Mid-Week Mongol Madness

 Another Wednesday night adventure at the RAP Gamers last night. In further preparation for the upcoming ADLG Team Tourney at COLD BARRAGE, Team Full Monty held another practice night. 

My Golden Horde (2.0) was matched up with our ALDG Spirit Guide Phil G.'s Burgundians. Steve had a Chinese Take Out Army fighting Bruce's Bodacious Britains, complete with Boudicca and an Ancient British Chariot Panzer Division. Garth and his dastardly Normans played against John and a nondescript loaner army. Something generic, I think. 

Phil G. with his army led by Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...

This time, I added Shock Cavalry to two of my wings, and made them Elite, to boot. I had my left wing with Medium Cavalry Bow and Light Cavalry Bow. The Center had the aforementioned Heavy Cavalry Bow (Elite) and some Light Cavalry Bow. The Right Wing was more Heavy Cavalry Bow and a couple of Light Cavalry Bow. 

Thus organized, I figured I'd play more aggressively than last week against Garth.

Mongols WAAGGHHH! 

To be fair, I do treat my Mongols pretty much like Orcs mounted on four-legged Orc Snacks. This time I figured I'd get more "up close and personal" before doing some cheeky "shoot and scoot". 

Yeah. None of it worked. Two hours later, it looked more like this....

The red bits are where my Mongols were schwacked

If I had an ego when gaming, it would have been beaten out of me when Phil's Burgundians, BURGUNDIANS, mind you, slapped me behind until it was cherry red. 

A historical army which failed to win a battle under the Duke of Burgundy saw me off handily. 

Harrumph! 

There is a lot more nuance to ADLG than I had previously discerned and I was taught some finer points of it by Phil, which actually was a lot of fun. Phil has a reputation for rolling really, really well. And he did. 

I do not have that sort of reputation. So I just rolled with it....er, I had fun with it.

Next week, I shall again face Garth and his dastardly Normans. But I shall have some new tricks up the sleeve of my kaftan. And some new figures. My Khurusan Miniatures order came in, as well as my order from 19th Century Miniatures. 

So, I should have some new Heavy Cavalry, Command figures, and the fiercely comical "Mongolian Levy"... I know I'm nervous to paint them. 

More anon.