FG: Genie in the Bottle

Next up a fun scenario.

One of the treasures is a Genie, a very cross one.

With the rubbish winter light levels, I still had not got around to painting my figures – something Alan also found inhibiting his painting.

So my ladies raced forward for the treasure, and immediately found the Genie, being a demon it could not be harmed by non magical weapons…eek ! I only had one magical weapon in the war band – the Captain’s and she was some way a way from the Archer, Apothercary and Old Mother Parma.

The Archer held off the Genie, unable to harm it, she did at least defat it in combat, pushed it back allowing time for the Captain to come pelting over.

Henriatte Quadeloop cast fog to act as a cover for a thug racing towards another treasure chest on the bridge.

The war hounds went for each other (again).

This time my mangy mutt won.

A ferocious melee erupted on the other side of the board as Tipstaff’s minions tried two grab a treasure and I moved in in numbers as well.

IIRC, some 4 models died in this scrap !

My treasure hunter decked the Thief who tried to stop her getting the loot.

My Captain went down, leaving the Archer to valiantly fight off the Genie.

And the Treasure Hunter went down, fortunately within sight of my Apprentice Henriatte, who promptly used Telekenisis to retrieve the treasure from Tipstaff’s minions.

Tipstaff won – just !

And so it begins – head to head

So Alan and I went head to head with our two new Wizards – Tipstaff and old Mother Parma

Good old Fog !

My figures were woefully unpainted (at least they were assembled I have many years ago played a game of Warhamster Skirmish where I was busy gluing them together in game !).

My ladies raced for the treasure – one in the top of the circular tower, and one in the central building (in yellow).

My Captain and X-bow lady got there, only to have a thug try and attack – he got an X-bow bolt in the face for his efforts.

But the warhound went down after a bit of dog on dog combat.

And the X-bow lady went down with an elemental bolt.

Elsewhere I was hunting down some thieving git who had half-hitched a treasure chest, but my ladies came under fire so progress was slow.

Old Mother Parma and the Apothecary stayed well out of harms way !

Unlike one of my archers who was shot down. But the second archer returned the favour.

Overall a narrow victory for Old Mother Parma.

Captains

I’m a big fan of Wizards having Captains, it adds another dimension to the war band and allows another character to develop.

So to this end I often run a new Captain through the “Alone in the Crypt” scenario from Issue 1 of Spellcaster magazine. It’s also a fun solo scenario in its own right.

Previously I’ve gone down the combat Captain route, but this time I’ve decided to go down a shorty Captain route – the scenario does after all give the Captain a magical quiver full of nice juicy magical arrows !

So Iw ent to town with the new plastic female warrior sprue ! And here she is (name TBC)

By playing this scenario, your Captain comes out with some goodies, and some XP – not enough to unbalance the games you play with others but enough to make him/her interesting from the get go – not just another grunt.

I always play the scenario once, if the Captain doesn’t get out alive…tough !

There are plenty of undead mobbing the Captain, and plenty of false exits (Archway courtesy of Midlam Miniatures).

On this occasion, and for the first time, my Captain managed to trash enough feeble undead to get over the 100XP mark, which is unusual.

So now to deploy her with the rest of Old Mother Parma’s warband.

Old Mother Parma

Ok, so it was a bit premature to say I’d be back regularly posting, in my defence I did not expect my Clerk to go off to Korea for a week (Her daughter intends to study Korean & Japanese as you do), nor did I expect to have to intervene in the Community Newsletter.

In the meantime, Alan and I have had 3 gaming sessions with two new Wizards…

AS described in the original “Blood on the Streets” scenario pack which had loads of the old Citadel card buildings accompanied with a scenario booklet about “The Riding”.

So I have the old figure of old Mother Parma so am building up a warband of exclusively female warriors now that North Star have released the plastic set – jolly nice stuff it is too.

So we’ll have to go back to January, when old Mother Parma and Ebenezer Tipstaff and his apprentice Canaan Sodindo Banana first encountered each other…