Secretary Nick obtained Carl's army tonight so we organised a game so he at least had some idea of how to make it work at Tin Soldiers (one week to go!).
Warhammer is a funny old thing. I played 5 turns of this game feeling like I was getting thrashed; rolling SO MANY ONES; 2 misfiring warmachines on turn one - shooting on the whole really quite poor - very few partial hits with grudgethrower. Anyway, I never really bothered to look up and take notice of Nick's growing pile of casualties as the Dwarven juggernaught rumbled onwards crushing all before it and suddenly I had a 14-6 win (by Tin Soldiers scoring - a win by about 620VPs). I was so caught up with my occasional poor rolling I hadn't realised how well things were going.
The bad luck was certainly catching though - the two times Nick was able to shoot his Helblaster it misfired on the first barrel and jammed (can't shoot this turn or the next). One cannon misfired and exploded, the other shot every other turn after it was left with one crew member.
Gyro charged the Helblaster crew, lost by one (outnumbered) after failing to cause a wound, broke (on a 9) and landed on some nearby knights. What a disappointment.
Runesmith failed to Rune of Challenge some knights and accompanying Wizard Lord into the Hammerers by a whisker. Grrr!
I deployed in an echelon which is becoming a bit of a habit - worked out ok I guess and I'll be trying it next weekend again.
Nick enjoyed the game and we discussed issues with deployment afterwards (so many detachments!). He played VERY defensively and deployed most of his force almost on the table edge which meant by advancing aggressively I was able to pen him against the edge so he couldn't impose much of a battle plan or contest quarters.
Ended up with 2 banners and a quarter. The accursed Wizard Lord escaped after abandoning his unit of knights to the Hammerers (clever move Nick) but wasn't able to inflict the casualties he hoped to with magic (Lore of Metal).
All in all a great game (even a loss is fun at this point) and of course I'm really looking forward to Tin Soldiers.
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