Hey everyone. Thanks for your comments and views again, really makes me feel happy that people might be enjoying this blog! :]
@Malika: I would love to use the Demonettes, I love
Migs' Sniper Girl conversion, and I think they can get some real Blanche-esque convertions from them, which are much more suitable for true =I=munda over the House Escher Gangers. I think I will attempt it at some point, but I must admit, my love for the Escher range is clouding my judgment, so I keep having urges to paint them! (I will just turn them into a straight Necro gang, once I have enough painted!)
@Werkind: I agree with you! (as always! xD ) The pistol seems really over-sized to me too. I wish I hadn't cut off the original stub gun (I had given her a plasma pistol), because every pistol I try is totally oversized. (In her hand is a shaved down auto-pistol!)
For the observant among you, one will notice my thread thus far lacks an integral part of =I=munda...
Inquisitors! I aim to remedy to situation as soon as my Empire Wizards box set arrives, so stay tuned (a Tech-Priest and Assassin are also in the works!)
- RL gets in the way of this hobby, but really I don't think i'd want it any other way. Anyway, it turns out that I may be moving to South Korea very soon (if everything goes to plan). and so my potential to make =I=munda models will not change, but my scope for games will drastically. I light of this, I have spent the last few weeks just slapping basecoats on everything so I could get some games in! And today was the first reward from all that grafting!
So here is a battle report for your enjoyment, (if you so wish.) None of the models here are finished in painting, except the older Necro Minis (with the grey rubble bases). I will make all these models look nice once I move, and possibly before. (Including the old Necro Minis, as I think I've gotten much better since then -something you'll have to take my word on because I've not posted a finished model yet!-) But they all stand up okay for a battle report!
This battle report is inspired by the great work of one literary genius, Xanthos! I aimed to make it a narrative report in a similar way. It shows the final scenes of the Crime Boss Papa'jin (controlled by me), and his hunters, the Bounty Hunter Jacob Bones & Co. (controlled by my little brother -his first ever Necro fight-). It takes places on the edge of an industrial complex in the wastelands of Corpionus IV:
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The Fall of Papa'jin
Jacob Bones spat out his cigar and stamped it into the dust covered ground. He was up an hour before dawn. The rest of the team were still resting and he had wondered out of the camp to survey the landscape around him. He grimaced. The swirling ash storms obscured everything more than a mile distant. Worst of all they would be traveling through the thick of it today. He was sick of all this. For the past two weeks he and the team had been forced to trek across the wastelands on foot, their APC transport wrecked in the Sludge Flats just outside of Fell Ordamentum, the last Imperial settlement on the border of this desolate land. They were pursuing the interplanetary Crime-lord Papa'jin, an ruthless individual who headed the Golden Serpent Cartel. Jacob Bones had no quarry with the man, but in his pocket was a 4000 credit contract from a man who did.
He smiled and lit up another cigar. This would be enough to put him into retirement. Well, as long as the mercenaries he had hired to assist didn't demand any costs on top of their extortionate 1000 credit hiring fee. The old bounty hunter Jacob Bones frowned. The mercenaries called themselves the 'Scarlet Pistols' and were all under the command of one Miss Scarlet. The woman terrified Jacob. As soon as they could track down their prey the better.
He heard the crunch of footsteps behind him. The weight and rhythm so famliar to him, he knew it was his assistant without even looking.
"Corvillion, why must you disturb me? This best be pleasing news."
Corvillion stood beside him and looked into the distant with a disgusted look wrought on his face, "Quick Snake has returned."
"...and?"
"He has picked up the trail again-"
"Well about time."
"There is an ancient industrial complex to the South East. They are somewhere inside there, and They are going to be waiting for us."
"Seems they have a scout too."
Corvillion nodded. A few moments latter he added, "Why do you think they've bothered to trek it out this far in no-mans land? The Native reports that they have two guests with them.
"I see. These guests have joined them recently?"
Corvillion shuck his head. "They've been with them since Subsequor."
Jacob Bones shrugged. "I don't care why they're here, try not to tire yourself with such thoughts my friend. As long as we can claim bounty on his new friends, he could have a hundred for all I care. Now tell me, what of our Royal Princess, has she awakened from her slumber?"
