Ep 5 - The Art of War

Show notes:
Mythic Bastionland was created by Chris McDowall https://bastionlandpress.com/products/mythic-bastionland-hardback-book-plus-pdf

Our intro music is "Medieval" by Ptibec https://openverse.org/audio/1f62fd74-2742-45de-b6eb-79f9dbbddb3a and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Our outro music is "Medieval Victory Epic (Version 1)" by makesound https://openverse.org/audio/794859e7-c63c-466e-9f76-631e1e01e098 and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

The music "(Bossa Nova Loop) Thank You for Shopping!" by plasterbrain https://freesound.org/people/plasterbrain/sounds/464924/ is licensed under Creative Commons 0.

Timings:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Decisive combat
02:54 Combat rules and characters
04:33 Narrating combat
06:00 Bad rolls
08:28 Combat environments
11:15 Mortal wounds and scars
17:06 Leaving characters exposed
18:48 Impairing weapons
24:16 Creative gambits
27:30 Focus
29:24 Warband combat
32:36 Bonus attack dice
38:45 Memorable fights
46:14 You be the Judge!
54:44 Outro

Discussed on the show:

• Decisive combat https://www.bastionland.com/2017/05/decisive-combat.html
• Held Kinetic Energy in Old School Combat Arenas https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/07/held-kinetic-energy-in-old-school.html
• Impairing Impairing https://www.bastionland.com/2025/07/impairing-impairing.html
• House rule idea: Giant creatures as Warbands (u/Jack_Shandy) https://www.reddit.com/r/MythicBastionland/comments/1oycio1/house_rule_idea_giant_creatures_as_warbands/

Find the hosts at:

• Brian https://luckroll.blogspot.com/
• William https://halfawormandabittenapple.blogspot.com/
• Horst https://blackcitygauntlet.blogspot.com/