TOM'S BORING MORDHEIM MEETUP - CHAPTER TWO

Chapter Two - Wyrdstone hunters

The first game we played was a wyrdstone hunt: wyrdstone counters were
placed on the board by the players successively, rather far away from
the table edge and not too close to each other. To spice up the
scenario a little bit, we also decided to place Victory Point-counters
(I suppose WarbossKurgan didn't know he was the one who put that idea
into Tom's head), each counter being worth 1, 2 or 3 VP. These counters
were meant to be carried by warriors just like a wyrdstone counter. The
speciality of these counters however lies with the fact, that the
number of VPs they are worth was written underneath them and revealed
only after the game!
We decided to also award 1 VP per kill, to balance the game for slower warbands.

Boehm and Erkwin placing the counters:

Two teams of three warbands each were rolled for:



We started on randomly determined table edges, so the teams were actually quite scattered all over the city, some being sandwiched between the enemy! Matt and Boehm started close to each other, and so did Admin Tom and Lanyssa Ryssyll. But Erkwin and Tortiou were cut off from their
allies and dangerously close to ennemy models.




Tortiou's Reiks are warming up:




Lanyssa Ryssyll (his back to us) moving his dwarves towards a wyrdstone
counter, while Matt and Boehm discuss a joint operations strategy,
closely watched by Erkwin (the actual positions of the player reflect
the location of their respective warbands on the board):



No one - except for Matt, one would assume - was ever sure how to spell Krackatoaaaar's name correctly (Kraktor? Gragtoooh?),
but it was a lot of fun to burst into that "sound" every time Matt's
warrior went into a rampage... In fact there was yelling of
"Kraktooooooor!" in almost every close combat phase











"Do you think he can see my warrior?" -"Yes he can!" -"Mmmh, maybe yes, maybe no..." -"Let's ask the referee..."








The game ends with Erkwin's Youngblood picking up another WS counter at the last second. What we did at the end is count the points for each team, giving 1 VP per wyrdstone counter, 1VP per kill and 1, 2 or 3 VP per VP counter picked up. Now was the time to reveal how much VPs each counter was worth.

Actually, both teams had taken possession of roughly the same number of
VP counters, but luck favoured Erkwin-Tom-Lanyssa's team: when we
flipped the VP counters over to see how much each counter was worth,
Erkwin and his teammates got more points than the other team!



The results:
Team 2 (Tortiou - Matt - Boehm) only totaled 11 points, whereas Team 1 (Tom - Lanyssa Ryssyll - Erkwin) totaled 18 points.

Team 1 was declared the winning team!


All players at the end of the game, during the post-battle sequence:



After that, we went out to have some food, but quickly returned for the second game... more to come in Chapter 3!

Nice job Tortitou, pleasure to read, also a pleasure to play
it was great to be there, we should defenatly do something like this again

nice written Tortiou! Compliments

That was fun to read, Tortiou! Great job. Of course, I especially enjoyed the pics - no, not because of you Tom, but because of your scenery!

BEAUTIFUL TABLE, FANTASTIC MINIS, GREAT PHOTOS, FUN READ, and a FINE LOOKING GROUP OF GAMERS!

My favorite pic is the end shot: BATTLE FATIGUE on the COUCH! Brings back memories, THANKS!

Addendum: Dating those "memories", it suddenly occurred to moi that NONE of you were alive. not even a gleam in your father's eyes when last I played in a "proper" war game. When did I get SO OLD?

Well done, looking forward to seeing more reports!

Thanks for all the positive comments, guys!

Special message to Erkwin, Matt, Tom, Lanyssa, Boehm: do not hesitate to post some reports too!! If you want to explain the strategy of your warband, or if you want to show some photos that I didn't post, or just taunt other players, don't hesitate!

Tortiou wrote:

Thanks for all the positive comments, guys!

Special message to Erkwin, Matt, Tom, Lanyssa, Boehm: do not hesitate to post some reports too!! If you want to explain the strategy of your warband, or if you want to show some photos that I didn't post, or just taunt other players, don't hesitate!

because you asked so nicely
I'd like to show this picture of my enormous warband



from left to right:
My possessed 'Karel' (the half human with the spines/spikes(?))
Gnobo, my little mutant with 3 axes, a sword, chaos armour and a shield
The fierce KRACKATOAAAR, with his scorpion tail
Khan Gruz, my magister who didn't kill anything (YAY)

too bad only Gnobo made it to the second game, not because I lost them (didn't lose any of them in all three games (not dead, but OOA)) but because I had to replace them by proper models, since my Possessed where to small for possessed, and I didn't like my magister.

and if anyone is interrested in my strategie, just bash Always think like an orc people, always

Ps, for the 2nd and 3rd game, Thanks Tom for letting me borrow your models

hmm maybe some sharper pictures will do it can't see it to good now

I posted this on the blog too, but it doesn't hurt to repeat myself!

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we also decided to place Victory Point-counters (I suppose WarbossKurgan didn't know he was the one who put that idea into Tom's head)

Hehehehe! Brilliant!

Looks like another fantastic and successful Mordheim day has taken place! I'm a little bit jealous I missed out on this one!

Looking forward to the next chapter!

That is great stuff! I really loved the pics and the comments by everyone.

It is stuff like this that gives inspiration to all to keep playing MOrdheim and teaching others.

Thanks for sharing.