Basic Stuff
I went for a straightforward clash for the game and used all my recently painted undead, plus an unpainted unit of archers, and a roughly similar force of orcs.
I also printed off an edited QPS and rosters, taking the opportunity change some of the quirkier stat names (Fight for Strength etc).
I've not done a full report, but here's some pictures and a brief rundown of the game.
If you want a bit of a story, the two warbands are fighting for control of the potentially magical trilthon (though the orcs foolishly forgot to bring along their Shaman, that, or I ran out of points).
As the mists clear, the two warbands eye each other over the plain, or the orcs do; very few actual eyeballs in the undead force.
The undead shuffle on, archers occupying the hill, while the undead champion leads a flanking force.
Another flanking force of spear armed skeletons, while the suspiciously boney necromancer holds back.
The skeleton archers proved more effective than the orcs; unsurprising, given the poor bow skills of orcs generally.
The skeleton spears managed to get the charge in against the orc spears, routing them.
On the other flank, the skeleton guard followed the champion and charged into the orcs who followed their champion. Initially, the orcs held their own, helped by Grashak Kra crashing into the undead champion. Unfortunately an impressive flurry of blows were largely stopped by the ancient rusting armour.
As the melee continued, the skeletons gained the upper hand, eventually driving off the orc warriors and pulling Grashak Kra down.
On the other flank, the orc spears never recovered from the undead charge and ran away.
The orc warboss and his retinue charged the zombies shuffling out of the woods (they needed to pass an Agility 2 test in the woods - and succeeded!) they took out over half of the walking dead (might have been more if I'd remembered their extra attacks) for no loss.
Unfortunately, the skeleton spears charged them, gradually dragging down the warboss's chums.
The orc archers had suffered from the superior undead missile fire, at one point hunkering down rather than returning shots, but enough remained to either charge or shoot at the skeletons with swords. Having chosen to shoot, they did little damage, and were punished when the skeletons charged into them, breaking and running for the hills.
At this point only the orc warboss remained (it had been a brutal turn!), surveying the field he decided that discretion was the better part, etc, and joined the remains of his broken force.
Final Thoughts
A great fun game, and I'm not at all embarrassed at being absolutely tabled by someone playing their first game.
Clearly the dice had their favourite that night. I think the undead passed every single Command test, whereas the orcs passed two. Mind you, Grashak Kra's armour held up even better than the undead champion, passing every Tough reroll. In the end it was weight of attacks that did for him.
But T'Other One played well, and kudos especially to him picking up a new game so quickly.
I hope we'll play more games of Warlords of Erehwon in the future, and it's been useful for me to get an idea of how the undead play on the battlefield.
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