After repulsing the Middenheim force at the border Stefan von Gausser has led his rampaging Nordlanders deep into enemy territory. The strategic hill known to the locals as Grosser Hundeschwanz dominates the floodplains and provides the ideal location to launch a final thrust against the Middenheimers.
I set up roughly a third of my force on the Hundeschwanz with the rest of my army arriving on table in the first turn. The Nordland invaders were arrayed ready to seize the hill and the initiative
Stephen had bought a Steam Tank!
A.Steam. Tank
To my Soldier Shack - previously a bastion of gentlemanly good behaviour!
(Don't worry, it's only one the other thingy is a Luminark)
He also had a *lot* of those nasty shooty-horsey blokes.
Unfortunately he was able to charge home on turn one - and my shooting was ineffective.
In retrospect perhaps I would have been better putting a big old unit of infantry on the hill and bringing the shooting on later to blow the Nordlanders away.
Hindsight, eh?
My pistoliers wisely fled the Babygriffs. Unwisely they refused to rally and ran off the board. Idiots.
Tomasz der Dampf Panzer chugged his way to the top of the hill.
The Luminark engaged chariot mode and trundled in to the cannon
While the knights stalled in their advance on the crossbows
Incredibly the single surviving crossbowman took a deep draft of Middenheim Pale Ale and held firm atop the hill!
The Babygriffs dealt with the misfiring mortar
Enthused by taking the hill the knights waded into the Flagellants.
The Babygriffs cleared up in backfield.
The knights found out that on the first turn Flagellants can be quite frisky.
The rescuers trundled forward
While Nordland consolidated.
Finally knights came to blows
And the Babygriffs had to deal with the Flagellants
Unfortunately the Nordland swordsmen got in on the knights.
Bolstered by their ranks the Nordland knights whupped the Middenheimers
Swords versus swords (balanced tipped by Babygriffs)
Inevitably the Middenheim swords went down under the combined assault leaving the fire wizard as the sole survivor.
A bad day for Middenheim.
But a great day for Warhammer, finest of ALL the games! Hurrah!
Very nicely done and as always really good to see, a tank is definitely ungentlemanly. One might question why anybody would have collected two ! I do miss warhammer in this form 👍 I’m going to make it a resolution to get the army out at least once this year 👍
ReplyDeleteTBF only one of them is actually a Tank. The other is a Luminark conversion.
DeleteWarhammer for all it's many faults is still a great game to play.
Enjoying reading this series of games. It's nice seeing two well painted Empire forces on the table in a proper game of Warhammer. I really need to get my chaps on the table some time soon. Intrigued by the mounted greatswords (great idea), are you using the stats and points for White Wolves for them?
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