Lyrgard's battle reports (links in OP)

[Lyrgard]

Some suggested me to open my own battle report thread... So here it is !
It is mainly reports I did on the french forum that I translate for you.

Current battle report :

The Undead Plague II


List of previous Battle Reports :

1) Dashi Tokainto's ninjas vs sir Gilbert's valiant army

2) Dashi Tokainto's ninjas vs HSB, Nilfheim & Raelin

3) Heroscape Online Season 3 Grand final : Foudzing vf Kevindola

4) Dashi Tokainto's ninjas vs sir Gilbert's valiant army 2, the return match !

5) Temple of the Dragon

6) Internecine Rivalry in Vydar's rank

7) Battle for the Dire Stone

8 ) Mariedan Resistance vs Creatures of the wood

9) Troll hunt party

10) The undead plague

11) Subterranean Sabotage

12) Assault on the Falcon

13) French Heroscape Tournament 2013 DanieLoche vs Tandros

[Lyrgard]

Here is a little replay of a game I played against myself (hard to find opponent here in France)

I wanted to test Dashi Tokainto, a SoV figure to be, who try to give a boost to dust gathering ninjas heroes.

The Dashi Tokainto Army Card

I played on the Remains of Clionesia. There are lots of sight blocker, let's see how Dashi Tokainto manage with it.


Dashi cost 120pts. If we add all existing ninja, it amounts to 500pts ! nice !

Dashi Tokainto (120pts)

Ninjas of the Northern Wind (110pts)
Moriko (110pts)
Kumiko (80pts, I don't have her, so Elaria will be used as proxy)
Shiori (60pts)
Otonashi (10pts)
Isamu (10pts)
= 500pts, 9hex

Against a Jandar's army :

Sir Gilbert (105pts)

2x Knights of Weston (2x 70pts)
2x 4th Mass (2x 70pts)
1x Templar Cavalery (120pts)
= 505pts, 23hex

The map, with the two army



Ninjas :


Jandar's army :




Let's go !

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1

Initiative Jandar

Turn 1, Jandar's army

Thanks to sir Gilbert, 2 knight arrive on the road and 2 4th mass move


Turn 1, Ninja's army

Dashi move forward, along with Moriko and Kumiko


Turn 2, Jandar's army

Sir Gilbert does not move, but prepare the battle : a line of KoW on the front, with 4th mass running to take position behind. a KoW go toward the +2 move glyph


Turn 2, Ninja's army

With the help of the road, Kumiko rush forward to an infortunate 4th mass. Kumiko take height


Turn 3, Jandar's army

Knight gather around Kumiko and give her 2 wounds. Another Kinght get to the +2 move glyph.


Turn 3, Ninja's army

Kumiko keeps moving forward into the ennmies line, using a not effective Ninjutsu barrage, whereas Moriko make a stunning arrival in the melee


Round 2

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army

It's Kumiko's turn to be efficient, her Ninjutsu barrage kills 2 4th mass. This time Moriko don't kill anything.


Turn 1, Jandar's army

4th mass retaliate against Kumiko


Turn 2, Ninja's army

Dashi move to be able to activate Shiori (with X marker on her, at all time). Moriko don't achieve to kill anything.


Turn 2, Jandar's army

Knight retaliate against Moriko, putting 2 wounds on her, whereas the 4th mass move forward


Turn 3, Ninja's army

On Dashi bidding, Moriko lets Shiori take care of the Knight and go attack 4th mass, with success ! Shiori make a knight fall.


Turn 3, Jandar's army

Sir Gilbert tried to make the 4th mass move up in the road, but this plan seem to have a grim futur. So he decide to change plan and go to the front ! Knight make Shiori fall on the ground, opening a way for the templar cavalery, that move forward (thanks to sir Gilbert)


Round 3

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army

Ninja gains initiative, so Moriko retreat to close the Templar Knight to Dashi. Isamu make a move forward.


Turn 1, Jandar's army

The Templar Cavalery decides to force the way to Dashi, despite Moriko barring it. Two of them reach the Ninja leader, whereas the last one fall to Moriko strike. Alas, this act of bavery is all in vain, as they soon realize that Dashi is quite capable to defend himself.


Turn 2, Ninja's army

Using the stupor caused by the cavalery death, Moriko and Isamu each take a chance to kill a knight


Turn 2, Jandar's army

sir Gilbert leads an all out attacks on Moriko, without succes.


Turn 3, Ninja's army

Isamu and Moriko continue the make knight hit the dust


Turn 3, Jandar's army

Sir Gilbert personally take car of Isamu. The knight on the +2 move glyph let it to come to his comrades' help


Round 4

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army

Moriko kill the penultimate knight. Otonashi rush forward


Turn 1, Jandar's army

With the help of the last knight, sir Gilbert put another wound on Moriko and make the last 4th mass move forward.


Turn 2, Ninja's army

Otonashi arrive on the front and do something she don't have the habit to : she actually kill the last knight ! Moriko take care of the penultimate 4th mass.


Turn 2, Jandar's army

Order marker 2 was on knigth, Jandar's army pass its turn.

Turn 3, Ninja's army

Otonashi fails to wound sir Gilbert, whereas Moriko kill the last 4th Mass.
It is now between sir Gilbert and the ninjas !


Turn 3, Jandar's army

Order marker 3 was on knigth, Jandar's army pass its turn once more

Round 5

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army

Dashi make the assassination specialists move forward.


Turn 1, Jandar's army

sir Gilbert see the threat and decide he should try to diminish it a little. He leave engagment (and take a wound) and strike to a black ninja, only to see the Ninja reappear near.


Turn 2, Ninja's army

Ninjas of the northern wind gather around sir Gilbert and slaughter him (sir Gilbert take 7 wounds in a turn !!) just under the sigth of Dashi, that remains calm.



End of the game, Victory of the Ninja's clan !

Analysis

As all of you I think, when I began this game, I was sure they would be crushed by the Jandar's army. I wanted to see how much they can do before dying. Well, I saw...
Sure, Ninja had good luck with defense dice, but not a very good luck for attacks one (lot and lot of 1 skull on 3 dice rolls)

I don't think Dashi is too strong. This map is really good for him, and bad for sir Gilbert. Moreover, I was lacking experience at how to use sir Gilbert at his best. Would I be to play that game once again, I would probably play the Jandar's army much better !

Here is an analysis of various points concerning this game :

Ninjas :

- Dashi is a blast to play. With a move of 6 and ghost walk, it is nearly impossible to prevent him from using his power over others ninjas (well without using the like of gladiatron, of course). He move before activating others ninja, allowing him to surprise your opponent, because depending where you move, you could activate very differents Ninjas. On the other hands, it is a little frustrating to never attack with him. He just stay out of engagement, like a shadow drifting over the battlefield. He has only 4 life, but his move and ghost walk help greatly to gain height advantage, and with his defense of 5 and counterstrike, he can be really hard to attack him. During this game, I was counting on the 4th mass to shot him down, but they never came near enough to try. I then tried with Templar cavalery, with awfull results (admittely, he got a little lucky on his defense dice).
On a map without too much line blocker, Dashi can be a really good glyph holder, or can easilly go grab lot of tresure glyph for the end game. If the opposing army is mainly melee, he can also hinder the movement of the opponent, without fear of being tied by engagement.
There are 3 quite strong ninja, Moriko, Kumiko and Shiori (with X on her) + Isamu if you play against Jandar's figures. So before you run out of good activation option, the opponent has to kill at least 2 of them, that is to say 7 to 8 wounds on defense 4 or 5 figures. You will have so time to use Dashi's power before it becomes subpar.
It is a very strategic figure, very fun to play

- Ninjas are really fast, with their move of 6 and their ghost walk. They are specialist for taking height, or infiltrate ennemy line to attack softer but juicer targets. On this map, they have the huge advantage to be nearly all able to get on the road at the first activation ! Then they have a move of 9 with ghost walk : unstopable !

