1/16/2021

Trial of Trolls

After finishing the Orc Shaman, Juggo says to Sven he won't follow him until he hunts and slays a Troll so he can be known as Juggo the Troll slayer. Seeing all his expedition is in danger Sven accepts and they head to Troll country.

As soon as they arrive to the Troll's territory, they spot a cottage surrounded by crops and about to be attacked by some Trolls coming down from the hills.

In this campaign I have been using different rulesets and also tinkering with one of my own, but for this encounter I'm using Warrior Heroes - Legends from Two Hour Wargames as I'm updating the rules for a new release.

So our heroes arrive at the scene in the middle of the board, with Bubba scouting ahead of the columns. They instantly see three Trolls, one at the farm and two more coming close from the forest on the hills.


- Quick, get in the house! Falbalá with her magic and Dad with his axe will take care of the monsters.

GRRRR!

Dwarves activate first. Juggo charges madly at the closer Troll and is followed by Grom and Sven in support. Bubba and Snorri (and another Dwarf with a hammer who shouldn't be here, doh!) run towards the farm through the wooden bridge. Falbalá casts a Damage spell on the creature but it Duck Backs behind the bushes.

Now it is Troll's activation and they charge the Dwarves.

Grom doesn't realize the Troll is bigger than him.

And then it is too late.

There are doubles in the activation and a Ranger shows up to help the good guys. Sven charges the Troll who killed Grom whereas Juggo faces its leader, a Rep 6, AC 4, Resilient Troll with a two handed weapon.

Near the farm Finbull finally puts down the third Troll with an accurate bolt of his crossbow from the other side of the river.

Sven manages to put out of fight a second Troll by making an extraordinaire effort (he is a Star), but the leader of the Trolls was too much for Juggo.

Sven and the Ranger join to finish it.

But once again it wins and the Ranger is down. Now is all on Sven.

After three consecutive rounds of melee Sven makes the Troll to run away. It couldn't be killed but it won't be back in a long time.

Falbalá is a the daughter of the farmer and she was visiting her parents during a break from her studies at a school of Wizards in a nearby city. She is a Caster, and she tried to damage the Troll who was attacking her parent's farm, but she failed and needed Finbull's bolts to kill the beast.

Well, melee in WHL resulted to be really deadly, especially against that Troll with Rep 6. Now I need to think what to do with Juggo and Grom as they are Obviously Dead.

16 comments:

  1. Poor Grom and Juggo! Looking forward to reading further into this campaign. Already looks like a good story. :)

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  2. Well, Obviously Dead means they are gone. But I hope to find a way to resurrect them for one more episode ;-)
    Cheers,

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  3. Excellent report! It’s fantasy...and maybe they weren’t dead dead :)

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  4. A passing Necromancer resurrects them!
    Sven will have to find a new leader to follow

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    1. Hahaha! I was thinking of Falbalá having a resurrection scroll of one usage, so only one of them will come to life again. But your necromancer got me thinking and maybe in the next encounter they'll meet one...or a Liche :)

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  5. Great looking table and a fantastic narrative

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  6. Great batrep with those fantastic trolls! Good to know that you work on Warrior Heroes!

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    1. It happened with sci-fi and now it's with Fantasy. I tinker with own rules but the end I realize that nothing I could do would beat THW's mechanics so I write for THW. WHL is an excellent solo Fantasy adventure game and I am just updating it.
      Thank you for your kind comments! ;-)

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  7. Love the storytelling vibes!

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    1. Haha, that's a nice compliment coming from you. Thank you!

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  8. Good to see the dwarfs getting out again, pity they crossed paths with your new trolls! I do enjoy reading your campaign posts, I must catch up with my Five Leagues campaign again.

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    1. My 5L campaign is stopped at the moment as I am now editing the newer release of WHL. Soon you'll see again the Dwarfs cleaning some caves from nasty neighbours.
      Cheers,

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