It’s been a while since I played
with Dave and Patrick – it might have been the Winter
Wargaming Weekend that I last played games with them… (really…?!
REALLY?! It was a busy winter… and spring… and summer…). It’s been almost as
long since Rick has been in the house! So it was good to get them back around
the game table and get them throwing dice in (mock) anger – and finally introduce
Dave and Patrick to Song
of Blades and Heroes - I’d played a game with Rick back
in March!?
SITUATION
Orcs are raiding arcoss the
river into Dwarvish territory! Warned of their approach, some Dwarves go out to
meet them.
SCENARIO
Just a straight up, knock ‘em
down, battle…
FORCES
Dwarves – played by Patrick
Dwarf Commander
Q 2+, C 4, 95 points
Leader Fearless
6x Dwarf Warriors
Q 3+, C 4, 34 points each
Short Move
Orcs – Played by Dave
Orc Boss
Q 3+, C 3, 60 points
Leader
6x Orc Warriors
Q 4+, C 3, 23 points each
3x Orc Elite Archers
Q 4+, C3, 33 points each
Shooter (medium), Unerring Aim
THE GAME
After a bit of catching up and
rules explaining and some smack talk we got down to it….
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version)
The Dwarves approach as the Orcs
begin to cross the river.
The opposing sides class!
A dwarf is felled… (ha hadn’t
far to fall…) er… Patrick had even named him… but I forget what he was called…
strangely – every Dwarf that Patrick named died in this game!?
The Dwarves have their revenge
and inflicted a GRUESOME KILL on their first victim! One orc fled into the
river… their boss fled back ACROSS the river and another ran to the very board
endge and two others took shelter in the woods…
Wow.
It’s pretty rare that I’ve seen
any gruesome kills… but rarer that I’ve seen such a reaction to it!? Just about
every orc in range failed on at least one of the morale/quality dice.
(wait for it…)
Then “Curly” killed another orc…
Nameless Dwarf Warrior #1 killed
another…
A pair of Dwarves then chased
down the Orcs that had fled to the stream and drowned him in it….
…and then is just got so
exciting I forgot to take any more pictures.
Or maybe it was more of an “…and
then it ended so abruptly I didn’t take any more pictures…”
In that last picture you can see
two Dwarves in contact with the Orc leader… well… I think they got at least two
more in contact… and then scored a greuseome kill… and since everyone was close
enough that was a morale test for all the orcs…. Oh, but it was also the
leader, so that was another morale test for all the orcs…. Oh, and wait… it was
also 50% casualties… so that was ANOTHER morale test for all the orcs.
And then there was no orcs left
of the table…
Somewhere before they left an
orc archer killed “Curly”… and I think another Dwarf had been named (and then
died) somewhere along the line… but I can’t remember who… or where…
Much fun was had and we’ll be
getting together a few more times in August to play and then are planning to
kick off a campaign in the fall.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Amanada’s away teaching at some Yoga
Retreat for the weekend so I promised the kids we’d play games and
paint toys (and maybe ride
our bikes) all weekend so expect a few more game reports and painting posts over the next few
days.
Nice report! However, the result is not quite surprising - as such, the dwarves were Q2+ C4 when in reach of their leader, and that is somewhat challenging with all their C5 power blows and your leader having Q3+ C3...
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