Champagne Warhammer

More than one spectator to this game made the comment that this battle looked like "classic Warhammer" - "champagne Warhammer" if I may use the term.

No "everyone has a 5+ ward nonsense". No "everyone causes Fear and is ItP" shennanigans. No "everyone has Hatred, Regen, 1+ armour saves, BS5, ASF, move through forests without penalty...". No "insert favourite recent army book buff that irritates the heck out of you".

Classic Warhammer - two good, honest armies beating the snot out of each other with sharp tactics and witty commentary the only cards held in the hand.


Well, except for Lezle's army... hehehe. Ok, no not really by he did have a Steam Tank and a War Altar. Those two things put the fear in me a little.

The end result of the game was around 900VPs in my favour.


- The Steam Tank took 4 wounds before it could move and was taken out in the last turn by a final cannon shot having dealt itself another couple of wounds through over-enthusiastic steam point generation. The Pistoliers also managed a wound before they were gunned down by the Steam Tank's engineer driver's repeater pistol (which really surprised me!).

- My cannons were on fire but the Mortar scattered with every shot (bah).

- Lezle received a firsthand demonstration of the awesomeness of Crossbows, losing two units of Handgunners without being able to effectively return fire. I received a firsthand demonstration of the stickability of a unit of Greatswords with BSB. Eventually my General got in on the act and his Hammer of Killy successfully bypassed the BSBs Meteoric Armour (failed toughness test = autowound with no save) and the Greatswords fled.

- The Flagellents died (slowly). The Reiksguard Knights (hoping to make up for their callow performance against Derick earlier in the week) leapt to their rescue, flank charging their opposite numbers who had hit the Flaggies in the flank the turn before. The Reiksguard fluffed tremendously and ran off but were able to rally and survive the game relatively intact (useless gits...).

- The War Altar took a cannon to the face and exploded. The Arch Lector - now on foot - was assaulted by my 3x3 Free Company detachment. Get this - play of the game - the bloody Free Company killed him! Brilliant stuff - might have to promote them to Swordsmen one of these days!

- Lezle's uber-Ritters (7 Pistoliers with Champ) did for my GW-Knights and also passed 2 panic checks after taking casualties from the Wizard (magic missile) and Cannon grapeshot. They went on to successfully panic my Handgunner detachment who rallied in the last turn so not much harm done there. Much.



This was a good fun game and I was thrilled to break a long losing streak - cheers Lezle. Yay! Now if only I face lots of "normal" Warhammer armies at NatCon :-)