I got to play a couple of 100 point (roughly half sized) games of Runewars over the weekend with my buddy Jon. I took some photos of the start of each turn as well as game end so that I can show everyone how it works.
Apologies for the glare. I should have taken the other seat.
I played the Waiqar dudes and Jon played the Daqan dudes. Ardus, a big block of Reanimates with a Carrion Lancer inside and some Archers for me. Kari, a big block of Spearmen and two Rune Golems for John. Terrain placement sort of boned me, so I deployed in a "sit and wait" deployment.
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Deployment |
Round 1 just saw lots of moving forward. Kari jumped into the terrain piece.
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End of Round 1 |
I took the bait and charged in to fight Kari in her terrain stronghold. She wiped a tray when she fought me.
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End of Round 2 |
Kari hopped out the back and I got flank charged on the one side by the Golems. Ardus slammed into the Spearmen and killed a full tray between his attack and a morale check.
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End of Round 3 |
The Rune Golems are devastating. Between my Reanimates and the Archers, one Rune Golem went down.
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End of Round 4 |
Round 5 was mostly ineffective fighting and the heroes running back into the battle. Ardus had to turn around first.
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End of Round 5 |
More ineffective fighting and heroes running.
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End of Round 6 |
Getting closer. Kari took a pot shot and killed two Archers.
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End of Round 7 |
Ardus successfully charged...
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Middle of Round 8, before Ardus's and Kari's attacks |
...and killed off the last Rune Golem. Kari killed off the last of the Archers.
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End of Round 8 |
We were playing the bounty mission. I ended up with 114 points versus Jon's 113. It was a narrow victory, but I'll take it. I think with one more round, I could have wiped Kari.