Played a 1500 point game with a player who normally trashes me yesterday. Rather than make a separate list, I just used units from the list I'm making for Bayou Battles.
So I dropped the prince, the mage, the noble with the reaver bow, the spearmen, an eagle and the phoenix. I kept the lvl 4 wizard, the bsb, the archers, sword masters, the reavers and the artillery (all four repeating bolt throwers).
For the first (and possibly last) time ever, he didn't bring any artillery. His quarrelers tore up my archers, since the sword masters weren't in range, and the iron drakes wiped out the reavers, and wasted the eagle.
The bolt throwers dropped the gyrocopter and then chewed up iron drakes. His axe and shield dwarves charged the sword masters, who'd been whittled down a bit by the drakes over a couple of turns, and it didn't go well for the dwarves, especially with the drakes failing the supporting charge.
In the end, I lost the 5 reavers, and the eagle 1/3 of the sword masters and 2/3 of the archers. He had the 10 quarrelers left at the end and 3-4 iron drakes.
Considering our games usually involve me trying to get models across the table and into combat as quick as I can and him shooting them apart on the way across, the reversal of roles was fun.
We played another game at 2500 points, and the table looked even at first glance when we had to call time, but the combats were mostly not going my way, and if we'd have continued, I'd have lost pretty handily.
Lessons of the day: 1) Repeating bolt throwers are nasty, especially in small games. 2) Don't clump them together if the other guy has anything flying.
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