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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 a bunch of alley at night, plus a couple that look like the inside of buildings. There's four hero miniatures in the middle (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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (two groups of three rat swarms and two groups of three bat swarms).

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! 😬

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.