Sartosa 3: Pieces Of Eight (Flame On Campaign 2008)

OH MY GOD! Did Kapp'n Hadduck buy the farm? Say it ain'to, Saul!

I can't talk about it.










There is a rumour floating around that the Geheimnisnacht Boyz are just the Halibuteers in a different disguise!

You have my DEEPEST condolences. Sartosa is a poorer place without him [smells better though ].

You can't keep a good (bad?) Orc down though - he'll be back, stinking the place up, sooner or later!

Week 6

Mutiny, Upheaval and Revolt

It has come to light that Grand Master Ruben Rhal and the Blood of The Fold have switched sides! The formerly Naval Alliance force has been secretly worshiping the Dark Powers and when this was revealed Grand Master Rhal turned pirate and joined the Corsairs. I always thought there was something fishy about that cove. It hasn't made a great deal of different to his battlefield prowess though, the Blood of The Fold were twice given a pounding by Tyrant Ikrim Elfeater in Roba.

Also on the receiving end of Ikrim's wrath was Kor'thar the Merciful – the Khornate Scurvy Dog tried to grab Roba as well but the Trollish Ogre has comprehensively secured the cliff-town for the Jonesers, after weeks of suspense while the ownership of Roba hung in the balance; that matter looks to be settled for now.



Meanwhile Prince Robinet Puissant has consolidated the Naval Alliance's possession of the Osso Hills this week. He battered the Sartosa Harbour Independent Trading Syndicate first and mauled the Ironfang Orc Pirates later in the week. The Prince even took the time in between to settle a dispute with General Jeridian Neskijn on the Hills in open battle. Jeridian and Puissant are rumoured to have fallen out over "a matter of principle" – they were expected to fought a duel, but the Alliance seem to have taken the concept of "weapon of choice" to include a whole army! The over-sized duel was won by Jeridian in a text-book display of the power of gunpowder over cavalry.

Moreover Lord Lokay's Wood Elves fended off two other attacks by the Scurvy Dogs on the Osso Hills. The reptilian raider Ankha-Uax and The Temple Constellations attacked first but were driven off. Then a band of less-than-sober Empire buccaneers made an attempt on the hills and the Wood Elves ambushed and brutally slaughtered them.

It seems like nothing can stop the onslaught of Davy Jones's foul Crew. They have once again taken control of the majority of the island while the Alliance and the Scurvy Dogs fight one-another for scraps. Our last, forlorn, hope could be for all the rival factions to turn upon the Jonesers' in a concerted effort to break their stranglehold upon us. Our freedom and survival depends upon it shipmates!



Davy Jones' Crew held The Fortress of the Pirate King, Sartosa City, the Howling Marsh, Ossomunte, The Old Penitentiary, The Cave of the Damned, Beffardo, Vermunte, the Volcanic Lake and Dead Man's Point. They captured Roba.
The Scurvy Dogs held Fort Senelite, The Bay of Wrecks and Skull Point.
The Corsairs held Caprio.
The Naval Alliance held Caragio, Ragil and the Osso Hills.








Week 6

Mutiny, Upheaval and Revolt

It has come to light that Grand Master Ruben Rhal and the Blood of The Fold have switched sides! The formerly Naval Alliance force has been secretly worshiping the Dark Powers and when this was revealed Grand Master Rhal turned pirate and joined the Corsairs. I always thought there was something fishy about that cove. It hasn't made a great deal of different to his battlefield prowess though, the Blood of The Fold were twice given a pounding by Tyrant Ikrim Elfeater in Roba.

Also on the receiving end of Ikrim's wrath was Kor'thar the Merciful – the Khornate Scurvy Dog tried to grab Roba as well but the Trollish Ogre has comprehensively secured the cliff-town for the Jonesers, after weeks of suspense while the ownership of Roba hung in the balance; that matter looks to be settled for now.