"Miss Scarlet? I'm not sure, last I saw she was ordering the native, Quick Snake, to make her some breakfast."
"... and did he?"
"Well I saw him urinating on the side of her tent."
"Oh my... can we keep him as a pet?"
Dramatis Personae
The Good
Jacob Bones - an old Bounty Hunter, armed to the teeth.
Corvillion - his apprentice. A gunfighter with 2x Bolt Pistols
Miss Scarlet - Leader of the Scarlet Pistols, armed with a Plasma Pistol, Stub Gun and Chainsword
Barret - the heavy, armed with a Heavy Bolter
Tiffin - the agent, armed with a Silenced and Scoped Auto-Gun
Minavra Delan - a fierce fighter, with a Plasma Pistol, metal Club and Flack Armor
Nyro - the new recruit, with Auto-Pistol and Crowbar
Quick Snake - the Native Tracker on a personal warpath (to what end, who knows?)
The Bad
Papa'jin - Crimeboss and leader of the Golden Serpent Cartel, armed with a Bolter and Stub Gun.
"Chef" - a charismatic fighter, with his "gut buster special" (Heavy Bolter)
Kaey Sum - an impetuous Juve armed with an Auto-Pistol and Photon flash flares.
"Egg" - a secretive individual with a Stub Gun.
Chik'te - another Native Tracker, armed with a Shotgun and Club.
The Ugly
Two secretive Mutants, their role in this story in unknown, although they accompany Papa'jin and his Gang.
The Fight!
On the outskirts of the ancient industrial complex, Papa'jin - tired of running - turns to face his pursuers and fight them off.
He orders his gang to set up on the very outskirts of the complex. Aiming to gun down his pursuers before they can get too close.
Papa'jin and Chef take up positions towards the south edge, the Mutants keeping close eyes upon them.
The Native, Chik'te arrives beneath them, scouting out the lower regions of the complex.
To the North, youngsters Egg and Kaey Sum arrive, boasting to each other as they fire warning shots into the air.
The mercenaries Tiffin and Minavra Delan arrive amongst the outer-ruins on the southern flank, ready to dash for the cover ahead.
In the centre, Miss Scarlet takes the newbie Nyro under her wing to show her the ropes!
To the North, Barret accompanies the two bounty hunters as they scout cautiously through the ruins.
Quick Snake is a master of infiltration, and is already creeping across a factory floor.
He freezes as he hears people approaching...
Spotting the loudly talking Juves to the North, he waits silently.
It Begins
The Mercenaries to the south all start sprinting across the open ground, darting from cover to cover trying to remain unseen as they approach their targets.
However, up on top of the 2nd story building, the mutant armed with the Auto-Gun spots them in the distance, he barks an order at Chef, who proceeds to spray a hail of bullets at the ruins distant. One of the shots hit Minavra Delan as she attempts to close the ground between them. The wound causes no lasting damage but sends her out cold for the rest of this fight.
Lucky for the rest of the mercenaries, the Heavy Bolter jams, Chef throws it across the floor in frustration.
Jacob Bones, his assistant Corvillion and the Heavy, Barret, all fan out as they approach the factory to help cover Quick Snake. Corvillion spies the rival Native, Chik'te, moving beneath the buildings and fires several shots with his two bolt pistols, pinning him in place.
Papa'jin and the Plasma armed mutant begin to move down the central gang way, Quick Snake looses his cool and bursts from his hiding place, hitting the Crime lord and wounding him, but still not enough to take him down. Papa'jin hisses with frustration and aims his Bolter at the Native. The
Crack Shot hits home, and Quick Snake crumples, falling to his knees screaming and clutching the wound.
The two Cartel Juves, climb up onto the factory floor, ready to finish off Quick Snake, however they fall into view of Jacob Bones, who had just rounded the corner. Aiming up his Bolter with telescopic sight, he aims at Egg and shots him off the back of the factory. Egg hits the floor and lies there still for a few moments, before trying to crawl to safety.
Under the orders of the mutant, Chef clambers down from the 2nd story building onto the southern gang way, and pulls out his shotgun, ready to shoot as soon as another mercenary makes an appearance. Meanwhile, the female mercenary Tiffin, is unfazed by her friend getting knocked out and continues to run down the southern flank attempting to flank the Cartel. In the centre on the ground floor, Corvillion closes in on the native Chik'te hitting him with shots from both of his pistols. The native falls to the floor a trickle of blood running from his left ear.
