Mark: It seems that my original thoughts that this was going to be a good battle weren’t particularly accurate. This was a great battle! It’s been quite some time since I had last played a game of Warhammer skirmish (or Mordheim for that matter). Sometimes you can forget just how good a game can be. I used to play Mordheim religiously when it first showed its face on the gaming tables, and this game quickly brought everything flooding back. When I first saw Anthony deploying his Undead on the table I must admit that I was slightly overwhelmed. I know from experience that the greater the number in your ‘warband’ the greater your advantage. Looking at the size of Anthony’s force, I knew that I was at a severe disadvantage!

However, as the game progressed (with particular note to the Dragon Prince that destroyed three Fell Bats on his own) events began to give me a little more hope. I think that the troops choice that I decided on was very effective, the Phoenix Guard causing Fear was a constant help, as was the high armour save that the Dragon Princes had. This was pointed out by the fact that I lost three White Lions rather than anything else out of all of my models - although losing my Commander in turn four wasn’t quite anticipated. Don’t get me wrong, I think if I hadn’t had devised the nasty combination of a 1+ armour save with re-rolls, he would have been dealt with a couple of turns earlier, but with that combination he should have survived to the bitter end. I suppose that’s what happens when you forget all about critical hits!

In retrospect, this is definitely a game that anybody who is just starting out with a High Elf army should play. It’s fast, it’s fun and it lets you play with a wide selection of miniatures (if you want) that enables you to find out roughly how each one reacts on the battlefield.

Anthony: Grrr…  Damn High Elves. This was an awesome game that looked cool and was fun to play – it was also a nice variation from normal Warhammer. Looking at how the game itself went, it did seem to be hanging in the balance for a while, and things could have gone horribly wrong for Mark if my combined charge had hit home a bit harder. Mark’s Elven hero out in front was a major pain, his magical armour stopping almost all attacks directed against him. He held up my force admirably, and in retrospect I probably would have been better off not trying so hard to kill him – all those models he tied up would have really helped against the rest of the Elven force. Then again, it was great when finally one of the Doom Wolves felled the heroic Elf with a critical hit - lovely.

Mark proved very good at taking Fear tests, only failing a couple of them all game, and his choice of the fearless Phoenix Guard was a good tactical idea. I also proved rather inept at killing anybody – I could knock ‘em over but that was about it. I think my attack would have gone better if I had attacked each Elf with at least two models at a time. When this is the case, if you can stun the model with the first attacker he can easily be taken out of action by the second. Sigh! The Elves proved much more resilient than I had expected, and could hit back with considerable power, seeing that they all had a higher Weapon skill than the Undead, and almost every model was equipped with a halberd, lance or great weapon. So, I’d say overall that things could have been very different, but that in the end things looked pretty grim for the Undead. Back to the graveyard for me to go and dig up a few more corpses and start building a force that will get their revenge on those horrible Elves!

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