Blasphemous Statues and the Freedom of Speech: Medieval

[Scratch]

When the widely known sculptor, Ben Gazi, started a series of giant statues depicting the Dragon God and his battle with Death, the entire Dragon Priesthood is up in arms, mainly due to the poor quality of the workmanship. Some cutthroats and mercenaries have shown up to protect Ben as he labors on his really cruddy looking art, and the Black Flame with a company consisting of Dark Spearmen and a company of Braagvosi Arquebusiers led by the famous Amadeus Von Brag. The Priesthood sent one of their finest battle skilled Dragon Priests to lead a company of Zealots, with a small riot's worth of pissed peasants and two Beasts of the Wrath.


The two morally opposed armies on either side of the construction site.


The troops from the Red Company, sent to protect freedom of speech.


The Dragon Priest's army, supplemented by rioting peasants and Beasts of the Wrath.


Close up on the Wrath Beast, these are highly pose-able and also fairly fragile, I included them mainly so that I can prove that I do not completely suck at making creatures, the statues are stupid on purpose.


Defender's fortifications, with one archer and several halberdiers guarding the gate.


Ben the sculptor and his bodyguard, Sen.


The statues, the objective of the Dragon Faction is to destroy both statues and kill the sculptor as a warning.



Initiative rolls, Dragon D6 is for the Dragon Faction of course.

TURN 1


The Dragon Zealots moves up, the Priest fails a heroic feat for speed.


After a successful feat for speed, the Braagvosi move to take point on the hill, while the spearmen move to flank.


The Crossbow Wench misses a shot.

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TURN 2


The peasants reach the gate, the Dragon Priest gives the Wrath Beasts sprint through a feat. You can also see the armored and winged banner-hollow in the foreground, who holds a proper icon of the Dragon God.


One Wrath Beast gets a crit on his sprint roll and sprints over 10 inches to the side of the hilly formation.


Black Flame breaks from the spear squad to and moves up, he gives the spearmen more move through feat, the Arquebusiers break squad and move to cover the spearmen.


They get 3 crit fails, killing one, blowing the arm off the other, and breaking the gun of the third.


Brag and the uninjured Bragtanian blow off 2 hp from the wrath beast with a series of crits.


Von Brag then jumps on the Wrath Beast with a feat.


Neither the Dragon Claw that Brag wields nor the Claws of Wrath deal any damage to either combatant.


The Crossbowoman throws down a halberd at the rioters.


The halberd hits but doesn't kill, meanwhile, one rioter is killed by the by the guards of the gate.

TURN 3


Rioters break the gate and engage in combat with the cutthroats within.


The Dragon Priest uses her feat to climb onto the paw of the Wrath Beast.


Ally oop!


She is thrown onto the Sculptor, weapons raised.


They trade blows, dealing 1hp damage to each.


Brag finishes the Wrath Beast off with a counter.


The Gunslingers of Brag kill 3 Zealots of the Red Hood.


The Crossbow wench kills 3 hollow,including the Armored banner bearer, with a huge crit shot.


Sen knocks her off the sculptor and onto the Dragon Scupture's Head, Ben Gazi jumps off the construction ladder meanwhile.


The Black Flame first misses a shot with his Calamity Bow.



Then Heroicly Leaps onto the dragon head.


Then Crit-fails his attack with the Claw-Bow and drops it.


Ben loses his hat in the fall, and picks the bow up for safe keeping.


Brag fails a leap up to where his gunmen are, a rioter is killed by the Merc defenders and the Dark Spears advance impeccably and uselessly.

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TURN 4

The Dragon Priest shoves both Black Flame and Sen off the statue.


Then tries to decapitate it, dealing no damage.


The Wrath Beast tries to pull a wing off the Dragon Statue, fails. In the background you can see the Blood Monkey, which is where I store all my blood.


Sen is then killed by the wrath beast.


The Rioters kill the defending Mercs.


The White squad breaks formation and rushes into the sculpture garden, ready do destroy the blasphemous artifacts of the infidels.


They deal some damage to the prone Black Flame.


The Black Flame gets up and fails a feat while locked in melee. The 1 armed Brag fails a point blank headshot


Brag's shootas shoot at the Dragon Priest in conjunction with the Crossbow Wench.


Ben runs around.


Brag kills a rioter and enters melee with the last rioter.

[IVhorseman]

Awesome, it's Sen's Fortress!

Dragon D6 is for the Dragon Faction of course.

