Warhammer : Destro Alt Night [Jan 21]

Another Wednesday and our small crew was getting ready
for our weekly adventure . We were missing our trusted
tank Trogue (hope you feel better mate) , so the plan
was to do some questing and engage the enemy in some
scenarios . Assembled for the night :

- Tzudevil ( DoK --rank 19- -)
- Streyla ( Sorceress --rank 17-- )
- Keseth ( Zealot --rank 18-- )
- Oska ( Squig Herder --rank 18-- )

Oska was running a bit late , so our trio set out to Troll country .
The night started out on a positive note , as we participated in a
demolition of the order team at the "Phoenix Gate" .

Arriving at "Troll Haugen" , we set about completing different
tasks for the local chaos warlord . The Raven Host had come to
these parts in search of the Soulblight Stone, an artifact of dark power that Lord Tchar'zanek desired to possess.
The Champion required the stone to enact a plan; what that plan was, only a few truly knew, but the whispers about the camp spoke of a mighty and terrible feat of magic that would forever seal the fate of the Empire . Bjarne the leader of the previous expedition soon after retrieving the stone ,had been attacked and eaten by a Troll .

Our quest naturally led us to hunting that forsaken beast
and soon we came upon it . The power of the profane artifact
had mutated the creature into a terrifying, disease-ridden monster
of unnatural strength.

Soulblight

After a long and exhausting fight , the fell beast lay dead at
our feet . Lord Tchaarzanek will be pleased !
At this point Oska was able to join us , we ran it again
and were not disappointed ! it went twice as fast and were rewarded with a massive loot bad which my zealot luckily won !
Setting north afterward , our crew happened upon an Eerie sight .
a Chaos portal guarded by the warriors of Nurgle !


Chaos Portal

Nurgle was after the Soulblight Stone !
Led by the ambitious warlord Sysstos the Wretch,
the forces of Nurgle used the portal to travel from the realm
of chaos and were massing in the hills ready to launch an
assault to retrieve the stone ! This shall not pass !
the stone can not fall in the hands of the Lord of Decay !

We had to clear our way through the massed battalions of infected warriors .and forge a way for Belarrl (a champion of Tzentch),to face off with with the leader . This was very hard as squadrons of 3 champions , then 6 attacked the champion in waves along with regular warriors . The last wave as we advanced near the portal was deadly , we went down but dragged just as many of the bastards with us !

on the bright side , most of the champions were caster type npcs and they don't hit very hard . Revising our tactics , we attempted this Public quest again . Streyla , our Sorceress ,
lived up to her tanking reputation and AOE Tanked like a champ , grabbing all the aggro off Belarrl and decimating wave after wave of Npcs . It took all the Energy my zealot could
muster to keep her healed up as she soaked crazy amounts of damage . The closer we got to the portal , the heavier the waves of champions got , Strey went down couple times only to be brought back from the dead and continue the fight .


Systoss the Wretched

This Time we made it to Systos . Belarrl engaged him in battle and
we pulled his retinue of champions one at a time burning them
down as fast as possible before Belarrl's health went out .
We engaged him after what seemed an
eternity and brought him to his knees !

This was a Fantastic Public quest . designed for 6-9 players ,
I am still amazed how tightly we managed the pulls , how close we
came on couple tries , and how awsome it was to
vanquish it ! Superb Job guys !
a gold bag in the end also was the icing on the Cake !
My zealot is sporting 2 pieces of havoc armor , and ranked
up again on the last kill ! rank 20 !


Rank 20 Mount : Chaos Steed

we gotta do the portal PQ for Trogue next week that's
how awsome it is ! we all have capped our influence for this
chapter and the rewards were great also . we Finished
the night with some open RvR and a succesful keep assault
at "Mandred's Hold" ! Great fun Overall !

until next week !

