More Warhammer 40K - Templars v Orks

Another game in the jungle with my venerable 40K collection.

The Lads assembled

Gruzkupp was hanging out with his Nobs

Filthy Oomies had occupied a central ruin

They were soon advancing through the jungle

The boys charged into the ruins

Whilst more lads ran towards another objective

Where Templars stood waiting

The fight in the ruins ground on.

As Gruzzkupp tried to sneak up

Jump pack marines and a nasty Chaplain got involved

The ruins were in green hands

 Gruzzkupp continued to tiptoe through the undergrowth

The cans arrived to deal with the chaplain.

Gruzzkupp arrived to hand it out to the big dudes

As the Chaplain proved resilient

But the ruins remained green

An Ork victory! We sorted out the rules for Waaagh and some of the other Ork special rules and that made them an altogether tougher proposition.

It's still a silly game though.

Warmaster Revolution: Ogres v. Kislev

Alessandro came over to the Solider Shack with his beautiful Ogre army. We played one fo the scenarios from the Warmaster Winter Warmer rules pack - it's one of the ones chum Alan has written for the event where five objectives are placed and you dice when you uncover an objective to see if it's the real deal or a dummy.

I took the same force I did to Warmaster 25 - I'm persisting with ituntil after the Winter Warmer when I'll add some new models and take a different list to other events later in the year. Trying to force myself to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the list. With, it has to be said, fairly limited sucess.

The Kislev forces assemble. For this game I tried having the two War Wagons in a single brigade, aiming to kick out a lot of firepower.

See, looks lovely, dunnit?

Alessandro had lots of scary looking Ogres.

His faster moving units pushed up on my right.

I grabbed a field and one of the objectives!

Turned out to be a dummy.

The situation at the end of the first turn.

The Ogre general roared his troops onwards.

My light cavalry were caught on the hop.

A solid wall of big blubbery flesh filled the centre of the battlefield.

The Mournfangs were having a whale of a time with the horse archers.

Ironguts charged the infantry in the field and were thrown back at some cost.

More horse archers fell to rampaging Ogres.

And the Mournfangs continued to feast

Having a go at the Bears now!

Eventually hunger drove the Ogres to charge the laagered war wagons

The Kislev foot were holding the field as the enemy closed in

The Winged lancers lined up a glorious charge. And promptly failed their next order.

Finally dragged a Mournfang down - but it didn't seem t slow them down much.

The War Wagons stood firm against the rotund tide.

More Ironguts tried to take the field.

As the troops were driven back from the laagered wagon

The Kislev centre had completely crumbled by this stage.

Another failed charge from the lancers

Kislev was fast running out of men.

The Ogres in the field were able to pick their fights, killing the archers and pushing Kislev to retreat from the field.

The Ogre Warlord roared his victory toar.

As the Leadbelchers, who'd not even fired a shot, looked on

An easy, overwhelming victory for the Ogres. I made it simpler for Alessandro by making a plan and then completely failing to stick to it. 
There were a couple of moments when the dice failed me and charges didn't crash home, but as any Warmaster player will tell you - that's how the game goes and you need to be able to cope with that.

Great to have a new opponent over in the Soldier Shack, hopefully get another game in with Alessandro soon.

Chain of Command 2 - US v Germans Game Six

And so to the last game of our playthrough of all the scenarios in the Chain of Command book.

Having lost the last game I was once again on the defensive.

Dawn breaks and an ominous rumbling and squeaking can be heard

Careless to have not bought any anti-tank guns with us...

And, with a village in the way Fritz has gone with a big HE gun.

Plenty of Panzer Grenadiers too

US forces swiftly line the wall

A brave bazooka team deploys

Aim

Blissfully unaware

Unfortunately the shot whizzes wide

At the wall casualties are mounting.

The tank rumbles closer

The yanks beat a hasty retreat

And seek shelter indoors

As another squad covers the street

A US machine gun arrives and begins to give Jerry a taste of his own medicine

But attracts a lot of fire in return.

The Germans are pinned but more are sneaking up behind the hedge.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and the bazooka team deploys again.

However it's another miss!

The German tank turns the full force of it's main gun on the bazooka team, blowing them clean out of the game and gaining a big win for the Germans.

So after six games of CoC 2 we seem to have got the hang of it and mostly we're back to me not being able to beat the Germans!

Next up we're planning to play the Old Hickory Pint Sized campaign. I just need to paint some new support choices first!