FANTASY MASS-COMBAT VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By Setting - At the local club

DBF 300 pts on 15.9.99 Undead with Orc allies defeated Lizardmen after killing the Lizardman CinC mounted on Triceratops which had crushed most of the skeleton warband. A close game. [17 Sep 1999]

Hordes of the Things. Amazons vs Skeleton/undead. A"best of three" campaign, with the Amazons winning two. Little terrain except for a large woods to the left side.While "Fantasy Rules" gave a better game, this was quick, fast, and fun. [15 Sep 1999]

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]

WFB game (more skirmish than "mass combat", in my opinion...) Wood Elf archers can gun down almost anything before it even gets to them. Bloody game vs. lizards. [04 Jun 1999]

A real beauty, wood elves verse a combined orc\gobblin contingent. The "woodies" prevailed this time, certainly not due to my generalship, but rather enemic consistent die rolls from my opponenet. Let me say this, for a quick, precise, extremely well thought out set of rules, I highly endorse Armies of Arcana. It's absolutely the best out there in my opinion. It's Warhammer, without all the cheese. [5 May 99]

Huge 6mm battle (Undead VS Arabians) using DBM with fantasy rules add-ons, lasted about half a day (1200 pts per side). [23 Apr 99]

The last game I played was a game of Fantasy Rules! against my regular opponent. He used his regular Medieval army and I tried out my newer Celtic force. It was great fun! The highlight of the battle was the confrontation between his Longbow unit lead by his Cleric fighting my Goddess unit (a Major Spirit). In the end, my army was routed or destoyed, but the Goddess had a new toy-boy to take back to the Netherworld with her...... [15 Apr 99]

Lizardmen vs. Undead

A 1500 pt warhammer rules game were my army was basically annihilated due to an undead spell which caused my level 2 slann to whither and age and die because I rolled a 2 instead of a 3+. It was annoying as I had stored the total power card for my next turn. The rest of my army slowly succumbed to other undead spells. AHHHH !! [10 Apr 99]

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

I was playing WHFB using my orcs, who were allied with a lizard man army. We were fighting an allied wood elf/Empire army. each army had 1500 points. I had a unit of Savage Orc boar boy, some Savage orc archers that were skirminshig a unit of night goblins w/2 fantatics, a bolt thrower. I had the left wing of the army. My skirmishers hid my boar boys and my Night goblins had my right flank of the BB. My Boltthrower killeda giant eagle but later died to a general/griffion from the Empire. My whole line went forward. My skirmishers were getting whittled down my WE archers and a treeman smacked into my BB unit. Next round the Empire's griffon/general hit my BB unit and and got killed., I broke the treeman and pursued. Later hitting a crossbow unit and a spear man unit. My ally the lizard man didn't do squat but run away from a steam tank that was chasing him. My orcs pretty much won the battle. [26 Mar 99]

Lizardmen v's Celts [24 Mar 99]

FR! A good game between Dark Crusaders (Unholy) and wood elves. (Could happen???) Played 2600 points per side, a huge battle with 50 plus units per side and 10+ characters. The Unholy Avatar started on a 17 because of over 42 infantry and cavalry in his army. The rules sytem copes well with large games by altering the morale clock every turn and increasing the morale clock for capturing a character. The game lasted 4+ hours and was won by the Elves in the end. The blessed bow armed troops of the Dark Crusaders played merry hell with the elves, and knights and elite knights in heavy Armour make your longbows a lot less deadly. The elves did win in the end, but not by bowfire, it was their 3 dragons and riders that managed to outmaneouver and outfight the enemy. The queens dragon got SACRIFICED by the enemy cleric but she just survived to join a Faerie Folk Warband and run off and hide for the rest of the battle! Very very good, a laugh, astounding results occasional! ly (fantasy afterall) but infantry and cavalry tactics still work well.

Plays really well without magic protection devices, they suck, dont use them. Take a risk with your characters and units, thats whats its all about, if you want buy your spellcaster a bodyguard. [16 Mar 99]

It was Warhammer. I used orcs against a mass of Dark Elves. The guy landed a terror causing flying beastie in the middle of my line, and despite the best attempts of my general in screaming at his troops, everyone ran away scared. Hey, it happens. [15 Mar 99]

We played a Tolkienesque Scenario for Hott. 96Ap per side. The Orcs arrived in waves almost overrunning the Humans. However Rohan appeared and smited the evil Orcs forcing them to flee!

Although I really love FR2, I have rediscovered Hott recently and The STRONGHOLD website through your links. I love them both! Keep up the Great work! The best website on the net. [25 Feb 99]

I was playing a Brettonian army in a tourney, and we were in the semi-finals. I was facing an undead army. The undead player advanced his hordes, casting spells left & right, and wreaking havoc on my flanks. It was my turn, and so I charged my knights forward. Because of a special ability of my knights, when I charge I roll an extra d6 for distance. I rolled a 5 and came into contact with a unit of mummies. I killed all but two of them, and they broke. I followed them and ran smack into his necromancer. I killed him in the next turn, and his army crumpled to dust. 2 turn kill. (BTW, I won the tourney on a die roll, literally) [18 Feb 99]

Local tournament (still ongoing) Dwarves vs. Chaos

Lots of maneuvering, not enough killing, due to my opponent having an irrational fear of having his models die on him. [17 Feb 99]

it was a lion vs dragon battle set in a mountain pass. Lion had 4 objectives to fullfill, with deployment on 2 sides of the board. Dragon had smaller units than Lion and deployed from 3 different areas on the board to simulate the Lion invading the Dragon lands. It turned out being a complete bloodbath with the Dragon clan using skirmish archers, and tattooed men (ise zumi) to break the lion house guard and akodo death seekers. Both sides took heavy casualities but in the end the Dragon unit stood fast and won the day. [17 Feb 99]

A Tolkienesque fight using HOTT - digital pics available. Quite nice visually, with over 100 army points on each side in 15mm scale. Of course, the thrice damned forces of "good" won - damn the bad luck. [16 Feb 99]

Fantasy Rules 2 testing out the Juggernought optional rules using old Grenadier Barbarians on giant mastodons as Juggered Battle Wagons. The several different armies were tried and only the undead army including several undead large monsters was real match. [15 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]