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Tonight Hari's amazons ventured into the ruins of Mordheim for the first time, making their way through the ruined buildings and the dark alleys. As they came to a dimly lit street corner, Dernoe, one of the more experienced warriors, suddenly stopped. A dozen meters away, turning his back, stood an old man clad in black robes. Around him lay corpses, but he did not seem to notice the pungent stench they exahaled. Dernoe squinted in an attempt to make out what the man was doing. He was gently waving his arms in small cercles. His head slowly rocked back and forth. He was mumbling something Dernoe could not understand.

Dernoe looked back. Her bandmates had taken postions all around her, from where they could observe the old man. Dernoe slowly and silently crawled forward, but then she froze in her tracks. The old man had turned around and stared at her with cold, evil, otherworldly eyes. Around him the corpses began to quiver. Then one of them slowly stood up. Dernoe stared in awe at the carcasses rising to their feet, one by one, like living men.

"Those are undead! she heard the warband's priestess cry as she drew her sword. Dernoe felt the lust for battle fill her heart.
-Push through them before they overwhelm us, yelled the priestess, this is a god-damn breakthrough scenario from page 87 in the rulebook!".


Here's the situation (it's very simple):

The amazones must break through the Undead lines and escape off the table via the "escape edge". The amazons win if they can get 2 standing models off the table. The Undead win if the amazons rout before that.

Hari gets the first turn. He split up his force into 2 packs of roughly the same strength.
He plans to occupy my zombies on one table side, while his warriors outrun my zombies on the other.

Hari's priestess.

The priestess and a henchwoman at the starting position. The zombies have picked up their scent and are closing in.

Hari places one of his warriors carrying this vicious "sun staff" on top of a building. She keeps sniping at my poor walking corpses. Fortunately for me, Hari keeps rolling too low and misses EVERYTHING!

I build up a wall of rotting flesh before Hari, determined to let him arrive at the other side "over my dead body" (literally!). Above you see the centerpiece of my defence.

Backed up by the rather mediocre firepower of 2 pariahs with bows. "Yesss masterrrr!".

The amazones hesitate a little too long. They stay behind cover while my zombies stumble towards them...

Here you see my "center" force advancing towards Hari's entrenched amazones. Although he managed to place his priestess on a ladder (to get a clear shot) he lost to much time in doing so. To make it worse for Hari, all the shots he takes at my vampire hit thin air.

"Braaaaaains!"

On the other table edge my necromancer leads another pack of zombies around a corner to intercept the second group of amazones.

At the center of the board, Hari charges my zombies. He hacks and slashes at them, but they just keep getting back on their feet. Later on I send in 2 fresh (additional) zombies and my vampire. That is the end of those two unfortunate amazones.
Still, Hari managed to take a LP from my vampire... impressive.

Now I close the noose. 2 zombies climb onto the sacrificial pit and charge the priestess (on her ladder!).

"Moooaaaargh! More braiiiiiins!" The priestess kicks and screams, but the cold dead hands of the zombies seal her doom.

Hari remained unnervingly calm during the whole time i massacrated his warband on one side of the table. Why? Well, he had a trump up his sleeve.

Hari smiles at me (which is a bad sign during a game) and sprints around the OTHER side of the house, thus putting a whole building between himself and my zombies with their pitiful 4" of mouvement. So much for my "interception" attempt... He now has a clear lane up to the saving escape edge for those 2 last amazons he needs to save in order to win.

Now, I must say that Hari could have made it if I had been able to cram all my zombies into the one place I had intended. Unfortunately for him, I had to abandon one little zombie in the back. It was that zombie that was able to charge the "homerunning" amazons, thus bringing their escape to an abrupt halt. To make it even worse for poor Hari, I rolled a 6 to hit, a 6 to wound (critical) and he rolled a 6 on the injury chart.
I don't know about you, but I am sensing a pattern... The number of the beast? The Dark Gods must have graced me today!

The sportsmanly handshake of the end. Good game dude.

A the end of the game, the priestess and the vampire went for a pint of Pat's finest. Or a mug of blood or whatever.