HOTT 52 - Week 11 - Fishmen vs Dwarves

For this week's HOTT game I gave two of my non-human armies an outing - Dwarves (with their steam-powered marvels) and the Fishmen.

Dwarves - 5 x Blades (inc General), 1 x Shooter, 1 x Sneaker, 1 x Behemoth, 1 x Flyer, 1 x Artillery

Fishmen - 4 x Spears (inc General), 2 x Shooters, 1 x Lurker, 1 x Artillery, 1 x God, 2 x Warband

The Fishmen defended.

With their flank secure against some rocks, the Fishmen sat tight, waiting on their god to turn up.

The Dwarves advanced as rapidly as they could.

Their gyrocopter got into position behind the Fishman line, whilst their artillery opened up on the warband covering that flank.

The Fishman artillery fired on the Dwarven steam-tank, and forced it to flee.

The Dwarves charged, gambling that their blades could cut through the Fishman spears. Their sneaker tunneling-machine covered the flank.

Both sides had successes, pushing back opposing elements.

The Fishman lurker appeared, and the Dwarves lost an element of blades.

Their sneaker was forced to flee by artillery fire.

However the Fishman general's retreat was blocked by an element of shooters which was moving across the rear in order to engaged the gyrocopter, but whose progress had been stalled by a lack of PIPs. The Dwarves took a gamble and charged deep into the Fishmen's position, hoping to rout the opposing general.

They failed. And the exposed Dwarven general was overlapped and destroyed to give the Fishmen a win, 4AP to 0AP.

Final positions.

The heroes of the hour - the Fishman artillery drove off both elements deployed to support the Dwarven general, and allowing him to be flanked and destroyed. Putting their behemoth steam-tank in the line of fire of the guns was something of a risk, and it didn't pay off. Exposing the sneaker to fire was a bit of a lapse of reason, though; it was deployed behind the general so that it could push through the Fishman line after combat was initiated; using it as flank cover was doomed to failure.