Demonsub goes all in with Sláine

Last night I had a few friends over and we played a battle. One wanted to play the fomorians so based on that, I calculated an equal notoriety value for the Earth tribes for my other friend. Notoriety is Sláine’s name for points. I wasn’t playing in this battle, I was to be rules jockey as I was teaching the game and I was still rusty on a few things.

The scenario was simple, just kill the enemy. Here’s the table.

The Earth tribes could set up along the table edge to the left and the fomorians along the right.

As the forces arrived for the battle it was customary among the Earth tribes for the last to arrive for the battle to be executed in honour of the Earth Goddess (it also encouraged punctuality). A spearman was thus removed from the table (in the game this is optional for the Earth tribe player granting him a blood point).

Both sides advanced with the fomorians taking full advantage of the river moving up it towards the lake. (Fomorians have the aquatic skill which allows them to move through water without any movement penalty and to receive +1 to their evade stat). Balor of the evil eye lead the advance on his huge war elk heading around the trees next to the lake to charge Morgan Axehead and injuring him.

Sláine on the far flank seeing the danger ran across the lines but winded himself as a result. As the tribes advanced Ukko crept forward slowly, yelling encouragement.

The two remaining spearmen ran in to support Morgan Axehead in the fight against Balor while the rest of the tribesmen approached the shore of the lake. The fomorian netters and harpoonists stood off in the lake as various weapons were thrown with little effect, while the fomorian axemen advanced behind their fellows heading to support Balor.

Sláine, having taken a breather, charged Balor. Even Ukko, running around the behind, tried to help by stabbing Balor in the back (but to no effect). With fighting to and fro, Balor was pushed back almost to the river. Sláine pushed home the charge, killing Balor and his elk. A great loss to the fomorians indeed.

In response the fomorian axemen charged Sláine, slightly wounding him. The other fomorians and the tribesmen charged each other, with fighting both on the shore and in the lake. 

The site of the massed carnage brought on Sláine’s warp spasm and then the killing really started.

Morgan Axehead charged in but was cut down, as well as the remaining spearmen. Sláine charged back into the fray.

The battle ended with the bodies of both friend and enemy littered around and floating in the lake. The water ran red with blood. All of the fomorians were dead, while only Sláine, Ukko and a single tribesmen had survived, the rest of the tribesmen, including Sláine’s foster father Morgan Axehead were dead. 

Sláine thought it too many.