Goblins Vs. Empire

The battle was fought as part of the ongoing campaign, fought in a fiction land etc etc...  In this battle The Goblin army is making a land and sea attack on the main settlement of the Empire.   The Empire, are the human protagonists based on the British empire in the 18th Century. 

The Goblin fleet chose to attack through the ships and land Goblins to the Empires rear.

The Empire ships led by a submarine 

On the shore troops await a possible land invasion.

The goblin army set out  for battle

The forward troops with light guns take cover behind a fence

The initial attack came from trolls who attacked the gun on the far flank of the Empire forces.  grenadiers tried to  flank them but failed to stop the gun been smashed by the trolls.

Goblin cavalry make a rush for the battle line, the Volley fire has little effect.

The wargs thinned out hit the line

At sea the Goblin ship in the lead gets blasted by broadsides and turned to matchwood.  However it successfully ran over the submarine while still  surfaced. 

Ignoring the lost ship the second goblin ship makes a successful ram against the ship of the line, capsizing it sending it to the bottom, a terrible loss for the defenders.

The Empire line broken is sent reeling back to the farm.

Empire troops escape the chariots but the wargs hunt them down.

The Empire manages to stabilise the line,ignoring the wargs flank breakthrough  and launch a counter attack.

Goblin spear-men make no match for the empire firing line

The guns are destroyed by the rampaging wargs.

A goblin ship lands its troops but they are contained by a reserve regiment.

The second ship is boarded by the second reserve regiment and captured.

In the main battlefield the shattered goblins try to hold

Grenadiers bring down the trolls, finally

The goblin general goes into the attack personally but with only a shaman for support, he is slain without doing any real damage.

the last goblin ship tries to escape but is straddled by gunfire.

The game was a good one, and the first time most of both armies have met, I was playing goblins with phil.   Haley and my youngest played the Empire.  If I made any mistake it was to try and attack all at the same time, the Empire held reserves so could fight fires easily where when ever I broke through I could not follow up.  

Ofcourse Phil's mad Goblin ship attack was out of my control so I cannot accept any of the blame, he was in such a rush to get to shore and land troops he ignored the smaller empire ships, and although sinking the line of battle ship it did not make up for the loss of his Trireme Dromon or the capturing of one of his biremes.
If anything can be learned from the battle its that those pesky Empire guys have good firepower and good moral, and goblins need more points! 

The Goblin race, an Objective Overview

I Just wanted to put a few thoughts out there on the Subject of Goblins.
Goblins and Orcs are of course one in the same thing, The word Goblin is the Dwarvish name for orc.   The Name Orc in fact is an Old English word meaning Foreigner.
In 1066 when the Normans invaded England the English called the Normans Orc's.  
We get our view of Goblins from the other side of the scale, the tellers of the story are the guys who don't like Goblins. The Goblins are an organised race not savages, they have a Monarchy based on Hereditary lines of rule.  A study of the best material, basically the Hobbit and LOTR shows the Goblins of the misty mountains have a complex social system. 

Fantasy Battle Undead vs. goblins

 The Goblin army holding the high ground

 Goblin light troops hold the fortress

 

 

 Undead army defending the graveyard and mausoleum

 Goblin cavalry hit the flank while the goblins shieldwall advances.

 Goblin spear batter the defences with bat and shaman support

 

 The walls are breached with the aid of cave trolls the defences crumble.  However the vampires call upon a spirit host which pushes the goblins back.

 

 

The battle ended with a draw.

Battle of the three armies

 The first battle of the three armies.  Sounded like a good idea at first, turned out into 2 separate battles. 

Goblins sent in the Cave trolls against the undead, while moving most of the infantry around the undead flank, after this they sent a small unit of warg riders and bats to hassle the dwarves.

Undead Attacked across the stream, For some reason the vampires got instantly killed, so the skeletons had to launch a full attack with all the infantry.  This failed and the skeletons ended up back on the opposite bank of the river.

Quick necromancy spells filled the un-dead ranks and a second attack carried through.

Goblins attacked across the flank of the undead, killing the unit of skeletons guarding the fort and taking the fortress and necromancer hiding in it.

With the skeletons crumbling to dust the victorious goblins rushed the dwarf survivors, 8 turns for the goblins to win the table.