Battlefield Bangkok

Wednesday saw the forces of Khador, Pirates, Trolls and Skorne take to the battle field as they fought to secure an ancient stone circle in the center of the battle field. Pirates (Kris) were sided with Trolls (Kobby) and Khador (Chris) with Skorne (Wuffy) , or on a visual front : Fast and numerous versus slow and compact.

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The game was 750, 8 minute turns. Victory on VPs for holding the stone circle.

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Right from the start it was obvious that it was going to be hard to stop Kris from dominating the game as his pirates deployed forward and charged into the circle on turn one while Khador was bogged down in rough Terrain and the Trolls engaged Skorne. By turn 3 the Pirat Skorne alliance were already far far ahead on VPs for holding the circle, when by a stroke of good fortune (for Skorne) Epic Madrak was found exposed, Harpooned and then beaten to death, removing the Troll warbeasts from the battle.

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However even with their chief gone the Trolls continued to give Skorne a headache, though the tide gradually turned as the Champions and fell callers fell leaving the Trolls with just a Kriel warriors.

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Meanwhile Khador finally had arrived at the circle and engaged the Pirates in a bloody mop up operation that left the ground strewn with corpses especially when the Beast pulled  off our gaming groups first ever really successful Trample manouver leaving squashed pirates all over the place. However even with the Pirates and Trolls dying in droves, it was all too late and they won by a massive VP margin from occupying the circle early and in numbers.

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Victory to Pirates and Trolls, though Skorne and Khador took grim delight in the fact that the enemy was horribly mauled and gasping their last breaths when the game ended.

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And a new Light Warbeast for Skorne.

Among the savage cyclops are those of keener minds, those who have used their unique perception and primitive rituals to evoke crude but effective primal magic. Skorne houses strong enough to capture and tame such shamans value their ability to curse their enemies, to harness the inner power of nearby beasts, and to unravel enemy spells.

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Cyclops Shaman Light Warbeast comes in a blister (PIP 74038). A player may field an unlimited number of Cyclops Shamans for each warlock in his Skorne horde.

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The party had little trouble entering Corvis, passing several check points where they had the rest of their weapons confiscated for being smart arses, but otherwise entered unmolested and were surprised to find the city both quiet and peaceful. No beggars on the streets, no street corner riff raff and none of the Sweet Lords crews to be seen. The peacefulness was rather disturbing.  A quick treck to the Church found them looking down the barrel of Cpt Helstrom’s pistol and (much to my amusement) the party thought he’d switched sides, when he put a bullet in the back of the head of the Inquisitor that was with him. The party took more than a few seconds to wonder what exactly had happened. But then as they checked for bullet holes they realized it was just the Inquisitor that had been shot.

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Helstrom brought the party up to speed and told them he’d be back in 24 hours with details on how to rescue Father Dumas from the dungeon where he was being held, as well as with some weapons. In the time between the party managed to find time for :

• Gob to nip out and try and get into the Temple of Cyriss, but the doors were locked
• A trip to the Sweet Lords ship, where it was really quiet and the Sweet Lord tasked the party with helping to get the city back on it’s knees – to him. As well as try and rescure Lord Sunbright.
• A misguided but successful quest placed upon the party by their dear friend Harcourt Horkel, Milskrat found him to be a great guy, Kovul for some reason wanted to kill him on sight…hmmm
• And from helping Harcourt the party ended up running into the Blighted Dwarves that the party had evaded in the forest, killing themand Kovul took the lead Dwarves Axe “Brain Frost”, a covenant weapon.

And then back to the main plot, the party picked up their weapons rowed out to the dungeon sewer entrance and moved swiftly to enter.  Finally they arrived at the stairs up into the Dungeon. First up was Bart (The Gobber) , he popped up from the trap door to find himself face to face with a guard using the privy. Bart (covered in mud and gunk) quickly explained that he was cleaning the sewer, which the guard found to be a pretty reasonable statment. Gob followed (another Gobber covered in gunk), “part of the same team”. Okay passable, next up Milskrat armed with Large Hammer “Err… sewer cleaning crew?” more a question than a statement from the Trollkin.  Now being caught on the crapper with his pants down the guard knew better than to argue, next up, Kovul,”Part of the…yea well what ever!” An argument now broke out amongst the sewer cleaning crew as to what to do with the man on the privy.  Which ended as follows as Kovul asked “So do you support Vinter Raelthorne?” , “No Sir”? said the guard (telling Morrow’s own truth), “Bollock’s!” said Kovul and swung at him with his Axe…missed and said guards man then dived screaming down the open trap door. All chance of sneaking in was over and the party just glared at Kovul, who glared back. Time passed and then alarm bells started to ring and combat broke out.

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In the ensuing chaos, the party managed to find several prisoners (including Father Dumas and Lord Sunbright), free them and almost escaped without casualties. But were cut off by the guards and the arrival of lots of guns And Van Oberen. Bart was overcome by a group of viscous Skorne paingivers that he ran into  and while he didn’t bleed out, he was left behind by his valiant buddies. (”Leave no man behind!” not being part of the parties creed) The rest of the rescue team managed to fight off the wave of Skorne that took down Bart, lost a couple of rescued prisoners and then plunged through the blood grates back into the Sewer to flee into the night.

