Finishing Empire Turn 3:Alright, here we go to finish off our Turn 3.
Magic --on a 2-dice Shield of Faith we get 6.
--Bruiser responds with the rest of his 3 Dispel Dice and gets 6.
--Dispelled… (
Notice he does that a lot?)
--the 2-dice Hammers of Sigmar goes off uncontested.
ShootingOur small Archer detachment shoots off some arrows at the Ogrebus (just because). No effect.
Our large Archer detachment does better- it drops 3 stinky Gnoblars into the dirt forcing another Panic test. They roll snake-eyes. I guess they really, really want a piece of the Archers shooting them down…
CombatAre you ready for some cooooooooomBAT?!? (hell yeah...ready for some football to start soon too!)
The Demis take no wounds while whipping out 6. Gnoblars run 7.” Demis hold and reform to face the ‘Blaster. (
I was tempted to Overrun until I noticed that if we did, the Ironblaster would probably get a fatal flank shot off on us!)
Now for the important battle- all our forces make their Fear checks. Our Halb detachment goes first. They fail to score a wound- even though they are pumped up by Sigmar. The WP fails to score a wound but the BSB gets 2.
The Mournfangs go. One attacks the Halbs and kills all but 2 of them. The other one attacks our WP and rips him into shreds. Bruiser still hasn’t used his Breath weapon from the Dragonhide Banner… He wants to use it to kill some expensive Greatswords but he decides to send the icy blast into the Halb detachment to finish it off. Needless to say, they turn into icicles and die.
Time for the Greatswords to shine. Blessed by Sigmar, they get
exactly the amount of wounds they need to finish off the Mournfangs. Whew.
They reform 7-wide to face the Ogrebus.
Here is what the carnage looks like at the end of our turn:
Tactical Decisions for 1.3:So…the battle is half over! While not related directly to battle field decisions, I have a few questions for you before we move on.
Despite the flaws in our current Victory Point system, they are an integral part of playing a Warhammer game and determining a “winner.”
Part of a General’s skill, then, is to be able to look at a battle in progress and determine if he is currently “winning” in the VP column…and if not, what has to be killed in order to achieve this.
Without cheating and taking out a calculator to determine the actual points on the board remaining (
even if you do this after the fact, please do not post it until I do) what does your “gut” tell you by looking at this graph, knowing what you know about our forces and the enemy?
Question 1:
Are we winning by 500 or more?
Are we winning by 100 to 500?
Is the battle currently a draw?
Are we losing by 100 to 500?
Are we losing by 500 or more?
Question 2:
Assuming we sacrifice all our Archers, can we win (by 100+ VPs) without taking out the Ogrebus?