Waterfront Tavern

[StratosVX]

It looks really good!

[Big Bene]

I like it, though from the looks I'd say the thickness is 0.2 mm at best.
As for the quest, I don't quite understand. Does the evil wizard conrol / move the villagers? Must he avoid the orcs against his own best interest?
Are there any special minis intended to be used as villagers (the icons look very specific)?

[clmckay]

Hi,

Could be on the thickness, I don't have any good way to measure. It very durable though.

I left it open to who could move the villagers. I figured it would be most logical for the heroes to quickly move the villagers around, but I suppose an "honest" Zarfon could do it as well. I'd also considered it so that if a villager could be moved off the edge of the map, he's safe.

I didn't have any specific minis in mind. For a playtest, I'd just planned on using Skeletons for the villagers....they're gonna die anyway! for the Orc Archers, I am going to use the Orc Archer minis from Warhammer Quest.

[Teldurn]

clmckay, I saw this post yesterday and I thought it was really good. I just have a question about how this would play. At the beginning of the game, would you put out all the monsters/guards/civilians on the main central part of the board that the Barbarian and Dwarf can see? Because it seems to me as soon as the Barb or Dwarf start, they would see 10 or 12 monsters that would (I suppose) come aiming straight for them on Zargon's turn (or that group of 4 civvies right near the top, they're toast right away ). I don't see anything in the quest notes on how to deal with this. Thoughts?

[clmckay]

I will hopefully playtest this sometime over the weekend. My intent would be that the Orcs would split and go after both the heroes and the villagers (after all, the orcs wouldn't think the heroes were anything special, they're just there to kill everyone). The villagers should scatter as much as possible to safety. I was also hoping that the heroes being seperated could become an advantage by being able to attack different groups of orcs. Depending on the strength of heroes participating in the mission, there are options for choke points at room doors -could even try to stuff Some Villagers in the rooms first.

It seems that as a general rule, moderately armed heroes can take out an Orc pretty quickly - however - the quantity may be too much, after testing I may need to remove a couple orcs from the starting room.

Edit: you also have the two scouts to help with disrupting the Orc attack.

[clmckay]

We finally play tested it. Not too bad really. If the heroes play smart and are moderately armed (broadswords, shields, helmet - yet still without the battle axes and heavy armor) they can do it without a ton of trouble. After a few games losses were running about 3-5 villagers and 0-1 heroes. The scouts usually bit the dust. Overall, I wanted this to be a nice gentle interlude, not a nail biter or resource sucker (there was usually more than the 1 healing potion consumed). That said, I will probably adjust the large group with the Fimir to be just 3 orcs and 1 Fimir (dropping the Orc Archer there). The Archer tended to take out running villagers.

[Sparkymark]

Is there a reason why i cant see the quests for the waterfront tavern?

[StratosVX]

No images are showing up for me in this thread anymore either.

[Sparkymark]

I sent clmclay a PM about it.
I quite fancy the challenge of building the tavern using hirst arts blocks including walls and furniture.
I think the open nature of the tavern would allow walls to work well.

[Maike05]

Hi clmckay,
I don't know if you know my blog free-dungeon-tiles-to-print ? There is a bunch of free stuffs on tavern as well
http://free-dungeon-tiles-to-print.blogspot.be/2014/01/darkcity-les-lieux-speciaux.html