Mordheim Campaign round 3 and 4 : Fight from the heights to the depths

Today, there's not one but TWO battle reports on the menu as teh first one was rather short and simple !

The 3rd game we played during our Mordheim campaign was fougt against the dwarves of Edouard AKA Bood-Wargames.

The scenario we picked was rather unpleasant for me as it implied the champions of Law were split. A poor series of dice rolls meant I had to start the game with a single character on the table and that the opponent had 25% chance of starting on the very same table side as this model... Against all odds heh ?

Funnilly enough the following dice rolls were clearly in my favour as most of the rest of my troops appeared in the back of Bood's units !

Round 3 : Something rotten in Mordheim !

Aquila knew from the start it was a stupid idea to go scout each in his own, he resented himself for following the idea even more than he resented Warlock for suggesting it in the first place...

"Damn, damn, DAMN ! WHy did I even listened to that idiotic priest in the first place ! Now I'm on my own with a bunch of those stupid dwarves on the hunt... I'm going to show them what lawful means."

The dwarves were arriving from the other side of town, Aquila knew he could rely on his speed but how long would he have to wait ? The dwarves would most likely try to take him down with a stupid amount of arrows and crossbow bolts

Not waiting to get caught by the dwarves, Aquila left the house and moved hastily towards the town center.

That's when Warlock with the warhounds and othe rknights appeared in the rear of the other dwarf unit !

Swift and the fanatic dwarf tried to get to their Captain but the dwarf was taken down by a nasty shot in the belly.

Despite the pretty lucky turn of events, the champions of Law got drowned in everlasting fights

Glory wasn't for today...

Round 4 : Escaping from the cave

The 4th game of the day was played against Lucie, Cédric's daughter and she had brought a delightful band of norse fighters and berserkers :

Each of us had to cross the table and exit from the other side, trying to prevent the other player to do the same as much as possible...

Dungeoneering is a strange activity in an adventurer's life, even amongst the strange rescue missions and dragon Slaying, Fighting you rway to get to the bottom of a cave you'll have to fight your way to leave...

All the members of the group were assigned a position depending on their talent. It would be of th eutmost importance that everyone plays his part. The cave contained some antic Dwarven ruins and who knew what dangers might lay ahead ?

Aquila assigned to his most rapid elemnts the task to scout ahead.

To get to the other hand of teh cave, they woul dhave to cross th ethrone room and the undergound river but th enorse would have to take a similar path...

The scouts reache dthe bridge to cross the underground river, they knew that point of the cave would see most of the fight.

But a true Chevalier d'Uralex knows his place and mission, he never falters.

Unluckily for the Norse, the rawkus caused a flock of bats to flee from their secret passage...

And the group didn't have much space to evolve around...

The knights readied their bows and started shooting the berzerkers coming their way, the warhounds and fanatics would take car of the battle wolves and other direct threats...

The fighting that followed was short but intense, one of the norse men at arms managed to take 3 of my heroes down (2 of them with a single arrow...) and the losses on both sides were quite impressive. As a matter of fact The Norse lost their leader and one of my heroes ended with crushed legs, a wound that reduced his weapon skill and his toughness by one (believe me, you do NOT want  to hang arond with a toughnes sof 2). Hopefully, I managed to recover a bit thanks to great gains in gold and all but that had been the most violent game of the day by far (maybe to to the bluntness of my 10 years old partner).

There was still a round to fight against the agents of chaos !