing I think I think it’s a brilliant a brilliant ability Sentinel um allows you to really capitalize on your opponent on what you want your opponents to do if that makes sense so you you build a list with the blackards and the Spearman and you really want your opponent to be attacking you and this allows you to to set up for the counter charge from your opponent doing exactly what you want them to do uh so for example you you have this this guy in in a unit of Cutthroats and you’ve got a unit of Spearman they charge your Spearman you get the attack from set for charge you might take a bit of damage from that uh from their attack but you’re not too fussed about that you then after they’ve attacked you you senel into their flank you your Cutthroats go in the flank cause a load of damage they fail the Panic check you just heal your your Spearman back up from the failed Panic checks um and all of a sudden you’re at a two-on-one you’re in a flank like Sentinel I think is really really good and the boltons are really good at at stopping the opponent where you want to keep them um not I think if you’re playing the the like blocking game plan they’re sort of uh they’re not as Killy but steel shanks helps you make the one unit to be that big counter charge that you need um and roose’s vassel that really comes into its own with one of roose’s Commander cards um making an opponent lose all abilities whenever Roose is attacking you that’s that’s phenomenal and having two of them on the board with Roose as your commander as well it just makes it even better yeah this um I really like him and again the sc’s really nice with the with the spear really cool yeah yeah yeah he’s a he’s a cool model that leaves us I think with one last attachment which is obviously the um probably one of the most powerful attachments in the game he sees a lot of playing neutrals but in Bolton Ramsey Snow sadist it’s a two-point attachment becomes with reek um he comes with fuel by Slaughter which adds to your melee attacks of the unit after this unit completes a melee attack if the defender suffered any wounds this unit restores one wound plus one additional wound for each of the Defenders destroyed ranks and comes with intimidating presence enemies engaged with this unit suffer minus one to morale test rolls and plus one wound from failing Panic tests and reek as a zero point attachment may only be fielded in an army that includes Ramsey Snow and must be attached to his unit ignoring usual attachment limits which basically means he can go in there with Ramsey he comes with the older second example so start of any turn Target all enemies in short range they become panicked roller die on a six destroy Theon which is obviously rck um yeah Ramsey Snow great attachment Aaron uh do you want to talk to a little bit about him uh this guy isn’t a two-point attachment he’s an eight-point unit uh purely because he gets stuck in a unit of blackard and they don’t die um I think that’s that’s the place for him if you want to use him but uh brutally honest you probably never going to use him because the ncu is just so good yeah yeah which I’m sure we’ll get on to that later but this guy he fuel by Slaughter um whatever unit he goes in is going to be very very difficult to get rid of uh you put him in a killer unit like the Cutthroats uh then they’re going to be causing a lot of damage especially with the intimidating presence plus the vicious that they get um or you put him in a defensive unit like the blackards and and again he he compliments them so much the intimidating presence comp combined with the horrific Visage uh potentially removing a rank from an enemy unit before they’ve managed to roll any dice against you and then on your hit back even though it’s not going to be the strongest hit back cause a wound and you’re going to be healing one two three wounds uh and again reek dishing out them Panic tokens the Panic tokens are so important to get out um you can swap them for the tokens you can get rid of them to heal yourself and and cancel abilities and all that Panic tokens are so good and this is like Panic tokens on mass if you manage to get him amongst the enemy yeah again it’s really nice action you do as you mentioned there are other versions of Ramsey which are really cool in this faction um so that leads us on to the commander so what we going to do Aaron is I’m going to read out the um the attachment itself I’ll read out just the titles of each of the tactic cards but we’re not here to talk about tactic cards we’re here to talk about the attachment and what the play style of that Commander is how he changes the way that the faction plays and at the end I’ll ask you to just tell me which um which tactics card best defines their play style for you um first up we have Ru Bolton lord of the Dreadful so he has the AL spread fear which we’ve seen before but I’ll quickly read it again when the enemy engaged unit fails a pain test Target one other enemy in long range of this unit It suffers