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The Battle for the Dwarven Gubbins

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My daughter (11) and I, both fairly inexperienced with wargames, decided to try and run a session using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy: Skirmish .  As if to reenact the game's cover art, we opted to run humans (her) vs. ratfolk (me). The two sides contested among the ruins, each seeking to lay claim to pieces of the lost Dwarven gubbins-technology. I spent the week 3D printing a vast number of tokens (only a few of which ever got used) and a few pieces of terrain pieces (all of which saw play). Unfortunately, despite my hours of printing, the table was still a little sparse on terrain. So we added a bunch of clay pieces from kids early art projects and a couple other random items crowding our bookshelves. Member of a ratfolk patrol manages to remain upright as comrades stumble around apparently falling-down drunk. Presumably the commander should've provided better basing for the troops. We ran just the basic game, still learning the rules, but had a blas