Miniature Wargaming in Rural Japan

  The final game of the Karl Franz Cup 2 was a doubles game with 4 players on 1 table. I was playing with my partner for the event, Kobayashi-san and his Ogres. He had a BSB, a butcher, 6 bulls, 6 iron guts, 4 leadbealchers, 3 mournfang cavalry, 2 sabre tusks and an iron blaster. I felt they would add some muscle to my flimsy elves. We faced Rodion and Aki who had High elves and Empire respectively. Rodion's High elves were all cavalry with 4 units of Ellyrian Reavers and then 10 or so Dragon Princes led by a mage a BSB and a frost heart phoenix. The Empire were a traditional style list with 2 blocks of halberdiers, a few hand gunners, some knights, pistoleers a general, BSB, warrior priest, wizard and a cannon. It was the Meeting Engagement scenario and the empire pistoleers and 1 block of halberdiers started off the table as well as my archers. The high elves/empire deployment was focused on the centre and deep on the left side of the table and looked quite spacious. With ...

 The second game was against Nagai who also had dark elves. This time the list was more traditional with 3 big units of spear men, black guard and 10 cold ones led by a item heavy lord and also a sorceress on dark steed. I was on the same table as last time. Turn 1  We were playing the watch tower, I got the tower but declined to put any units in it, we deployed and Nagai went first. He moved his units up but was out of range for magic and the little shooting did nothing. In my turn I moved up 1 unit of silver helms to block the spear men, and put the dragon in between them and the tower. The rest of the army moved up, except the white lions which kept the barricades in between them and the cold ones. The dragon mage then buffed himself with flaming sword and Nagai saved his dice to stop fireball and the bound spell. The dragons breath weapon then killed 14 out of the 20 black guard after some poor saves from Nagai, he failed all 14.  Turn 2 The spear men charged the sil...

  On Saturday the 29 th of August 2023 I attended the Karl Franz Cup Team Tournament in Hachioji. This is the second Karl Franz Cup in Hachioji this year. Having won the last one back in April, which was a singles event, I decided to bring a slightly more unusual army. My 3 monster high elf list is as follows. Lords Prince (140) Lance (7) Heavy armour (6) Enchanted Shield (5) Griffon (150) Khane's Ring of Fury (25) Swooping Strike (25) 358 Heroes Dragon Mage of Caledor (350) Level 2 (35) Dragon Armour (10) 395 Core 15 Archers (10x15) 150 5 Silver Helms (21x5), shields (2x5) 115 5 Silver Helms (21x5), shields (2x5), Champion (10) 125 Special 10 White Lions of Chrace (13x10) 130 Rare Flamespyer Phoenix (225) 225 1498 I had some doubts about this list, especially around is killing, and surviving power, but at least it would be fast. The event had an unusual style as the first game was a singles...