Eeeek! This evening I actually painted stuff without using any Contrast paint. It wasn’t really through choice. I started painting these miniatures for my mate about 12 years ago at the very least. Long before contrast was invented.
To be honest it was more a touch up and some painting to get them finished.
Back to Contrast tomorrow 🙂
Last night we played the fourth scenario in the Silver Bayonet…
An agent had been killed in the forest and both forces had to findmthe body and retrieve his signet ring to prove the rumours were true. The first team assigned to this had been chased off by some strange squat creatures… I mean whatever could possibly go wrong! 🙄
The five markers across the middle of the table were the clue markers…one of them would be the missing agent.
As you can see we set up in opposite corners and off we set. I won initiative and moved to the wood as my officer and investigator moved towards the marker, Joe did likewise.
Unfortunately for Joe the Goblin on the centre hill saw his troops and moved off towards them. Unfortunately for me a goblin randomly chose to appear right next to the marker so a bit of a scrap occurred. In fact my officer and agent were stuck there for the next four turns as all Goblins appeared at the same spot… on the upside I got a lot of points for killing them all…
Now luckily for me both of the above were armed with cold iron weapons, which negates the 4 points damage reduction against the Goblins, also my officer was lucky enough to be wearing a religious symbol, which thankfully causes the Goblins to take a -3 to hit… this alone kept my officer alive on a number of occasions.
By turn three all hell was breaking loose across the centre, not to mention that Joe had found the missing agent’s body…
As I said things got a bit messy in the centre, by turn five bodies were piled everywhere
We managed on double one whole game and this led to a possessed scary thing which thankfully appeared on Joe’s side of the table, unfortunately for me, not close enough to stop his infantryman carrying off the agents ring.
Once again my poor investigator did his best to chase the artefact, and once again it slipped through his fingers.
In the end Joe had four of his force downed and I lost one.
Injuries for his officer was a permanent reduction of -1 to health, this goes alongside the jitters which gives him a permanent-1 to his courage roll. His Swordswoman took a ball to the knee and has a -1 to he movement, she also has the jitters. His doctor and infantryman took only a flesh wound so are fine.
My one casualty was extremely unlucky as he was killed by the extremely accurate shot that got him. This is after he did a reroll to reduce his damage, which he did… sadly just not enough… I rolled a six, I needed a seven! So poor Francois, the Miller’s son from Lille, will sadly no longer make it home to his wife and young child.
Louise Julie, comtesse de Mailly did an excellent job cursing just about everyone in her line of sight, it was her intervention at one point that kept the noble officer alive. Captain Jean Luc Picard was most grateful that he found such a useful associate. He was also lucky that as a comtesse, she could never be claimed to be a witch.
It was another great game, total casualties across the three forces were and amazing ten downed. My force comprised eight, Joe had seven and the Goblins five.
We are going to take a break for a while, bit it will give me time to sort out more terrain and to find all the monsters I might need. I can see some 3D printing is going to take place for some of them.
Because I am a pillock, I totally forgot to do the write up of our second Silver Bayonet game.
This one had four revenants visible at the start ofnthe game. Luckily at rhe end of the first turn all my forces were out if sight so the revenants went off to annoy Joe on the far side of the table.
The thing about a revenant is it pretty much drops damage to shooting so although there was plenty the revenants shrugged 90% of it off.
Things did get a bit brutal on the far side of the barn…
Unfortunately for us we rolled a lot of double ones and in the end had seven revenants, one ghoul and one animated scarecrow. The game started with only the five revenants. Unluckily for Joe they all appeared in sight of his troops so he got the brunt of the monsters. Unfortunately for me the door to the barn was in the far side which allowed my opponent to nip in, kill the revenant and leg it. The animated scarecrow had a damage reduction of 8, which meant it was pretty much impervious to anything except fire which was a total bugger as neither of us had any!
I would like to say things degenerated into chaos, but I would be lying…it was chaos from turn one.
My supernatural investigator tried a mad dash to retrieve the artefact, but sadly the odds were against him and he couldn’t stop his opposite number legging it off the table.
After the battle my officer had to roll on the injuries table and relieved a permanent wound which reduced his health by one point. Joe had two put out of action but came through unscathed.
Tonight we tried scenario three and ended up hunting for a troll under a bridge!
It was a slow start with no-one wanting to get shot at, but eventually the bullets started to fly. The doctor was certainly busy on both sides of the table. My lady occultist actually managed to curse people and caused a number of Joe’s troops to lose -1 on all of their rolls.
Joe got to the bridge first and annoyed the troll… luckily all my chap’s were out of sight and the troll charged Joe’s investigator and swordswoman. Sadly for her she fell to the beast. The officer charged the troll only to find he forgot to light his burning torch before he charged and was splatted. Luckily the doctor was in range to revive him. More chaos ensued as eve everyone tried to either kill the troll or kill the people trying to kill the troll.
In the end the bloody investigator managed to leg it with another artefact. My shooting had him down to one wound, but the lucky sod escaped…. again!
In the end Joe had two downed troops and I managed to get away with light wounds. Both his officer and the swordswoman ended up with a permanent wound apiece. Both ended up with the jitters, this causes a -1 to their courage
We remembered a lot more of the rules this week, but forgot the -1 to shooting when you move and fire. We will get there in the end I am sure.
We had a good couple of games and are going to try and squeeze another one in on Friday.
Tonight Joe and I got a long awaited game in. As you can probably guess, we played our first game of The Silver Bayonet.
I went with the French and Joe chose the Spanish. We played the first Scenario named ‘The Investigation’. We set up the table as seen below.
My forces are in the bottom and Joe is to the top . The black markers are clues, Joe managed to reach two first. First was some oriole remains that had been gnawed upon.
Sadly his second proved to be a hobgoblin, which was hiding in the middle of the ruins and guess who he attacked….
Sadly my dice throws were a bit rusty. I got overcome by the privation of the scary monster. In the end we managed to throw three double ones and ended up attracting another hobgoblin and two revenenants.
It all got a bit brutal around my initial move location …I never managed to move away from it. In the end I managed to kill the swordsman and wound the hobgoblin…
Sadly my grenadier bought the farm. The doctor managed to revive one of my troopers, but in the end my officer charged to infantryman at the corner, failed to hit him and as he was already wounded he succumbed to a bayonet thrust to the lungs…
We decided to call it at that point. Joe was the winner as my troops decided to leg it when the officer went down. This would of course mean that he had to deal with the indestructible hobgoboin and a revenant. I reckon he was in with a good chance as he had already killed one of each. My Occultist managed to do more damage to herself than the spells did to her enemies… I told you my dice were naff! In my case it was more a case of ‘Carry on Screaming’ than ‘Van Helsing’!
It was a good first game, we did get some things wrong, but it didn’t stop the enjoyment.
One thing I did notice was that there was no easy find rule page, so we spent a lot of time to-ing and fro-ing through the book.
We are going to have another bash at the rules next Wednesday.
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