Yesterday we played with Jędrzej our first WFB ever – for me it was a pleasure – first time I played with Empire and Kislev against Bretonnians (I play Bretonnians since 1997’/1998′). We played on 2250 points in Bolter.pl, Wrocław, PL.
Jędrzej Bretonnians.My Empire and Kislev.Empire and Kislev in line.Trebuchet, Grail Knights and Pegasus Knights on Bretonnian left flank.Bretonnian right flank.Empire right flank.Empire Knights Panthers in the centre.I did mistake and came into line of sight of Pegasus Knights – before I took one trebuchet crew.Fly, fly!Steam Tank advanced to take Grail Knights…Lancers turned to face pegasus knights.Knights Errant charged Empire Knights with they grandmaster Heinrich the Pious.Grail Knights during charge did 8 wounds to Steam Tank. Such amazing disaster.Brave artillery crew held mounted squires.Empire archers managed to kill pegasus knight.Flank attack finally routed Knights Pannthers.Knights Errants charged Steam Tank…… and eliminated it from battle.I’be back.
Summary: – Bretonnian won this game, I believed that Steam Tank can do something, but after losing eight wounds during one combat it could just stay. – Jędrzej played last time 8-10 years ago, but he still remember rules well. – It was a pleasure to play that game. – It’s great that playing other systems we still find ppl who played WFB and they return to game. We also find ppl who never played WFB and they start playing in it.
Today with Dudzio we played game on 2250 points. I took Empire and Kislev and Dudzio took Vampire Counts. We played in Bolter, Wrocław, PL.
Both armies ready, Dudzio won initiative but decided that I will start.I rushed in Bretonnian style.Then Ungols made retreat.Ungols horse archers survived charge of Grave Guard.Crews in panic.Paniced unit forced to flee.Cavalry and Steam Tank charged…and were charged as well.The end on turn three or four.
Summary: – still learning about playing Empire and Kislev. – Dudzio is learning to play Vampire Counts. – at the moment we stopped – it was something near Draw or Minor Victory for Dudzio.
Today we played in Bolter.p, Wrocław, PL, 2 on 2 game – building armies around Border Patrol composition from 6th edition. Each army had 500 points – it was 2000 in total on the table. We had ambitious plan to play scenario – but it will wait for better day.
First turn belonged to Chaos Warriors and Skaven – they moved forward.Then Bretonnians and Dwarfs started they turn. Four Dwarf crossbowmen were losed during first turn from Skaven shooting. Then domwheel came on 2nd turn so close.Both knights unit managed to charge and broke doomwheel.Archers and light cavalrty on our right flank performed well.Knights of the Realm charged Skaven, which spread panic among Chaos Warriors……which runned toward Bretonnian knights.Knights Errants came back after chasing Doomwheel off the board.Warpfire flamer took down two young knights. Seeing they friends dying from devil device knights charged – warpfire thrower exploed when they tried to shoot knights.Dwarfs advanced to help they allies. Trolls with stupid faces advanced toward bolt thrower.Eager to show they value Knight Errants charged on the flank.Together they repelled Chaos Warriors.Lone mounted squire fled to save his live.
Summary: – great, fast game. – next time we should play two on two with more points, as some armies works better on more points. – thank you guys for good time!
Today we played standard pitched battle on 2000 points.
Both armies prepared – Kriss won initiative and give me a chance to start first turn.
Wizards from Lore of Beast and Lore of Fire.
Again I played this army as I played with Bretonnia.
First loses among Kislev Winged Lancers, losed unit of Empire pistoliers.
With blocked line of sight I charged ogre lord – won combat – but he passed break test and bravely stood.
I managed to take three wounds from giant, unhapilly he was angry after that and run on my handgunners.
Rhinos charged Knights Panther.
More units fighting against Winged Lancers.
Winged Lancers destroyed, I charged on flanks with light cavalry.
Giant routed handgunners.
Dwarf mercenaries charged ogre tyrant in a desperate act to stop him.
Retreat!
We finished game after around 4 turns – as we don’t have more time.
Summary: – has to paint some more infantry, war machines – for 2000 points I have too much cavalry. – need to paint 10-15 Dwarfs, they seem to be great unit. – thank you Kriss for great game.
Today we played with Alessandro battle on 2250 points per side. At least it was some lesson taken by me. This was first battle when I took trebuchet and it was shooting better than my Empire artillery – it was miracle, that guessing and scatter dices were working well both with many hits.
I have to paint this trebuchet.
Orcs moved, so moved to welcome them too.
On 2nd turn of greenskins I lost paladin – I thought he is save behind obstacle – he wasn’t, as goblins had Waagh and moved more.
Men at arms fled as well as archers.
Many screens and three 2nd level wizards worked well on me.
Mistress of Marsh – total power with three sixes.
Stayin on flank and waiting for they moment.
One more screen in front of KoTR.
