Miniature Wargaming in Rural Japan

  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 ...

  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...