Fantastic Battles Game St. Patrick's Day game March 17, 2024, at OMG - Undead versus Wood Elves.

On March 17, 2024 (St. Patrick's Day) at the Ottawa Miniatures Game Club Nick and I had our first Fantastic Battles mass fantasy battle game, with 1,000 points per side with his UNDEAD versus my WOOD ELVES  in 28mm scale.

Overview

The Wood Elf Roster, with a slight Irish flavour, was as follows:

Irish Wood Elf Roster

Below are pictures of each of the Wood Elf units:

Wood Elf Glade Rider cavalry with bows

Wood Elf Way-Watcher Ranger Archers

Wood Elf Nymphs

Wood Elf Archers

Dryads

Eternal Guards with spears

Wood Elf General - Warlord

Leprechaun Familiar with wood Elf Sorcerer on right.

Leprechaun acting as a Familiar for the Wood Elf Sorcerer

 I don't have a copy of the Undead roster but it included units of, heavy Skeletal Cavalry (Black Knights), two spear armed skeleton units, one unit of skeleton sword armed warriors, a Grave Guard units with halberds, a unit of Zombies, a catapult and a Skeletal Dragon.  The Skeleton sword unit and Zombies were both large 4 base units.

After Action Report.

As I was busy with the game I did not take that many pictures.  The red dice represent Undead resolution hits, and the green and gold Roman numeral tiles represent Wood Elf resolution hits.

In the initial turn both forces maneuvered and advanced and the Undead opted to form column to move faster but this lessened their ability to bring maximum melee factors to bear.

Wood Elves advance

When the forces came into contact and combat the Undead were often not able to get out of column to form line to bring maximum force to bear, and the terrain including a swamp contributed to this.

Battle in the centre initial contact

As shown above on the right flank Wood Elf Archers unit and a unite of spear armed Glade Guards, both in line,  combat the Undead Grave guard supported two units of Skeleton spear armed warrios in column on each flank.  On the left flank the Wood Elf cavalry take on the Skeletal Dragon and the ephemeral Wood Elf Nymphs take on the Udnead heavy cavalry.  In he Centre the Wood elf Dryads advance towards to swamp

Battle in the Centre closer view

 

Casualties mount on both sides, in particular for the Skeletal Dragon

As depicted above the Wood Elf Dryads advance into the swamp to hit a column of Skeletons before they can deploy into line. Meanwhile on the left flank the Nymphs break the Undead heavy skeleton cavalry and advance to engage the front of the zombie column pinned by the Wood Elf archers attacking them in the flank. Nearby the Skeleton Dragon and Wood Elf Cavalry slug it out with mages on both sides trying to help rally them.   On the right flank the Grave Guard and two skeleton columns continue their large battle, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.

As the battle continued the Undead suffered more casualties than the Wood Elves and eventually the Undead Army reached near the breaking  point by turn 5 and conceded.

Conclusion

This was an enjoyable good first game with Nick, and a chance to refresh my memory on some of the rules.