Southern Escalation - Through the Deadscale Wastes

Another month, and time for another update and campaign day write up.

The previous month I didn't get anywhere near as much painting done as I would've liked. After the last campaign day, I quickly started work on my Chaos Gargant which was meant to be done the previous month. He was a good fun model to use, and I got him painted up pretty quickly.

The Gargant and the Prince

After that though, I really didn't get much time to do hobby due to an unexpected business trip as well as some holiday time around Easter. So I'm basically behind a month again with my schedule getting even busier! Yikes! One of the other problems is I've got another 10 Chaos Warriors I need to paint, and I'm not really sure I'm that motivated to paint them at the moment. Guess the momentum is starting to slow on the Shadowborn, and it's perhaps indicating it's time for a change of pace.

Anyway, onto the campaign day. This month we're using some new time of war rules and had a different battle plan for the day. Those interested can read them here. The battle plan is straight out of Balance of Power, the plan being "The Hidden Artefact". This plan involves an army fleeing with an artefact of power, hoping to escape pursuit. One unit in the army has been tasked with holding the artefact, and it's the job of the rest of the army to protect the unit so it can escape off the board. The pursuing army is hot on their heels, and has even sent some of their army ahead to cut the fleeing army off. In our case, while the forces of Order reclaimed some of the Idols of Power last month, the forces of Chaos and Destruction made off with a few. Hence, the forces of Order are in hot pursuit of Chaos (No Destruction forces this month) to try and reclaim the Idols.

An Aelven Dragonrider encircles the fleeing Chaos force

As with all things, the first game people played was a bit rough. Always little things people miss in the rules. Some people thought you could only bring on one unit with the special command ability, other people had different thoughts. It's definitely a scenario that you probably need to play a few times to figure out what kind of force is good for the scenario. Poor Colin's Stormcast got left behind quite quickly as the Noble Free People galloped off into the distance while some Aelves held up the majority of his army.

The Brettonians looking to make a get away but the Prosecutors look to engage from the South

This time only 5 players were able to make it, but that was quickly sorted with a 2-v-1 game in the first round of games. I don't know whether it's because of the more casual attitude gamers have to Age of Sigmar, but it's very easy to sort out these odd man out situations in Age of Sigmar.

Looking to next month, not quite sure where to take the campaign storyline at the moment. Definitely have some cool ideas for things that can be done in the Realm of Beasts, but just got to figure out how to fit them into the storyline. Plenty of painting to do as well, got my last month figures to paint up and a Chaos Warshrine on the bench as well. Lastly it looks like the Independent UK Pool Choices document will be updated in a few weeks. There was some talk before the day about switching due to the unknown future, but I think we'll stick to the doco for the duration of the campaign. So it'll be interesting to see if that has an impact on how big or small my army is.