The Daemon's Claw

 I tried out my illusionist warband against George’s construct building enchanter. My warband are made from the Shadow stalker and the underworlds box. They are supplemented with a classic avatars of war thief and a witch Elf thug. I have two shadow hounds and an illusionary one. The trick with this warband is to rush up a war dog, then transpose that with a fast mover and then in the apprentice phase swap the illusionary dog with the treasure carrier. On a 3 by 3 table you can get the central treasure under control in your deployment zone by the end of the apprentice phase in turn 1. We played the mausoleum scenario which turned out to be even better, there were uncontrolled creatures right next to the treasure and they don’t resist being transposed.  The terrain is set out to represent an abandoned or soon to be depopulated Empire village.  Here we are Pete in the first turn. My thug has a treasure and is safe behind the house. My wizard has moved over to the right...

Saturday we start our Frostrgave campaign with an introductory session on how to create your own warband. This one we are setting in the Warhammer world and mostly using "bad guy" warbands. I have been painting up some terrain to give my collection more of an Empire feel to it Here is my Mausoleum, the ghosts of Empire heroes past might come out to haunt us.  This is the old Empire chappell. It got a quick paint job but was great to help set the direction of the colour palette for the models. This is an filament 3D print church. it takes paint well and I can't see many layer lines after applying the paint Here is another view of the ground floor. The Ground floor comes with an interior that's big enough to fit some models. The tower is also hollow so you could get a model in there either by magic or a lot of elbow grease. Here is my warband. They are a Warcry team with some backup from models made from FireForge Games Undead peasants. They all wear manacles, so they l...

 The crew travel to Obion. There is time to reflect on what we learned, and we gain one story point. We don't need any kind of approval to undertake Federation missions. Obion has high winds which can blow particulate matter causing a reduction in visibility We manage to repair the beam pistol but not the battle visor. We manage to requisition a couple of cartons of self-sealing stem bolts and more usefully two stim packs and 2 med patches, we also get one turn of supplies. While exploring we acquire a blast rifle and a battle visor. We also get a container of Omega 17 which is worth 5 credits. The Captain comes back with a new Federation mission, we need to go and recover a black box and fight off anyone we come across. These are my Gorn. In the game they are Rage Lizards. This gives them a toughness of 5 ouch. Here we are deployed across the barren landscape. The Gorn use the tactical AI so deploy in teams of 2. The Federation team is spread out hugging cover. The Tactical AI say...

In part two of our battle to defend Pengetera we need to fight off a second wave of Klingons. There are now 9 Klingons with a leader 2 specialists and 6 troopers. I changed the trooper's armament to match the models so 2 have rifles and 4 have pistols. Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam! I'd much rather make someone else die for their cause... While this would be a great roll in kill team its less useful in 5 Parsecs where you want to roll low for initiative. Romjin and peck activate in the Fast phase, both experienced officers bring down a Klingon including of the specialists with the feared Klingfire pistol. The Klingons have adopted their patented Angry Mob formation. Aggressive enemies deploy in one clump. Other enemies deploy in smaller groups spread out across the table. Here is everyone that didn't move, moving up. At least we don't have to worry about sneaky flanking movements from the Klingons as they storm down the corridor I got so excited by the initiative rolls I fo...

We received orders from Starfleet to support the defence and hold off the Klingons. The Peregrine had been forced out of orbit by the Klingon ships and was now lurking in the outer system. We didn't have a way off planet so being assigned to planetary defence was about as good as it was going to get. We are defending inside a Federation facility when we get word that the Klingons have attacked nearby. Here we are spread out into 3 supporting teams. The Klingons are deployed in their traditional aggressive clump. The Federation team win the initiative and then the Klingons are surprised by our attack and don't get to act in the first turn. The teams initiative roll. most of the team get to act in the fast phase. Here is the federation team after moving up twice. Dodson stuns a Klingon while Peck and Chung miss. Dodson takes down a Klingon, earning him the bonus XP for first kill The Klingon return fire is marginally effective stunning Romjin. Romjin kills a Klingon specialist wi...