Warmonger Charity WAB Tournament: 30 January 2010 (Intro)

Organized by local Warhammer Ancients fanatic and condottiero John Bianchi, and run by Warmonger Club President-for-Life Jim Keleher himself, the Warmonger Charity tournament on 30 January 2010 was the second annual tournament, and put together to benefit the American Cancer Society. It was also an excuse for historical WAB gamers to travel to New York City and gather for a day at the Compleat Strategist basement – on what turned out to be one of the coldest days of the winter. With a beautiful array of armies from almost every period in the WAB game, this was going to be an entertaining series of ahistorical battles.

Although I’ve many grandiose plans, I’ve currently only two WAB armies, and by far prefer my Burgundians to my Dacians – thus it was my Burgundians that showed up that day. It’s an army list that I’ve had a good deal of practice with, and was I was feeling fairly confident about how they would do that day.

What did I bring?
My Burgundian army has been basically complete and in its final form since Historicon in August 2009. Below are the units I brought for both 1500 points, and the additional units to bring the total cost up to 2000 points (technically, to 1999 points).

1500 points:

• General and ASB on foot, both with Full Plate
• 5 Knights (with Full Plate, Lance, First Charge, and Warhorse with Plate Barding, + 3-man Unit Command upgrade) & 5 Coustilliers (Heavy Armor, Thrusting Spear) in back rank
• 10 Light Cavalry (Light Armor, Light Crossbow)
• 22 Lowland Pikemen (Heavy Armor, Pike, + 3-man Unit Command upgrade)
• 10 Ordnance Longbows (Light Armor, Longbow, Skirmishers)
• 2x10 Crossbowmen (Light Armor, Crossbow, Pavise)
• 3xLight Artillery (3 crewmen each plus 1x Master Gunner upgrade)

2000 points:

• General gains Double-Handed Weapon
• 5 Ordnance Gendarmes (WS5 unit with Full Plate, Lance, First Charge, and Warhorse with Plate Barding, + 3-man Unit Command upgrade) & 5 Coustilliers (Heavy Armor, Thrusting Spear) in back rank
• 10 Ordnance Longbows (Light Armor, Longbow, Skirmishers)
• Multi-Barreled Artillery (plus 2 additional crewmen)