one PAN test with minus one to their role for each remaining in rank in this unit on a failure It suffers plus one wound and he comes to intimidating presence which we’ve just seen on Ramsey enemies engaged with this unit suffer minus one to morale test rolls and plus one oneing panic tests he comes with three cards on screen now seeing their flaw Dreadful secrets and whispered threats Ru Bolton is he still the Lord of The Dread fault absolutely best commander hands down he he is he is the boy um the he he personifies The Black Guard bunker in my eyes yeah you put him you put him in a unit of them and yeah you he just does everything you want him to do they they’ve got the the intimidating presence to to accom to complement their horrific Visage you got the spread fear which again you can bounce about using the the flers um absolutely amazing I’d say he he very much makes your opponent play the game on your terms uh very very controlling kind of play style from Roose yeah which which to be fair he I think he’s is perfect by see I’m ready to to deliver that because that’s exactly the person that Roose is in the books and obviously the TV show is a very of control in person which I think they’ve they’ve done really well there especially even with ttic cards which you know we’re going to get you back on and talk about more detail but um what tactic card you sort of feel personifies his his his game plan uh see I I my instant goto is whispered threats yeah um it’s you want to do something I’m going to get some benefit if you do that is is almost perfect okay cool well Roose bolman Aaron’s number one bolman Commander yeah next up we have Ramsey Snow spiteful air so he comes with horrific Visage we’ve been talking about again I’ll read it out for the people that are listening rather than watching so each time enemy performs a m attack on this unit before resolving that attack Target the attacker they suffer one panic test with minus one to their rooll for each remaining rank in this unit behind Ramsey you can see Theon I won’t read that card out again we’ve just read out the whole card before nothing changes exactly the same as it is as Ramsey’s attachment uh accompaniment again he comes free with just bringing Ramsey Snow and Ramsey Ramsey comes with opportunity SPS in flesh and skin collection so Ramsey Snow spite for have you had much luck with him how are you used Ramsey uh Ramsey Commander is is quite good he he brings some more healing uh to to the boltons with his tactic cards uh he brings another another uh ability with horrific vage uh so you can have that on a unit that wouldn’t normally have it such as your archers kind of defend them a little bit um or stick him in some Cutthroat and it makes your opponent kind of question hitting them um he Ramsey’s a bit of a weird one his his three Commander cards kind of all do something different they kind of take whereas ruses are all very controlling uh Ramsey are kind of a bit of a a tool boxy one so you’ve got one one for like healing one for for uh dishing out a bit more damage with your Panic checks and he and then he’s got an attacking one so I think I I don’t know about Ramsey Ramsey’s he’s very he doesn’t seem to have One Singular Focus whereas Roose was control Ramsey seems to do a bit of everything which I suppose the benefit of that is he’s very toall boxy so you can adapt him to the game that you’re playing at that point yeah yeah he’s is a very different commander in Bolton than he is as a neutral Commander he’s got very much a a set way of playing but in in bolon he very it’s it’s very different which you know it’s cool it’s it’s what sort of differentiates different factions I guess yeah again he he brings on along for that that big uh bubble of panic stuff uh so he he benefits all your cards all the cards that that require you to spend Panic you’re going to be able to get them off with Ramsey because of the the reek attachment yeah yeah unfortunately the r attachment is the only time I can roll a [Laughter] six the one time I don’t want to be wronging six he a once per game one use only he might he might as well be for yeah um cool so if you um so assume you’ve got a fat Boulder in the list what what what sort of what what Commander card is it you you’d be looking to pull out uh I would say it would be spoils in flesh um just for the additional healing healing is always good so bat wer she always gives me spoils in flesh I think and Roose apparently and Roose okay next up we have the um the F final commander which is the which is obviously although they are newer cards for the previous two this is the the obviously the brand new Commander for House Bolton we have still Shanks Walton captain of the Guard a very strange attachment um abilities because they sort of counteract each other but I’m sure you’re going to talk us through why that is it comes with iron resolve uh the only time we see this in the house Bol faction so this unit gains plus one to panic test rols and suffers minus one