HOTTFAT - Ripped By Rabbits
By J. Woolrich
My Gobbs (Orc/Goblin Allied Forces) turned up to the tournament with high hopes, but came away with a share of the wooden spoon.
As Alan reported, first battle was against the pesky Narnians. Warning - never work with children or animals. Although my plan to whizz round Alan's lines with the winged goblin and wolf riders was feasible, I made the dreadful mistake of fragmenting the rest of my forces, which meant that when the Narnians counter-attacked, my fractured defensive line buckled and the units were picked off with relative ease. Not for the last time, my Gobbs were caught with their capacious britches down (not a sight anyone should have to see!). My abiding memory of this battle is of the Narnian bunny rabbits despatching my battle-hardened Orc wolf-riders. Pah!
Second time out the Gobbs faced Jeffro's Red Martians. Jeffro used his fliers to good effect, pinning my cavalry - who had been aiming at sweeping towards his stronghold (sound familiar?) - while the rest of my line, on the other side of a small forest, advanced slowly towards his blades and airships. Although my aerial hero inflicted some damage on his fliers, Jeffro managed to maneouver one of them behind my general's blade unit and - after some slogging between the Martians and my blades - surrounding and destroying him. The moral, as Jeffro pointed out, is to keep your own aerial units within range of your general if the enemy has aerials of his own on the table. Learning curve???
Third and final battle was against a WW1 army, with the Gobbs on the defensive. This was shaping up to be an interesting conflict, and the Gobbs at least scored the minor success of destroying an enemy aircraft before, with the WW1 troopers bearing down manfully on the obbs' piece of cork (aka stronghold), the sands of time ran out and the conflict was declared a draw.
So, all in all an 'instructive' evening, but can the Gobbs learn the lessons of history and do better next time? Only time will tell. In the meantime they are left licking their wounds, and discussng the best ways to cook Narnian rabbit..........