Fickett Townley

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A human Rebel warlord from Khamsin who is one of the masters of modern ranged­-fire tactics. He often employs the leapfrog tactic.

For the longest time, the wide-spread availability of freelance pistolmen out of Khamsin encouraged warlords to treat them as disposable. It took Fickett Townley and his veteran Irregulars to show the value of a well-­organized pistol company. Wheeling his three small squads around the field on seemingly reckless maneuvers, Townley can harry an enemy line until it breaks out of sheer frustration. His pistolmen’s stinging attacks turn most lethal when Townley begins his trademark “leapfrog advance,” moving and firing his squads in staggered order.

## History

Sometime during Blackwyn's alliance with the Black Powder Rebels, Fickett Townley traveled with Rajidon's wartribe and was tasked with escorting the components for Geargoyles - a new type of Golem engineered by Tinker Geely. The Geargoyles were designed specifically for the Rebels' current task - to free slaves from an Atlantean strip-mine nearby. On their way to the Glen, though, Fickett and his men were ambushed by Elemental League forces consisting of Sprites and Trolls. The Elementals used Gas Toads to knock out the warriors and then stole the components of the Geargoyles.

Skyros then found what remained of Rajidon and Fickett's wartribe and helped Rajidon back to his feet. The three Rebel warriors gathered their forces and prepared to ambush the Elementals who ambushed them just a few hours before. The Elementals had a Centaur Lieutenant, an Elemental Priest, a Warbear and several Sprites - nevertheless, the ambush was succesful, with the 'Mentals being taken care of and Skyros stealing the missing Geargoyle components. Rajidon, Skyros and Fickett then arrived to the Glen where Jarl Frostriven was, bringing with them the missing component for the powerful golems - their heads.

It took four days to get the Geargoyles working, and so, in four days, just before the dark, Jarl Frostriven rallied the Rebel forces with a speech, saying that there was no room for mistakes in the assault they were about to partake in. Once they'll hear the allied Dwarves sound the horn, the forces will move out of the shadows and attack the Atlantean strip-mine. The rebels hoped to take the Guild forces by surprise, but Tiasma, the Oracle of Rokos allied with Atlantis leaked the information from Tinker Geely's mind that the Rebels were planning an attack, ruining their plan completely.

It was simply a massacre. As the dwarven troops - assisted by the formidable forces of Rajidon's Black Powder Rebels - initiated their raid on the Atlantean Magestone mines in an attempt to free their ensalved brethren the skies above suddenly filled with death as spears and concussive blasts of magical energies rained down on them from the newly arrived Atlantean fortresses. And although the flying forts had some blind spots, the ground troops were signaling to them, making passing unnoticed of one impossible. Rajidon ordered for all men to retreat with the battle now lost - Fickett and others escaped back to the Glen.

All the remaining Rebel forces then gathered, downtrodden after the defeat, but Rajidon proposed a plan - the Atlanteans now thought the Rebel forces discouraged and too beaten to make another attack, but there was an upside to the failed attack - the Guild's secrets were exposed. With their flying fortresses out in the open, the Rebels now had to use stealth to overcome them - Jason then told the Galeshi that the fortresses had blind spots under them. The human warrior also told of an outpost where Utems were positioned to signal to the fortresses - if they could take out that outpost, it would make the fortresses powerless. Kerraii then proposed to lead the attack to the signaling outpost, getting Jason, Zenephret and Talver with her. By the dark, they would have to be in the outpost already.

Frostriven agreed to the plan, while Skyros proposed his - he wanted to make bombs using Gas Toads that could be hurled into the Atlantean sky fortresses using catapults, but needed the latter to be built for the plan to work. Sprinting off to the place where the Elementals ambushed Rajidon, Skyros left - and told Frostriven not to start until he came back. Sunset has come quickly, and Frostriven sent his scouting party ahead. Once Kerraii and others signaled that they eliminated the ground troops, the Rebels will strike fast and hard. There was no room for error.

With no sign from Kerraii's party, Skyros came with the bombs and delivered them to the catapults - launching the Gas Toads unto the fortresses proved successful, knocking out most of the guards and letting Kerraii's party safely sneak unto the flying forts to kill Jadron Medaan and Tiasma, winning the campaign with the Atlantean leader dead. Fickett then was seen celebrating with his fellow rebels their big victory in the Glen.

During the events of Omens, Fickett led an adventuring company of renowned gunslingers called the Fickett's Fifty.

## Gallery

Miniature from the Rebellion expansion.Miniature from the Omens expansion.

***Black Powder Rebels***
 Major characters

1. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-2.0-Card-Set-Adventuring-Companies.pdf
2. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-Lore-Expansion-Rebellion.pdf
3. ↑ Mage Knight Stolen Destiny #3
4. ↑ Mage Knight Stolen Destiny #4
5. ↑ https://www.mageknight.net/wp-content/uploads/Mage-Knight-2.0-Card-Set-Adventuring-Companies.pdf