My Warband, My Story: KOW Vanguard in the San Francisco Bay Area

Unfortunately club attendance and participation dried up and the campaign never concluded. Evil was smiting the $h!t out of everyone and I just got to say “Yeah Abyssals faction ability of Fury is that good”.

I missed the second session game Snow Blind. However my evil ? team mates are keeping us in the lead. I got to play last Wed. With great hobbies from our group who is playing as a good faction with his bad dreams. A bit unconventional in the Mantic world but, we have a serious shortage of good so Joel stepped up. We are facing off and both got heading out from the gate quite cautiously though. Good was group  defending. My ranged characters were steady taking cover in the first round.

Second round became a steady mess of Melee on the right side of the board as unit after unit charged into the fray. I had plenty of power dice and thump and fury are so delicious on a Mauler. I handing out wounds like tricker treat candy. My Tormentor was able to let loose with Demonic roam in round three using one of my two power dice. Thwarting shadowhounds attack. My second power dice was used to fury The Despoiler being attacked , being combined with fury thump is just too juicy.The attacking butcher was smithed too Hell.

Bottom of round four nice dreams moved several models into contact with the 2 point objectives. I started to finish up the last opponent in Melee and make my own moves towards scoring. Good dreams suddenly dissipated into the ether. I think we won by their conceding. Still waiting for an update from the C O.

I forgot these stars. Succubus.

Now our most nefarious Fiend The Tormentor. I swirled Red, orange and yellow reaper paints with a toothpick on the base, added, aggrealian earth tequ. Paint for the crackle. Dry brushed crushed the earth with black and added Army Painters ashes for additional effect.

I missed the second round of the campaign but, I got my round 3 campaign game coming on Wednesday. I also finished basing and highlighting my models and kit bashing Tormentor. Here is a brief showcase.

We were given a simple objective crush our way through the enemy line and off into the horizon.  Our small band Warband poised ready to tear into our next meal. Assemble left to right Abyssal Guard 1&2, DeathClaw the Despoiler, Hot Chick 1 The Succubus, and Crackhead the Gargoyle (proxy by the Seductress for this game). Our BBQ feasts were to be the stringy but sweet elves of Overthere. Round one was all movement and cover taking or bracing with my Warband. Second round my gargoyle got greedy and tried for some glory when the elf prince exposed himself. It was supposed to epic and it was, an epic failure that is. She fell first blood dragging herself off the field. Third round Archers made themselves pesky and one elf got himself charged. It didn’t go well for him. Meanwhile a tall spear had been maneuvering  himself nearly into the scoring area by the fourth  round. Guard 2 caught up to him. Both exchanges blows and saves. Dice is marking the scoring area.

More mayhem in the fourth. Archers peppering my Despoiler with arrows and even he took a wound just not enough to take him down. He did a great job shielding the succubus as she moved with him.. I group charged my pair into the pesky prince who had exposed himself earlier. Time to deal some slam and vicious with fatal attraction. Pesky prince can really take a pounding and give it back.

This was a slug fest the lasted the 4-5 rounds. Prince would get smashed, save and get back up and attack when he could, we would save and so on. In the meanwhile the contest in my border zone waged for the remainder of the game. An archer hopped the hedge in fifth without much luck. In the meantime one of Guards 1 was trying to sprint towards the elves score zone and took an arrow in the back from the other. Finally at the end of the fifth Succubus fell the prince and advanced over the hedge. We rolled for a 6th round it it began again. Archers firing, two warrior going at it in the contested zone. Tall spear finally fell, and the Succubus just getting off of the board by fatiguing a walk on herself. Team evil with 1vp for the game win. We collected quite a bit of campaign gold (16) but, the weather turned bad quickly. We saw Hot chick 1 running off to assist Crackhead who was dragging a badly mangled leg of the field. This injury looks costly. Hopefully once the white out dies down they will make their way back to the base camp.

We are playing our first game Wed. 10/2 at Gamescape in SF. Break through. What to do go cheesy and fly, armor up and punch through, spam up on the cheap guys and run the risk of loosing grunts in the first game with hopes some squeeze through the cracks…