Warmaster Summer Sizzler 2025 - August 30th

 

After the success of our Winter Warmer event, we've decided to host another one at the end of the summer holidays on August 30th.

As before it'll be at the excellent Sanctuary games venue in Sutton-in-Ashfield (just north of Nottingham, very handy from the M1)  - three games, 2,000 points using Warmaster Revolution rules.

Tickets will be £15 - get in touch via the comments if you're interested, or want to know more.

Warmaster Winter Warmer 2025 Game Three - Chaos v Empire

 As I continued to plummet down the tables I arrived to meet Dave and his gorgeous Empire army.

This was the battle where you gained double points for killing your opponents troops with your general - finally time for my Lord on a Dragon to demonstrate his worth (regular readers are invited to imagine how well that goes for me).

For some reason I didn't take many pictures of this game and the ones I did are not the best quality. Which is a shame as Dave's army is really very nice.

The field of war, with general poised to cover himself with glory. Ahem.

I sent some flanking Marauder cavalry to try and deal with a gunline.

While the Empire forces occupied defensible terrain.

Lots of halberds, as is right and proper in an Empire army.

Unfortunately my flanking force was bounced. And then shot at a lot.

My General ploughed up the centre.

As the Empire waired

The big block of hard hitting troops got a bit stuck in a thicket.

As my cavalry pushed up on my left.

Finally the General swung into action, launching himself at the Empire knights.

Unfortunately he suffered from sever Rubber Lance symptoms (we've all been there) and he and his unit managed just a single hit from 21 attacks.

Inevitably the Empire Knights hit back, my general died, points haemorrhaged away and I was on the wrong end of a drubbing.

A very pleasant and lots of fun drubbing with a splendid opponent. But a drubbing nonetheless.

Here's a few more weirdly better phone pictures.

Warmaster Winter Warmer 2025 Game Two - Chaos v High Elves

After a break for lunch it was time for round two - I had dropped to mid tables and would be playing against Iain, known on the Facebook page as Morgan Bernhardt, organiser of Wormaster and creator of many very fine Warmaster videos over on his YouTube channel.

Iain had a very nice High Elf army using original GW metals - another old school match up.

The Chaos horde assembles

Cavalry to the left flank.

Chariots to the right.

A big block of High Elves.

A character on a Dragon.

My centre pushed up but the left flank fell behind.

I had grabbed a couple of objectives - now all i needed to do was hold on to them.

My centre looked pretty solid.

But my chariots too were off the pace.

Not exactly "horns of the buffalo"

The dogs holding an objective got caught by some cavalry.

More action on my left.

The Chariot brigade thundered home and the general went off to join them.

Nom,nom, nom!

However I got a bit carried away with some of the chariots and they got caught on the hill.

I'd also got carried away with the harpies.

It was kill or be killed for the Warriors.

I had busted up the Elf left pretty comprehensively.

But the elf counter-punch was underway.

My expensive and powerful cavalry brigade was stuck out on my right flank.

As my chariots were munched.

The Dragon Rider caught the Dragon Ogres napping.

The warriors retreated into the safety of the woods, but the field belonged to the High Elves.

Great fun game with a splendid opponent. The game began fairly well for me with my chariot brigade giving the elves a good beating. However the High Elf leadership and Iain's superior generalship meant they fought their way back and a bit of poor positioning and some poor leadership roles meant I couldn't bring my hard hitters to bear to even things back and I went down to a second defeat.

Warmaster Revolution - Daemons v Dark Elves

Flush with excitement after Winter Warmer the previous weekend Andy came over for another game of Warmaster. He brought his tournament Dark Elf list and I picked out some Daemons.

I hastily turned the results into a video

So busy were we having fun and playing at speed that I didn't take many photographs!

The first turns on both sides passed in a haze of failed orders and blunders. Malekith executed one of his underlings before promptly rolling a double six himself.

We were playing a scenario where the battlefield is covered in mist for at least the first two turns, reducing range and charge distances. Which made for a challenging game.

Eventually the Khorne Daemons got to grips with the Elf spears but were then in turn charged by Dark Riders

The Daemon General looked on.

A large block of Daemons occupied some ruins.

As Elves lurked in the pine forest.

The Dark Rider left flank stalled on a hilltop.

But the Daemons too were lost in the fog.

Especially the flyers.

Eventually the Dark Riders cantered into some hounds as the fog lifted.

And an almighty scrum broke out in the centre.

More Khorne Daemons were dragged down by Elf spearmen.

Another Dark Rider brigade charged more Khorne Hounds.

The fight in the centre saw Malekith just hang on and then turn the tables.

The Khorne hounds threw back the Dark Riders but couldn't kill them all.

In the end Malekith managed to kill the Tzeentch Daemons, netting him a win by the narrowest of margins!

Great fun game and the mist scenario made for interesting challenges.