One screen less and then…
… brave pegasus knight unit was destroyed and KoTR panicked, never been seen on this field again.
Knowing that orc boar boyz with black orc big boss is a source of problems Grail Knights regrouped.
Four Grail Knights were taken by bolt thrower.
Remaining Grail Knights charged to move away.
Were charged on flank, but held for some time.
Orcs charged on flank – I had hope, that Ranald will be with them – they loose by one point and fled, pursude by goblins.
Duc fled the field to prepare his army better to next battle.
Summary: – need to update this list with more archers, probably one small unit of knights, take one more wizard instead of paladin (I thought about taking even 3 2nd lvl wizards) – I will reduce units of men at arms to one unit. – it was good game, at least I know that I need to change army composition a little bit.
Today with Alessandro we played in Bolter battle for 1500 points per side – I took my first army I ever started on 1997′ and my „enemy” took also old Orc&Goblin army. Compositions of armies were:
Bretonnians: – 8 Knights of the Realm with Banner of Chalons (full command group) lead by paladin baron Roger (Morning Star of Fracasse and Virtue of Noble Disdain), – 16 archers (full command group), – 5 mounted squires, – 3 pegasus knights (musician), – 7 Grail Knights with Banner of Defence (full command group) lead by paladin duc Tancred (Grail Vow, Lance of Artois, Virtue of Confidence), Melisanda damsel of the Lady lvl 2 (2x Dispel Scroll), – battle standard bearer Louis (Grail Vow, Sword of Might, Gromril Great Helm).
Orcs&Goblins: – 2 units of 29x Night Goblins (including night goblin fanatic – each 3 of them), – 3 units of 5x goblin wolf riders, – 5 Savage Orc Boar Boys, – 9 Orc Boar Boys Big Uns with magic banner (full command group) lead by unknown black orc big boss (with magic weapon and enchanted item), – Orc Chariot. – 2 goblin shamans – both had two scrolls and one had arcane item (one of them was on wolf).
As Bretonnians prayed, first turn belonged to greenskins.
First turn and one Grail Knight less.
Night Goblins in front of main units.
Battle standard was struck with magic – D6 – 2 hits with S 6 – I had save on 5, re-roll on 5 and ward on 5 – what can go wrong 😀 ?
Archers managed to took some goblin wolf riders and spread panic among them.
Mounted squires fled from savage orcs charge.
Archers fled after Night Goblin charge…
…to rally soon after.
Pegasus knights managed to charge Savage Orcs flank…
and then pursue them.
Orc Boar Boys clashed with Knights of the Realm and broke them in combat… they were destroyed by Night Goblin Fanatic, which was on they retreat way.
Pegasus Knights managed to pursue chariot, while remntants of Grail Knights charged.
Goblin wolf riders charged archers…
… but archers managed to held down (that morale test on two 1’s).
Brave charge of fast cavalry – no one suffered wounds.
Archers pursued enemy (and were hit by fanatic who killed they shaman moment before).
In this moment battle should end as I did one big mistake (it was 6th turn of Greenskins).
Summary: – we had score of 1110 for me and 1125 for Alessandro – but it could be more by (I guess that Grail Knights wouldn’t held orc boar boys) 654. So it was good victory for Greenskins – generally still it was great game for me (bloodbath). – Immune to Psychology – unit will not flee from enemy charge (first time fled – shame on me, now I have to build Grail Chapel for the such shame thing I did, we both forgot about this rule). – at least one more lesson taken by mistake.
This Saturday we played with Alessandro with 1500 points limit – this time I took Bretonnians and Alessandro took Dwarfs. Bolter provide us with place for our game – thank you Piotrek for fast response! In the same time was Middle Earth tournament – I hope to play on it someday.
Alessandro managed to deploy first – but I prayed to the Lady, so first turn belonged to Dwarfs.
Bretonnian centre composed of Knighs of the Realm (paladin and battle standard bearer), archers and Grail Knights (paladin, damsel 2 level).
Left flank.
1st turn of Dwarfs. One of the pegasus knights was wounded.
Then my 1st turn – all army moved forward.
Archers moved 4″ and shoot at flame cannon – eliminating two crewmen.
On 2nd turn I tried to charge – only pegasus knights manage to do this. Then Slayers moved in centre. 2nd turn of Dwarfs. Mounted Yeoman said some bad words about slayer mother to distrubt him.
On 3rd turn slayers charged on flank – hapilly before archers took two of them and they had one combat result less.
Grail Knights charged on Bretonnian turn 3rd.
Dwarf turn 4th was shooting, moving and melee.
Flame cannon wounded two archers and the rest of them fled. It was turn 4th of Dwarfs.
Bolt Throwers tried to kill Grail Knights, but power of the Lady was too strong.
Dwarfs 5th round
Regroup of Grail Knights.
O turn 5th Grail Knights took one bolt thrower and charged another one.
