Today we tried Lawrences 6mm fantasy figures again for Midgard, Rhod had Orcs, I allied with him with Dark Elves, and we faced Phil with Elves and Lawrence with Dwarves and a couple of guest stars...
I had an Omens trait on one of my Dark Elf heroes, and again rolled a 6, yes, we got 3 Reputation, but one of our Heroes got Fated too. I have never won a game yet when the Omens were good!
(Many thanks to Lawrence and Rhod for adding their pics to the mix!)
The armies at start up, from behind my Dark Elves, I was facing Normal Elves.
A view down the lines...
Rhod had a Mammoth.
...a couple of units of Orc Archers...
...and 4 bands of Orc Warriors.
Rhod's flank was guarded by 3 units of Wolfriders.
I had witches in the centre...
with Lizard riders and a Chariot supporting my Spearmen.
The Elves opposite had alternated units of Spears with his Archers. Rhod was facing a Dwarven line of Axes and Bows, together with a Giant...
...and a Dragon!
The Dragon was soon at it, flying down the flank and scaring some Wolfriders!
Rather than engage the Dragon, the Orcs ran away from it, but it caught them (no surprise!)
Those dice are the hits it scored, against 2 or 3 against the Dragon!
Toast! at least Rhod turned to face the Wily Worm!
Rhod's Orc Warriors were taking shot from the Dwarves.
My Archers advanced and began winning a long range battle with the Elves.
The overall position at the end of turn 3.
The Dragon avoided being trapped, easily!
It was soon flying around, looking for targets, in the centre the Giant was under fire from Orc Archers and the Orc Warriors were getting beaten by the Dwarves.
One Orc unit was soon in flight!...
...Followed by the other!
Rhod charged in with the second line, winning both. In fact he destroyed an elite Dwarf unit!
The Dwarven Archers destroyed the last Orc Spear unit on Rhod's right.
His left hand Spears were holding ok though!
The Dragon was darting in and Flaming the 2 remaining Wolfrider units, the Bowmen who could have countered it were tied up with the Giant.
However, some turns the Worm wouldn't move!
...And poor Lawrence failed to get a 'Hold Fast' Mighty deed to work 3 times!
Ah well, back to the game!
Sadly, the last of Rhod's spears eventually broke, and the Orc Commander fought to the death against the Dwarven Bowmen.
The Dwarves were now able, as fast as their little legs would carry them, anyway, to wheel to threaten the Orc Archers.
The Dragon now made a mistake, instead of finishing of the singed Wolfriders, it tried to toast the Mammoth, and failed!
In the Elven stand off, I had been trying to snipe off Elven Heroes, but kept failing, the Elves only had luck against my Elite witch unit, which was badly damaged.
Then, as the Dwarven Archers charged their Orc opposite numbers...
...the other Orc Archers broke the Giant, who ambled away in pain!
We had to finish then.
It turned out the Good Guys won, by 4 Reputation (9/5). The curse of the Omens goes on! - at least the Dragon was happy!
Sorry for the picture quality, the lighting does not like this cloth!!