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TURN 5


The Dragon Priest hacks the Dragon's head off with the feat, completing 1/3 objectives.


The White Hollow breaks the Scratch statue with a good roll, 2/3 objectives complete.


The 1 armed gunman becomes armless after a crit fail counter.


Still in a stalemate.


Amadeus Von B kills the last rioter with a counter.


Dragon Priest kills an arquebusier with her pick.


The Wrath Beast fails to further damage the idol.


Ben gives the Black Flame his bow,


Then does a bit of crowd surfing, managing not to spear himself on the back mounted spears.


Gazi the Sculptor kills one of the hollow, while Black Flame knocks the other one away with a feat.


Brag misses a shot.



Mostly Armless kicks the hollow officer off the ladder.


Banner Boy and Wonder Wench kill the Priest.


The Dark Spears turn back around, upon realizing that the entrance is blocked up.

TURN 6


Wrath Beast jumps onto the headless Dragon Idol,


Takes a mighty leap,


thus ending the tale of Wonder Wench and Banner Boy.


The last of Brag's retinue is killed by the hollow officer.


he then moves to ambush the Dark Spears.


both the Hollow and Ben Gazi crit fail their attacks, making them weaponless.


Brag fails to damage the wrath beast, even with a doubleshot feat.


The Black Flame kills the only hollow to have a response action,


allowing the Spearmen to pass safely.


Ben kills his attacker with his comrade's spear.

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TURN 7


The Wrath Beast tackles Amadeus and pins him down.


The Hollow officer then wounds him while he is trapped.


Black Flame drops his bow again.


Then gets confused by the strange bullet hurler.


The Spearmen then turn around again, due to the action moving to fast for them.

TURN 8


The Beast of Wrath attacks the Black Flame, but due to a block, doesn't do any damage, meanwhile, the officer disarms brag, and pins him again.


GEEEERRRON


IIIIIIMMOOO (-1 hp)


Still confused by the gun,


and also confused by how to jump.


The Spearmen finally line up for the charge they have been preparing the whole game.

TURN 9


The Wrath Beast tosses his attacker down, where he is stabbed to death, thus ends the tale of Ben Gazi, the Shitty Sculptor. 3/3 objectives complete!


The Black Flame wounds the Wrath Beast, down to 1hp.


The Game long charge culminates with the Officer getting torn to complete fucking shreds.


Brag fails to kill the Wrath Beast.

TURN 10


The Wrath Beast is killed by counters while attempting to kill the Dark Spears.

END OF GAME


EPILOGUE




Well, at least I got one thing out of this.


THE (technically) WINNERS!

While the Hollow won a moral victory, the lands of the Red Company shall not be plagued by Hollow raiders for a good time, Amadeus' gunmen would have been valuable, but they served their purpose, and it is never a good Idea to send Spearmen to flank, at least not these Spearmen.

[Brikboyz]

That dark flame how he can be a ninja fail that much.

[Scratch]

Awesome, it's Sen's Fortress!

More like Sen's Art Gallery.

The Dragon D6 was a cool trinket from the renaissance fair, on the 1 it has a dragon's head, and the other sides are carved to look like the dragon is curling around the die.

What's worse is that he wasn't even trying to be a ninja, just a wandering archer with some fire associations.

[Zupponn]

The Holy Dragon enjoys the defeat of these worshipers of unclean minds.

[Pwnerade]

The Wrath Beasts were .

[IVhorseman]

Definitely can't see the dragon on that die from the picture lol. Now that you've pointed it out i kinda see it, but for a long time it just looked like a melted lump of plastic you home-made into some dice or something lol.

[Scratch]

The full dragon is hidden from view, unless viewed from a 3/4 or so angle, the face is on the 1, the wings curl around on the 2 and 3, with the neck on the edge between them. It does look like it could have been made by a dragon melting it, if viewed from a distance.

Zupponn, you should have a grudge against this particular dragon priest, after all, she burned your Icon,

[Bragallot]

Ah, I was rooting for the armless guy, he fought and died

[Scratch]

I was rooting for him too, I have always liked the idea of a last, limbless, dude fighting for life on the brink of destruction. I think that started in Bluebright's battle report where there is this one astronaut, last of his kind. He got cut in half, and trapped on a small island in the middle of lava. While the battle was raging around him, seemingly uncaring for him.



Then that happened.

[Arkbrik]

They get 3 crit fails, killing one, blowing the arm off the other, and breaking the gun of the third.

This is the best pic.