Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Ransack the Encampment

Goretim the Reddish decided it would be best for the Blood Siblinghood of the Slaughter-Gut-Pile Bloodbound Horde hole up for a bit and engage in some rest and relaxation. They all desperately needed a chance to recuperate and sharpen their axes... Unfortunately a pair of wandering Gargants caught the scent of their fresh snake-meats and attacked the Bloodbound in their own camp! 

A pair of MEGA GARGANTS (and their two pet Frost Sabres) approach the Bloodbound camp!? 

Were they siblings...?

Were they lovers...?

Were they an an anarcho-syndicalist commune that take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week (but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting!)...?

Perhaps all three...who can tell with the Sons (and DAUGHTERS!) of Behemet!? 

The Bloodbound hurriedly mustered and stood ready to defend their encampment!

The male-presenting Warstomper Mega-Gargant approached from the Bloodbound's right... 

The female-presenting-kraken-eating-mega-Gargant approached from the Bloodbound's left. 

The Bloodreavers charged forward to distract the Warstomper, only for the ENTIRE UNIT to be swept away with one swing of his mighty club!? 

While he was distracted, the Blood Warriors, Mighty Skullcrushers and Goretim the Reddish, himself, all charged in to try and fell this gargantuan beast! 

The Claws of Karanak, like the Bloodreavers, were little more than the briefest of distractions... 

The Warstomper hammered down hard on the Blood Warriors... but the remaining Blood Warriors and Mighty Skullcrushers kept on poking the beast in his feet and shin until the blood flowed freely - as Khorne expected... 

The Kraken-Eater moved on and pummelled Bob Bloodblob into the ground... 

The Warstomper hammered down hard on the Blood Warriors and knocked Goretim from his Juggernaut... but the remaining Blood Warriors and Mighty Skullcrushers so damaged his toes and shins that they made him run off, crying... Khorne cares not for the flowing of tears though... only blood... and he blood did flow... 

The Kraken-Eater beat down the Khorgorath next and knocked the last Mighty Skullcrusher from his Juggernaut... 

Then she seized some of the Bloodbound's supplies and started eating them... while smashing down Gob Bloodblob! 

The two pet Frost Sabres also seized a cache of the Bloodbound's supplies. snarling viciously at any who approached... even the Mega-Gargants! 

The two remaining Blood Warriors fled and seized a small pile of Emberstone shards! 

Welp my run of victory for the Bloodbound was brief and short-lived and we were immediately back to losing... badly... 

Bob Bloodblob healed Goretim the Reddish with his blood ceremony and Gob Bloodblob healed himself some. The Claws of Karanak joined the ranks of the Battlescarred, gaining Unyielding Blisters from being trampled into the scorching sands by a gargant.

I am starting to realize this campaign system is highly skewed to favour small elite armies - meaning armies with a small number of high-point-cost units. With the number of units I have, and only two heroes being allowed to heal units each game, I just CANNOT keep up with the managing of battlewounds - especially when being tabled nearly every game! 

SIX of my eight units have at least one battle scar, and the Bloodreavers now have TWO!? Even the Mighty Skullcrushers, who I had been trying very hard to keep the battlewounds down on, now have smouldering scars, which means every game there is a chance they gain EXTRA battlewounds!? I don't think ANY of the other players have units with battlescars at this point... 

Not sure what to do with the Five Emberstone Shards I've accumulated... 

I have collected twenty-five in total, so I can start playing Gnaw's Edge Battleplans - if an opponent agrees - and slowly claw my way toward the campaign's final scenario! One of the players has to have accumulated 20 or more Emberstone shards to play a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan. 

If at least one of the players in a game has WON a battle using a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan, the players may chose to play a Hateful Shores Battleplan... once there are two players in a game that have BOTH WON a Hateful Shores Battleplan, they may elect to play the Hel's Claw Battleplan - the FINAL BATTLE of the campaign. The first two win a Hel's Claw Battleplan is the winner of the campaign! 

I think Matt (Stormcast Eternals) also has collected twenty or more Emberstone Shards. 

We may get this wrapped up by the end of the year! Then maybe start Blighted Wilds in the new year! 

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Rise Through the Ashes

In their attempt to escape the blasphemous lightning-bloods, the Blood Siblinghood of the Slaughter-Gut-Pile struggled through clouds of steam and ash from the surrounding volcanic activity, that filled the valleys between the mountains of the Adamantine....

Suddenly out of a steam and ash loomed another force - Daughters of Khaine - the snake-ladies of Morathi, fellow worshippers of blood who revel in its flow. Goretim the Reddish decided it was imperative that they engage these similarly sanguinary aficionados in a vigorous debate about the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective blood deities and sacred rites. 

Bob Bloodblob summoned some Hexgorger Skulls right away - to help block the advance of the Melusai...

