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! :-)
