[Epic] Battle Report (somewhat overdue!) Part 1

From: Elias Tiliakos <elite_at_...>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 98 00:38:10 EDT

Ok, this battle report is, as the title suggests, somewhat late in arriving.
Andy Skinner and I played an 1800 point game last Saturday, with Andy
once again commanding an Imperial army of Space Marines, and myself commanding
the Green Horde (or Brown, if you prefer :) ). Anyway, the scenario played
was a Meeting Engagement, and we used the standard rules except for one.
Andy had gotten some fairly big sea shells, and wanted to use them to simulate
enormous land creatures that would move across the field in a semi-random
manner. Most of the shells were about four inches across, three inches high,
and a good six inches long. So, needless to say, they dwarfed our armies.
As such, we ruled that they would crush anything that got in their way,
creating a very dangerous, unpredictably moving obstacle. They would move
3 times the roll of 2d6 in a random direction determined by scatter dice
every movement phase, _after_ both sides had moved.

The table was set up in roughly the following manner:

--------------------------------------------------------------
                                 |
      Hill with forest | Cliff hill
                       ________/
----------------------/

                         Hermit Island


           Cliff hill
                                 ______________________________
                          ______/
                         /
                         | Hill with cliff
-------------------------|--------------------------------------

The land creatures were also impervious to fire. They moved in a
general direction from the lower left of the map to the upper right
of the map. Each of the cliff hills had cliffs along the side of
the hill pointing toward the lower left of the map, and the creatures
were not allowed to climb over the cliffs, so the cliff hills were
a sort of haven for troops ("free parking"!). The Hermit Island
was another hill, but had a small building on it where a hermit lived,
and due to some sort of weird miracle, the beasts had always bypassed
it, so that was also a haven for troops.

We set up our forces, and we both assigned two detachments as flankers.
With that, we began the battle, which I'll get to in Part 2.


Elias
Received on Mon Jun 01 1998 - 04:38:10 UTC