Seeking the tomb of Marcea Lupul

Into the Lair of Marcea Lupul 

The penultimate game of our six-game Silver Bayonet Carpathian campaign saw the French unit, under Colonel Jean-Hippolyte Gavreau de la Framboise, marched into the ruined dining room in Lupul's castle searching for clues to where the evil Vampire King was buried only to be set upon by Living Armour which the French, and their Swiss opponents, were wholly unequipped to deal with. The Spanish, on the other hand, and their trusty Father Antonio were ready for it...

The French advanced into the centre of the dining room avoiding staring too much into the glowing green flames of the enchanted firepit! They were a bit slow in their discovery though  and the Spanish recovered one of the important relics and the Swiss the other two...

The French aggressively went after both the Spanish and the Swiss to try and get their hands on those treasures but singularly failed to do much of anything. Colonel Gavreau de la Framboise then started on some outright vindictive revenge and his Spanish and Swiss opponents happily waded in to do the same...

This last photo is where the vindictiveness was at it's absolute height. Zhantomeir the Cossack (henceforth known as Fancy Hat after he discovered a magic helm) charged into the Spanish swordsman and flattened him and his magic shield in a single mighty blow. The Spaniards Juan and Esmerelda shot him down!

The Swiss ran off as Hussar Olivier Cheveaux and Elodie the vivandiere tried to run down their two treasures too after a couple of their soldiers got absolutely clubbed to death by the Living Armour (and I totally forgot to take photos of that!)

 In the final game of the campaign, Zhantomeir felled the Vampire after a lunatic highlander woke it up...or at least thought he did. Then the monster stood himself up and Colonel Gavreau de la Framboise sabred the great beast. It was a glorious victory! Of course, on the other side of the park, a Swiss Grenadier shot down Georg Bitterlich (as Blogger Pooch rolled a double-10 reacting to Bitterlich's attempt to shoot him first!) as he defended the French exit from the crypt. Mercifully, it was just a nasty scratch and Georg will be up and running again in future! 

Thoughts?

It's a really really cool campaign. We replayed mission three as we absolutely stuffed it up quite badly on the first play through but it was SO much more fun getting it right. At the end of the campaign we mostly had second level characters across the board too. It gives out a lot of extra experience with artifacts and mission XP so we all moved through it pretty quickly. Definitely keen to play it again with a different crew.

And some workbench as well...

I started working on the Inquisition crew in advance of a planned Kill Team so did the first model. Look at me go! :) I have no idea what it'll do in game but it was cute so I did it.

 I spent some time clearing some of the backlog of assembly that's been sitting on my shelf so I dug out my Dark Trooper box and put them together. It's definitely one of the cooler kits I've done:

The box comes with with every option the unit can have - 4 Dark Troopers and 3 heavy weapons to pick from - and holy moly are they big. They're comfortably a head taller than a Storm Trooper and carrying some fairly beefy kit. They look really interesting in game too, with no ability to move at speed (although they can fly and reposition!) but they get two activations a turn to reflect their relentless nature. Should be really cool!

I've also finally got off my chuff and built this Knight Armiger Helverin too. It's been sitting on the shelf for a long time waiting to be the third Knight in a Lance of Armigers. It's a super sweet model too and will go well with my other Warglaives.

Next Time

More Inquisition work and the Dark Troopers and Moff Gideon will join the Scarif Beach Party.