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Fleeing back down through the Uppar Hills Gruzzkupp's once proud invasion force turn to make a stand against the invigorated Dwarfs.
A simple Bloodbath game with the Dwarf force as the attackers.
Here's a video version
Here's the analogue version
Angry Oakenfinger Clan
The field of war
Orcs in fine array
The Orcis Wizard pushed up, sending some of the more ferocious lads on ahead.
Whilst Gruizzkupp's bodyguard set about stalking their opposite numbers
More fearsome boys stormed up a hill intent on feasting on goat-meat
The Pig Riding lads spied some bears. In the woods. Where else?
the Dwarf advance was more circumspect.
Dragon's Breath enveloped the Orcs protecting them from the crossbows.
The Black Orcs taunted their foe
The first Orc charge failed to much dent the Dwarf elite.
So the Black Orcs closed the ground.
The other Boys managed to scrag a couple of Goat riders
The Boars faced off against the bears.
The Dwarfs had cleared out the first Orc threat.
The face-off continued
The Bears charged and the Orcs countercharged!
The fight went in the favour of the Bears but they then failed their courage test and ran back to...you guessed it...the woods.
The Black Orcs fell on the Dwarf hearthguard.
Bagpipe Toting Dwarfs pushed up.
The Goats were being whittled away but the Orcs couldn't bring them to ground.
The Hearthguard were pushed back by rampaging Black Orcs.
The Boar Riders changed tack and fell on the Dwarfs
Forcing them back.
The Orc wizard spent his time trying, and frequently failing, to enhance the Black Orcs.
The battered Dwarfs somehow failed to respond to the rallying cry of the bagpipes.
The Black Orcs cut down the Hearthguard and then charged in to the crossbows.
However the Bears arrived to cut down the wizard and despite the Black Orcs finally catching the last of the Goat Riders, night fell with the Dwarfs in control of the battlefield.
Another grand game of Dragon Rampant. i did *somewhat* hamper the Orc cause by failing to remember that DR now uses 30 point warbands and only taking a 24 point force!
Next battle sees us back at the river as the Dwarfs seek to push the Orcs completely from their territory!
As part of the Warmaster campaign Matt (Nippon) was due to face Alessandro (Empire).
Circumstances meant they were not able to play, so I volunteered to field a mercenary Empire force in Alessandro's place
The Empire assembles. Plenty of knights.
A field somewhere in Nippon by the looks of things
the bulk of Matt's army is made from the Wargames Atlantic plastics
The daemons are 3D prints
I took skirmishers for the first time.
As the Daemonic battalion moved up I was able to catch them in the flank.
The Griffon rider went in too
My White Wolves had lined up for a devastating charge. Then failed their order.
Having dispatched the Daemons the Halbardiers were in turn caught by Samurai cavalry
And more Nippon horse caught my knights.
Both units.
On the left my horse still failed to charge home - partly discouraged by the Nippon forces being in fields, making for a closer fight than I'd have liked.
The right flank was now largely clear of cavalry on both sides
Though enough Nippon horse remained to fall on the last Knight of the Blazing Sun
Finally the White Wolves got stuck in
Though this unit rather disgraced themselves and bounced off.
It was left to the foot soldiers to catch Samurai horse in the flank and wipe them out - forcing Nippon to withdraw.
Good fun game and interesting to play with something other than Kislev for the first time in a while! the cannon proved devastating in the early game and the Empire Knights had enough grunt to take the heart out of the Nippon forces and then I managed to hang on and pick off units to get them to withdraw.
The Nippon army is a tough one I think - like an underpowered Empire - and therefore hard to use effectively a bit like I'm finding Kislev.
