144Artist Explores Lyonesse or My Journeys into Wolsung
A Hostage Situation at the Convention
Since I rarely have space to set up my Wolsung terrain collection I took advantage of the time between games at a recent game convention to take some fun staged shots. It may not come into gameplay but my three wheeled Morgan conversion usually makes several appearances. I think he fits the aesthetic well and as he’s sporting Magoohan’s license plate he must be looking for danger. The gallery is a collection of these shots.
So after the Newbies finished their tutorial game, Necron099 and I prepared for a long awaited one on one. Since my Ashe and Oak cards and minis were already out I decided to run them. They have served me well against the questionable machinations of his crazed Inventor’s Club so I was feeling pretty good. Once we had finished I saw he had out some odd terrain pieces and realized I was going to have to face the shambling undead hordes that are the Van Rier. I won’t lie, Necro-Golems freak me out a bit. Big blades, big guns, AND undead. The fact that they are beautifully painted in Color Shifting paints by Necron099 makes them even more unsettling. It was the Strigoi I really should have been afraid of but we will get to that in a moment.
The game opened with Lady Ellendeane captured and held hostage on the top floor of the warehouse. Here we see Wormwood caught mid monologue.
With her butler, Chauncy, holding on, Lady Quimby races up the walkway between the buildings. Here is where the Strigoi crashed through the windows and reduced her to 2 wounds in one round! Three actions with three possible attacks each action. Ouch!
Every turn one of these monstrosities would lumber out from the main doors. Those big machine guns spit out a hell of a lot of shells a turn.
Playing any suit (thanks to her butler) Lady Q uses her heroic action to leap her monowheel to Lady Ellendeane's rescue. All three of my heroes, and the sniper outside, tried their best to take down the evil Wormwood.
He is a crafty villain and kept transporting away, summoning his creepy ghost kid, or moving the Eisenfield generator to further mess with my team. "Curse those meddlesome nobles!"
After the Distant Cousin sniper and Ogre Chef dispatched the deadly Strigoi three Necro-Golems set off their heavy guns filling the warehouse and near vicinity with countless bullets. Everyone hit the ground and one of the undead hulks attacked the ogre who parried and actually survived to take out two of the mechanical brutes.
In the end my fencer gained two victory points by activating one of two objectives, the death of the Strigoi earned two as well, while Lady Ellendeane's rescue garnerned me three more. So a final score of seven to zero that in no ways showed what a close fought affair it was.
Oh, well done, my friends. Thank you for your timely arrival.
But of course, dear girl. Mustn't let a few animate corpses interrupt cocktails.
It was a great game!
The terrain looks incredible; it must have been a joy to play on such a nice board.
I feel inspired to get back to working on my own Wolsung buildings; got a big box full of HDF sitting in the attic.
I have found that painting the parts, using craft paints, before assembly helps me get them done quicker. Once they are assembled I do the details and touch up. I also keep things simple so I don’t have to make too many decisions. Such nice kits and they look so good they really do add a lot to my enjoyment of any game.