Hauberks and Hobgoblins

 

Last Thursday I played a game of Chainmail after work, and it’s honestly still on my mind. An army of men faced off against an orc wizard and his horde, in classic fantasy style. The army of men consisted of a large unit of Armored Foot with Polearms, small unit of Armored foot, and small units of crossbows, cavalry, and Light Foot.

The Orc army had a large unit of Orc Foot (which fight as Heavy Foot), two smaller units of Orc archers (that I still allowed to fight as Heavy Foot), and two Ogres (each as its own unit). Of course, they also had a wizard with another small unit of Orcs as his guards.

Behold, a blue orc wizard atop his ruined tower, guarded by fierce warriors.

The Armored Foot with Polearms managed to take the largest unit of Orcs and an ogre prisoner (I may have messed up with the morale rolls, but oh well). This required them to leave guards, however, which weakened their overall push for the wizard.

On the other side of the field, the smaller units of humanity saw themselves whittled away by the ogre and blue orc bodyguards, who rushed down the mountain to support their comrades.

The game ended with almost all of both sides being destroyed. The orc wizard escaped with a unit of archers, and the few bedraggled humans, singed from fireballs and shields riddled with arrows, were not strong enough to pursue. 

Will they regroup and hunt the orcish wizard again? Or will he gather a new horde and come for vengeance? Only time will tell…