The Vampire Lord succeeds in biting the samurai, drinking his blood and acquiring an additional HP (3 remain). The samurai will become a vermin next turn.
The other Shogunate troops are shocked and dismayed.
The archer is completing his reload and stays out of the ensuing melee. The two samurai strike dangerously with their sharp swords, but the Vampire Lord is too fast, dodging them with impossible quickness! (Feat success)
The guards are quick to attack.
The red samurai is slain while the other is beset upon by skeletons. He, too, is killed.
The archer feels exceptionally lonely.
Nearby, the vermin skeletons form a ladder to the top of the rock.
One skeleton makes to attack Van Helsing.
He dispatches it expertly.
But the skeleton had many friends. Several make their way up the BONE LADDER
The other flank advances, also.
Some skeletal reinforcements advance, while others arrive on the scene. These are more dangerous abominations with four arms!
Van Helsing finds himself in a melee, neither able to find the upper hand.
One skeleton reaches the top of the rock.
The archer makes a quick retreat, ready to shoot next turn.
"Not Tom, he was so young!" Tomoe shouts, grabbing the fallen bow, readying it against Arthur and his troops.
All of the Brytish troops are caught in a single arc. Arrows clatter against armor and shields. The front rank escapes harm, save for one soldier who has the axe shot out of his hand (Something Bad). The back rank, however, suffers two casualties.
(I cannot describe the hilarity of rolling something like 20 dice and applying a dozen modifiers to discover that the only people who died were entirely covered up in the bank row)
Engelier's troops form multiple defensive fronts. One of his men-at-arms helps haul him over the top of the rock.
"Aha!" he shouts, "the Artifakt is mine!"
"Speak not so fast!"
Arthur orders his troops to ignore Tomoe and charge toward the rock. One soldier begins to climb up while the rest slam into the enemy front.
They kill one man-at-arms and cut the shield hand off the second (Something Bad)
The Tourish officer steps into the gap and scores a kill.
The crossbowman, having retrieved his crossbow, charges down the steps to avenge his comrade, but he trips and falls.
"Ha! You fool!" the officer shouts.
Zing! A fast moving bolt strikes clean through her neck and her head falls to the ground.
Ah! The other crossbowman has arrived on the roof!
What a view...
Van Helsing dispatches his skeletal foe and blows another's head to bits.
He runs for the Artifakt. His ward is taking cover at the base of the rock.
Overwatch.
Note: The first action resolved in Turn 4 will be the scuffle over the Artifakt between Engelier and Arthur. Scrib and Ark, please specify any strategies or tactics you want to employ to win this duel.
Send orders for Turn 4!