wounds from failing Panic test so obviously Bolton want to be pushing out Panic damage but their morale isn’t overly great with the some of the Five Point units so it helps to sort of bolster that and he comes with a brand new ability that I’ve only ever seen in on well only ever seen on this attachment shared fear so each time this unit fails a panic test all enemies within short range of this unit become Panic it’s another it’s another bubble of um a panic panic token been thrown out and he comes with price of fear Rush of aggression and taunt still shanks won I know you’ve been running you ran him uh in the northern ground tournament so did you have much luck of him how are you using him uh I I like him um I I think his his design is quite odd like you say the the iron resolve seems to kind of counteract the shared fear but when I’ve when I’ve been playing him I’ve found that you’re as as a Bolton player your your morale isn’t good you you don’t don’t have good morale you deal a lot in panic but you you suffer quite a lot to panic so I think IR am was always is there purely for the minus one wound on failing Panic checks I still think you’re going to fail the Panic checks but the shared face sort of makes you want to because then everybody else is becoming panicked and you I think this is a case of yes I I might be failing Panic checks but I can do more d Dage to you when when I’m failing Panic checks if that makes any sort of sense yeah yeah so yeah it it doesn’t sort of bolster your morale too much but it’s giving you reward for for basically for a weakness in the faction but um I mean it’s quite good because when you do fail the Panic test and you suffer minus one wound you could suffer one wound that be taken away by resol but you’re still pushing out the Panic token so yeah exactly yeah it’s it’s yeah it’s decent and I you know I’m going to run him some more cuz again I really like the sculpts and I really like the fact that he’s a faction specific B Commander which is quite cool so the the cards what’s what’s what’s the card that sort of you’re fishing for Russia regression 100% no no need to think about that yeah um Russia regression the auto six charge is it’s too good to not um to not fish for with Walder uh so saying that pra ofia is is receptively good but I uh I think out the two Rush of aggression that’s the one yeah again I mean when we originally was talking about you coming on doing this you you mentioned the northern GT that you’re fishing for Rush regression with waler because it basically means the other the other person’s having to really think about where they’re moving to yeah absolutely uh and again steel Shanks flared men the you yeah it’s the auto six the auto six charge um even the auto six charge on something unsuspecting like your black guard the they suddenly they they’re 10 inches up the board smashing your facing and they they’re a big road block problem for you uh with steel Shanks in them they’re they’re suddenly on a five up morale and whenever the fail everybody’s failing yeah and put in a position where they have to charge up with horic resar and the penet stockam winner exactly exactly H and then it plays into his other tactic card as well ta like just really really good he’s fun he presents a problem to your opponent that they have to deal with I think is the best way to put it yeah he very much seems like an area control command doesn’t he because like you you got the Taun so you sort of dictating where they can move to and if they don’t they’re going to get tokened and the rush of aggression price of it’s just really controlling what’s on the tabletop you know I’m actually going I’m try run more I think he’s his his play style is all about movement but not movement in the way that you would expect it’s all about dictating your opponent’s movement and kind of you’re reacting to them if that makes sense you’re very you’re very reactive but you’re going to cut them off going where your opponent wants to be awesome yeah some some decent insight there man definitely give him a him a run out he’s he’s cool he’s really fun I really enjoyed him I regret only playing the one game with him at the ngt um the rest of my my pairings in the game modes they they leaned more towards me using my other list but when it did become like steel Shanks time to shine he was such a fun Commander okay so that’s all the commanders done we’re going to move on to the ncu um we’re going to start with the two that come with the bolon starter set so on screen now we have wer fry fat wer she comes as a 4. ncu with fry ambition each time W claims the crowns one enemy combat unit becomes weakened each time W claims the letters you may replace that zones effect with search your tactics deck or discard pole for one of your commander tactics cards and edit to your hand then shuffle your tactics deck or each time W claims the bags instead of removing a condition typ token you may restore plus one wound so what that means in layman terms is you