After one small tournament during holidays I dropped words about league and thankfully to Krzysiek we have it – here is official page of league – thank you Palen! So we have first round of good, old WFB. Some of us played in last few days: Alessandro with Piotr, Bartek with Adrian and me with Krzysiek.
Battle hydra, Cold One units, two unit of Dark Riders – one with sorceress and Harpies.Left flank of Dark Elves covered by Dark Riders with Sorceres..Knight of the Realm unit with paladin sir Richemont.Middle composed of Grail Knights with duc Tancred de Beauville, army standard bearer Louen de Beauville and damsel Melisanda, pegasus knights, archers and trebuchet.Knights Errants covering right flank.First turn belonged to Dark Elves as Bretonnians prayed to the Lady. Grail Knights are so magnetic, that all magic hit them from start.Fearful Dark Elves bolt throwers.Missed two or three inches.Dark Riders stopped before end of field.Another stuff I must take, along Grail Knights and pegasus knights.Several charges of Dark Elves.Grail Knights held charge.Dragon to Dark Elf lord – they smell so bad, what they drunk yesterday? Knight to sir Richemont: why it flee, that wine from Bordelaux – he felt it?For the Lady, for the King, charge!Grail Knights waiting in silence.Encircle and charge!Held several turns, passed morale on 5……to be broken moment later rolling on 8.Brave crew passed fear on Ld 5.Brave archers passed Ld.Cold One Knights return to the field.Final countdown at turn 6th. Sir Roger, unit champion is last member of his unit looking for friends.Steady, ready, fire!
Summary: – thank you Krzysztof for doing league! – today we played in Bolter, thank you Bolter team for place to play and Bolter Cafe for great toasts and Mio Mio we can order here. – armies we played are visible on photos. – link to WROHammer group, link to WFB 7th edition and link to our Czech friends group based in Prague – Praaghammer. – wish everyone great games in league! – victory 11:9 belongs to Krzysiek Dark Elves.
Yesterday we played in Bolter first battle of Market Garden campaign, our first battle had place in Son, close to Eindhoven. Before game we had great prelection done by Piotr Galik from association Semper Fidelis. So it begun on 17.09.1944 – when American and British paratroopers when dropped down to secure bridges and allow Allied tank divisions moving thru them to the heart of Germany.
Prelection before the game.British sapper unit with support deployed close to the demolished bridge.Last German survivors hidding in the forest.Acht coma acht waiting.German Heer vs American paratroopers.German reinforcements arrived in small numbers at start.More British arrived.Royal Engineers managed to build part of bridge.More parts of bridge were done. Veterans losed they hand to hand combat on riight against German regulars.I forgot about second wave in turn two, so they started run on turn three.Germans tried to stop British advance.Bridgehead completed.Everyone get out to cover bridgehead.The beginning of the end.
Summary: – thank you all for great game! – Karol tested bridge building with me in one of our games beetwen Red Army and Germans. I was again builder of a bridge – now for British.
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