A Tale of Two Forts: The Dragons Egg

The next game in the ongoing KoW / Vanguard campaign was a Vanguard scenario with the aim of capturing a Dragon Egg. The aim was to pick up the egg and then either be holding it at the end of the game or escape back to your deployment zone. The Basileans once more changed up their force composition but crucially kept the two scouts in from the last game. 

The scenario rules had been slightly changed so units with scout needed to start at least 4" away from the objective rather than touching it. But still this is a massive advantage against any force that has no units with scout.

By the end of the first turn it was clear that it would be pretty much impossible for my Melas Oneiros to win as the Argent Defenders had hold of the egg and had already moved away. With the Basilean special ability of Iron Resolve which makes them very durable as long as they have the power dice to spend and most of my troops being too slow to even have a chance of catching the egg-carrier it was game over after one turn.

The Argent Defenders having traveled a long way where determined to have a fight so rather than turtle up they got stuck in and a decent fight broke out in the market.

The Melas Oneiros once again proved very difficult to kill with a combination of poor attack roles by the Basileans (the gods did not favor them again) and some good rolling by the Night Stalkers.

The new power generating build did help the Basileans as they went toe to toe with the Stalkers and in the end they lost three men and the Stalkers took their first casualty of the campaign. The unfortunate Phantom went down under a barrage of blows from three Basileans but later floated back into camp sporting a bad leg which will slow him down in the next game.

So once again the Basileans lost more men but won the scenario, it would seem they are very strong in any scenario which involves holding onto an objective and the lack of Scout in the Night Stalker army really hampered my chances of competing in the game.