Game Night! 26-3

Hello and welcome to a new Game Night! It´s been a busy time for me with not much going on gaming wise except whatever needs doing for the campaign. We´ve just moved into turn 3 for our Blood in the Badlands Campaign, but I thought I´d share with you the Batrep I did for the battle I played vs Jerroii last turn. Check after the break for the details! (and purdy pictures)

Game Night 11-3

Blood in the Badlands progress report

A flurry of posts today! Not only will I be writing this installment of Game Night!, I will also put up posts with specific Campaign info, like bits about each of the players and their armies, a page to keep track of the relics, and a FAQ document for our campaign. I can link to those posts from the Blood in the Badlands page I made so that most all info will be accessible and easy to find. Of course, I’d been meaning to do this ever since we started the campaign, but meh… you know how it goes!

So apologies for those people who have Thunderstomp! in their blog-roll; I’ll be swamping your roll with posts today! Lazy Sunday my hiney…

In this installment of Game Night! I’ll focus exclusively on the first turn of our Blood in the Badlands campaign. A lot has happened already. Some players lost their army, capitals were sacked and lucrative mines switched hands. Read on to find out what happened!

Game Night! 9/12

Hello and welcome to Game Night! This is my weekly report of my actual gaming action. Much like a real game night, this section focusses on playing actual battles, whether it´s through army builds, tactics or battle reviews. Something fun to read over the weekend.

For today´s installment of Game Night! I have the following planned for you. First and foremost, my last battle in the Fantasy Campaign I played in. As you might remember, I played this game a couple of weeks back, but I have only now found the time to do up a proper Thunderstomp-style report!

Secondly, I’ll be talking you through part of my Ogre Army Builds. I have, obviously, already done a part 1 of that series, the Smashmouth Ogres. Part two focusses on a different type of Ogre army: the Gunslingers.  Lastly, and I know I might be a bit late when it comes to this, I am getting ready to play my first ever Storm of Magic game and I’ll look at some possible additions to my normal Skaven army.

Alright, a lot of stuff to cover, so let’s get going!

Battle Report - Ogres vs Orcs n Goblins, attempt two

Alright, let's try this again, shall we?

As I was trying to tell you yesterday, I played another playtest battle with my Ogres tuesday. This time I played vs Greenskins, captained by my little brother. He's the one who made that giant, and I think it's awesome. Seeing it always make me crack a smile.

My brother started playing Fantasy over a decade ago, his main army being Orcs and Goblins, and over the years he accumulated quite a collection. He hasn't been playing Fantasy exclusively in those years, sometimes favouring Mordheim or sometimes just no tabletop games at all. Recently his interest in the game has been rekindled, mostly due to 8th edition being more fun and, to a lesser extent, an ever-nagging sibling (that would be me) badgering him to play more.
So, he and I both have signed up for the same tournament and we would be trying out our tournament armies against each other.

This is probably a good time to mention that I have never lost a game of warhammer to my brother. Plenty of draws, but never a loss. You can imagine how much it means to both of us to break the streak / keep the streak intact, respectively. Honour was at stake!

Ok, on to the armies!

Battle Report - Ogres vs Dark Elves

Another batrep from a playtest battle for my Ogres. I'm still on track for that Tournament in November, and I'm trying to squeeze in as many games with my Ogres as possible in between Campaign Battles.

On a side not, I really should get started on painting my Ogres if I want to avoid my typical routine of 'paint nothing until 2 days before the tournament, then paint till 3am on the day of the tournament, and then play in said tournament while being sleep deprived and unsatisfied with my rushed paintjob'.

Regardless, if I don't playtest this army I'll not win many games anyway, so let's get to the fighting!

I would be playing my mate whose usual army is High Elves. He felt a need for change for this battle, however, and decided to take his dark cousins for a spin.

Here are the armies:

Fantasy Campaign Battle Review

Well, that was an odd battle...

To quickly set the scene: 2*1000 pts of High Elves vs 2*1000 pts of Skaven fighting in T3 of our current Fantasy Campaign. The High Elf player was defending and had fortified the Territory earlier, allowing him to place 2 Buildings and 3 Barricades in his deployment zone.

Mission was a Meeting Engagement.

Here are the armies:

Battlereport: Ogres vs Tomb Kings

Here we are with another battlereport. This time it was a clash between my Ogres and my mate's Tomb Kings. We have a tournament coming up in a couple of months so we decided to playtest our armies. For the report, once again I will keep it short and sweet, focussing more on analysis than on an actual blow-by-blow of what happened. I think it's more interesting this way, but that could be just me ;)

On to the armies!

OK Tryout 2 - Part 2

Continuing from yesterday...

Mission: Pitched Battle Deployment: (I'll try and fix a fancy image to make this clearer as soon as I can)

Tomb Kings, from left to right : Chariots;Catapult&Casket ;Archers w Hierophant;Hierotitan;Archers w lvls 4&2;Catapult;Warsphinx;Carrion;Necropolis Knights.

Ogres from their left to their right: Ironblaster & Ironblaster ;Gnoblars in front of Bulls w BSB;Gnoblars in front of Ironguts w SM; ; Sabretusks w Hunter. Maneaters deployed 12" away from the Necropolis Knights in the corner of the TK deployment zone.

OK Tryout 2 - Part 1

And here we are with the battlereport for my second battle with the new OK book. I have to admit, so far I'm loving the new book. Making armylists is a challenge since I always seem to be running out of points too soon! That means there are plenty of viable units to choose from, which is a good thing. Now I need to see which units have the best synergy, and which build suits my playstyle best.

So, for the battle: it's a 2400 pts battle vs Tomb Kings. I am curious to see how the Ogres will fare against another 8th book. Also, I have a 2400 pts tournament coming up in about 10 weeks, so I need all the practice I can get!

Here are the armies:

First battle w Ogre Kingdoms

Alright, my first tryout battle with the new OK is in the books. It was a 1000 pts skirmish vs Skaven and it was fun to try some of the new stuff. I learned quite a few things. Not least of which was relearning that I really do not like Doomwheels when they don't suffer a serious mishap.

OK, on to the armies:

Skaven:
Plague Priest (Cloud of Corruption)
Warlock Engineer (Warp Lightning)
BSB
31 Clanrats, shield, full command, Mortar Team
40 Slaves, shield, musician.
13 Night Runners, sling
5 Gutter Runners, sling, poison
Warp Lightning Cannon
Doomwheel

Ogres:
Firebelly, 2 hand weapons, level 2 (Fireball, Flaming Sword)
9 Ogres, 2 hand weapons, musician, standard, gnoblar
3 Ironguts, standard
3 Leadbelchers
Scraplauncher
2 Mournfangs, heavy armour, fist.

I won't be doing an elaborate turn-by-turn description because a) I should really have taken pictures for that to work properly and b) it was all over far too soon anyway.

Here's what happened: