I took several other pictures at Wormaster - not all of the best quality, but here they are.
A huge horde of Terracotta warriors
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I took several other pictures at Wormaster - not all of the best quality, but here they are.
A huge horde of Terracotta warriors
And so to the final game.
Another new opponent, Neil, and yet another new-to-me army in the shape of Chaos Dwarfs.
There was some chat on the Warmaster FB group about the lack of some of the traditional armies from the event - no High Elves, Chaos Warriors or Bretonnians - I suspect this has something to do with Wormaster being quite a laid back affair, so people seemed to be taking lists they enjoyed or wanted to experiment with rather than tooling up for the win - but also the fact that WM now has a plentiful list of balanced armies and the rise of 3D printing makes them achievable to field.
This battle was to be a pitched battle with the twist that any units wiped out in a combat where the general was participating scored double points with all the risks that entailed! Fortunately the whole Tournament used the King is Dead rules which means the death of a general isn't an automatic end of game and it's possible for another character to take over.
The Big Hats wasted no time in hauling their heavy artillery up to the top of the nearest hill.
And so, as night follows day, game one is followed by game two.
This time I was to be playing Alex with another "new to me" army - Wood Elves. When I worked at GW Rick always resisted the idea of a Wood Elf army for Warmaster, saying they were too small a force and ambushy-skirmish and so not suited to mass battles so I was interested to see how the WMR version played. I was expecting a *lot* of shooting.
The battlefield we would be meeting on was frozen plain, somewhere in Far Cathay to judge by the statues. Quite what the arboreal natives of the Old World were doing in such an inhospitable spot we had no notion. The absence of woods I felt would potentially be something of a hindrance to my opponent. In fact the only terrain was some snowy craters - so I was rather worried about the lack of cover.
The scenario involved the capture of various portable objectives that were spread along the centre line. Alex admitted that advancing was also not necessarily ideal for his army play style.
Sun streaming through the windows of the venue and bouncing off the snow white battlefield rather played havoc with my camera, so apologies for the picture quality.
In the early morning light the Daemons materialise onto the frozen plains
Soon after this we were given a twenty minute warning. As I'd just finished a turn we didn't think there was time for us both to go again and so we called it there.
Counting up the VPs I'd squeaked a narrow win, mostly by dint of holding three objectives to two. I suspect another turn of shooting and Daemonic instability may well have handed Alex the win.
Another good fun and well matched game - the Wood Elves do play differently to other Warmaster Armies so it was good to play against them and Alex was a charming chap to play with.