Turn 9 is the first formal engagement with the Armies of Chaos threat.
See Turn 9: Chaos Orders for the full battle report.
The mystery of Chaos forces organizing into a disciplined army deepens after a raid on their camp on the Planes of Thar.
Here are some highlights:
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| Armies of Chaos Camp |
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| Chaos Warriors |
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| Sneaking up |
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| Some heavy melee |
I decided that the previously posted campaign turns 1-7 have amounted to Act 1 - The Messenger's Satchel.
Act 2 opens with a Quest (a self paced multi-part mission) which was rolled in turn 7.
The lore and happenings in this little section of the world is really starting to explode! Some of the supporting documentation still has holes. But the stories in the turn descriptions themselves are complete.
Here are the highlights:
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| The company was asked to retrieve an "ingredient" from a monster lair. |
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| The lair was a wraith's haunted mausoleum. |
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| Some scattered treasures were searched while the wraith was away hunting the living. |
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| The wraith returned but was no match for the company |
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| Brother Benniard reveals himself as a Ghastalker, an ancient order of undead hunters. He is now Benniard Duskwalker. |
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| The Ghastalker Weapons Master, Leopuild, who travels in one of the order's vardos gave the first part of the quest as a means of introducing himself and permitting Benniard to reveal his identity to the company. |
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| Deep beneath the earth, undead servants of Yaegrax the necromancer have broken the first seal of his prison vault. He can now cast his potent diabolical visions through the rift and into the dreaming mind of any who feared death. |
The rest of the multipart quest will involve supporting the Ghastalker Order as they counter the necromancer Yaegrax who is attempting to free himself from his vault prison.
Three more campaign turns have been posted!
See the full campaign.
Here are some highlights (spoilers):
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| In the Elven Gardens the young follower "Shrub" became the hero "Hedge." |
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| Brigands were tracked through the wilderness all the way to Wyvern's Rest. |
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| Several happenings conspired to delay the recovery of the messenger's Satchel. The trail was permanently lost after an odd encounter with a memory manipulating scholar wearing a lotus signet ring. |
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| That evening in Wyvern's Rest, the company was robbed and followed the thieves back to their camp. The thieves were defeated and a lot of gold was recovered, but the correspondence in the messenger bag was gone. |
Two more campaign turns have been posted!
Or see the full campaign.
Here are some highlights:
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| An encounter |
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| Brandal summons a genie and Benniard becomes the wolf! |
Campaign Turn 2 is now up!
Turn 2 : In and Around Taurtorg
The stumbling dead..
This effort will describe a miniatures wargame campaign play-through of Five Leagues from the Borderlands (3rd edition).
Five Leagues from the Borderlands is a solo adventure wargame where you take the role of a warband of heroes and adventurers, and explore a grim world full of monsters, enemies, creeping malice, and exciting quests.
Five Leagues is a small book with limited lore and the game system relies on players to use their imagination to spin a story based on core elements and happenings which are generated randomly. The player may earn and spend "story points" to put their thumb on the scale, however nearly any event can be shown to be related (even intimately so) with just a little creativity. On the other hand, enemies and battles are meant to be adapted to your existing miniatures collection.
My world (and miniatures collection) will be styled primarily after Tolkien's Middle-Earth with influences from Howard's Hyborean Age, Salvator's Ice Wind Dale, Sapkowski's Witcher, as well as classic fantasy games like HeroQuest, and Warhammer Fantasy.
