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Right, last night, as well as being my 4th game this year, was my Savage Orcs 3rd outing.

So far, they have stomped Stunties, been given a solid slap by Chaos, and the latest result? Showing a bunch of Slaaneshi Daemons that not everything is in fact pleasurable!

And I am now more hooked on Fantasy than I have been in a long time. I don't know which is the largest contributing factors, but I get to pick from 1) a shiny new army, which is almost fully painted, and my best work to date 2) *very* good opponents (not just in terms of skill. They are great guys to play against) 3) Rejigging my work hours slightly to allow me to game 4) Lovely new books I'm not that familiar with and 5) figuring out just how ridiculously 'ard Savage Orc Big'uns can be.

Seriously, I've always enjoyed Fantasy, but only recently has the game itself been reminding me why I like it. The new books are fantastic fun to play against (the main reason Chaos got a massacre was table quarters. I *never* remember about them!) and every army is a genuinely different challenge. The Daemons, for example, had me worried at first with the sheer amount of Magic (2 Lvl 1 Slaanesh Heralds, 1 Lvl 2 Tzeentch Herald, 10 Horrors and a Lvl 2 Daemon Prince using Death Magic) and yet, I learnt something about them. Sure, they tend to hit like a tonne of bricks, but they crumple like a Paper Bag. Highlight of the game was the Big'uns chinning the Flesh Hounds and wiping them out in a single turn, overrunning away from the rest of the battle, and then being rear charged by 2 Fiends of Slaanesh. *then* braying the Fiends convincingly (he didn't kill a single Boy!) and legging it back toward combat from the compulsory Overrun! Lowlight? Calling the Waaagh! and losing 3 of my 5 Boarboy Big'uns because of it

The Stunties were fun as well. And once again, my Big'uns made a horrific mess of *everything* the mentalists laid their grubby little mitts on! Slight jamminess allowed me to see off a full unit of Warriors with BSB Thane and Runesmith with 5 (count'em! FIVE!) Savage Orc Boyz on a flank charge. And, again, the poor old Boar Boyz Big'uns got slapped around before they could do owt!

Chaos? Dan learnt the hard way Regeneration does not prevent Killing Blow (choppy choppy!) and soon after found avoiding the Big'un Boyz a very, *very* good idea. Having said that, he used his hounds very well to pull me into odd positions. And yet, this still taught me not to worry too much about Flank Charges, as T4, the Ward and the bucket of attacks my Boyz get can usually see off anything but other ranked units. And yep, once again, the Big'Un Boarboyz did precisely nowt, other than get their heads kicked in by Chaos Knights!

And I am loving it! I really, really hope I get the chance to see the mess the Boarboy Big'uns can make, but somehow, knowing how terrified people are of their foot slogging mates, I really rather doubt it. Still. One day. One day they will hit home, and get to use their nice Magic Banner!

So how about you guys? Do you have a second wind of Warhammer?

And just to blow my own Trumpet...so far my rather unsubtle tactic for the Warboss of 'See enemy General, make a Beeline for him' is working beautifully so far. In three games, so far he has knacked a Dwarf Lord (first round. Shame about the rest of the game....) a Khorne Lord on Juggernaught (two killing blows in a challenge. Squelch!) 5 Chaos Knights, a Herald of Slaanesh, and 15 or so Daemonettes. Can't wait to aim the nutcase at a Vampire Lord. Should be a good, if disappointingly brief pagga. Shaga's Screamin' Sword with Iron Gob for the win!

i havnt played warhammer since i was prolly 12 ish. it seemed cool but im all about 40k blowy uppy kindda things. BUT the last time i played my brother was his "invincible" empire and i took his high elves army. my tatic was simple. ten BILLION archers in the front blocking the horseback fellas(cant remember what they were called.... knights i guesS?) so after i forced his empire to charge the archers or die in a hail of arrowed fury! then the knights came around on the flank and i basically kicked the pooh outta him. it was a really nice feeling lol

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So how about you guys? Do you have a second wind of Warhammer?

Yes, just about every time my gaming group gets tired of a 40k campaign.

I played Fantasy like a fiend back in 3rd/4th edition. Then the black times fell upon WHFB... Mordheim. 5th edition was released and the STUPID die-roll casting for magic was ported over from the wretched Necromunda rip-off.

I played about 3 games of 5th edition in a tourney and hated the stupid dice casting so much that I haven't played Fantasy since. Been about a decade how.

I still have armies for High Elves, Chaos (all 3 flavors), Lizardmen, Greenskins, and Dwarfs. Since playing Warhammer Online, I have been experiencing a bit of an itch to play again. Bad part is, nobody really plays around here.



Ghidorah

I'm sure I'll get my second wind eventually. Right now I'm on a big 40K kick, but Fantasy is bound to pique my interest again one of these days. I think I'll give the new Daemon Army Book a spin soonish.

I fell in love when I saw the new Orcs for fantasy. I quit playing for around 6 years after 8 years of playing prior, 2002 was the last time I played then this year I got the bug again. I used to be a huge 40k player. I still have all my stuff for 40k so I fished it out...and had a few games at the local games club...but I saw the new models. I fell in love. High Elves and Orcs were my faves. So I went and got them. I still have not played with my fantasy sides yet. I spend too much time being a geek and writing back stories.

But one day, when I complete my Orc army...need more Black Orcs and Fanatics for my 4 Regis of Night Gobbos. Then I will beat them into a Waaagh! And try and play them.

I'm getting into fantasy with skermish play.

Using a handfull of old school metal and plastics and playing them out.

I have a few fantasy armies running around the house, and it was just the inspiration to pull them out and start painting them up.