Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

Over the last few gaming nights Mick and myself have been playing out a series of learning games for Blood & Plunder. We started off with a basic game with no buildings, worked through occupying and attacking buildings and this week added in artillery fire.

To do this we setup an English Buccaneer force attacking a Spanish town with the support of off-shore artillery in the shape of two light cannons on a Bark. The rest of the English started ashore with the Spanish setup behind defenses.

The idea was that the artillery would help clear out the buildings and we could learn how the rules worked, in the end despite needing only 5's to hit (on a D10) they only managed 1 hit throughout the whole game. This did include a turn during which they spent their activation re-loading but it was a little disappointing. That one hit did kill one man so it was not a total wash-out for the cannons.

The rest of the game saw some good English musketry whittle down the Spaniards and the Spanish Lanceros die to the man (again!) trying to spear some English. Next time we have agreed to try a naval battle so I need to work out some lists for ships.

I have also been busy on the Undead front with the new Kings of War v3 being released this week, though my copy still has not arrived. I got my base extender from Warbases to convert my 50mm Monster into a 75mm Titan. I started to extend the wall across the new frontage and he should be battle ready again very soon.

Also completed this week are some of the resin models from the Fireforge Games Kickstarter, these ones don't look to be going on sale at the moment. Due to a packing error they had to ship me an extra one so I ended up with two.

These chaps needed to go on 25mm bases so I plan to use them as Barrow Wights in Vanguard. The Ancient Fury  special allows them to move quickly and if given a horse upgrade would mean they have an 18" move/charge, rather nifty.

The other Vanguard model completed is Zombie Blaine who is this years Mantic show exclusive. Blaine appears in all the Manitc games as an inter-dimensional time traveling arse-kicker. This version will be deployed as a Zombie Orc, these are more heavily armoured than normal Zombies and are Warriors so die less easily.

The Mob Assault and Vicious rules make him dangerous if paired up with other Mob Assault models.

The last model completed is Lady Ilona, she is a unique Vampire model for Kings of War who became very popular with her formation in KoW v2. The formation made her and 2 Regiments of Soul Reaver Infantry extra quick so they could fight on equal terms with cavalry hammers.
In v3 she has lost the extra speed (though she is still Spd 7) but retained Def 6+. She still looks to be a beast at killing opposing individual heroes (having 16 attacks @3+ against these) and also carries the spell Enthrall(5) which is a reverse Windblast. She is 280 points which is normally Dragon territory so she would be an expensive buy.

Next week is the Mantic open day and the launch of the League of Infamy on Kick Starter so I fear for my bank balance!