Warhammer/Oldhammer 2019, 2020

As previously mentiones, one of the players in my D&D group used to play warhammer 6th edition when he was a teenager, so why not start with that edition?
I easily got another couple players involved and we had four games between august 2019 and February 2020.

As per Battlesystem, I used quite a few old Ral Partha and RAFM historical miniatures, it has a nice old school look and I can enjoy painting many different miniatures which are a real pleasure to work on.
We started with Dogs of War Vs Orcs and Goblins (mostly goblins), simply because that's what I had on hand.
Since we have been using roughly the same forces for all four games, I am trying to get a kind of narrative feeling and would like to turn it into a campaign, I started giving characters a name, since I think that is the first step to link games together.

One of the games, the third one, to be precise, was fought on Boxing Day (to keep a very old tradition from home alive).
We used to play some kind of big multi player game back in Italy with some close friends and we would call it the Emperor's Birthday.
It used to be 40K games, then Necromunda and, over the last few years DBA games.
I guess the Canadian version will be a Fantasy game from now on and the Emperor whose Birthday is being celebrated would be Karl Franz.

The first game involved Dogs of War VS Goblins with the help of a unit of Hobgoblins (orc) spearmen.
The humans had to defend against a humanoid tribe in the Border Princes.
The goblin warboss lost his giant ally very quickly under a barrage of arrows and spells, but  managed to break through the human defenses and keep raiding the area.

The second game saw roughly the same forces facing off, this time the humans had to defend a village.
They tried very hard, but did not manage to keep the raiders at bay and the village was sacked.

 The third game had, again, the goblins trying to break the dogs of war resistance, in order to gain access the the mountain passes leading into the Empire.
This time both armies had some artillery (as I got more stuff painted).
As can be foreseen, the goblins managed (not without trouble), to defeat the army of men again and could cross into the richer lands of the Empire.

For the Emperor's Birthday we had a bigger game that involved almost all the painted miniatures I have here in Canada.
The scenario required the Goblins to gain control of a Wizard's tower in order to steal some badly needed magic items to make the invasion of the Empire less difficult.
The warboss managed to hire a full tribe of giants, a necromancer with his undead minions and a chaos warrior with a minotaur.
It was a hard fought battle, the humans (this time an empire army) suffered horrendous casualties, but the evil forces barely managed to get to the tower before its owner (a very powerful wizard) got back to lock it, so the loot was very meager and the Waaagh lost steam and dispersed into the mountains.

After this we had another game, but there were no pictures taken.
This game was a scenario from the Warhammer Ancient Battle book Siege and conquest, it was an assault on a village containing some supplies that had to make it off the table to a city.
A small Empire force (defending the village), managed to capture and drive away one of three pack mules, the remainign two did not make it off the table and the goblinoid lost them, so it was an Empire win and the beginning of a new phase of the campaign.