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A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus ten skeleton warriors at various points on the board. They're wearing rusty armour and tattered red cloaks, though four are unpainted because I haven't gotten around to them yet. There's also Watch Captain Halgrim in the middle who is attired similarly but is carrying a massive halberd.

This afternoon with @wobin we finished off the next Big Bad in our Warhammer Quest adventures, the skeleton warrior Watch Captain Halgrim! We were all inspired from the first half we did last time, but even so we absolutely destroyed everything, only to realise right at the end after we'd finished that there is a whole separate event table you're meant to roll on at the end of each turn and the bottom half of that is filled with things like "All the skeletons come back". 😬 So uh... oops! For the next game, it's the same sort of journey as this one (destroy another big bad) and we need to have done _both_ before we get to level up to Level 3. I've made a note to remember the new event table, and it's going to be quite the fight because it's against Gorslav the Gravekeeper who not only hits like a truck but also makes zombies a lot nastier as well, and we'll be facing all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box.

Posted on 30 November 2024, 21:40

A photo of Emelda Braskov, one of the hero miniatures of Warhammer Quest, who is wearing heavy plate armour and holding a massive sword, facing off against four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and tattered red cloaks who are wielding spears and shields. Next to them is one of the "mysterious object" markers, which is a gallows pole with a skeleton hanging on it. The skeleton is clutching at its through where the noose is, and is pointing off to the left with its other hand.

We had @wobin over again for a continuation of our Warhammer Quest adventures, and it went a lot better than last time. This game was a "Decapitation" journey where we're off to kill one of the big bads, it's split into two stages where the first one involves fighting through to find their lair, and the second is actually killing the boss itself. We did just the first stage tonight, and ended up getting almost everyone inspired within the first two turns, which meant we were steamrollering through the hostiles for a while, though our momentum ended up grinding to a halt when @yayKM's warrior was extremely badly wounded taking on a room full of skeletons and had to hang back until we could heal her up. Next time it's going to be taking out Watch Captain Halgrim, the skeleton warrior boss, and nothing except his skeletal Ulfenwatch minions. #WarhammerQuest #WarhammerCommunity

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Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:36

A photo of three of the heroes standing in a group with a horde of monsters coming into the room from two of the doors: six zombies and Gorslav the Gravekeeper who is this freaky emaciated undead thing from one door, and three of the skeleton warriors followed by the Vargskyr (a massive demon/bat thing that is over twice the height of anything else) from the other door.

Another Warhammer Quest journey with @wobin today, and oh my GOD was it a shocker. 😫 We played a Scavenge journey where you go around searching for loot and fighting off hostiles, but Radukar the Wolf (the MAIN big bad of the whole game) made his first appearance, my character Cleona was so badly wounded she ended up out of action (thankfully she didn't end up dying), everyone was constantly failing attacks they should have easily made, and we rolled so poorly on the end of turn event table that we ended up at the "Nightfall" point (where all the monsters are much more powerful) FOUR turns earlier than we should have otherwise. 😬 It was an absolute rollercoaster, even outside of Cleona being taken out of action everyone else had multiple times where they'd taken so much damage they were only two short of being taken completely out of action, only to claw their way back and then get wounded all over again, then right at the end it was a mad scramble to get everyone to the exit point. As is frequently the case, hero of the match went to my dwarf Dagnai Holdenstock who was able to be inspired early and just slaughtered his way through everything. He got an upgrade in the post-game phase where damage from his weapons can't be ignored, which is going to be REALLY good because there are three or four types of hostiles that have some sort of "Roll the D12 and on a (certain number) or higher, damage is reduced by X amount" and it bit us so many times.

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Posted on 20 July 2024, 22:07

A photo of our four heroes miniatures standing next to and being positively LOOMED over by the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the heroes, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base.

A photo of Dagnai my dwarven hero, he's a steampunk-looking dwarf with an axe and a harpoon gun thing, facing off through a doorway against three shambling zombies and four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and wearing rotted red cloaks.

A full two months after the last game (oops), we had @wobin over for another Warhammer Quest game! We did another Deliverance journey, where you need to stay ahead of the Suffocating Gravetide curse and warn the citizens of its approach, and we absolutely smashed it despite the Vargskyr making an appearance. We found from the last one of these we did that as long as you can get sufficiently ahead at the beginning it's not too much trouble to keep clear of the Gravetide, it's when you get stuck fighting hostiles and can't make any forward progress that you really end up in trouble. To be fair, @yayKM's character was VERY heavily wounded in that fight, but thankfully I had a very convenient healing potion equipment I was able to give her and she rolled very well and was able to recover all the wounds she'd lost. We did a lot better this game, everyone ended up inspired, and my dwarf Dagnai singlehandedly faced down an entire room of zombies and skeletons and took most of them out, barely taking a scratch in return! The next game is going to be a rough start though, I rolled EXTREMELY poorly on the event table at the end of the game, and THE big bad, Radukar the Wolf, is going to make an appearance at the beginning of next game despite him ordinarily not showing up until we're Level 3 (we're Level 2 right now). 😬

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Posted on 25 April 2024, 22:13

A photo of two painted miniatures standing next to each other, one is a heavily armoured warrior woman with short hair holding a large sword, and positively LOOMING over her is the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the warrior, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base.

