Saturday 27 June 2020

Don’t go down to the woods today.....

You’re sure of a big surprise. A week or so ago having seen a lovely Warrior Priest on Michal’s blog I thought it was a long time since we had seen any of my Warhammer collection on the table. So for another virtual game I developed a simple scenario where the Empire forces led of course by a warrior priest were looking to clear out a nearby Forrest populated by dark creatures of the woods. No doubt the local village has seen a number of raids taking place, people disappearing etc...

We played with Dragon Rampant for ease as it works better for simple virtual games. I didnt take too many photos and realised afterwards that i didnt take a photo of the Beast / Herdstone which was actually located 3/4 of the way between the Empire entry corner and the Beast corner. The scenario required the Beast to set up two units randomly selected at the Stone to protect it the rest would arrive from the other three corners randomly on a dice roll. The empire would come on all from one point. The winner would be the side holding the stone when one army was down the only 3 remaining units

Onto the action...
The Empire forces also have a Griffin
As a ‘flyer’ this charges across the table making short work of a small unit of beast scouts but they do manage to get a wound on it
The rest of the Empire men spread out although they make slow progress
The braying of beasts as centigors and and other horned demons charge out of the Forrest (i should just say at this stage that although we dont play much Warhammer these days and GW have completely messed up, the concept, back story and world created for warhammer is in my humble opinion second to none i absolutely love the concept of the beleaguered human population living out their lives in constant fear in a dark medieval fantasy world)
The griffin is distracted by another herd who manage to rag it away from the objective
Greatswords playing as elite foot knights should be able to cut though the beasts
It not all the beasts are so small a massive Minotaur leaps forward towards the handgunners
My mounted warrior priest armed with a very large Warhammer ! He has magical spells but doesnt really make these count 
Swamped the greatswords are outnumbered
Hey see off the first assault but are then hit from the side as well
Wounded the Minotaur is eventually felled by the heavily armoured knights
But it is all over............and the Empire forces are forced to flee the Forest 

In reality the Empire forces never really got going and were hampered by some very poor dice rolling, this is sometimes the way with games although it was great to get the figures on the battlefield. i do miss Warhammer and am thinking about how we get some more games when face to face gaming is back.

In the meantime i have been prepping lots of figures....including a side line in Early WW2 German Zombies which i am looking forward to painting 🙂

20 comments:

  1. Though not to my taste that's a very colourful collection, shame the bad guys/thingies won though. As to zombies...Noooooooooo!!!!!!!

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    1. What can I say David the dastardly Germans are finding any option to invade Blighty !

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  2. Hi Matt- Have enjoyed reading and looking at your Warhammer Battle- perhaps the Empire will have better fortune in the next outing- lovely miniatures you own. I played Warhammer some thirty years ago with mainly my Dwarfs versus my Friends Skaven...we had some great Battles. I lament the way things have gone with Games Workshop - Warhammer is great. Cheers. KEV.

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    1. Thanks Kev, I have quite a lot of Warhammer, in fact more than I might like to admit....but it rarely gets on the table as I mainly game historical now, thanks for taking the time to read and comment 👍

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  3. Splendidly entertaining and photogenic report as is usual Matt👍 That priest has a mighty large tool🙂

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    1. Thanks Phil sadly he didn’t hit anywhere near enough beasts with his hammer

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  4. A splendid bit of Oldhammer Matt...
    Some fine old miniatures there.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly.....I do hanker after some more Warhammer perhaps 5th edition !

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  5. Seeing Warhammer fantasy on your table was a surprise, for sure!

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    1. The collection doesn’t get on the table often enough but then I have toooooooo much stuff 👍

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  6. Cool, must be 30 years since I played warhammer

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    1. You must have been a slip of a lad back then

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  7. DR is sometimes like that, one side never really gets going. Can happen to any game with activation rolls really.
    Great looking pics and you’re making virtual gaming look easy. 😀

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    1. Thanks Stew...it can be frustrating but the dice normally sort themselves out over a short period 🙂

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  8. Nice to see some warhammer! I do like the virtual world that was created ( it does seem a bit like vandalism to destroy it!) Looks great, haven't had a go at dragon Rampant, just lion Rampant but should some time!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks....really the two rule sets are identical....except for the leaders and duels mechanism otherwise unchanged

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  9. Nice to see you still getting games in..
    I have been trying Warlords of Erewhon of late which has a has good feel to it, I was tempted to try and refight Orc's drift an old school classic :-)
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Struggling on with games which is good to keep me out of mischief, we have played Erehwon with some success, but I do hanker after Warhammer 5th or 6th edition 😢

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