Live Magazine September 2017

The Journey so far...
We’ve played a number of games
now and overall things have been
positive. Whilst henchmen have
come and go, overall the core of
the warband has survived and gathered
valuable experience. Sylvain
has become a combat machine:
gaining attacks, strength and finding
valuable Gromil armour! Pierre
bought a dog, Spot L’Melanoma,
and he’s been an invaluable member
of the warband. Quite early on
they managed to afford two Hired
Swords: a Warlock and an Ogre...
both have proved to be rather useless...
but I painted the models so
they’re not going anywhere!
By far the stand-out performer of
the Warband has been Cross-eyed
Clement who, after a copping a
splintered arrow shaft to the left
eye, has become One-eyed Clement.
Despite his mild injury the guy
is an amazing sniper and is responsible
for an incredible 14 Out of Actions
in 7 games – including 5 in his
last outing!
Lessons Learned...
If I’ve learned one thing from this
warband it’s that I don’t have
enough “bums-on-seats”, and it
makes combat difficult. I spent too
many Gold Crowns early in the campaign
on Hired Swords who haven’t
performed. Their “up-keep” cost after
each game has made it difficult
to grow the warband, and without
the numbers to engage in combat I
miss out on a lot of the campaign’s
action. I suppose, in short, I future
I’ll look to build a warband which is
more aggressive – relying less on
key character’s shooting with an
emphasis on taking the game to my
opponent. This has been our first
campaign for almost 15 years, so
naturally there was always going to
be growing pains!