WHFB: Lots of quick games tournament style – Final Part

31/05/2013 1 Comment

Empire vs Ogres

This time it was Rich running his Empire army vs Neil’s Ogres.

Last game of the day…

As usual the lone Sabre tusk tried to flank the enemy to pick off artillery crew…only 5 Archers got in its way…

While the mournfangs charged forward with a similar road bump in the way.

The first set of archers defeated the sabre tusk !
But the second set did not fare so well, except to line up for some charges by cavalry and a flank charge of some swordsmen…

Which defeated them in combat, whilst the rest of the Ogres moved forward.

Neil commented afterwards:

We had to call the game turn 3 as it was getting late but was obvious I would have lost in the end. Again I thought I was doing ok then took a cannonball to the Bruiser Bsb’s face which killed him outright. The Mournfang took a double charge off some knight and swordsmen which nearly went in my favour but in the end lost and were run down.
I loved the leadbelcher/firebelly combo and should probably have stayed back longer but it was getting late so charged with the Ironguts. Game over.

Summary

This was our first tournament style event (and first WHFB session in the hall). Sadly one of our number was struck down by an allergy and didn’t make it, but we coped well enough so that everyone got at least two games in.

We could easily have done two more tables if more people came. The 5-6 people is also a tricky mid point. Too many to host in my dark tower, enough to hire the hall, but not hire in catering (a couple of pizzas did get over cooked as learnt to cope with the hall’s cooker).

Having only 1200 points is a very different game to the normal 2500-4000 that our group plays. Having 4×4 tables instead of 6×4 or bigger also brings in new tactics.

A fun day which we shall have to repeat.

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WHFB: Lots of quick games tournament style – Part 3

30/05/2013 1 Comment

Dark Elves vs Bretonnians

Ok, having seen my CoK trash the Ogres I started out positively against the three columns of Bretonnian k-nigits, especially as I managed to whittle one unit down from 9 to 6 during magic and shooting phase.

Then a rock from the trbuchet landed on the Silver Talons, and wiped out 13 of 20…errmm….and ten the CoK got charged in the flank by a k-nigit on Pegasus, and then a column of k-nigits head on.

You may note the gap to the right of the CoK, because that’s where the Silver Talons were, before they had been massacred by another column of k-nigits who pursued them off the table taking my main combat hero and Level3 High Sorceress with them.

Gamne over – 5 Harpies, 5 Dark Riders and 10 RXBs and a Level1 Sorceress are not going to stop the remaining k-nigits and pegasi borne heroes…

Short and not very sweet for me.

Empire vs Ogres

Scott and Neil squared off against each other. To be fair to Scott, he was playing with a fairly unknown (to him) army that Rich had been kind enough to build and loan him.

So he charged straight into the (Great) maw of his opponent…

Head top head combat ensued.

The Ogres won out, especially when the swordsmen ran away from the Leadbelchers.

Empire vs Bretonnians

The penultimate game of the day.

Scott again deployed his Empire troops – this time not blocking LOS of his X-bows. 😉

Again the three Bretonnian juggernauts surged forward.

Crashing into the Empire flagellants…

Whilst on the far flank Luthor Hess charged and pulped a Bretonnian hero on Pegasus…I took the photo even before combat was initiated as I knew the likely outcome…

The Bretonnians finally defeated the swordsman who had joined combat and ground the flagellants down.

As Scott noted his lesson:

Don’t join the flagellants with other units in combat ! The flagellants don’t mind dying in droves as they are frenzied and steadfast, the other units will run for it because of the high body count affecting combat resolution.

Jim’s k-nigits also saw of the Empire knights and with the majority of the hard units running for it Scott threw in the towel as I had done.

Final part tomorrow – Ogres vs Empire

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WHFB: Lots of quick games tournament style – Part 2

29/05/2013 1 Comment

Empire vs Bretonnians

Jim brought a mass of k-nigits in three columns to take on Rich’s Empire army that was built around a mass of Halberdiers.

There were also pegasi, and Rich came packing a hell blaster and a cannon.

Though from overhead screams of woe, I think there was a lot of missfires rolled.
The forces clashed in the middle of the table in a swirling melee.

Though the Empire archers ran away and hid.

The melee culminated with the Halberdiers getting into the thick of it.

A victory for the Brettonian knights

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WHFB: Lots of quick games tournament style – Part 1

27/05/2013

We set up three separate tables (4×4) with different terain in the village hall, and deployed armies of 1200PV, that we re-used to churn our way through different opponents for a day.

Neil W and Scott were the newbies tat came along. Scott has played long ago, and has also done Mordheim and Necromunda, but it was Neil W first outing for wargaming with his well painted Ogre Kingdoms army.

