Hammer Time

Today Daniel and I went over to my buddy's house in Heidelberg to learn to play Warhammer.

Warhammer is a miniatures wargame, where players command vast armies of model soldiers in the struggle to outmaneuver and outfight one another on a tabletop battlefield. This gaming action is set amid a fantasy world like no other, where sorcery and monsters are common on the field of battle. The aim of every person who plays Warhammer is to pit their force of miniatures against other players across fantastic battlefields. Win or lose, all fantasy battles are entertaining challenges in which you try to out-think and out-play your opponent, taking advantage of what good luck comes your way, but ultimately relying upon sound tactics to
win the day.

Drew, my buddy and co-worker, taught Daniel and I how to play (he's been playing and collecting since he was 8 years old- 1983. So, naturally he has a large amount of miniatures from all sorts of armies). Daniel chose the High Elves, and was particularly taken by the High Elf Spear-men (and archers, which he used later during our three-on-three skirmish).
I on the other hand felt closer to my kin folk- the Dwarfs:
Daniel and I fought a couple of battles fighting as units, with Leaders (heroes), standard bearers, and soldiers; and I had to use my unit musician. An army cannot go into battle without the band! Needless to say I lost both battles. My Dwarven units were routed and forced to flee the battlefield "ala organized chaos".Our final duel pitted my dwarfs (regular soldiers with a few dwarven crossbowmen against Daniel's High Elf archers and Elf Knight on steed, and Drew's human army from the Empire which included a few archers, footsoldiers, and a knight.
The task was to attack the small outpost with your respective skirmishers; the purpose to occupy and deny the enemy entrance into the outpost; the end state-your skirmishers retain possession of the outpost by denying the enemy skirmishers entrance or defeating them (destroy is o.k. too!).
Daniel kept his archers back on high ground and took his time picking off the helpless human and dwarf skirmishers. Drew and I quickly closed on the outpost to occupy. I ended up entering the outpost (my dwarf's stubby legs didn't fail) and holding. Daniel's archers wiped out a majority of Drew's footmen, at least to the point where my dwarves easily finished them off. In the end, I was able to retain control of the outpost with minor losses. Daniel's elves lost a few but poor Drew's human skirmishers of the Empire were wiped out to the man!
Victory to the mighty Ironbelly Clan! Thanks to Drew and his lovely wife for opening their house to Daniel and I, providing refreshments, fun-filled wargames, and most importantly, friendship.