Friday Night Fantastic Fantasy Game

Lots (and lots!) of images in this report so I won't be putting too many words in. Basically, four of us played a team game using Andrews AS9 rules, with a warband each consisting of a grade 3 leader a grade 2 magic user and four "minions" I supplied half of the Warbands, Julian had his own and Andrew supplied the fourth plus random "nasties" that appeared with monotonous regularity throughout the game.

A couple of pre game shots of the playing area - tiles and terrain all by Andrew

A "few" close ups of the terrain, courtesy of John, all supplied and painted by Andrew

Initially this was my warband but I had to replace the lady in green because Andrew said I should use a figure with a large sword.

This was the substitute!

Two archers were all I was allowed for "missile" troops

And I had these two as well

More shots of the area of operations

This was Johns warband led by "Eldric" ?

The first "nasty" to appear was a not very nasty Harpie or Succubus

She was quickly dispatched by Johns 2 ic

My main body searching for loot - the two archers had sprinted ahead.

There they are!

Two of Julians "minions" opened fire on my archer in green, she killed one of them but was then struck down by the second arrow.

This was Chris's warband - except, he wasn't there, he was still at work doing some $%#^%#!! UAT for a new software system - so Andrew had to run this group - he was my teammate, while John and Julian worked together.

More nasties appeared adjacent to Johns warband - this did become a bit of a theme!

Andrews magic user cast a spell and took control of Julians figure, sending it off against its own comrades!

My 2 ic and a "grunt" searching another loot pile.

Johns' leader Eldric on the left, Andrews leader in the centre and my archer on the right. My figure basically spent the entire game next to a loot pile, failing to roll a 9 to reveal what was in it!

A two headed thing 

The nasties fell into fighting each other at one point

A huge apparition towering over Andrews 2 ic magic user.

A "historic" giant - I don't know what it is but apparently a 1980's classic

Eldric and his one remaining follower in combat with one of the "nasties" near the end of the game

Having survived the fray and accumulated the most victory points, my leader and the one remaining archer headed off the table to ensure Andrew and I won the game.

Now here are an assortment of close ups from John - I am too lazy today to incorporate them into the narrative

Basically, all four warbands barely survived - Julian's in fact did not - he lost every figure! Andrew might have had three remaining although I don't know for sure, John and I certainly only had two each. We all had three randomly selected spells that any of the figures could use in any turn, but only once per turn - so the bog-standard minions could cast one of the spells - but they needed to roll an unmodified 9 on 2 D6 to succeed, whereas the grade 3 leader only needed to roll 6 or better. I had a doozy that as soon as I was able to use it, automatically put two hits on the target - so I had a 50/50 chance of hitting every turn the leader tried to use it - not bad - that took care of most of Julian's band, thank you very much!

A fun game that didn't take took much effort or thinking to play - just what you need at the end of the working week! The terrain and figures all very aesthetically pleasing too, I hope you will agree. More AWI troops will be on display in my next post.