Demonsub goes all in with Sláine

So last night a few friends came over and we played Scenario B – A God’s Curse from the starter set booklet. As there weren’t many miniatures in the game, both of my friends decided to team up against me and play the Drunes, Slough Throt and three Skull Swords vs myself with Sláine and Ukko the dwarf.

The photos aren’t up to my normal lighting quality as I didn’t want to disturb the game  too much by fiddling with lamps, since my friends were there.

The goal of the scenario was for Slough Throt to visit each of the three runestones on the table while I had to stop him by way of a very large axe.

After a brief explanation of the rules to my friends we started drawing counters from the bag, the game was on.

Ukko immediately ran forward towards the drunes with a winded Sláine trying to keep up. Meanwhile the Skull Swords advanced, shields locked together while Slough Throt visited the first rune stone and made a sacrifice.

Ukko decided to wait for Sláine to catch up (you can ready a model and having him spend an action later in the game, interrupting another model’s action if necessary). While the Skull Swords did the same guarding the edge of a small wood.

Having finally caught up, Sláine spotted the Skull Swords and charged in wounding one of them.

Seeing Sláine occupied in battle Slough Throt dodged around the wood, heading for the second stone. Ukko, feeling particularly sneaky and a little brave, ran behind Throt planning on stabbing him in the back and saving the day. It didn’t go so well as Throt spun around giving Ukko a light slash, but turns out the blade was poisoned. Ukko’s face went green as he watched Throt reach the second runestone.

Sláine was still fighting the Skull Sword wounding another he didn’t think it too many, or perhaps not enough as he never got his warp spasm, probably due to the effects of the nearby rune stones corrupting the Earth.

With Sláine stuck in combat and Ukko feeling ill, Slough Throt at last made it to the final rune stone and victory was his.

Sláine wielding his axe.

Sláine in warp spasm.