Miniature Wargaming in Rural Japan

  The ambush in the mountains The survivors of Udolpho, both soldiers and citizens had fled north east as the town had fallen. Their newly appointed leader, The lady angelica had decided that they would head out through the mountain passes, gathering supplies and reinforcements from the scattered guardposts that dotted the narrow paths, before turning southeast and making for Toscania or even Ravola. At the same time she had sent messengers out ahead to warn these cities of what had happened. The caravan was long and slow and the mountains dangerous. At the edge of the foothills near Toscania the caravan was horrified to spot foul ratmen emerging from the morning mists of the mountain. Quickly the soldiers moved to the front, while the rest of the caravan made haste behind them. Angelica gathered her knights and prayed that any help from Ravola would be quick in arriving. Snikrit cackled madly to himself, as was his habit, as he watched his minions forming up amongst the bro

  The Battle of P iccola Via del Nord It had been almost a week since the fall of Udolpho and little had been seen of the attackers. Many peasants from the outlying villages had fled south to the safety of Miragliano 's mighty walls, bringing tales of the undead, but little reliable information about what had happened in detail was available. This all changed when the boarder guard reported a force marching down the piccola via del nord. What was more alarming for the city council was that rather than moving slowly and raising more corpses from the villages and old battle sites, the undead were making good speed following the road. A force of city mercenaries was quickly gathered and rushed north to face the undead on the road. The mercenaries were under the nominal command of the man who hired them, Prince Loren of Miragliano, also known as “the goddess’s knight” by the common folk of the region. Actual command was split between Captain Yuri, a former empire solider

  Game 3 I now faced Rodin in the final round, The same chap I had faced in the previous 2 tournaments in the final round and had beaten both times. He had his High Elves again. His army was like a much more muscly version of mine. He had a death mage lord with the book of Hoeth and a BSB on horses in a big unit of 14 silver helms. 1 Prince on a Moondragon, 2 Frostheart phoenixes and 2x5 Ellyrian reavers. Almost nothing I had could fight these big monsters and they completely outclassed my monsters. We were playing battle for the pass. Rodin took the first turn. He moved his army up, keeping the frost heart phoenixes out of charge range as it is possible that a lucky charge from my horsemen could break them through combat resolution. His dragon moved up on the left in a position to counter charge any unit that went into his big silverhelm block who had also moved up. His magic could only reduce the strength and toughness of my noble on gryphon. His reavers did a wound as they

  Game 2 In my next game I faced RG, who had come first in the previous tournament. His was fielding Bretonnians with 2 blocks of knights, 1 realm and 1 errant, 1 small group of grail knights and a 3 Pegasus knights some archers and a trebuchet. He had a lord and 4 paladins, 1 on a Pegasus and a prophetess wizard lord. The mission was meeting engagement. RG deployed his army first mostly slightly back into his corner with the Pegasus knights and grail knights not arriving and the archers going in a house. I also deployed carefully, forgetting that he would probably pray. My dragon mage and silver helms did not arrive. Turn 1, I went first and moved up slightly, with most of my power on my left flank. I don't think magic did much this round, though I was able to get flaming sword on my archers. In the shooting phase, despite only 15 being in range due to my bad deployment the archers did 4 wounds to the trebuchet and killed it. Already one of the biggest dangers to me was gon

  I attended the Karl Franz 3 tournament in Hachioji in the middle of January. This event used the Warhammer Fantasy 8 th edition rules. There were less player than previous events due to a lack of awareness of the event and illness. My army was a mad high elf army with 5 monsters including 2 flamespire phoenixes, 2 mages on sun dragons and a noble on a griffon. Some knights and archers finished off the set. The list is below. Archmage (185) (death) on sun dragon (235), golden crown of atrazar (10), lv 4 (35) 465 465 Dragon Mage (350), dragon armour (10), 360 Noble (70) on Griffon (150) enchanted shield (5) 225 585 20 archers (200) musician (10), banner (10) 220 5 silver helms (105) shields (10), full command (30) 145 5 silver helms (105) shields (10), banner(10), champion (10) 135 500 flame phoenix 225 flame phoenix 225 450 2000 (Note, as I had so many fliers my movement was ver