A bit of Mordheim and Las Vegas

Ok so we met on Monday as usual and did some gaming. I played Rainbow Six Las Vegas 2 for about 2 hours while the other three guys played the legends of the five rings card game. I was playing on the hardest difficulty with the number of enemies roaming around at max. I died, a lot. But it was mostly to get some XP so I could unlock armour, clothing and guns and to catch my rank up with Stephen. By the end of the 2 hours my skills had noticeably improved and when Stephen jumped in for some two player we managed to nearly kill all the terrorists in the area.

We also played some Mordheim. Tim mad an ogre warband and Oscar made an undead one and they had a game so they would have a game under their belt like me and Stephen. The game went ok for them I think. I was still playing Las Vegas at that stage. We then had a 4 way game with my Reikland Mercenaries, Stephens Orcs and Goblins and the others two. We played a scenario called The Merchants Square. Where the objective is to grab some crates from the centre of the board and run off with them. With out waking the black 3 headed Pegasus that guards the area. Everyone was apprehensive. Oscar had gotten wiped out the last time we played but he'd won his game with Stephen. Tim only has 4 guys in his warband and that means a single loss can take him out of the game and I was playing humans.

I'd come out of the first game ok. No one had died and 2 of my henchmen had become heroes so i had the max of 6. But everyone else was playing Close combat killers. And my shooting so far had been crap, almost as crap as my close combat. It isn't all bad for me though. Stephens warband is so strong that I have been getting a +1 underdog bonus from game 1.

I set up second and got the first turn. So I set up the 4 guys with ranged weapons in a tour on my table edge and all my close combat guys in a clump on the ground. In the first turn i just ran forward hoping to search one of the outlying buildings that is full of loot. And shot at but did nothing too the Ogres. In the others guys turns. The undead grabbed 2 of the buildings and got loot and the ogres grabbed the other two. The giant horde of Greenskins surged across the board and the squigs landed on an Ogre.

In the second turn I moved in around a building and everyone shot at the vampire that was in it. With no result. Everyone else headed for the crates of loot in the centre of the board.

Third Turn. I charged out of the building at the Necromancer and one of the dregs from the undead warband. My captain manged to fail at life and only knockdown the necromancer with his pistols and my champion managed to critical and kill the dreg with his sword. The orcs mean while were just cruising around the board. There was a lot of vicious combat in the middle over the crate between them and some ghouls and the Ogres pulled back trying to get their loot off the table.

Fourth Turn. I am counter charged by the other two dregs and the vampire and some ghouls. The Orcs and Undead are now in an alliance and so the vampire can give his full attention to my warband. My champion is cut down and my captain is knocked down. I counter charge with my swordmen to try and save the captain but and I manage to kill the 2 Dregs, just. Then my captain, my new hero swordsman and one of the normal swordsmen is cut down by the vampire.

Fifth turn. I fail my route test and exit the game.

The Pegasus showed up in turn 4 I think but I wasn't anywhere near the square so what did I care. I think the eventual winner was the orcs, again.

And so began the post battle phase, my leader got multiple injury and rolled a 5, ouch. Luckily it means i get to reroll multiple injury if i roll that again, because i did and it lets me reroll if i get the dead result, because i did 3 time. In the end he was hardened, robbed twice and had a nervous condition. He survived though and even got a level up so i bought him resilient. My Champion died, and my swordman got a hand wound reducing his WS to 3, luckily he got a WS increase with his level up which is great, but he could have been on 5 which would have been fantastic. My young bloods got skills. So one got Resilient and one got quick shot. All my henchmen survived and I even rolled high for exploration. With my 65 GC i hired a trollslayer, a new Champion and bough 2 swords one for the champion and one for my poor robbed leader.

All in all a mediocre game for me, as usual. while i get some small victories i usually get bigger set backs. Oh and even though my rating is 112 i still get an underdog bonus from Stephens warband.

Matt

P.S. hopefully I'll get some pictures up here by the beginning of next week. I just have to see if there is a camera a can borrow.

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This is a blog about a gaming group. We play a whole variety of games - Dungeons and Dragons version 3.5, Warhammer fantasty roleplaying game, Mordheim, Magic the gathering to name but a few.

The goal of this Blog is too record our games and what happens in them as well as the general craziness of and jokes of the group.

Hopefully there will be accounts from the other memebers of the group and pictures of our games.

Matt.