Burrows & Badgers: A Skirmish Game of Anthropomorphic Animals

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Rufus, the leader, shows the way by collecting a barrel of blackpowder from the blacksmiths, hauling it across to the Inn and throwing it into the building. Hugo Blackriver saunters over to where Nigel Nimblepaw is valiantly attempting to carry the barrel of blackpowder. A model that has used a ranged weapon or cast a spell during their Activation is considered to be Unarmed for the remainder of the turn unless they use an ACT Action to arm themselves with a close combat weapon. Mortus Wrythe, attempting to make up for his late appearance, casts a fiery blast at Barnabus but he only just singes the beaver. I have never really documented the way I like to play the game, partly because I know there’s a good chance I’m going to make further changes at some point down the line – just can’t leave things alone!

Unfortunately the magical storm does the adder no favours and this time the spell is easily dodged by the fox.Barnabus, the beaver, takes over chest-hauling duties from his leader and continues to drag it towards their camp.

It reminds me of the novel series 'Redwall' , a fantastic saga surrounding the adventures of a timid turned warrior mouse and his wars against stoats, foxes etc. The shrew is riled by the painful shock and turns round and sprints towards the rat mage with murderous intent. The warband recruits another squirrel ranged, Gulliver Swift, and equips their new member with a bow and some poison with which to lace his arrows. Venoma, spotting Billy Blackeye hiding behind a tree preparing to take a shot at Eddie, casts another blast of flame at him, and incinerates the blunderbuss toting weasel.

However, their joy is short lived, as one grave ghast appears where they’ve been digging and another one bears down on them. Barnabus Chipwick, the beaver, lumbers after his leader as do all the other members of the warband, apart from Samuel Tunnelton, the mole, who takes the subterranean route and emerges next to the paychest, guarding it until the rest of the warband arrives.

He weaves round Roger Rumbottle and Hugo Blackriver and escapes the battlefield, hauling the paychest with him. Probably not”, thinks Rufus Grimspike as he trudges with his warband to the designated meeting place where he is to collect the warband’s wages. I have heard concerns about the use of the Fast Shot skill with a two-Action system, with models potentially getting 4 shots in a turn.Rufus has failed to get the message to Abelard Snook and his warband will now have to make its own arrangements in finding reinforcements.