The Rats Return

Sunday Night Warhammer sponsored by Ordo Fanaticus started up again last night, and there was a nice turnout of about 10 guys, some running multiple armies. Dwarfs, Wood Elves, Empire, Daemons, Hordes of Chaos, Lizardmen, Bretonnians, and Skaven all made an appearance.

My first battle pitted me against John (grayman) and his Dwarfs. If you will recall the last time I played Dwarfs, you'll notice the games tend not to be fun at all. All I do is run circles around them, throwing shuriken that bounce off their armor. I got into combat with a unit of Miners and a Bolt Thrower crew, but that's it. I avoided everyone else. I shot a Daemon Slayer to death with Jezzails and Warpstone Stars. My tunnelers decided to get lost, but I rolled the tunnel mishap that prevents the opponent from gaining victory points from them. It was pretty much a straight up point-denial game, but I came out on top, contesting two table quarters and owning the other two. Not a very fun game, however... but at least John was nice to play against.

Game two had me ambushing an all-mounted Bretonnian force with no magic whatsoever (spells, items). I managed to Skitterleap my Assasin into combat with some mounted Yeomen right off the bat, causing a mess to his battle line. This game had me lose one night runner unit, whereas I killed his three soft mounted Yeoman units and kill a few of those hard-as-nails Knights. Again, it wasn't very fun, and we called it at turn 4, when it was pretty much set that I was just going to avoid combat and maybe kill one knight a turn. Ryan was very pleasant, and his stand-in Mongolian army looked great.

I'm really thinking that this is the last time I'm going to run the Eshin army. It just isn't very fun to play with or against. I felt that I was playing it well during these two games, but that really meant it suffered in the fun category. No charging recklessly into combat, just denial denial denial. Run around and throw stuff, but never take a charge, and only fight against squishy units. It just doesn't scream, "Play me again, I'm fun!"