Lone slayer waiting on the hill. Last of the pegasus knights was catched by Dwarf crossbowmen.
I guess that slayer hero charged me on 6th and took down one of the holy knights.
During challenge Bretonnian paladin Tancred de Beauville managed to wound slayer once…
and his warhorse finished him (6 followed by 6).
Summary: – first time after some months I took Bretonnia, first time took Lance of Artois and one more Virtue. – it was a Draw as Alessandro destroyed 619 points from my army and I destroyed 633,5. – it was great evening game – usually I don’t play on 15, but this time I realized: Why not?
Aww, last time realized who is a singer of songs I knew for years. Great songs Billy Joel.
Today in sunny Wrocław (PL), we played friendly Polish Italian match in Warhammer Fantasy Battle 7th edition. First time I tried Steam Tank and need to learn how to use it.
I guess, that next time we should order some pizza to Bolter where we played (if we can of course).
Only wizard on the table – spells from lore of Beast.
Empire and Kislev battle line.
Both sides.
Dawi artillery hat Steam Tank and unhapilly damaged it.
Remnants of Knights Panthers fought well.
Steam Tank destroyed by Dawi cannons.
Artillery duel won at last by Dawi cannon of Alessandro. Before I hat his cannon twice and for first time roll 1 for wound, then, rolled one for how many wounds. Still, I had great rolls on armour saves.
Better and better in guesing ranges.
Summary: – as many times before, it was great game with Alessandro, today I was massacred – but this is part of our hobby, still it depends on with whom you play. – it was great to see Rafał, Generał and Krzysiek, still need to plan better our still small events (need to learn from Kris about multiple games). – first time with Steam Tank – need to learn how to use it, maybe from General or Wuja. – we agreed to play next Saturday, so everything before us> – we spend some time of talking about rules – probably playing with 6th editions army books on 7th edition rulebook is better – still there are more models in 7th edition – we need to do a party like in Bilbo house and talk, play and talk. – wish everyone great Sunday!
Today we meet to play event in Warhammer Fantasy Battle 7th edition. Our games were for 800 points. Today four of us came: me with Orcs & Goblins (my first game ever with them), Alessandro with his Dwarfs, Kris with his Ogre Kingdoms and Maciej with his Empire. We played in Bolter – today was also a tournament in Lord of the Rings and after talk with Piotrek I think, about playing in it.
On left Kris Ogres, on right Alessandro Dwarfs.
Cavalry on rhinos – they were in White Dwarf – cool unit.
Ogres runned on the Dwarfs battle line.
Panic among Ogres with guns.
On the other flank one big combat which was losed by Ogres.
No Dwarf meat today.
Heavily wounded ogre general woke up and runned away (heroes do not die, right?).
My greenskins battle line. In front of me Ogres.
I played first turn.
That cool ball – said shaman after feeding some Night Goblins with mushrooms.
One was hit by a ball, another one scored a hit on his comrade. It was 2nd turn.
Up the hill.
Night Goblins with magic help charged Ogre shooters…
and broke them in combat.
On the other side Black Orcs were broken by massive charge of Ogres and Ogre cavalry on rhinoxes.
Heavily outnumbered by fearful enemy…
… black orcs runned for lives.
Grasha (Goblin charioteer) – let’s speed up wolfes, it will be fun.
Unhapilly it was last words of Grasha.
Now freed wolfes runned away.
Grisha, Grasha charged and it was fun, we want too.
Grisha chariot passed morale and charged.
Unhapilly to Grisha, rhinos do not feel that was charged.
Orcs slowly moved out of battle.
The end of my and Kris battle.
Empire troops are coming.
Both sides moved forward.
Black orcs were charged from front and flank. Fanatics released by my own.
Chariots on the flank.
Black orcs fought valiantly.
Orcs prepare to shoot volley of arrows.
Night goblins held for a moment…
… but soon were routed.
Orc arrer boys charged on swordmen flank and won by one point. Swordsmen fled and were routed.
Not great position for orcs.
Orcs charged by ogre mercenaries (Rare choice from Dogs of War)..
Orcs fled the field.
Classical skulpts are great, especially when they are painted.
Grisha and Grasha chariots coming back, after destroying artillery and archers.
Coming closer.
Few bullets and chariot was losed.
Second chariot charged ogres, but enemy won combat and due fear and outnumber it fled and crashed on piece of terrain. Only fanatics stayed running. Both sides suffered a heavy loses.
First game of Empire and Dwarfs – I took here only few photos.
Summary: – we did small event in WFB 7th edition, hope to see more ppl next time – today were almost five of us. – thanks to Bolter.pl for place to play. – today I decided to start someting new, still need to stop playing Cyberpunk 2077 first and start waking up early to have more time for painting. – in few days I want to write some kind of article about current offer of Games Workshop – there are still many sets which can be used in Warhammer Fantasy Battle. – everyone wish good weekend!
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