instead of healing three and removing a condition token you’re healing four and we have Jane Paul Arya Stark Bri Bolton coming at Five Points which is the most expensive ncu that the bonds have available um she comes with loyal imposter so which is an influence ability when this unit claims a Zone attach this card um until the end of the round while influencing a unit that unit gains plus two to morale test roll so that helps to bolster your jippy morale and once per game at the start of any round you may have your opponent gain control of Jane until the end of the round so basically they take they use it as an EXT activation but if you do you become the first player Jane cannot influence a unit that ran which means that the other person cannot use her to give him plus two to morale test and also she looks a little bit like Monica from Friends how you feel about these two ncus uh I can’t unsee Monica though is L as as I was reading the card I looked I thought she I watch Friends ages yes yes she does um waler Frey you’re taking her in every list absolutely every list she’s an auto include ncu the the utility she has is really really good and the ability to recycle Commander cards uh from your discard pile or go and search out a commander card when you need it from your tactics deck um is is really really good the I think the best thing about it is the weekend when you go on crowns yeah uh that’s that’s so good um dishing out more tokens so you can you can take if you’re going first in the round you can take the the letter with somebody dish out a token draw some cards and then you can activate Walder cuz nobody really takes the crown uh early on in the rounds so I think you then take the crown with her you deal a bit of panic damage because you you’re so efficient at it uh and you dishing out a weeken talk and to kind of blunt the response to that from their attacks as well I think it’s absolutely phenomenal and the ability to heal four yeah um when you say the bags that’s that’s huge that’s a rank back yeah yeah I think that really comes into its own when when you got things like Bol and blackard with horrific Visage you know if you got you know five models left on that tray and you heal four you’re basically putting your Visage back up to a minus three minus four if you’ve got one of the attachments to give you intimidating presence in there yeah yeah uh you cut throats if if they’re on there you you’re knocking them up a dice by he in uh if they’re on the last rank you’re knocking them up by two dice yeah uh for the for the attack back like it’s it’s really good they I think the ability to heal four the the benefits of it over healing the three and removing a a condition token in certain situations are Head and Shoulders better yeah and uh Courtney Cox courney Cox uh is really good um I don’t think the the plus two to morale checks is is the reason you take her um it’s definitely that once per game ability uh you you do lose an activation your opponent gains an activation but from that you should be you should be kind of using the the I’m going to go first when I want uh ability to to remove a unit from the game uh from your opponent so you use this in a situation where you can um you can really capitalize on it and kind of negate the negative of losing an activation yourself yeah um yeah Five Points little bit difficult to fit in because you’ve got so many lovely attachments in the faction um but yeah that that once per game it it truly can be a game changer so you’ve got a very selfish list where you can run Jane pool and uh Mr sitdown wall the fre um for the for the I’m going to go first five times this game yeah definitely definitely do um when when I’m running Bolton at the moment like fat W sends to be and auto include for me is that the same for you do you feel you feel that that or you or is it situational for you no I think I think you don’t leave home with out her I think the utility of her and again whacking out tokens which is what you need is she’s so good just so good and the fact that that c that comes in the start set yeah like I think you can you can literally pick up a star set and you you have the the feel of what the boltons are doing straight away and you’ve got access to Walder and you’ve got access to Roose I think the best commander the best ncu um okay um next up we have the uh the the final three ncus so we have uh Roose Bolton calculating and Cru all these coming up four points as well sorry uh it comes with horrific rumors so Roose Begins the game with three order tokens each time Roose activates you may remove one order token from him if you do Target one enemy combat unit they become panicked each time roou claims a Zone you may replace that zones effect with one enemy combat unit suffers one panic test and we have Ramsey Snow Red Helm that comes with sadistic Butchery which is an influence when this unit claims a Zone attach this car to a combat unit until the end of the round while influencing a friendly unit its