First play through of the Solo Campaign Scenario 1, a team of 7 French specialists ventured to a deserted summoning circle where a previous team had vanished.
The Field of play
The clues were marked using objective markers numbered 1 to 6, which were placed face down and randomised on the table. The Objective markers were from TTCombat, and for wound tracking – Warbases wound trackers were used. The walls were from Sarissa Precision , and the summoning circle, ruins and twisted tree were 3d printed. White d6’s were used to signify who had fired (need to make some shot markers)
The Team
The team consisted of the Officer, a grenadier, an infantryman, a sapper, a veteran hunter, a Heavy Cavalry man and a vivandiere. As they reached the circle they heard the sound of wolves surrounding them.
Equipment and Ability Choses
| Soldier | Name | Abilities | Equipment |
| Officer | Paulo Bossart | +1 Melee, +1 Courage +1 Health Inspiring Strong Medic | Silver Hand Weapon, 2 * Pistol, Holy Symbol |
| Sapper | Jacque Arseneau | Combat Engineer | Musket, Cartridge Box + Silver Shot, Heavy Weapon, Bayonet |
| Veteran Hunter | Herman Charette | Nimble | 2* Pistol, Cold Iron Hand Weapon, Silver Hand Weapon |
| Grenadier | Emile Deguire | Musket, Cartridge Box + Cold Iron Shot, Bayonet | |
| Heavy Cavalry | Roger Eury | Combat Rider | Breast Plate, Salt Bag, Hand Weapon, Pistol |
| Vivandiere | Rachel Lally | Inspiring, Supernatural Vet, Master of Cover | Hand Weapon, Oil + Torches, Holy Symbol |
| Infantryman | Robert Goffinet | Musket, Cartridge box + Silver Shot, Bayonet |
Turn 1
Phase 1
Roger (the heavy cavalryman) headed west to the closest clue marker, very luckily this turned out to be the Special Instructions. So he picked them up.
Emile (The grenadier) headed south to the clue marker, not quite reaching it, but seeing a wolf and chose to shoot it, hitting doing 4 damage.
Robert (The infantryman) headed west to support the heavy cavalry man, having climbed the slight rise he spots a wold, shoots at it, misses but it reacts and dashes for cover to the tree just in front of it.
Herman (the veteran hunter) moved South east from his start position towards the clue marker – investigated and discovered a silver cross.
Phase
The wolf North east of the team turned into a werewolf, much to the shock of the team, but to the relief of Roger and Robert, who both had wolves close by. The wolves advanced.
The southern of the western wolves, the one closest to Robert, having dashed for cover when shot add, charged Robert and reached him. Robert valiantly fought of the wolf taking no damage and inflicting 5. The wolf just north of this one, rushed forward but did not reach Roger.
The south western wolf advanced and reached Emile, in the ensuing melee neither the wolf or Emile inflicted any damage.
All other wolves and the werewolf advanced towards the team or nearest clue marker.
Phase 2.
Paulo (officer of our brave team), advanced south to support Emile, firing at the wolf attacking Emile with one of his pistols and missing.
Rachel (the vivandiere) and Jacque (the sapper) moved south to support Herman, with Jacque taking a shot at the nearest wolf and missing.
End of turn 1.
No kills and no loses. 2 clues investigated
Turn 2
Phase 1
Emile attacked the wolf that he had shot and which had attacked him, he failed to hit but the wolf attacked back doing 10 damage to Emile. Paulo advanced and charged the wolf to save Emile, hitting it and killing it.
Meanwhile Robert attacked the wolf which had attacked him and killed it, he then promptly reloaded. On the Eastern flank Herman charged the wolf to his south, failing to kill it but taking significant damage in its return attack.
Monster Phase
Two more wolves appeared to the east side of the battlefield.
On the western flak Roger was attacked by one wolf which wounded him and he in return managed to inflict 4 damage. Another wolf from the north then also attacked Roger, but neither of them hit or inflicted damage.
The wolf which Herman had attacked, attacked him, inflicting more wounds but was killed by his return attack. The wolf near Jacque attacked, failed to hit him, but he splattered it with his Heavy Weapon.
The werewolf, the north eastern wolf and the two new wolves continued to advance towards the Clue markers and team.
Phase 2
Herman and Rachel moved south to protect Herman.
Roger attacked the wounded wolf and missed, luckily for him it also missed.
End of Turn 2
4 wolves dead, 2 extra wolves arrived on table, 3 of the team wounded. 3 Clues investigated.
