Confrontation: Gav Gets A New Game

Okay.
Bit of background... I've been into wargaming for about 10 years or so, starting with the brand spanking new Necromunda (new game, new gamer!) and progressed from there.
Seen many miniatures companys and sets of wargames rules come and go, as well as attemptiong to venture into historical wargames (only to get bored.. i dont like history!)

As with many wargamers with access to this "interweb" thing, I'd recently seen occasional figures by a french company called "Rackham".
They didn't have a website with all their products, so back then we had small pics emailed around.
Eventually the Rackham Webstore arrived and we all gazed at the prittyness.
Now recently, Confrontation is available in english, theres two websites and british miniature suppliers are picking up this "rackham stuff"

Finding a new gaming shop open locally who stock Rackham products and let you play whatever game with whatever figures, its time for Gav to learn a new game!

Firstly, I downloaded the ruleset for free of Rackham's site, read the FAQs and the erratas.
I had a basic grasp and set out to the local gaming shop to try out a demo game (luckily borrowing some shop figures as it already had a dedicated following).
I forgot stuff and messed things up, but we got through the game, and when I read the rules again, they made slightly more sense.

After another read, I returned to the store for a game with a Rackham player to futher learn the rules...

We used 100points... I took the shop owners Wolfen (massive wolf-men), a Predator Of Blood and a Wolfen Prowler

my opponent took Kelt Sassiers (druid barbarians) :
Danu Warrior (when other Kelts get killed, the Danu turn into Spasm Warriors, massive Hulk like behemoths )
6 Kelt Fianna (scantily clad female warriors)

so a summary of the beat-em-up goes like this...

The Wolves moved forward quickly, The Predator stalking around the side of a tree, The Prowler leaping out from a treeline into the open to shoot his Crossbow at a Fianna, but missed horribly.
The Fianna were a thin line while the Danu skulked in some trees out on the outskirts.
The Predator leapt into the fray, charging the closest Fianna, who promptly failed her fear test and ran away. The Predators massive 30cm charge let him carry onto a second Fianna who also ran away!
This left him stood a couple of cm away from the rest of the Fianna, in the open, things looking uncomfortable!

However, the first set of Fianna (two groups of two left) failed their fear roll and stood there unsure.. while the second set wasted no time in charging the Predator, using the War Fury skill to get some hurt on...
The Danu snaked around the trees while the Prowler leapt onto one of the shaken Fianna, who promptly passed her fear roll.

The Predator (losing initiative due to the charge) split his attacks into 2 attack, 2 defense (praying the sustained defense would save the incoming 6 attacks!)
It worked, not a single Fianna attack landing!
His one attack on each Fianna went horrifically, killing both Fianna one at a time. It needs noting the Danu failed both Spasm rolls... obviously he didn't think much of these Fianna!
The Prowler did a serious injury to the Fianna whos attacks missed.

Next turn, the Danu warrior failed his fear test and didn't join the fray, while both fleeing Fianna rallied, one charging the Prowler.
The Predator charged the injured Fianna as well.

Splitting the combats, the Prowler smashed the Fianna into pieces (again, not upsetting the Danu), while the Predator had very little trouble beating the injured fianna. this caused the Danu to Spasm, mutating into the behemoth.

The Spasm warrior charged the Prowler while the Predator charged in as well. The Spasm won initiative and hitting on 2+, missed with two attacks. The 3rd attack was a 6, gaining a critical, the reroll was a 1, failing the attack!
The last attack bounced off the Predator.
The Prowler's attack damged the Spasm Warrior, while the Predators first attack killed the raging beast.
With only the lone Fianna left, The Predator attempted to charge, causing her to flee again!

The Prowler leapt to the side and attempted to shoot her with his crossbow.. not only did he fail, but shot the Predator! Luckily it only stunned (did no damage) the Predator.
Next turn the pair charged the Fianna who ran off the table!

Conclusion: Fiannas need a character to keep their morale up, Wolfen are very very very scary!

I learnt a lot on the way the game works and found after the first turn and the first combat it flowed and was easy to play.

So having bought the catalogue and Cry Havok (Rackham's version of White Dwarf but without adverts), I went to drool over the figs and decide what force to get...

Rage

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