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Mark and I met up for a 1600 point game of Warhammer:Old World. I had two choices to face his Khemri (undead Egyptians), High Eles/Melniboneans from the 80s, or Gobbos. Knowing the Combined Forces of Goblotpia would be utterly hopeless, I took my Hugh Elves (like High Elves, but posher). A unit of archers, repeater bolt thrower, Swordmasters, Silver Helm heavy cavalry, Elyrian Reaver medium cavalry and a unit of Shadow Warrior foot scouts. Elric (tooled up fighter, but he would be), Elwing (mounted hero with army standard and banner of battles) and a mage make up my characters. Mark had hordes of the Egyptian dead! A prince, two priests, the Arc, two units of chariots, a scorpion, a giant, archers, Tomb Guard, flying carrion and heavy undead cavalry. Utterly scary! The terrain was two hills and a patch of rough ground, all of which was basically on the centre lin, and  we rolled a pitched battle. My Swordmasters and Silver Helms advance. The medium cavalry deployed deep as they ca...

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...