All advance along the rocky valley. 

The Korgorath was sent ahead to secure a site that likely contained more Emberstone...

While Gob Bloodblob tried to extract some Emberstone that was just laying in the open... 

Unfortunately the lot, exposed to air, combusted and burned Gob severely! 

the Blood Warriors awaited the charge of the snek-ladies. 

The initial charge fell upon the Korgorath, however... and the mighty beast was cut down... 

A second group of Melusai charged the Blood Warriors. 

Still more surged towards the Bloodreavers. 

The Hexgorger skulls poured boiling blood on the Melusai, but rather than being scorched and horrified by the experience as others were, they revelled in the experience...

The Mighty Skullcrushers moved in to ride down the few that survived the melee with the Blood Warriors.

Bless their rotten blood-pumping hearts, those Bloodreavers tried... But in actuality, the best they could do was spill their OWN blood... and distract the Blood Sisters while Goretim the Reddish charged in for the slaughter... 

Having ridden down one group of Melusai stragglers, the Mighty Skullcrushers awaited a vicious counter-attack by the Melusai Ironscale and MORE Blood Sisters... While Gob Bloodblod fled the Blood Sisters he was CERTAIN were going to chase HIM down.. 

The Bloodwrack Medusa leading the force, hearing the cries of her sisters, came to investigate and provide what support she could... 

She charged Goretim the Reddish! 

The Mighty Skullcrushers crushed the skull of the Melusai Ironscale... but were unseated from their juggernauts by the Blood Sisters... at least the few who survived... 

Goretim then rode in to finish off the Blood Sisters... only to be unseated from his own Juggernaut, by showers of arrows from the Blood Stalkers... 

Bob Bloodbloob Summoned MORE Hex-Gorger Skulls and sent then forth to distract the Blood Stalkers, giving him a chance to recover the wounded and staunch their wounds - only that they may cause the enemies blood to flow at some future battle! 

The Hex-Gorger Skulls were only the briefest of distractions... The Blood Stalkers held on and covered the retreat of their wounded Blood Sisters as they slinked away, having ceded the field of battle to the followers of Khorne! 

I'm getting WAY behind on posting game reports! I only have one other Age of Sigmar report to finish and I'm caught up with those... but I'm a MONTH behind on Cursed City, and have a half-written Bolt Action report from... OCTOBER!?

Last Wednesday Sean came by with his Daughters of Khaine force to try them out in the Ravaged Coast campaign... He'd initially started with a Nurgle force, but having been tabled on the first turn by Matt's terrifying Stormcast Eternals, he decided to switch things up... of course, after this game, he was thinking of switching things up AGAIN! 

My first "victory" in this campaign! 

The Victory was Pyrrhic at best... yes... I gained a four more Emberstone Shards... but SO MANY units accumulating SO MANY Battle Wounds which just cannot be healed fast enough means almost all of my units have at least one Battle Scar... Some now have two - and they just get worse and worse... 

I initially had another game with Matt scheduled for Thursday, but he was sick and had to cancel... I did play against Sean again on Friday... but he brought a different force!

I've also had games scheduled to play with Amanda in our own little campaign... but those just keep getting cancelled... We were supposed to play TONIGHT... but that one's now been cancelled... we've rescheduled for Sunday, hopefully; we will FINALLY get to play again at that time - and try out the Gossamid Archers!! 

I might have two more Ravaged Coast games this week! I initially wanted to just play ONE game... and had one scheduled with Sean again for Friday... but now Orion's going to be in town for the day, so I'm trying to reschedule game with Sean of Thursday so I can play Orion on Friday...? We shall see... 

Hopefully I'll get the other Age of Sigmar - Ravaged Coast game report done later today and at least be all caught up on those before playing any more!!

Gossamid Archers

I feel like it's been a while since I actually posted any new painted miniatures... 

(I checked, it has, in fact, been TWO WEEKS since I posted the Vengeful Skullroot and Gladewyrm and the Great Unclean One!? Yikes... that does not bode well for me being back in the black by year end... especially considering I'll be picking up another 44 miniatures when Warhammer Quest: Darkwater is released in ONE WEEK!)

I've been really dragging my feet on these flying tree-peoples. I couldn't sort out how to do the wings and ended up doing five different "test colours" on the five different models and ultimately decided just to keep them all rather than repaint four of them to match one that I liked... if ever I could decide on one that I liked... 

Gossamid Archers

These are really fun little miniatures. The wings are not integral to the tree-spirit...

They are the wings of a giant dragonfly-like bug that is grasping their back!? 

This small addition to the Age of Sigmar Sylvaneth forces nicely finishes up 980 points worth of stuff - a good starting Path to Glory force... mind you... Amanda and I have already STARTED playing a Path to Glory campaign, we've just been playing with less than the full 1000 points available to our forces. 

