The Rotmoons and the Starwood Compass - part 4, The Raid

Kapitan daLeeva and the Rotmoons 'acquired' the Starwood Compass, a magical navigational device that their shaman-navigator assured would lead them to fabulous treasures.

They arrived in the Prime Dominion and found, unexpectedly, that it was in a state of total war. A vast Waaagh! had invaded from Aqshy and a strange alliance of defenders had come together to stand against it. Never one to miss an opportunity, daLeeva realised it would be very easy to move around the Dominion unquestioned during such a chaotic situation.

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The Rotmoons went ashore on a tiny un-named metalith island north-west of Zaleria and raided a camp there that turned out to belong to The Hollow Knight; a Soulblight Vampire.

The Rotmoons advanced into the encampment in an oblique line.

A Vyrkos Blood-born immediately raced at them, leaping and bounding along and over obstacles as if they ran across flat, open ground. They impaled Dragante, who cried out and fell.

Geedo and Deestro swore to avenge their shipmate.

Kapitan daLeeva spotted a Necromancer, lurking on his own and barked orders for the crew to deal with him quickly.

What the Kapitan could not see was the pair of skeletons bearing down on Tambor, Bortagno and El Doktoro, blocking their way.

Percy Percy filled his bag with loot and put fire to the first of the vampire's stores.

After the Vyrkos wounded Geedo, he and Deestro took down the vampiric thrall.

El Doktoro's party engaged the skeletons. Tambor took one down.

Before they even had a chance to catch their breath a lumbering Kosargi Nightguard attacked Geedo and Deestro.

Another Vyrkos appeared on the Kapitan's flank. He and Bold Rikk had just fought and taken down two skeletons, so they had not noticed. Percy Percy called a warning at the last moment...

But it was enough. The Shipwrecka swam through the air as daLeeva weirded it with skill and precision - the Vyrkos was eviscerated.

The Kapitan felt, rather than heard, the distant bell of the Shipwrecker's Doom toll once again.

Almost as if in punishment for alerting the Kapitan, the Soulblight Vampire, the Hollow Knight himself, attacked Percy Percy.

As soon as El Doktoro was able to set eyes on the Necromancer he summoned a storm of Waaagh! energy and the Necromancer was utterly destroyed.

Then, as if it was just an afterthought, he pointed his staff at a second pile of goods that belonged to the Hollow Knight and muttered a crude arcane cant - the stores burst into raging green flames and great clouds of smoke erupted in seconds.

Percy Percy held his ground with uncharacteristic bravery but he could not stand against the Hollow Knight's ferocious Rampage.

Moments later the Kapitan fell to the Knight's Rampage as well.

Bortagno pounced upon the final stash of loot in the vampire's encampment and torched it triumphantly.

The crew grabbed their wounded shipmates and withdrew, covered by the billowing clouds of smoke the Rotmoons escaped.

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Deployment: Bloodbath

Victory: The Raid

Twist: Crashing Waves

Lee's warband was something like:

Dagger:

Soulblight Vampire, Leader, Hero [225]

Vyrkos Blood-born [135] x2

Hammer:

Kosargi Nightguard [140]

Deathrattle Skeleton [50] x2

Shield:

Necromancer, Hero [145]

Deathrattle Skeleton [50] x2

My list was:

Dagger:

Brute Boss with Boss Choppa, Leader, Hero [200]

Ardboy with Choppas [85] x2

Hammer:

Weirdnob Shaman, Hero [170]

Ardboy with Choppas [85] x2

Shield:

Ardboy with Choppas [85] x3

This was a great game (I feel like I say this almost every time I play Warcry, but it's always true. That's got to be a good sign!).

It was really tactical as the only way I could win was either by making sure I took out every enemy near one objective, and blocking the others so they couldn't move in afterwards. Lee had some blindingly fast models and rolled some very hot Ability Dice. The twist also made for a very bloody game; as almost every attack ended up with a crit.