Open Combat Battle Night 2

Another Open Combat night at my local Wargames club. We now a regular couple of players of this system and its working out quite well for a couple of quick skirmish games with varied warbands on a club night.

I had arranged two separate games for my new Orc warband as I wanted to try out the monster rules by using a massive Troll. My warband consisted of an Orc Leader with Sword and Shield, an Orc Champion armed similar, 2 x Orc Spearmen, 2 x Orc Archers and the Troll.

First game was against Simons Saxon Warband who had come to cleanse Midgard of the rampaging Orcs. Defending a small hamlet with a river running across the potential battleground the Saxons took up position to halt the Orcs advance over the bridge, whilst also looking to cover ford near the cottage.

The Orcs quickly took possession of the small hovel and the archers gained a good position on the roof, raining dark fletched arrows into the mass of Saxon defenders. Luckily for the Human Warriors their shields and armour deflected many of the barbed missiles with only a few minor wounds.

The Troll surged onto the bridge, exerting himself to rain a cacophony of murderous blows on the nearest warriors. The Saxon leader using his full authority intimidated the Troll and befuddled its tiny mind giving his men the advantage and they attacked back hard.

However with the Orcish leader and champion threatening to flank them at the ford, the Saxons had to withdraw slightly and defend this new threat giving the Troll time to recover and smash its way through the paltry human fighters, charging into the rear of the Saxon Hearth-guard.

Still with the black arrows raining down on them and the press of Orcs forcing the Saxons on the back foot the humans succumbed to the fury of the evil creatures and broke leaving the village in the hands of the Orcs.

Game two and I was up against Mikes Dwarven Slayers. I tweaked the warband slightly (as this was not a campaign and just one off games it was good to try new skills and see what fitted the Orcs best)

The board and terrain was set up, this time giving a central fence to fight over and then we set up the warbands opposite and commenced carnage. This game was straight forward, no tactical detours or manoeuvres. The Slayers charged straight towards the Orcs raging and swinging their great axes. Unfortunately they ran straight into a hail of arrows from my archers who again had managed to take position on the roof of a building (shooting from height really helps!)

This took down one Slayer quickly and the rest then leaped and rounded the fence only to me met by the immoveable object that was the troll. The Dwarves did slightly start to gain the upper hand though but the arrival of some Orc spearmen on one side and the leader and champion on the other, turned the tide.

The Spearmen held a few flamed haired stunty slayers in place whilst the combined attacks of the Orc commanders as well as the exerted enraged troll made shirt work of the Dwarves.

The venerated dwarves broke and left the field in Orcish hands. A cracking nights gaming and two different but highly enjoyable games.

RoBiN Wargames Show

Last Sunday I went to Nottingham to visit the relatively new Wargames show that they put on in the University Tennis Centre. Not attended before but was looking forward to it as they listed quite a few good traders and possible participation games. Another reason was I would finally get to meet Shaun Jewitt of Little Ninja Painting who has done some fantastic work for me due to my terrible Black Dog Miasma over painting recently. 

The show was quiet with a lower attendance than you would normally see and unfortunately it was freezing cold with traders, punters and demo gamers in costs and hats even inside. 

However I enjoyed the day. I got to meet and chat to Shaun as well as a few other friends in the industry and had a couple of good games. Mostly Gangs of War and a cracking card/fighting fantasyesque game called Escape the Dark Castle. 

I didn't spend much only dropping my hard earned pennies on Oathsworn Miniatures stall for a half dozen Burrows and Badgers minis. These are wonderful anthropomorphic fantasy miniatures. 

Overall a quiet show. Some good games to try and a nice day out to catch up with friends. 

Massive Kings of War game

Maximilian car wars

Massive Bolt Action Invasion of Crete game

More Bolt Action - Russian Tank War

Blood and Plunder by Firelock Games

Panzerfauste by Hysterical Games

Spectre Ops

Gangs of Rome

Gangs of Rome is a new skirmish game recently released from Warbanner. These are a some of my miniatures just recently built. Miniatures come in 10 different packs, 5 male bodies and 5 female bodies. Added to this are numerous different head and weapon sprues, making the opportunities for different looking fighters endless.

I will be painting these whilst they are glued to the jigsaw type bases supplied in the blisters but will be looking to move them onto resin/custom bases.

Gladiator Ally, Tisiphone, Barca and Mastiff

Male Fighters

Male Fighters, Spearman converted with spare head from Gladiator Ally pack

Female Fighters

Female Fighters

Panzerfauste - Dwarf Grenadier Infantry Force

Hysterical Games produce some wonderful fantasy miniatures depicting WW1/WW2 tendencies. These include Orc's (British) Gnomes (French) Troglodytes (Polish) and Dwarves (German).

These are for the aforementioned Panzerfauste skirmish game and are produced in resin and are multipart miniatures, which go together very easily with little to no clean up or gapping.

I took advantage of a nice offer at Warfare wargames show and bought up a few sections of Dwarves which included the Command and Support units.

Below is a full section of infantry accompanied by some command models and support unit in the guise of a HMG and crew.
All painted by the rather good Little Ninja Painting but basing and terrain by myself.

Hauptman, Radio Op and Medic

HMG

Feldwebels with SMG

Sniper and Panzerfaustes

Grenadier Section

LMG and Ammo carrier

The Whole Force

Merry Christmas 2017

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