What I'd be interested in is; hearing some tactics, deployment and army construction techniques that helped you suceed with, say, your Dwarf army. What kind of army do you take, how do you play it, and how do you overcome the challenges faced by other armies?
Well I am not very experience player, but my last games strategies with dwarf army is that follows: I do not use gyrocopters neither trollslayers (the reason is that simple as I do not have painted those figures), and prefere rangers than thunderers. I take cannons and flame cannon because I think it fit a lot with my sense of dwarf style.
I try to win the center of the table advancing the army slow, though, heavy and stubborn as I think the dwarfs are. Very mathematical. Trying to advance the flame cannon in first line defended by rangers (if cavalary makes a flash movement to take down your artillery, there is the chance of have luck with the flames and rangers can pursuit them). I see dwarf warriors very armoured and with lots of impact to resist charges, and make very fierce counterattacks. The high command of those little leaders make possible advance the artillery.
Cannons in the back try to divide the oposite army. I think dwarf cannon should be in the back and not advance. Runic smith can dispell some "magic tricks" of your enemy army, forcing them to take an strategy not based in spells. When the center of the table is won, then you can attack with the warriors.
In my experience dwarfs are terrific defending postions or in siege games. "It is known the difficult of taking a dwarf stronghold"
Well that works for me in some games, but always depends in lots of factors, terrain, experience of other players, the mood of the game and special rules of scenario. And that is what makes so funny warmaster. As I said maybe is not the best strategy to play with dwarfs, because I do not know the perfect way of winning, and maybe I am not very interested in it. Just have fun and beer as an old dwarf style!!
I'm a fair ways off the Eurpoean tournament circuit here in Australia, and would love to hear some sage advice.
So Pugwash, just remember the sage advice of Napoleon "No plans survive to the the battlefield", It is a literal translation of spanish to english (and Napoleon said it in french
) so I do not know if the message is lost, but what I understand from these sentence is that although you have a plan/strategy before the battle, during it, in the battlefield all your previous plans will go to the trash for sure. So should adapt them or change them during the battle. Napoleon only lost 1 battle... the question then is How can your plans be changed during the battle? There is only an answer and you will get it during the game, not before or after. (But I think I am just starting to philosphize...)
Have fun, play games (and post here those beautiful Battle-reports
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(I would like to make battle reports, but with my english it will a pain reading them
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