Turn 3
Phase 1
Roger realising that getting the Special Orders of the table should be his priority disengaged and moved south, shooting at the wounded wolf that had attacked him and missing.
Robert also moved south and shot at the wounded wolf – killing it. Paulo reloaded his pistol and moved to protect Roger and Emile from the wolves. Herman Shot at the closest wolf and missed.
Monster Phase
Another wolf arrived, this time on the Western edge of the table. The werewolf advanced. 3 wolves attacked Jacque. He managed to wound one, but the other two wounded him and the last took him down.
Phase 2
Seeing Jacque hit the ground, Rachel decided to head for the table edge.
Emile reloaded and shot at the closest wolf, missing.
End of turn 3
5 wolves dead, 1 extra wolves arrived on table, 3 of the team wounded. and 1 dead. 3 clues investigated
Turn 4
Phase 1
Roger continued to move towards the southern edge to get the orders off the table and reloaded his pistol.
Paulo and Emile, both reloaded and shot at the werewolf, both hit, but Paulo failed to do enough damage to wound it due to its Damage reduction trait, Emile inflicted 2 damage after the damage reduction. Only 3 of the team got to activate this phase as only 6 of the team were still active.
Monster Phase
It started to rain.
The werewolf healed 2 points of damage due to its fast healing trait and advanced towards Robert but failed to reach him.
The other wolves on the west advanced on Paulo, one reaching him and attacking but failing to hit and he failed to hit with his return strike.
On the east, a wolf charged Herman and took him down. The second charged Rachel and scored high taking her out in one round.
Phase 2
With Herman and Rachel down, only Robert could act. He reloaded his musket with Silver shot and shot the werewolf for 10 damage.
End of turn 4
5 wolves dead, 2 of the team wounded. and 3 dead. 3 clues investigated
Turn 5
Phase 1
Roger takes the hint and exits the battlefield taking the orders with him.
Emile shot at the werewolf and missed. With only 4 active team members left on the table, that was it for Phase 1.
Monster Phase
2 more wolves appeared in the north.
Paulo was attacked by the wolves near him, both failed to hit and he managed to wound one for 5. The werewolf healed for 2 point of damage attacked Robert inflicting 9 damage, on his return hit Robert failed to hit.
The wolves on the eastern side moved towards the remaining members of the team.
Phase 2
Paulo attacked the wounded wolf and missed, luckily it also failed to hit him.
Robert loaded with silver shot and killed the werewolf.
End of turn 5
5 wolves dead, 1 werewolf dead, 2 of the team wounded, 3 dead and 1 exited the table. 3 clues investigated
Turn 6
Phase 1
Paulo attacked the wounded wolf and killed it, he then moved south off the table.
Robert Shot the wolf to his left, killed it and then moved south of the table.
Monster Phase
The 2 wolves near Emile, advanced and attacked, both failed to hit, he also failed to hit in return.
Phase 2
Emile exited the table south. The battle ended
End of turn 6
7 wolves killed, 1 werewolf killed, 4 team members of table, 3 wounded team members. 3 downed team mates and 3 clues investigated.
| Team Member | Wolf Kills | Werewolf Kills |
| Robert | T2(1), T3(1),t6(1) | t4(1) |
| Paulo | T2(1), T6(1) | |
| Jacque | T2(1) | |
| Herman | T2(1) | |
| Rachel | ||
| Emile | ||
| Roger |
End of Game
So a total of 8 bonus xp was earned, each team member got 1 xp for participating and I decided to award the bonus evenly to the 4 who made it off table, giving each a total of 3xp.
Only 1 team member survived undamaged – and that was Paulo the officer, who was very lucky with his roles.
The downed team members were very lucky with their roles, both Jacques and Herman ended up with Flesh wounds, whilst Rachel took and Permanent Internal injury. Ok I did use a fate dice to reroll Herman’s as originally he was dead, so he was lucky second time round.
Learnings
I am fairly confident that I failed to monitor fatigue accurately. I also forgot the fate pool and possibly could have kept a couple of team members upright if I had used them. But in the end I did remember to use them on the injury roll.
The whole scenario took only 1hr10mins to play, As you can tell by the photos, I got really engaged in the game play and failed to remember to take photos , which to me is a good sign.
Looking forward to the next solo scenario, and contemplating reviewing the Brotherhood of the wolf scenarios I wrote in light of the dangerousness of the wolves.
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