Astute
readers such as your honoured selves will realise that this a
continuation of our King of War/Hordes of The Things test of 3rd
January 2016. I've recreated the terrain and used the same troops.
This, in
turn is a much simplified version of our other January game OGAM gets wet, that I'd advise you to peruse.
Japanese.
Goblin
light foot 3
Goblin
light missiles 4
Spiders
lesser warbeasts 4
Oni
greater warbeasts 8
Spiders
heavy riders 4
Total 23
Achaean
Spearmen
light foot 3
light foot
javelin 4
skeleton
light foot 3
archers 4
Satyr &
amazon scouts 2
Chariots
heavy riders 6
Total 23
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| pre-game test |
On our 3x3
board this gave us a near edge-to-edge game. Although a 3x2 table
would have speeded up the process. We halved movement & shooting
and started with 1” seperation that soon got ignored completely.
First thoughts.
No
playsheet. The reference sheet is useless. And needing a flowchart-.
YougoIgo,
we've been spoilt, the idea that I can make a brew while my opponent
moves-.
So many
fiddly pluses. We are used to the simple and elegant Ganesha method,
this felt “clunky”.
Slow, one
complete turn for both of us saw one movement.
Dice,
rolling 12 we kept getting the same result.
Using
reduced units-doesn't feel right, they don't occupy the same frontage
and makes it annoying.
In
conclusion, after comparing Dragon Rampant, Hordes of The Things and
Kings Of War the winner is OGAM, which gives a faster, better
balanced and simpler game.
The Game.
Tony won
the initiative, couldn't find it in the rules so I placed unit 6”in,
then Tony's Japanese.
It took
ages to get troops to move by which time all cohesion was gone.
On my
right Tony got his Oni's up and into my spear, a ding gong battle
which I finally lost. At one stage I did get my chariots to charge
them, but I bounced off with no casualties.
On the
other flank his heavy spiders crashed into my javelins – I couldn't
get them to throw. I eventually got my skirmishers into the temple,
then Tony got his beast to charge and wipe them out.
Back to my
right we finally got the archers in range of each other and managed
one shot each in the entire game.
On the
left it was skeletons vs goblins and I actually broke the unit. By
this time the Oni had demolished the spears to one.
I conceded
as Tony was in possession of the objective and I had nothing to push
him out with.
Slow,
clunky and annoying. We may try again.
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| The pen marks the original 6" deployment |
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| The pompom represents a casualty on this reduced unit |
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| We used 2 cups, 1 with 6, 1 with 12 dice in for speed. Memsaab was a military observer |
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