Kislevember: Warmaster Kislev WarWagon

This is the actual model that was "inked up" and photographed for WarMag when Kislev was released.
I was given it by Jervis or Andy or Tom M. when the Fanatic studio was closed down along with some other of the Warmaster Kislev samples as they knew I liked and played the game.
It then sat in my lead pile until Warmaster 25 gave me the excuse to undercoat and paint it up.

The crew were already glued in, which was a bit of a pain to paint!

Lion Rampant Wars of the Roses

General Ballroom and I were due to continue our games of Chain of Command. As gamers of a certain vintage and with CoC rewarding leisurely play we usually stretch these games across two evenings, leaving the board and miniatures set up in General B's Garden Gaming Room. Unfortunately he had arranged for some other, younger and more spritely gamers to come round over the intervening weekend - which left us with a dilemma - play at speed or abandon our plans, nether of which held much appeal. And then I suggested an alternative - Lion Rampant is easy to set up, simple to remember how to play and cracks along at a pace that even two venerable folk such as us can wrap up in under two hours.

And so it was that our two 30 point forces met again - this time in the scenario that rewards you for getting units (or even parts of units) off the opposing corner.

Unfortunately I forgot both camera *and* phone. General B stepped in to the breach with his phone so we have a visual record, albeit one that hasn't had my usual levels of fussing and faff applied!

Blogger appears unwilling or unable to post the images in the correct order, and I am in no mind to manually fettle them any more than I have already.

Anyway it was a close fought game - where I narrowly claimed the victory by exiting a single surviving horseman from the field. And then murdering all Gen. B's men.

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.