- Moriko has a good defense of 4 and a semi good 4 life. But do not forget ghost walk, as it enable her to dive in the ennemy's line, using opponent figure as a shield (moving adjacent to figures without order marker on make them engaged and prevent opponent's figure to pass through them, and it also limit the number of available space from where Moriko can be attacked). She also have good choices : a normal attack of 4 (5 with height) or an adaptable multiple attack SA. Combined with Kumiko and Dashi, they can make a rain of SA fall on opponent figures.

- Kumiko is also quite good. Only 3 lifes, but 5 defense. Her normal attack is a little weak (3), but her SA can be really good and oblige the opponent to take it into account when moving near her.

- Shiori is the one that get the most from Dashi. With him, you can let the X marker on Shiori, giving her her bonus all the time ! She become a 6/1/4/4 hero with 3 lifes, a ranged SA and a bonding for 60points ! quite better ! She is the only one with a ranged attack on the team, and her corrects stats allow her to take after on of her big sister when this sister fall.

- Isamu can at least not be reserved only for the end game ! As soon as 2 of the previous ninjas are dead, he become the best second choice for the Dashi's power. If you are against Jandar's figures, he can even be more interesting thant Shiori

- Otonashi is, well ... still Otonashi. Her only use is when you have only her and another ninja on the front line and don't want to let your front line ninja alone by activating the ninjas of the northern wind.

- Ninjas of the northern wind : strong as usual, I like to use them as clean-up. Dashi give the the flexibility to be activated whenever you want, but appart when your opponent kill your 2 front Ninja on the same turn, you usually don't want to let a Ninja alone there. There is a pattern with Dashi, where if you begin to use him with the heroes ninjas, you'll continue till the end of them and only then use ninjas of the northern wind. If you begin by using the ninja squad, you'll use then to the last one and then use the ninjas heroes. The best way seems to be to use them as clean-up, because if you begin with them, you will probably continue play them until they are dead. If one die, you lose attack per order marker, at a time in the game when it is very important.

Jandar's army

4th mass are often spoken of with so much praise that I was drawed to the flaw of wanting to use them at all cost and it was a mistake. Sir Gilbert was not able to use Jandar's dispatch and help on the front at the same time because of line of sight blocker, and I made the mistake to use Jandar's instead of helping the Knight to make the 4th mass advance in good position. Not only it was a poor decision, moreover the Ninja just passed through the knight to storm the 4th mass. If I was to play this game again, I would definitly play it better for Jandar's side.
Whatever, I was really surprised by the punch Dashi give to the ninja. Yes, I played Jandar's army poorly, but the ninja beat them soundly. Even if I achieved to kill more ninja, I would have a hard time bringing Dashi himself down with only knight !

The map

This map favor figure with 6 move. They are really a few spots that allow 5 move figure to go on the road at the first activation, but quite more for 6 moves figures. the map is bad for power that need line of sight, even if for Dashi, being able to disengage safely and to move before the use of the power, it is not too hard. Stil, Dashi was unable to collect any tresure glyph because of this. Sir Gilbert had a more hard time !

[Lyrgard]

Another solo game CR to test Dashi Tokainto

Carte d'armée de Dashi Tokainto


Still on the same map Remains of Clionesia.

Ninja's army :

Dashi Tokainto (120pts)
Ninjas of the northern wind (110pts)
Moriko (110pts)
Kumiko (80pts. I don't have it, Elaria will be used as proxy)
Shiori (60pts)
Otonashi (10pts)
Isamu (10pts)
= 500pts, 9hex

Against a Brute Army :

2x Horned Skull Brutes (2x 75pts
2x Deathreavers (2x 40pts)
Raelin, the Kyrie Warrior (80pts)
Nilfheim (185pts)
= 495pts, 17hex

The map with the two armies :

Ninjas :


Brute & Co :


WARNING : I made some errors during this game, making it not really valuable to determine Dashi worth. Whatever, just enjoy the photo

Let's go !

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1

Initiative Brutes

Turn 1, Brute's army
Mecanical rats open the game


Turn 1, Ninja's army
Dashi move along with Moriko and Kumiko (no photo, sorry)

Turn 2, Brute's army
Raelin takes position


Turn 2, Ninja's army
Raelin is not adjacent to a road tile, ninjas cannot attack her yet. So Dashi prefer to make two other ninja go up on the road, Shiori and Isamu


Turn 3, Brute's army
With a big flap of his wings, Niflheim take fly and land near Raelin (back to the ninja because of the ruins...). His ice shard attack wound Kumiko once, and Moriko twice !


Turn 3, Ninja's army
The ripost is immediate ! Even with Raelin boosting the king's defense, Isamu flash forward and wound the dragon 4 times !! (4 skulls on 5 dice for Isamu, no shield on 6 dice for Nilfheim...). Moriko also attacks Nilfheim with 5 dice, without succes.


Round 2

Initiative Brutes

Turn 1, Brute's army
Nilfheim had a bad luck, but you have to take care with ninjas, they tend to go for the softer target first. Raelin need to be defended. Deathreaver are used to make a sort of screen they don't have the habits to...


Turn 1, Ninja's army
This time, only Moriko manage to put a wound on Nilfheim (1 hp left)


Turn 2, Brute's army
Nilfheim exert his revenge : Isamu and Moriko fall.


Turn 2, Ninja's army
It is the turn of Shiori and Kumiko to attack the dragon, but Raelin save him. (no photo, sorry)

Turn 3, Brute's army
Brutes move forward. (Shiori and Kumiko do not show on this photo, I forgot to take it, so I made it later and forgot to put them. They are adjacent to Nilfheim at this point)


Turn 3, Ninja's army
Shiori and Kumiko finally achieve to make the lizard king fall


Round 3

Initiative Brutes

Turn 1, Brute's army
The Brute storm the ninja and Shiori take a wound


Turn 1, Ninja's army
In face of this fierce assault, the ninja decide to make a strategic retreat. Shiori find the Healing potion treasure glyph. Kumiko and Dashi, with their high defense, stay behind to block the ennemy's advance.


Turn 2, Brute's army
The Brute follow the ninja and leave Raelin's aura, sure of their strenght. Their attacks are too hasty and don't connect.


Turn 2, Ninja's army
Dashi take height, and Kumiko slay a brute.


Turn 3, Brute's army
Brute keep preasuring the ninja but only manage to get a wound through


Turn 3, Ninja's army
Dashi drift elsewhere, Shiori kill a brute, and Kumiko try to prevent another one to come, without success (Raelin have an eye on this brute)


Round 4

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army
Here I made a rule error : Shiori should not be able to drink the healing potion because you need to reveal a marker on her for that. I won't have a great effect, but it could have. Kumiko kills one more brute


Turn 1, Brute's army
Remaining brutes decide those ninja are to hard to chew, and gather around Raelin.


