New warbands game

 Last week we had another small game with Chaos Warbands, Cyrus' Slaanesh warband versus my new Khorne one.

The scenario saw the two warbands face each other while attacking a merchant's camp to steal some valuables.

The camp was defended by 10 human guards with crossbows, very dangerous.

The battlefield and a detail of the camp in the middle of the field

The followers of Slaanesh, 5 samurai, the dwarf champion and a sorcerer on the right flank

The warband of Khorne, The champion on the left, a chaos spawn, two skaven and five bestmen Khornegor.

The 2 warbands advance towards the center under fire from the crossbows. The beastmen of Khorne suffer some casualties and end up loosing their cool and routing out of the battlefield.

The assault on the two sides of the camp, the two warbands, by this time start to close on each other as well as the camp guards. The sorcerer of Slaanesh also managed to summon a Daemonic steed.

The chaos spawn is shot and killed in the distance, while the samurai butcher the poor camp defenders.

The champion of Khorne kills and routs the samurai, but finally succumbs to the crossbow bolts of the remaining guards, while the skaven prove ineffectual and ultimately run for their lives.

At the end of the game, both champions survive even if put out of action during the battle, the warbands suffer some casualties and the champion of Khorne, acquires new human followers, some Kislevites and some brigands.

Anther very fun game, next time Cyrus will probably be rolling a new warband and join the forces of The god of skulls again, which sill probably cause some bitter rivalry with my champion, we will see who can offer more skulls for Khorne's throne.

New Realm of Chaos warbands game

 Last Sunday we finally had another game of Warhammer 3rd edition, using the Realm of Chaos rules for Warbands.

It has been quite a while since I last posted something, but in summer people tend to be busier and spend more time outside, so the wargaming suffers a bit for it. Now the weather starts to cool here in Canada, so players should start to be more available.

As usual we had a lot of fun rolling the champions and their retinues.

We had Cyrus that, this time decided to follow Slaanesh, his warband consists of a Chaos dwarf with bestial face and accompanied by a Fiend of Slaanesh followed by a group of 5 Samurai mercenaries and a single sorcerer.

His opponent was Ronan who rolled very well and ended up with a Dragon ogre champion of Nurgle with a Beast of Nurgle followed by a sorcerer and a group of 4 imperial templars led by an overgrown hero.

Nurgle also granted 4 chaos spawns to the dragon ogre, but since it would take very long to roll those profiles and we wanted to start playing, we decided that the spawns were a group of failed Nurgle champions that had been captured by some villagers.

The Dragon ogre had been promised by Nurgle that he could have his gift (the spawns) if he could rescue them, while the champion of Slaanesh had to get to the spawn and take them for a sacrificial ritual.

We set up the two warbands facing one another with a small hamlet in the center of the battlefield and the spawn between the houses.

The warband of Nurgle, the dragon is a stand in for the dragon ogre, the ogre is the templar hero that received a growth chaos attribute and left his horse to the sorcerer (the one with the white and red barding).

The chaos spawn in the center of the village

This is the warband of Slaanesh, from left to right: Fiend of Slaanesh (represented by the Ki-rin, the sorcerer and the samurai led by the chaos dwarf champion.

The battlefield

The followers of Nurgle are ready to rush the village and recover the spawns

The two warbands close in to the village ready for the fight

The templar hero defeats the chaos dwarf with a lucky hit, but the samurai keep on fighting

Eventually the (wounded) templar hero manages to rout the samurai and the Sorcerer of Slaanesh decides to save himself and summons a daemonic steed and leaves the battle.

At this point the warband of Nurgle recovers its prize and we move to the post game phase.

None of the casualties is permanently lost and after assigning victory points to the champions we conclude the game and will be rolling stats for the four chaos spawns.

Overall it was another excellent game, the nature of the rules makes the preparation a bit time consuming (the chaotic randomness of the process is part of the fun), but the game is playable and enjoyable, even if the modern "perception" is that the game is "unplayable" and unfair.

The most important thing is that we had a good laugh and a ton of fun playing, we will definitely try to keep this going.