Well I have been very busy in July so haven't painted much (anything) or played much so this is likely to be my only post in July .....
Anyway I managed to get down to the Club and get a quick game of Kings of War. I took the elves, still looking for there first win ...... Ever! I also agreed to play in the Club competition so have a game next week. I will probably use the elves in the competition!
The game tonight was against Abyssal Dwarfs - commanded by Oscar who went first!
My deployment was interesting as I was weak in the centre - I had a bolt shooter on each flank and my archers on the right (the gladestalkers vanguard-ed into the woods).
Turn 2 - elves advance and unleash an arrowstorm.
Turn 4 - the slave Orcs ignore the hindered charge and destroyed the gladestalkers.
The elven Knights charged into the dwarf Blacksouls and the archers pepper the Orcs with arrows - it was vital that the Orcs were routed or at least wavered - but I managed to roll snake-eyes.... This would mean death for the Knights if they couldn't break the dwarfs.
The Blacksouls and the slave Orc gore-riders took out the Knights leaving the orcs to kill an elven Mage.
Over on the left flank - the elves had lost a troop of silver breeze cavalry but had taken out a unit of gore-riders, a horde of decimators and a Overmaster on Great Abyssal Dragon- Result
The spear horde advance - with 30 attacks hoping to break the slave Orcs!
But it wasn't to be - flanked by the Lesser Obsidian Golems ....
With 28 combined hits and needing Oscar to roll snake-eyes he rolls 3! So close!
The end of the game - the elves have destroyed all the dwarf artillery - out of shot for the elves are the army standard, archer regiment and a bolt shooter. The Dwarfs have a regiment of Immortal Guard and salve Orc gore-riders (who would have taken out a bolt shooter if we had play another turn).
Another enjoyable game of Kings of War - lots of tactical choices to be made!
The scores on the doors were that the elves caused 1125 pts of causalties and the Abyssal Dwarfs 885 pts - 240 pts difference so a good win for the pointy ears!
Oscar should have used his dragon more and the steady roll on the Orc horde was frustrating!
Interestingly this Abyssal Dwarf army beat the Herd army which thrashed my Orcs last month .... My elves haven't beaten my Orcs .....swings and roundabouts ....
The extra bolt thrower was very useful - I would like some drakons (extra flying things!) for the elves!
Next week competition game versus Ian's Orcs .....
Wish me luck!
Morts
