Wormaster 2026 - Game Two: Kislev v Chaos

 Ok, time has very much moved on and my memory is growing dim, but here's the pictures and what little I can remember from game two.

After my unexpected success in round one I found myself at the dizzy heights of table ten where i was to face Connor and his Chaos.

We were in the desert. of course we were, Where else would Kislev be most likely to fight Chaos, eh?

My light horse crested a hill - there was something special about the hill, hence the card underneath it, but I have no idea what.

Chaos and Kislev soon came to blows beneath a towering pyramid.

Dogs versus horse on a sandy plain - the classic trope.

Nice and warm in their floor length, fur-lined, crimson coats the red guard stood...erm...guard.

It wasn't all just sand. there was a field too. Presumably irrigated in some way.

Mostly the Chaos men stood about in the ruins. Their shiny heavy all encompassing armour making it a very pleasant experience no doubt.

The dogs and the horse archers were chasing one another around the Spinx.

The field proved a useful defence against the first wave of Chaos attack.

Less so against the second

In the shadow of the Sphinx the last winged lancer tumbled to a sandy demise

A pretty comprehensive loss this one. Outplayed and outfought.

Great fun though.

Wormaster 2026 - Game One: Kislev v Lizards

Wormaster is one of my favourite wargame events of the year. Held in Worcester (hence the name) and this was the 4th one I'd been to. Andy and I travelled down together, Alan was indisposed abd I was taking the Kislev forces for what may be their final tournament outing for a while - I'm hoping to have a new army for Summer Sizzler.

First game I was drawn against John, who I'd met at last year's excellent Warmaster 25 event that he'd organised. He had a lovely looking Lizardman army with *no* cavalry.

The scenario involved holding objectives at the end of the game.

Broad, wintry plains, ideal for hardy Kislevites and somewhat more challenging for cold-blooded Lizardmen.

I had only a single war wagon for this event.

The Lizardmen "castled" in one corner

Kislev advanced.

Snagging objectives as they went.

The Lizards held firm

The lines closed

Despite the odds the winged lancers charged home

Blood both warm and cold was shed

Soewhere amongst this initial charging the Lizardman General was sucked into the fight. And perished!

Luck (good for me, bad for John) played a huge part!

The Leaderless Lizards struggled to claim back the objectives

The War Wagon took something of a beating but held on.

As the dust settled Kislev held more objectives and so i was able to claim a win. The (unexpected) death of his general caused John a lot of problems and despite that it was still quite a close run thing - pretty sure he'd have won if the big guy hadn't gone down.

A few bonus phone pictures

Chain of Command Normandy (2)

 After some real life stuff and then a much needed holiday in Portugal General B. and I finally reconvened to play out some Chain of Command. It's great having places you can leave your game set up and then come back to it a month later and just carry on!

Anyway, just a few quick pics of what turned out to be something of an easy victory for the Germans

Got a few posts to catch up as well. Good to be back playing and blogging

Chain of Command Normandy '44

 General B and I started a "refresher" game of Chain of Command before we embark on the Old Hickory campaign.

We paused part way through intending to resume a week later and then real life has intervened and it may be we don't get back to it before the table needs to be cleared for other things. Ho-hum.

Anyway here are *all* the pictures so far!

It was not going well for my Americans TBF

Pulp Africa Collection for sale

Time to move this collection on.

COLLECT AT PARTIZAN MAY 17 ONLY - £120

These are a mix of Copplestone (for Foundry) and Northstar miniatures

10 Copplestone archers

8 Northstar Bearers

Three Northstar Explorers and a Foundry Boxer

15 Copplestone spearmen

A Copplestone "leader" type

8 Copplestone Foundry Askari (including command)

There's also a selection of fauna

Elephant is a painted plastic toy - he's a big lad

Hippo (Ral Partha)

Crocodile (Ral Partha)

The two Ral Partha models are 25mm, so are quite wee in comparison to the rest of this collection

Giant Ape (a Resin 7TV model)

Looking for £120 for the lot.
No splitting, no haggling.

I'll be helping Morris and Chums run the Battle of Lewes at Partizan. So if you want this army, drop a reply below (first come, first served) and then find me on the day with the cash.