Warmaster Winter Warmer Game Three

My last game saw me remaining on the bottom table, uh-oh, looking like another wooden spoon was a real possibility.

My opponent was Lee with his very jolly Orc and Goblin army. Yes he had a lot of spellcasters all lined up to Gerroff! me about the place.

Thescenario was another of Alan's devisingthat involves six potential locations for an object - dicing to see if you find it whenever you contact an objective.

The Ice Queen assembled her forces.

I decided again to occupy the woods with infantry.

Orc armies are BIG!

he had some nasty looking rock lobbers too.

In short order some of my horse archers attacked some of his many wolf riders.

Lee rather suffered at this point (and indeed throughout the game) from what my gaming chums refer to as "Tom Dice".

Six shots on the way in, no hits at all.

The scary big lads pushed up in the middle

They looked a tough nut to crack.

I had some horse archers running interference in the centre of the Orc army

I misjudged things though and they got charged.

Which, even with Lee's poor dice did not end well for me.

Foolishly I shot some Trolls from behind, which pushed them into initiative charge range of my lancers.

Again this didn't end well.

However I'd got the artillery in my sights

As my horse were cut down.

In the end Lee had outscored me very slightly in kills but because I'd found the relic on the first turn and managed to hold on to it I gained an extra 300 points and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat!

Great fun game - Lee was very unlucky with dice for most of the game, but i failed a couple of charges late on that could have significantly tipped things in my favour.

it did feel like I was finally playing to the army strengths in the final game.

Warmaster Winter Warmer Game Two

After lunch and after my pasting from Vince I found myself down on the very bottom table (a lovely one as it happens with Paul Winters' very nice High Elf terrain on it). My opponent was to be one of the three Matt's who form part of my regular gaming circle, Matt A. specifically who is probably the least regular of the regular Matts.

Anyway he had a Chaos army. This scenario (courtesy of Alan's Patent Pending Scenario Spin-O-Tron) was one from the fiendish mind of Paul Winter, where mist has descended and visibility is reduced to just 20cm, making shooting and charging altogether more challenging.

Laager, laager, laager!

The Ice Queen held the centre

With Lancers in reserve

I pushed up on my right

Ulp!

Nothing here looks very squishy...

Moving up to occupy a defensive position in the woods

Yikes, a dragon!

A general Chaos advance

Oooer!

I managed to get some horse archers in behind - to be dead annoying. I hadn't figured on the spawn though...

I was aiming my infantry at the hedge for some defence, but orders failed...

I'd fairly well sealed the gap between tower and woods

We'd agreed the buildings were impassable (presumably the elves had just locked the doors and were inside doing some needlework) but having the dragon land on one of them was just too cool to stop.

See

I got the lancers in on some warriors - but those boys are tough.

I held the woods. Though Chaos was coming...

The fight in the fields ground on - I was killing but also losing bodies quite fast

More Chaos lads came to the rescue. Naively I was hoping to survive this.

The pesky spawn was also doing Chaos work in the background.

My wizard turned into a Bear to try and deal with it

The middle of the battlefield ran with blood.

The Chaos Knights had got in around the back

Desperate scenes as Horse Archers fought off Marauders

I'd made the hedge but the Warriors were closing in.

Things were grim round the back of the wagons.

And with that time ran out.

A hard fought slog, but Matt had killed a few more of the flower of Kislev and that gave him a narrow victory.

Now some phone pictures:

Dawn breaks over the Kislev forces

Here come the Dragon Ogres!

A steady advance

See, super cool!

Yikes!

Brutal fighting

My poor Bears

Will. You. Just. Die!!!

Uh-oh

the final scrum

 Great fun game and I played the Kislev forces a bit better this time.