First Blood

THE GRAND ALLIANCE THE DREADFLEET SETTING THE SCENE

Heldenhammer
Description: Sigmarite Temple-ship
Captain: Jaego Roth
Flaming Scimitar
Description: Sorcerer’s War Barge
Captain: The Golden Magus
Swordfysh
Description: Pirate Galleon
Captain: Aranessa Saltspite
Bloody Reaver
Description: Vampiric Castle-ship
Captain: Count Noctilus
Black Kraken
Description: Chaos Dwarf Submersible
Captain: Tordrek Hackheart
Shadewraith
Description: Ghostly Galleon
Captain: Vangheist
Set the scenery up as shown on the
deployment map below.
DEPLOYMENT
The Grand Alliance player deploys all
three of his warships outside the ring
of islands, making sure they are in the
marked area at the top left quadrant of
the seascape. The Dreadfleet player then
deploys all three of his warships in the
bottom right quadrant of the seascape.
Top tip – try to get close to the enemy so you
can make your shots count, and keep at least 2"
between each of your warships if you can.

GAME LENGTH
Grand Alliance The game lasts until a pre-agreed time
limit has elapsed. We recommend 15
minutes, but if you fancy a longer game,
feel free to extend this period.

VICTORY
The players are attempting to cripple and
destroy the enemy fleet. After the agreed
time limit has elapsed, each player counts
the number of Damage cards next to his
opponent’s Warship cards. The player who
has inflicted the most Damage cards upon
his opponent’s fleet is the winner. If both
players’ fleets have taken the same number
of Damage cards, the game is a draw.
Sunken warships: Note that if a
warship sinks, the Damage cards that
were next to its Warship card at the time
of sinking still count towards the owning
player’s total (keep such cards to one side
if a warship is removed from play).

Dreadfleet
 The Game Turn
1) INITIATIVE PHASE:
Roll-off to find out which player gets the initiative. The player with initiative
chooses who will be the first player. The first player’s opponent is the second
player.
2) STATUS PHASE:
Resolve ongoing effects and any Status cards with a red background (at the
beginning of the game, there will be no Status effects).
3) FATE PHASE:
The first player draws a Fate card and resolves its effects. The second player
then does the same. Ignore the wind symbols for now (the numbered parts).
4) ACTION PHASE:
The first player chooses a warship that has not been activated yet this turn and
resolves its actions by resolving the following sub-phases:
a) Orders
• You may attempt to issue an Order card by passing a Command check.
b) Movement
• Move around the seascape using the warship’s Speed and Handling
characteristics. Warships may make one turn of up to 45 degrees
each time they move at least their Handling distance in inches.
c) Broadside
• Choose a target within 18" and line of sight.
• Check that it is in your warship’s side arc.
• Measure the range between the two warships:
Fighting a Duel (p.40): Each player rolls a number of dice equal to his
captain’s Swashbuckling value. Each roll of a 5 or 6 is one victory.
If you have several captains involved in the same duel, add their victories
together.
Each player totals the number of victories they have. The player with the most
is the winner of the duel. The captain(s) on the losing side takes a Wound
card and places it under their Warship card so it shows the ‘Flesh Wound’
result. If a captain already has a Wound card, move the Wound card up one
degree of severity.
If the result is a draw, a wound is taken by all captains involved in the duel.
Fighting a Boarding Action (p.34): Each player now adds together the
current Crew characteristics of all their warships involved in the board-
ing action and rolls that many dice.
Each roll of a 5 or 6 is a victory. Each player totals the number of
victories they have, and the player with the most is the winner of the boarding
action.
Subtract the losing side’s total from the winning side’s total to
obtain the boarding action result. For instance, if the Grand Alliance
player had scored 3 and the Dreadfleet player 1, the boarding action result
would be 2.
The player that scored the fewest victories draws a number of Damage cards
equal to the boarding action result for each of his warships on the losing side.
If the players have scored the same number of victories, every warship in-
volved in the boarding action draws one Damage card.

RANGING CHART 5) NOW IT’S YOUR OPPONENT’S TURN...

The second player then chooses a warship that has not been activated yet
Range D6 result needed to hit this turn and resolves its actions in the same order as the first player.
Short (0-6") 4+
Medium (6-12") 5+ The players alternate activating warships until all warships have acted.
Long (12-18") 6+

6) END PHASE:
• Apply any applicable modifiers: Assess the victory conditions.
– First broadside: Each warship’s first broadside of the game has a +1 If a player has won, the game ends. Otherwise start a new turn!
modifier (for example, instead of needing a 6+ you would need a 5+).
– Raking fire: If the majority of your warship’s base is in front of or be-
hind the target, then you get a +1 modifier to hit, as described above.
• Determine if the target is obscured or not. If it is, halve the
number of broadside dice that you can roll, rounding up.
• Roll your broadside dice. Each dice result that equals or beats your
required to hit value scores one hit.
• Your opponent can make one armour save for each hit inflicted.
• The owner of the target warship draws one Damage card for
each hit that is not saved and resolves it against the target of the
broadside.

d) Boarding Actions (p.22):

In this sub-phase, you must fight a boarding action against any enemies in
base contact. First off, the captains must fight a duel!