Warmaster 25 Game Two - Kislev v Daemons

And so to the second game - this time I was playing solo with my 2,000 point force.

And soon a familiar opponent appeared - Rob and his Daemons from the previous round - a chance for immediate revenge! Though having played Rob several times before I wasn't terribly confident of my chances...

The Kislev forces gather

We had clearly wandered to the shores of Nippon.

And would defend the temples amidst the blossom trees.

 

The light cavalry pushed up

The field was alive with the crackling of Daemonic enargy

Rob's army fanned out

My cavalry got caught in the open.

However the bears hit home

And the cavalry got caught

More horse archers hit home

And caught more daemons in the rear.

The Kislev cavalry were making progress

However some unlikely orders pulled off by the Daemon general meant they were in on my flanks too.

Daemonic flyers made their presence felt

Horse archers crossed the stream to attack a flank.

And with that I had pushed Rob over the breakpoint and earned a hard fought victory.

I was beginning to get the hang of the Kislev cavalry force and the scenario for this one played to my strengths - but it still could have gone Ethernet way.

Some extra phone pictures.

So at least I wasn't going to be whitewashed over the weekend

Great game with Rob as always.

Warmaster 25 Game One: Kislev and Wood Elves v Vampire Counts and Daemons

For the Warmaster 25 event the 40 or so players were organised into two sides -good and evil. There were a few "neutral" players - Ogres, Dogs of War and the like who were assigned to each side to balance things out. Our glorious leaders, Janners for us good guys and Evil Grey Seer Wint-Wint for the forces of darkness, then assigned us to tables for the games. Many of the tables were themed with lovely scenery and there were a number of doubles games as well as special siege scenarios.

For my first game I was to play doubles with my smaller Kislev force of 1250 points. I was paired with a splendid chap whose name I can't remember - he was Scottish and it began with D, so possibly Donald although it may well have been Duncan. He had a lovely looking Wood Elf army.

Facing us across the table were the redoubtable Palmier family, Rob and his son Adam - both formidable Warmaster players who I've fought (and lost to) several times in the past. Rob had a lovely Slaanesh Daemon army that it transpired had been painted by my Wood Elf ally. Adam had Vampire Counts.

The table was Orc and Goblin themed, with mushroom forests and Orc huts littering the board.

As is the way of many doubles games we effectively ended up playing two parallel singles games and my Kislevites faced down Rob's Daemons.

The hordes soon occupied a village.

Skeletons did likewise

My horse archers were soon in combat

This is not how you should use light cavalry.

I did manage the odd flank charge

The war wagon took it's time trundling up the hill

Mu ally had at least secured one objective

But was finding the undead hordes tough going

And their Daemon allies were also hard to shift

Seekers were galloping hither and yon.

And, wisely, avoiding the wagon.

More of my light cavalry were caught in the open.

And Daemons were running amock

At least the bears got to fight!

Desperation saw the light cavalry charging more Daemons

As the servants of Slaanesh began to mop up.

A couple of random phone pictures:

In the end a reasonably comfortable victory for the forces of evil. My Ally held up his end of the bargain but I fear the Kislevites rather let him down.

I'm still coming to grips with how the army works and against a goof player like Rob that's always going to end badly.