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And so, father Dumas is saved, Skorne are in the city and Bart has been captured… Can the party save Corvis or will they call it a day and bugger off to Five Fingers!

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The concept was simple enough, “lets have something that doesn’t end in a caster kill…” . Fielded across  four players, 3 Armies were 1000 Points of defending Druids (Balder and Krueger) , being assaulted by an allied force of 500 Khadorians (Sorshca) and 500 Skorne (Hexerus) . The heavy boys vs the tree huggers. Of course many many turns later it still ended with a double caster kill, but the “capture the duidic circle” gave everyone something more to focus on, and perhaps with an enforced turn limit it would have come into play, but as it was the battle played out as follows :
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The Druids arrayed them selves to defend two fords across the deep river, one ford heading into thick forest and the other into a wheat field, strangely the Druids were heavily massed on their left facing the Skorne, leaving their right lightly defended with just a a few pigs against the might of Khador.
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On the Druids left flank it all went great, the Skorne infantry were ripped to pieces by lightening strikes and spells while Khador advanced slowly and surely up the battle field. The Mortar team lobbing shells that landed in random locations to little effect until one strayed over the top and landing bang in the middle of the clustered druids, that was nasty, and gave the Druids pause and they started to spread out.
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However by this time Khador were across the Ford and making hard work of getting through the wheatfield.  Druidics forces rushed up to cover the collapsed right wing and were hit by Sorshca’s feat.  This forced more Druids to move to stop Khador and allowed the what was left of the Skorne to retreat (amidst Kruegers ongoing feat).  By the time the thaw came, a good portion of the Druids were dead, Baldur made a last ditch attempt to stop Sorshca, failed and was cut down himself. However that’s where it went wrong for Kahdor, with minimal casualities to that point, Sorshca left herself exposed and was hit and killed by a tornado. Shutting down her Jack’s when they were primed to mop up.  This left the Skorne in an iffy position with the game balanced in favour of the remaining Druids.  However as the sun began to set, luck ran out on Kruegar and he found himself a little too close to an easy target… and was killed by the blast damage having spent all his fury in an over zealous attempt to finish of the remaining Skorne beasts. Victory Skorne and the Khador Mortar team!
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Check out the new Epic Skorne warcaster figure and preview text here.

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Just posting the result, Kris or Wuffy can bang up the battle report. Though I caught the end game and it came close to Shae winning a fight with a melee attack, but, as expected, he choked, and then choked on some cold Skorne steel.

So far, no challenger has won a battle in any ladder match!

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Lord Tyrant Hexeris challenged Epic Butcher to a 750 ladder match.  Packing in 5 warbeasts, 2 units of needle gunners, a squigy squealer and a unit of swords men, againts the rock hard Doom Reavers, Assault Commandos, Ashley, Holt and his GF, and 3 Heavy Jacks.

Going 5 rounds, the highlight of the battle being the turn 4 decimation of the Doom Reavers due to the Hexeris feat combined with the Skorne Sword mens Stand Ready order… the Reavers died to a man, took out Holt, almost had Ashley and left 2 swords men still standing…pretty evil combination!

Butcher had his revenge shortly after that, cutting down three beasts in a Homicidal attack that also saw him take out his Spriggans legs..oops! Okay he didn’t take all three by himself as his buddy the Berserker finished off one of the Skorne beasts with a swift one two axe attack to the back of the head.

Turn 5 Hexeris and the boys had the Butcher cold but failed to press home their advantage, leaving The Fat man in the Red suit on 5 wounds, and really upset, and then he rolled a 1 for fury! What the heck, the creature that the Fat Man can’t kill in two hits has yet to born… and that was the end of Hexeris.  Just as well as he only had one Beast left standing! Not that there was much left on the Khador side of the table for that matter.

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Update 500 Point Ladder. Skorne challened Trolls and were defeated.

1. Chris – Menoth
2. Wuffy – Cryx
3. Chris – Khador
4. Kobby – Trolls ( W 1 – L 0 – D 0)
5. Wuffy – Skorne ( W 0 – L 1 – D 0)
6. Steve – Khador
7. Kris – Mercenaries

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This battle was between Khador Chris and Skorne Wuffy. A 350 Escalation Campaign battle.

Khador :

• Karchev
• Devastator
• Devastator

Skorne :

• Lord Tyrant Hexeris
• Titan Cannoneer
• Cyclops Savage
• Cyclops Brute

The terrain, global effect and faction advantages played no real role in this battle as both sides moved to engage in hand to hand right from the get go and terrain was positioned to the sides.

The Titan took a few ranged shots at Krachev prior to melee however it failed to do much damage and that was the extent of ranged combat for the entire battle.

Three rounds of close combat reduced both sides to their casters and the advantage was with Hexeris, who though short on fury for the round 5, cut himself for the short fall and charged in to take on Karchev in hand to hand (brave soul that he is). Slicing into Karchev he cut the man of steel down to within a hairs breadth of death…and then ran out of fury and attacks. Karchev, who was down to only one functioning system, was thankful that he wasn’t 100% Jack, and also thankful that it was his open fist that had been cut off, and not his sword, swung once, cut Hexeris in half and then pondered on what to do with all the unused focus he had left.

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