Turn 2, Ninja's army
In a spectacular move, Shiori move outside of the ruin, and throw a shuriken right on a rat weak point, followed just after by Kumiko dashing to Raelin (without wounding her)! I replayed the move in my head, imaginating it like in a film.


Turn 2, Brute's army
The brute on the right understand the way is blocked at the entrance, so go to the next one, whereas a brute attacks Shiori, without success.


Turn 3, Ninja's army
Kumiko is in great form, killing a rat and wounding Raelin, allowing Shiori to come close.


Turn 3, Brute's army
A brute kills Shiori all in a single attack (there goes the healing potion rule entorse), whereas the second brute attacks Kumiko to no avail. The last brute come back again to attack Kumiko, with no more success.


Round 5

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army
Kumiko's Ninjutsu Barrage target Raelin and 2 brutes, without success. Otonashi move forward on Dashi bidding (another mistake : I mistook the female ninja of the northern wind for Otonashi... Switched them back latter...)


Turn 1, Brute's army
THE biggest mistake of all this game, the most important one, that could have change all things. I have no photo of the turn. And from the next photos, the brutes didn't move. I fear I had to stop the game and when I came back, I skiped this turn...

Turn 2, Ninja's army
Here come the slaughtering : Kumiko kill a brute and wound Raelin, whereas Otonashi kill a second one.


Turn 2, Brute's army
The last brute try to attack Kumiko, without success.


Turn 3, Ninja's army
Kumiko is in excellent form, add a wound to Raelin and kill a rat. Otonashi attacks Raelin, to no avails


Turn 3, Brute's army
The last brute can at least move up and want to kill Kumiko, but before has to deal with Otonashi. Done.


Round 6

Initiative Ninjas

Turn 1, Ninja's army
Kumiko is alone, but keep courage. Another rat fall


Turn 1, Brute's army
The brute finally manage to wound Kumiko ! (1 hp left)


Turn 2, Ninja's army
But Kumiko is still on fire ! The last brute falls and Raelin take another wound.


Turn 2, Brute's army
Order marker on the brute, they skip turn


Turn 3, Ninja's army
Kumiko is at least free of the attacks of the brute and assassinate Raelin


Turn 3, Brute's army
The rats are the last chance of the brute's army... Will they make it ? The surround Kumiko and every one acheive to make a skull ! But Kumiko high defense shrug the attacks off


Round 7

Initiative Brutes

Turn 1, Brute's army
Rats try it again, but fail


Turn 1, Ninja's army
Kumiko is a force of nature ! 2 rats fall to her Ninjutsu Barrage !


Turn 2, Brute's army
As a last attack, the rats decide to leave Kumiko alone to prey upon less sturdy preys. There was a rat on the +2 move glyph, so the first rat dart forward, and join force with the second rat, that leave the glyph.


Turn 2, Ninja's army
Dashi is here, so the Ninjas of the Northern Wind are not taken by surprise. They kill a rat, whereas the second scatters


Turn 3, Brute's army
The last rat just don't want to give it up ans attacks the chief of the northern wind's ninja, but the brave ninja is too hard for it to kill.


Turn 3, Ninja's army
The chief end the game with a 5 skulls on 5 dice roll, shattering the last brute's army figure into a heap of mecanical junk


End of the game, Ninja's victory !

The brave survivors :

The figure of the game is Kumiko, who killed a lot by herself without allowing to be killed !
Also, Otonash is still under shock treatment. She still can't understand what happened to her : she actually killed something !

[Shedim Kabal]

Dashi really seems to bring the ninjas together. I love how he just floats away from trouble, unperturbed. Perfectly designed to the sculpt, playing like an evil, anime villain.

[MegaSilver]

Subscribed! Awesome battle reports.

[Sir Yeshua]

Awesom report Lyrgard!

[Lyrgard]

I couldn't look at the online championship's final, but dok gave me editing right so I could go through the google doc history. By doing that, looking at the combat log and with a little help from foudzing, I was able to make a CR of this game.

Here it is, for people that couldn't be there, and to stay in memory (hum, yeah, foudzing and I are both French, so I guess it is a little chauvinistic, but eh, we're french, aren't we ? )

Positions at the start of the game


Let's go !

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1

Initiative Foudzing

Turn 1, Foudzing
Gladiations and Blastatrons move forward, scattering to provent Zelrig to make a mess of them


Turn 1, Kevindola
Zelrig move and try to turn trons into charcoal, only killing one.


Turn 2, Foudzing
Trons attacks zelrig and do him a wound (5hp left)


Turn 2, Kevindola
Zelrig fly to the top of the map and kill a blastatron


Turn 3, Foudzing
Trons move again and again wound Zelrig once (4hp left)


Turn 3, Kevindola
Zelrig doesn't like the number of gladiatron around and back off to his previous position (taking a leaving engagement wound, 3hp left), and doesn't achieve to kill anything.


Round 2

Initiative Kevindola

Turn 1, Kevindola
Zelrig fly to the bottom of the map, but still fail to kill the tron there


Turn 1, Foudzing
The trons keep on hunting relentlessly Zelrig and wound him twice (1hp left)


Turn 2, Kevindola
The 10th come to Zelrig's help and kill 2 blastatrons


Turn 2, Foudzing
Raelin come forth to protect her mecanical allies


Turn 3, Kevindola
The 10th continue their good work and make 2 gladiatrons fall


Turn 3, Foudzing
The trons decide to retaliate, killing Zelrig and a 10th


Round 3

Initiative Foudzing

Turn 1, Foudzing
Trons from the rear come forward, and kill another 10th


Turn 1, Kevindola
Without moving despite being heavilly fired on, the 10th kill the 2 foremost gladiatrons


Turn 2, Foudzing
Trons keep on moving forward and kill the 2 10th from the first wave.


Turn 2, Kevindola
Just what the hydra needed to take the place ! The 4 heads only achieve to kill a gladiatron


Turn 3, Foudzing
Trons move forward slowly, without achieving to wound the hydra.


Turn 3, Kevindola
The hydra free itself from the to gladiatrons the was engaged with it.


Round 4

Initiative Kevindola

Turn 1, Kevindola
Being free, the Hydra try to wreak havoc in the trons rank and dive in. Halas, only a gladiatron fall.


Turn 1, Foudzing
The an efficiency only machine can achieve, the trons cut off the 4 heads of the hydra at once !!


Turn 2, Kevindola
Order marker was on hydra, kevindola pass his turn.

Turn 2, Foudzing
Tron move forward and kill a 10th.


Turn 3, Kevindola
Kevindola pass his turn again...

Turn 3, Foudzing
one more time, trons advance and kill a 10th


Round 5

Initiative Foudzing

Turn 1, Foudzing
The trons kill 2 10th (I was not able to have exact positions of the trons after their move, so the image could not be exact regarding this point)


Turn 1, Kevindola
The last 3 10th try to figth tooth and nails out of this situation, but three turn of being plowed without being able to retaliate is too hard. They only achieve to kill a gladiatron. (same remark as for the previous image)


Turn 2, Foudzing
The tron, with the rare efficiency they showed by killing the hydra, wipe out the remaining three 10th, ending the game


END OF THE GAME, Foudzing's victory !

Congratulation to kevindola to made it to the final !
Congratulation to foudzing, the winner (We call him Online World Champion on the French forum XD )!

Congratulation to all that played the championship.
Many thanks to Auggies for sponsoring. We really appreciate what you do for Heroscape, here or in France (you are the best Heroscape supplier !)

[Lyrgard]

Here is yet another battle report concerning Dashi Tokainto !

