So @Aaron Harrison and I played 800pts of breakthrough - Goblin Town vs KKD. It was 30 ish models vs 92 😅

Round one, Aaron gave me priority but called a move immediately with Durin to force me to react and was praying to get durin and the hearth guard punching through the middle to my objective. I countered with the King within 6” of the scribe which allows a board wide move and fortunately the move went my way so I charged and barely made a dent. The ballista found an alley way and skewed 3 goblins. My King attempted to throw a goblin but failed and the poor little abomination just went “splat” At the end it was 16 goblins dead to one dwarf. The rerolls for for KKD being outnumbered by dice was really effective!

Round two I won priority and kept it but no move was called from I pushed the lines back in and wrapped models where I could with back ups and was able to get the King in and Grinnah to feed over a might to top the Kings back up to three. A better turn saw only 8 dead goblins to 3 dwarves.

Round three onwards until round 5 saw the scales slowly balance out. The King and Grinnah were able to kill Mardin and the Kings Champion to take them as trophies towards the VPs. The hearth guard were solid and really hurt my centre line and rapidly dwindled my numbers. I teamed the three goblin captains up and combatted them all off a single hearth guard to after using 3 might points to win and kill the dwarf which meant I could break through the line and start to trap models! Durin was being tied up every turn by one goblin forcing a combat eventually, the army bonus for +1 to courage tests to charge terrifying models was really helpful. The left flank of dwarves crumbled fast which allowed me to swarm towards the centre.

At turn 5 the dwarves were broken and I had swarmed all objectives but the remaining dwarves still gave their all and held to the final round. After positioning the scribe so my captain with the last point of might could transfer allowed me to give the King one back for a final move in the last round.

Game ended round 6 and the dwarves killed enough (47) to to break me! The King beat a fate less herald and hurled him into the other herald both fighting for their lives…. Only for them both to lay prone and survive under a Little Rock 😂 If only I didn’t throw that poor little lad in the first round! Haha!!

Game ended 17-3 to the Ghoulblins!

(All objectives, breaking opponent, killing the second highest hero after the general and two dwarves as trophies)

The 3 for the dwarves were for breaking the goblins and still having at least a banner remaining!

GGs! What a really fun game!