Having enjoyed last weeks game so much Ian and I decided to play Fantastic Battles again, a re-match between my Barbarians and his Undead. Could my Barbarians get their revenge? I tweaked a few traits and swapped a mage-lord in to replace Thor. This would give me more spell-casting power, would it help?
Once again I borrowed a scenario map from Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy magazine to set up the terrain. We then diced for who would be attacker or defender.
Whilst Thor is away gathering re-enforcements, the Barbarian's ancient Mage-Lord Snalkasteg rallies the his forces. Lord Kroogan Hymax marches his victorious Undead army deeper into Barbarian territory. The two forces clash again upon the open plain of Lemdoff Moor close by Jut's Hold. Can Snalkasteg and his Barbarians beat back the Undead hordes?
The dice decided that Ian's Undead would be the Attackers and my Barbarians the defenders.
The Barbarian's about to deploy.
Half of the Undead horde
Other half of the Undead horde.
Overview of positions after mishaps and first moves.
The Barbarians took 9 damage and had two late units from mishaps.
The Undead had 3 late units.
Mordius's phalanx just after taking 5 damage from the Barbarian archers.
The Barbarian Sworn Cavalry smash into one of the Broken Legions and ...erm... break them!
A good start for Snalkasteg and his men although Kraug the Killer is killed in the melee! This left the Sworn Cavalry out of command and they scored a 'lets not be hasty result' so they stayed where they were, just ripe for being charged by Drax the undead dragon and attacked in the rear by a pesky vulture. The Sworn Cavalry were broken for the second battle in a row.
On the other flank Bodvoc supported by Smogfeld the Great await the advancing undead.
The Undead had 3 flying scavanger vultures but the Barbarian Wyvern tried to eat one of them.
Slowly Kroogan Hymax's Undead fought their way back into the battle. The Sworn Cavalry were destroyed but the battle now raged across the whole battlefield. Modeius Drudge trid to 'Blink' the Undead phalanx into melee only to fail on all 4 of his dice, (he was in possession of a mystical tome). My mage, Skaemthe unwashed tried to 'Blink' the undead phalanx away only for Lord Hymax's little black butterflies (a prophecy dice) to cancel, this was getting desperate.
When the 'Bearserkers' were destroyed the rest of the Barbarian army seemed to collapse and suddenly, from being a close fight the Barbarians were broken and victory belonged once again to Lord Kroogan (the Jester from Leicester) and his Undead. The ripple effect of so many losses also saw off the Barbarian scouts and the heavily wounded Wyvern.
Chariots are fun but when skirmishing and caught by the Undead heavy cavalry it was only going to end one way. They were broken too.
Well done to Ian and his tough Undead army. This was another great game where all seemed to be going well for the Barbarians in the first half of the game and then it all went wrong after our cup of tea and flapjack!