Warhammer : Order Alt Night [Jan 19]

Another Monday Night rolls in ,
And our city slackers left Altdorf in search
of adventure . Our Bright Wizard Elsabeth
was out with a bad cold , but the rest were there
and ready .

Assembled for the night :
-Tzudevil ( RunePriest )
-GrimFate ( Sword Master)
-Dracfyre ( Bright Wizard )
-Fynflame( Bright Wizard )
-Coventina (Warrior Priest)
-Korinn ( Sword Master)

As we headed out to Troll country ,
we stumbled upon an Order Warband taking the
Keeps and objectives in the Empire T2
zone .

Troll Country : The Zerg Wave

After Succesfully locking the Empire zone , The warband Head out
to Barak Varr and easily captured the undefended keep and
Battle objectives then marched south to the "Marshes of Madness .


Barak Varr

the keep soon fell , but as we hit the battle objectives
were greeted with a sizable destruction force defending ... *gasp* !
What a crazy skirmish it was as a sea of red names
clashed with our forces and much bloodshed ensued !
Hats off to the destruction players
for mounting a good defense on Both Objectives even
after having lost the first one !


Marshes of Madnes : The Zerg Victorious !

Our Last stop was the Shadowlands , Where "Spite's reach" keep
wasdefended . warband leader decides to leave it
and attack "cascades of thunder" in Ellyrion .
we were not retreating ...please .. we were drawing them out !
Ellyrion Fell with little resistance , and when we returned to
the ShadowLands , Spite's Reach was brimming to the hilt with
destruction players awaiting our arrival !

After a heated battle at the door of the keep , we managed to break
in . The enemy were mounting a stiff defense and managed to hold
us off at the ramp with a pretty effective shield wall . Battle raged
on , and alas the defenders had the upper hand on this one , and
we couldn't break through to the Lord's room !

It was fun running with the zerg , not much accomplised in
terms of xp , but we gained almost 2 Renown ranks and
I actually won 1 gold bag (this swordmaster's first)!

Warhammer: Destro Alt Night [Jan 14]

The evening started quietly with only Trogue , Tzu and myself coming out to the IC last night . we decided to head out to the Greenskin area and do some pqs and quests around ch8 in Barak Varr. This chapter didn't offer much in term of influence rewards unfortunately ,so we decided to skip it and hit the next one . Problem is , how to get through that underground maze those blasted dwarves dug into the mountain !
Long story short , 10 minutes getting lost only to be back in a
roundabout way at the entrance , we decided to swim to the
other side ! problem solved !

We finally made our way to Mobash's Place ! curiously , a huge dwarf ironclad has crash landed onto the beach and its engines struggled vainly to back the hulking ship into the water. a huge battle raged on as the Greenskins assaulted the trapped dwarfs . I must say that was a great pq . it felt like being in a battle with the the frontlines advancing and retreating as we helped the npcs push into the dwarf fortifications and then pushed back as gyrocopters flew in for bombing runs and dwarf reinforcements poured from the ship .

Where is Trogue ?

we managed to to clear through to stage-3 a few times , but shorthanded it was impossible to finish off the hero plus 2 champions without a full group .

Moving on , running some quests we reached Iron rock point .
another fun PQ and with the help of a friendly squig herder
we actually completed the public quest all the way through .
Trogue even got a gold bag ! Well deserved mate !

Overall It was a relaxed outing , we earned enough influence to cap chapter 9 and the rewards for that were well worth it . I am bringing my chosen to get the Elite reward ring . Again , i apologize for the frequent interruptions . my 4 year old was having a tough time going back to sleep , and I had to be quiet a bit on vent as my pc room is nextdoor.

Warork and Mindbendir you were missed . Hope you guys can
make it next week . we even saved some drops for you guys !

/cheers

Warhammer : Order Alt Night [Jan 12th]

Monday Night Rolls in , and was time for another Order Alt night !
unusually , we had a single group going today and our entire
corps of warrior priests was MIA :S .

