Burrows & Badgers: A Skirmish Game of Anthropomorphic Animals

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The aim of the game is to defeat your opponent, while keeping your characters alive and developing their skills and abilities. Nifty Burns, the newly recruited squirrel, makes contact with a black marketeer who is able to give some hefty discounts on some rare items. There are a lot of stats for each animal profile - 9 of them - which is very much bucking the trend.

Hunted for blood money, they have taken up arms to seek justice and take back what is rightfully theirs. Rufus, not wanting to get embroiled in a fight with Roger Rumbottle attempts to evade the weasel and make a break for it. I’ve quickly listed some potentially appropriate names in an Excel document and utilised the Randomise function (by far my favourite Excel function) and have created myself a fairly decent name generator. The upfront set-up time for a one-off game would appear to be minimal especially if players use pre-prepared warbands, so, with any luck, I can record a quick skirmish reasonably speedily.Samuel Tunnelton wants to claim the glory for himself and puts all his efforts into a strike against Burton Coggles. Hedgehogs have Spines, which helps them survive in combat; with Heavy Armour and a Shield, they can make decent tanks. But we already know he has a track record of writing some really great rules and is happy to consult with current players of the game for feedback during the writing process, so I think it all bodes well. Squirrels are reasonable with Fortitude based magic, and their d8 Nimbleness and Concealment keeps them fairly safe from missile fire and makes them decent as sneaky ambushers. from any other campaign game such as Frostgrave, Broken Legions, Last Days , Outremer:Faith and Blood, etc.

The warband is able to replenish some of its items including lead shot, superior black powder and healing potions. Despite her diminutive stature she manages to smash down the door and launches herself at Fanny Fuddlefox who is hiding inside. The Chosen have been joined in this endeavour by two ex-residents of Warren Percy, Jenny Pinepaw and Ted Delver, who are also keen to settle scores with the Hired Paw.

Ricky rat had some success in this endeavour, employing his blunderbuss to take pot shots at his adversaries. The magical storm enhances the power of the spell but as a consequence Mortus is temporarily paralysed. For the Stagger rule, I have reduced the target from 3 to 2 so that models aren’t unduly penalised for climbing.