Bogenwald

Well today was our first games day of two and quite a lot of us couldn’t make it for one reason or another so Sean and I had a quick game of Dragon Rampant…

Here are my undead forces in their nice movement trays.

Anyway I moved mine off the table and as it would be a faff to take Sean’s off and put mine on then we went with his. His undead forces were 34 points and my borrowed living came in at 32 points. I was holding a defensive line so most of the initial turns were his. This changed when he got in range of my crossbows. They fairly disrupted his left flank wiping out two units. The elves in the graveyard were less effective. They quite often failed their activation rolls and needed to wound on 5+ I threw an awful lot of 1,2,3 and 4’s.

Sadly he brought up his cavalry and I was forced to engage with my own…

This cavalry melee took most of the game with each of us pushing the other back, but never doing enough to remove a casualty. As this was going on my foot knights took on his command unit who had crossed the table.

His right flank pretty much crawled across the table as it was there that most failed activations took place.

I was beset by cavalry in my centre, a command unit on my right and a large force centre left. I did manage to hold the cavalry off, losing a miniature. I really thought that all was over when suddenly my dice rolls changed and over three turns had totally destroyed the cavalry. My spears wiped out the horde to their front and somehow my foot knights, now down to two miniatures, held on.

In the end the undead lost half of their units and a narrow victory was claimed by the forces of good,

Here they are arrayed for their victory march past….

It was actually a really tense game as I had to overcome a modified roll to attack the undead… quite a few times I failed. Thankfully the scary bit only happened when you were trying to get up close and personal… shooting was not affected!

Oh woe is me, Henry has eventually given up the ghost!

Henry has served us well for twenty years. Perhaps we could have used him more. But we are now heading out to find his replacement!

Well okay … I see a dead person, a dead horse, three dead goblins and a hobbit that is having a lie down!

These are for my extremely stalled diorama.

I wanted casualties and now I have some. I am off for two weeks so perhaps I may make some progress.

Geek club is still going strong and as such the kids are flying through the miniatures. We have had one incident of a pot of black Contrast being dropped upside down in the box without the lid on properly !

I have managed to paint something…

I am thinking of seeing if any companies would sponsor the club. It will save them using all of my gear.

Well, I thought I had better let you know that I am alive and kicking… I have been a bit quiet of late for a number of reasons

Number one being that my school is having a mini inspection today and tomorrow so my mind, shall we say is elsewhere. Initial feedback seems positive so even though I was overdosing on cold and flu plus, I am pleased. Somehow I managed nearly 10,000 steps today even though I went to bed as soon as I got in.

Feeling gradually more crap over the weekend didnt really help, not to mention preparing a pile of scientific experiments for the kids in class today

Friday I went all, literary and went to see a talk by Dr Cat Jarman, who wrote River Kings. All about Viking trade… well worth a read if you can get it where you are.

Earlier in the week we tried the New One Ring. My two eldest and Joe made characters…I will probably get used to it, but there are enough similarities and differences to be a bit annoying, for me anyway.

Geek club carries on, with them all finishing off their second figure and in some cases making a start on their third. I will hopefully get photos tomorrow.