Assembled for the night :
-Tzudevil ( RunePriest )
-GrimFate ( Sword Master)
-Dracfyre ( Bright Wizard )
-Fynflame( Bright Wizard )
-Elsabeth ( Bright Wizard )
-Korinn ( Sword Master)

heading out into Ellyrion , we decided to queue up for some
scenarios . The 1st phoenix gate was pretty enjoyable , and went
back and forth , chasing the flag carrier , pushing destro all the
way into their base and preventing them from capping .
in hindsight , we should have protected our flag , but it was fun
nonetheless . live and learn .

MourKain soon popped after that . and what a disaster that was .
shorthanded (12 vs 9) and outleveled , match was over in 4 min .
not a pretty sight .something was up with scenarios after that .
couple more popped and order had the same handicap
(12 destro vs 9 order) . and when StoneTroll popped a bit later ,

order had 15 players in ( supposedly it is 12 v 12) and the scenario

ended abruptly with no warning message with 6 min left .

The Dragon Gate

in between all this scenarios we managed to finish a pq in
Ch8 Ellyrion , and everyone got a green bag with a nice
rank 17 chest armor reward . Tzu Funnily threw his away
and took the money thinking it was a rank 15 piece .
That's what happens when it gets late !
Taking the hint , we called it an early night at 11:15 and
head back to city . I stayed behind a little bit and finished
a couple quests and ranked up to 18 .

A point about target calling ,
I know tanks usually lead the charge and make the target calls ,
But I make a poor target caller as i get sucked into the action
mashing my 1-2-3 sword master combos and it's hard to look
at the entire battlefield . I think one of the ranged players should
be target calling and we had good success with Drac at the helm ,
though we shied away from it as the night went on .

also ,seems my sword master is a bit ahead of the pack rank wise ,
so for next week I think i am gonna dustoff my archmage .
if she handles rez duty and a bit of healing , Tzu would be freed up
to pump the mad heals and we'll hopefully have better outcome in scenarios .

until next week !

Warhammer : Destro Alt Night [Jan 7th]

After a long hiatus , Our small motley crew dusted off the cobwebs
of the holidays ,and it was time to hit the road . It was great meeting up again ,and as it turned out as enjoyable as ever !

Assembled for the night :

- Trogue
- Tzudevil
- Streyla
- Oskadagrunt
- Keseth

Our destination for the night was Ellyrion .
Flying to the warcamp in the shadowlands , we headed south .

The Griffon Gate.

The night started on a High note , as we completed the PQ at the Griffon gate and were surprised with 1 gold bag / 1 purple bagsup for grabs . Tzu won the Purple bag , but the gold bag went to a level 7 player who was with a couple of his buddies . w t h ?
now he sure has something to look forward to @ rank 17 .

Following the road south we arrived at dark elf camp in Brokenblade .
I must say i like the rolling plains of Ellyrion much better than the bleak landscape that is the shadowlands .

The Plains of Ellyrion.

our first stop was the town of Berhessa . The Town of Berhessa is well known for rearing some of the most prized horses of Ellyrion. The Dark Elves know this and intend to leave the town in ruins.Town of Berhessaour group picked up two players and set about destroying and pillaging the town . Stage 2 had us escort Dark Elf sorceress NPCsinto the town and protect them until they burn building after building down . battle raged on non-stop , and swells upon swells of high elves were slaughtered . Fantastic PQ , a Ton of fun . Upon Vanquishing the Hero , we were rewarded with another gold bag ! What more could you ask for !

Berhessa .

we head out and did the other PQ's in the chapter "reservation of Honor"and "Monument of Narielle " which while enjoyable , were less challenging and we completed easily for a multitude of green bags .

As always , playing with this tight group is very enjoyable ,
Got a whole level tonight (very close to 18), and I believe everyone ranked up (some twice : P) and while i slipped and let our tanking sorceress hit the dirt a couple of times ,I am sure he'll forgive my rustiness !