New campaign and a new order

We played the first game of our new Mordheim campaign this week as well as Las Vegas. We only played two games because we were pretty unorganized. It took us half an hour to find the print out of the campaign so we could get the stats for our priests and so we could roll for a scenario. Everyone else rolled up warbands and Helped search the massive piles of minis for what people wanted. I decided to name my Cursed Hillman Russel Savage after my werewolf character in a live Requiem game I play in. Stephen traded me a chaos marauder that I took apart and combined with some mercenary parts to make a savage looking woodsman. I used a Chaos hound as his wolf form.

With the campaign found and everyone with their warbands we rolled for who would get first pick of the priests. Tim got first pick and chose Reinhardt Mortarian, the same priest who accompanied my witch Hunters last time we played. I'm not sure who the other two picked because I was busy setting up the table at the time. I chose Vogan Corpsehand, his sinister style and link to a Necromancer made him a good fit for my warband.

A severe and reclusive Priest, Vorgan Corpsehand is treated with reverence and caution by the rest of the order. Vorgan has a wasted appearance, gaunt, more akin to the corpses he interns than his fellow Priests. It is rumored that once Vorgan performed a rite of binding and encountered difficulties. The soul of the interned, a malicious Necromancer, struggled to be bound and Vorgan was very nearly consumed by his lingering power. Though Vorgan triumphed and bound the angry spirit, he was left… changed. Rumors abound that some of the Necromancer’s power still remains within the Priest, though numerous investigations and exorcism rites have discovered no evidence of it.

The campaign currently looks like this -
Me - Undead
Stephen - Hochland Bandits
Tim - Witch Hunters
Oscar - Carnival of Chaos

We diced for who would go first and it was me and Stephen. We rolled for a scenario and got street fight. Street fight is a straight run down a road at each other. The street is lined with buildings you can enter but you can’t leave the road at all or go back the way you came.

The battle was close fought and fun. I mostly ran everything I had at the Bandits while they shot at us with crossbows. The fist shot critcaled Konrad and caused two wounds. Luckily Konrad was only knocked down. The missile fire whittled down my ghouls though and I lost three of them. Russel wandered slowly forward firing his longbow. His first shot took out an enemy hero. After that he hit twice but didn’t wound. The hunchbacked trio of Igor, Fritz and Dwergi did little with their bows. Dwergi knocked someone down and Igor was shot from a 3 storey aqueduct only to be stunned. Konrad killed 2 enemies including the Bandit leader. I was taking route test for the last three rounds of the game and luckily passed them all. With the loss of his leader Stephen failed his first test and gave me the win.

Stephen fared horribly in the post battle sequence, his leader was sold to the Pits and Killed by the Pit fighter. He also lost another hero outright. So has made a new warband learning from the mistakes of his last one. full credit to Stephen trying out a new warband and one none of us have played before so he's having to learn as he goes. I lost two of my ghouls and rolled triple 1 for exploration giving me 15gc extra. So with my gold I paid Russel's upkeep, bought a sword for Konrad and hired another ghoul.

So with a win too my name I am cautiously confident. I also painted up one of my Ghouls and will attempt to finish two more for our next game. I also starting painting Russel and did a little work on Viggo. I really need to get stuck into the Dregs as they are currently letting the side down.

We also came to a desion in terms of balancing our gaming. We have this one night a week too play and limited time due to people schedules. So we decided to alternate what we play so we will play DnD next week and continue Mordheim the week after. So my next gaming post will be about the adventures of Thokan son of Agath, a feral Gargun warrior.

My next post however will be about painting since I plan to go to Stephen on the weekend and get some painting done. I will also try to get some photos and post them here.

Matt