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Warhammer Old World: High Elves (Melniboneans) vs Chaos Undivided

Matt and I had agreed to play Old World. Good old fashioned dice throwing bloodbath. Despite going to the club for five years, this is the first time we actually got to have a game against each other, as our interests don't often overlap. Matt is a lovely bloke and I knew this would be a cracking game. My High Elves (dating back to the 80s, almost older than Matt), vs his  beautifully painted Chaos horde at 1500 points. Mort sat in to help guide us through the increasingly labyrinthine rules. We deployed in a pitched battle. Seven units each by pure fluke. My plan was to pin down the right flank with shadow warriors and reaver cavalry (both shooty types), shot the units approaching to pieces, and then left the elite Swordmasters, and the General Elric, do the slicy-dicey thing they do so well. The main thrust was to be my Silver Helm cavalry who were to ride down teh chaos knights the out-numbered 2:1 and let them loose in the backfield. Great plan huh! Matt had two chariots, two...

Warhammer Old World: High Elves vs Dwarves

Last Wednesday, Cliff and I reconvened at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club to have another bash at Warhammer: Old World. This time, I was using my High Elves/Melnibonians. This is my old army of choice, which hasn't seen daylight since 1999/2000, and is made up of units that date back to the 80s (apart from The Shadow Warriors, which are 1990s vintage) and are the type of High Elves that give Dark Eles a bad name. I had lots of option sto choose from (especially as I found I had waaaaaay more foot and cavalry than I remembered, so I went with 15 x archers, 9 x Shadow Warriors, 20 x Swordmasters of Hoeth, 9 x Silver Helms, 10 x reavers, an eagle, an eagle claw bolt thrower, Prince (Elric) Army standard bearer on horseback (with Silver Helms) and Riotla Snow (with Shadow Warriors) and a lvl 2 mage, all with lots of magical equipment. It was a lot of shooty power, just to try it out I guess. I was up against Cliff's dwarfs, unchanged apart from he dropped the miners, and took a war...