TFT: Solo

While we are getting back to face-to-face next weekend, this weekend I had some time on my hands. Other than binging some silly things, I started painting on the Archon figures, and also decided to play a round of solitaire TFT. 

I grabbed two of the mats and made them fit well enough: a graveyard leading to a set of caves with three known artifacts worth getting. Issue is, the key for the caverns is guarded by Amanita Falloides (Lady Death Cap) (thanks Scott!) and her shovel. Not that she fights, but she does have some skeletons in her graveyard to do her bidding. And once you get past that, there are various guardians in the caves.

the setup

I decided to dig through the mountains of plastic shame and found some things to use, including Amanita (I think from Wildspire Miniatures but no guarantees!).

But instead of the random monsters, I went with a more themed approach. Except for that 1 mini I found that I really have no idea what it is. But since I never actually got there, guess I don't have to worry about it until I retry!

Our adventurers approach the graveyard, and not soon after are face with a small hoard of skeletons!

who is the guardian of the graveyard?

metal skeletons from the 80s. People must have been a lot shorter back then!

fight!

Putting our backs to the fence limited their attacks, even though both characters took a bit of damage it was not enough to turn back.

Getting the key, we approach the caverns. Here I was also rolling every other turn for random monsters. None showed up. Our first target was guarded by two ghouls!

ghouls!

As the entrance was all of one hex wide, they could only attack one at a time, and we managed to kill the first without taking damage so got lucky. Apparently, ghouls are not dumb, and the 2nd ran away. We snagged the 2nd objective and headed to the next. Which was guarded by a snake! And the remaining ghoul who was hiding around the corner. The snake had a range based on the mini (which actually is painted!) and to attack the ghoul there was only 1 spot the centaur got to. A battle of attrition then happened as the centaur was blocking the line of sight to the snake, and I do worry about friendly fire. And the ghoul fought well - had a double damage hit to the centaur!

snakeguardian

well, this sucks!

The centaur finally did kill the ghoul but was badly hurt. Deciding that leaving to fight another day was the wisest course of action (that and buying a truckload of healing potions!), they left to fight another day. Of course, the caves will fill back up with new creatures, and Amanita has no shortage of skeletons in her closet. But we do have the initial key so should be able to avoid the graveyard. Though I do have a lot of skeleton minis with bows to guard the front!

And as I said, I've started putting together Gervase the Ettin from Archon's Caves Kickstarted. I was going to put it together then paint, but there are several places you cannot get to after another piece goes on top. I've started a bit of the painting as well. Still a WIP but should have it done by the end of the week.

a few pieces

bit of a color mismatch on skin but it will get there. Somehow missed that foot!