Wormaster 2026 - Game Three: Kislev v Wood Elves

And so to the final game. Usually every Warmaster Tournament I go to I end up playing regular opponent Alan. Only Alan couldn't make it this time, so instead in game three I ended up playing regular opponent Andy with his Wood Elves. Which was all good with me.

The table was ludicrously scenery heavy. The organisers were experimenting with ways to reduce the (IMO entirely fictitious) perceived dominance of heavy cavalry in the game. It certainly had the effect of making my Kislev army quite hard to use, though I'm not sure that was the intention.

How much terrain is too much terrain...?

Ummm....

TBH I really can't remember the game at all. I know Andy and I had a fun time, because we always do when we play soldiers.

Fighting, in a field.

Hmmm, this looks quite bad, actually.

Few, a field to hide in.

More field based combat,

Lets have a fight on this open ground, here!

More Wood Elf cavalry catching more Kislev cavalry

Again, this looks less than ideal from a Kislev perspective.

More killing and death going on here.

A jolly good fun game. Which I lost. Standard.

 And so that was the end of Wormaster 2026. A fabulous event as always. Three great games with three great opponents.

Wormaster 2026 - Game Two: Kislev v Chaos

 Ok, time has very much moved on and my memory is growing dim, but here's the pictures and what little I can remember from game two.

After my unexpected success in round one I found myself at the dizzy heights of table ten where i was to face Connor and his Chaos.

We were in the desert. of course we were, Where else would Kislev be most likely to fight Chaos, eh?

My light horse crested a hill - there was something special about the hill, hence the card underneath it, but I have no idea what.

Chaos and Kislev soon came to blows beneath a towering pyramid.

Dogs versus horse on a sandy plain - the classic trope.

Nice and warm in their floor length, fur-lined, crimson coats the red guard stood...erm...guard.

It wasn't all just sand. there was a field too. Presumably irrigated in some way.

Mostly the Chaos men stood about in the ruins. Their shiny heavy all encompassing armour making it a very pleasant experience no doubt.

The dogs and the horse archers were chasing one another around the Spinx.

The field proved a useful defence against the first wave of Chaos attack.

Less so against the second

In the shadow of the Sphinx the last winged lancer tumbled to a sandy demise

A pretty comprehensive loss this one. Outplayed and outfought.

Great fun though.

Wormaster 2026 - Game One: Kislev v Lizards

Wormaster is one of my favourite wargame events of the year. Held in Worcester (hence the name) and this was the 4th one I'd been to. Andy and I travelled down together, Alan was indisposed abd I was taking the Kislev forces for what may be their final tournament outing for a while - I'm hoping to have a new army for Summer Sizzler.

First game I was drawn against John, who I'd met at last year's excellent Warmaster 25 event that he'd organised. He had a lovely looking Lizardman army with *no* cavalry.

The scenario involved holding objectives at the end of the game.

Broad, wintry plains, ideal for hardy Kislevites and somewhat more challenging for cold-blooded Lizardmen.

I had only a single war wagon for this event.

The Lizardmen "castled" in one corner

Kislev advanced.

Snagging objectives as they went.

The Lizards held firm

The lines closed

Despite the odds the winged lancers charged home

Blood both warm and cold was shed

Soewhere amongst this initial charging the Lizardman General was sucked into the fight. And perished!

Luck (good for me, bad for John) played a huge part!

The Leaderless Lizards struggled to claim back the objectives

The War Wagon took something of a beating but held on.

As the dust settled Kislev held more objectives and so i was able to claim a win. The (unexpected) death of his general caused John a lot of problems and despite that it was still quite a close run thing - pretty sure he'd have won if the big guy hadn't gone down.

A few bonus phone pictures

Warmaster Revolution : Kislev v. Ogres

 Our  Warmaster campaign seems to have rapidly lost momentum. One player has moved to Italy in order to avoid taking part and another Italian has surrendered without playing a single game. You are free to make up your own jokes based on stereotypes at this point.

Anyway, frantically persisting Andy and I met - he with his Ogres, me with my Kislev. He recently traded in his part painted metal Ogres for some resin ones that are more like the Warhammer Ogre figures. I rather liked the "characterful" nature of the metal sculpts and if I ever do an Ogre army I'd get some of those, but Andy disagreed. Anyway that's why his army is barely painted at all.

Here's the video version of events:

I didn't take many pictures and it was all a bit brutal, 

The Kislev horse arrives

More Kislev

Mournfangs - oooh!

I had more lancers having recently painted some

The horse pushed up

Yikes, Gorgers all up in our business!

They took some shots on the way in but...

The Mournfangs slaughtered the un-laagered war wagon and accompanying troops - I sent some lancers to help out

And took revenge on the Gorgers

But more Ogres were in my flank.

And in my front

And in my flank again

Well, you get the general vibe

The axemen resolved to sell their lives dearly in the village, but the game was up

That was nasty - Ogres hit hard and a couple of crucial failed rolls really made it hard for me.

Ah well, another good game though.