The first round was:

  • Neil W (Ogre Kingdoms) vs KIY (Dark Elves)
  • Rich (Empire) vs Jim m(Bretonnians)

Dark Elves vs Ogres

Ogre deployment.

Dark Elf deployment.

As we would be facing unknown adversaries, most of us plumped for generic army lists, so facing off against Ogres I expected to be squashed.

Which almost happened to my Dark Riders when they turned tail and ran away from the mournfang cavalry and escaped by one inch !

Luckily, the CoK hammered into the Ironguts unit with BSB, won combat and ran them down, causing the Leadbelcher unit with General to run away. However they rallied, and toasted my Harpies.

I then charged my Dark Riders into the Ogre bulls, and flank charged with the CoK. Amazingly, Neil pulled off lots of parry saves, wiped out the Dark Riders, and faced the CoK in a draw on combat resolution.

Only for the leadbechers to steam into the side of the Co, which amazingly survived a round of combat, passed LD test, which allowed my Silver Talons (Spearmen) to charge into the melee.

I won combat, Neil’s luck deserted him and he failed his LD tests and ran away…and then it was his trn…and he faled the rally tests…game over.

Good job, because the dice were not with me:

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WHFB Tournament, Moles, and Pine Cones

25/05/2013

For some time, we’ve had a WHFB day planned, and the numbers outgrew the capacity of Chez KIY especially when Byakhee Rich suggested a series of semi tournament games of 1200 PV armies on 4×4 tables.

So I hired the village hall (again), delegated the organisation to Rich, and sat back organising the BoB Big Game in June. This morning we set up three 4×4′ tables in the village hall to game on:

Lots more postings on the games as I wade through my photos and get input from the Byakhees ! We crammed in a load of games.

Warning pictures of dead critters may follow

In the meantime, the cats were busy. Today (Saturday) they brought me a Pine Cone. They must have travelled best part of a half mile to acquire said item:

Not sure why they brought this home, but hey whatever. I might be able to make it into a scenery piece. Best of all, they also delivered Mr Mole, dead, on Friday afternoon.

Normally I am agains lttle things being killed, but Mr Mole has made my lawn look like the Somme battlefield. So after two years of hunting him the cats finally got him.

They knew he was down there as they’d be seen watching the mole hills, and then going fishing with their sticky little paws….

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Scenery: Revolutionary Roads

23/05/2013

I saw on TMP a new product – Revolutionary Roads, and in need of some dirt tracks for the upcoming BoB Big Game thought I’d get some of them taking advatage of the 10% discount for pre-orders.

The sets you get are quite large – about 18 foots worth of road for £44. The pieces are made out of black latex cut to size with rough surfaces.

I boubght the three inch wide roads, here they are with some Copplestone Ragged White Rusians on one inch wide Renadra bases:

Here are the different components:

Hopefully there will be more.
As they are dirt roads, I can also use them for AVBCW:

They came in plastic bags, and s far have shown no sign of the rough surface material flaking off. So far this looks like a good investment.

I left one piece draped over one of the BoB rolls and the material adopted the shape/contours within minutes.

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BoB/RCW: Plastoons 2

22/05/2013

Another set of Plastoons – dismounted Cossacks acting as infantry:

Models by Brigade Games. As per their Shock Troopers, slightly more slender than Copplestone but easily compatible.

A Lewis LMG gunner, from Copplestone to support them:

Yet another 10 Ragged White Russians…

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WHFB: Black Dragon 2 and Riders

19/05/2013 2 Comments

Finished painting the second Black Dragon (old plastic type), but have finished two riders as well:

Both are the old style metal Cold One Knights. Again, I have used the same army colours to match them in with the army – a cold light blue (Foundry Tomb Blue) for the lance, dark green saddles, and purple robes.

One with sword, one with lance. I’ll probably do another couple of riders including The Witch King himself so I can swap things round as need be.

Best get on to doing the new plastic version…

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BoB: German Artillery

17/05/2013

I painted this a few days ago, but until now have been unable to get even a half decent set of photos of it:

Being dark grey against a dark grey field piece its very difficult to get anything other than a dingy monochrome picture.

From Great War Miniatures, comes with a good compliment of crew too.

Painted with Foundry Early War German Grey uniform colour which looks very green on the mid coat, but when applied to the very grey base coat turns out fine.

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A new Stile of scenery

16/05/2013

Sorry, here is a new style min scenry…a stile…

Warbases have done a very simple kit to make a stile, ideal for AVBCW. Greast service from Warbases thogh.

So I did up a couple of them in the midst of some hedge pieces.

Nice pieces of kit.
More to follow – stitches out but not as hunky dorey as the nurse would like. :-/

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