Onwards to Victory.

2 battle in since i started this blog with my kingdoms of men and things are going well, i will not spoil my first battle as i am writing up a much more detailed report soon, however the secound one i will talk about now.

This was agaisnt a new player, his very first game of Kings of war, however he seemed quite experianced in wargamming in general.

The army i faced with forces of nature mixed with dwarfs (a lovely combination i found). a horde of ironbreakers a special character of some kind and some snipers and a cannon (forgive me memory for not remembering the names of the units)  allied with an elf spell caster, elf scouts, elf cavalry, elf infantry with 2 hander,  some montrous infantry, a horde of archers, a standard bearer and a very large tree man. and an elkf character with a bow

we rolled up kill and pillage where we had 9 tokens scatered around the battlefield and also gained points for killing units.

the game kicked off with the elfs getting first turn and him moving 4 units with vanguard, turn 1 saw him do pretty much nothing to the mighty kingdoms of men but when the KoM had there chance to fire back we saw both his dwarf snipers and the elf scouts get shot of the table.

turn 2 saw him moving up his army and scoring some wounds here and there with his shooting his elf with a bow just sat on one flank shooting my units the whole game doing very little, my retaliation saw me charge his treeman with my bast of war and moving some chaff into position readying up for the next turn and putting more wounds on his units.

turn 3 the elfs charge his montrous infantry into a regiment of foot guard which held, the treeman countercharged my beast of war and slap him about but not break.  to answer this i counter charged his montrous infantry with my knights(flank charge) and the footguard unit, my beast of war and footguard regiment counter charged his treeman and slapped him but not much damage shooting claimed more wounds and might have killed off a unit or 2 aswell as my secound scout unit flank charge his archer horde.

turn 4 saw the archer horde charge the flank of my footguard unit which previously charged the treeman, this unit took the archers shooting for the first 3 turns but were holding there own, the archers did some wounds but only wavered the footguard, the treeman charged the beast of war but failed to rout it, his left flank saw him charging a shield wall unit with his cavalry and wiping them out.
The humans uin kind saw a troop of footguard charge the cavalry in the front managed a few wounds just to disorder the cavalry and stoop there thunderous charge and i also moved up units for counter charging the enemy knights next turn, the beast of war did not charge back into the slapping contest but instead fired its ballista with my other siege engines and managed to waver his treeman, shooting claimed his dwarf horde and my standard bearers just moved around dancing between units. a shield wall unit with bane chant and a foot guard troop with 2 handers charged his elf infantry with 2 handers and wavered them by doing 11 points of damage total that round.

turn 5 saw his archers charge my severly wound footguard regiment (9 wounds or something) but they failed to do any damage thankfully, his cannon managed to hit one of my ballista and wavered it. his disordered knights charged the footguard troop but failed to do much. his archers counter charge the mounted scouts who had been flank charging them every turn(theuy did 1 or 2 wounds a turn nothing to cry home about) and killed them

now the Men of the kingdoms brought the pain, the knights flanked his knights unit and the troop of footguard front charged it, they brought total damage taken on the knights to over 20(routed!!) the footguard regiment on my left flank charged the rear of the archers and wiped them out, shooting saw his army standard die, shield wall and foor guard troop on the right flank re charged the wavered elf infantry and finished the job. shooting saw the cannon get blown away.

At this point the elf player had his very wounded treeman, a wizard a dwarf character and... nothing else slo he decided to concede as i had only lost 2 troops of mounted scouts and had controll over 7 of the 9 objective makers which itseklf gave me 1400 victory points in a 2k game.


VICTORY TO CRELL'S ARMY!