Miniature Wargaming in Rural Japan

 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...

 Continued from part 1 Lady Angelica lead her demigryphs in a bounding charge and crashed into the blood knights, 2 were slain by the impact as well as the claws and lances, but one of the demigryphs was wounded by the vicious vampires. The remaining two vampires snarled and fought on. Now the wraiths on the eastern wall charged at the halberdiers, who, without anyway to harm them, turned and fled down into the town. The eastern wall was now completely lost even as the first unit of ghouls scrabbled up. The spirit host on the western wall floated down into the town while the zombie horde began to awkwardly clime the walls, ignore the few who were basted by handguns on their way up. At the same time a volley of arrows from some bow armed skeletons struck one hand gunner from the wall. Sir Dan and his hand gunners beat the zombies back, though another hand gunners was dragged over the parapet. Count Pavel commanding his troops from the rear The blood knights faithful hounds ch...

 We have started a narrative campaign to string our games together. The setting is North Tilea and South Bretonnia as well as the mountain range the runs between them, The Vaults.  The number of players and factions will surly change over time. But it should be fun! The first game is the siege of Udolpho as a new undead threat emerges from the Blighted Marshes.   The actual start of the 'Northern Troubles' has been debated by scholars of far greater learning than myself, however, the most commonly cited event is the siege of Uldopho, so that is where I shall begin my account. Since the summer of 2491 there had been talk of undead abound in the blighted marshes. The foul influence of this cursed region seemed to once again be reaching out into Tilea, less that a century since the previous incursion had nearly swallowed the whole of the North. There was not to be any substance to the rumours until the Autumn of 2492 when a vast horde of shambling dead was seen emerging f...

Game 2 Matt Riley- wood elves Treeman Lord Dryads glade guard glade riders x2 sisters of the thorn Way watchers Game 2 was against wood elves and I had gotten quite lucky as the army had arcane bodkins on the glade guard, which would do little to me as my best armour save was only 5 plus, also the treeman had lower initiative than the giant and my black orcs had the flaming attacks banner. The only real threat was that I would get shot down to low enough numbers where the dryads or riders could finish me off. The scenario was 2, dawn of war. Due to random deployment most units of both armies were on the left or center with only the goblin wizard on the right.   Through out the whole game I was lucky with my saves and shooting, with the savage orcs only losing about 6 of their number on their way across the board after I made at least half of their 6+ saves. My war machines wiped out the way watchers and most of the glade guard. The only bit of bad luck I had was t...

 On Saturday the 15th of April 2023 I went to Hachioji to attend a Warhammer fantasy 8th edition tournament called 'The Karl Franz Cup'. This was my first Warhammer fantasy tournament since I came to Japan years ago. the size was 1500 points and there were about 16 players. I was really looking forward to it as I used to play a lot of fantasy tournaments in the past. There was a good mix of armies, with no more than 2 of any one kind and an almost 50/50 mix of English and Japanese speakers. I took Orcs and Goblins. My list was fairly soft, with none of the traditional strong combinations and a giant. Here it is. Lords Gizrup Toe-Stompa – Orc Warboss (115) 2 hand weapons (3) 118 Heroes Stool – Night Goblin Big Boss (30), Battle Standard (25) 55 Toad – Night Goblin Shaman (50), Level 2 (35) 85 Dengus Khan – Goblin Big Boss(35), wolf(12), spear (2) 49 Core Da Wild Mob – 17 Savage Orcs (8x18=136), 2 hand weapons (1x17=17) Boss (15), Musici...