Hello Folks;
Finally getting back to some gaming! This past weekend headed over to Duncans to try out Mantics new fantasy ship game Armada. We decided to try out the subdue the kraken scenario, basically points for shooting up the kraken, and for sinking big ships.
I took the Orcs to face off against the bassileans. (Paladiny humans)
Here's the set up, kraken in the middle lots of ship ready to attack.
Turn 1 I moved in my small small ships to shoot up the kraken and get some points. Being so close to a deadly sea monster later turned out not the best! The paladins bomb Ship tried a shot but scattered into the kraken, my bomb Ship landed one right on target thou dealing some good damage.
On the left my Smasher kicked it up to full speed to learn how ramming and boarding worked. But they managed to evade for now.
Starting the second turn the kraken went 9n the warpath, dealing a ton of damage to all the ships around. Best to stay away from the beastie. My drill ship was able to successfully ran the basileans bomb Ship however, sending it to the briney deeps.
Unfortunately my smasher failed to do any real smashing or boarding and sailed gently into the opposing fleet. Who promptly shot up the stern crippling my big ship which struck. Not awesome, the withering fire also sunck my blood Runner with the drill.
Somewhere in the mix a second basilean ship went down, but I forget the details, surely somewhat kraken related. My bomb Ship tried to put uo a defense but it was clearly not the orcs day.
All in all a pretty fun game, very similar to black Seas, but much less serious. The ships are allot easier to finish. Definitely on my list to ecpand out a bit, not sure of that means more orcs, or trying some dwarfs, we shall see!
Great to get a game in again finally as well!
Thanks;
Mike
