Grasping at the Peak
This is the first in a new series of regular(?) posts that will be going up over the course of the next few weeks, dealing with the Band of Blades campaign one of our groups recently concluded. These posts will provide the Mission Sheets written and designed for that campaign, and any additional notes or thoughts about each.
General information about how these sheets are laid out and meant to be used, the date system, etc. are detailed on their own page. It also contains a link to each published sheet.
As I’ve posted a detailed recounting of each mission on the official Band of Blades discussion forums, I am not going to re-post that material here (just search for Zora’s Legion on the forums — though the first mission is just Zora AAR — if you’re interested).
These are the mission sheets for the second mission phase[1], taking place at Plainsworth, as the Legion chose to advance immediately from the Western Front to best capitalize on their success at Hozelbrucke.
[1] I’ve started this series with the second mission phase, rather than the first phase, as the phase one missions (see the general link) were not the same ones I used for this game. For the first phase, at a player’s suggestion, we ended up just running the Hozelbrucke Bridge mission — usually the opening mission for a Legion who have taken Shreya as their Chosen — because I didn’t have anything else prepared at the time (oops).
Then, between games, I rolled up a quick secondary mission for the first phase — a Recon of a Black Oak campsite to sabotage a new weapon being built. The engagement roll did not go well, resulting in the loss of most of the Ghost Owls and severe injury to the Legion’s Scout.