I played a few games, I saw a beautifully painted Bretonnian army and had a thoroughly nice day.
My main opponent for the day was a High Elf player. We decided to play a an ambush as I my army seemed to outnumber him (as they should with Skaven Vs High Elves). We set up with a base of Forrenrends and took it from there.
My first turn saw my four Jezzails fire straight down the line and hit subsequently and wipe out almost his entire that was traveling in column. Seriously, he was down to some Sea Elf Beastmasters with some fish/squid/crag gribblies that we bodged some rules up for (you should be able to see them in the photo's below, they're Foundry Mini's and they're very nice indeed) and two Eagles.
This was enough for me to suggest that we start again. My opponent suggested that I reduce my Jezzail count from 4 to 2. I agreed and we started again. This time we played out the game and I lost. I'm not going to loose too much sleep over this as to begin with the idea was for us to just duke it out but after set up my opponent decided his victory condition was to get off the table edge that had just a unit of Rat Ogres to protect it, the bulk of my Army being in the opposite direction. Not wanting to spoil an amicable game I agreed and a bit of a Benny Hill case then ensued where I was never gpoing to catch an army that moves as fast as me. Moral victory to me for being a nice guy I think and that's more important than winning!
Anyhow, photo's below, enjoy (although they were taken on my camera phone so a bit dodgy).
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| Yes those are Skellies, I like to add extra troops because I never feel like I have enough................ |
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| The Sea Gribblies |
Cool man looks like you had a good time.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for friendly games. Good for you to take the high ground. So long as you both had fun that's what is the most important.
Certainly did. Also had a game of my brother's Orc Warbands game, i ended up with a bunch of gobbos, didn't fair too well lol
ReplyDeleteTold you those Jezzails were cheesy! Good game though, good to see things going well for Oldhammer down south. How about writing up a bit of narrative to go with the game?
ReplyDelete(Richard/Lenihan here, just with a different nom de plume!) You were indeed extremely sporting re the jezzails, not to mention agreeing to my latterly imposed narrative idea that I wanted my troops to get the hell out of there! To be honest, I'm not entirely sure it is fair to say you lost, it really depends on what your objectives were. A great deal of meat was generated for your rats, including some fried eagles. You didn't wipe us out, but there was a great deal of hurt inflicted. On the other side, my general would of course claim it as a heroic escape, but he does have the shame of returning home with over half his troops dead or maimed, and leaving the dying race a bit more dying. So the question of who won is a tricky one (isn't that always the case with war (HUH! what is it good for? absolutely nothing!) etc. I will agree to your moral victory, though, you were very a good chap and a fun opponent, although I think it ceases to be a moral victory if you claim it as such!
ReplyDeleteWhen I have the rest of my troops in town I'd be glad to duke it out again in a less Benny Hill fashion and you can see if you get some seafood for your rats to gnaw on this time.
See, this is what I love, sporting behaviour all round. Here's to club play and not tournament behaviour, it's just not the done thing. It's a game not a match. I'm happy to give you the win, just as a Skaven I have to give myself credit too (always stay in character lol)
DeleteI'm going to write up a battle report for my blog in due course, are you okay with me using your pictures (I'll link back to your blog obviously)?
ReplyDeleteI certainly am, anything I post is fair game for anyone to pinch as far as I'm concerned.
DeleteBattle Report now up: http://wheretheseapoursout.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/battle-report-ambush-at-logans-way-or.html
DeleteIt was good to see so many armies out on the table and good to meet you and your brother. I hope we can organise some more games in the future. Hopefully soon! (Whiskey Priest)
ReplyDeleteYes matey, defo hope to get some organised in the near future
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