Well, sorry about the gap in updates last week, but my brother came into town and I convinced him to play a skirmish battle of warhammer with me. We used two of the lists that I am working on painting, the Empire and Goblins. The battle itself was 500 points apiece, and ended in a massacre of the Empire, though in his defense he had horrible luck with the dice.
Gobbos: 20 Speargobbos w/cmd and fanatic, 20 bowgobbos w/cmd and fanatic, 3 snotling swarms, 3 trolls, boss, and shaman
Empire: 5 Knights Panther, 10 Spearmen, 5 Crossbowmen, 5 Handgunners, and Luthor Huss
The board itself was set up with three buildings on each side, and a group of 5 trees in the very center. Roughly a 4x6 table.
To make it brief (the game only lasted 5 turns), my brother decided to send the spears with the handgunners and crossbowmen as detachments to the right of the woods, and his knights with Luthor Huss to the left. I sent the bowgobbos (and shaman) and snotlings to counter the knights, the trolls to counter the spears, and the speargobbos (and boss) straight towards the woods with the intent to veer them in the direction they would be needed most. It took about two turns to finally reach each other in about the middle of the board. His knights charged my bowgobbos, who released the fanatic - killing 2 of his knights right away. Finishing his charge he killed one goblin and the shaman. The next turn the speargobbos charged to his flank, and the snotlings were prepared to charge his rear. This was pretty much the end of it for the knights.
On the other side of the table, the trolls had lost the stupidity roll twice in a roll, and so were slowly shambling across the board as my brother shot at them with his handgunners and crossbowmen, though every successful hit resulted in a regeneration. When the trolls finally charged forwards into the spearmen is in the same turn that the knights and Luthor were destroyed, and my brother surrendered the game.
So, here were my observations during the game. It is very hard to believe that Luthor only had two attacks, this severely weakened him in the game compared to the night goblin boss who had three. I thought maybe this was an error in the book, but all warrior priests and Arch Lectors only have two attacks- a significant reduction in their fighting ability. Also, a lack of magic on the side of the empire made it easy to counter every prayer that the priest attempted to cast. I think to make this army any good, it will take adding a magician in the next installment of the empire. Finally, the fanatics really tore into the knights from the beginning (and this is not to mention that I forgot about the other fanatic with the speargobbos, but by the point I remembered the empire was already being crushed).
Any thoughts?
BTW, more painting updates coming at the end of the weekend.
exiles: Never mate, just didn\'t want to rush the perfection that they deserve.
RONIN: Comes from GameZone out of Spain.
, what units you especially looking forwards to/excited about with the points increase?
