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Speaking of MK III

Got an unexpected game in tonight. one of my work buddies dropped in with a bunch of trolls so we did a quick battle.

No objectives but it was still pretty messy, i used my bombardier list. my Jacks were on the loosing end but then things started looking up.....i got hism down to 2 models, his caster and a war beast....then he proceeded to kill half of what i had left, he got a prime shot at Irusk, and proceeded to miss with both shots.

Glorious victory for Khador (well maybe slightly less glorious considering the casualties).







The turn after that last picture i was down to 2 bombardiers, 3 snipers, 2 mechanics, the supressor tank and Irusk.

3 flag battle tonight. even though i had a smaller force it was pretty even throughout. the enemy player had a slight points lead at first and his army pretty well had tough across the board. my mechanics managed to keep the gun carriage and the behemoth alive. my opponent tried to use his caster to kill the big jack, but rolled really bad on his boosted damage. which is why he tried to throw it away so he could escape. not far enough though to get him out of the range of the behemoths guns that finished him off after the pounding he took in melee from those armor piercing fist.







The end came just after this pic was taken. aside from the caster kill. i had both my jacks, the carriage and the mechanics left aside from irusk.

he had both jacks the dragoon and about 3 infantry.

Not to much tonight, did a khador game against a nemo themed convergence force, unfortunately i brought loads of stuff good at killing infantry up close and he brought loads of jacks....he was also rolling like a boss he pretty well put my khador on the back foot on turn 3. and i could not see a way to recover after loosing my 2 primary jack killers.






a solid victory for convergence. and the nemo model looked fantastic.

Well this definitely wasn't a 50 point game. i ended up fielding 2 war casters and my entire force at 138 points after jack points.
Half was an assault force under commander Sorcha and a support fire support force under supreme commandant Irusk.

It was my khador VS convergence. and they are always a tough army for me to fight.

I got super lucky managing to tie up nemo and his jack for a few turns with my dragoon and gun carriage as far away from the rest of the battle as possible. .


In the process sorcha sacrificed herself to use her feet to freeze a huge chunk of the convergence force. allowing her and the manowar shock troopers to clean house. It was a a pretty good trade as it allowed my support elements to kill father Lucant. then have Irusk swing them around and take control of sorcha's jacks. between them i managed to kill the boot. and his colossal, at which point he called the game.

The setup-






The battle





here Lucant popped his feat making his units in his control range all super high armor, so instead of pointlessly attacking him i fell back to wait for a better opportunity.

I needed a hit, been so long wince we played so i managed to get a game set up with a few house rules.

My opponent hates how short ranged the game is for shooting attacks so he wanted to play a game with double ranges for all guns.

We did 65 points and it was a brutal slog. we both lost over half our forces. even taking damage on both our warcasters.. all in all a fun game

Tahat is such a weird request Relatively short ranges are one of the things that make WM&H so interesting - you really need to maneuver carefully and put yourself in harms way to be able to attack, forcing tough positioning decisions and choices, instead of going the WH40K way - stay put, point at targets, roll dice and then roll more dice At least WM&H scenarios force aggressive movement towards the enemy.

The terribly open shooting range of a table you set up probably exacerbated how much of a non-WM&H experience it was.

Was your friend satisfied with such a "game" ?

Well i personally like WM/H for what it is, and i have no problem with the short ranges, but the overall focus on melee combat kind of was a rub to him and especially another player in our gaming group who was gifted a full trencher army that stopped playing all together because of the short ranges.

The increased ranges were not as big of a thing to me, and the table isn't as open as it appears. the large sections of green with the trees on them count as an obscuring forest, so along with the ruins and farm house there was quite a bit of LOS blocking terrain. not that it matters much to his or my units with arcing fire.

Overall i think he liked most of it better, but he did gripe a bit about how hard Irusk was to hit sitting in cover with that +4 DEF bonus (for a 19). it has also been quite a while since he played and he forgot to bring a couple of his favorite units including his colossal and his caster in the tank (Mackay). this led to him making a few mistakes with what units he targeted. If he had managed to get his assault troopers into combat with my victor he probably would have destroyed it. his rocketmen and storm troopers hurt me the most.

Got one of the old gang back into playing some MKIII

Didn't get many pics of the game 2 weeks ago. this week i went for more of a shooting list to counter his speed abilities. everybody forgot the normal scoring templates so we did another 3 flag match. we did 75 points. his cephalix themed army has a horde of tough units as well as stealth. i countered some of it with my spriggan's flares, and i did pretty well killing his units. i lost a single widowmaker, and a single manowar bombardier. i took out a good 20 or so of his army, but it wasn't enough to keep him off the objectives (he has so many solos). still fun though. if it had been a straight up caster kill mission we both agreed his army probably would not have survived.