He then proceeded to hand me my arse on a plate. Twice.
I used my undead. He used his generic medieval figures. I took lots of pictures, which you can see below, but in both cases I defended and then got smashed by his knights. My hordes did not perform like Caesar's Tyranid hordes did last week. Mine rolled a series of 1s and 2s in combat (five consecutive combat rolls of 1 in a single bound, for example).
The first game.
I went for a surgical strike on his archers. It didn't work.
My archers did take out his flanking cavalry, though.
Geoff's archers hold off my mounted. The battle-lines get closer.
Charge ...
... and victory.
The second game. I dropped the flyer and added another rider.
I kept my knights in reserve, so I could counter-attack with them.
The riders of both sides fought on one flank, and I got the advantage with an early kill.
Geoff charged again ...
... and I rolled lots of ones. My horde line disappeared.
Geoff finished up by using his Paladin to kill my magician general.
Another massacre.
Afterwards I remembered that I wanted to try out a version of the army without the magician general, having it led by the Four Horsethem as heroes. So I'll have to try that another week.
Great writeups. I'm still playing every week, I just haven't had a chance to write them up. Too busy doing GaryCon (and now Little Wars) related prep. Soon!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you're still playing; I was worried you'd fallen by the wayside :)
DeleteNope! Finally fought with hordes the right way and that was an eye opener! Just been too busy. Example - tonight, spent several hours printing out all my materials for GaryCon, correcting, reprinting, "oo, I need to reformat this whole order of battle...", "naw, let's rewrite it in a different way", reprinting... no time to write blog posts!
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