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Bad Dogs! - or, How Snaga Mercenary Warg-riders Won Battles for
Dwarves!
Had a bunch of HotT games today, with various people. All Dwarf vs
Human Feudal, with one twist: the first elements of my new Uruk/Snaga
(Ork/Goblin) army came out to play for the Dwarves.
I'
ve only finished painting two bases of wolves (Beasts) and one of
wolfriding snagas (Riders), with the rest of the army still on the painting
table. I wanted to run them anyway, however, so the wolves and the snagas found
employment with the Dwarves...
The first two games were with Corey - the Dwarves won both, with Corey and I
alternating command for each game. One of the games - where I was the Humans -
saw the first successful charge of knights - they broke the Dwarven infantry
line, hammering right through, until they were outflanked and the general went
down...(the first part of the charge was grand...the
outflanking-and-being-destroyed part was bad, but it happened historically.)
The two games with Joel (his first two w/ HotT) were fairly unremarkable,
except for the fact that in neither game did the infantry lines clash - both
were decided by Dwarven shooters and allied wolfriders & wolves clashing
with the human knights. Joel also had good luck with his Dwarven ballista
artillery piece, shooting down several knight units that were charging toward
it!
The last game (the one that I bullied Murray into having) was a slaughter of
humans, and once again the Dwarven infantry line failed to really fight. The
three snaga wolf units did the bulk of the damage - the fight ended with
Murray'
s outflanked and surrounded human infantry going down under a swirling
pack of wolves, the knights having fallen earlier to dwarven crossbows and
wolves.
It'
s lead me to revise my opinion of the power of the uruk/snaga army I'
m
painting up - the riders and beasts have shown themselves to be tough, versitile
and dangerous. With two warbands and a behemoth (two trolls) to back up the
snaga-hordes, plus the wolves on the flanks, I think this army will prove to be
pretty tough if properly handled. We'
ll have to see if that'
s true after the
army is finished!
Postscript: In fact, I never did run my full uruk/snaga (orc
& goblin...) army in Hordes. Before I'd finished painting the army, we'd
tried Fantasy Rules! 2nd Ed. for the first time, and found them very good
indeed. In FR!, the uruk/snaga army has done decently - it's won, I think,
slightly more battles than it's lost, anyway. I discovered this report - which
dates from the late spring of 1999 sometime - recently during a file-trashing
spree. I realized I'd never HTMLized it & posted it, so here it is. Better
late than never!
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