Kings of War: Otters and Goblins

While I haven’t completed all my army I was able to throw together a 1500 point force for a Monday night game. Unproven and untested I was still excited to get my otters into a game.

My regular opponent brought his beautifully painted goblins, it made a change being the one with the smaller number of units. This was my first time using flying units .

I moved my scorchwings  into shooting range and fired a few shots into the chariot horde…rookie error, . I had put myself in charge range of the chariot horde and that was my left flank wide open already. Not a good feeling on the end of turn two.

We were playing an objective game, my opponent was quite happy to let me park a regiment on one that remained uncontested. So it boiled down to a battle for the other two. I felt very pinned in, but uncharacteristically I charged in, it also blocked his mincers from flanking my infantry charge.

My archers got one turn to be archers before they ended up in melee combat, they held their own admirably, the hordes dished out some punishment too, the dice were really swingy all game for both of us but it was a brutal fun game. It also looked great on the table, both of us remarked upon it.

I also had Idiotproof dalek compliment the otters, considering he makes box art painting jobs look a bit shabby I was rather chuffed, regardless of what level of painting you’re at it’s always nice to get compliments on your work.

From feeling defeated in turn two, it was starting to feel like a proper battle, by turn six I had actually managed to park myself on a second token with a unit strength of four. If there was no turn seven I had turned the tide and sealed a win….so naturally there was a turn seven, my horde of drunk otter marines finally crumbled.

Another loss but first outing with the otters felt great and again a close and exciting game