WHFB: A right drubbing ! Part Two

Not wanting to mix it up with the Phenix Guard the Dark Riders and Worlocks (both fast Cavalry) made a dash round them towards the melee in the centre of the table in a last ditch effort to help out the Cold Ones who had survived another round of combat depleting the Lothern Sea Guard. Both sides were succesful in casting spells, hexing and augmenting units but it was a war of attrition that I wasn’t winning.

The Dark Riders over-ran one of the RBTs and then charged the spearmen – no it wasn’t going to work really was it ?

The worlocks headed for the next RBT and out of harm’s way.

Talking of which my sorcess was alone and on foot, and had the two Giant War Eagles headed her way with no chance of fending them off.

Eric faced off against the Phoenix Guard – that wan’t going to work either ! So at this point I threw in the towel and conceeded edefat.

What had gone wrong ?

• Assuming one army list, and my opponent bringing to totally different one
• Not deploying in a sensible way, I should have refused a flank
• Going in piecemeal…
• …against a numerically superior enemy
• Frittering away the Hydra, it should have moved to support the Dark Riders on the flank instead of hanging around being the target in target practice for the Shadow Warriors
• Not getting Eric into combat with the Cold Ones, again he didn’t see action so was another couple of hundred wasted points

All in all an embarrsing list of failures for me as a General. “Could do better” would be on my report card.