September Games

Here are the games we got up to in September of 2025...

Wednesday, 4 September 2025

After a bit of a hiatus, we finally returned to our Warhammer Quest: Cursed City campaign - beginning Night Wars! The campaign involves destabilizing and destroying the power base of three Vampire Lords that took over when Radukar the Wolf was defeated! The group decided to go after Lady Annika the Thirsting Blade first and played through a Purge Journey... you can read all about it (and see all the other pictures) here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - The Night Wars Begin! 

The game went rather late as Amanda is taking a singing lesson on Wednesday and does not get home until 7:30... so we decided the following week we should move it to Tuesdays, as there was no longer a role-playing game on those evenings... 

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

After missing a week (because Amanda was doing... something...?) we finally got back to playing on the 16th. We played through a second Purge Journey - with the proper rules this time, and Radukar the Beast and the Fell Bats were now painted and available... though only the Fell Bats showed up! 

You can read all about the adventure here: 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 02

Despite changing to Tuesday, so we could start earlier than Wednesdays when Amanda has a singing lesson, we started late again because Amanda STILL didn't make it home until 7:30 because she stayed late a work!? 

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

The following evening I convinced Amanda to play another game of Spearhead. I realized two weeks had passed since our last game and thought maybe we should get one in before she completely forgot ALL the rules... She HAD forgotten a lot... but also remembered a lot. Enough to solidly crush me 25-16!?

You can read all about it here:

Spearhead - Vengeance of the Sylvaneth

Friday, 19 September 2025

Friday Orion came by for the afternoon and played a couple of games of Age of Sigmar Spearhead... 

The first game I played my Fangs of the Blood God force against her new Deathrattle Tomb Host force. You can read about that game here:

Spearhead - Karanak on the Hunt Again!

The second game I played the Anvils of the Heldenhammer Vigilant Siblinghood aganst the same force of skeletons. You can read about that game here:

Spearhead - Vigilant Siblinghood versus Deathrattle Tomb Host in Dolorum

Sunday, 21 September 2025

While Orion was still in town, we played the next Episode of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows

you can read all about the ensuing shenanigans here:

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Three

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Finally, on Tuesday, we got in one more game of Warhammer Quest:Cursed City ) Night Wars - this was another Purge Journey! Being the third successful Purge Journey, the group is ready for it's first Decapitation Journey of the Night Wars campaign. Their next game will be their first attempt to take down one of the new Vampire Lords that rose up to seize power after Radukar the Wolf was deposed! 

You can read about that adventure here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 03

And then we were off on a vacation to Vancouver (Amanda, Morgan and Myself) and won't be back until shortly after this post goes live (like, later in the morning on the first).  If we happened to play any games in Vancouver, They'll have to be in a separate post after I get back later today... 

What games did YOU get up to this past month!? 

Let me know in the comments!!

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 03

 Tuesday was Warhammer Quest night again this week, so I set up another Purge Journey! If this one were successful, they'd be ready to try and take down Lady Annika! 

If they were successful... 

Finnegan played Brutogg Corpse-Eater and Dagnai Holdenstock and Amanda played Qulathis the Exile and Glaurio ven Alten III.

Qlathis was the first out of the Drop Zone.... 

Right off, she decided to use the Emblem of Sigmar - which immediately inspired her. Qulathis is often difficult to inspire because her bonus inspiration is so hard to pull off and her damage output when uninspired, she doesn't often get inspiration from killing things... When she does become inspired, she becomes absolutely MURDEROUS!!!

She opened the first door, spotted a cluster of Fell Bats in a garden and killed two of them! The third flew off (and that was the first hostile group finished... they need to destroy or drive off ten to succeed in a Purge Journey) 

Brutogg Corpse-Eater was the next to go. The first door he opened revealed a Mysterious Object, so he left that for his little friend Dagnai to investigate...

And then moved to wait by a door that Glaurio was moving to open. Beyond the Door were a pair of undead Ogors of the Kosargi Nightguard! Glaurio blasted a hole in one... but it wasn't enough to take it down! 

The two nightguard lumbered forward and dealt serious blows to both Glaurio and Brutogg - SIX damage each. 

Brutogg reduced one... but was looking bad for ROUND ONE!!

Glaurio wasn't able to reduce any... 

Two characters down to ONE activation die... on the FIRST Round...Yikes!!

At the top of the next round, Qulathis went and turned to shoot at the Nightguard in the doorway. She finished off the injured one and then killed the second!! 

