After taking down Carmilla DuSang, it was time to take on the last of the three Vampire Lords that had stepped into the power vacuum left after Radukar's Fall... Kritza the Rat Prince.
To deal with the Rat Prince, the Heroes would go on a series of Pillage Journeys, rampaging through the streets of the Teeming Warrens, setting alight the Vampires filthy, rat-infested holdings... all the while chased by The Abhorrent Swarm - a pack of thousands of rats that devour all in their path...
The first hostiles encountered in the Teeming Warren on this first Pillage Journey were a pack of Deadwalker Zombies and a Patrol of the Ulfenwatch!
Qlathis danced past the zombies and started picking them off with her bow.
She took them all down and set the first building alight!
Brutogg and Octren followed attacking the patrol of the Ulfenwatch.
Glaurio caught up and finished them off and set the next building alight!
Next they encountered mix of Zombies Ulfenwatch and Vyrkos Blood-Born vampires.
Octren made a pair of the zombies tear each other to shreds...
Then Brutogg and Glaurio stepped in, taking down the vampire and attacking the Ulfenwatch.
Qlathis followed them in.
All of the hostiles were taken care of in short order...
and on they went encountering more patrols of Ulfenwatch.
...and destroying them...
The Abhorrent Swarm drew closer - ever present and ever moving, it kept the heroes motivated to not tarry!
More Zombies, another Vampire, another patrol of Ulfenwatch..
(I have to admit, I read one of Kritza the Rat Princes special rules wrong, and so for the first two Pillage Scenarios, there ended up being a lot of the same hostiles being recycled...)
Glaurio blasted the vampire and a few ulfenwatch from where he'd stood by the door, then swapped placed with Qulathis who took down a few more and danced past the rest.
Brutogg barged into the room, smashing more zombies and setting it alight!
Then he and Octren finished off the Ulfenwatch patrol.
ANOTHER vampire encountered!
Glaurio rushed to Octren's aid and blasted the vampire with two of his pistols!
The Brotogg waded into the swarm of zombies and Ulfenwatch.
Briefly they were held up by a bit of a bottleneck that Brutogg was wedged into...
But soon enough all before them were slaughtered and more of the Prince's holdings set ablaze!
Octren lit up something particularly flammable!
By Sigmar's Hairy Balls... MORE ulfenwatch, more zombies and ANOTHER vampire...
AGAIN the heroes slaughtered all before them and sent them back to their graves...
... and set fires to more of the Rat Prince's stuff...
Then cut down more Ulfenwatch... and then...?
You guessed it: MORE Ulfenwatch and ANOTHER vampire... and a few more zombies...
Brutogg went head-to-head with this vampire...
The others joined in and smashed apart the Ulfenwatch... through Octren found himself surrounded by a bunch of them that knocked him to the ground and then savaged him with their rusty blades.
and took him out of action!!
(This was a little anxiety-causing because at this point, if one more hero was lost the campaign is over and lost and... everyone was feeling like we were SO CLOSE to finally finishing it up and WINNING!)
The others pressed on, shattering bones of the ulfenwatch and smashing down zombies.
Soon the way was nearly cleared to the extraction zone.
The last few building set ablaze.
The heroes waited just outside the extraction zone to see if Octren would make his way back to them before they climbed aboard The Adamant and made their escape...
At the very last moment, before the Abhorrent Swarm caught up to them, Octren Glimscry staggered out of an alley way and said, "Here I am!" and they all climbed aboard The Adamant and sailed away into the sky!
(on the End of Turn Event Table there is one event that allows a hero that's been taken out of action to be returned to the table - they still have all their injuries and need to either remove them or can only use Destiny Dice to act... and until they remove some wounds, a single attack will take them out again... but they are back on the table... So Amanda and Finnegan decided to linger until the Abhorrent Swarm caught up with them to see if they could roll the right number on the event table so Octren could rejoin them before taking off and not have to roll for survival at the end of the Journey - and possibly be permanently killed...!! and it worked!)
This was out FORTIETH (40th!) game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. We played it over a month ago, back in December, and I just finally got around to finishing up this game report. We'd been playing a little over a year and were 11 games into the Night Wars campaign. The Ulfenkarn in Peril campaign (the one that came in the core box) took us 29 sessions to play through!
This seemed pretty easy... I feel like maybe Kritza was meant to be the first to be hunted down - easier and more treasure and realmstone to be collected - which allows you to "tool up" for the other two hunts...? Maybe...? Regardless, it was fun - and not without some TENSION!! Two more bad dice rolls and Octren Glimscry could have been gone for good and the campaign OVER and LOST!?
SPOILER: We've actually finished the Pillage Journeys, I still have two more game reports to catch up on. This evening we're planning on playing the Decapitation Journey for Kritza the Rat Prince and, if that is successful, then there's a Final Boss Battle of sorts where the heroes must face ALL THREE of the Vampire Lords, AGAIN!?
My hope is to get caught up with the rest of the Cursed City game reports this week - including this evenings game report!
(after that I still have FOUR OTHER game reports to finish up from last year; the Path to Glory campaign Finale, an Episode of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows, our first attempt at Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, AND a Bolt Action game I played back in OCTOBER!?)
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