Saturday 18 April 2015

First blood

The campaign has begun and the first night has seen encounters between 6 warbands so battle reports are up first.

The first encounter was between Chris and Christian: Middenheimers vs Dwarfs.
In amongst the city lies the once famed Merry Maiden, a pub famous thought the city as a place to go where everyone knows your name. Or has heard of you at the very least. During the arrival of the comet a shard broke off and impacted near this building and in the months of chaos that followed looters and rioters made it and the surrounding area their home. Ill-gotten gains were brought from across the city and stashed in the cellars of these buildings.
Rumours of a particularly large stash made their way to the ears of the Rowdy Dogs (not led by Roddy Piper) and Bugman's Rangers. This stash had been broken into three and hidden in the basements of three buildings. Picking their way through the ruins the Rowdy boys spot the first building; "Right lads, let's get in and out without a fuss" said Otto
"Not bloody likely boyo! We were 'ere first, see?"
"Where the [expletive deleted]?!?!" Jo yelled, whirling round.
"Down 'ere you lanky streak of p***" shouted Josef
Ottos looked down to see the bulbous, red nose of Josef Bugman's starting up at him, gimlet eyes narrowed.
"You half-pints can't stop us. What could you possibly do, punch us in the shins?" laughed Rufus.
"Bloody right" said Psycho the trollslayer, punching Nils in the groin, "quick, we got the drop on them"
With scenario of occupy, the aim was to capture 3 of the buildings by having at least one model inside the building uncontested within the eight turn limit.
The first few of turns involved getting into range of the central buildings during which Klaus and Grim traded shots, neither managing to take the other out. Nils managed to secure the first building ( the pub) much to the dismay of Josef who could practically taste the dark, cool beer already.
Jo the Youngblood was about to secure a building when he was charged by Psycho the Trollslayer and a thunderer henchman. They fought for two turns before Jo was knocked down and curb stomped by Psycho. Spotting fresh meat, Psycho then charged Kurt hitting him so hard his nose ended up next to his ear. A long shot took out Rufus the marksman (who actually has yet to hit a target) causing the Rowdy Boys to rout leaving Bugman's Rangers free to loot the pub.
"Oh hell, quick. Scarper boys, the squats are tougher than they look"
The Rowdy Boys fled taking their wounded to fight another day. Turns out standing between Dwarfs and booze doesn't end well...

The second match of the evening was between my Carnival of Chaos and Sky's Skaven.
The scenario was treasure hunt so hidden in a building was a stash, but we did not know which building.
The sound of pipes and drums drifted their way through the city accompanied by the jangling of bells. A motley crew wound their way through the streets, bright colours flashing as they tumbled through the air. Rumours of a great treasure had filtered out of the city to Unka Bubo in the small hamlet where the latest performance  of Presents from Papa was concluding. With the possibility of loot Pedrolino began cavorting uncontrollably until Samson had to grab his leg and hoist him up.
Meanwhile in the sewers Frank and his Rat Pack had followed the scent of dirty, clumsy man things to a stash of Warpstone. Having dispatched the meatbags, they made their way to the surface to gather those precious rocks for the glory of Clan Eshin.
Papa's Pestilential Players got the first turn and searched two building finding nothing. The Rat Pack initially searched three again turning up nothing but bones and dust. The carnival began to push forwards rummaging through another two buildings but the ruins yielded no more than the first.
Sammy Davis Jr picked the lock to the tower finding nothing inside as henchmen swarmed past him out the other side. Frank spotted Hercules the brute and took a potshot at him. Luckily Hercules stayed true to his namesake and absorbed the blow without flinching.
Both side pushed forwards eager bite, claw and slash their way to victory. Unka Bubo stepped forward and was brained by a rock slung by a henchrat, stunning him and leaving him unable to act for a turn or two. Frank lined up his shot more carefully this time taking out the Tallyman that was shambling towards him. The henchrat said loosed a volley of stones

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