I had a really nice afternoon at the game store today, got to chat with a couple of good guys, picked up a bit of scatter terrain for my big game at Wargames Among the Warplanes in June, and of course got my very first game of Warhammer: The Old World in!
I had the worst dice luck I can remember ever having in 20 years of gaming. I could not pass a Leadership test. My trolls, even with a babysitter, could not pass a Stupidity test, and remained irreversibly stupid. I could not successfully charge.
But that's fine - I'm not playing orcs to *win*, I'm playing orcs to laugh when things go awry - for example, my trolls spending three turns staring in befuddlement at a giant eagle before getting obliterated by it.
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| The High Elf General charges my orc spearmen. |
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| My General charges the High Elf General and is promptly killed. |
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| The last of my trolls falling to the Sky-Cutter. |
Even in losing, I enjoyed the experience, and my opponent was a gracious teacher (who, unfortunately, is moving out of the area next week). Another guy I talked to offered to meet me for games any time I'm available so this will not be my last game.
Figures Purchased in 2025: 58
Figures Painted in 2025: 70
pretty cool.
ReplyDeletereading this i cant help to recall my old undead army and the vampire lord general i had taking out a unit of chaos knights. good times. haha.
If I wasn't so heavily invested in orcs & goblins, I could see myself doing an undead army. I always loved the different vampire breeds in 6th edition WHFB.
Deletei myself was a von Carstein fan. the stories behind them inspired me for some plot lines in my D&D campaigns.
DeleteI think I mostly swung between wanting a Necrarch army and wanting a Strigoi army, though I never built more than a single unit of skeletons back in the day.
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