Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 1, game 2

For the second game of our escalation campaign my Ellyrian warband cought up with some Night Goblins towing an magical stone.  

Using my speed I set the Ellyrion Reavers out on the flanks and threaten the Nigh Goblins from all sides. The Night Goblins hugged the center trying to protect the magicad stone they had raided from some Skavens.

After some skirmishing with the archery of my Reavers and my Reaver Noble I sent them in to engage the squigs.
They managed to take out the first unit of "jumpy" squigs, the Reavers tired out but the Elven Noble pushed even further and charged a unit of squigs with their herders. 

With his Ithilmar sword swinging, squigs are chopped to pieces...

My Ellyrian Silver helmes closes in...

My Elven Noble pushed the squigs and their herders back with casualties and they panicking all over the place. Some of the squigs flees packwards and forces further panicking in the Nigh Goblin lines.

But...
In the commotion one of the squigs attacked my Noble and he fells from his horse... 

The Ellyrian warband pushes forward, encircling what is left of the Nigh Goblins.

This game ended in a win for my High Elves.

A fun game that was closer then one might first think looking on the pictures. Had the Night Goblins holed on just one turn more I think the Night Goblins would have won.


Here under are some pictures I toyed with in Chatgpt. The results are somewhat mixed, some of them are nicer then others...

Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 1, game 1

 
We had a gaming day of Warhammer Old world with a campaign. Each player had a 500pts army with some restrictions or special rules according to the campaign rules.

Minimum Two Units When writing your muster list for a game of Battle March, your army must include a minimum of two non-character units. This minimum can include war machines, but cannot include units whose troop type is ‘swarms or ‘war beasts. 

Character Limitations As with any army, an army created for Battle March must include at least one character to act as its General. However, when writing your muster list, you may not spend more than: - 25% of your army’s total points value on single character. 

A wizard’s max starting lvl is 2. 

A maximum of one magic item is allowed and it may only be carried by your General. 

Unit Limitations By their nature, the armies represented by Battle March are unlikely to include huge regiments or large numbers of elite troops. To represent this, when writing your muster list, you may not spend more than: - 35% of your army’s total points value on a single Core unit. - 30% of your army’s total points value on a single Special unit. - 25% of your army’s total points value on a single Rare or Mercenary unit. 

0-X Per 1,000 Points Players of Warhammer: the Old World will already be aware that many units or options are limited to ‘0-X per 1,000 points; with ‘X’ being a number. This means that such options would not normally be allowed when writing a muster list for an army of less than 1,000 points. However, rather than preclude such fun and characterful options entirely, when writing a muster list for a game of Battle March, you may include a single such option. This might be a unit, a character or even an upgrade listed within a unit's options. 

For example, a player writing an Orc and Goblin Tribes muster list for a game of Battle March, using that faction’s grand army composition list, could choose to include a single Goblin Rock Lobber or Doom Diver, both of which are limited to 0-1 per 1,000 points. Alternatively they could choose to give a single Goblin Mob the Skirmishers special rule, an option limited to 0-1 unit per 1,000 points.

For this campaign I intend to play a Ellyrion themed army with lots of horsearcher. Short bows might not be gamewinning but with bs of 4 on elves and rule of cool I think it will be a fun list to play.



My first game would be against the Tomb Kings and we were competing for the middle objective of a old sarcophagus. 

Using its speed the Ellyrion reavers redeploy.

After setting up the lines of battle for my army my Ellyrion reavers on my right flank engaged the skirmishing skeletal archers, hopping their horses would tip the combat in my favour.  

An gigantic scorpion emerges from under the sand and attack my Ellyrion noble. That is not a good thing...

The large block of skeletons have secured the sarcophagus, this could be some real problem for my army. I feel I lack the real punch to shift such a large block of enemy.

With the assist of magic my nobleman is taken down by the scorpion...
Yeah yeah... He would probably been badly mangled even without the assist of dark magic... Toughness 3 isnt something you want when engage with monsters... 

I really needed to do something.
Having outmaneuvered his chariot now was my chance. I engage the skeleton warriors with both my Silver helmes and my Ellyrion reavers, hoping to inflict massive damage in one swoop and see the undead crumble under my hoves... 

After a couple of rounds of combat I had mange to grind down the undead and pushed forward...
My archer unit had moved up to guard the flank of my cavalry from the gigantic scorpion.

But the enemy chariot had manged to turn around and cough my cavalry in the middle. 

The elves got slaughtered in the center and are forced to retreat.

Here under are some pictures I used chatgpt to enhance the gaming table background. 

Here are some additional pictures from my opponent:
https://www.instagram.com/tzarminiatures/p/DVVcSkfDeE4/

Warhammer Old Word AAR, High Elves vs Night Goblin

My friend Tobias and I had a game of Warhammer Old World. It was some time since we played so we were rather rusty about the rules.

This time I wanted to try out a different theme then last time. I tryed out the Sea Guard Garrison list found in the "Arcane Journal: High Elf Realms" book 

We played 1500pts.

I forgot my two Eagle claw bolt throwers at home but was able to borrow a unit of dwarves from Tobias that will help my Elves battle those pesky goblins...

The scenario we played had a tower in the middle that gave 100 extra victory points.

The elves fast cavalry and an Eagle ready to storm down one of the flanks.

The Night Goblin red jumpy menace...

Archers and Lothern Seaguards prepairs to loosen their arrows.

Tobias was not amused that his large troll unit was to stupid to move and blocked his unit of archers...

After a hail of arrows a lone Night goblin was left, the magician had to finish him of with some magic...

A fanatic is set loose and just misses the great eagle. That would have been devastating...

Failed charge... ehh I mean failed stompy jump... 1"
Another close call...

The great eagle left the fanatic bee and instead charged and took out a goblin war machine that had terrorized one of my Lothern seaguard units..

My flank with the light cavalry and the great eagle turned around facing the middle and given my center support.

We called it here. The elven archers had totally stopped the first wave of Night goblins, the trolls didnt want to engage at all and the greenskins started to looked thinned out.
Tobias had some really bad luck with jumpy charges and fanatics and my elven archers was devastating to those unarmoured enemies...

Using Chatgpt, here are some thematic pictures.