We continued our Warhammer Quest campaign today with @wobin by defeating the mighty Vargskyr! It was a very interesting variation on the standard journeys: instead of the hostiles we faced being randomly selected from the encounter deck, we started out with all six corpse rats and all six dire bats, divided into two groups, plus the Vargskyr itself. The Vargskyr didn't start on the battlefield and they represented it striking stealthily from the shadows by making its activation involve rolling the D12 and whichever of the lychgates (the red door things on the edges of the tiles) was on the die, the hero closest to that would just straight up take a damage, no saving throw or anything. To actually get it to come out in order to damage it, you had to get to the "mysterious objects", which are the skeletons and the columns with the raven on top, at which point it'd pop out and absolutely wallop the hero that activated it, then vanish as soon as any damage was done to it, and you'd have to get to the next mysterious object, and so on. It started out looking VERY rough, almost everyone was at half health quite quickly, but thankfully we were able to rally and once we got through the initial hostiles that started on the battlefield we had some very lucky rolling where the hostiles _didn't_ respawn when it was their turn to activate. After that it was a case of getting enough damage onto the Vargskyr which we were able to do (and once all the mysterious objects were gone it'd remain on the battlefield so we could really wail on it). So now we're all at Level 2, so there'll be more hostiles to face, and the Vargskyr will actually potentially come back as one of the hostiles drawn from the encounter deck when we play our next regular game! 😬

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Posted on 24 February 2024, 21:07

A closeup photo of the Kosargi Night Guard (the big Mongolian-dressed zombie with the axe) and three of the bat swarms behind him, with all four of the heroes arrayed around it.

@yayKM and I started a new campaign of Warhammer Quest with the last four heroes this afternoon! @yayKM went with the two heavy hitters and so I took Qulathis the Exile and Octren Glimscry who are are much more fragile but can still deal a reasonable amount of damage. We began with a Scavenge journey in order to start gearing up early, there were a few rough moments and some terrible early rolling, but we actually managed to get all four heroes inspired—which we've never done before—and ended up with some good equipment out of it! Lore-wise the location we started out in was the Ven Alten estate, Ven Alten being the family of one of the heroes @yayKM is playing. And pleasingly, with the rest of the zombies and bats fully painted, we didn't need to resort to ANY unpainted miniatures at all!

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Posted on 26 January 2024, 19:26

A photo of seven hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the standard-issue zombie decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud, which is splattered part-way up their legs so it looks like they've been slogging through it.

A photo of three bases of bat swarms mid-flight, all flying around ruined stone columns. The middle one has clearly visible fangs and is FAR larger than the others.

I'm definitely closing in on the end of my Warhammer Quest project, I've finished the rest of the deadwalkers and the bats! Only thirteen miniatures left to go out of the sixty-odd in the box. Really happy with this second batch of deadwalkers, I didn't do any drybrushing at all except for the robes and instead just highlighted everything manually. It comes out a lot more strikingly.

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Posted on 24 January 2024, 19:49

A photo of two miniatures side-by-side. One is a standard human-sized skeleton warrior, the other is an ogre who is head and shoulders taller than the skeleton. The ogre is wearing chainmail and a big helmet that leaves his face exposed, and has a big mace held out in one hand behind him like he's either about to hit something or has just finished doing a big backhand swing with it. In his other hand is clenched a big blade that's attached to a leather glove and that arm looks like he's about to stab someone with it.

And the final hero is completed, say hello to Brutogg Corpse-Eater! (As before, skeleton for scale.)

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Posted on 9 January 2024, 20:23

A photo of an aristocratic-looking miniature mid-stride. He's got a magnificent beard and mustache that's curled up at the ends, plus a long top-knot of hair and the rest of his head is bald. He's holding a steampunk-looking pistol upright and has a red jacket edged with white fur billowing out behind him, and his other hand is on the pommel of his sword. His robe thing is lined with armour plates and he's wearing an armoured chestpiece as well.

Glaurio ven Alten III is ready to avenge his family's deaths! One more hero to go (who is actually mostly done but the base texture paint is currently drying) and I'll have the full eight completed, woot.

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Posted on 7 January 2024, 21:06

A photo of two painted miniatures. One is a wizened old man with an EXTRAORDINARILY long and thin beard that reaches down to the ground, wearing a black cloak and carrying several large books along with a tall wooden staff. Standing next to him is a lithe wood elf all dressed in greens and browns with a pair of antlers on her head. She's in the middle of aiming a bow an arrow and is simultaneously launching herself off a broken piece of stone on the ground. There's snow at the base of the stone and next to it, but the left half of the base is rich earth with grass tufts on it.

Qulathis the Exile is now finished, and I've done Octren Glimscry too! I'm particularly happy with how the base for Qulathis came out. I've been putting snowy bases on all the heroes to make them REALLY stand out on the board compared to the hostiles (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2443), but given Qulathis is a wood elf and is all done in greens and browns like you'd expect, it felt sort of weird for her to be on a fully snowy base, so I decided to split the difference and have partially half-melted snow instead. I think it gets the point across, and looks terrific to boot.

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Posted on 5 January 2024, 18:29