Season of the cockatrice

Mawg who were recently wounded sent out his throtlings to search for the cooking books of Urga hoping that the witches magical potion could heal his severe wounds.

Pirazzo had also heard about the cooking books and thought they could be sold for a tremendous price on the black markets of Tilea.

Now the two warbands once more meet each other in the forests.


Turn 1: Pirazzo's amazons finds one of Urgas lost cooking books but they can hear that something is lurking in the woods.

Turn 2: After a short look in the books Pirazzo and his men starts the hunt for cockatrice eggs, which is the secret ingredients in the potion of revival.

Turn 3: Pirazzo and his men splits up and soon they start finding weird and colorful eggs in the forest, some of them must be a cockatrice egg.

Turn 4: Otto Fatman's pikemen soon finds themselves surrounded by a horrifying group of throtlings. A huge rat ogre with two heads is also accompanying them.

Turn 5: Otto's men tries to back and brace themselves for an attack. The rat ogre roars and the hordes of entwined throtling bodies swarms over the poor pikemen who flees back towards the city.

Turn 6: Pirazzo is unaware of what has taken place, he has seen some unnaturally big rats but they have been easy to kill and he soon walks back towards the city of Tilea.



 

Easter Bash

The season of the cockatrice

As spring breaks out in the Tilean areas of the old world the season of the cockatrice takes place. It is a magical time for searching after eggs, cooking up magical soups and bashing in the skulls of your enemies.

This easter an old hag namned Urga who lived near the Tilea capital have died of old age. She was known for her expertise in magical potions. Soon after her death her cottage was burglarized. Some of the things that were stolen were of great value. It is said that somewhere in her books and notes the recepie to revive a fallen soldier lies.

Now all warbands in the nearest areas are killing each other over cooking books ingredients and old sheets of recepies.

This campaign supplement should be played for a course of a day. And is a great fun way to make your warband campaign slightly funner during the easter weekend.

The campaing uses the same scenario set up as the ”A little war” scenario in the warhammer warbands article with a few changes.

URGAS COOKING BOOKS

In the first three game played during the day the note with the cooking book should be placed in the middle of the table. The cooking books works like a banner in most ways but you can also pick it up but walking over the marker. If a unit had the cooking book during the end of a match the unit will continue to carry the book untill it is broken in combat in another match.

THE EGGS

In each match played there should be 3 egg markers placed on the table. They are carried and dropped in the same way as the secret ingredience. Right after deploying your troops roll to see who has to place the first egg marker. The marker must be placed 24 inches from any friendly unit and 6 inches from another egg marker. You get +25VP for each egg carried at the end of the game. New egg markers are placed on the battlefield and the eggs are removed from the units after each match. They will play a more important role at the end of the campaign.

ENDING THE CAMPAIGN

In the end of the campaign all warbands that has one of Urgas cooking books is rewarded with a magical potion of revival special magic item.

THE POTION OF REVIVAL

The potion of revival is a magic item that can be used after a battle were one of you models have died permanently (after rolling on the serious injury chart)(it works on everything from charcters to monsters, musicians and champions etc etc). The potion of revival can only be used once then it disappears from your warband. The power of the potions varies on how many eggs you averagely collected during the cockatrice campaign. What you do is you take the number of eggs collected in total and divides that amount with the amount of games you have played. This vill give you an average of 0-3 eggs.

0 eggs: youre model is revived but roll on the heroes serious injury chart two times

(reroll any deaths)

1 egg: the same as above but only one time

2 eggs: your model is fully recovered

3 eggs: your model is recovered and regenerated, more powerfull then before. Roll a d6:

1-3: +1ws/bs

4-5: +1s

6: +1w

written by Karl Krantz 2015-04-03

Painting progress 15-04-04

Jimi: Painted another amazon warrior and started to green stuff the amazon champion.

Karl: Started on painting some throtlings, a mutated rat ogre and the markers for the Easter campaign.

Peter: Started painting a high elf character.

Painting progress 15-04-02

The latest news on the painting front!

Jimi: Painted two amazon warriors for his Dogs of war army.

Karl: Green stuffed, converted and base coated two rat ogres and six throtlings. He even threw some dirt on the bases of his army!

Bonus picture! Sigmar be praised! Is that markers for the upcoming EASTER BASH!? Stay tuned!

Tilean Archives (Lost tales)

Whispers on the street mention the Crystal Skull. Questions like “Where does it come from?” are thrown around quite a lot these days. Some say there are papers hidden in the Tilean archives from the expedition to Lustria and former battles lost to history. This is very true only Pirazzo and the Tilean paymaster knew what really happened in the jungles of Lustria. This is part of a journal that one of Pirazzo's men carried with him on his quests.