1000 point Path to Glory Force (including free faction terrain and some endless spells)

(Technically the force can only start with ONE Endless spell... but another can easily be added through a quest, so...)

I've been wanting to finish these up so we can try playing a game with a full 1000 point force. Part of the reason I've been dragging my feet on these was there was no immediate plan for such a game. While I've gotten in a number of games over the past few weeks with other people. But the little time Amanda and I had for each other has been used... doing other things (mostly working on a routine for a Burlesque variety show TONIGHT!!!). Hopefully with that out of the way, and the Gossamid Archers painted, we'll be able to find some time for a game!!

Of course since I bought this, I've bought FAR MORE Sylvaneth.... another 980 points worth, to be precise! It will be a little bit before I get all of those finished. But the plan is to get assembling those and the rest of the Shudderblight Cyst Battleforce over the next week so they are ready for painting whenever I find the time! 

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Storm the Pass

After collecting enough skulls from the Skeletal Legions of the Soublights and slaughtering their leader... twice... the Blood Siblinghood of the Slaughter-Gut-Pile marched on...  They travelled along a valley heading for another pass through the Ademaitine Chain of mountains, hoping to make it to the coastline. 

As they neared the pass, however, they noticed a force of their hated enemy, the Stormcast Eternals, were also marching on the same pass from an adjoining valley! 

Suddenly it was a race to seize the entrance to the pass! 

"Go! GO!! SEIZE THE PASS!! Let not the hated Lightning Bloods get there first!"

Goretim the Reddish called out for his Bloodreavers on the flank to veer off and try and slow the Stormcast's advance! 

Before they could get far, the Stormcast surged forward with alarming speed and were well on their way to making it to the pass... 

Then MORE of them arrived, riding the lightning from Azyr! (While arrows from the Stormcast archers thinned the ranks of the Bloodreavers. 

Then the Stomcast came crashing into the Bloodbound lines.. 

The Bloodreavers and Khorgorath were overrun, but Goretim the Reddish stood firm and smashed down many of the foe, sending the BACK to Azyr to be reforged... 

The Blood Warriors and the strange cos-playing Cultists of Karanak, neared the entrance to the pass, having flanked around a large rock outcropping. 

But soon the tide of Stormcast turned their attention to them. 

Bob Bloodblob shouted to the remaining bloodbound "Let the blood Flow! Even if it is your blood! I will carry off this treasure to make better weapons with which to destroy our future enemies and attempted to flee with the Emberstone Shards he had gathered in the valley. 

But the GREED of Sigmar's puppets is insatiable... and they chased him down, beat him to a pulp, and stole all his ember shards... and his lunch money... and gave him a wedgie...

And THEY call themselves the "good" guys... 

The Blood Warriors sold themselves dearly, taking down three of the hulking Annihilators, before the soulless Reclusians stormed in to remorselessly beat them down into the dirt of Aqshy, like the unthinking automatons that they are... 

The survivors dragged themselves, and others that could not drag themselves, back down the valley from whence they came... The Slaughterpriests enacted blood rituals to seal the wounds of some... but others were so damaged from the ordeal that they would never recover, bearing the scars for the rest of their days... (Bob Bloodblob ended up with Unyielding Blisters battle scars and The Red Marauders also ended up bearing Smouldering Scars!)

They felt little shame in their defeat, however... Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows... and the blood did flow on this day! 

Despite the grievous loss, the horde gathered three more Emberstone Shards along the path of their retreat - and Goretim the Reddish further enhanced his anti-wizard abilities (advanced on the Path of the Slaughterer to the MIGHTY rank and took the Breaker of the Arcane ability - he can now unbind spells as though he was a Wizard (Level 1!) AND each time he successfully does unbind a spell, the wizard attempting to cast it is reduced one level in their wizarding ability (to a minimum of ZERO!) for THE REST OF THE GAME!!! 

Another fun game with Matt! 

The scenario background suggests the two forces are trying to seize a land bridge, but I though the entrance to a pass would work just as well! I thought it was one of the two scenarios I hadn't played from the Scorched Outskirts battleplans - the ones that you start with until you have accumulated 20 Emberstone - but then realized after the game it was one of the scenarios from the Gnaw's Edge, the scenarios can move onto once you have accumulated 20 shards... ah well... 

Wow... just getting pummelled in these games. I mean, in terms of fluff.. the blood is flowing, so Khorne is pleased... sooooo... yay...? AND I am still collecting SOME Emberstone Shards and the army is sort of getting better... but being tabled EVERY GAME means the units are starting to gain battle scars... 

Mind you, so far, it has not hindered them TOO much. The Blood Warriors that have Scorched Limbs (-1 to Run and Charge rolls!) rolled a SIX for EVERY run roll they made this game (three of them!) so the scorched limbs don't seem to be slowing them down... 

