Friday, November 12, 2010

Amazons take to the Field - 15mm Fantasy Combat

Found some more battle photos of our 15mm Fantasy combat games. (Piquet rules)

We usually  setup two fantasy battles side by side on the table to allow more participation and playtesting. This night we had Brian's Amazon Army taking on Brian's lionmen army. On the second table we had Eric's Amazon army with a brigade of monsters fighting Eric's Dwarven army.

I didn't get a lot of shots of Brian's battle as I was actively fighting in the other one, but I love these two shots of the Mastadons smashing into the Amazons. The Lionmen Army lost this battle as their armor prooved too weak to resist the power of the Amazons. All the Amazon figures are available from Lone Gunman Games.




Meanwhile, in my battle you see the Dwarves on defense (another mountain pass scenario) with the Amazons Army and a brigade of monsters (Trolls, Bugbears, Drow, etc) attacking. The Dwarves managed to win this battle, but it was very close.

Dwarf Druid (front), Dwarven Brigade Commander (left), and unit of heavy dwarven spears

Amazons advancing with support from a Manticore!

General view of the Amazon\Monster assault

Bugbears by Ral Partha

Amazon commander on Griffin

Manticore flies over the Dwarven crossbowmen and engages them in melee

Bugbears crash into the Dwarven battle line

Amazon Heavy Sabretooth cavalr are attacked by the Dwarven Guard! This saved the Dwarven army as the Amazons were sweaping around the rear of the Dwarven battle line


Drow Lizard Riders (Ral Partha) attempt to break a tough Dwarven Heavy unit

Hope you enjoy!
Eric

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Wood Elf Ambush on Orc Raiders - 15mm Fantasy Battle

Hi,

Sharing some photos from a game night from about a year ago. Seems I only took photos of the pre-battle deployment as I was too busy enjoying the battle (Wood Elves won) to bother taking photos of the actual battle.

The scenario finds the Orc raiding army camped in a clear in the woods, only to be ambushed at dawn by the Wood Elves.

Orcs = Grenadier Miniatures
Wood Elves = Grenadier Miniatures
Ruined Monastary by Mal Wright

Enjoy!
Eric

















Wednesday, November 10, 2010

"None Shall Pass" 15mm Fantasy Battle

Hi,

I wanted to share some battle photos I've taken over the years with our 15mm Fantasy games. The rules I used were Piquet (modified for Fantasy). This was before the new Piquet Hostile Realms Fantasy supplement was released.

This particular battle had the Dwarves with some human allies defending a mountain pass from a huge Orc\Gnoll\Bugbear army.

The figures are from the following companies:
Orcs - All the old Grenadier figures (I need more of these)
Bugbears - Old Ral Partha (oop)
Gnolls - These are the Hyena's from the Splintered Light Miniatures. These are some pretty cool figures.

Dwarves - all old Grenadier
Humans - Ral Partha
Human Wizard - Black Raven Foundry

Since the battle was fought roughtly 2 years ago I can't remember all the detail, but there is some great eye candy! Enjoy

View from the dwarven lines. Thin line of dwarves stretched across the mountain pass. Gnoll brigade on the left and two Orc brigades to the right. Some sort of spell was cast (smoke) against the Orcs.

View from the Orc perspective.


Dwarf Druid (round base) cast a spell against the Gnoll archers

Dwarf Commander in the center of the battle line



Dwarf Cannon blasts into the Orc hordes

Gnolls advance

Gnolls smash into the Dwarf Heavy infantry while a Druid desperately tries to cast spells

Dwarven Crossbowmen overrun by bugbears

Human Wizard attempts to cast Fire Balls at the Orcs as the attack the Dwarven Heavy infantry

One Orc stand was annihilated by the Wizard's spell, but they still pushed on and attacked the Dwarven cannon and heavy infantry
Wish I could remember more details, but still, it was a great time.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

GMT Games: Hellenes

My friend Brian and I played our first game of Hellenes yesterday and really had a GREAT time. We both rated the game an A. (We rated Berlin to Barbarosa by GMT a B)

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Currently, Brian and I are working through our gaming closets to try out new board games that we have never had a chance to play.

We will play our second game of Hellenes next week.

You can find online material for Hellenes here:

Game Page: http://www.gmtgames.com/p-142-hellenes.aspx
Living Rules: http://www.gmtgames.com/living_rules/Hellenes-Rules-2.pdf

Cheers!
Eric