Meanwhile Prince Robinet Puissant has consolidated the Naval Alliance's possession of the Osso Hills this week. He battered the Sartosa Harbour Independent Trading Syndicate first and mauled the Ironfang Orc Pirates later in the week. The Prince even took the time in between to settle a dispute with General Jeridian Neskijn on the Hills in open battle. Jeridian and Puissant are rumoured to have fallen out over "a matter of principle" – they were expected to fought a duel, but the Alliance seem to have taken the concept of "weapon of choice" to include a whole army! The over-sized duel was won by Jeridian in a text-book display of the power of gunpowder over cavalry.

Moreover Lord Lokay's Wood Elves fended off two other attacks by the Scurvy Dogs on the Osso Hills. The reptilian raider Ankha-Uax and The Temple Constellations attacked first but were driven off. Then a band of less-than-sober Empire buccaneers made an attempt on the hills and the Wood Elves ambushed and brutally slaughtered them.

It seems like nothing can stop the onslaught of Davy Jones's foul Crew. They have once again taken control of the majority of the island while the Alliance and the Scurvy Dogs fight one-another for scraps. Our last, forlorn, hope could be for all the rival factions to turn upon the Jonesers' in a concerted effort to break their stranglehold upon us. Our freedom and survival depends upon it shipmates!



Davy Jones' Crew held The Fortress of the Pirate King, Sartosa City, the Howling Marsh, Ossomunte, The Old Penitentiary, The Cave of the Damned, Beffardo, Vermunte, the Volcanic Lake and Dead Man's Point. They captured Roba.
The Scurvy Dogs held Fort Senelite, The Bay of Wrecks and Skull Point.
The Corsairs held Caprio.
The Naval Alliance held Caragio, Ragil and the Osso Hills.

COOL REPORT, GREAT PHOTOS, BUT NO FREAKING CANDY!

HOORAY FOR OUR SIDE! Smacking down Pansy Elves is Gork's or possibly Mork's Way!

where is the picture of the Captain fighting off Zombies from? That is really great!

DeafNala wrote:

HOORAY FOR OUR SIDE! Smacking down Pansy Elves is Gork's or possibly Mork's Way!

Nearly!

We had to work out VP at the end as we couldn't tell! It felt really close all the way through and I think I had Walkingginger under a lot of pressure for most of it.

But with VP for table quarters, captured banners, and a dead general (his!) Walkingginger had 550 points more than me.
Closest game in ages though - great fun!

Da Bank wrote:

where is the picture of the Captain fighting off Zombies from? That is really great!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/

Win or lose, you write a GREAT Battle Report full of Swash Buckling & TERRIFIC, evocative photography. I'm VERY impressed!

OH BABY, MORE ORCS!

VERY COOL LOOKIN' LADS! AND two wins! After all the Green "Lullin'em into a False Sense of Security" Tactics, TWO wins is INCREDIBLE!

Week 7

The Monarchical Chair of Cranial Construction

This week the island has exploded into open warfare. Every corner of Sartosa is embroiled in the struggle as several warlords have pulled out all the stops in their bid to wrest control for themselves.

Gardrock and The Sartosa Harbour Independent Trading Syndicate, Tyrant Ikrim Elfeater and the Chaos Troll-Ogres, Prince Robinet Puissant and the Troupeau à Ailes Royal, Slann Ankha-Uax and The Temple Constellations of Bob, Warboss Snaptoof and the Rusty Reavers: The list is long and the battles were ferocious but no-one escaped entirely unharmed, even the great and powerful Tyrant Ikrim suffered some set-backs and defeats (one, ironically, at the hands of a host of Daemons!). So many dozens of battles were fought in this brief burst of brutality that the reports have become confused and contradictory. Suffice to say that Davy Jones' Crew still remain in control of the greater part of the island but the small enclaves of resistance against them have been hardened, fortified and reinforced.



Adm'rul Kurgan attempted a quite landing on the south coast via the Skull Sands, but the Ironfang's assault was thrown into disarray by a Wood Elf ambush in the darkening jungle. The Adm'rul was last seen ploughing a furrow north through the trees with a small but sturdy band of buccaneers.

