Bretonnian First Run

I brought the brets out for their first game this Saturday at the Club. There are not pics because the brets are still in sad shape i.e. some knights were represented by unmanned horses. The army, however, is a ton of fun to play. The new magic schools are great with brets. The lore of beasts with it -1 casting score for beasts and cavalry is just outstanding. The default spell that gives +1 S +1 T makes a unit of knights a beast. The lore of life is also super handy as every time you cast a spell you heal a character so those nasty bret heroes can keep fighting.

My opponent fielded dwarves and I played approx. the list from the previous post.  My opponent chewed through the knights errant with a pair of bolt  throwers but this was significantly slowed by the blessing of the lady (which provided them a 5+ ward save). He also fielded a unit of longbeards with great weapons ( these were represented by warrior models but I didn't know they were longbeard) Thinking they were only warriors I hit all 40 of them with a single knights of the realm unit, but karma struck. I won combat and then he broke, despite getting to roll twice due to the nearness of the battle standard bearer. The KOTR then ran into the dwarven unit the knights errant hand charged hitting them in the flank. Under the new rules the KOTR got to fight again in the same round (as they hit another unit during an overun). The KOTR and the KE then slowly chewed up the hammers and it was pretty much over. The whole time my hero on Pegasus slowly worked his way up the flank and then ate the bolt throwers while the two units of men at arms kept the hand gunners busy.

All and all a fun game that really rekindled my love for Warhammer fantasy. This leaves my favorite games in the following order.

1) Warmachine
2) Warhammer fantasy
3) Uncharted Seas
4) Mordheim
5) 40k

Warhammer makes a huge jump from 5 to 2. 40k slides down the list...

Justin