Rumble with the brambles

So this is new to me, Rachel actually ASKED to play Warcry. Well actually she wanted to play a game with me either this or Shadespire which we haven't played that I sometime so the rules are getting a bit fuzzy now... Guess we should play that again too... Oh well too late. 

Where was I? Oh right! Rachel initiated a Warcry game with me! I have been doing a bit (okay a lot)of hobby sprawl into the basement so I can paint while watching TV or hang out with Rachel as she plays Animal Crossing. Maybe this is how Rachel gets me to clean up the table in the basement...... Either way, clean table and WARCRYYY!!

Those dastardly Khorne Hounds were at it again! Always burying their bones, the blood of their fallen enemies tainting the grounds, making it impossible for any new life to ground. The sylvaneth had enough, they needed to seek out the bones and burn them, teaching their bad doggies that this was their territory!

Rachel had made her list up of 3 dryads, 2 tree revenants, and two bow and one sword kurnoth hunters.

I had the same list as the last game. Four  Flesh hounds, and three bloodletters. (Need to paint the bloodcrushers so I can add them)

Buying only the rules for Warcry, I don't have the cards that are used for setting up terrain, picking deployment, objectives and twists. Those are all in the rule book so I am cheap and just roll dice to determine what our game will be.

This time, our deployment was the unseen blade, both our shields would be setup 12 " away from each other in the center of the map. Both our daggers and hammers would come in round 2  from opposite sides of each other's.

Rachel won the roll for the objective so she was the attacker, her goal was to take out 3 of 6 objectives before the 3rd round. With 9 fighters compared to my 7 I knew I had to act quickly to make sure her Dryads didn't run off to burn objectives.

First round I took the initiative, using a quad roll to do a RAMPAGE! Getting a bonus move and attack as well as my normal move and attack. I rushed one of the dryad, needing two attack rolls to finish it off, also getting in close to the Kurnoth Hunter so it couldn't just shoot twice.

First blood, but the hounds needed to protect their bones.

The second dryad ran over to the objective, later burning it.

Bloodletter could only get close with two moves, but not enough to contest the objective.

The other letter ran over to the far tree to hold that objective.

At the start of round two reinforcements show up on opposite sides of the battlefield, I think I won initiative again. I had to double check with Rachel about the Tree-revenant's ability, they can teleport out of combat up to 5" away from enemies anywhere on the battlefield. Yikes! I sent my bloodletter to attack, but it survived with 2 wounds left!

Khorne daemon getting distracted by combat, typical.

So close, the revenant teleports away, missing both attacks with it's talons. The second tree- revenant would later teleport onto two objective..... The leader of the pack  (vroom vroom) charges a dryad (and the Kurnoth Hunter)., preventing it from holding another objective... off camera in the corner of the ruins.

Shhh sneaky emo boy is hiding

Rachel moved her dryad that had burnt the objective the previous turn into combat with my flesh hound.

Bloodletter joining the fight, note the two unguarded objectives in the top right.

The flesh hound wanted to finish the fight, which would prove my down fall.

My fleshhound and a bloodletter from the turn 2 reinforcements hold the kurnoth hunter in the center to prevent it from capturing the objective.... also getting a bit too into combat.

Rachel advanced her Dryad to the objective and waited, the Khorne dog falling for the bait, trying to remove it from the objective. I think it survived with 3 or so wounds.

Oh right, the Kurnoth Hunter with the sword!

Rachel moves in to discipline the bad dog.

The game ended with Rachel jumping her tree-revenant between the two unguarded objectives I mentioned before, if I didn't focus on combat so much, I would have moved one of my flesh hounds closer to the objective to at least contest it. Guess the dogs will need to find more bones....

"BURN BURN BURN!" Rachel cries upon victory.

Welp! That ended quicker then I thought, most of my turn consisted of hunting down dryads so they couldn't run off to capture objectives. It might've work better if I just sat on the objectives to get her to remove my units. Then her bows would have been shooting twice and that's not nice. Now that we know the rules a bit better this game didn't take too long. Using the terrain I just painted was nice, but I think I'll need to make some scatter terrain for some of the denser boards they have on the cards.

Coming Soon!

I have some D&D models have I have been chipping away at, getting close to being done. One of my friends asked to do a Warhammer 40k game of 2000 points, so I'll probably write that up sometime next week.