We had a bit of a break from Warhammer Quest as we'd missed a Wednesday because Finnegan was initially taking a night class on Wednesday, so we moved to Sunday, and then Finnegan dropped his class on Wednesdays so we moved back to Wednesdays... I guess it was only a week and a half between each of the last three games... but if feels like longer!?
After the previous Disastrous Scavenge Journey, which ended with the Adamant having to put down for repairs forcing the next journey to be taken after nightfall, it was decided to take the heavy-hitting OG Team of Jelson Darrock, Emelda Braskov, Brutogg Corpse-Eater and Glaurio Ven Alten, and do a Hunt Journey. Amanda and Finnegan had discussed possible tactics and decided they should just proceed to the door where they were to call for the Adamant, ignoring all mysterious locations, and just try to set up a bottleneck and let the hostiles come to them and as soon as ten champions were taken out, immediately bug out!
The board for this Hunt Journey was a smallish one...
Before the heroes could even leave the Drop Zone, they were assaulted by Watch Captain Halgrim and two Ulfenwatch! After Nightfall, and with the Watch Captain on the board... those Ulefenwatch are DEADLY!!
Brutogg took TWO Grievous Wounds from the Elfenwatch and Emelda Braskov took a Wound and a Grievous Wound from Halgrim!
Then the Zombies and Bats all Swarmed in!
On their first round, the Heroes managed to deal with Halgrim and the Ulfenwatch.. but then were swamped by a horde of Zombies...
With the Zombies dealt with Jelson Darrock stepped out of the Dropzone only to be swarmed by bat swarms!
... and then a Vyrkos Blood-Born vampire swooped in and stabbed Darrock. They seem to have had enough of his taunts (Finnegan always taunts and lays down some serious smack-talk when he's playing Darrock and the vampires show up!0
Darrock was not doing well...
Brutogg Shoulder-Barged through the crowd and smashed some bats out of the air.
Braskov and Ven Alten came to Darrocks aid and slew the vampire.
Just when they thought they might get a moment to take a breath and recover and start making their way to the Extraction Point... Gorslav the Gravekeeper showed up with some Zombies...
Braskov, making here way through the halls, was beset by swarms of Corpse Rats!
Brutogg moved to a position to try and block Gorslav and zombies from getting through!
This was the first time I rolled BURY for Gorslav's actions when he was actually next to Brutogg... We've not had this happen before! Brutogg was Burried. The wording on Burried is not super clear. To not be buried it is clear two activation dice must be spent either by the buried character or an adjacent hero with a score of six... Which seemed next to impossible... as I was assuming it's meant to be sixes on each die. If this doesn't happen, each turn a character is burried, they suffer two damage (a grievous wound, basically) at the end of their turn and if they are taken out of action by damage dealt this way, they are DEAD - out of the game for good! Amanda pointed out that perhaps it's meant that the two activation dice being discarded needed a total of six between them... which is still hard to do, but seemed a bit more reasonable...
Unfortunately GW doesn't have any official FAQ to refer to... It seems like it's a thing that is often houseruled and so we houseruled is as two activation dice with a TOTAL score of six.
So Brutogg got out of there and beat down Gorslav! Meanwhile, the rest were swarmed with other zombies!
Then a Kosargi Nightguard showed up...
... and ANOTHER Vyrkos Blood-Born... This one also stabbed Darrock dealing him serious enough damage that he was taken out of action... Brasskov last saw him crawling towards an alley, bleeding seriously...
Brutogg moved up and beat the Kosargi Nightguard savagely.
Braskov fell back to block the Vampire and Zombies in the garden and shouted at Ven Alten to make for the Extraction Point and informed him that Darrock was down...
When the Nightguard activated, it did a Lumbering Charge, pushing past Brutogg to get in contact with Ven Alten and Braskov and attacking both - wounding Braskov Seriously (at this point she had FOUR Grievous Wounds and was only able to use Destiny Dice to activate!)
Luckily, I think it was the next turn that the event allowed the heroes to keep ALL Destiny Dice rolled (instead of discarding and doubles/triples/etc)
Ven alten shot at the Nightguard, twice, finishing it off! (and finally inspiring!)
Brasskov took down the Vyrkos Blood-Born Vampire, shouting: "THAT'S FOR DARROCK, YOU BEAST!"
Emelda continued her fighting retreat trying to block the zombie horde at bottlenecks allowing Brutogg and Ven Alten time to get to the Extraction Point...
She was last seen being swarmed by the Zombie horde...
Brutogg and Glaurio Ven Alten made it to the Extraction Point... as the Adamant took off, they searched for Darrock and Brasskov, looking for them in nearby dark alleys that they may have dragged themselves to...
Checking to see if the other two managed to drag themselves away and make it out to safety...
Amanda rolled a ONE for Emelda Braskov... so... she died... Gone... Out of the game forever (at least for THIS campaign!).
YIKES!
Emelda's loss was a hard blow! Braskov is one of the better armoured fighters with reasonable vitality (for recovering wounds during the Journey) and she hit HARD... Her loss was pretty HUGE!
If that wasn't bad enough... Finnegan then rolled for Jelson Darrock and ALSO ROLLED A ONE!?!
So TWO of the characters DIED in this Journey and have been permanently eliminated from the game!? WTF!?
Only six Heroes remain... if the pool of available Heroes ever drops below four, the campaign ends in failure!
I might need to finish painting up the Saviours of Cinderfall and get their cards printed up to add a few more to the pool!!
There was also some hero cards in some White Dwarfs from last year for an assortment of characters from the new Cities of Sigmar forces... and I have some fan-made Hero Cards for Galen and Doralla Ven Denst and all the Heroes from the previous Age of Sigmar Warhammer Quest games...?
Despite the losses... the Journey was a success and dropped the Influence of Radukar's Court by two, then, during the extraction the Adamant was able to unload a broadside against a guard tower/barracks, blasting scores of the undead to bits and setting fire to the tower - further reducing The Wolf's Influence.
Next, it was decided, they should probably do a Deliverance Journey, to bring the Fear Level down a bit, and then maybe a few Scavenge Journeys to tool up and replace the empowerments lost with Darrock!