Battle Report - Saga Age of Chivalry

 Hello Folks,

Tine to try out the new Saga book. It's meant to work well with Crusades so we did that. I took the English, and Duncan took the Saracens, mission was Capture.

Don't have a full army painted yet but I just used some old brettonians models to fill in. Saracens went all mounted hearth guard, sone bows some spears. I have warriors w8th bows and hearthstone to fight.

Saracens first turn they do a bit of moving up and shooting and moving back, killing a couple of guys.

I advance up using an ability that move close formations of units efficiently, and did some shooting. Pretty lucky thus turn killing 4 hearts in total.

Saracens turn, they charge shattering my mid front unit giving out allot of fatigues, maybe that keeping them close thing is a trap. Almost loose a second unit to boot, but down 2 saga dice is not great.

I try to shoot back and set up my stakes, but it's not great. Warrior shooting once you start taking casualties is not great in my opinion. But I'm hoping the stakes protect my guys a bit.

Saracens capture 2 objectives, ignore my stakes and run down my warlord. Didn't think they would do that!

Able to get a good hit back with my hearths, but I'm not taking away their dice which is a problem. I am at least able to get 1 objective.

Saracens cleaning house.

Absolutely need another objective now to not loose, but tough with 2 saga dice. I try to advance my hearths, but it gets canceled with 2 fatigues. Can't win on the last dice so I toss them into the warlord but no luck.

In the end the bad guys were up by 18 points which is a medium victory according to the tournament book we were testing out.

Fun game thou, but I don't like basing an army around warrior shooting. But have to try more games, there's other boards as well obviously!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report: 40k Armored Ambush

 Hello Folks,

Time for more 40k action. This week we had 3 players so decided on 2k of guard vs 1k each of orcs and dark eldar. General idea is am armored column being ambushed. 

Orcs want to blow shit Dark Eldar want slaves, guard wants to survive!

Here's the set up, orcs left, dark boys right, Steel Legion in the middle. I was a bit short on points do borrowed a red unit from my other guard army which sticks out a bit.

Turn 1, orxs advance menacingly, dark eldar crack open a chimera, and thd bane blade sends many orcs to orc heaven. Oh an annoyingly my russ got immobilized right at the head of the column.

Turn 2, orcs get into fighting range and start making noise, nothing crazy from the eldar. I was feeling goid so far, squashing orcs, blowing up raiders, as you would.

Turn 3, orcs getting close, charging tanks not really my preference. They kill a couple sentinels putting up some points. But lots get blasted again.

Time for carnage. Orks all up in my stuff sherd you don't really need them to be. The few alive homnclus charge my command squad taking the captain and a few guys as slaves. Also the guy by my chimera. Its getting bad but not dire.

Oh dear, orcs fighting the baneblade, I decided to back over them instead of driving away and shooting them, this kills one. Then thd nibs gets me with a crack grenade and rolls 50 sixes in a row to blow it up!

My sentinel charged in to stomp some warriors, but the talos saved them. Finally the last chimera was destroyed and another warrior group got some good slaves.

In the end the points were approximatly:

Slaves: 9

Tanks Destroyed: 6 (baneblade counts as 3 sorry gimli)

Guard alive: like 3 or 4?

So Dark Eldar win, Mitch McOrkelle in second.

Turned out quite close for some random stuff we cam uo with, very fun game!

Thanks;

Mike