Battle Company Battle Report - Far Harad vs Dwarves

My brother was up our neck of the woods so popped over for a quick Battle Company game. He used my Far Harad troops and I used my new Dwarves. My son rolled dice for me and the first roll was for scenario - Claim the Treasure!

Tricky one as I'm slower, but pretty solid. We each had eight figures so it could really go either way.

We played on the ash wastelands board and set up a river down the middle with two main crossings as well as a whole heap of ruins, rocky outcrops and the like.

On the north side of the board, the Mahud King on War Camel charged right into battle, taking out two of my dwarves and leaving just two archers, though I did manage to remove his camel!

Then at the other river crossing my Vault Warden team and Boggle charged across to clash in the centre of the river! There was a bit of back and forth here and I took out one of his guys.

He then sprinted away from my guys there to bring his whole force to bear on the other crossing. This was a bold move, but unfortunately the dice rolled my way, he managed to roll a two to wound almost every time! In the end my other dwarves caught up and sandwiched him with dwarven shields. If he'd killed just one of my dwarves before the reinforcements arrived he'd probably have won the game, but that's the way the dice roll sometimes!

At the end of the match all of my dwarves made full recoveries, Boggle gained an extra point of fight value, Brynmor gained an extra point of might and two more dwarves with shields joined the company.

With quite a few casualties the injuries rolls were actually pretty lucky, two miss next games and the rest made full recoveries. With the influence saved from last time we got one more camel upgrade and a warrior with shield. 

All done and dusted including finding the guys, setting up the board, playing the game and doing the post-match stuff in under an hour. Battle companies are so great for quick games!

Far Harad Battle Company vs Goblins vs Troll

With lots of painting my Far Harad battle company finally got member number 6 and was ready for the first mission against the pesky elves. Here they are charging into battle!

My melee guys charged in and I found out that spear support is really key against these elves with their pesky special rules =)

My two blowpipe guys hid behind very heavy cover and spat poison darts out at the elves.

It was actually a pretty short battle as the spears and blowpipes seemed to be rolling really well and i only suffered one casualty.

Next up we ran a goblin battle company... from 6 troops to 12 for the goblins! This was (again) helped a lot by some spear support, giving me a lot more dice to roll.

The goblins swarmed down and over the elves, with only three casualties.

And it was a lazy Saturday so we then played Far Harad vs. Goblins vs. Cave Troll + wargs (normally cave troll and goblins, but it would be too hard to tell them apart!)

While the wargs were dealt with, both battle companies advanced (the goblins were quicker as they completely dominated the wargs with 6v1 battles happening!

In the end it was a total mess, with everybody stacking up against the troll and against each other! Four goblins were slain, two Far Harad were slain and the troll took two wounds from the mahud first, then a goblin got the last hit in!

At the end of the two matches the Far Harad team expanded by two members and mounted the main hero on a war camel!

The goblins saved up all of their influence (including the lucky roll bonus from the first narrative mission) and convinced the cave troll they just beat to join their party! 12 goblins and a cave troll make for a pretty awesome Battle Company!

Far Harad

For Father's Day this year I requested a new Battle Company and got a nice batch of Far Harad!

First step was gluing, which I found to be an absolute pain! I couldn't get the glue to stick well at all. I tried three different types of superglue but none seemed to hold well.

In any case, I finally got them all together, though it took ages.

I'm keeping the colour scheme the same as my other Harad force so they'll look good together, but these have even darker skin.

Here's the king on foot. My colours are (so I can refer to them later):

Skin: Dryad Bark -> bit of a highlight of Gorthor Brown then a tiny highlight of Baneblade Brown followed by a few Agrax Earthshade washes.

Blue: Caledor Sky -> Drakenhof Nightshade wash -> Teclis Blue highlight -> small Lothern Blue highlight.

Red: (this is over a white undercoat so it's pretty easy) Evil Sunz Scarlet -> Baal Red wash (I think this is an old colour) -> highlight of Wild Rider Red.

Wicker and stuff: Zandri Dust first, then Agrax Earthshade for the darker areas. Otherwise a bit of either Karak Stone, Ushabti Bone for a drybrush followed by a bit of Screaming Skull (on the bone bits). Sometimes I did a Seraphim Sepia on the bone bits first. A drybrush of Praxeti White or Tyrant Skull too.

After all that there's a bit of sand on the base so that they look a bit more from the desert.

Anyways, here's a couple of pics and I'll let you know when they hit the table =)