But then the Fell Bat returned with two friends and carried Qulathis off!!

And they carried her quite far from the others! 

Brutogg came running as fast as he could... not bothering to try and recover from his injuries at the hands of the Kosargi Nightguard... 

Glaruio wasn't moving anywhere with his injuries. Luckily he had a Potion of Coagulated Vitality that he was able to chug and that brought him back up to full health! 

Dagnai showed up out of nowhere (having dealt with a CRISIS! generated in the Event Phase). The two together managed to cut down two of the Fell Bats and drive the third off again. 

So Brutogg explored another room and found a mix of skeletal warriors of the Ulfenwatch, a handful of shambling Deadwalker Zombies AND a Vyrkos Blood-Born vampire leading them! 

The Lady Annika and another Kosargi Nightguard showed up and attacked Glaurio... AGAIN he was dealt serious wounds and could only back up and take a shot at the Ogor on his turn (which he, again, blew a large hole in with one of his pistols... but it was not enough to take it down!) 

Qulathis stepped into the room and handed off her Potion of Coagulated Vitality to Glaurio... 

Then finished off the Kosargi Nightguard and seriously injured Lady Annika! 

DAgnai joined in the brawl and finsihed off Lady Annika... and used his harpoon to recover some realmstone treasure from the Mysterious Object.

The smell of Glaurio's blood drew the attention of the Vyrkos Blood-Born... who, luckily, failed to further injure Glaurio! 

The Zombies and Ulfenwatch attacked Brutogg and dealt damage faster than he was recovering from it... 

Glaurio fled he Vyrkos Blood-Born and chugged the second Potion of Coagulated Vitality... but he must be developing a bit of a resistance to the stuff because it only cleard ONE of his grievous wounds! 

The smell of the grievously wounded Ogor drew the Vyrkos Blood-Born away from Glaurio... 

... and Brutogg went down amid the crowd of undead that were swarming him... 

Qulathis and Dagani were shocked and horrified to see the terrifying brute be dragged down! 

Then things went from bad to worse, when ANOTHER patrol of the Ulfenwatch arrived and swarmed Glaurio, critically injuring him and taking him out of action!!

The rest of the Ulfenwatch pressed on to attack Qulathis... 

And then, just as they'd gotten rid of the first Vyrkos Blood-Born and its minions, TWO MORE showed up!? 

Things were looking PRETTY BAD at this point... Qulathis started talking about cutting their losses and trying to make their way back to the Extraction Point and signalling for the Adamant to retrieve them. 

Qulathis darted through the Ulfenwatch... 

Killing a few of the stragglers... 

And made it to the door beyond which was the Extraction Zone! 

Dagnai, however was trapped... Hemmed in by a horde of undead; Vyrkos Blood-Born Vampires... a patrol of the Ulfenwatch... and then a swarm of Corpse Rats showed up!? 

He started by chopping down the two vampires... 

Then proceeded to finish off the patrol from the Ulfenwatch.... and started cutting his way through the swarm of Corpse Rats... 

Qulathis was absolutely STUNNED to see Dagnai saunter out of the building entirely unscathed and not being chased by a horde of the undead...!? 

While he was making his way back to the Extraction Zone, he came upon Brutogg, half alive, crawling back towards their exit. He helped the poor brute to his feet... 

and then said, "hang on a moment, there just one more thing I need to do..." and then he stole off into a side alley and chopped apart a few Zombies while Brutogg made his way to the extraction zone... 

(killing those actually finished off the last hostile group they needed to take out to succeed in this Journey!!) 

The three of them were safely picked up byDagnai's ship - the Adamant - and made their way back to Haven! 

Whew! That was a CLOSE one... 

SUCCESS!

That means they have three victories and the next mission could be a Decapitation Journey to take out Lady Annika, the Thirsting Blade...

(Oh, and Glaurio Ven Alten III did manage to crawl away and eventually made his way back to Haven to rejoin the others, much to their relief!!) 

With the end of this mission Dagnai, Qulathis and Glaruio gained a third experience point and thus gained the first level traits in their "Elite Class". Each Character in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City has a class (Loremaster, Stalwart, Blade, and Executioner) and as they gain experience they gain new traits according to their class. They all gained five levels in the first campaign. In Nightwars, Elite classes were introduced. Each of the Classes has two new Elite Classes to chose from when they gain their first new level... and once chosen they have to stick with it. Glaurio Ven Alten III (a Blade) chose Warlord. Qulathis the Exile (and Executioner) chose Shadowstalker, and Dagnai Holdenstock (a Stalwart) chose Maximal! 