Malay attacks gain fueled by Slaughter so we did see this an the attachment but I’ll quickly read it out for everyone after this unit completes a Mele attack if the defender suff any wounds it restores one wound plus one additional wound for each of the Defenders destroyed ranks and finally we have tibl Master of the Dreadful deceitful Envoy tibble begins Begins the game with two order tokens on him each time an enemy ENT you activates if tibold is not on the tactics Bard you may remove one order token from tibold if you do Target one zone if that ncu claims that zone after resolving that Zone’s effects one enemy combat unit becomes vulnerable if that ncu does not claim that zone this turn at the end of the turn tibold claims that zone which effectively gives you a piggyback onto their activation which then means you can maybe heal then charge it’s very it’s quite a good ability he was changed um the wording was changed slightly when he got the season 4 update I don’t feel that that change necessary I think it was quite quite a quite a gotcha ncu with the old wording but you know we we play what we’re given these four these three Inus Aaron how’ you um how you get on of them uh so Roose I I like the Roose Commander um so much that I I very rarely play with the Roose ncu ramsy ncu absolutely unreal like giving any Unity you want fuel by Slaughter is is amazing flared men fuel by Slaughter oh is there a better combo in existence it is beautiful um and pbbl I I I need to I do need to disagree with you a little bit I think this change was warranted uh I think having the ability to hop about whilst you were on the tactics board and still count as claiming it uh the the new Zone I think that was that was very very powerful um so I think this is more in line and you now need to think about when you’re going to use him uh but Roose really really good for the faction because he dishes out the Panic tokens uh and again the Panic tokens are so important for for for boltons like just to do what they want to do um having an ncu that just when they activate give out of panick um is is really really good it it allows you to do lots and lots of things um they’re replacing his Zone with a panic check really really good for for again what you want to do with the amount of um intimidating presence and stuff you’ve got access to that that really racks up uh the effectiveness of of the multiple Panic checks in one turn uh Ramsey Snow Flair men fuel Baugh just a a dream that is like cold vanilla ice cream on a hot summers’s day that that is just perfect um there’s not a lot else to say about Ramsey it’s fueled by Slaughter it’s it gives you so much survivability and you can have it wherever you want in the list yeah yeah he’s so good just so good um and you can it’s Stacks along with your your cards that you can play to to heal up so you have you have one dude left on his own in a unit and he he finishes off the The one dude left in the other unit and suddenly you can you can heal eight or nine wounds back with with fuel by Slaughter and uh the card player that they’ve got like it’s it’s amazing um Ty bald or tibl uh I still have no idea how to pronounce that name um he I think before he was incredibly powerful I think now he’s very powerful but you need to be smart with it uh because he’s not on the tactics board so if you do use this ability and he ends up going on the board you’re down in Activation so you need to make his sub activate his activation is sub activation does that make sense um I think you need to make it count so you need to put them in a situation where uh the the’re between a rock and a hard place if they take the swords you’re going to punish them uh or if they want to take the swords you put you go on the crown or something like that where you can do a big Panic check from the the uh Grim reminder corpse pales that you’ve got set out on the field and things like that you want to you want to really make them think like is this minus 6 Panic check plus three wounds worth taking the the the crown over the swords because the swords is only going to be seven dice with my my sour Allen uh my sour Allen dreadfall archers coming into the flank of this unit you really want to to put them in them two really hard places with that yeah but yeah tial I think is really really good okay cool maybe I’m using wrong I need to do some more playing I think then I I just got put off by the change but how do you take him most games or is he in one list in in a two list pairing uh he’s in he’s in he’s usually in one of my lists of the of the two list pairings uh Ramsey is in most of my lists just because I love fuel by Slaughter yeah on on fled men and you just with with the addition of of his influence you can really make a little Death Star unit uh from the the card play and stuff like that that they’ve got in the in the faction Welly myself running the Roose incu I love the commander because always for me part of the game is is the fluff as aspect to running the head of