Papa'jin's impetuous shooting of Quick Snake proves to be his biggest mistake, as he falls into the sights of the Heavy Barret who lets loose with his Heavy Bolter. The flurry of shots strike the Crimelord across the face, horribly scarring him. He falls onto the gang way, screaming, clutching his face as he tries to crawl to safety.
With Papa'jin down, the mutant rushes forward for revenge. However, The Plasma shot flings wide of Barret.
On the Southern flank. Miss Scarlet has finished orchestrating her pincer attack on the Heavy Chef. She snaps an order at Nyro, who misses wildly with her Auto-Pistol. Cursing in frustration she steps out into the open, not thinking twice about the Shotgun fire from Chef that also misses wildly. She raises her Plasma Pistol and with a snarl on her face fires a full power blast, hitting the Heavy in the arm. Flaying the skin down to the bone. He falls into a motionless heap.
Nyro stands in awe of the ancient buildings, the green fighter forgets herself for a few moments.
Tiffin continues to strafe down the south flank, almost ready to cut off any escape.
Things are looking dire for the Cartel. In one last ditched effort, Kaey Sum rushes forward to shoot down Jacob Bones.
Foolish and rash, the young Juve must have wasted his ammo in warning shots, as the gun clicked empty.
The Mutant on the top of the 2nd-story building could see everything in front of him. Chef and Chik'te out cold. Papa'jin, and Egg crying out due to their injuries. He barked the withdraw call, the remaining gangers all breaking their nerve and beginning to flee the battle.
Kaey Sum runs back across the factory floor and down the ladder. However the bounty hunter's assistant Corvillion had fallen back to help his master and rounded the corner to see the fleeing Cartel ganger.
He drew and leveled his pistols in the blink of an eye, gunning down his second victim today. Kaey Sum bit his lip and held his nerve, attempting to crawl to safety along with his companion Egg, who had almost recovered from his previous wounds.
The Plasma armed mutant ran back across the gang way, dragging the still conscious body of Papa'jin with him. The Mercenaries were closing in on them from all sides.
The two bounty hunters pulled out their hand-cuffs, ready to take down the youngsters. Egg climbed to his feet only to be shot back down by Jacob Bones. As the two were being closed upon, Kaey Sum also climbed back up to his feet and drew his knife. Accepting the challenge, Jacob Bones spat out his cigar and drew his chainsword. The lad only lasted one round before he was cut down with 4 strikes of the diesel powered blade.
Jacob lit up another cigar and prodded the boy with his boot. To his amazement he had
survived against the odds.
Towards the centre, mercenaries were closing in and the two mutants panicked. The Plasma armed one, who had been dragging the body of Papa'jin, left the Crimelord to his fate and made a break for safety. The Mutant on the second floor had no chance of escape and in a last attempt leapt off the building, only to fall and cripple itself.
The crippled mutant is closed upon on all sides.
At last, Tiffin arrives to cut off the escape routes, and spots the fleeing Plasma mutant. Knowing this could be her only chance to revenge her injured friend Minavra, she raises her scoped Auto-Gun and... misses.
The mutant makes his escape of into the wastes.
Epilogue
"Boss, should we go after him then?"
"Who?"
"The mutant who got away!"
"Alas, I haven't the foggiest what you're raving about Corvillion."
Jacob spoke the truth, such a complete lack of caring for the fate of the last mutant, had erased it from his mind. He did not care why the mutants were travelling with the Cartel, that they somehow had control over such a powerful figure. And he did not care what they were doing out here in the middle of nowhere amoung a fool's mountain of junk. He had 6 captives, the infamous Papa'jin laid unconscious at his feet. Jacob lit up a cigar and looked at the fallen Crimeboss, "Let's hope they recognise him, with his face looking like that..."
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Thanks for reading!
Hope you all enjoyed it :]
EDIT - lots of grammar mistakes D:
Exploring the dark, twisting corridors of =I=Munda... Dare you follow?
That last pic is a rocking one too, with the mutant way off in the distance ... pity she missed, but the little gribble lives to serve another day!
munda campaign in Liverpool/Wirral UK area, see the link below for info and instructions
