Fred - 2017 Painting Diary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beau Jeste in style!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hey, look, pictures of the range!
http://pendraken.co.uk/inter-war/1910-20s-french-foreign-legion/

[paulr]

Looking good so far

[Techno]

Great fort, Forbes.

Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

FFL could be an option...

[fred.]

Played a game on Saturday night - Dark Elves vs Lizardmen

Lots of Pendraken figures on the table (although some of the DE are probably Kallistra)


Early game, the DE Hydra rushes forward - and my Lizardmen mages freeze it and zap it, and the skinks throw javelins. Resulting in a rather dead hydra.

Mid game
Turning into a classic turning battle - the DE infantry are charging uphill into a solid line of lizardmen and Kroxigors (think lizard ogres)

The DE spearmen where annihilated by the uphill lizardmen - so badly that virtually the whole brigade was killed.
Mean while in the middle the DE where being whittled down.

Ended up with 75%+ casualties for the DE, and less then 25% for the Lizardmen, I think 7-1 in VPs at the end.
Perhaps the DE where too far out their snowy comfort zone in the jungle  

[Techno]

Very nice, indeed, Forbes ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sweet Forbes

[DFlynSqrl]

That looks like a lot of fun!

[fred.]

Thanks chaps

Thought I'd managed a stealth post at first!

[lowlylowlycook]

Very cool armies, and battle.

Just missing the snowy twin peeks of Mt. Killahighelfjaro to make the dark elves fit in a bit.

[fred.]

Still not getting much painting done, thanks Real Life!! 

But did manage to get a game in on Friday, which was good fun with 2 players a side. We reprised Dark Elves vs Lizardmen, this time time in the Desert to move both armies out of their natural habitat (and I wanted to get the Desert Fort on the table).

The scenario had both armies deployed on the left to the middle of the table, with a big open flank on the right.

Early on

Both sides have moved their main forces forward. They have attempted to throw mobile troops out to the right, but have generally failed command rolls for this...
In the middle the Lizardmen have attempted to charge the Elves on top of the hill - but needed a good success to get a double move in, but ended up short.
The Elves have managed to get quite a bit of shooting off so far causing a fair bit of damage to the LM, but nothing serious.

The right flank

Not a lot happening here...
The dark riders zipped forward and shot up some Skink skirmishers, and that was about it.

The Elves got flank charges into the stranded LM, killing them. But leaving themselves open to heavy counter attacks. Taking out the cold one knights and quite a few spearmen.
The Manticore attempted a long charge, didn't make it and was cut down by kroxigor and saurus warriors.
The Stegadon shambled into contact in the middle.

Out of picture on the left the DE Cold One knights have smashed the Salamanders

Mid Game


Its a bit empty in the middle now following the above carnage!

On the left the LM had redeployed their Cold Ones, who charged the static DE Cold One knights killing them, while the Kroxigor made short work of the Witch Elves, suddenly tipping the left flank back to the LM.

In the centre the Stegadon got into the archers - which was messy. The big DE brigade of infantry was struggling to move, and was finally charged by Kroxiogor and the Saurus, who caused many casualties.

Over on the right not much was still happening. The Spider riders charged through terrain into the Cold One knights, and rather surprisingly held them for a couple of turns.
The Dark Riders choose to charge the Terradon Riders - probably a tactically poor choice as they would have been better shooting them. The Terradons slowly whittled the dark riders down.

In the end another big win for the Lizardmen. Once the Lizardmen get into combat they seem pretty unstoppable. We aren't quite sure what the DE need to be doing - perhaps its just a match up that doesn't suit them.

[Womble67]

Looks good Fred

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Quite some fight Forbes! 

[fred.]

It was pretty brutal!!