Assyrians on the attack.. action with orcs and pirates

This week we played another two trial/learning games of DBF. We opted for 80 point games, which seems to equate roughly speaking to the older 24 army point HotT games. Each army we used was composed of just one command.

The first game saw orcs against Andy's mythical Assyrians. This was the first time the Assyrians had been on the table, having originally been painted simply as 'test sprues' for HaT.

First turns, Andy throws light horse against the Orc general and support chariots, which I'd classed as knights. 

The stand on the right Andy was using as a Level 2 mage. Remember that the figures weren't originally based for HotT or DBF, so the mage is on the wrong sized base.. but we knew what it was. The figures to the left are spear

Orc blade and warbow .. the warbow getting the 'retinue' side support factor from the blade

The Assyrian general in chariot.. a hero

The orc chariots destroy one light horse and recoil the other

The battle lines clash

The orcs make a breakthrough in the centre and begin to lap around, the orc general on the right of the line destroys its opponent and pursues forward

It's very 'argy bargy' along the line, but eventually the orcs destroy over half of the Assyrian elements..

The orcs managed to destroy many of the Assyrian elements, due in no small part to Andy rolling nothing higher than a 2 in five combats.. oh dears.

On to the second game.. a slightly modified Assyrian army against pirates, which include 3 great beasts.

The pirate 'great flyer' (the air galleon) pushes forward to threat the Assyrian flank

On ly to be attacked by the Assyrian mage ... bugger

It all gets very confusing, but the airboat is attacked by the Assyrian hero

One of the great beasts flees from th Assyrian spear

The Pirate camp ...

The Assyrian hero general is attacked by pirate warband supported by the great flyer hitting it in the flank, and the hero wins

Much of the pirate right is destroyed, the ships guns that had been landed in support are looking decidedly vulnerable

The battle continues against the Assyrian hero

One of the artillery guns is attacked and destroyed...

And so the battle went to the Assyrians ... quite a 'pasting' for the pirates...  maybe next time the large pirate figures might be behemoths.

However all n all a successful pair of games.. we are getting the hang of DBF.