The Greeks under the command of general Heracleides and officer Fibos left their camp to explore the beach in hexagon 23. There they encountered a small group of Goblins. Krüger and I played out the battle that ensued using the ruleset Hordes of the Things. I was the defender, Krüger the attacker. I placed four pieces of rough terrain with bushes and some stones to depict the beach.
My army consisted of these elements:
Spear General, 5 Spears, 4 Shooters, 2 Riders
Krüger played this army:
Warband General, 4 Warbands, 1 Hero, 3 Riders, 2 Beasts
I deployed my phalanx in the center, 3 shooters on the right side and 2 riders on the left side. Krüger placed his warbands and hero opposite to my phalanx, his beasts opposite to my shooters and his riders opposite to my riders.
My strategy, if you can call this a strategy, was to send my riders and a shooter forward on my left flank and wait with the rest of my army.
Thus I lost 2 riders and a shooter.
On the other flank I was able to shoot down Krüger's beasts, combining the attacks of my 3 shooters. And one of Krüger's riders was pushed back over the board edge. In the center the battle wavered back and forth - I lost 2 spears, Krüger lost a warband - until 2 of my spears killed Krüger's hero.
The Greeks won the game and were able to occupy hexagon 23.
This is how our campaign map looks like now. Next turn Krüger's orks will start moving from one of their villages in the jungle.
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