In da Beginningy-bit…

This blog is intended as a chronicle of a series of Warhammer fantasy battles between Orcish and Dwarven Armies. The “Gilt War,” it is said, began with Dwarven prospectors discovered gold in the Dark Lands, east of the World’s Edge Mountains. My greenskin tribes have mobilized to throw back the stunty invaders–and, Orcs and Gobbos being what they are, sack some Dwarf strongholds while they are at it!

Our games are typically in the 2,000 to 2,500 point range. They are low on magic–it requires a lot of shamans and magic items to have any serious chance of overcoming those extra Dwarven dispel dice, and so I rarely deploy any.

I didn’t take notes during the first battle of the campaign, which pitted my horde against the Dwarves on a generally flat battlefield. It did involve one of the luckiest Gobbo Rock-Lobba shots in history: a missed shot with a 10″ deviation landed full-center on the Dwarven General, killing him. Glarsnot Bloodcurdle, my fearsome Black Orc leader, had proceeded to lead his boyz on a rampage through the Dwarven lines, crushing them.

The first battle was mine, but it was not enough to win the war…