My gaming group used to enjoy playing GW's Inquisitor quite a bit, but haven't really done anything with it for a few years. So on a recent weekend we decided to get out some of our models and play a scenario that one of our group had wanted to run for some time.
I thought I'd share a battle report and pictures of the scenario, since you don't generally see that much about Inquisitor these days. This game, like all of our group's Inquisitor games, was done in 54mm the way God intended (although nothing against those who choose to play =][= in 28mm
).
In this scenario the players ran the Inquisitor and the members of his warband while the GM ran all of the opposition.
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REF: Inq/M40-2010.05.29
AUTHOR: D. Zierhut, Inquisition Archivist
SUBJECT: After Action Report, Hostile Encounter on 20100529
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
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The attached data file contains captured security vid pics from the recent field action of Inquisitor Javert and his agents. I have added commentary to some of the images containing information as best as I know it at this time. To avoid discovery, our informant within Javert’s entourage only had time to transmit the briefest of details. I anticipate that a more detailed report will be forthcoming.
As you are aware, Javert and his warband have been tracking the rogue Inquisitor [ENCRYPTED] for some time and they believe that the mutant rebellion agitator Draco is their link to finding him. Rumors reached them that Draco intended to rendezvous with the outlaw known as “Major Long” in the underhive of [ENCRYPTED] so they dispatched agents to track Major Long in hopes that he would lead them to Draco.
Tag Gutten, their advance agent, along with the help of local Arbites Enforcer Sophie (last name unknown), successfully tracked the Major over the course of several weeks and then alerted Javert to the general time and location of the rendezvous. It is there, in the crumbling underhive where the Inquisitor and his warband made their attempt to capture either the Major or Draco, that our captured vid pics can begin to help to tell the story.
Inquisitor Javert and his warband.
Overhead images of this section of the underhive.
The warband advances cautiously into the area. Minutes earlier the warband captured an enslaved scout who had just escaped the service of Major Long. She was able to give the group the general location of the rendezvous.
Artimus Richtoffen and Augustus Riggs scan the area and spot enemy movement outside the building that is the suspected rendezvous location.
Two of Major Long’s gunmen guard the front door to the building.
Surveillance photos show that both Major Long and Draco are present within the building.
A number of Draco’s mutants have taken up defensive positions throughout the area and are scanning for threats.
Eager to bring the fight to the enemy, Tag Gutten sprints forward while his autogun barks out several shots toward the gunmen, hitting one and knocking him to the ground.
A mutant hidden in an elevated firing position sees Tag and opens fire, but the rounds fall short and spray up dirt at Tag’s feet.
With the element of surprise no longer a factor, Javert begins his advance up the right side of the main street. The gears and energy cables within his bulky power armor suit emit whirs and hisses in an unmistakable and menacing rhythm.
Meanwhile, Cyrus Mordecai quickly ducks into a nearby building to make his advance through the cover of the rubble.
A loud an unsettling bellow echoes forth from up ahead as an immense thickly-muscled mutant lopes toward the Inquisitor and his warband.
Javert draws his bolt pistol and racks the slide to chamber a round, loudly reciting the Imperialis Benedictus and asking the Emperor to guide his aim as he levels his weapon at the advancing beast. Meanwhile, Riggs continues his dash across the street toward the rendezvous building, either not aware of the towering mutant or confident in his belief that Javert can handle him alone.
Javert, sensing that the mutant may prove a difficult adversary, decides they must meet muscle with muscle. He triggers his comm-link and orders Artimus Richtoffen to send Crusher the Ogryn forward quickly.
Hearing the order to advance, Crusher ambles forward briskly to assist the Inquisitor. “It’s clobberin’ time!”
Having climbed up to a high vantage point on a walkway over the street, Enforcer Sophie sees Crusher move out down below…
…and she turns just in time to see Inquisitor Jarvert send a volley of precisely aimed bolt pistol shells right into the giant mutant, knocking him to the ground stunned and bleeding.