Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 13 - The FINAL Pillage Journey

 After the success of the first two Pillage Journeys, a third was mounted... 

This time, however, at the entrance to the Teeming Warrens, they met its master, Kritza the Rat Prince... just waiting there for them with a Kosargi Bodyguard. 

Qulathis stepped in and put a couple of arrows into him. Then Brutogg charged in, bashed into the bodyguard, stunning it, and then took a swing at Kritza - his blow connected solidly, but the form of the Rat Prince collapsed into a hundred small rats that went skittering off in all directions! 

Brutogg then moved to block the Ulfenwatch from swarming into the square, so they would not be held up there as The Abhorrent Swarm could be heard not too far behind! 

Octren moved in and finished off the Kosargi Nightguard. 

Glaurio moved in, took a few shots at the Ulfenwatch beyond Brutogg... 

Then lit the room on fire! 

Pushing past the Ulfenwatch and burning more rooms... they then encounter zombies and Vyrkos Blood-Born, and MORE Ulfenwatch! 

Brutogg barrelled through the crowd to make way for the others behind. 

Glaurio stepped in and blasted vampires with his pistols! 

The vamprires and Ulfenwatch were destroyed and the Prince's holding set ablaze and they moved on - always just a few steps ahead of The Abhorrent Swarm! 

With the swarm just at their heels... they encountered RADUKAR THE BEAST! (and two of his Vyrkos attendants!). Qulathis started by putting a few arrows into the brute. 

Glaurio stepped up and unloaded his entire brace of pistols into the hulking behemoth! 

Octern then stepped in and finished off the teetering monster... 

Brutogg pushed past them all to have a snack... 

Filled up on Corpse Rats, Brutogg pushed on while the others burned the Rat Princes buildings.

More rats and bats and Ulfenwatch... 

STILL more rats and bats... 

Brutogg was getting a bit of a tummy ache from all the rats and bats he was scarfing along the way! 

Getting nearer to the end, they encountered MORE patrols of Ulfenwatch, and a flight of Fell Bats.! 

One large Fell Bat swooped in...

.. and carried Octren away to where it and the other Fell Bats could gang up on the frail little wizard... 

They soon learned he wasn't so frail... 

Brutogg pushed through to help his little friend.

Bats Cleared away.

As were all the Ulfenwatch! 

It was time to burn the last few buildings before the Abhorrent Swarm caught up to them! 

Everyone made it to the Extraction Zone!

And that was another successful Pillage Journey. Surely they were getting the Rat Prince angry enough that he'd make a mistake and strike out, exposing the whereabouts of his secret lair... 

Finally reread and figured out where we had gone wrong with the Special Rules for Kritza... so there was a bit more variety in encounters! Facing Kritza right at the start (AND the Ogor, AND a large patrol of Ulfenwatch) kind of slowed the group. Then encountering Radukar slowed them a bit more. This kept the Abhorrent Swarm a LOT closer behind them that the other two Pillage Journeys, which definitely added to the tension!

Now it is time to face Kritza the Rat Prince! The next Journey will be the Decapitation Journey!

Assuming that's successful, there is ONE MORE final boss battle, where the heroes will face ALL THREE of the Vampire Lords one last time!! and then... that's it! End of the Campaign and we move on to Warhammer Quest: Darkwater. 

There is a small part of me that is a little sad I was never able to track down a copy of Nemesis - the third campaign for Cursed City. But mostly I'm ready to MOVE ON!! 

It's Been Kind of Quiet Around Here...

I haven't been painting a lot of miniatures so far this year... 

Partly this is because I've been a bit busy, having returned to school... 

But also earlier this month I injured my shoulder and neck and that's made it pretty painful to sit and paint or assemble miniatures... 

This is really kind of bumming me out as I was REALLY hoping to be playing Warhammer Quest: Darkwater in February, but I still have so many miniatures to paint still!!  

On the plus side... 

(this meme was probably funnier when a friend posted it on their discord just a week into the year!) 

It's a bit more of an actual brag that I made it through January without buying any miniatures! 

Especially considering Dragon's Den Games had three copies of Fury of the Deep and one copy of Warcry Heart of Ghur on their discount shelf at 40% off! The contents of Fury of the Deep I think I calculated to be around $500CAD now... and 40% off the original retail price put it at around $120...? At one point I would not have thought twice about buying that... do I NEED a force of Idoneth Deepkin or Fyreslayers?! Fuck no! But they would be FUN to have a paint up! 

Realistically, I haven't painted more than a unit or two... or maybe a Unit and a character...? from the last three of those old battle boxes I've picked up...

