SteveFest 2024 - Warhammer The Old World (3)

 Another day, another game of Warhammer.

Fortified with a good night's sleep we set up another game.

This time Stephen would take 2,000 points of Wolves of the Sea against our combined Orcs (me) and Chaos Warriors (Kenton)

I had a big block o'boys

And some rough, tough Black Orcs.

And boarboys too.

Stephen's Marauders stood waiting.

Those Dragon Ogres again!

And some Werewolves.
There wolves.

The field of war.

A slightly different angle.

The long lines of evil

Another Daemon Prince had arrived.

The Chaos Lord was on a Daemonic mount of some sort.

The Nurgle wizard began by casting a vortex.

He did this several times.

And each time Stephen waited until his turn and then dispelled it.

Easily.

Vortex spells are rubbish.

The Orcs pushed up a bit.

And the Wolves came on.

Smashing in to some Black Orcs.

Turns out you have to do clever things with the Black Orc profiles to make them really good.

To no one's great surprise I hadn't done this, I'd just picked Black Orcs.

Soon Wolves were fighting warriors.

Turns out Wolves are just pretty good all round.

The Red Knights of Nurgle (ask Kenton) were also getting charged.

The battle was on.

Screams and curses echoed across the field of battle.

We should probably cut that out.

The Black Orcs were finding the going to be tough.

And the Orc boys soon found themselves assailed from multiple directions.

Bumblebee Man buzzed to the rescue.

However this didn't end well.

Pretty soon the boys were fleeing.

The warriors at least bought pain to the Marauders.

But as the sun set over the battlefield it was the Wolves who held fast.

Another good fun game. And because it was his birthday we let Stephen win.

SteveFest 2024 - Warhammer The Old World (2)

And so, after a brief pause for refreshment it was time for game two.

This time I took the 2000 point Dwarf force facing Kenton's Warriors and Stephen's Beastmen.

I made like a good Dwarf and castled on a hill. I was holding the objective (the bead in the middle of my Hammerers)

Ironbreakers to my left and Rangers in a field.

 

Royal Clan Dwarfs (played by Longbeards) and the ice cream scoop rock lobber.

Daemon Prince replacing Lord on Dragon for this one - so that's all right then.

Big unit of Beastmen and a Chariot.

The field of war.

The Chaos forces all raced forward.

I stood still and shot. To no great avail.

And then the Chaos forces crashed home.

Ooof.

Ouch.

Wallop.

Crump

The Hammerers watched on, waiting their turn to strike.

The Knights went through the Royal Clan.

The hill still held.

But the Scoop Of Doom, was in fact, doomed.

The Pumbagore chariot smashed into the Ironbreakers, assisted by Dragon Ogres. Sneaky Chaos magic rusted the Dwarf armour away.

The Hammerers had had enough and decided to bring the pain.

The 'breakers hung around.

But were whittled away.

Hammerers are pretty handy it turns out.

The Knights picked on the Bolt Thrower.

Still just about surviving!

But the net is closing in.

And inevitably.

Throndin Groznog and his bodyguard sang their death songs and prepared to go to Grungni

Outplayed an outfought this was a pretty straightforward win for the forces of Chaos.

But a great game of Warhammer all the same