The coming winter on Sartosa will once more be a hard one. The evil that stalks the land will not abate and there is small chance that things will get brighter anytime soon. The monstrous fish that prowl the waters offshore are getting bigger, if the reports of sailors can be believed, and this proves that the dark power that surrounds us has not waned. The only consolation is that the authority on Sartosa is still in piratical hands, even if it is the wrong sort of pirate!

Batten down the hatches for the comin' storm mates.



Davy Jones' Crew captured Caragio and held The Fortress of the Pirate King, Sartosa City, the Howling Marsh, Ossomunte, The Old Penitentiary, The Cave of the Damned, Beffardo, Vermunte, the Volcanic Lake, Dead Man's Point and Roba.
The Scurvy Dogs captured The Pirate's Current and held Fort Senelite, The Bay of Wrecks and Skull Point.
The Corsairs held Caprio.
The Naval Alliance held Ragil and the Osso Hills.
Skull Sands is contested by The Naval Alliance and The Scurvy Dogs.

'Vous ver de lutin de mille mères, ce jour je vous défie et ferai la condamnation sur votre corps' ...them Brettonians have a different word for EVERYTHING!

GREAT BATTLE REPORT & PHOTOS! The folks at White Dwarf should take not as to what a Battle Report SHOULD be like. Even though the Good (Green) Guys lost, VERY WELL DONE!

There's a Horrid Mutated Monster that's cleverly disquised as a chips bag sneaking on the table edge.

Zoggit. They were going to have to keep fighting weren't they…

THAT'S THE SPIRIT, ADM'RUL! Churchill would've been proud!

HOORAY for Ludwig!

A NEW lease on life, no more of this "coward" stuff, AND a second chance at it all [or third or.... ]!

Hooray indeed! Watch out Sartosa! He's back from the dead and ready to kick some ass!

<--- This guy is so cool.

Week 8

Between the Devil and the deep blue sea

An unexpected turn in the weather has brought calm seas and clear skies back to Sartosa, fending off the winter storms and facilitating a prolonged struggle against the terrible horrors of Davy Jones' Crew. White sails have been spotted on the horizon to the south and it seems great fleets are on the move around the coasts of Araby.

A vast sprawling battle of Ogres and Ogre-like-things took place around Monkey Cove this week as the fell forces of Tyrant Ikrim Elfeater besieged the Scurvy Dog stronghold of Fort Senelite. The Sartosans held out, but only just and at great cost – the still control the harbour town by the slimmest of margins.



Adm'rul Kurgan's Ironfangs suffered another, even more brutal, defeat at the hooves of Prince Robinet Puissant and the Troupeau à Ailes Royal on the coast near Skull Sands. To add to the humiliation it seems that the majority of Prince Robinet Puissant's army just stood by and watched the Pirates get beaten by Knights alone.

Buoyed up by their mastery of the battlefield and the natural Bretonnian inclination to take on risky monstrous monsters the Troupeau à Ailes Royal headed into the darkness to battle the unknown in The Cave of the Damned. A swarm of giant Ratmen unsuccessfully attempted an ambush on the Bretonnians. The Skaven were routed from the Caves but the Knights did not hang around to consolidate the incursion.

It still ain't pretty but a glimmer of hope remains. One concerted effort could still turn the tide.



Davy Jones' Crew held The Fortress of the Pirate King, Roba, Sartosa City, the Howling Marsh, Ossomunte, Caragio, The Old Penitentiary, Beffardo, Vermunte, the Volcanic Lake and Dead Man's Point.
The Scurvy Dogs held Fort Senelite, The Bay of Wrecks and Skull Point and The Pirate's Current.
The Corsairs held Caprio.
The Naval Alliance held Ragil and the Osso Hills and captured Skull Sands.
The Cave of the Damned is contested by The Naval Alliance and Davy Jones' Crew.