(no... that's not true, I DID paint ALL of the Nighthaunt half of Arena of Shades! That's kind of how I ended up with a Nighthaunt Spearhead Army - after I bought a few more units...) 

I DID pick up the new Nurgle Battletome... but that's about it... 

NONE of the new Nurgle units or the new Nurgle Spearhead army, though! I'll probably pick up that new spearhead - just to get the units it contains (SO MANY NURGLINGS!!) for considerably less than the regular retail price of the individual units! 

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But only AFTER I have ALL the other Maggotkin of Nurgle stuff I already have done (including the Warhammer Quest Darkwater stuff!)... 

(which is four Pusgoyle Blightlords, five of the older Putrid Blightkings, a Harbinger of Decay, ten Rotmire Creed, a Sloppily Bilepiper, and the Feculent Gnarlmaw... and from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater; a pair of Cankerborn, eight Pestigors, fourteen Poxwretches, and maybe all the Sylvaneth stuff I have... If I add in the Sylvaneth, I have fifteen Spite-Revenants, two Treelords, and Drycha Hamadreth to finish up - though the latter is nearly done!) 

I was pretty excited about the Tzeentch stuff presented at the New Years Preview. There wasn't much in terms of new miniatures - just faction terrain and a mortal infantry hero... 

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The new faction terrain looks really interesting. 

What also caught my eye was the Battleforce Box being released along with the new Battletome and the new Spearhead - all look fun. There is nothing new in either of those boxes. Just a lot of older miniatures all at deeply discounted prices! 

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The Battleforce: Warpflame Cavalcade contains a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, three Screamers of Tzeentch, three flamers of Tzeentch, an Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch, a Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot, and ten each of Pink, Blue and Brimstone Horrors! A great big PILE of Daemons! 

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The Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead is all Tzaangors - a Tzaangor Shaman leading three Tzaangor Enlightened, Three Tzaangor Skyfires, and 10 Tzaangor. 

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So I'll probably pick up the Battleforce box and Battletome when they're released (as the Battleforce Box  will only be available for a limited time) and then I'll pick up the terrain and the Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead when I finish the daemons in the Battleforce box (and... maybe the Tzeentch Spearhead I already HAVE?!) 

Because, apparently, I need ANOTHER chaos army... 

Hopefully none of it is released until later in March... 

Maybe this will be the YEAR OF CHAOS!! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 12 - Another Pillage Journey

After the success of their first pillage journey... the Heroes were keen to go on another and further destabilize the power base of Kritza the Rat Prince! 

Entering the Teeming Warrens, they first encountered a horde of Deadwalker Zombies and a flight of Fell Bats! 

The zombies were barely an obstacle. The Bats were a bit tougher... 

But were dealt with quick enough... 

Pushing on, they encountered their first patrol of the Ulfenwatch, summoned by the commotion they caused... 

the Ulfenwatch and next batch of zombies were dealt with and the prince's holdings were set ablaze! 

Another Patrol of Ulfenwatch, and swarms of bats and Corpse Rats were encountered on the next block. 

They two were dealt with, and building put to the torch! 

The Patrols of Ulfenwatch just kept coming at this point... it was patrol after patrol of Ulfenwatch. 

They had apparently become very efficient at responding the the Heroes... 

But were always smashed to bits barely able to scratch the heroes with their rusty swords and spears. 

(actually, as mentioned in the previous journey's game report, we'd read the special rules for Kritza the Rat Prince and that's why the Ulfenwatch Patrols got recycled so quickly and all they faced was patrol after patrol after patrol of them...) 

So many patrols... so much fire... 

You get the idea... 

The only time they encountered anything NEW was when they were going SO FAST that they opened explored NEW areas, requiring additional encounter cards to be put out, before the ulfenwatch were recycled... 

Oooh some rats! 

Everything dead again... time to set fire to things... 

more fires, more patrols... 

Sorry, I'm just having a hard time coming up with more narrative to explain endless patrols of Ulfenwatch and more fires... 

Almost at the end... the Abhorrent Swarm miles behind... 

And there everyone is at the Extraction Zone... 

At that was it... another Journey in the can. These were starting to feel a little TOO EASY... 

As with the Previous Journey I recently posted a game report for, this was played almost a month ago in December... I still have one more Pillage Journey game report to post (sorry, SPOILER! They survived and succeeded in all three - though the third was MUCH more challenging, once we figured out where we'd gone wrong with reading the Kritza Special Rules!) and then will have another game report to post after this evening when the Heroes attempt to take down Kritza the Rat Prince!