Warmaster Revolution: Dark Elves v Vampire Counts

With Wormaster Five only a few weeks away Alan and I needed a warm-up (Worm-up?) so we got together to play one of the scenarios from the pack.

Both of us were taking unfamiliar armies - I'm planning to take my Dark Elves and Alan's going to give his Vampires a run out.

Here's the game in video format

I lost the scouting role and so deployed first.

We were playing a scenario where there are five objectives to secure, each worth 150 VP.

My Dark Elf force is quite heavy on infantry so I was wondering how they'd play.

The Corsairs are newly painted and the bases need finishing - the Chaos Knights are stand-ins for Cold Ones that are in the painting queue.

Alan was using his Vampire Counts that he's only just started playing with, so we'd both be feeling our way a bit.

He had a *lot* of zombies, skellies and ghouls.

With a big cavalry brigade facing my right.

I had some big infantry blocks of my own.

Behold the armies in fine array.

My left flank pushed up cautiously.

But my right rather stalled.

Though I did manage to push a sizeable block up onto the hill to secure an objective.

I soon had bats in my backfield - though Alan had to use a Van Hel's spell to get them there.

A second unit of bats also had me readjusting my forces in the rear on my left.

Meanwhile the undead shambled forward.

A large block on my right had secured another objective.

And another block of undead pushed on past the central objective and occupied a wood in my centre.

Fortunately for me the cavalry brigades on my right were proving tricky to command.

My line was somewhat in disarray prompted by the bat swarms.

As if from nowhere black knights rounded the woods and fell on my cavalry brigade.

As the Vampire Lords struggled to bring force to bear on my right.

The fight on my left was not going as expected for the charging undead.

Eventually the Vampire cavalry charged home.

Whilst their forces pushed my cold ones back.

My last remaining knights were enveloped by spirits.

And still the undead held the central wood.

Though I had firm control over an objective.

Soon the centre was largely devoid of units.

And at this point we called a halt as we'd been playing for over 2 1/2 hours.

A rather cagey game as we were both negotiating new armies.

My infantry on the hill got lucky and through back the charge of the knights whilst in the centre we'd rather destroyed one another.

A count up of victory points gave me a narrow victory.

But I think I need more games and maybe some tweaks to the list before I'm ready for Wormaster.