Wormaster 2024 - Warmaster event game two

And so, as night follows day, game one is followed by game two.

This time I was to be playing Alex with another "new to me" army - Wood Elves. When I worked at GW Rick always resisted the idea of a Wood Elf army for Warmaster, saying they were too small a force and ambushy-skirmish and so not suited to mass battles so I was interested to see how the WMR version played. I was expecting a *lot* of shooting.

The battlefield we would be meeting on was frozen plain, somewhere in Far Cathay to judge by the statues. Quite what the arboreal natives of the Old World were doing in such an inhospitable spot we had no notion. The absence of woods I felt would potentially be something of a hindrance to my opponent. In fact the only terrain was some snowy craters - so I was rather worried about the lack of cover.

The scenario involved the capture of various portable objectives that were spread along the centre line. Alex admitted that advancing was also not necessarily ideal for his army play style.

Sun streaming through the windows of the venue  and bouncing off the snow white battlefield rather played havoc with my camera, so apologies for the picture quality.

In the early morning light the Daemons materialise onto the frozen plains

Where a host of Wood Elves were waiting for them (and probably wishing they'd packed their thermals)

That's a lot of blokes with bows...

Just beyond the giant Cathayan Dog Statue lie the Mystic Beads of the Elder Times.

The horde brigade raced toward the MBotET (as they shall henceforth be known)

The Wood Elves put tennis rackets on their feet and began to push forward across the snowy ground.

And so the lines closed.

The Pink Ladies managed to race forward, scoop up a MBotET and race back in one graceful set of moves.

The Big Beast slithered across the snow and into the squishy elves.

Sluuuuurp!

The Angry Red Daemons found the woodier inhabitants of Athek Loren a bit indigestible - something about the splinters.

The other horde was driven back by shooting, but held it together.

The Beasts continued their slimy consumption of their foes.

Soon after this we were given a twenty minute warning. As I'd just finished a turn we didn't think there was time for us both to go again and so we called it there.

Counting up the VPs I'd squeaked a narrow win, mostly by dint of holding three objectives to two. I suspect another turn of shooting and Daemonic instability may well have handed Alex the win.

Another good fun and well matched game - the Wood Elves do play differently to other Warmaster Armies so it was good to play against them and Alex was a charming chap to play with.