Escape the Tomb of Terror (7TV Fantasy)

 

Infused by some great games posted on the Net, I decided to give 7TV Fantasy a full go, I created 2 casts one the heroes the other the solo play  foes, I have long been a fan of the insane Italian horror movies of the 70/80s, so Dario Fulci Sword and Horror classic, "Escape from the Tomb of Terror" came to mind, A video nasty of renown for its blood, violence, nudity and monster exploitation... 

(Escape the Tomb of Terror. 1975 Dario Fuchi. Italian Sword and Blood film, a noted video nasty banned in one country (Narnia). Barbarian hero, his Axe companion and naked Elf archer save a beautiful  princess from outlaws, as she swimming in a lake, she  takes them  to her village, a  drinking orgy to celebrate, as a Valkyrie appears and  tells them of impending doom and to escape, a huge dimensional  monster appears and destroys the village and its occupants, the  party along with stranglers  must  enter the tomb of terror and escape  with a Rune Sword to defeat the  dimensional monster. its selling point was , Hope you Die first! )

The defenders of the Tomb, Elder Race, T-Rex, Flying fungus, Missing link, Tunnel Spiders and some ghouls, they would AI and come back on rolls when taken out.

Heroes Brooding Barbarian, Steadfast Goliath, Enchanting Beauty, Valkyrie, Healer Elf Scout and some warriors..

Tomb lay out 4 objectives one Maguffin the heroes must exit the opposite side of the table it is the Escape scenario.

The pot of Runes Maguffin. I deployed the  sides and  turned the first "tragic Backstory" and the Valkyrie and T-Rex had history and moved 6" towards each other, the  cameras rolled.. the heroes advance into the tomb,

The huge beast see's the Valkyrie and advances jaws snapping the beast has un-finished business with the naked spear woman...

She advances and her spear strikes the mighty lizard only to bounce off it thick hide, the Elf archer fires both arrows also striking home but bounce off the hide,

The Valkyrie showing no fear attacks with her dagger but in a second the  monster devours the brave woman in a single bite..

The evil creatures move to  stop the heroes escape,..

The Barbarian pulls from the  pot of Runes and magical Rune sword, they might now stand a chance

The huge Steadfast Goliath charges across the high walk way and smashes his Axe into the head of the  T-Rex it staggers back from the blow, snarling it lashes but misses the Goliath.

A brave female warrior charges her blade glancing off the beasts hide, its tail swipes and the young woman is smashed in a bloody pulp against a  pillar.

The Elder race searches for victims, seeking to dominate then eat the victims mind

A flying Fungus dives onto another warrior woman she defends 

The Goliath strikes with his mighty Axe this time the blow stuns the huge beast it topples off the  walk way.

The warrior woman is crushed to death the  Fungus flies avoiding the  huge monster and the Elder race takes a hard blow from the tail landing on it, the T-Rex shakes its head, opening on eye.

The Barbarian slays a charging Fungi in a single swipe.

The Goliath continues his assault on the rising T-Rex his Axe bouncing off its hide.

The Elf archer kills a fungi 

The Goliath summons his Gods and ground  smashes the  walk way the shock wave spinning the advancing spiders on there backs. the Elf Archer dispatches the now vulnerable the creatures...

Warrior woman make it to the first platform

More evil appears to stop the heroes

The Enchanting beauty see's a clear path to the escape route but a appearing Fungi spots her

The  nubile healer is suddenly  dominated by the Elder Race she cannot move... now at its mercy.

A cave spider  scuttles and bites the Goliath in his leg the deadly venom distracting the  man,

As Ghouls rise to attack the Warrior women one grabs her companion and tosses her knocking down the foul Ghoul.

The distracted Goliath is devoured by the savage T-Rex

The poor healers mind is sucked from her body by the Elder race...

The Ghouls strike biting and ripping into the Warrior women..

The brave Elf archer fires at the T-Rex as she falls under the bites and claws of spiders and Fungi.

The Missing link seeing the beauty charges hoping to make her his new mate..

The wounded T-Rex charges the Barbarian who using the Rune sword delivers a killing blow to the monster avenging his companion the Goliath.

The beauty stabs and kills the Fungi as the Missing link claws at her ripping cloth and skin.

The Women  Warriors on the  rise are over run by spiders and Ghouls .

The last falling  and being devoured  vicious by the beasts..

The Missing link grabs the beauty close only to find her Stiletto shoved upwards deep into his chin the  depraved beast falls dead...

The Barbarian and Beauty see the escape and run for the lives...

Escaping the Tomb of terror... (End credits)

Loads of fun and  the game as all 7 TV creates its own stories, the Valkyrie and T-Rex history, the falling T-Rex of the walk way. Enjoyed the game the 7 TV Fantasy is  a great fun game for  all fans of fantasy and whatever you wish to do...

