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Wednesday 4 August 2010

Ghoul Interrupted

A while back VoodooInk (another fellow LAF'er) kindly asked me to review his rather fine wargame rules set - Havoc! so that's what I did (or have started doing). Interesting set of rules with some nice ideas for activations, combat and special characters - more of which later... oh and the rule book itself - lovely!

As the game's only just got going I thought I'd outline the scenario and opposing forces -

The band of weary Norse raiders trudged disconsolatley away from yet another deserted hamlet. They had been dogged by bad luck since landing on the mainland - fields were already razed, villages empty and those that weren't had been strangely relieved that it was "[b]only[/b] the Norse coming!"

Erik Erikson was not a happy raider - someone had beat them to it - someone scarier than him and his band of wild warriors...


As the Northmen led their rather meagre mule train down the road back in the direction of the coast, a sudden chill seemed to creep through the air. Only Snorrison the Bard didn't notice, engrossed as he was in yet another inebriated balad. The others all felt the hair rise on the backs of their necks - magic was afoot!


Meanwhile in a nearby ruined monastery, Baron Kraust began the penultimate verse in his grim song of the dead - once it was complete his undead army would be strengthened twofold. His unearthly followers danced and cackled at the swelling of necromantic energies, while two ogres, who had followed the wake of destruction the Baron had wreaked across the land, fed the last of the prisoners to a snarling manticore.


Yet all was not well... the baron hissed with rage as his concentration was broken by a rather ribald and slurred drinking song which drifted over the crumbling ruins. Swearing death and damnation on the interlopers the Baron swung a bony finger in the direction of the nearby coastal road, and in a voice that echoed with a deathly malevolence he intoned,


"Leave none alive..."



Objectives -

Norse - reach the far end of the table with as much loot intact - preferably still on the pack mules!

Undead - Kill, kill, kill!

The Forces - (I've recycled a few pics from my other posts so apologies if you've already seen them!)

Norse -

Erik Erikson - (Champion of Eriksey)





Snorrison the Bard (or should that be barred?! Musician)




Dolf Hamrison - The Blade (Fencer - duel weapons)



 
Bruni Baegseg - (The Berserker!)


Sundafyllir the Shaman - (Magus)



Hroarr Sveinbjorn - (the Basher)



 
Arved - Treeman



Bruni Bersi - archer



Halfred Shortwick




Anghered the Angry



Brandr the Blue




Grimwald Hollison





Egil Ekbert





Knutr Onundr





Sindr Sverrir (on a recent trip to Lustria!)





Undead -
Baron Kraust





Khleg the Executioner



 
Horg - Ogre




Fellinae - manticore



The big one - bone giant



 
The Spectre



The skeleton horde







I hope to finish the game, take some nice pics and get a writeup done by Friday...

4 comments:

  1. I always like your entry titles, but this one struck a particular chord with me... must be something about bad Undead puns.

    Looking forward to the report.

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  2. You can't beat a good pun!

    Looking forward to the full report.

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  3. Thanks for the comment!

    Sorry for the delay - been on hols for a while - should be getting the rest up over the next few days...

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