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Three

With Orion off work this week, we were all finally able to get together for another game of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows. 

Our adventure begins where the previous episode left off - in Ghyran, the Realm of Life. Having just murdered three Dryads the woods around them came alive with activity! 

Lloyd, the abducted guard from the village they were forcing to guide them to the realm gate, screamed and ran off into the woods... only to get chopped in half by a Kurnothi Hunter with a great sword. 

Harold, the Spirit Torment, attacked the Kurnoth Hunter that chopped poor Lloyd in two... 

At the back of the caravan, Sir Remould was horrified to see a bunch of vine like roots rise up from the ground, twist around a half-dozen of the Deadwalkers Zombies they were using as porters, and then drag them down into the earth. A number of similar vines rose up and trapped Sir Renmould, luckily he was made of sterner stuff than the shambling zombies! 

A Branchwych tried to conjure up a storm of brambles that would have just shredded almost all of the remaining Deathrattle Skeletons and Deadwalker Zombies... but Lady Esmerelda was able to unbind the Branchwych's spell before it did any real damage! 

Another trio of Dryads attacked Sir Raven, seeking vengeance for their sisters he'd just killed... instead Sir Raven chopped them to bits with his insanely sharp and sturdy sword... 

Sir Raven then chaged off into the woods after the Spirit Torment to engage the Kurnoth Hunter - upon skewering on on the end of his lance (and getting it well and truly stuck on there!), he realized there were MORE Kurnoth Hunters here, who started taking shots on Sir Raven and Harold with their mighty great bows! 

A group of absolutely savage Spite-Revenants appeared out of the undergrowth and completely shredded the rest of the skeletons and zombies. They also killed poor Nuillermo... 

and set Muillermo to flight! 

He did not make it far before an absurdly huge arrow from a Kurnoth Hunter's great bow struck him in the neck, taking his head clean off. Blood geysered out of his neck due to the extremely high blood-pressure Muillermo was experiencing at the moment of his demise... 

Having dealt with the minions... the Spite-Revenants spread out to attack the surviving members of the party. Luckily, Sir Renmould had just freed himself from the entangling roots of the Tree Lord. 

The Tree Lord moved to attack Sir Raven, who seemed the biggest threat - just as Sir Raven was cutting down the last of the Kurnoth Hunters... 

The Tree Lord destroyed Sir Raven's mount in the same manner as all the zombies! Roots rose up from the jungle floor and entwined themselves up around the mounts legs and into it's rib cage... and then tried to yank it all down into the ground. 

One minute Sir Raven was on his mount... then next he was standing on the ground amongst a pile of broken horse parts, feeling not a little bewildered and disoriented! 

Sir Raven also cut down a Spite-Revenant that moved into his way... 

Two of the Spite-Revenants attacked Lady Esmerelda, giving the Branchwych a chance to get away! They ended up in a protracted fight which ended with Lady Esmerelda finally managed to set one alight with a series of Arcane Bolts! 

Sir Renmould was also engaged in a desperate duel with two of the Spite-Revenants and eventually cut one of them down, then the other fled off into the dense underbrush! 

Sir Raven and the Harold the Spirit Torment went a few rounds with the Tree Lord. The Spire Revenant was injured somewhat in the encounter. Sir Raven was gravely injured... 

Then, as suddenly as they'd attacked, the forest spirits disappeared into the woods and left the party along amongst the shattered remains of their servants... 

Unburdened by the painfully slow skeletons and zombies (and the few mortals that kept needing "rest") they made much better time! Though they were harried by the Sylvaneth all the way to the edge of the woods... 

After a day or two they DID make it to the edge of the woods... and beyond that was the most rank and foetid marshland they'd ever encountered. Harold and Sir Renmould seemed unaffected by it, but the two Vampires were deeply disgusted by miasma of decay and decomposition that hung over the place - not to mention the endless clouds of disgusting flies that swarmed them getting into every exposed orifice; eyes, nose, ears, mouth, puncture wounds from the Tree Lords massive impaling talons...  

Into the marsh they strode, however, because it was in the middle of these that they would find the Realmgate back to Shyish, the Realm of Death... 

Stay tuned for Episode Four... in three weeks...!