Maybe another feature of Dario Fuchi soon???

Twilight play test game

 

Finished off my two factions for the  Twilight World of Anyaral game world, read the rules and got the desired bits and bobs to play, it uses activation counters and combat stones, so some thing new to try.

My factions are the Dhougu and the Engu, both very different in types and I pointed up about 300 to make a even game size. I laid out a simple table  of a village in the waste lands and the Dhougu had to get from one corner to the other , the Engu trying to stop them, the  activation counters I reduced to four a side and the two combat ones, each stone activating who side it represents, I like this a lot and some thing that spurned me to get the rules,. The leader of the Dhougu Tar Sirahn and his party of huge Yartain's and mercenary's faced the Engu lead by Cren Baak and his tribe. Very different stat lines and I was interested to see the game play in the works.

My battle board 3x3 terrain by battle systems. The turn counters made the game very fast and flowing. The Dhogh split with Tak moving through the village with his Yartain  allies and  Dravu Rya and his companion Ora Chey. the Engu split to intercept each group  Cren and his beast Tahela flanking to meet Dravu, the command radius and  rules make moving very fast and again fluid. the huge Yartain with there pups saw the oncoming Engu hunters and  ran to meet them. Ora was jumped by the Tahela but Dravu and  him combined slew the monster only for Cren to dispatch Dravu then even aided by a Yartain pup kill poor Ora. the Engu hunters crashed into the Yartain slaying one instantly and the second ripping into 2 of the ranks, it then engaged the Gardosa leader and both died fighting each other a hunter finishing the last pup as  Tak attacked Cren, the combat was fierce but Tak played well and Cren fell. Tak spotted the Kapa on a nearby roof and  charged  both fought and both fell in a round of savagery, a reaming Engu hunter stood alone amidst the battle.

I might have done a few things wrong as always on first test run but I enjoyed it more than I thought.

the rules work simple and the  combat stones are  very good idea and make the game unique, fun and will play more trying new  scenarios and ideas, I like the miniatures and world....

Pictures below of the battle, be safe my friends.

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Twilight the World of Anyaral miniatures painted

 

A new project the Twilight skirmish game of the World of Anyaral, nice miniatures and a very interesting game , the rules are different, will post a game when i get some sides sorted. 

Very nice to paint, here is whats done so far, more to follow. 

Be safe my friends

The Tyrant Attacks (Midgard play test)

 

James Morris kindly sent me a copy of his WIP Midgard rule set to play out, it is extensive and meant for fantasy and historical battles, Very well laid out and I read over it countless times, I think I grasped the basic ideas. After a quick try on the combat rules and to make sure I understood, I  wanted to try a battle. I have many miniatures and looked over my boxes, I have only used my HATE game miniatures in small games and some try outs so to use them in a battle was a yes, I counted the points, the rules and lists are very well done and I picked a Celtic theme for the Tyrants army, to oppose them I looked in my Song of fire and Ice boxes and the base sizes were almost as required so I pulled out a force, both sides adding to about 300 points.

My gaming area is restricted but thought the rules and style would accommodate the forces, I always randomly roll to place units and this worked fine again as each unit is a block, I worked out the reputation points, these are basically  lost when a unit is wiped out and  to me is good idea.

The Tyrants army he had two heroes, 4 units of giant/ogre types, an elite  warrior unit and the rest were basic warriors.

The Free Folk Haggard the General and two heroes, two mammoths, a unit of giants, spear maidens and a mixed unit of archer warriors, one unit of elite warriors and the rest basic warriors.

Fight over a  shrine 

The Battle was just a brutal feast of steel and flesh, the Tyrants army advanced some not as much as required, he was meet by the charging Free Folk who on the left flank hit hard and pushed the  Tyrants  units back, on the right the Mammoth charged into a group of the Tyrants huge warriors, they stopped it dead and forced it back, no stamped but it was failing the Tyrants  army advanced to take battle to the Free Folk who sent  forth there heroes and the unit of giants to stop them. and a second Mammoth charged into one of the Tyrants heroes forcing him back.  the next turn the tide turned and the forces of the Tyrant hit hard, bringing to bear there heavy hitters they surrounded and wiped out the Mammoth who was deep in the Tyrants ranks and destroying the  first Mammoth the  large warriors struck into the  Free Folks flank. on the left the elite warriors stopped the advancing free folk and then proceeded to wipe out the units killing the giants and two  heroes. 

Reputation was gone lost and the Free Folk fled the battle field, with only three units and the General. For me the game is a joy to play fast and you have to think, the dice rolls are well balanced the might points count. it played exactly like i wanted the game to feel like? . Well done James and co, more army lists and this to me is a winner...

be safe my friends