The afternoon session of the excellent Khazid Vosk gaming day was spent playing in one of two huge games. I think there were nine players on each of the two tables - with more Greenskin than Dwarf players (5-4 on each table I think). I was down one end of one table facing off against Tom and his gorgeous Spider army.
Boarboy hordes on the table I *wasn't* playing on.
My Ironbreakers line up
The gloriously coloured spider army
That's the gate of the hold we're attempting to enter I think.
It's all kicking off (orange Foot O Gork Template)
Lovely mix of spiders new and old.
The much vaunted Dwarf war machines were again next to useless.
Two Araknorok's is a fine sight.
Huge mob of classic metal Savage Orcs.
Those Night Gobboes were back (but far away from me this time)
Down the far end of our table the slayers were kicking off
The odds were just the way slayers like them
Some great looking armies taking part
This is back to the other table - where the Boarboys seem to have crashed home
Big Dead Giant was nice scenic piece
More Slayers seeking death!
Still more on the other table
Back to our game - view from the Goblin side
And back to the front of the Spiders
I shot this one four times with a cannon and failed to hurt it
The Spider horde crashed into the Quarrelers
And the Snotilngs (spider bases) went after the Flame Cannon.
Then annoyingly contacted the Ironbreakers
Throndin made his way to the front to do some clobbering.
I'd been "refused flanked" so my short legged guys were struggling to get involved.
One of the Spiders was so underwhelmed by my challenge he wandered off to kill some other Dwarfs instead.
Slowly my lads tried to catch up.
Th Ironbreakers continued to slaughter Snotlings
As the Spider horde came on
Over on the adjacent board the Orange Arakno was finding a Dwarf general quite chewy...
The cannon was next to fall under the eight legged menace
And the Ironbreakers found themselves flasnked
the orange Spider was bounced through multiple friendly and enemy units during a retreat and emerged, mostly unscathed to fight the Grozznog Clan Longbeards.
As the classic metal Orcs rammed into the Clan
Spider was munching but big axes were chopping off wounds - would the spider survive?
The Ironbreakers had pulled back but were resolute
The spider munched on but the veteran Dwarfs had it down to a final wound.
As the fight at this end of the table hung in the balance the sun set across the battlefield and the game was at a close.
in the end although my force was not too badly damaged the Dwarfs had been overwhelmed and Khazid Vosk was staying green!
Bonus phone pictures:
A really good day's gaming meeting some nice new faces. I much prefer narrative type events like this and the armies all looked great.
The last game did demonstrate that WFB doesn start to fall apart when playing big games - as Tom the organiser realised about half way through, probably better to just let individual tables play at a pace and try and coordinate when models move from one table to the next, otherwise it can be a long wait for some people if one of the parts of the big table is going slowly.
But that was soon overcome and didn't affect the day at all.
Apparently round two is planned for October - Stephen and I are already planning to attend...
