Conan and the Slaves of Set (Battle report)

 I been for some time had aplan for a fantasy game in my head, and my collection of buildings and bits and bobs on inspection  found it could be possible. I looked at the wonderful CROM rules by the great  Matakishi and  picked 3 linked scenarios . Using the Nutron New York 3000 combat system which i was well versed i laid out my terrain gathered my forces using the scenario  suggestions.  Conan has been thrown in jail in the village of Tarmina, his companions Subotai, Red Sonja, Belit and Valeria hunt down where the sullen eyes one is and set about finding his local in the village. The followers of set use this  village to sell salves and make  there base so it has   guards and  even a priest and his followers  in the caverns below. The group arrives on market day and the guards quickly spot them

 The  Slave Market, six points must be  gathered to find where Conan is  in jail

 The village is close walled and  dangerous alleyways

 A set guard Captain  looks for trouble

 Patrols wander the streets

 Red Sonja  sneaks inot the village

 Belit slowly moving around

 Subotia makes for the center of the village as he spots some information

 Sonja gathers the first point

 Subotai gathering a second 

 Valeria  sneaks down an alleyway

 The guards  dive on Sonja  blades flashing

 Valeria is also ambushed in a tight  spot

 She felled under a hammer of blows

 Subtai is no better as a patrol goes for him near the slavers  stand

 Belit takes no chances and makes a bloody path to Sonja her  steel finding the Captain and  more guards

 Sonja makes short work of the slavers guards who dared to attack her

 Subotai slays one guard then climbs the steps firing on 2 more 

 But the guards rush and knock him down

 Belit is surrounded she  smiles and  strikes

 Sonja and Belit wipe out the remaining guards  and take all the  objectives  

 Releasing Conan and  recovering there  friends they  hear the horn sounded and  know the  priests of Set will attack  to regain the village

 they spread out and await the  followers

 Part 2 defend the village: The high priest  gathers   his snake man  a priestess and more slave guards "defilers will drown in rivers of blood"

 Each group enters the village intent on slaying the heroes

 The priestess urges her troops on

 They rush in swords ready

 The Serpent men stalk into the village

 Subotai takes deadly aim and rains arrows onto the   incoming  foes

 The priestess  is slain along with some of her troops

 Conan, Sonja and Belit stand in the center of the village bracing to await the enemy who is  coming to kill them

 as the guards charge they are meet with steel and skill and courage

 another group of serpent men  make for the  village center

 Beset by foes the heroes fight on

 Sonja charges head long into the  vile Serpent men two fall and she laughs and jumps on the slavers stand

 "who dies first!"

 Subotai  picks off the enmy one by one

 Sonja slays an over confidant Serpent man

 Valeria join the center melee fight  makes her makr on the enemy

 The serpent  of Set priest begins his incantation

 Sonja dives and take out the last of the Serpent on her flank

 Coan laughs as all around are dead foes then he hears the  incantation of the priest and

 Part 3 slay the monster:  from ages past some thing appears summoned by vile sorcery

Subotai fires volleys after volley into the creature to little effect

 Valeria  "Who want to live forever" dives and  slashes the  monstrous  thing

 Sonja joins her blade making little progress as tentacles flail and strike

 Valeria falls hit by a stunning blow from the creature Belits fury harms the beast who scream from the depths of hell at the blows inflicted

 Sonja drives her blade deep inflicting more wounds on the   in human beast

 Belit is struck down by a  mighty blow all hope seems lost, Conan  dives and his sword impales the  Priest and the creature is drawn back to where it belonged, the fight over

 "Crom I hate Sorcery" the village is saved the  slavers  dead and the evil serpent  men destroyed....

Good game  enjoyed loads of fun the linked  scenarios were   spot on. More to come!!

Dominators VS Daleks into the vortex game

 I  waited a time to get the new Dominators from Warlord DR who into the vortex game, and on receiving and paining some sets I was eager to try them out, I set out a small table using the  GW blasted Hallowheart terrain set and   grabbed 3 cards worth of  characters each side, the Daleks numbered 7  and the Dominators  6,. A simple game 6 nodes and  go for it!

 Dalek patrol leader and 2 patrols of 3 I found them quite formidable in the game and wondered if the Quarks would stand any chance against these metal bad boys

 The Dominators  were 2 Dominators with accompanying Quark and  section of 2 Quarks

 Bit of terrain looked ok a reason i bought the set  simple and effective.

 The teams make for the nodes the Daleks moving faster

 each side securing nodes till lines of sight were engaged

 the Daleks get to the center of the table first

 the Dominators  creep in the ruins then all hell breaks loose

 A d  by a quark blast the amour saving the  surrounding daleksalek is hit 

 the Quarks move into position 

 Another node then the full fire power of 3 Quarks is unleashed on the Daleks

 after a volley of blasts 3 daleks are destroyed and the leader shocked wounded

 the Black Daleks uses fate tokens to recover and  prepare to return fire

 Another Dalek falls and a Quark is blown up on the far side

 The Black Dalek amid the ruins of his patrol  blast the quarks   destroying one and felling a dominator

 A lone Quark is under fire and unable to respond

 on the far side a Dalek gets close to destroy a Quark but A Dominator charges his armor shrugging the  fire and he   destroys the Dalek in a flurry of attacks

                                       

 The Black Dalek moves in for the kill having destroyed another Quark

 The dominator  waits in cover to get close and attack in melee

 The Black Dalek fires but again the  armor saves the Dominator

He closes and in  hand to hand combat destroys the last Dalek . victory to the Dominators

Impressions: Dominators  tough use as   hit and run hand to hand the Dominators are very good there body armor ignoring energy blasts, the Quarks blast weapon is devastating. use on groups   you roll alot of dice even at long range.

Daleks split up you move faster and  combine with move or stand and shoot you will out gun most thing, lesson learned fighting the Dominators.

Overall a fun game as always loads of twists and turns make it what you want enjoy real fun...

Dr Who Dominators,

 The wonderful Warlord games Dr who Dominators set came out so it was a must buy for me, nice to paint and I converted one miserable sod into a female Dominator. more quarks to come.