FANTASY MASS-COMBAT VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By Nation - Canada

1000 pt. Fantasy Rules! 2nd Ed. game, at the DragonFlight 99 convention in Seattle, a couple of weeks ago.

I had my medieval human army, and my opponent had Dwarves. Lots of knights, some footmen, and a Small Monster on my side; the Dwarves had a horde of axemen, some crossbows, and a big huge flying ship with artillery.

My knights charged the Dwarven infantry, expecting to ride them down like they rode down all other infantry. However, the Dwarves had terrible firebombs and were sturdier than men, so the charge mostly failed, with many knights falling and

others reeling back in shock. The human infantry was too far back, and when they did reach the dwarven line, they were outnumbered, outclassed and mostly slaughtered. The one great success of the humans was against the airboat, which was swarmed under when it descended to fight the human infantry.

Although one Dwarven flank was in disarray, the Dwarves stood victorious upon the field while the broken remains of the human army fled. It was a great game - I believe it was my opponent's first FR! game, and he did very well! Check out http://warbard.iwarp.com for other battle reports, and more FR! material & links. [15 Sep 1999]

Played Celtic (iron Age) "Shee" Elves versus Flintloque (Gun Powder Age) High Elves using Fantasy Rules! Very good match up! Muskets took their toll until the Shee closed and then the High Elf line buckled. Ogre allies flanked the Shee and a titanic melee ensued. The Shee's allied Giant waded in, but their Dragon was demoralized and watched from the sidelines. The Shee's morale eventually ran out--the Giant and Dragon tired of the struggle and left the field the surviving High Elves. [28 Jun 1999]

My Dwarves got turned into Goblin soup [4 Apr 99]

The Evil Forces met the good guys near a seemingly desrted tower with a monument and a circle of stones. The monument had a plaque which was written in Elvish so the bad guys couldn't decipher it. Their dragon landed on the tower but was chased off by magic bolts from within. The bad guys also withdrew from the stones when their approach caused some spectral characters (an illusion) appeared within them. The main forces clashed and the orcs were pushed back then routed. The good guys lost their mage but killed the dragon before chasing the orcs away. The bad guys general(the witch king) was even killed before the end. [23 Mar 99]

Played Rencounter to test out the rules and was quite impressed. With minor modifications it can be used for any genre game with any size armies. [22 Mar 99]

I was defeated, i have eliminated the goblin wolf rider but i have not the time to rallied my cavalries. my plan was to crush the ork with the infantery in the front and the cavalry behind. But my cavalry was not rapid enough. [14 Mar 99]

I got absolutely destroyed in two turns fighting Lion Clan against the Crab Clan in a Clan War game against one of my freinds and customers. Some horrendous dice rolling on my part, as well as really bad tactical decisions, combined with Rob's amazing dice rolling had my army broken in two turns, at which point I conceded victory to the Crab. [17 Feb 99]

Demonstration game at Pandemonium. Crab elite army versus hordes of Phoenix, Dragon clan - mostly archers.

I found out that the toughness of the troops makes less of a difference than the sheer volume of missile fire. [17 Feb 99]

I played a game of Hordes of The Things in 15mm scale at a local gaming mini-convention. As part of a demo-participation game sponsored by my organization called : The Conference Of Wargamers (Winnipeg) COWW It was an Undead vs. Beastmen battle. The Beastmen used their giant hippomen as Artillery to drive off the undead's skeleton giant Behemoths. Then I sent Lt Cavalry Riders (lion-centaurs) to take the undead Stronghold with Birdmen Flyers to assist the seige-raid. The Undead used a Magician and their Hordes to attack, after forming up behind a hill side (to initailly avoid my hippo-artillery). The Flyer Birdmen avoided their winged demon counterparts, and succesfully helped the Lionmen Riders to capture the Undead players Stronghold, thereby winning the game. The WRG Hordes Of The Things rules and 15mm scale armies from ESSEX and Chariot miniatures along with some 15mm RalPartha Battlesystem ones are really quite good. It plays fast, without the detail that constipates other rules eg. magic spells-items or special characters. [12 Feb 99]

Last game? Hordes of the Things, I had an Elven army and my opponent had an Orc & allies army. I was winning handily (archers rule) when his general killed my general, and my army disintegrated due to lack of command...drat. Last Dwarven game, I stomped a human foot army. My scratchbuilt Dwarven Airboat kept their flanks nicely occupied! I'm going to get Fantasy Rule! 2nd Ed. fairly soon. They look like great rules... [11 Feb 99]