Tychon looked up at the rest of the Thespian Lochagos around the fire. The warband had had a quiet day, and were enjoying the last scraps of their meals. He nudged Polykratos and looked up at the rest of the gang as Jeff was starting to assemble and tune instruments.
"You know it wasn't the only time I fought the Hydra..."
"You never fought the Hydra!" Polykratos coughed. "Not once, not twice, not never!"
"Oh I did, ask the archers, we were there." Tychon said with complete earnestness. "The second time, it was against a priest of Hades and a priest of Zeus, attacking a temple."
"Never!"
"Centaurs of Zeus, pushing into skeletons, as they moved across the area towards each other,"
Polykratos took a drink of wine from his goblet, and leaned back to listen.
Mark, Dave and I got together for another Mortal Gods scrap, this time with out 'Mythic' variant. My temple sat in the centre, terrain sat in each deployment zone, and the three different forces deployed. Argonauts are heavy combat troops , backed up by Atlante who is a brilliant shooter, and three more shooty units including Tychon. Mark brought 6 centaurs, a priest of Zeus, a hero and a hoplite unit. Dave brought his priest of Hades, a thousand skeletons that can regenerate, hoplites, zealots (not quite as tough humans), skeleton archers and most scarily, a hydra.
I swung my shooty types left, archers, Peltasts, Tychon were all led by Atlante, who is key character. The heavy hitters. led by Jason, two experienced hoplite groups and a group of Argonauts moved right.
The Hydra and a skelton demon had been tasked with taking on my archers! Really scary. The only option sometimes when you fight a beast like this is to kill it with arrows. The Peltasts stepped forwards to lob javelins, and at the same time to protect Atlante. The rest of the archers and Tychon moved round the ragged rocks...
Pity on the first firing turn I did no hits. while the Hydra ate two peltasts!
The turn after, however, Atlante fired, the archers fired, Tychon fired then Atlante fired again (she gets two activations). This was enough arrow wounds to down the beast, which means that it cannot regenerate (or even grow extra) heads and wounds. In the background, Mark & Dave knock seen shades out of each other. Dave could also bring skeleton units back from Hades, it's a green army, as he keeps recycling and reusing the dead.
"Will someone rid me of this troublesome priest!" Mark's priest was causing Jason all sorts of heartache with his special ability to launch Zeus's thunderbolts which cause unsaveable wounds (wearing bronze armour in a thunderstorm is not the greatest idea). A unit of hoplites sorted him out, while Jason took out a centaur and then tried to deal with the hero of Zeus who was also wielding all sorts of magic. Jason was knocked down, on his final (2nd chance) wound, Mark was gloating, and then Jason rummaged in his pack, pulled.out something and healed himself up to full strength. It was worth it for Dave's & Mark's faces when they read the rules for the 'Golden Fleece'!
Centaurs everywhere! These things are brutal! Choice of weaponry, decent hitting skills, two activations, and man they can move! Thankfully, I took out Mark's boss Centaur before it could do massive damage.
Skeleton units fall under storms of heroes arrows and the Skeleton Hero's leg must have fallen off, it kept failing to charge, which Atlante took advantage of and turned him into a pin-cushion!
By game end, Jason fell to Mark's heroes blows. This was enough to give him the victory, I was a close second due to mass hero kills, and Dave, even while claiming that recycled dead did not count for victory points, was a fair way off in third. Another great game, these rules never fail to make a tight, fun game where anything can happen.
"I still don't believe you!" Polykratos laughed.
"Well, I would hae brought a hydra's tooth, but you know what happens when they hit the ground..."
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