November Games

Wow... November is done... where did this year go!? 

Here are the games I got around to playing in November

Sunday, 2 November 2025 

On the second we kicked things off with Episode Five of our What We Do in the Realm of Shadows Campaign! In this episode the Characters ran into Neferata herself and were given a new mission, bumped into some old rivals, recruited a Duardin Necromancer, and fought a pair of Pusgoyle Blightlords! 

You can read a bit more about it here:

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Five

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

After a bit of a break, we were back to playing Warhammer Quest this week... and... it did NOT go well. This was the first scenario facing Carmilla DuSang and the scenarios are TOUGH!! Things went poorly pretty much from the start and all four heroes were out of action by the third or fourth round!!

You can read about that debacle here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 05 - Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

After Amanda's singing lesson, we tried playing a quick game of Age of Sigmar - using mostly rules for a Path to Glory/Narrative type game - i.e. NOT SPEARHEAD! I played my Maggotkin of Nurgle force and Amanda was playing Sylvaneth. The scenario involved the Sylvaneth defending a Soulpod grove from the Maggotkin! 

You can read about all the action here: 

Age of Sigmar - Defending the Soulpod Grove

I also made a map and a page with more information about the campaign:

Path to Glory - Methervale Campaign

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

We got in another game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars on Remembrance Day. This one went considerably better than the previous week's game. It was still TOUGH... but not only did they survive... they SUCCEEDED!!

WHEW!!

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 06 - Another Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Wednesday I somehow talked Amanda into another game of Age of Sigmar!? We played the second game in our Path to Glory narrative campaign. It was another brutal defeat for the forces of Nurgle... you can read all about it here: 

Age of Sigmar - Ambush at The Blood-Pines

Monday, 17 November 2025

Monday I rode over to Dragon's Den Games to meet with a fellow named Matt to play some Age of Sigmar - kicking off a Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast campaign!? You can read all about that here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Light the Fires

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

I played a second game against Matt and his Stormcast Eternals later in the week, but this time at my place. You can read about THAT battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Standing on Skulls

Thursday, 20 November 2025

If TWO games weren't enough Age of Sigmar for one week... Orion was back in town and wanting to get in on the Path to Glory action! So we set up a game on Thursday afternoon, then ended up playing TWO!! 

You can read about those games here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Blood in the Valley

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast -  Rift in the Peaks

Sunday, 23 November 2025

We also got in another episode of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows while Orion was in town. Note the Great Unclean One hiding behind my GM screen! The "heroes" were attempting to disrupt a number of Nurgle followers from performing a summoning ritual that would bring said Great Unclean One into Shyish... check out the game report to see how successful they were... or... not.. 

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Six

Tuesday, 25 November 2025 

 After another week off due to Finnegan needing to focus on schoolwork, we were back at it this week... (actually, when Finnegan left for campus, he thought he might be late again and we should probably postpone, but later in the afternoon texted to say things had gone well and he'd probably be home early enough to play! So we did!). This was a rather sad week, as the party lost another member. They are now down to four of the original eight. If they lose one more, that's the end of the campaign! you can read all about here here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 07 - Sabotage Journey to the Deadnooks

Thursday, 27 November 2025

In the evening while everyone was out, I sat down to do a little solo play-through of Age of Sigmar: Champions the Trading Card Game for funsies... you can read more about that here:

Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG

Saturday, 29 November 2025

TANKSGIVING

This was the BIG EVENT I had painted up that Great Unclean One for!! It was... not a terribly LONG even, for which I am grateful... it could have been a LONG SLOG if there had been too many people there with a lot of standing around... Overall, I'd say a positive experience. Would do again... but probably NOT bring a Great Unclean One again! You can read a bit more and see the pictures here:

Tanksgiving 2025

Sunday, 30 November 2025

There was Originally a plan to play Age of Sigmar with Amanda... But then I just didn't have the energy or time to set that up... but she was willing to try out Age of Sigmar: Champions - the CARD GAME!

We ended up playing three games. The first one took over an hour... the next two were twenty minutes or less! I played with the Chaos pre-constructed deck and Amanda played with the Order pre-constructed deck. Chaos won all three. It deals a LOT of damage... I'm not sure how the order deck is supposed to deal with that...? It doesn't seem as well constructed as an easy-to-play, ready-made starter deck. Amanda suggested next time we play three more and switch decks... so... at least she's willing to PLAY AGAIN!!

Whew! that's quite a few games I played this past month!! I hope I get to play even MORE through December as we all get a bit of a break over the Holidaze! At the least I expect Amanda, Finnegan and I might get in a few extra games of Warhammer Quest and perhaps Amanda and I will continue with our little Age of Sigmar campaign...? And hopefully we'll get to try out the Rise and Fall of 

What games did YOU get to play in November!?

Let me know in the comments!!