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We had an odd number of players for Winter Warmer and Alan and Andy very kindly agreed that i should be the one to make up the numbers.
First game I was drawn against Vince with his Bretonnians. Things with heavy armour are tough for my army which lacks punch so I already felt on the back foot from the get go. Turns out Vince is quite good at Warmaster too, so regular readers (thank you both) can probably imagine how this one pans out.
The scenario was based on occupying quarters at the end of the game.
I pushed up on my right
And on my left
There was a terrifying big block of Knights in the centre.
I realised it was charge or be charged, so threw the Winged Lancers forward. Unfortunately Bretonnian Armour>Lancer armour, so I rather bounced off.
Meanwhile more Knights had bounced my horse archers.
And more of the same on my right flank.
It was going badly for my horse archers
The bears too had been caught.
And with that my army was broken, Vince controlled all four quarters and I'd taken a proper beating.
Now some phone pictures:
Dawn breaks over the arid plains.
Knights crest the phallic hill
the war wagon stood ready
Lorra knights
Crump!
Oh dear
The bears get it in the face.
Sneaky Pegs in the rear!
Good fun game. Brets are a hard match up for me and Vince played well.
Andy has been beavering - or perhaps that should be "Belvoiring" - away at a Bretonnian army in preparation for the 25th Birthday Warmaster even in Scotland next month. They're table ready, so he bought them over to the Soldier Shack for a run out. My Kislevites for the same event remain, ahem, in progress so I dug out the Chaos army.
Here's the video version
And now here's a few pictures
The Chaos horde assembles
General back on his Dragon (we're using King Is Dead rules)
I say "horde" but it's actually a pretty compact little army.
Peg Knights and Squires
Loadsa Knights - all with individual heraldry, as it should be. And also the reason i will *never* have a Bretonnian army.
More Knights
And still more...
Soon there were Peg Knights in my rear.
Picking on my Marauders.
The Bretonnians got the charges in.
Picking on my poor puppies
The "harpies" headed for the artillery, but Yeomen blocked the way.
The sneaky Enchantress managed to summon up some mist.
The Dragon Ogres cleaned things up in my rear but were in turn charged.
The remaining Pegasus knight fought on.
My general was caught in the open.
And surrounded
The Knights of Slaanesh found themselves assailed.
As the Dragon Ogres went down swinging.
And still the Pegsus Knight and Marauder continued their struggle!
At about this point my army was broken after just three turns.
Andy did have some outrageous dice, but mostly I was outmanoeuvred and outfought.
I get terribly distracted by flyers in my rear and my left flank never got moving thanks to some poor dice.
But it all looked very colourful and pretty and that's the main thing as far as I'm concerned.
Following on from Stephen travelling north to the Sherwood Soldier Shack for his half century celebrations Kenton and I made the reverse journey to the grim south and the Isle of Manly Men. Two whole days of toy-soldiery shenanigans lay before us.
First up would be a game using only the alternative armies from the Arcane Journals - Stephen took the Betonnian Exiles, allied with my Dwarf Royal Clan taking on Kenton's Heralds of Chaos list.
The Quarrellers lined a fence and awaited the onslaught
A solid centre flanked with Errant knights.
There's a *lot* of Chaos on that hill.
Peg Knights and a tooled up Baron.
No black powder for the Dwarfs, but fortunately the Exiles have bought some.
Ulp.
The Chaos right was held by a single chariot.
Bugman's Lads hid in the woods.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Chaos wasted no time in advancing.
The Dwarfs stood steady
The allied left flank began to advance.
The Dwarfs caught the chariot.
Pegasus v. Marauders
The Baron picked on the big giant thingy.
Big axes chopping lumps out of the chariot.
The fight was going with the flyers.
The knights charged the Quarrellers as the Baron took on the Lord on Dragon.
A titanic struggle
The crossbow armed Dwarfs were not faring well.
And were driven back, with just the Runesmith left alive.
Still the generals fought on.
But the Baron eventually prevailed (shooting had weakened the mighty Lord, making his job a bit more achievable). He romped into the rear of the Knights.
Hoping to break them and run them down.
However, the injured Baron was no match for the angry knights.
Who then decided to rampage into the Dwarfs.
Which in turn made them prey for the Pegasus knights.
A hard-fought win for the allies. Chaos Dragon Lords are a scary proposition, but some good shooting and a few whiffed saves gave the Baron a fighting chance at least.
