Monday, 6 January 2025

Warhammer: The Old World Goblins v Chaos

Kenton came over for a pre-Christmas game. He was intending to bring his Goblin army, so I picked an all Goblin force too in anticipation of a Gob-off. Then he turned up with his Chaos Warriors. Oh.

Undeterred the Goblin Horde prepared for WAR!


Nasty beast chariot thingy.


The plain of battle.


And again.


The goblin tribes were unafraid of the big flappy bloke in the distance.


After all, they'd brought some trolls with them.


Angry red men were also present 


As were some stinky green men.


And some sensuous pinky-white men.


Rashly the spider riders launched themselves at the chariot. 


The Squig herd prepared to meet the foe.


Fanatics went a-whirlin'


In went the Squigs.


The Angry Red Men raced off to fight spiders


Astonishingly the other spiders murdered the Chariot.


The fanatics went about their whirly business.


Teeth and claw meets cold steel.




Still he whirls.


Shortly after this the Squigs went pop, killing quite a few more goblins and a few less warriors than I would have liked.


Big Bouncy Lad slammed into the Slaanesh warriors as the spiders headed back to the fight.


With the Squigs no longer detaining them more Warriors advanced.


Heading towards goblins.


Who they met with a thump.


Other goblins stood around watching.


The Warriors so feared the might of the Night Gobboes that they sent in the Flappy Fella to help out.



Bouncy did better than expected.


The Goblins gripped their spears and awaited their fate.




Eventually they ran away.


Still watching.


Slaanesh Warriors v Spider Riders.


The Eight Legged Men of the Match.


And more great dice from the Disciples of Pleasure. Maybe the poison is all tickly and they like it?


The Night Goblins just about rallied, but the outcome was predictable.


Bored of watching the Goblins finally got involved.


Shaking off their Stupidity the Trolls turned to face the last remaining Angry Red Man.


The Spiders were dragging down the last of the Slaanesh warriors.


Angry Red Man did what Angry Red Men do and charged.



The Trolls murdered ARM and then raced into Flappy Fella.


They killed him, but it was too little to turn the tide and the field belonged to Chaos.


Great fun game and the Goblins were more competitive than I expected. Possibly more to do with some terrible Chaos dice than tactical genius on my part.

Here's a few bonus phone pictures:




Sunday, 5 January 2025

Warmaster Revolution: Ogres v Chaos

Way, way back in 2024 (just before Christmas) Andy bought his Ogres round to the Soldier Shack for a game of Warmaster. He's got the very jolly metal Ogres from Black Gate miniatures, that I've been resisting for a while. The army's been WiP for a while so Andy figured a game with them might encourage him to get them finsihed.

I decided to meet fire with fire and take Chaos - tow close combat, charge-y armies, what could possibly go wrong...?

I filmed things and made a video, if that's your bag - proper report follows below.


Anyway, I won the role for scouting and so Andy set up first.

Not wasting any time the Warriors advanced, into a wood.


The Brigade of Big Lads on Hairy Hefalumps gave me pause for thought.


Another big hairy brigade, this time of Yhetees.


My cavalry pushed up.


With more (plus a Dragon) on the flank.


He does like his big hairy blokes.


Still hugging the wood.


The Chaos forces prepare to strike home.


The flank is secure. Probably.


The Dragon Ogres race off to deal with the Hairy Brigade.


A bit of shooting disrupted my line.


Lets see how tough Yhetees are.


Ghostly Ogres in a field.


A Mexican stand off between the heavy cavalry types.


Oh dear.


Wiping out the Dragon Ogres the Hairy Lads raced in to the woods.


As more Ogres crashed home.


Although the Hairy Hefalumps fell to the knights, the unexpected arrival of Gorgers did not go well.


The fight in the wood was not going well either.


And sure enough soon after this I reached break point and the battlefield belonged to The Great Maw!
Turns out that although Chaos is pretty good at charging stuff in the face, so are Ogres.

Quite tempted now to get an Ogre army of my own (to match my WFB one).

Here's a few extra bonus phone pictures too.








Great fun game with a great opponent (and rules and vocal support from Alan too).