Sculpting Intro

On Sunday we had an Intro to Sculpting workshop with Steve Jones of Captain General. It was fun and informative, and I managed to come up with some mods for my Mauryan war elephant.

More Billhooks at the Barn

 The other week we had a four player War of the Roses game using Never Mind the Billhooks. Unlike the previous game on the blog this was with 28mm figures.

On the left flank Kev's skirmishers were on top of us before we had even moved due to an event card.

I had hoped to occupy the nearby cover with my own skirmishers and fight from there but that wasn't an option any more. I decided to push into the centre of the table, out of their range.

I sent my longbowmen into the rough ground with one of my commanders further out to keep in command range of the advancing pikemen.

The enemy weren't slowed down by the bad going and charged my commander. As they were accompanied by a commander of their own I challenged him to single combat and lost. Meanwhile my pikemen charged the enemy archers and lost dismally, both to defensive fire and melee, failing to kill any of the enemy.

After killing my commander the enemy billmen charged the archers and eventually destroyed them.

The enemy knights crossed a hedge and charged the archers on our right side, routing them. Our billmen charged them back and were routed to.

My light cavalry were threatened by Kev's crossbows and handguns who were moving towards them. They would be better off in a fight than being whittled away by skirmishers who could evade them so I sent them up after my infantry.

My billmen routed some archers while the cavalry got into a fight with enemy billmen which they eventually lost being outnumbered. My commander challenged his and again lost. The enemy billmen than charged my own and destroyed them too. By now my whole half of the army was lost.

Our men at arms, despite disturbed by comrades fleeing past them now attacked the enemy knights and lost.

Most of our army was now dead, including two out of three commanders. A few troops routing were not capable of fighting the remaining enemy, so it was a decisive victory for the other side.