Second competition game .........

On Thursday I played my second game in the local Kings of War tournament. 

The time I was up against the Ratkin hordes lead by Pete - an army and opponent I haven't faced before. 

The battlefield picked out of the hat was a road running down the long diagonal with 2 woods at one end and one at the other. 

I decided to go for a flank attack down the right, with all the cavalry and the dragon deployed there. The rest of the army was deployed as an anvil on the right/centre. 

Pete had the first move started with an advance!

This meant that the elves did a lot of shooting - which was reasonably effective in weakening the rat-ogres and some giant mutant thing!

Over on the right the elves were attacked with flame and arrows - Poor placement by me left these units exposed for a counter attack!

The combined fire from the bolt shooters and archers took out the rat-ogres and mutant thing....Hurrah!

The ratkins artillery was doing annoying amounts of damage to the elven units as well.

The elves counter attack the Ratkin hordes in the centre - spear elves charge - archers shoot!

Mean while over on the right a gamble to take out the demon spawn and horde of rats partly came off ...... The horde was destroyed but the demon spawn was tougher than I had expected .....the dragon and the Knights were eventually destroyed! The flank attack had failed!

However the anvil had been successful - all of the Ratkin units had been destroyed apart for the cannon thing and a flame thrower team!

The image below is how the game ended. The top of the picture shows the situation in the centre .... One Ratkin wizard facing elf guard, archers, bolt throwers (out of picture are a flame thrower team and a warmachine). The bottom shows the right flank with one troop of light cavalry (the elf guard are in the distance) the Ratkin demon spawn (out of picture is the wheel of doom!). 

The result was a 65 point advantage to the elves - so another draw! (A 200 point advantage is needed for a win). So another close game. As usual the dice didn't always go my way - the elf guard got held up for 2 or 3 turns by a single character, Pete rolling double 6 meant he got a waver on a unit so they couldn't counter-attack, so they were destroyed on Pete's next turn. The unsupported attack by the dragon on the demon spawn was an error as I didn't know how tough he was. I should have used the dragon to attack the artillery and get in behind the Rats over in the centre .....

So I stuck to the plan which almost won the day, even though the sweeping flank attack failed!

Next up is the Toymaster and his Dwarfs ..... But I am undefeated* in the competition so who knows!

Morts

*i have won a game yet either!