The Daemon's Claw

I am going to Adepticon with the Family at the end of March. I am an Adepticon noob. I managed to get into a couple of the Saga events. The Age of Magic on Thursday and the Age of Vikings on Sunday. For the Age of Magic event I am taking an undead army. I will be using: A Necromancer Warlord 2 points of Hearthguard, 4 points of warriors, 1 monster and 1 point of creatures. Typically I will trade in 2 hearthguard and 4 warriors for some combination of a Black Knight, and extra creature or a catapult. I am having some fun painting some new models to make the list. I got in a game against Thomas over the weekend. This was a real eyeopener. My attacks bounced off Thomas's units who always seemed to have extra defense dice, attack dice or both. My Hearthguard got a big surprised when Tom revealed that his archers could shoot units that were charging them. It was a good learning experience and an opportunity to hopefully recruit Thomas into our Saga community. Some of my idea...

We played a second game of our Last Days campaign. After our first game Richard's group had possession of the medicine. This was intended to be delivered to a group of survivors called Destiny. Richard decided that he would try and deliver the medicine and complete the original plan. A dead drop was arranged at a warehouse. Richards team would leave the goods in the warehouse and then the Destiny group would move in to collect them. Alan and I decided this was too good an opportunity to miss and decided to take a shopping trip. This is an overview of the table, some abandoned warehouses, overgrown fields and patches of trees. The Federation team deploy behind the warehouses. Servelan has recovered from the Zombie sickness, but Trooper green is still sick. Rather than risk getting the crew sick we left him behind. Travis took over the assault rifle.  Richard's crew got to start in the warehouse, they began moving out, they were doing a good job of attracting the zombi...