turn 1!
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Fr1day triggers my fanatics with fast cavalry, I choose to launch them in front of my own army and risk them scattering next turn into his army! yolo, right. waaagh.
Well the next turn a Fanatic spins into my great shaman, does several wounds, but I manage to save enough with war boss ums hat.
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this gamble paid off later as the fanatics would later spin into and wipe out a unit of his fast cavalry, and his wizard who was hiding between some of his units. they must have had homing devices in their mushrooms.
In that magic phase Snazgrippa then cats Hand of Mork into a chariot, which charges the knights, rolls 6 impact hits, kills 5 of them and runs them down!
who then hand of morks a chariot into some knights, who gets 6 impact hits, and runs them down!
from this
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to this
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decisive final combat: savage orc big uns > pikemen. My NG had managed to hold a couple of combat rounds with the Bad Boon Banner, with fr1day forgetting to target, then rolling poorly, to kill the very vulnerable BSB. It's a trick that will only work once vs him but was worth it
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then the savage big uns got into the rear and mashed up about 15 humans.
I took 6 levels of magic in this game knowing OnG were fairly weak in 6th and hoping to counteract that.
But Fr1day had taken a pretty fluffy DoW list. While they have fast cavalry and skirmishers which are important, and let you do nice tactical tricks (which the OnG list is bad at) the points investment into a crappy big unit of pikes lowers the power level. combined with magical supremacy and good luck (I cast, and then made the 2d6 dice roll to charge, Hand of Mork every single time I tried it) it was a victory for SnazGrippa and his crew. Reading the rules agian I'm not sure if I'm allowed to hand of Gork Chariots- the spell says "any Orc or Goblin unit (of any type)". so does a chariot count as an orc unit of any type, or does it count as a war machine? Could I cast the spell on trolls?
We played another game and fr1day wrecked me, immediately cannoning both my chariots, frenzy baiting my savage big uns across my lines and then picking off my units one by one.
I didn't take any photos of that game