WoV #7: Öldenhaller Manor

Seventh battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

The hints found in Dörthagen lead to Pfungzig, a rich city in the Province of Averland. But before following the tracks of the Adventurers is now time for a direct strike to the enemy: the Oligarchs.

WoV #6: Dörthagen

Sixth battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

After battling the Undead in the Moot, Rhobar decides to head to Dörthagen: all the hints found in Hugo's house lead there, so it's the natural place to go.

WoV #5 - The Moot

Fifth battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

Here we start the Path of the Winds. This is a cryptic name, compared with the others. There's a reason for that: everything will became clear...

WoV #4 - Orchaeology

 Fourth battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

After slowing down the Orcs in Gisoreux, Rhobar enters the Forest of Arden to unveil the mysterious reason of the Greenskin reckoning... 

WoV #3 - The knights of death

Third battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

This game is set immediately after defeating Max Tarn in our first game. 

WoV #2 - Helping friends

Second battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign.

As I wrote in the previous report, probably this game set in Bretonnia would not be Rhobar's first choice of proceeding after defeating Max Tarn. However, I chose to follow a chronological principle in narrating our games, so to discover the different aspects of the story together with the Hero (and obviously Grimbeorn). From now on, little info about the previous game would be quoted in the briefing if needed.

WoV #1 - The convoy

First battle of the Wolf of Vengeance campaign. After Game Zero, this is the first official battle report of the whole series.

Originally we wanted to report the various games in the chronological order we played them. Thinking about in-game logic, this would not always be the effective order the main characters would manage their movements. However, years passed and our project remained a draft: so, this series of pic showcases and battle reports serve more as a diary of our campaign than a precise narration of the events, and Rhobar's story will be narrated in the briefing before and after every game, in the same order Grimbeorn discovered gradually the plot and the puzzling texture of the world he lives in.

Catching up with our WFB narrative campaign

The Wolf of Vengeance page on the blog has a tricky story. The campaign started in the summer of 2020 and we kept taking pics and post some updates in the Italian version of our blog. There, the last update for the campaign goes back to January 2021: a long time ago. However, we never posted anything about it here, and it remained only an idea on our to-do list... until now.

For comparison, of the 23 games in total we plan to play to end our campaign, at that time we were at this point:

At the end of November 2021 we were here:

So, we kinda doubled the number of games we played, we discovered a whole new path and we played other two battles between December and today.

Lots of things happened: Grimbeorn's character Rhobar, the hero of our story, who started as a simple officer in the army of Middenland, became a more skilled warlord, gained an entire army and some powerful allies among the races of the Old World, and discovered some dark secrets behind the terrible civil war that crushed the Empire right after the Storm of Chaos led by Archaon. He revealed a whole new path beyond the first three, with new games and challenges (and a lot of pointy Elves).

Grimbeorn's Rhobar model in all his magnificence

When we get started in 2020, the goal was to keep up here on the Lair everything we would have done by posting a little battle report, with some briefing and pics. Unfortunately we didn't do that, and we learned that this kind of things must be done immediately after the games, or otherwise within a little time. Now we find ourselves without the best memories of what happened and a lot of posts to write to narrate our epic journey.

However, this was and still is the most legendary and fabled campaign we ever played, full of plot twists, references to our old WFRP campaign (from Wolf of Vengeance have originated): so, in the next weeks we're going to catch up here on the blog by posting briefs battle report for the many games we played. We've got some nice pics to share (sadly not enough, as we forgot to take any photo in a couple of games... sigh), and some nicer stories to tell and post here as a diary of our adventures in a grim and perilous world.

Only three games separate us from the epic final battle: we plan to reach the decisive clash between now and the spring. Hopefully we will catch up with all the story before its extraordinary conclusion...