Last Friday Skrapwelder set up his great city terrain at the gamestore and supplied 4 of us with some minis to try this game out- I'd had to miss the first night he ran it
But I was here for this one.
My full thoughts on the game and pictures that can get larger close ups are here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2012/05/empire-of-dead-my-first-try-at-it.htmlBut here are the pictures with description of the action.
I can't take credit for any of the terrain or minis- all of those are Skrapwelder's, but I've already placed a couple orders for some minis, I'll be making some teams soon!
We had 4 players: Werewolf, Vampire, & 2 explorer Gentlemen's Club.
I ran the wolves: a Main werewolf, secondary werewolf, 2 wolves and 3 humans, all with daggers, one with a bow and the other 2 with throwing knives.
The Vampires had the 2 vamps and 4 humans, a couple of the humans had rifles and the vampires had swords.
Both Gentlemen's clubs had a lot of firearms. The one I faced had a personal gatling gun on one.
I adjusted the photos I took to set the mood... enter a chill night in London, 1888....
Book st. with it's bookshop & papermill is quiet and peaceful.
A perfect night for a stealthy hunt. The packleader in center leads his pack into the city.
The local chapter of the Intrepid Chaps lead by Lord Blackstone take to the urban landscape for a night hunt
The still of Book Street is interrupted by a howl of a wolf
But the call is heard not just by man, but by creatures of the night, unfriendly to the wolfen: Vampires.
Spotting the Vampires and their human thralls, Clara stays behind as the wolves circle around the building and aims her bow at an unsuspecting thrall.
The wolves stalk around the building, but the smell from the coffee house masks the scent of their prey.
Her arrow having missed her mark, the thrall's attention is drawn to the wolf clan girl, he raises his rifle and kills her, the shot a small crack of thunder, which begins the storm of carnage to follow.
The first born vampire leads Ward and Spanner into the fight against the wolves.
Neither vampire nor wolf is able to get the better of each other, while further up the street the minions of both engage.
Blackstone's Chaps close in on the sounds of snarling combat.
Sensing the humans approach, the vampires call a truce with the wolves and head back to the woods, to circle around and hunt the other group of mankind that are trying to entrap them.
The wolves prepare to take down the explorers. Their guns reach the wolves first, wounding the secondary werewolf, who draws back momentarily, the rest rush the men.
Only the pack leader has the speed to reach them, but his ferocity is enough to give them pause as one of their number is brought down, his throat ripped out.
Hearing the snarls and cries of anguish in death, the other Gentlemen's Club is reluctant to close with the vampires they are tracking. With the lateness of the night, the groups retreat back to their mansions and lairs
26 July 2009, 07:46:56 PM
