Battle of Five Armies Dwarfs

Anther unit of Dwarfs for Warmaster/BofA

Warmaster Revolution: Empire v. Nippon

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.

Warmaster Graveyard

A few years ago at Wormaster I was given a small pack containing some Warmaster gravestones and chapels.

They're from Cromarty Forge - part of a larger set of STLs I think

The walls I made from cork board. I kept them separate so they can be moved to allow model placement.

The base is a simple square of MDF covered with sand and painted brown.

I based the graves on plasticard so they can be moved around

Some of the inhabitants keeping the riff-raff out.

Taxi for Mr Carstein!

Here's a video version of events

Warmaster House

This was a freebie from the Warmaster 25 event last year.

Bish, bash, bosh! Basecoat and wash!

Here's a video for all the cool hipsters reading this:

 

  

From Wargamer Minis - but can't see them on the website/

Warmaster Red Guard

Elite (relatively) human infantry to bolster my Kislev forces.

Clearly these are the Saint Nicolai Regiment of foot.

Miniatures from Greenskin models, kindly printed for me by chum Dave - thanks Dave!

Warmaster Revolution Video: Kislev v Chaos

This is the game from earlier but in video form - for the yoof mainly

Like and subscribe as I believe the hipsters say, Dadio!

Reclamation of Khazid Vosk - Game Two

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.

Looking down the table

the Dwarfs stand ready!

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.

My allies to the right

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

Trolls, Snorri!

Some great looking armies taking part

This is back to the other table - where the Boarboys seem to have crashed home

I liked this watchtower

Big Dead Giant was nice scenic piece

The fight in full swing

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.

All shaping up nicely

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 Clan Dwarfs held

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...