Our newborn wargaming club (with which we played a little tournament during Spring 2021) reunited on Saturday afternoon to fight amongst the ruins of the City of the Damned. This would have been the first act of our Sword of the Herald campaign which we hope to start playing soon (but there's a big news, more at the end of this post).
There were eight players and warbands:
- Gunnery School of Nuln (the winner of the former tournament!)
- High Elves Shadow Warriors (the runner-up)
- Witch Hunters
- Blood Dragon Undead
- another Blood Dragon Undead (this is a new warband, whilst the previous one fought in the tournament too)
- Dwarf Treasure Hunters (Grimbeorn's warband)
- Averlanders (Frontlineminiaturist's warband)
- Orc Mob (my warband)
After a random assignment of the tables and the opponents, we were distributed between three battlefields.
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| Candle light fight for me and the more skilled Undead warband! This will not end well... |
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| Two three-players battles for the others. Here in the first table there are the Dwarfs (on the right), the Elves in the centre and the other Undead on the left |
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| Some prepping and the last sales before battle |
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| Here you can see the Averlanders in the centre, the Witch Hunters down on the left and the Gunnery School on the right border. Randomly both multiplayer battles were using the scenario Ambush from Annual 2002 (which my pards and I already played the Saturday before) |
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| All set even for us: my Greenskins on the right are ready to beat up the Undead for the control of the big house |
We started the game! I took some pics of my table, but both my mates forgot to take any (a real reporter squadron eheh), so here's what we got.
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| "Ready to take it Bozz!" |
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| "Hey Bozz doz wolves seem to me a little strange..." |
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| The Undead move forward with their henchmen ready to taste Orc flesh... |
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| Dire Wolf vs Goblin? Nasty! |
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| My elite troops are waiting for the enemy, but in the wooden balcony something horrible lurks... |
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| "Hey Bozz here comz the ugly onez!" |
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| Argh! My Shaman is beaten up another time. I really need to cover more this guy... |
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| Check on the other tables! Here the Undead and the Elves fight harshly in the edifice at the centre of the battlefield |
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| And here the Averlanders are fleeing with the Wyrdstone while the other warbands try to stop them |
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| "Goodbye nice Imperial folks! The Wyrdstone is ours!" |
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| The Vampire is hungry for Elven blood |
Nice afternoon of wargaming. We had a lot of fun, even cause for some of us this was the first Mordheim game since last June. But what was the outcome of our three battles?
- Table 1, Orcs vs Undead: decisive Undead victory. I lost more than half of my warband, and even if I controlled one section of the building (almost two) the Necromancer cast a spell against my Goblin henchman and stunned him good at the very end of the game.
- Table 2, Dwarves vs Elves vs Undead: another Undead victory! The players reached an agreement on the Wyrdstone counters on the table, but the Vampire's servants where winners on the field. Grimbeorn says: The Elves (who were the defender) deployed well but they played last in the first turn, so they were attacked by the Undead which had an easy time, the Dwarfs on the opposite side tried to stop the lightning-fast Elves with little success, managing only to extort a couple Wyrdstone counters in exchange of the life of one of the pointy-ears. Eventually, a draw between Undead and Elves, except that an humble Zombie came out in striking the final blow on the Shadow Warriors' Captain, making very proud (and a little jealous) his vampiric Master.
- Table 3, Witch Hunters vs Averlanders vs Gunnery School: similar outcome than the previous, but with Frontlineminiaturist's Averlanders on the first place. They manage to flee with some counters: the others were divided amongst the players.
We run the post-battle sequence all together as always, and we had a nice talk about the games. Some of us have a lot of gold to spend before the next battle!
Lastly, we decided to join a great adventure: even if we like the idea of the Sword of the Herald campaign, and we can obviously keep it for the future, we agreed to join the first national Mordheim campaign set up planned by the Mordheim Italia Community from May onwards. The campaign is called Tempesta Necromantica (Necromantic Storm) and will be focused on some dark forces from beyond the grave which lurk in the cold streets of Mordheim...
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