Einar's saga. The end of the way.

After fleeing from the dungeon where Fafnir lost his life, and escaping from a several days pursuit by the Orcs, Einar and his friends reached the frontier of the Border Kingdoms. From there they travelled to the heart of the country, avoiding enemy patrols, healing, and looking to fulfill Einar's prophecy, foretold by a witch in Mirholme more than a year ago; that he will become king when he got the sword of power and taken with it a castle by the force of his arm.

It was November of 897 when they finally spot a small castle on a hill. The castle was dissapointingly small, but Einar's barbarian sense of humour quickly overcame it; at least it was bigger than his father's meadhall, and made it in solid stone!
The castle was infested by Orcs, so Einar and his men hid in a wood and from there spied Orc's movement.

Half of the day had already passed when Einar accidentally met some local peasants who were hiding from the marauding Orcs. They told him they were servants of the lord of the castle who had been slaughtered together with his family and most of the inhabitants of the castle, by a large party of Orcs commanded by two monstrous Ogres. Nobody has survived but them.

Then Einar told them his intention to kill all the Orcs and retake the castle for himself, and seeing his noble and bold appearance, they promised to swore serfdom to him as the new king if he fulfilled such heroic deed. Then they told him about a secret passage that could lead them inside the castle and offered to go with them.

The game starts with Einar and the Dwarfs Brythnot and Uri entering into the castle, while Rialto with some peasants come out from a nearby hill an run for the gates to secure them.
One enemy PEF is deployed inside the castle and is revealed as soon as Einar gets in; the other two are deployed outside the castle at random.

Click on the first picture and enjoy the show!

After the fight I rolled for possible Rep and Hardiness advances: Einar raised his Hardiness to four but Rialto downed to 2. Uri recovered from the Out of Fight but with a minus 1 to his Rep.

Well, this is it. The end of the campaign, a successful end because Einar got his sword and his castle and now he is king, but also and more importantly, because I had hours and hours of fun.

The campaign started more than one year ago and it has lasted more than a year in the Einar's world as well. Einar lost dear friends but gained new ones, he met all kind of creatures and monsters, travelled great part of Talomir, made raids, rescued people and explored dungeons.

All this exciting high adventure thanks to Warrior Heroes Armies and Adventurers ruleset from Two Hour Wargames, the best fantasy skirmish ruleset out there IMHO. Now I will sat and patiently wait for the second release of WHAA with the new mechanics from CRFV and new adventures in the world of Talomir!

In the meantime, Einar will send word to his father to move all his people from the North to the Border Kingdoms, and from his castle to conquer the land of the Orcs and found a new kingdom...but that's is a another story.