I played against a Friend, Thörsit. He choose to take the Jandar's army, and let me take the Ninja's army

Jandar's army :

Sir Gilbert (105pts)
2x Knights of Weston (2x 70pts)
2x 4th Mass (2x 70pts)
1x Templar Cavalery (120pts)
= 505pts, 23hex

Ninja's army :

Dashi Tokainto (120pts)
Ninjas of the Northern Wind (110pts)
Moriko (110pts)
Kumiko (80pts, don't have her yer, Elaria will be used as proxy)
Shiori (60pts)
Otonashi (10pts)
Isamu (10pts)
= 500pts, 9hex

The map :

Glyphs was : Mov+2 and Def+1


Thörist's army of good :


My assassination army : :


Let's go !

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1

Initiative Jandar

Round 1, Turn 1, Jandar's army
One 4th mass advance forward to the mov+2 glyph, the others take height


Round 1, Turn 1, Ninja's army
Dashi, Moriko and Kumiko move up to the road


Round 1, Turn 2, Jandar's army
The first 4th mass take the mov+2 glyph, allowing a second one to take the def+1. The others scatters in the ruins, to not let me use my ninjas multi attacks, and to bait me in.


Round 1, Turn 2, Ninja's army
Dashi stay behind, whereas Moriko and Kumiko slowly advance in the shadow.


Round 1, Turn 3, Jandar's army
Thanks to the mov+2 glyph and sir Gilbert, the knight quickly move up.


Round 1, Turn 2, Ninja's army
Dashi move to have the two others ninja in sight. Moriko closes the gap to the 4th mass defending the def+1 glyph, and slay him easilly. Kumiko exploits this defense's drop to make a very effective Ninjutsu's barrage : a knight and a 4th mass are killed.
First blood, 3 death Jandar's soldiers


End of Round 1

Round 2

Initiative Jandar

Round 2, Turn 1, Jandar's army
A thundering charge from the templar strikes Dashi hard (2 wounds)


Round 2, Turn 1, Ninja's army
Dashi retreats from the assault.
Kumiko, still under the shock, doesn't achieve to wound any templar (1 skull rolled on 9 dice, and when it happened, the templar achieved 4 shield on 4 dice !). By loyalty, she try to hinder any move the templar could do, to protect her master, Dashi.
To further protect Dashi, Otonashi dashes to the def+1 glyph, using her tricky speed. (I waited for the templar charge to take this glyph with Otonashi, to not see her fall just after to a charge)


Round 2, Turn 2, Jandar's army
Courageous Kumiko protect her master, but earns 2 wounds doing it.


Round 2, Turn 2, Ninja's army
Feeling that her time has come, Kumiko give her all to protect her comrades. A templar fall from his horse, and she stays rigth there to make a wall of her body. Trying to make her not dying in vain, Dashi asks Moriko to use the time given by Kumiko to storm the ennemy's base.


Round 2, Turn 3, Jandar's army
Seeing Moriko running to his camp, sir Gilbert rush to the fortification to order the units there to scatter, whereas the knight attack Kumiko. Kumiko dodge every strike but the last...


Round 2, Turn 3, Ninja's army
Dashi move down to the grass to see both side of the battlefield. 4th mass scattered, but not enough to prevent Moriko to attack them, killing one. Dashi orders Isamu to move forward.


End of Round 2

Round 3

Initiative Ninjas

Round 3, Turn 1, Ninja's army
Dashi move very precisly to see both Moriko and Isamu. Letting the ennemy's camp alone, Moriko make a move from behind the knights, killing one. Isamu strike another knight, who blocks it.


Round 3, Turn 1, Jandar's army
Seeing as the heart of his troops is blocked into engagement with Moriko and Isamu, sir Gilbert try another tactics : cutting the thinking head, Dashi. 4 westons surround the ninjas' master, and 3 attack him. Dashi show his martial prowess, deflecting all the blows, and returning 2 of them. The 4th knight attacks Isamu, who disapears and reappear 4 hex further, right on Dashi line of sight.


Round 3, Turn 2, Ninja's army
Dashi lets his armored adversary to take height. Moriko dig further into the heart of the units troops, without managing to kill any. For Isamu, he has another mission : assassinate sir Gilbert, that took a dangerous position. Mission that Isamu manage well, putting 4 wounds on the knights standard bearer.


At this time, I was thinking : great, victory will be mine !

Round 3, Turn 2, Jandar's army
Mais the knight are not easy preys. sir Gilbert leave Isamu's side (taking another wound) and exhort his knight to act with bravor ! Otonashi falls, Dashi lose another life point, and Moriko... die. What a turn about ! Now the central force of the knight are free again, I don't have the defense glyph anymore, Dashi is on the verge of dying, and I lost my last multi-attacker !


Round 3, Turn 3, Ninja's army
Dashi retreats, Isamu protects his retreat and kill a knight. Shiori move to protect the ninjas of the northern wind.


Round 3, Turn 3, Jandar's army
Sir Gilbert slays Isamu, whereas two knight regroups around him, and another attacks Shiori, without success.


End of Round 3

Round 4

Initiative Jandar

Round 4, Turn 1, Jandar's army
Seeing their is a good chance that I put order marker 1 and X on Shiori (playing Dashi was too risky, at 1 life, and without any screen to protect him anymore), the knights go after her in mass and kill her... Their goes my first order marker.


Round 4, Turn 1, Ninja's army
I pass my turn, at the worst possible moment...

Round 4, Turn 1, Jandar's army
Like a well orchestred strategy, just after the knight freed the way, the templar take flight and storm the ninjas of the northern wind. I'm lucky they have their defensive power ! or not... Two of them fall...


I drop. With only Dashi at 1 life and the female ninja of the northern wind, their is no way I can kill all the remaining Jandar's units. I still don't believe what happened. I was leading, and suddently, all the ninjas die one after another !

Thörist win the game ! Bien joué !

It was a very entertaining game, a lot more complicated that the previous for Dashi, having to keep an eye on two ninjas on two fronts, with all the walls. Very interesting and strategic, I often had to plan 2 moves ahead to be sure to not send a ninja somewhere I could not see him/her anymore.
At the end of the game, the weakness of the ninja shows clearly : they are quite brittle. At the begining of the game, Thörsit did not attack a ninja with full force, allowing them to stay alive. If you are playing against them, my advice is : concentrate. Concentrate on killing the ninjas, one after the other. Do not disperse your attack if possible. Stay together, because ninjas are evasive and will try to attack units that can not retaliate, and their good move can sometime allow them to outrun you. If I were to play the Jandar's army against the Ninjas on this map, I'll simply slow roll all my army. Thörist try to take the 2 glyphs (and the move glyph helped him a lot), and try to race to the center of the map, separating his forces, allowing Ninjas to go from one group to another, depending of the situation. If he let his units stay together, he would kill on the spot any ninja fool enough to attack such a mass.

A good game, with fun moment (I loved when Moriko stormed the opponent's camp just to fall on the knight back), and turning tide !

Some people, seing my first two games with Dashi wondered if he was not overpowered, to be able to kill a knight army. He clearly is not overpowered. His army have great weakness, but on the other way, the excellent mobility of the Ninja allow them to strike hard at any mistake of the opponent. Clearly, you need some experience to play against them, because they behave in an unique way, and it make them very interesting.
I really enjoyed playing Dashi Tokainto, and I hope we will see him soon being released by the SoV ! I give him my

[Foudzing]

I didn't know you posted all this battle reports also here!

