Morgan

 This is Morgan, the newest addition to my warband for Five Leagues From The Borderlands. She claims to be the daughter of a giantess, which is why she is so tall. But really, she just seems to be another Former Soldier from the Northlands seeking glory.

Interlude

 Interlude (but not with sunflowers) – Our Heroes have been bravely facingn the forces of Evil in the Ruined City of Armskirk for several weeks now. They have seen three of their companions die at the hands of their enemies, and two more have been injured but are healing, albeit slowly. So here's the skinny on what happened next:

Campaign Turn 9 had a Wandering Healer in town, who got Tundaline back on her feet and ready to adventure. Nothing else of note was done, the Warband decided to lay low in town while waiting for Drustan to finish healing up as well.

Campaign Turn 10 was a Travel turn, as the Warband had to travel to a new Wilderness location about more Quest stuff; in this case, the former Mayor of the city. While en route, a Sociable Monk offered Our Heroes a Contract, which needs to be pursued within three Campaign Turns. Upon meeting the Mayor, the group was given 5 gold marks and Drustan is now fully recovered.

Campaign Turn 11 was another Travel turn, as Our Heroes returned to The Crossing with a eye to fulfill that Contract. We Saw Somethin In The Distance, and added an Unexplored Location to the Map. We all arrived safely back at The Crossing, ready to go out and kick some Evil butt in the next Campaign Turn!

A Tale Of Three Tortles - Game 6

 OK, so I had a little Christmas Eve battle of Five Leagues From The Bordelrands. My Warband was down to just four members on their feet and ready to fight:Weppi, Kiport, Yammel, and Guldan. The Locals were supportive, allowing us to make an ectra Campaign Activity, so in addition toheping the Town Guard, a lot of hard work was done to refill the empty coffers. Tundaline and Drustan both recovered some more, and our Connections showed that there was a Quest available; no thank you, we only have four people on their feet!

But there is always Evil afoot, and just outside The Crossing was found an Outlaw Gang, lead by a creepy skeletal leader. Our Heroes were spotted by the ne'er-do-wells across a well-barricaded intersection, and the fight was on!

Early on, Weppi and Yammel advanced and were beset by the villain's slingers, but to no effect. The rest of the bad guys rushed forward, including a goup whose numbers were blurred by the ash in the air. Kipor and Guldan advanced behind Weppi and Yammel.

There were then several swirling melees after the slingers again failed anything effective, and the crossed weapons resulted in both Guldan and Yammel going down, as well as the untimely death of one of the Outlaws. Weppi and Kipor faced the remaining five enemies on their own.

The Outlaws acted first. In the ensuing clash of arms, the Outlaw leader and two of his companions fell before the might of the tortles. Weppi and Kipor both rushed forward to engage the slingers, who thought better of the fight and promptly fled the field.

Guldan was merely knocked out. Yammel, however, was quite dead. This was the second skirmish in a row where Our Heroes had lost a companion, and it was a bittersweet victory in light of this. There was a nicley balanced bastard sword in the skeletal hand of the Outlaw leader that would serve well for the warband, and in the mud a letter was found; the information within is something that clearly warrants some attention. Our Heroes must now start a Quest (after denying one earlier in the campaign turn!) As they settled back in to The Crossing to attend to Tundaline and Drustan, news travelled that the former Mayor of the ruined city was looking for adventirers to undertake another Quest. Is it the same Quest as the letter has started? We will have to heal up a couple of members and investigate further...

Cardstock Barricades

I built some cardstock barricades for my Ruined City terrain. The bases took longer than the barricades themselves lol!

Papercraft patterns by Permes

A Ruined Wall

 Hi there!

I built the Ruined Wall papercraft kit from Dave Graffam Games as a bit of additional "ruined city" terrain. I feel like I forgot all of my cardstock creating skills while building this one. It was like Amateur Night, but with less bleeding. I spent a lot of time correcting build errors and it still didn't turn out quite as well as most of my work. But I've got an "outside" and an "inside" picture of the creation for you, Dear Reader.

The Ruined Wall papercraft kit may be purchased at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/80657/ruined-wall-paper-model

A Tale Of Three Tortles - Game 5

OK, so I played another exciting game of Five Leagues From The Borderlands tonight! Our Heroes once again faced the Duskling menace trying to invade the Ruined City Of Armskirk. Weppi and company had heard rumors of a crazy group of goblins indiscriminately killing survivors living in the wreckage, and tracked them down. This would be a straight up fight between the five melee-armed members of the warband (Drustan and Tundaline are both still recovering from injuries) and the entirely melee-armed goblins. No fine tactics, no objective other than butchering the monsters before they could bring more harm.

The first turn saw Yammel move forward to meet the goblins, followed by a general goblin rush forward. One of the vile creatures pushed Yammel back, but Weppi was quick into the fray, felling one of the beasties with her first mighty swing. To the right, Kipor, Alaric, and Galdan moved forward cautiously to engage the enemy.

Turn two saw the good fortune of Our Heroes continue; during the swirling melees, Weppi felled two more of the evil Dusklings while Galdan killed another on the right. Two more of the foul beings decided to make a run for it (although I took the picture before they fled the skirmish!)

In the final turn, Weppi made short work of another goblin, but the final goblin felled Alaric before being butchered in turn by Kipor. This was a bittersweet victory... would Alaric survive his injuries?

As it turned out, Alaric the Wily Rogue was dead, laid low to his final rest by a goblin mace. There was not much to show for the battle either; investigating the Dusklings yielded a map-making kit and not much more. Upon returning to The Crossing, there was big news! There was a patrol of the Queen's Ouriders moving through the Ruined City, which would allow safer travel for time being.

Thoughts: this was much easier a fight than it had any right to be: I rolled a LOT of "6"s for Our Heroes and a lot of "1"s for the Dusklings. "Line up and fight" was exactly what I needed for tonight, some mostly brainless fun with some permanent campaign consequences. I was working on some new scenrry so I'm not always using the same old buildings, but clearly I have not yet finished. With no Travel roll necessary next turn, I think we will move to Bradfordshire , which is outside the city proper and still has plenty of intact buildings and farms for some different scenic options for the next few games.

The Ruin Within

OK, so I finished up 18 models to field The Ruin Within enemy faction for my Five Leagues From The Borderlands solo campaign. There are nine basic melee guys, three guys with throwing knives, two guys with bows, two guys with slings, and two leader types who look a bit undead. I built them from the Frostgrave Cultists boxed set, with two metal sling bits from Gripping Beast to round out the weapons.