Uruk Hai, the return! And more……..much much more

What a day of gaming was had! Got out my full, knock down, set of gaming tables. Providing us with a 12 foot by 6 foot gaming area. Loadsa hills and spits with valleys. Loadsa rocks trees and a village to capture!

We set up the Orcs first, but only one third of the army. Then the empire set up one third of their forces. We then alternated for the remaining two thirds, a third at a time to give some measure of surprise at the setup without letting go of a reactionary setup opportunity for both players.

The Empire decided to let the orcs go first. Of course! “Stand and shoot gentleman!” So I barrelled down the centre with my Orcs to occupy the village. I sent my trolls and Rugluds armoured orcs out on my left flank to try and take out a unit of Knights and that flipping Hellblaster volley gun.

And to the right flank I sent my wolf boys out very wide and let my artillery open up on the empire knights panther!

The Empire decided to move their knights and stand and shoot everything else…….Surprise!!?

Cannons took out my rock lobber. Bastards. But that’s not the worst of it! That demon possessed Hellblaster set the tone with which it was to engage throughout the entire battle and destroyed a whole unit of orcs in one go.

Sorry!?! You’ve just done what?!?!?! Yep, all jam on the field. I see.

My bolt throwers continued to do what I hoped they would and take out swathes of heavily armoured bastards! And ranks and ranks of state troops. Not enough to break anyone but on it went.

The empire Contemptuosly ignored my wolf boys on the flank, judging them no threat. Instead the knights surged forwards, pistoliers heading straight for my bolt throwers.

Loadsa of casualties from empire gunnery! To be expected though, keep moving forward lads!

It was turn 4 that killed me though. I should have holed up in the village and forced the empire to come and rout me out while using the buildings for cover from their guns.

Instead. I ran forwards to assault their lines. Sigh.

Good fun though. My fanatics wreaked havoc and stopped some of the empires key units from being able to manoeuvre. On goes those wolf boys behind their lines! Bye bye empire cannon, bye bye knights panther.

Wait, what’s happened to my bolt throwers? All 4 dead from pistoliers!!!! I left them undefended!

In the centre and left, the empire had destroyed my trolls. Hellblaster. Sent Rugluds orcs running. Hellblaster. Destroyed 2 units of goblins. Hellblaster.

And softened up my main unit of big uns’ so that they ran and where destroyed. Their was enough empire detachments left to counter charge (everywhere it seems!) and send my lads panicking and being run down. Last turn, a coherent empire unit moved into the village.

Magic was dominated by the orcs. Who had twice the number of magic users than the empire. The lads took out those pathetic human wizards, no problem. Then got shot. ??‍♂️.

Oh, and the giant managed to get to the enemy. Then slipped over and was stabbed to death. ???

Smashing gameplay though. Real fun had over the 7 hours we played! And such a visual and tactical treat with a large densely terrained table. Looking forward to our Easter game where we shall aim for 5000 points a side. Maybe even a siege!