Precluded in
Part One.
Part 2 of the Campaign day held at Warlord Games and covers games three and four of the day.
Battle 3 - Village Supplies vs Scott (another one) 24 points
Bayushi Shoju after defeating the Phoenix and gaining a shorter route back to his own lands has been thwarted by the weather. With heavy snows covering the passes through the mountains, Shoju has been forced to find other paths.
Now finally out of the worst and on the descent towards Scorpion lands he has another issue, not enough supplies to complete the final journey. Fortunately the Scorpion lord has come across a bandit camp full of the devious Ronin's spoils.
Readying himself for combat Bayushi attacks.
Spotting a number of objectives which could give the supplies needed, Bayushi maneuvers his troops towards them. Scorpion archers let fly stinged barbs and cause wounds on the Ronin defenders.
The Bandits and Ronin charge forward to force the Scorpion back but Bayushi storms forward and cuts down their Lieutenant, causing the bandits to waver. Bayushi follows on and starts to cleave through the bandit forces and then comes face to face with Chobei the bandits leader.
With swift attacks and the martial skill of a Samurai lord, Bayushi wounds Chobei whilst his troops dodge the multitude of arrows raining down from renegade bowmen. With the two leaders exchanging blows in the middle of the snow covered field, opposing archers trade shots, with the Scorpion gaining the upper hand.
Bayushi hacks down Chobei and his forces crumble. The Scorpion ransack the camp and gather up the much needed supplies without interruption.
Scorpion Win. Enemy Samurai defeated (well technically I defeated him as he wasnt taken off the board as we both didn't realise when I killed Chobei and he passed his test of honour that when I killed him again he passed again - you can only take one test of honour, after that your dead jim!)
My Samurai Hero survived.
Battle 4 - The Battle vs Paul (Spider Clan) 24 points
Well supplied after defeating the bandits, Bayushi Shoju is close to home. However in a small village on the border of the Scorpion lands, the dark warriors of the Spider Clan ambush the Scorpion. The Spider had taken advantage of Shojus absence and were raiding indiscriminately across Scorpion territory.
Shoju incensed at this invasion of his lands screams out at the Spider and hurtles headlong into the fray.
Straight away Scorpion attacks bear fruit and their arrows cut down Spider archers, whilst their Masked Men move further into the town. More arrows pierce Spider yari troops, but suddenly the remaining Spider archers find their mark and start causing casualties on the Scorpion.
Bayushi Hikoku suddenly see's a Spider Samurai and bellows a challenge whilst charging towards him. The fight is brief and Shoju's cousin stands victorious over the prone Spider. More Spider troops try and avenge their Lieutenant but Hikoku starts to cut through them as well.
Seeing his forces fall the Spider Leader calls out Hikoku and with a dishonorable actions manages to cut down the Scorpion. On the other side of town Bayushi Shoju decimates Spider troops and dispatches their sergeant as well, then out of the corner of his eyes see's Hikoku fall.
Distraught with losing his cousin Shoju flails wildly at any and all Spider troops near him. Whilst the Scorpion archers cause wounds on the Spider leader, Shoju chases down and kills the remaining Spider bowmen before, exhausted and arms aching from cleaving though enemy troops, being cut down himself.
However the Spider Clan leader like all despicable, dishonorable raiders, seeing his remaining troops melt away at the fury of the Scorpion, makes his retreat. Bayushi Shoju is retrieved by his troops and his travelling Shugenja notices his very slight heartbeat.
The Scorpion will recover.
Scorpion Win. Enemy Samurai survived. My Samurai hero was defeated.
So four great games and amazingly four wins. Looking at the points tally I had earned throughout the day I thought I might be in with a shout of winning. Last year I had missed out by a few points.
Keiran and Jez the organizers (of a fantastic event) started to announce the winners of various awards. Best painted, best sportsman like etc... and then it came to the overall winner.
It was me!!! I had won Warring States SHOGUN 2018. Absolutely chuffed to say the least and cant wait for the next event.
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| Shogun (clear acrylic trophy!!) |
A few of the amazing tables we got to play on
Now finally out of the worst and on the descent towards Scorpion lands he has another issue, not enough supplies to complete the final journey. Fortunately the Scorpion lord has come across a bandit camp full of the devious Ronin's spoils.
With swift attacks and the martial skill of a Samurai lord, Bayushi wounds Chobei whilst his troops dodge the multitude of arrows raining down from renegade bowmen. With the two leaders exchanging blows in the middle of the snow covered field, opposing archers trade shots, with the Scorpion gaining the upper hand.
Bayushi hacks down Chobei and his forces crumble. The Scorpion ransack the camp and gather up the much needed supplies without interruption.
Scorpion Win. Enemy Samurai defeated (well technically I defeated him as he wasnt taken off the board as we both didn't realise when I killed Chobei and he passed his test of honour that when I killed him again he passed again - you can only take one test of honour, after that your dead jim!)
Distraught with losing his cousin Shoju flails wildly at any and all Spider troops near him. Whilst the Scorpion archers cause wounds on the Spider leader, Shoju chases down and kills the remaining Spider bowmen before, exhausted and arms aching from cleaving though enemy troops, being cut down himself.
A lone Scorpion maneuvered his way silently up to the temple doors and slipped inside ready to ambush any enemy troops that wandered his way.
A group of Crab suddenly walk into range of the Scorpion infiltrators and are quickly attacked. Silently the Scorpions sting and manage to kill one of the Crab. The mounted Crab troops, unaware of the Scorpions attack, trot about on patrol as normal.
With the Crab Samurai decapitated at the gate, the other Crab troops whirl about in disarray. Bayushi charges at a mounted bowmen whilst his Masked Men charge at another mounted retainer. With the Masked Men taking care of the retainer, Shoju fumbles his attack but fate intervenes and he recovers quickly.
As the monks come level with his position, Shoju bursts forth and cuts down the monk banner bearer in one blow of his Naginata, quickly following up into the group of monks nearest to him.
Scorpion troops hurtle into the fray to help their lord whilst Shoju finishes off a few more lowly monks. With Hikoku and Yasu stepping back to gain position the Scorpion Renegades by the shrine loose of a few arrows and manage to injure the Phoenix.
Seeing his chance Hikoku slams into the wounded Yasu and sends him to his ancestors. Asako Kinuye whirls his staff above his head and rains blows upon the nearest Scorpion troops, taking a couple out of the fight.