Game Two of my mini HOTT championship would decide the first army to get a slot in the second semi-final. The pairing was my two Redwall armies - the heroes of Redwall attacking Cluny's Rat Hordes.
Here they are set up and ready to go. Redwall was very much the favourite in this one. Staying true to the book gives Redwall a couple of heroes and a behemoth - a powerful combination - whilst Cluny's Hordes features not one but two sneakers. To be fair I do play with a couple of small fixes to sneakers, but they are still tricky to use well.
The game started well for Redwall, when their Guosim ambushers attacked Cluny's lieutenants and destroyed them.
The initial Redwall plan was an advance to the ridge in their half of the battlefield, there to wait for the inevitable rat attack.
The shooters of both sides exchanged arrows and slingshots on Redwall's right. Redwall got the best of it at the start.
A line reorganisation and some bad PIPs left Cluny The Scourge vulnerable in front of his army, so Redwall attacked, with Constance (behemoth) leading the charge against the rat warlord.
He retreated and she piled into the rat hordes, destroying all before her.
One weakness of the Redwall army is that they have a horde general, who normally stays safe in the rear. But such a general can still be vulnerable to a sneaker, and Cluny pushed arch assassin The Shadow through the enemy lines. But he was held up by the Sparra warriors (one of which fell of his flight-stand in the excitement.
The rest of the Redwall army charges, with Constance now being flanked by two heroes.
Constance pummeled her way through some hordes and faced Cluny again. This time she lost. Fatally.
And on Redwall's right Cluny's archers were overwhelming Redwall's slingers and archers.
However the two heroes were doing their best, even if Matthias was struggling with some hordes. However Basil Stag-Hare had a clear attack on Cluny himself, if support could be brought up to help the odds.
But Cluny struck first, bringing up support to overlap the Redwall hero and defeat him.
And that defeat broke Redwall's army.
Redwall lost 12AP (a behemoth, a hero and two shooters) whilst Cluny lost 5AP (three hordes and a warband. Some other lost hordes were brought back.)
So an unexpected win for the Rat Horde, who will face the winner of Game Four, the Barsoomian Derby between Helium and Warhoon.
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