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As a long time Bretonnian player I look forward to 7th ed. as an opportunity to learn some new tactics and to increase my enjoyment of this wonderful hobby.
Presently, my chief joy is teaching my 7 year old to play (he’s been nuts about Daddy’s little men since he was 2). At the moment, he’s big on Orc and Goblins and he’s amenable to learning to play properly, and so I thought that I’d record our initial 7th ed. game in a Batrep.
For my son picking his army is simple – he takes out the figures in his army box and puts them on the table. That
means we often have odd sized games, and that I have to cut him some
slack on legal unit sizes for some oddball units (because he doesn’t
have the minis yet). It’s challenging to pick an army
that can be fairly used against him, as I don’t know how big I can make
my army until I see what he’s put on the board (and getting a 7 year
old to make an army list is next to impossible). To make it more interesting for him I have to limit the troop types that I take, so my armies tend to be infantry heavy. Also, because he’s learning, we use no magic items (and I take no virtues), and we’re limited to 1 1st level wizard each.
Anyway, I used the following army –
Sir Guillaume D’Aula (Paladin (knight’s vow only)) with a barded warhorse, lance and shield;
Guillaume le marcher (Paladin BSB (again, only the Knight’s Vow)) on a barded warhorse;
Leigh D’Aula - A damsel on foot who had the spell “The Oxen Stands”;
The Leading men of Liddesdale (6 KOTR with full command);
D’Aula’s Men (22 Men at Arms with full command) carrying spears (the BSB is deployed with this unit);
The Liddesdale Levy (21 Men at Arms with full command) carrying polearms (Sir Guillaume and Lady Leigh are deployed here);
Berwick’s Archers (10 Archers with full command); and
Liddesdale’s Archers (10 Archers with full command).
(For those
wondering, D’Aula is the root form of the Hall family name, and the
Halls were a riding family from the Anglo-Scottish border –
specifically the Middle Marches. I have named the
characters for myself, my wife and my son – the other two paladins I
normally use are named for my other two sons and they use the
appropriate cadency markings to show their precedence.)
Walker used the following army (He hasn’t started to develop fluff for this army yet):
Orc Warboss with light armour, a great weapon and riding a boar;
Night Goblin Shaman (he had Gork’ll Fix It for his spell);
20 Orc Boyz with full command, light armour and two choppas;
20 Night Goblins with full command, shields and spears;
20 Night Goblins with full command, shields and spears;
10 Arrer Boyz;
10 Spider Riders with full command;
A Squig Pack (3 squigs and 2 herders – this is the undersized unit); and
2 trolls.
I decided that we’d try the Objective Scenario from the 6th ed BRB and that we’d play for 6 turns.
I deployed my
archers on the flanks, with my KOTR on the right side for a reserve and
my MAA in the centre give me room to advance while staying out of the
firing arcs as much as possible. My son put his orcs on
his left, his characters next to them, but not in the unit, then his
trolls (to keep them close to the general), the two NG regts, the arrer
boys, the squig herd and the spider riders on the right flank.
Sir Guillaume D’Aula, March Warden of Carcassone, stood in the saddle, looked over his forces, sat back down and sighed. He mused over recent events and what brought him to this lonely moor on the outskirts of his lands. The Orcs had swarmed out of the hills, burning and looting. They
seemed to be headed towards the old menhir, and Sir Guillaume had kept
his riders near the swarms of greenskins to speed word.
“If the
peasants get a decent crop, or have any beasts left this year, I’ll be
surprised,” he mused, “There’ll be more reiving and riding this winter,
but that problems for later. “ He wasn’t happy with this Hot Trod, not with those that had presented themselves, but rather with those that had stayed away. “Only the surnames of Liddesdale, two groups of archers, and two regiments of foote loons answered the burning turf. I understand why no more peasant and freemen came, they’re moving their kith and kin out of the way, but where are my riders? Only Liddesdale had answered the call, with 6 of the leading families sending men. The families of Reddesdale, Durham and Berwick will answer for this, later,” he thought, “but for now..” “Walker, show our colours with the Berwick levy on the left, they need to know that men of quality will fight with them. Your mother and I will stay with our lot. The men of Liddesdale will hold the right. Don’t let those people stray too far forward to their left, they’ll block the archers.”
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