Warhammer Battle March: Cathay v Night Goblins

For Day Two of SteveFest '26 we had planned to play a four player Battle March Tournament. However Spandex decided he's rather go to Lincolnshire to play banjo and give high sixes to his family than ride the hovercraft to the Island of Manly Men.

Stephen and Kenton were still keen to give Battle March a go so I sort of umpired and they played out a 750 point game.

Stephen got out his Cathay force

Kenton cut down his Night Goblin force to match

The Cathay warriors formed up

They sent their Ogres off around the flank

The Night Goblins advanced on the the Heath Cliff to take on Cathay.

The lancers prepared to charge

Stephen had squeezed a mini dragon into his force, along with a cannon.

The lancers were soon in the thick of the fighting

Murdering Night Goblins

And putting them to the sword.

A convincing win for the Cathay forces.

750 points of Battle March seemed a bit "big" really. Stephen managed to get a flying monster, artillery and plenty of magic into his force, so we were left wondering what made it different from a game of Warhammer? It was a bit faster, but not massively so. I think 600 is a better point total for BM, forcing you to choose what to include and, because of the reduced numbers of models and rules, playing quicker.

Experiment over we decided to go back to T&T for the last match of the weekend...

Warhmmer Triumph and Treachery: Kislev, High Elves and Night Goblins

Round two of SteveFest'26. More Triumph and Treachery. I again took the Kislev and Kenton his Night Goblins. Stephen settled on a White Lions of Chrace list.

This time it was the game with points for being near the middle.

Lots of scary looking elves with bows arrived

With some chariots to help out

The vagaries of chance had put me opposite the Night Goblins with the Elves far away at the other end of the board.

Uh-oh

Fanatics were soon whizzing about the place

And the Griffon legion decided to see how tough Mangler Squigs are.

Tougher than Griffon Legion it turns out.

In the centre the Kislev infantry closed in.

As the Squig gobbled down the last of the Knights

The Night Goblins attacked, the Kossars countercharged.

Yum, yum!

The stout men of Kislev stood firm

Having enjoyed one lot of tasty horse flesh the Mangler decided to eat some more

As the Squigs devoured some archers

The Night Goblins were being whittled away

High Elf axemen trudged across the board.

The White Lion chariot thumped into the Night Goblin archers.

Morgan Freeman voice: This did not end well for the Night Goblins

More horses were being Mangled

The bulk of the Elf force had not made it into combat

And as the battle ended the halberdiers cutting down the Goblin Deathstar meant I had the biggest paychest!

Urrrah! for Kislev!

Great fun game with all the usual T&T chaos and backstabbing.

Warhammer Battle March - Kislev v. Orcs

Trying to learn the rules some more I got out the 600 point forces for another Battle March game. I used the Renegade Crowns list for the Kislevites.

I decided to try out the first scenario from the Battle March book where Champions from each side meet in a ford before the battle begins proper.

As I was playing solo I used playing cards to randomise the deployment of both sides a little

The rules aren't clear, so I decided both of the champions counted as charging in the first turn,

After a flurry of blows the Griffon Legion champion severed the Orc's head from his shoulders and his corpse bobbed off down the river.

The Kislevites surged forward

And enjoyed the view across the river

In turn the Orcs and Goblins pushed up

Taunts and jeers filled the air above the torrent.

The Orc chariot, unable to hold back p;unged into the water - the GRiffon legion charged into the waters to meet it.

Boarboys splashed across the water and Orcs and Halbardiers met in the ford.

A huge scrum resulted

The Orcs Battle Standard Bearer issued a challenge and the champion of the halberd armed Kislevietes answered.

Blows were swung, but the champion stood little chance.

The battle ground on with Kislev being pushed back.

In the waters the Griffon Legion had chopped the chariot to kindling and turned back to support their comrades.

The horse archers were under severe pressure

The charging lancers rode to the rescue

On the far side the Spider riders fled the Winged Lancers

Still the Kislev centre held

The Orc Standard bearer rored out another challenge and the Kislev General answered.

Both were wounded in the tussle but the Orcs broke and fled the combat.

Having cut down the Griffon Legion the Orc general now turned his attention to his rival general

The Orcs were victorious on the Kislev forces cut down.

However the remaining horse archers unleashed their bows.

And the Orc general turned tail and fled.

However as the battle came to an end he rallied and so did his boys.

The final rallies were enough to snatch victory from the forces of the Tzarina!

Waaagh!

Great fun to play through and I'm definitely finidng it a useful way to get a grip of the rules, even if The Old World is really far too fussy a set.