Another Cangames related post...I was really pumped when I saw a Trench Crusade game pop-up in the schedule that I immediately jumped all over it. Seeing that my buddy Mike was running the game, I also knew it was going to be a really good session.
So I have been seeing a lot of posts and comments regarding Trench Crusade for the past year or so, and like I said, when I saw it on the schedule, I was really pumped to give it a shot. In a nutshell, if you haven’t heard of it, Trench Crusade is the ongoing fight between heaven and hell with demons moving onto the earthly plane while also capturing the context or the setting of World War I. The battlefield has become this apocalyptic trench line and no-man’s land where religiously inspired factions can fight the armies of hell. Whatever your religious flavor is, that’s cool, my main focus on this has definitely been more so on the concept, art, the overall idea, and the setting of World War I feels very fitting.
Overall, each character/player has a variety of stats, kind of the normal ones…shoot, melee, health, and maybe a couple of others…the Classics. The main thing with each of the factions and the character types or leader type, is they have their own individual traits, specials, and accumulating a blood rating provides another potential modifier to the number of dice that you can use in your attacks and in your defense.
All that to say, I was looking forward to see how the models looked on the table and give this a shot. Now, admittedly, I think I have forgotten more than I remember about the game, but I do remember having a lot of fun so we’ll just have to go by the pictures and have some random comments there.
Enjoy the pics!
The overall battle. The shrine in the middle complete with skulls, and wall segments, and what not on the periphery. Each player started from their own corner and just slug-fested from there.
My army from hell, big ole demon on the left, the dapper looking lad next to him is my hell knight, and three pig looking things that I couldn’t remember what they were. But they are Piggly, Wiggly, and Fred.
The hell night took a step on the battlefield takes long range shot at one of the French looking figures, which I think were LDS.
Piggly jumps into the battlefield, and set up near one of the objectives (I guess I should’ve mentioned there were a number of objectives for each player to control gaining one victory point or per round objective).
You can see some movements around the table. Piggly gets knocked down bottom right part of the picture. The LDS Troops are moving to a corridor or walkway, squaring off against Piggly. At the top part of the picture you can see some Stosstruppen, can’t remember their faction, And at the top right of the picture, some very British inspired troops are slowly making their way into the field.
Youcan see the corridor where the walkway has become a very target rich environment Piggly‘s in their Wiggly’s in there and I think Fred is as well. Lotta back-and-forth between the demons and the LDS, and I think at one point one of the British players starts throwing grenades at us caue, well… we’re at target rich environment. My pig dudes are really good on the melee side of the action.
And around this time, I finally realized that my big ass Demon has a killer special action where I get to swing a couple of levers and cause a lot of chaos. It’s pretty awesome. So my demon flies over the wall and starts hacking the LDS to pieces
The demon does the devils work, and then heads over to the other side of the field to start dealing with the British type dudes.
And of course, the hell night is able to do double range attacks again, which is pretty awesome and he looks pretty gnarly.
Random action shot between the LDS and the stormtrooper type dudes, shooting through windows and what not.
All well, my hell knight and demon clean up the mess on the right side table.
Certainly by this point, the mechanics of the game are going pretty quick for us. And each faction is scoring hits on the other, victory points are being tallied up quickly. As it turns out the storm trooper dudes are getting about three points per round because they’ve been pretty free clear for most of the game. The next couple of rounds take us to the end of the game. The demons take some serious hits when all the pig dudes are gone and my big ass demon is killed, which ended up being really anticlimatic. But I think in the end I ended up with the second highest amount of victory, points, and the game was super enjoyable overall.
