Last Saturday night, Jonathan, Chris and I got together for a second game of
In Her Majesty's Name. John, in spite of being stricken by the lurgy, managed to join us as well.
Chris fielded
Selous' Scouts, while Jonathan fielded a modified
Society of Thule Company. John deployed
Lord Curr's Company while I used a modified version of
Cornelius' Most Excellent Company - as posted in my previous post.
After some brainstorming, the following scenario for our encounter emerged:
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| Mr Singh waiting outside his house on Water Tower Hill. |
Mister Amadeus Singh, renowned amateur astronomer, has detected something most singular in the heavens. To fund further research, he has indicated that he is willing to impart this information in return for a suitable gratuity and four Adventuring Companies are striving to gain the Professor's information.
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| Looking north from the canal towards Mr Singh's house. |
Selous' Scouts entered the field from the south-west, docking their river boat beside the Boras Warehouse,
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| The Society of Thule emerge from the mists by the canal. |
while the Society of Thule came out of the canal to the east of the crane.
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| Looking south towards the canal. |
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| Lord Curr's Company near the north-west house. |
Meanwhile, Lord Curr's Company entered the field by the north-west house, near the Park.
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| Cornelius' Company cross the Old Barrow. |
While Cornelius' Company came on behind the old barrow to the north-east, beside the Old Abbey.
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| Selous' Scouts advance across the rail lines. |
Selous' Scouts pushed forward across the railway line, while their machine gunner kept watch from the roof of the Boras Warehouse.
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| The Society of Thule advance on the Striker Building. |
East of the Scouts, the Society of Thule moved up around the Striker Building.
While Curr's Company advanced into the Park beside the Linus Building.
Doctor Cornelius and his Company close in on Mr Singh.
Two of the velocepedes (random steam-powered vehicles) nearly collide outside Mr Singh's house.
Coleman and Roger, the Two Rotten Row Drainers, take up position beside the water tower.
Maxim Destroyanevsky, the Anarchist Marksman, slips into the copse beside the water tower. From there, he downs one of the Society of Thule's Jaegers beside the Striker building, only for the corpse to be re-animated as a todh-truppen.
Selous' Scouts had to scramble quickly across the open ground around the twin railway tracks.
The Scouts then had to dash up the ridge to the Linus Building, even as Lord Curr's Company managed to scramble onto the roof, ahead of them.
Eventually, Selous' Scouts managed to force their way around the western end of the Linus Building, and picked off Curr's men on the roof.
The unofficial truce between Lord Curr's Company and Doctor Cornelius' Company came to an end when Lord Curr attempted to abscond with Mr Singh.
Moving rapidly to Mr Singh's assistance, Doctor Cornelius and Lofty, his Man, confronted Curr, Two-Gun Tess and one of Curr's Minions.
Cornelius' Company were also coming under heavy fire from the Society of Thule around the Striker Building. Both Maxim Destroyanevsky and Seamus O'Tipple where swiftly brought down, even though Maxim was able to pin Von Stroeheim, himself, briefly.
The Society of Thule began to push forward, crossing the road as another velocepede rattled towards them. One of Cornelius' Rotten Row Drainers moved to engage them. Doctor Kobalt, the Society of Thule's Occult and Technical engineer, used the
Eye of Odin to peer
through the water tower and fire on the other Drainer with his Arc pistol.
A brief battle raged around Mr Singh's house. Lofty
Terrified Two-gun Tess, causing her to flee. But he was too quick for her. As he attempted to seize her, Lord Curr and Doctor Cornelius exchanged blows. Their confrontation was quickly cut short by a burst of fire from the Society of Thule's machine gunner, firing from the railway yard. Curr, Cornelius and Mr Singh were cut down by the deadly volley.
Singh's demise pretty much ended the battle - a victory for the Society of Thule on points - with the survivors of Curr's and Cornelius' Companies slipping away into the night.
Here's another photo on the water tower - made by Chris from cardboard. A truly impressive model.
All photos taken by me on my tablet under available light.
