En Garde! The Encounter with Big Nose.

The Encounter with Big Nose.

Setting the scene

Our heroes, the Flashing Bladé and his faithful manservant Lurkio are on the road, trying to get to the location of the secret peace negotiations, and get help for their friends in the bleaguered fortress of Casale... etc..  etc..etc..

This is a much smaller game than usual, mainly because the Bladé has managed to get his entire warband killed during the games so far.

This encounter is with a Frenchman, simply a passing traveller, but that doesn`t stop the Bladé from getting into an argument about the size of the fellow's nose.  This imposing chap is none other than Cyrano de Depardieu, Chevalier du Conk, who draws his huge chopper, as his men close up behind him.  The Flashing Bladé could be in trouble this time!

The Game

Cyrano wins initiative, sword in one hand, reins in another, he fires his wheel-lock pistol at Lurkio, having quickly worked out who is the more dangerous of these two.  Even at this range it's a wide miss.

 The Chevalier and Lurkio work together to take Cyrano down.  The Chevalier uses a mix of defence and Offence, Lurkio just attacks.  On his horse Big Nose has only one hit whilst the Blade gets in two impressive thrusts, killing the horse by mistake.
Only the Flashing Blade could put a thrust into a horse by accident, twice.

The famous dice luck of the Chevalier du Bladé never fails to impress.  A series of disastrous rolls allows one of Cyrano's henchman to wound him with a dagger.  Note however that Lurkio runs Big Nose himself through, three times.

While the Bladé dithers a pistol shot from the flank fells him.
Lurkio kills yet another of Cyrano's boys, and they break.

Its pretty much game over.  The Chevalier shot through the head, has to play his second "Improbably I`m alive... because I`m the hero" card.
His head is probably the one place you could shoot him that would see a bullet bounce off.

He has only one of these cards left, and I suspect that's not enough!