the house like I wish Ty Ln Commander was a was at the same of players that Kevin had when Kevin was really powerful um yeah yeah J I think if you’re taking the head of the house they should be the best one there because it’s their house I think yeah but the ncu I really I do enjoy the pan always find it quite helpful to have be able toly Chuck out pan token or you know or two P tokens if you if you can Chuck out one then playing the the letters yes yeah cool okay well that’s that’s the this the entire faction done Aaron um yeah is there anything you sort of want to any more summary you want to put into playing bow or how you sort of how you get the most out of them um I think I think they’ve got a very unique play style I don’t think they play like anything else that I’ve played um they’re sort of they’re sort of like they’ve got a bit of the the Cockroach style healing that that gry Joys have but then they’ve got the control that that Lannisters have in the card play and stuff like that but then they’ve also got like the the field control or the the board control sort of similar to to what martel’s have there seem to be a a hybrid faction that takes sort of like a bit of everything and mashes it into one faction and I think to really get the best out of it you need to hammer in on one game plan this is my game plan I’m going to do this so when we s spoke initially about you coming on and uh having having a chat with us yeah what really sort of was really nice was reading when I asked you how you found bot on and you said that that basically that you know that that they are a middle ground which basically what we just said then which is the middle ground between [ __ ] Starks Lannisters that they can heal up when they need to but not as efficiently as [ __ ] they can get the big impact turns when they need to but don’t have as many of starks and they offer some control in the form of punishing stopping the opponent doing what they want but not as much at lnis as can I think that is an absolutely spot-on summary of B is they’re basically doing everything they’re very much the um sort of Jack of all trades uh faction which is which is cool it opens up more opportunity to the way you want to play the game um and build your army and makes the part of this the interest of this game is the list building aspect of it and I think they really do sort of it offer quite a lot for list building it’s just a shame there’s not more options really to sort of tear it even further yeah I I do think at the minute that they are sort of suffering from the new faction syndrome aren’t they haven’t got a whole lot of releases at the minute but I think the releases we’ve got are solid um and the the every time I’m building a list there’s there’s just something is just off with it from being like yes this is the thing this is this is the the best thing ever created it’s always one thing is just missing or just out of place or I just can’t have this unit and this unit so but it’s it’s amazing it’s like a giant puzzle and I think once once that puzzle all the pieces fit into place it’s going to be amazing it’s going to I reckon they’re going to be a a an Unstoppable force is once it happens yeah you’re going be traveling around the world there and destroying all different Nations under the flag of House Bolton absolutely I’ve I’ve told Mickey that I’m going to destroy him with a one ncu list Bolton who’s one ncu uh the one ncu would probably be fat Walder because I think I do I I’m going to go on record saying this I think they are the first faction that can survive on a one ncu list that for me um let going be another episode then we’re going to talk through this building with you if you’re up for it yeah absolutely um I I best get some practice in I need to put my money where my mouth is don’t I should be about 20 37 I think when I do that awesome okay cool well well um just what we just say as well before we before we sign off on this is that what I really like about botland is um you get for me you get two people playing bons you get the people that want to play because they love the fluff surrounding house bolon they love the the dark really dark element of what they are in the song of and far world but they also attract a higher level of player as well because I think you’ve meant I use your words is that they become a puzzle it’s it’s for for top well for top players but for competitive players they really become a how can I make these work which is what quite cool because pretty much what you just described that you’re doing with them yeah I do I do really enjoy trying to make things work work um and and boltons are my newest project at the minute to to Really crack and and prove that they’re not they don’t deserve to be where they are in the rankings yeah okay cool okay well cheers for your time man I really do appreciate it you know we appreciate everything you do for the community on up with especially you guys up at dead met gaming you got you know I mentioned