Skirmish Day 3-26-03

Skirmish Day 3-26-03 Report by Nathan Miller

We've been having a lot of skirmish days lately while our members build up their armies for larger battles. Here is an account of one such day. This isn't so much a battle report as much as it is a picture gallery with comments.
In our infinite wisdom we decided to play large skirmishes with about 350 or so points on a side. Each person was allowed one Hero and could field champions as well. 350 points make for a large skirmish but some of us are still not quite up to 1000 points of painted troops so we decided to go with this high point count so we could get as many of our painted minis on the field as possible.
On the Desert Table Mario Mora's Dark Elves faced Nathan Miller's Chaos. On the Woodland Table Michelle Miller's Orcs and Goblins faced Jeffery Johnson's Orcs and Goblins. The scenario was simply to fight until last man standing or one side gave up.

Nate's Chaos Warband lines up before the battle.

Michelle and Jeff get their Orky insanity going.

Nate's Chariot slams into two of the three Cold one Knights Mario fielded killing both cold ones and one rider leaving the seccond rider knocked down. Early in the game it looked like Chaos had a big advantage.

The Orcs get Stuck in good on their table. Both sides employing the cunning Orky tactic of all out charging straight into things. Note that the only troops being very sneeky are Jeff's goblin wolf riders on the right side making an end run arround Michelle's right flank.

Things start to get bloody on the Desert Table. Mario has killed the Chaos hero with about a million reapeter crossbow bolts. The Chaos Marauders are fighting crossbowmen and a large number of them have ganged up on the Dark Elf Hero with their Champion. Things still look good for the chariot here. The last Cold One knight charged the chariot only to have his mount slain in the attack. he did do some damage to the chariot though.

As you can see things have gotten quite messy on the Orc and Goblin table. Michelle's Hero, Hawg Slobo, and his boar boys are fighting some squigs and infantry on the hill. I'm not sure where Jeff's hero is at this point. Since I wasn't actaully playing this battle I'm not sure who is winning. I doubt the Orc players know either.

After taking some pretty heavy casualties the Chaos Marauders and their Champion finally take down the Dark Elf Hero but there were still a large number of Dark Elf crossbowmen to deal with. The Cold one Knights had taken out the chariot but been killed by it's crew who were then killed by the Dark Elf crossbowmen.

At this point we just started calling the Orc battle a mess. Michelle's Hero had been slain and her shaman was about to be taken down by Jeff's Hero and wold rider. Michelle still had a lot of hard hitters in the field but she was beginning to think that Gork was not with her lads.

And This is how it ended in the Desert. The Chaos Marauders had managed to slay the Dark Elves on their side of the field but they had lost their champion in the process. The Dark Elves on the other side of the field simply spent the next couple rounds shooting Marauders full of bolts as the Marauders tried to close with them. These Three Dark Elves were the only survivers of the battle. Vicotry went to Mario's Dark Elves in a close fought skirmish.

And this is how it ended on the Orc table. After loosing her Hero and Shaman and a number of her lads Michelle's remaining lads decided that Jeff's Hero was "Da Boss".

So that's How it went. We often fight these kinds of skirmishes but we have decided that in the future we would play with smaller skirmish forces and have a turn limmit since both games went several turns and it took a couple of hours to play.