They're great, once again.

[Shedim Kabal]

Love these battles, Dashi makes the ninjas look like fun, which is something they've struggled to be for a long time! Great use of the Templar here, too.

I see you're using the original Remains of Clionesia in this latest report. Tannergx updated the map slightly, based on its use in the tournament. Not sure if you're interested, but here's his changes.

Does the lip on that table help prevent dice rolling off?

[Lyrgard]

@Foudzing :
Thanks ! Congratulation for your title, by the way

@Shedim Kabal
Thanks a lot too ! For the kind word, and for mentioning the update of the map, of which I was not aware. I'm very interested, and the change looks great !

For the lip on the table, I don't use them. Perhaps it doesn't show, but it is a glass table, and the dice make a lot of noise on it, so I roll them in a little box (I also want to make a dice tower, would be super nice !)

[Lyrgard]

Here is the report of a doubly strange game I played : it is a dongeon crawl type of game, and a solo game.

Is is a campaign that I want friends to play, so I made this solo game to test it. In this campaign, 3 players are allied against a GM.

In this game, I play all 4 roles (3 players + 1 GM) to test the campaign difficulty, and more generally, to test the campaign.

The campaign is "Temple of the Dragon", written by SgtHulka. Many thanks to him !

Here is the pitch :

• 
  Zelrig flew over the Table of the Giants, circling it twice while searching for any sign of ambush. He did not trust his fellow Icarians. Braxas and Nilfheim were too undisciplined, and Charos had taken the habit of surrounding himself with a bodyguard of lizardmen. But for the moment, at least, Zelrig could detect no sign of greenscales lurking in the forest. Charos and Nilfheim seemed to be alone.
  
  Zelrig landed on the great stone table with a flap of wings, an aura of flame, and an intimidating growl. "Why have you called this council and where is the black queen?!"
  
  Nilfheim bared his fangs but Charos did not flinch at Zelrig's gaudy display of power. "The absence of Queen Braxas is the very reason I called this council. The alliance is broken. Vydar has traded our future for his present."
  
  Zelrig snarled. The emerald monarch had adopted the elves’ love of metaphor. "Speak plainly. What is this future you speak of?"
  
  "Eggs," Nilfheim replied with disgust. "Vydar has traded Braxas' eggs for an Utgarian promise to stop defiling the waters of Ostriyick."
  
  Zelrig was impressed. Braxas, it seemed, had adopted her Warlord's love of trickery."Then she traded a brick for a jade gem. The eggs are worthless to Utgar. Only a black Icarian can bless them with life."
  
  "Othkurik has given them life. Even now they are ready to hatch."
  
  Zelrig's anger was obvious in the fire that spit with each word. "Othkurik is not Icarian! How dare Braxas allow our blood to mix with his kind! We should fly immediately, destroy the eggs, and discipline that Torilian runt!"
  
  Charos allowed silence to rein for a moment, giving Zelrig's anger time to pass. And then he spoke calmly. "We cannot destroy the eggs for the very reason that Othkurik is a runt. He has hidden them within one of his dank caves, too small for us to enter, and protected them with a fortress of stone Utgar has named 'Temple of the Dragon'."
  
  Nilfheim interjected: "With the alliance broken, passage to Bleakwoode through Ostriyick is closed to our armies."
  
  Charos nodded. "Only a small group of our most trusted heroes have both the subtlety to pass through Vydar's lands unnoticed and the power to penetrate the Temple of the Dragon. I have already sent envoys to Aquilla, hoping that she will send a fellowship to support our quest. But what of you and Einar? Can we trust you?"
  
  Zelrig's eyes narrowed in thought. He must choose his next words carefully...
  
  

3 hero's groups gather in front of a forest hiding the Temple of the Dragon, where Othkurik watchs over Braxas' eggs incubation.

Photos of the Temple :

From the start zone, we see the first hinderance, a dark and gloomy forest. (Normally, one should use the road to the forgotten forest's trees, but I didn't have that extension, so I used Ticcala's Jungle's trees and bushes, without applying the additionnal defense against ranged attacks):


Once the heroes pass the forest, they find themself in front of a fould swamp. They will have the choice to either cross the bridge or to wade through to directly access the nest's cave.


Going by the bridge can get them 3 treasures glyphs, and 2 others await in the back of a strangely silent cimetery.


In the back of the cimetery stands an ill maintened tower, with a poor looking, but thick nonetheless door, that seems to lead to the nest's cave.


And here is the target, the eggs' nest




Objectives :

- GM wins if he manage to protect the nest.
- Heroes win if the destroy the nest and manage to have at least 300point worth of figures to get back to the start zone.
- Any other outcome is a draw

Specials rules of the campaign :

Every player make a 200points, heroes only, army and get a full set of order markers

GM's complete army is worth 1700points, but :
- The GM have 5 armies, that appears under certains conditions.
- the GM only have one set of OM per army
- If an event make a GM's army appears, the current round immediatly end, and a new one begin.
- Destroying the nest cause all remaining GM's armies to appear immédiatly

Special rules : walking wounded
This special rule allow a player to bring a hero back to life. To do that, the player must put an order marker on the dead hero's card. When the order marker should be revealed, instead of taking a turn with this card, the player can choice to permanently remove this order marker from the game, and to put the dead hero next to another hero he/she controls. Wounds markers on this card are all removed.


The armies :

Players' armies :

Army 1 : Raelin + Kaemon Awa
Army 2 : Kelda + Tandros Kreel
Army 3 : Rhogar Dragonspine + Darrak Ambershard + Guilty McCreech (I don't have Rhogar, so I'll use a greenscale warrior custom I have instead)

GM's armies :

Armée 1 : 2x Wolves de badru + Werewolf Lord + Isamu
Armée 2 : 2x Zombies de Moridan + 1x Shades of Bleakewoode + 1x Phantom Knights
Armée 3 : Othkurik + Wo-Sa-Ga + 1x marrden nagrubs + 2x Marro drudges + 1x Deathstalkers
Armée 4 : 2x Deepwyrm Drow + Pelloth + Estavira
Armée 5 : 3x Black Wyrmling + the Nest + 1x goblin cutters

The Nest is a special figure, quite alike the Marro Hive. The nest figure consists of 3 Brandar glyphs and the battlements. The nest has the exact same caracteristics than the Marro Hive, and the following powers instead :

COLLECTIVE MEMORY
After revealing an Order Marker on this Army Card, you may take a turn with any two Wyrmlings you control before taking a turn with Egg Clutch. Any Wyrmling that is taking a turn must be within 12 clear sight spaces of Egg Clutch prior to its movement.

HATCHING EGGS
After taking a turn with Egg Clutch, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 13 or higher, you may place any previously destroyed Wyrmling from your army on any empty space containing a Glyph of Brandar.

Here Begins the Adventure !

Spoiler Alert!

Arrival !

The heroes arrives in front of the forest


The place is dark, but seems calm


The appearances are deceptive. A lot of claw and teeth, as well as two sharp daggers, wait in embush...




First rounds !

GM gains initiative.

The Werewolf Lord rush to Kaemon Awa, without woundind him. While the large wolf occupy the Samurai, three wolves of badru propulse themself on Kaemon Awa. All three fall dead, but not without wouding seriously Kaemon.

The first turn was very near of being a disaster for the heroes !

