Thy soul too keep part 3 and other stuff

Ok I have been a bit slack lately with this blog so I will give an account of the past 2 and half weeks of gaming.

First, Murray and Elwin came round to Stephen's on Thursday so we played some Mordheim. I played Undead since I had the minis and want to master that warband, Stephen played Druchii since he had the minis and has been working on his army, Murray played Beastmen because well that’s how Murray rolls, furry and close combat capable and Elwin played Witch Hunters because he like some of the minis we had and wanted to see how humans would fair.

We started with the lost prince scenario Murray me and Stephen legged it towards the prince while Elwin hung back and sniped at us. Me and Stephen got distracted trying to murder each other and Murray stole the prince out from under us. Elwin made a late game attack for the prince but Murray prevailed. I succeeded in my murdering, my vampire killed something like 5 elves but was taken out by Stephens leader.

Post game went ok for me from what I remember, my vamp got 3 wounds just like Konrad. Next game was a straight fight I think. Me and Stephen got distracted with our grudge again. Vampy killed more elves but again didn't survive. Post game I had some sort of set back but my vamp survived. Then we went to Mac Donald’s and had a hilarious adventure with the drive through and managed to get the operate pissed at us. the last game Elwin sat out since he was tired so me, Stephen and Murray battled like rabid baboons. It didn't go great for me from what I can recall. Post game my vamp died and my necromancer was out for the next game. if we were going to continue I would have been fucked.

So in conclusion it was great to catch up with Murray and Elwin who got me into both Mordheim and D&D, late night Mac Donald’s drive through can be more complex and hilarious than you think and the undead warband can get taken out in one game.

The next Thursday there was a surprise game of D&D. I thought I was going to Stephens to paint and kill virtual terrorists as I usually do. Imagine my surprise to find Rory there and then to learn Tim and Oscar will be back shortly to start Oscars new D&D campaign. Tragically I had decided not to bring my backpack along. Since I though I wouldn’t need all my dice and D&D books and stuff. Oscars campaign allows us too make whatever character we want from any setting to time so long as we can represent it in D&D 3.5. I had a character who was a frost giant monster class and a barbarian. He was a pretty hardcore combat character. However he was in my bag so I had to make a new character from scratch. I decided I would make Ash from the Evil Dead series, complete with Chainsaw and shotgun. Stephen is some weird super caster large sized half snake guy from the Japanese setting and for some reason is an 8 year old kid, Tim is a flintlock wielding seafarer of some kind and Rory is a creature from one of the odd world games.

The adventure was pretty interesting there were plenty of laughs since we had such a crazy mix of characters. The getting the rival adventurers drunk scheme was a highlight as was my character seducing their female rogue. We ended up in a dungeon trying to unlock a puzzle. Me and Stephen are fairly sure we have gotten this far once before but can’t remember the solution. I'm actually really enjoying playing Ash, I just need a bit of loot so I can increase my armour save and tank up a bit more.

Looks like it is going to be a really entertaining campaign and I look forward to where our characters will go and how they will end up.

Lastly another Monday of Mordheim Madness has gone by. First up I played Stephen in the break through scenario where I had to try and run two of my guys off the board while Stephen tried to block me. Konrad and the Dire Wolf almost managed to sneak off but the wolf got sniped by Stephen new leader. So Konrad went after Stephens warriors while my ghouls tried for the table edge. Konrad preformed like a god of war smiting all who came at him. He lost his wounds but only ever was knocked down as a result, much to Stephen's dismay. The ghoul seceded in their mission and I won the game. Post game Igor sadly didn’t make it but the ghouls and for once the Dire Wolf survived.. And Konrad got a level up and so did most of my heroes. Konrad got extra toughness so now he is Toughness 5 3 wounds. Viggo got extra imitative, which kind of sucks. One ghoul got a skill so I took jump up, to go with resilient. The other one got an extra wound, no now I have two multi wound toughness five heroes. I explored and found a decent amount of wyrdstone too sell and a straggler I turned into the third zombie, for free. I bought Konrad Heavy armour and saved the rest.

Next game I faced Oscar and his carnival. In the same scenario only Oscar was trying to breakthrough and I was defending. The game went somewhat in Oscars favor. Although highlights included my Dire wolf taking out his toughness five brute in one fell charge and the most pathetic combat ever between a zombie and a nurgling. Oscar forced me too start routing by taking out my ghouls he managed to infect Craven (the toughness 5 ghoul hero) and one of my henchman ghouls with Nurgles Rot during the course of the battle. Post game I got rid of the infected ghoul henchman but will take my chances with the hero since he fails the check on a 6 only, which passes it to someone else. But since I mostly have undead members now it shouldn't be too bad. The ghoul henchmen got a level up and got extra strength. I explored and used all the gold I had plus all I found to hire a second ghoul to replace the infected one.

So all in all I'm slowly forging my way forward. Stephen and Tim made new warbands and fought it out. But the narrative aspect of the campaign and the whole priests of Morr and the soul engine stuff has fallen to the wayside a bit and it is just like any other Mordheim game. Probably since we never seem to roll the special scenarios so we are barely reminded of the game and we keep forgetting our priests. Looking forward too next week and D&D though and Stephen Finally made the elite rank in Rainbow 6.

Matt.