We have been marching through this greenish hell for weeks now and got nothing to show for. The recruitment poster clearly stated “we know where the gold is”. Pirazzo is determined though; almost a bit crazy…I guess we all are a bit crazy for following this madman.

Things are starting to look a bit brighter; one of our scouts returned today and reported that he found a clearing through the jungle; even a temple! With good news comes bad news it seems that we are not the only one interested in treasures, a raiding party of skaven has been sighted lurking around. I am sure it’s not going to be a problem for us, secondly are skavens even real? If you ask me I would believe there are some skinks trying to scare us away.

We arrived at the temple as planned but it is far greater than I could ever imagine. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes. Its walls covered with carved stone skulls, indeed a place for “old one” worship. Pirazzo ordered us to rest through the night and tomorrow raid the temple; I volunteered to be part of the first group to enter the temple. Also there were no skavens to be seen there so they must have been seen with crazy eyes.

This might be my last entry… Last night I dreamed that I stood at the top of the temple holding a skull made from solid crystal. Could this be an omen? That I will stand on top of the world as the greatest explorer, even greater than Marco Colombo and Pirazzo! It is like the old ones are calling me…

—Part of Gonzalo de Alvarado’s recovered journal.

This is a battle report we made from a previous battle before the blog and we are continuing the tale at the moment as you can see in previous entries. Basically a plague priest named Rotmin stole the crystal skull from Pirazzo's lost legion in Lustria and got away. Ever since that day Pirazzo has been searching for the skull and hunting down skavens...

The near death of Mawg the entwiner (Battle report)

Mawg is still moving troops through the woods near Tilea but now more prepared for ambushes.

Pirazzo is still seeking information about where the Crystal skull might have ended up. After confronting Otto Fatman and informing him about the disgraceful acting of his soldiers on the battlefield Otto have agreed to repay half of the money he charged for his pikemen and have Pirazzo hire them for a free until the end of the week.

Armies:


 Mawg's entwined warband (skaven Hell Pit)

Master Moulder: Mawg

2 packs of throtlings

1 pack of giant rats

1 mutated rat ogre



Pirazzo's new legion (dogs of war)

10 Pirazzo's lost legion

9 pikemen


Turn 1: The Skaven warband found Pirazzo's legion in the forest and started to move against them hoping they would not be prepared for an attack.

Pirazzo soon noticed the ratmen and turned his troops against the vermin force. Firing crossbow bolts into their foul ranks.

Turn 2: As Mawg's forces continued moving against pirazzo's men Mawg himself sneaked around in a nearby forest looking at the battle from a safe distance.

Pizarro's men reloaded and another wave of bolts were fired into the horrific throtlings, one or two rat creatures fell dead to the ground but most of them kept on tumbling against Pizarro's soldiers.

Turn 3: The unit of throtlings ran straight into the spear wall of pirazzo's men. Otto Fatman's pikeman was occupied fighting off some unnaturally large rats and was not able to aid their comrades. But Pirazzo neede no help he and his men held strong against the verminous tide who ran off just as quickly as they charged.

Pirazzo's men ran after the fleeing group of freakishly rat creatures who ran screaming in all directions.

Turn 4: In an attempt to rally his troops Mawg ran out of his hiding place and charged right into the side of Pirazzo's men. On the other side of the unit a huge rat emerged from the forest screaming and waving an unnaturally number of arms.

Pirazzo jumped through the ranks of his men until he reached Mawg and confronted him in combat. The master moulder were able to keep his distance using his great whip. Pirazzo dodged a whiplash coming flying against him and with a great force he threw his sword that pierced the fat body of Mawg, who heavily fell to the ground.

Turn 5: The Rat ogre now ran against Pirazzo's men and pirazzo ordered everyone to retreat into the forest to escape a certain death. The great creature could not reach the men in the denser parts of the forest.

The rat ogre had not noticed Otto's pikemen who now had a change to charge the beast. Pirazzo screamed to them "ATTACK!!!" But the fear of being torn apart was to great so the pikemen held their ground paralyzed with fear.

Turn 6: Nothing more happens...

Aftermath: After losing the rat ogre in the denser part of the forest Pirazzo and his men walks back to the Tilean city once again disappointed in the behavior of Otto Fatman's pikemen, at least this time their services were for free. But that was not all that was troubling Pirazzo, he still had not found out anything about the whereabouts of the crystal skull.

Mawg wakes up in the forest badly wounded, using his rat ogre patching tools he manages to sew up his pierced belly. He slowly walks back against the clans nest were he later is properly patched up but the damages to him is very great and he will not be able to partake in any missions for the coming weeks. He now

sits in his cavern plotting and rethinking his plans bitter and filled with hatred against all man-things.

Battle fought: 2015-03-29

//Karl and Jimi played the game

"Alright I want a good and clean fight!" - Judge Dread