in the intro that you guys have um probably the biggest song of us fire community at the minute in the UK and you you know you guys can run TOS basically just with your Club attending which is a incredible thing to be able to do yeah we’ve we’ve got one coming up soon uh I think there’s there’s eight or nine of us already all signed up for that uh with a few more getting involved so we we can usually hit double digits for the in-house tournaments yeah we we come up for the um for the teams tournament last year and uh was was it this year might this that was last year wasn’t it uh last year yeah end last year we’ve we’ve got the other one coming up soon uh just just before Christmas time this year I think oh brilliant okay love it wor the TR it was really good last time man was really um all your all your guys are are top top Lads and it was uh really good if anyone’s get gets the chance to pop up there and attend some of these dead meta gaming tournaments I highly recommend you do it because Aaron’s lovely I’ve almost forgiven him for beating me at uh LGT a couple years back on the um earo tournament was that with uh was that with my Lannister list yeah yeah yeah you yeah GRE if I can charge I will yeah that was that list was ridiculous that was purely a am I physically within charge range yes all right I’ve got to charge and uh apparently apparently it works when you when you run auto wound in uh Gregor Cain in pyromancers it was brutal very brutal okay man well cheers cheers for your time dude um anything you want to sign off with before we before we sign off now I think the only thing I want to say is thank you for for having me on I look forward to doing more of this in the future and uh if if your viewers or listeners fancy it then then check us out over at De gaming uh Shameless plug um we are going to be doing battle reports and stuff like that so yeah thank you for for all of the videos that you put out um and the the faction breakdowns and stuff I do find very interesting I’m slowly working my way through them all um but but yeah really really good stuff oh you’re very welcome mate it’s it’s a labor of love man we don’t we don’t get paid for it but it’s it’s the opportunity to to talk about factions to bring people new people into the game and also to just even just sitting there and have a conversation with people like yourself with with psycho um Mickey just have the opportunity those conversations to talk a little bit more about the factions I know you guys no so well is it’s quite nice you know all it is really is I’m sticking all in the in a big fining kinet so I can win one of the tournaments one day you’ve got a big what a massive whiteboard in the basement with all all the tactics on yeah I’m G I’m GNA rehash these videos and release as how to beat factions overviews okay man well cheers enjoy the rest of your day and I will uh I’ll speak to you soon yeah catch you later man take care mate bye byebye so there you go guys that is the end of our faction overview for House Bolton um I really enjoyed talking to Aaron and a massive massive thank you to him for taking some time out of his day just come and talk to me about how spoton and how he gets them to work he has had some good success with him so there is potential there to do something quite cool with the faction I’ll be using some of these tips and uh trying to get these guys on the board and winning some games for for me U if you anyone does get the chance to check out the dead meta gaming channel on YouTube um they they do some great battle reports on there if you get a chance to attend while their tournaments obviously in the north of the UK and Darlington I highly recommend that cuz their tournaments normally spot on the uh the spot prizes are great the um and just the atmosphere was just amazing but for now I hope you found this video interesting I hope you’ve found some key bits and pieces that might help you uh make your house Bolton Army more competitive for um just pick up some tips really which is all I’ve done during this video if you do like the video please do like the video on YouTube please do share the video to your friends and subscribe to the channel for more of v and fire content we have been a little bit slow and releasing content of late things have been really really busy life has been catching up on us but we have every intention to start pushing out more content uh very very soon as well as more of these uh recordings for the faction overviews because uh as I said to Aaron in the video it’s for me it’s just it’s great for me to sit down and just talk to these people about the game because it’s a game that I love very much um I enjoy playing it I sort of came into it from The Fallout of War Fantasy and even now with the return of the our world this is the game that I choose to play um and it’s got absolutely great Community which if you’re a new player I’ll welcome you to and if you’re an if you’re an older veter of the game I hope to see you soon take care e