Sabotage mission

 Last week I had my second game of Warzone second edition, here are some pictures of the game.

This game saw the same forces from the previous one boosted with a few more models per side, we went from 500 to 700 points.

The forces of Capoitol megacorporation received an additional squad of 10 light infantry troopers and a cover ops specialist, the Dark Legion a squad of 5 acolytes, a Supreme Necromagus and a Technomancer.

In this game the Capitolian forces had to sabotage some defence positions of the Dark Legion, in an effort to weaken the defences of a Citadel that would later be assaulted.

The Capitol left flank with the light and heavy infantry led by a Seal Lion hero.

The battlefield with the three objectives in the centre.

The Dark Legion units starting positions.

The Free Marines set explosives on the first objective, a fuel tank.

In the centre the Sea Lions try to set up an ambush in a patch of giant fungi, but surprisingly accurate fire from the Undead Legionnaires takes two of them down.

 

Ilian Templars try to shot down the Free Marine setting the explosive, but have no success and the fuel tank explodes (unfortunately no special visual effect).

On the Dark Legion left flan, troops take up defensive positions covering the two remaining objectives.

The combined efforts of the light and heavy infantry are successful, while the heavy infantry provides covering fire and kills the technomancer, the light infantry storm the ammo dump and, even though they suffer casuelties, they manage to plant a charge and blow it up.

On the right flank, the Praetorian Stalker and the Templars of Ilian destroy all the infiltrators and start converging on the central objective.

At this point, having destroyed two of the three objectives, the Capitol forces decide to retreat and achieve a tactical victory.

Another great game, small enough to be completed in about 3 hours (excluding setup).

Next game should be in a couple of weeks and will be a continuation of this loose mini campaign.

A "new" old game I managed to play recently

 Last weekend I managed to play a game of Warzone second edition after about 15 years.

I remember, around 1998 I was introduced to the game by a group of friends at the games club I attended for about 20 years, before moving to Canada.

I know that many people criticize second edition, I admit it is a flawed game, but I still have wonderful memories of 5 players games that were a blast.

I played the game on and off until 2009, mostly with a friend or two, not from that original group, and I always had fun.

I finally convinced a friend here to give it a go and, after going over the rules and getting a table ready, we had a small but very fun game.

I imagined this being the first contact of the Dark Legion on Venus by a small Capitol force.

The Capitol force, composed of Heavy Infantry, Free Marines and Sea Lions led by a Sea Lions hero and Colonel Mitch Hunter

The forces of the Dark Legion, followers if Ilian, composed of a large unit of Undead Legionnaries, a unit of Ilain Templars and a unit of Brass Apocalypts, led by a Pretorian Stalker.

We had no real scenario, just a meeting engagement to try out the rules, so the Capitol forces, after winning the roll to choose the side of the table, entrenched themselves in a corner with lots of cover and proceeded to shoot the opposition to pieces.

The Dark Legion starts loosing undead legionnaires right away.

The zombie soldiers manage to take down a single heavy infantryman on turn one, and that's all they manage to do for several turns.

 

The infiltrating Free Marines proceed to shoot the zombies to pieces until only the Necromutant commanding the unit is left standing

 

Meanwhile the Praetorian Stalker and Brass Apocalypts start a flanking action and postion themselves on the left of the Capitol force.

Mitch instructs his troops to turn around and start blasting at the big monsters the appeared on their side where the cover is not as good and causing damage.

A protracted gun fight ensues and half of the Sea Lions are killed, as well as both Capitol heroes being wounded.

The Free Marines close in for some hand to hand combat, they are killed to the last men and the game is called as a win for the Capitol force.

It was a fun game and we will have a follow up with a proper scenario. I will also have to add some terrain to make things more interesting.

Conclusion of the Siege of Praag campaign

 Last weekend we played the third game for the siege of Praag.

The Slaaneshi forces had to protect a contingent of goblinoids that were installing a series of war machines to batter the walls of the city and create a breach.

The Kislevite/Imperial forces would sally out of the city to disturb the process, in 6 turns they had to cause as much damage to the war machines as possible.

The army of Slaanesh had a good amount of spellcasters of different power, the defenders only had 2 minor battle wizards, since the head of the Kislevite wizard was killed in the previous battle.

These are a few pictures to show how the battle went down.

The two battle lines, the Kislevites started advancing and pressing from turn one.

The relentless advance of the infantry on the left flank with mounted crossbowmen in the center.

The Slaanesh troops start to redeploy to defend the war machines.

On the Kislevite left flank the mercenary hobgoblins and elements from Doyle's warband try to get in position to push back the enemy.

In the meantime one of the bolt throwers is destroyed with a series of fireballs and the halberdiers are getting dangerously close to the catapult.

A small unit of beastmen valiantly tries to stop the humans, but with little success.

On the Slaanesh left, a champion accompanied by some chaos hounds struggles to repel some human cavalry, the fight is closely fought with the advantage swinging more than once between the contendents.

The final collapse of the Slaaneshi left flank leaves the road open to the destruction of the war machines and a victory for the defenders of Praag.

This was the third win in a row for the humans, so we decided to skip the fourth game with the forces of Slaanesh and declare the campaign a win for the forces of humanity, but the chaos warbands were not beaten too badly and we might play some more games in the future.

For the near future we might move to 6th edition (most players said they would prefer to try a simpler version of the game) or some old school second edition Warzone for something completely different, we sill see.

I really enjoyed playing with the realms of chaos rules after 30 years and would like to do some more of this style of game, but it depends on what my players like the best.