Brivoli's Great Company gets serious...

The original interest in creating a Tilean mercenary force for Warhammer times was my interest in the Italian Wars and similar 1400's-1500's mercenary warfare, etc.

 

My first 'dream' was having some pike blocks for Brivoli's Great Company but I was lazy about getting the models.  I finally snagged a box of Warlord Landsknecht and put this unit together.  The pikes have all been chopped 3/4" or so to make the unit a little more playable and hopefully transportable.

 

 

Games!: Famine Sword & Fire (Night Goblins vs. Dwarfs)

Today my buddy and I wrapped up our little three game "Night Goblin" side quest during our campaign.

 

The TL/DR version of the side-quest:  After dwarfs sabotaged a bridge to cut off Chaos Dwarfs from entering a long-abandoned dwarf hold, the remaining dwarfs were chased into the gloom by Night Goblins.  In the next game, three of seven dwarf survivors escaped to the Night Goblin occupied dark tunnels and caverns.

 

This game wrapped up this small portion of the campaign.  The same three dwarfs who survived the long dark of the dwarf hold were being hunted by Night Goblins in the slopes of the mountain.  They had followed a river.  Guided by magic(?) a dwarf rescue force was scouring the area.  As the day broke and the mist cleared the two forces found themselves interwoven in the broken terrain.

 

This was a "fog of war" scenario with bonus points added if my buddy could get the three survivors off the table...I would score extra points for killing them.

 

In the end the Night Goblins scored a 9-7 victory, by managing to score the last two points by sticking Night Goblin arrows into the eyes of the dwarf general just as he arrived on the table!  A very hectic and very...cagey game.

 

 

Games of FSF - and "some" photos.

Played two small-ish games of Famine, Sword, & Fire yesterday.  These games were played to continue testing some scenarios I've designed for the game - not part of any narrative campaign.

 

Game 01 was a repeat of the 'Ambush' scenario (I've played this before in my narrative campaign).  The game came down to a very narrow victory ceded to the Dark Elves as we wanted to try to get the next game in.  Chaos Dwarf column was ambushed by a small force of Dark Elves, including a huge Charybdis(?).

 

Game 02 was a test of 'Night Raid' where my Hobgoblins pounced on an unsuspecting Bretonnian force in camp at night.  It was a pure rout - but we called it before fighting out the last few battles.  It actually could have gone either way but my buddy was out of time.

 

As usual - too into the game to remember to actually take pictures but I took a few, and stole my buddy's pics.

 

  

  

Black Orcs for the Chaos Dwarfs

Well, sadly I hated painting these...and I have another unit of them to paint at some point.  But, happy that they're done.  Not stoked with the paintjob, but it'll work.

 

Black Orc sculpts by Fabelzel