Silver Bayonet - the techno curse

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 Alan and I got together on Saturday to play me of Joe’s Patreon scenarios. The maze of the Minotaur.

So our brave warband journey to an island near Crete in the Mediterranean. When we get there, we find the cave is a giant maze and it’s inhabited by a Minotaur and a pack of devil dogs.

We were playing on my schifting maze terrain tiles. At the end of each phase a player could shift any of the even rows or columns by one tile. This can open up or close off passages. This took the place of Joes confusion mechanics, we would be confusing each other.

Here are Alan’s French advancing into the maze. As is now tradition he won the initiative for the first turn
Here is where my stout native chappies will be deployed 

Ad that’s all there is for photos. I rolled a double one on operate phone and it was a total failure.


So what happened.

My chaps walked into the maze and promptly shot the devil dog lurking in the corner. My officer and a janissary bravely advanced. The Minotaur loomed out of the darkness ahead of them my officer proved he was made of sterner stuff and passed his Terror test. My Jannissary proved he was made of jello and was promptly paralysed with fear. Time for backup trousers.

It took him a couple of turns to change his pants and improve to only just a bit scared.

My officer made it to one clue marker and found himself a magic spear.

We very one else wandered around getting lost or stuck in the maze.

On Alan’s team his day war far more exciting. The Minotaur found his team several times and poor Bleuche the infantryman went sploosh in his trousers too.

Alan managed to move several of his team into the c network tile and when the Minotaur returned from exchanging blows with the French junior officer, blew it away with his salty balls. The brave French officer even got the fatal blow.

Alan got so much bonus xp he could not allocate it all to his 7 models.


This game was loads of fun moving the maze tiles around to open up moves for your team and shut down the other person.

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