AGGRO: Stadium

Finished my corner of a stadium terrain for AGGRO. Just need to finish the firms. I have about half of them done. Thirty models a side seems to be a good number.

Battle for Meaning-on-the-Bog

Here's another IHMN battle: the Brothers of St. Vitus fighting it out with some armoured marines.

We decided to do the Bad Jack scenario and stuck him on the top floor of the clock tower in the middle of the table. That was largely irrelevant though, as no one felt they had the spare fire power to take Jack on, he stayed in the tower on his own, undisturbed, while we effectively played a Last Man Standing scenario.

The Brothers arrived by boat and the marines didn't.

The Brothers legged it to the bridge in the centre of Meaning-on-the-Bog while the marines split up, half the force trying to outflank the devout of St. Vitus.

The main force of marines got to the far side of the bridge where they were taunted ruthlessly by one of the initiates.

Prior Flavius went round the other way, on one of his largely pointless solo missions.

Prior Flavius gets to the bridge too late to stop the marines crossing it.

The marines made it across the bridge where they engaged the nuns.

The initiates tried to force the marines back through the archway, but were whittled down by the marines.

The captain and his marines engaged the nuns, where their superior hand to hand fighting skills and heavy armour should give them the edge.

One initiate finally made it through the archway, and immediately wished he hadn't.

With the last roll of the dice, the Brothers flukily manage to kill the marine captain, but that isn't enough to stop the marines winning a resounding victory.

Battle for Greater Meaning

Here's another In Her Majesty's Name battle report. We played a three-way using stand-in figs for the Servants of Ra.

We played the Catch the Pigeon scenario, using a little girl fig for the pigeon.  The Servants of Ra piled into the centre towards the girl and Lord Curr, Mohan Singh, and Prior Flavius rushed in, too.

Meanwhile the Monks try to outflank Lord Curr's lot, sneaking behind some warehouses.

The incorrigibles get the high ground and shoot down on the town square, but the Nuns reply with the Fire of God, sending one of the ungodly foe plunging into the canal in flames.

One of the mummified priests tries to rush Mad Mick, who stands his ground and gets out the grenades, while four Servants of Ra mob Lord Curr: Ambullah, the guard captain, kills him with a mighty sword blow.

The other priest charges one of the monks, who decides discretion is the better part of loyalty to ones deity.

Akhenaton flies down into the middle of the nuns and starts dishing out the pain.

The monks in the warehouse district finally break through, killing a couple of incorrigibles, but it's all a bit irrelevant, as the main action is going on in the town square.

Mad Mick runs away from one of the mummified priests, while the other and Akhenaton surround another victim. The nubian guard manage to grab the girl, bringing a resounding victory for the Servants of Ra.

Battle of Little Meaning

This was our first play of the IHMN rules: the Brothers of St. Vitus taking on Lord Curr's company. There wasn't much of a scenario, just the two sides fighting over the village of Little Meaning (presumably as a prelude to a fight for Greater Meaning).

Bishop Ignatius led his crusaders stoically towards the village up the main road, while Lord Curr brought his men through the woods and across the stream, towards the other side.

Ignatius and the nuns took the road junction and Prior Flavius took the monks through a field round the side of the village.

Meanwhile Lord Curr led his men to the bridge, while Lady Felicity and Mohan Singh spotted the monks as they approached the village.

Lady Felicity led her Incorrigibles across the road while Flavius and the monks waited to pounce.

Meanwhile, Lord Curr advanced across the bridge, exchanging fire with the nuns.

The incorrigibles in the village noticed the Bishop fighting for the bridge, and fired a speculative volley at him. And the Bishop was struck down, the first casualty of the game. Clearly god has a different plan for him.

The nuns, taking shelter on the edge of the forest rained holy fire down on Lord Curr's men and managed to kill one of them in revenge. So perish all non-believers.

The Monks chose this moment to strike, charging through the village towards Mohan Singh and Lady Felicity.

Meanwhile, Novice Sidney, not entirely sure of the plan, climbed up onto the roof to bear witness to the wrath of St. Vitus.

Lord Curr and his men took the bridge, and another nun shuffled off to a better place.

While Mohan Singh held off three monks, single-handedly, Prior Flavius righteously smote Lady Felicity's brains all across the road.

Filled with the holy spirit, the monks rushed on, surrounding Mohan Singh and attacking the Incorrigibles who were no match for god's chosen in hand-to-hand fighting.

Meanwhile, the nuns in the forest continued to call down fiery retribution on the twin blasphemies of science and innovation, sending Mad Mick McFarlane to everlasting torment, but in a good way.

And so, in what suddenly turned into a rout, Mohan Singh, one of his incorrigibles, and another of Lord Curr's soon joined Mad Mick. And the battle was over. God is good at IHMN.

In Memoriam Bishop Ignatius