Ambush on the way back to the village

On their way back to the village carrying the gold chests to the Prince Magnus, the heroes were ambushed by a warband composed of Orcs and Goblins lead by a Fimir

The Barbarian and the Elf promptly attacked the flanking Goblins while the Archers dealt with the Orcs.

It was a fierce but short battle easily won by the heroes. 

Maybe next time should the Evil Wizard summon more creatures... Why not wolf riders ? Or even an Ogre ?

This short battle was played on a custom board made up of the back of a frame on which I have pasted tiles found on the internet (unfortunately I can't remember where I've found them).

Be careful when you try to print and paste different tiles : it came out that almost none of them have the same exact size.

The road is just sand pasted over the tiles and the road block made of a couple of wooden sticks.

Otherwise the game was played according to the standard Heroquest rules.

Prince Magnus' Gold

Tonight the 4 girls were tasked to retrieve the stolen Prince Magnus' Gold chests.

I think it is one of the first times the four agreed to play together. 

The elder one (10 yo) was playing with her experienced Elve, the second and fourth (9 yo and 6 yo) were playing Archers and the third (7 yo), who plays less often, was playing the Barbarian.

I have a couple of custom rules, one of which being that you can only search for treasures in a room where there is furniture. To compensate, I am using the custom equipment list that can be found in the character creation chapter of OpenQuest.

As a consequence, experienced characters are a bit strong but it is more fun for the girls.

More important is that the players are getting better and better after each game. They are really starting to play as a team, not competing with each other.

Yet the men-at-arm are still left behind too often as you can see on the picture above.

But the best point was that the two youngest have managed to stay focused on the game for almost 45 minutes. Which is an absolute record and a great victory!

And to answer your question : yes they were victorious and the gold was returned to the Prince!