Warhammer Old World Battle Report: Orcs vs Empire

Dave Keyser, whom I ran into at a recent convention, is an old friend from way back in my Warhammer Fantasy 5th/6th edition days.  We got together to play his Empire list against my Orc list - both at 2,000 points.  Dave is getting ready for an upcoming tournament and wanted to get some more sink time with the rules, so I was happy to oblige him!

The picture below shows the deployment completed.

The power of Mork and Gork compelled the horde forward into the ranks of the waiting Empire troops. Those pesky hummies tried to shot uz down!  Took some light casualties getting to grips with the many Empire Knight units.  My Black Orc Warlord on his Wyvern had to go take care of the Steam Tank, which took several turns.  Once he had cleared that the rest of the army had the Empire troops either defeated and on the run, or pinned into combats they were not going to win.  As the free units pivoted around to support the remaining ongoing combats, the Empire lost all hope and retired from the battlefield.

Pictures below of the game.  Due to time constraints during the game I only took pictures between turns 1 and 2 - but afterwards I spent some time doing some staged pictures.

Two games this weekend - what times we live in!  Now back to the paint table!

Warhammer Old World Battle Report: Empire vs Tomb Kings

I hosted a 2500 point game of Warhammer The Old World today.  I took on the forces of the Empire and Roy Scaife played the Tomb Kings.  

As you likely know, today was Friday the 13th and oddly enough, as if by some omen of the epic trouncing I was about to receive, my first shot with the Helblaster Volley gun (rolling 3 x Artillery dice) was 6-6-6!

We played the Drakwald Forest Incident, which is a meeting engagement with diagonal deployment across the table.  At the start of the game you roll a D6 per unit and on a 1 the unit must be held in reserve. The Tomb Kings had 4 units go into reserve and the Empire had 1.  

Funny enough, the Tomb Kings didn't need those reserve units and put an absolute beat down on the Empire by turn 3. The Tomb King reserves simply had to pick a good spot on a hill to watch the carnage unfold when they finally entered the game!  

Pictures below of the post-deployment situation - you know, before it all went south for me (on the first turn) - LOL.

A few phone pictures below ...

Woof!  What a game.  I need to do better!  I have another game tomorrow, this time I'm running my Orc list at 2000 points playing against a old friend from my old school Warhammer Fantasy days, Dave Keyser.  Hopefully I'll have a better result - I can only go up from here! :-)