The heroes of Thespia reclined around another campfire. The borders had been quiet of late, so tall tales were being told as the stars span above and food devoured.
Tychon the Archer, leaning back after a perticularly fine fowl for dinner, looked at the others. "Of course, with Jason and The Argonauts, we did go treasure hunting..."
"Oh, here we go again!" Polykratos groaned.
"What, don't you like a nice fairy tale before bedtime?" laughed Leandros.
Mark, Dave and I has arranged a nice, civil, game of Mortal Gods this week. Dave set out his terrain, amd because I get to the club later, was given the final deployment point. The scenario was a treasure hunt amd grab.
My force, Jason, Atalanta, Argonauts, three sets of hoplites, some archers and Tychon.
Jason has the Sword of Justice, The Golden Fleece and is Immortal, while Tychon has been gifted the Bow of Apollo.
Mark has a group of centaurs, two warriors, two archers, and a leader. He also had a hero and hoplites, plus his oh so troublesome priest.
Dave brought his necromancer, two sets of cutthroats, spears, the hydra, and many, many skeleton groups, both archers and warriors.
Practically, the first thing I did was to get Atalanta into cover and set up so she could snipe the various undead units that were heading for the possible treasure locations (and stops Dave spawning all over them too, Hades priest can usefully bring them on within 12" of himself, almost infinitely.
The Argonauts headed for a possible location, while the archers and Tychon followed Atalanta. Jason hung out at the right rear as my three hoplites units advanced on the right.
Dave's undead archers took a pile of hits from my shooting. In the background, Mark's centaurs and holiplites clash with Dave's two alive units.
Atlantae shows just how powerful she can be, three hits, plus three extra for the Pegasii on the dice. She can knock out a unit in one go, and did, frequently. She is fast becoming one of my favourite units.
In the distance, the priest of Zeus and Mark's hero lightning slams into the Hydra, finishing it off in one turn, meaning it cannot regenerate. Always a good thing!
Mark's centaurs clash with Dave's undead head on. Phalanexs clash, arrows fly.
Then Mark's cebtaurs crashed into the Greek spears. This finishes off my unarmoured spears, but that annoys Jason!
An annoyed Jason is a dangerous thing. He smashes one of the centaurs. The Argonauts try to search one of the treasure spots, to no avail. Atalanta and Tychon send more undead to be recycled in Hades (undead are green force, they get reduced to dust, reused and recycled).
Jason slammed into and eliminated another centaur. In the distance, Mark is loosing troops to the undead onslaught too. Mark's hero tries to attack Jason, but stubs his toe on the columns, stopping him dead in his tracks.
The undead swarm into the middle, with units being spawned and generated into the central area where the treasure is. No one ever found it though! We called time.
Mark had been severely damaged. Loosing about 300 points of trooos, or over half his force.
Dave lost his hydra, lots and lots of skeletons, but they always get recycled, so he only really only the 100 points for the Hydra.. I lost two sets of Hoplites, but thankfully no heroes. No treasure, but a no score win!
Tychon put down the gnawed bones, "See, told you I worked with heroes." The archer laughed.
Polykratos looked at Leandros quizzically, "Still don't understand it, if it's true, he must be over 200 years old!"
"Guess fighting with immortals rubs off?"
"I mean, he doesn't look a day under 300!"
A leg bone flew through the air, clipping the lochagos on his arm.
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