Mort sur La Garvaldian Nil.

 Wednesday 26th June.

Place-Back in the Garvaldian Desert.

            Back oot to sunny Garvald for a second instalment of Silver Bayonet in the desert with the French looking for an easy second victory against the local rabble. I mean last week’s game was remembered for the lack of monster appearances so what would change this week.One was yet again to be proved wrong.

The scene is set.

Complete with two Jock the Crocs.

          The companys were the same as last week with one exception -a new French spiritual investigator had replaced last week’s character.At least this one had an umbrella just perfect for the desert heat.The game kicked off this week with the locals finding the objective cards more within their reach with three cards being picked up by the locals before my lieutenant could even utter “Zut alors!”One of them even revealed an entrance to an exit which help El Presidente’s rabble escape.

The local partygoers.

Wot the f***!(in French)

My new spiritual investigator posing for the camera.

       My lads slowly made their way towards their objectives keeping well into the shadows.What could possibly go wrong.Oh by the way I forgot to mention that the scenario took place on the banks of the River Nile-a crocodile infested River Nile.My lieutenant and one of his followers were soon confronted by a slithering crocodile which looked like it hadn’t eaten for a while.It headed straight for the legs of the officer .Luckily it had left its teeth in a jar on its bedside table because its lunging attack saw it biting at fresh Egyptian air with my officer managing to break free and put some space between them giving the other company man time for a well placed shot wounding it severely.The officer gladly gave the beast the final coup de grace with a well aimed pistol shot.The officer decided he would be back later to reward himself with the ingredients for a nice pair of crocodile shoes.

“Did you see me in Peter Pan?”

                                                                                   

Dealt with rather quickly though.

The bikini clad possessed demon appears.

        The other two members of this small group headed round the corner to be confronted by the appearance of a marauding skeleton that El Presidente had concocted from one of his turned cards.These gents were going to be a pain in the ass to kill as their defence was good as the bullets went through them-literally.Another skeleton appeared in the middle of the table right in the middle of three of El Presidente’s minions -time for him to be introduced to the skeleton.El Presidente’s men worked together and done away with the skeleton very rapidly.I don’t think it was going to be a good night for the French.

This is what happens when you fire a blunderbuss at a crocodile.

“Cooee!”

“Investigate this!”

      My spiritual investigator was in touching distance of an objective card when he was confronted by a possessed demon which came in the form of a sword waving bikini clad demon(welcome to an El Presidente game)and before he could draw a pistol she was on him  swords swinging everywhere.He parried her attacks pushing her back just enough for the sapper to rush in and cleave her with his pioneer axe.Another demon gone but still a s******d to go.The difference in this evening’s game was that when a objective card was revealed a monster of some sort wasn’t too far behind.

Yet another skeleton appears.

But wasn’t even given time to blink.

And another.

     Another card was turned over near a palm tree outcrop and yet again another monster was revealed this time coming in the form of another skeleton.This skeleton was actually dispatched by the finder of the token who was actually himself on death’s door.It definitely was going El Presidente’s way this evening. My lieutenant turned over an objective card and  lo and behold another monster was revealed coming this time in the form of a mummy.El Presidente revealed that the mummy could only be killed by fire which was great as my officer was armed with silver bullets.Seemingly there are not a lot of werewolves in Egypt.

They just keep on coming.

Encore la Mort.

Whereas another skeleton takes a lucky hit.

       My plan was to make a tactical retreat but I was hindered by the appearances of two more “monsters “both of whom turned out to be swarms of beetles which were going to be even harder to kill as shooting them wasn’t going to dent them one bit. The only saving grace for me was when one of my copains discovered a load of salt which would help in the destruction of one of the beetle hordes.On the other side of the table the beetles had come into contact with one of my infantrymen pushing him back.Seeing this opportunity my sapper dived into the scrap armed with his cleaver but this time wasn’t so lucky as the beetles devoured him axe et al.My investigator not realising what was going on behind him decided to wade into the enemy all guns blazing but to no avail.His monster hunting days were over-well at least till next week.

Beetles this time.

Et encore!

Hundreds of them.

       My officer was also not doing to well on the other side and although El Presidente did state that he would allow the officer to have oil,rags and fire ,he still didn’t have enough time to light a torch before the mummy was on him.Game Over!The remainder of his company headed for the hills.

The sapper charges in.

And comes off second best.

Hand to bandaged hand.

       Another great game with more understanding to the fore especially with the monsters.The deciding game will be played in a fortnight.This time I’ll remember to pack some fire instead of silver bullets.

And he’s down.

Ditto.

        Scenario,scenery and the majority of the figures provided by El Presidente with the newly painted skeletons provided by myself.Seemingly the next game will see the introduction of Werejackals-whatever!

See You All When I See You.

    This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production.