They quickly retaliate.
Kaemon strike the werewolf for 2 wounds.
Rhogar takes place to the side of Kaemon and cast a healing spell on him. Drained of his energy, he fails to wound the large wolf.
Tandros go for its back, to prevent other wolf to prey on Kaemon. He put a wound on the beast.


The Werewolf Lord turns to face Tandros who attacked him on the back. Tandros blocks the attack.

others wolf of badru close near to take the party between the hammer and the anvil.


Kaemon Awa breath better thanks to Rhogar and draw and launch two arrow to the monster's knee.

Guilty plays the protector of the ladies by killing the two wolves that could have attacked them.

Tandros finally give the werewolf the last strike needed to bring him down.


Guilty's galantery put him in danger. The last wolf jump on him savagly. Raelin's aura allow him to stay alive juste barely !

Kelda heals Kaemon Awa of all his wounds.

Raelin fly forward next to Tandros, under his protection

Jungle looks calm again, but Tandros spot briefly a red spark in the darkness


He move forward to inspect the forest

Rhogar use this time of relative quiet to heal the brave cow-boy that endangered himself to protect the Kyries.

Kaemon Awa catch Tandros up and believe he saw something move. He shoot an arrow... there is nothing. His second arrows ready, he lowers slowly his bow.


In a flash, the the red spark Tandros spotted reveals itself as red clothed ninja, who jump from height, make an impressive landing (took the risk of falling damage) and rush through the little space not guarded by Tandros, right on Raelin. The Kyrie try to protect herself but take a wound.


Tandros immediatly strike the ninja, but he disappears from under Tandros' sword, only to reappear two steps farther.


On his turn, Kaemon Awa also try to kill the attacker. First arrow never finds its disappearing target, the seconds is aptly deflected by the tanto of Isamu.


Next thing, the ninjas they forced to retreat is already again amongst the heroes. He attacks Tandros on the back, only to find Tandros' armor.


Guilty try once more time to save the day, but twice the pesty ninja evade the shooting with prompt little back dashes.


Kelda heals Raelin of her little injury.


But doing so, Kelda expose herself. Isamu is the first to notice it, and he immediatly put a wound on her.


While Isamu was using Kelda's body to cover himself, Guilty shows his ability with his guns. His shoot pass just under Kelda's wing and finally bring Isamu down.


Tandros and Kaemon Awa move forward to scrutinize the bushes, Rhogar attends to Kelda's wound.


As no new foes present themself, the party make headway to the bridge over the swamp. Noticing a relic on the ground, Darrak Ambershard reaches for it...


First Blood

Darrak finds a heroic rune (attack +1)


Letting the rune on the floor for another hero, Darrak move on to the second glyphe.

Elixir of speed.

Tandros will take it. It could allow him to go faster to defend more frail party's member. Finally, Darrak find a Talisman of defense.


Kaemon take it, to boost even more his deadly defense. Tandros move out of the bridge to make place for others heroes,


when suddently... the earth of the grave begin to shake. Horrendous undead figures extract themselves from the ground.

At the same time, a swarm of ghost appears, as if they came out of the cliff.


Guilty McCreech begins. He take the attack glyph, but the sight of undead make him shiver and he twice miss the head of the zombies.


With unbelievable speed, the ghost fall on the heroes. Guilty take a wound, whereas Darrak, out of Raelin's aura, take two.


Tandros move a step forward to confront the phantom on equal footing (but without any sucess) whereas Raelin, seeing that the bridge is full, gather her courage and take foot directly on the other bank.


Guilty try to kill the ghost that attacked him, but he fears to shoot Kaemon behind the ghost, and fails.


It is the turn of the shade to attack the heroes, tankhfully without any new wound.


Tandros let the first phantom alone to attacks the shade, but his blade strikes nothing.


The party begins to believe the ghost invulnerable, but Kaemon boosts the moral with two accurate arrows.


As if ghost were not enough horror, zombies rush forward and nearly bury Tandros under their mass. Tandros resists well.


Methodically, Kaemon carry on his death work, killing the ghosts that threatened Raelin and Darrak.


Darrak use this breather to behead a zombie.


Just as the aggression seemed to be contained and on the verge of being push back, a phantom leave silently Tandros' side to attack frailer prey... Guilty fall, letting go of the heroic rune.


Kelda, that was ready to take the place the phantom took to heal Guilty, can't do anything but see him fall. Out of rage, the usually pacific healer take up the heroic rune and deal a formidable blow of her spear to the phantom. (Yes, really, Kelda killed a figure !!)


The party lost its first member. The moral is very low, but the ghosts and zombies do not let them enough time to meditate. The eggs are hatching, their mission must succeed. They must go on ! They all knew the risk when they volonteered for this mission...

All that glitters is not gold !

Kaemon Awa kills the last ghost, preventing a devastating take of control of a hero


Tandros fight valiantly against zombies and kills one. (He forgot to use cleave)


The zombies fight back and wound Tandros once. (Tandros was well placed, not allowing zombie to use their SA on him)


Rhogar at least arrive at the begining of the bridge, whereas Kaemon and Tandros decimate the zombies, killing 3 of them.


The last zombie try to eat Tandros, without much success.


Tandros quickly pass on the back of the zombie and strike hard to the heas (cool pose of Tandros). The last zombie is dead(again).


At least a breather. The heroes regroup. Raelin fly near Tandros, whereas Kelda and Rhogar attend to Darrak's wounds.


Kelda go with Raelin, letting the Heroic Rune on the floor, for a stronger warrior.


Kaemon sees that the door of the mausoleum is already heavily damaged, and shoot at it to test the solidity. The strong shoot of Kaemon reaveals that the doors is nearly collapsing.



Not knowing what to do while waiting for the party to regroups, Tandros decide to explore the cimetary. Behind a tomb, he sees something that glitter. He bends down to pick it up, when suddently ...

Six new zombies rise again from the grave, responding to the trap Tandros triggered...

Swingy fate

Tandros is cornered, separated from the group he is meant to protect ! Moreover, he doesn't achieve to strike down the two zombies.


Whereas Raelin protect herself against the zombie in front of her, another one attacks brutally from behind and take her out of gard. Her breath is taken away as she take 3 wounds.


At this fateful moment, Kaemon Awa doesn't live up to his reputation of monster's slayer. The zombie next to him resists the two shoots.
The small size of Darrak doesn't allow him to take care of the zombie that attacks Raelin from height, but at least he kill one other !


Tandros, one more time, is unable to kill anything. Why such a stroke of bad luck at this very moment ?


What I dreaded would happen happens. The zombie that was near Kaemon Awa ignore him and go to Raelin, still trying to catch her breath. The attacks of two zombie slaughter Raelin, puting 4 more wound on her.
A third zombie take advantage of Kelda's reduced defense to bite her for a wound.

To cap the horror of the scene, the lifeless body of Realin suddently stands again, a vicious light in the eyes and growl at the heroes.
Rhogar try to kill one of the monsters, without luck.


Kaemon finally wake himself and load a zombie of arrows.


Tandros finally do the same with his sword (once again forgetting to cleave)


Excited by to odor of blood, the zombified Raelin and two other abomination strike Kelda with a powerful concerted attack. I fear a moment when they roll 4 skulls (Kelda has only 4 lifes left), but the valiant Kyrie defend herself as the best she can, and only take 2 wounds.


Fearing to lost their last Kyrie, Rhogar and Kaemon Awa try their best and eradicate all the zombies surrounding Kelda, freeing Raelin's corpse of its fool condition.

