Vanguard Launch Day At Mantic Hq Part 2

After our first game I thought I would have a look around some of the studio miniatures.

Lets look at some of the vanguard minis..

Here is a beautiful diorama which is inspired by the Vanguard rule book cover.

 The new Dwarfs!

After having a look at all the miniatures on display it was lunch time and Pizza arrived for the hungry  gamers in the hall as rolling dice does work up an apatite...

So after refuelling we set up for another game this time we used a scenario.

Light the beacon.

We upped the points value to around 160 and I added Thegn and Tookey added a Banshee.

We rolled off and Tookey won and decided to attack and in 5 rounds try to light the beacon. I set up first in a 12 inch bubble being able to have 2 minis next to the wood pile.

I thought I would make sure that I covered my flanks and have my Ice Kin Hunter in the middle to get some shooting if anyone comes near.

Tookey starts to move his band of Scarecrows on the left hand side of the board while his Butcher moves to the right.

The Banshee starts to move down the middle of the field and eventually kills of one of the Dwarfs.

As I have 5 rounds to defend I keep my Dwarf and Berserker close to the objective..

The Scarecrows start to move to the left but are soon meet by an angry Snow Troll who starts to do his thing and bash away.

The Banshee is getting to close and my Berserker charges in to attack...After a few back and fourths I roll 2 exploding 8s and then another 2 so roll again but only hit 4 times...Tookey's not that happy and rolls but unfortunately for him the Banshee dies.

Tookey has now not got that long before the game ends..

Thegn spies the Butcher coming round on the right and as Thegn is a beast in combat decides to charge in..

The Butcher starts to attack Thegn and inflects a wound or two but Thegn hits back and attacks with devastating blows and wears down the Butcher until its no more..

The Ice Naiad  on the left goes in to help the Snow Troll but gets overwhelmed and dies allowing the Phantom in the mix with the Scarecrows to sneak past the Snow Troll towards the beacon..

The Dwarf sees this and goes into charge after a exchange I mess up the saving roll.. and he dies..

Tookey moves his Reapers up the hill...

The Snow Troll finish killing all the Scarecrows and moves towards the Phantom...

All Tookey has to do now in the new round is activate his phantom to light the beacon.....

but...

Instead he gets carried away and activates the Reaper on the hill and attacks the Berserker....

Then he realises what he has done as the Snow Troll charges in and

and squish the Phantoms gone..

Tookey really was kicking himself after that...The Northern Alliance again really ripped through the Nightstalkers but Tookey could have snatched victory..

As the day was drawing to a close it would have been rude not to visit the Mantic shop and I walked away with a few bits lets just say..

Well what a fantastic day of gaming and being opportunity to learn more about Vanguard.

If your on the fence still about whether to try Vanguard I would recommend visiting Mantic's website to download the free rules and give it a go!

The rules are here

 I want to say a big thank you to Martin, Matt, New Matt and Elvis for running and organising the day at Mantic HQ. 

I hope to have some more Vanguard on the way and I have an interview with Matt Gilbert which I will be sharing with you all soon..