Playing Chainmail

Wonderful Chainmail has been much on my mind these days.

Earlier tonight, Svenbert the Orange gathered his fellow Norsemen and went looking for the Zorf Brothers.

But they ran into the Major's beautiful brand new classic Dark Elves.   (I love these figures!)

A beautiful game.  And a Dark Elf victory.  One of the Zorf Brothers never made it out of the forest.   Used a mix of the Man-to-Man tables for missile fire, the Fantasy table for the heroes and the regular Combat Tables for the rank and file.  It worked very well.  Although, the magic seemed very strong.  But I like my magic strong!  There will hopefully be much more Chainmail in the very near future.

The glorious heart of Chainmail.

Outside of The Empire's Northern Wall

Prof. Elf and I begin our Empire/Daemon set with a 1000 pointer outside the Great Wall of the Empire.

I put together an all mounted force, but I handled it badly.

I sent my troops off on an ill-conceived flanking move instead of charging full-on right from the start of the battle.  Soon my poor guys were dropping from magic and Flamer bolts.

And the Daemons seemed to pass every single daemonic ward save!

In the end a clear Chaos.victory.

Carpet Gaming

The third Goblin/Skaven game tonight with Prof. Elf.  3600 points a side.  Played on the floor - just wasn't into setting up a table today.  Had a magic heavy force with two Level II Plague Priests, the Grey Seer and a Vermin Lord.   They didn't really do much.  The game itself swung nicely back and forth between the Goblins and the Rats.  At the end of Turn two I thought my Skaven were done.  But they pulled through.  The double punch of the Hell Pit Abomination and The Vermin Lord were pretty impressive, although I normally don't like to stake so much on big creatures and expensive characters.

I took very few pictures tonight.  Forgot about it mostly.  Actually, forgot alot of things tonight.  Like my shooting.  I gave my three 40 strong blocks of Skavenslaves slings and I never used them.  Oh well, it didn't matter much.  The battle was decided by the Vermin Lord and the Hell Pit Abomination breaking the Goblin General's unit.

The Hell Pit Abomination!  I rescued this guy from a box of toys that The Kid was going to pass on.  I then gave him a base and a splash of ink, and ta-da-daaa...instant Hell Pit Abomination!

The rules Prof. Elf and I used were our usual mix of mostly 7th Edition with the best bits of 8th Ed., such as, Thunder Stomp, the Horde and Steadfast rules, Quick to Fire, Supporting attacks, and two rank missile fire.  
We find it works very well and gives a great game.

Hey, this is the One Hundredth Post!!

A Hundred Posts!!

Since the Rats and Goblins were still on the table from last night, I decided to add a bit more to each side and play a solo game.  I'm glad I did.  It was super fun and also made me realize how little I really know either one of these armies.  I feel inspired to try and play a few more games with these forces before the next game with Prof. Elf.  This time the result was a crushing Skaven victory.  I think I'm learning now how to deal with Goblin fanatics.  Anyway, here are a few pictures:

2000 point Skaven vs. Goblin

Game Two of the Goblin/Skaven match-up.  Game One was such a disaster that I'm not even going to mention it.  Game Two finds the two armies in the southern lands of the Empire.

Didn't take many pictures during the game.  Ended as a Goblin victory.  Highlights include the crazy amount of miscasts made throughout the battle.  Both of Prof. Elf's Shamans (a 2nd lv. and a 4th lv.!) ended up being blasted off the battlefield, while my two Plague Priests each suffered a wound through miscasting.  Actually I don't think a single spell got off during the whole game!  Ah, Warhammer.

Dark Age Time

Seeing all these SAGA games everywhere made me want to play with my Saxons and Vikings.  Called Private Noob over for a Viking raid on a Saxon village.  Rules were sort of LOTR.

In the Garage Playing Second Edition Warhammer

The Orcs of the Smiling Face Tribe were out for their morning choir practice when suddenly they were attacked by  Reaper Highlanders!

A huge part of the pleasure of playing Second edition is the rule book, or rather, the rule books.  Such a nice contrast to the slickness of today.

Actually, haven't finished the game yet.  Maybe tomorrow.  Just wanted to get something on the site again.  Orcs!