Threats seems to finally clear up... At what cost !

Explosions and healing

Tandros finally cut down the last zombie


Rhogar immedialty begins to heal Kelda. His healing power is not on par with Kelda's, it'll take it timeto heal such horrendous wounds.


The party regroups. By a surnatural mean, Raelin is brought back to live (at the cost of the OM 2 of the team KAemon + Raelin, that will not be able to play turn 2 for the rest of the game)


Rhogar carry on his healing on Kelda


Meanwhile, Tandros and Kaemon finish to tear the mausoleum's door out of its hinge.


Before going in the dark staris reveals behind, Darrak is sent to take the tresures glyphs. Passing near Tandros, the dwarf mumble "let the pro do their work !"


He finds a healing potion


and a brooch of shielding.


He bring back the brooch and let Tandros pick it up, whereas Kaemon Awa take the potion.


At least, Rhogar finishes to heal Kelda. Our heroes are as ready as they'll ever be.


Seing the configuration of the stair, where all melee combat will be duel, I send Kaemon Awa first. With Raelin's aura, the defense glyph, the height advantage and the shadow, beware of a 9 defense counter-striking Kaemon ! A step behind, Tandros and Rhogar are ready to take turn. Raelin watch over them from behind a grave.


The stairs is bathed in darkness. The light only come from the openend door.


Kaemon light a torch, and suddently, les stairs is full of menacing eyes...


The map is really well thought out. Many things that could hinder the playability can be removed if needed. For instance, the castle door here (just take note on not moving figures on hex occupied by the door).
Estavira try to poison Kaemon Awa, without success.


During all the fight, Tandros would try to shoot something with his arbalest, never hitting anything due to the darkness.
Seeing the defense of Kaemon, Pelloth see he don't have have any choice but to make his subordinate explode. The first put a wound on the samurai


Wound immediatly healed back by Rhogar.


Another drow explode, wounding Kaemon Awa twice, but once again, Rhogar heal the samurai for a wound.


Unable to do anything during the turn 2, Kaemon try to compensate and inflict 3 wounds on Estavira.


The drows move up the stair, but without having the courage to attack the impressive samurai.


A new wound for Kaemon from a drow's explosion. (2 wounds)


One more time, immediatly healed by Rhogar (1 wound left)


Another explosion, and Kaemon take 2 wounds (3 wounds total)


Seeing his wound, Kaemon decide to drink his healing potion, that come in handy ! Back to full life ! (the me that plays the GM rage !)


He then decide to clear the remaining drows. He take a wound from a leaving engagement attack from the drow's witch, but kill one of the two remaining drows.


Concentrated on attacking Estavira, Rhogar for once does not achieve to heal Kaemon, but Estavira lays dead at his feet.


The last drow is sacrified mercilessly by pelloth to inflict 2 more wounds on Kaemon (3 wounds total)


The samurai retaliate violently : Pelloth dies in a single turn.


The party move into the tower, tandros on the front. Rhogar and Kelda tend to Kaemon's wounds, that evaded death narrowly many time.


Now that all heroes have left the cimetery, the player can remove it to let appear the eggs' cave.

Here is the nest, so near !!


Tandros make a step in the cave, revealing the activity inside. (I didn't have 3 black wyrmling at this moment, so one of them is proxied by a blue one.)

Gobelin cutters was seemingly here to attends to the eggs. In the nest, some eggs already hatched ! The nest itself seems to resonate of the magical energy of dragons.

The Egg Clutch behave as an heroscape figure, alot like the marro Hive. The stats are the same, and the two powers are nearly the same, but wyrmling oriented. For targeting, the figure is made of the three brandar glyphs and the battlements.

COLLECTIVE MEMORY
After revealing an Order Marker on this Army Card, you may take a turn with any two Wyrmlings you control before taking a turn with Egg Clutch. Any Wyrmling that is taking a turn must be within 12 clear sight spaces of Egg Clutch prior to its movement.

HATCHING EGGS
After taking a turn with Egg Clutch, you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 13 or higher, you may place any previously destroyed Wyrmling from your army on any empty space containing a Glyph of Brandar.

Dragon's eggs Omelette

The GM plays last...

Tandros uses of the power of the Shielding Brooch to go directly to the heart of their mission : the egg clutch. He inflict 2 wounds.


Rhogar leaves the shadow to attacks a gobelin, who die but is immediatly replaced by another.


Kaemon Awa makes short work of the two gobelin around him.


A wyrmling takes fly and go where Rhogar was standing. He attacks Raelin, for 2 wounds ! Another Wyrmling goes where he can attacks the Kyrie too, and the acide breath make Raelin lose another wound.


Tandros once again hits violently the nest, that lost 2 more wounds and begins to be a mess of shell shards.


To protect Raelin, Rhogar kills a wyrmling. (Kaemon doesn't play, it is turn 2)


The wyrmling next to Raelin doesn't achieve to wound her. Seeing that, the last wyrmling attemps a desesperate move. He takes the risk of a leaving engagement attacks from Tandros to strike at Raelin from shadow and... put the two last wounds on her ! Raelin is once again dead !

An egg hatchs in the egg clutch. The wyrmling are 3 again.


Tandros attacks the egg clutch for the penultimate wound.


And Rhogar finishes it off !


The party managed to kill their objective. Utgar won't have a fresh army of dragons !
They now need to exfiltrate safely, to be able to serve their general in the war.
The destruction of the egg clutch caused new utgarian forces to appear.



And they are not happy !
Their also still 3 black wyrmling (and a lone gobelin XD).
The GM now have two sets of order marker, one for the new army, and one for the wyrmling's army.

What to do now ?
Should the party resurect Raelin once more, but then the Kaemon + Raelin team will have only 1 order marker left.
Should the party try to go back and exfiltrate through the stairs and cemetery, or should they try to force their way through the marro ?

The current situation :



Trapped !

New round. Heroes got lucky and can play before the GM

Tandros jumps in the egg clutch's ruin to defeat the wyrmling there. He intends to hold this place to cover to escape of the others heroes.


Kaemon Awa completly overkill a wyrmling with a 4 skull attack, but the wyrmling on height resists. They must kill him to be able to go up the stairs !

Rhogar begins the retreat to the stairs.

GM's turns ! Wo-Sa-Ga moves out of the swamp and heads right to Tandros. Tandros takes 3 wounds, and Wo-Sa-Ga try to choke him, to no avail.


The last black wyrmling spit acide on Kaemon Awa that was looking to Tandros. Taken by surprise, the samurai take 2 wounds.


The next turn was be pityfull for the heroes...
Tandros didn't achieve to wound the big snake.
Kaemon can't play without order marker 2
Rhogar hesitated between going back to help Tandros or healing Kaemon. He choose to heal the samurai, to make him out of the danger of another 2 wound acide breath, but fail...

Seeing that all attention is given to Wo-Sa-Ga, Othkurik takes flight, flies over the cemetery and cuts the escape road of the party. He attacks the Kyrie Healer with a 8 dice attack, obtaining 5 skulls. Kelda defends herself valiantly and take "only" 3 wounds.

(without the flash led : )


The heroes are cornered by the two monsters ! They need to regroup and hold the place until they manage to free one of the two road to fresh air. They can't help but to feel like little mouses trapped inside a corner by two vicious cats.


Rout !

Kelda gathers her courage and take the risk to disengage from both Othkurik and the black wyrmling (with full success !) to go help Tandros. She heals him for 2 wounds (5 hp left).


Kaemon moves up to attack the black wyrmling that wounded him but fails to kill it.


Darrak then dashes on the marro big snake and strike him violently (7 attacks dice thanks to the attack+1 glyph) but only achieve a minor wound.


Wo-Sa-Ga eat a nagrub to heal herself, and it probably wheted her appetite as she then proceed to gulp down Tandros alive !! The party is shocked and Kelda screams !


Kaemon Awa, alerted by Kelda's scream turn back to look, only to be striked on the back by an acide attack from the black wyrmling.
Kaemon Awa se retourne, alerté par les cris de Kelda, mais il reçoit dans le dos une décharge d'acide fatale (20 au D20) du black wyrmling...

Without Raelin to resurect him (you need a hero alive in the team to ressurect another), his remains will for ever rest on the stairs of the putrid cave.

The only still living party members are Darrak, Kelda and Rhogar. It is a huge blow for the heroes, they lost 2 order by the elimination of team Raelin + Kaemon, and they absolutly must resurect Tandros (thus losing another order marker) because they only have 250points of figure left, not enough to win.
The party began with 9 active order marker versus 3 for the GM. After Tandros will be ressurected, it'll be 5 versus 6 (GM has a set of order marker for each army, so a set for the swamp army and another for the nest army), it is upside down !!

Still surrounded by Othkurik and Wo-Sa-Ga, the fate of ours valiant heroes looks pretty grim...


while there's life, there's hope !

New round, new hopes ?

Rhogar attacks Wo-Sa-Ga, but his axe bounces on the hard scale of the marro


Kelda sacrifices the order marker 1 to make Tandros alive again.


The black wyrmling moves down tow steps and target Kelda, thankfully without success.


Darrak attemps once again to find a weak spot on the marro's snake armor, but fails.


Wo-Sa-Ga deals one wound to the pesty dwarf that is tickling her for some time.


Wound immediatly healed back by Tandros, but Wo-Sa-Ga remains untouchable.


Just before the wyrmling turn, Tandros dashes to it and kills it. Heroes breath a litle more easilly.


Seeing his last offsping die, Othkurik rages, take flight and go furiously directly to Kelda. Thanksfully, the remains of the egg clutch protects her. She only take one wound, but she is on the verge of dying, and alone, surrounded by only foes.


And just as this time, when the light of hope was fading, Darrak finds the weak spot he was seeking. His dagger finds its way to the heart of Wo-Sa-Ga that shivers and die !


Kelda tries to fight back with renewed hope, but her energy is leaving her, and the nagrub she attacks easilly dodge her kick.


While Othkurik is busy attacking Kelda, a shadow slips under his head and with a powerfull up-strike, a dagger sink in the dragon's skull, up to the brain. Once again, Darrak did a feat of great prowess, and save the day !


The party has more room to breath, finally.
We are at the begining of a new round, the GM lost all his order marker for the round, so Tandros decide to capitalize on it and dash forward on the marro waiting in the swamp.


Meanwhile, Rhogar heals Kelda for a wound and get her ride of the nagrub that was nibbling her toes (3 wounds left).


Tandros finally reach the Marro and begins to slice through the mass (here a little error, I misread the CLEAVE power as being able to wound a figure adjacent only to the first wounded figure. Not that it changed anything, just to explain the photo).


End of the round !

The situation suddently changed from desesperate to good-looking in a flash ! Two monstruous strike of Darrak's dagger was all that was needed. Without that, I wouldn't have bet 2 cent on the heroes !


Dead once, dead again !

The marro drudge quickly come to their sense and scatter in the swamps, while firing at Tandros, who takes 4 wounds ! Who said drudges were bad ?


Rhogar comes from the rear, but he is still too far away to do anything.


Tandros enters the swamp and with a big swing of his sword, cuts down a drudge and a deathstalker.


The two remaining deathstalkers gather around Tandros and wound him once.


Darrak now arrives to the front and hide near the wall


Tandros continues his work of death, thining the rank of deathstalkers.


Using hidden tunnels bellow the swamp, the drudges regroups to the other side of Tandros, far from Darrak and Rhogar, and shoot him down...


Downcast by the death of Tandros, Rhogar doesn't put enough conviction in his strike.


Once again, the heroes doesn't have the choice... They need to ressurect Tandros. The team Tandros + Kelda will have only 1 order marker left, crippling them a lot.
The sacrifice of Tandros was not in vain. The GM only has a deathstalker and 3 drudges left ! Rhogar is at full life, and his team still have 3 orders markers. Darrak is also at full life, and even if he die, the Heroes will still amount to 310points, just enough.
At the same time, if Kelda or Tandros die again, it is game over ! And Kelda only have 2 hp left

The last stand of ****** !

The last Deathstalker take height and wounds the Paladin twice


I totally forgot about him the previous round, but there still is a gobelin alive in this cave ! He attacks Kelda, without success.


Darrak steps in with the efficacity he already shown and frees Rhogar.


Halas, Rhogar won't be able to do anything, as the drudges, also in pretty good shape, surround the Paladin and assasinate him.


Kelda make Tandros alive again, at the cost of the order marker 2.


Without letting him recover from his passage in the world of death, the gobelin jumps on him and give him two wounds !!


Darrak use the order marker on Rhogar card to make him come back too.


A drudge sees an opportunity to snake in through the first line and take Kelda as target. But out of the swamp, he is a lot less effective.


The two others drudges take positions, shoot at Rogar, but also without wounding him.


Tandros pulverizes the last pesty gobelin.


Rhogar falls back to the rear gard. He heals Tandros, but don't achieve to kill the drudge (even if at least he prevent him to target Kelda any more)


New round. Darrak gains initiative. He silently come to the back of the drudge :

He attacks :

Well... I didn't bother the roll defense.

The remaining drudges avenge their comrade while taking height.


Once more, the go up, and once more, they put a wound on Darrak (heroes don't have any order marker 2 left).


Rhogar come back to the swamp and breathes fire to the drudge at height, killing it.


Tandros comes with him to chase the last drudge.


The drudge hide itself behind the bridge's pillar.


Then move on the bridge and attacks Tandros, wounding him once (3 skulls on 3 dice !)


Tandros takes cover bellow the bridge


The drudge crosses the bridge to gain a line of seight on Tandros. He get again a 3 skull attacks, but Tandros parry it.


Rhogar joins with Tandros and breath fire at the drudge. But it is not a drudge you can get down this easilly ! He rolls 3 shields on 3 dice ! (Wah, this drudge is crazy lucky !)


The drudge change of side of the bridge and target Tandros once more, the move out while also firing at Tandros, without wouding him this time. As if he was distracted by another thought.



Why does it move away from Rhogar and Tandros ? Rhogar suddently understand the last hope of the drudge ! The drudge plan is to go finish off the wounded Kelda, by following the way the heroes took to reach the egg clutch ! And with the heroes' lack of order markers, if the drudge gains initiative the last round, he would have two free shots at her !

Out of fear, Rhogar runs back to the cave. Seeing the drudge at height, he attemps a desesperate breath of fire that catch the drudge unaware and finally consume it ! The last threat is finally dead !


HEROES' VICTORY, But by a very narrow margin !

Utgar won't have an army of dragon. Ullar, Einar, Jandar and Aquilla will see most of their heroes come back, deeply wounded but alive. Some didn't make it, through, but their sacrifice will be remembered and honored.