Well, my brother and me had to renew hostilities with our local gaming partners, to commemorate my brothers triumphant return from Rome. Since Joe is off being a seminarian, he no longer has an army of his own, and we were forced to borrow one from our competetion. After a lengthy discussion, he decided to field the vampire counts to join along side my Dark Elves, again this year. Joe brought a magic heavy 1500 point undead force led by a Necarch Lord and 3 necromancers. I brought my standard army, trimmed to 1500 points, and focus on my usual small combat unit style. Our only shooting was my 2 obigatory Reaper Bolt Throwers. We expected to face off against a combined Nurgle Chaos army and Skaven force, but instead turned up and found out we were playing 2 Chaos forces... so much for my flying terror causer. The 4x6 board lent itself well the chaos force. The 3000 point battle meant cramped quarters, and this allowed the chao
s units to use their superior hand to hand combat prowess to gain an early advantage, that looked almost insermountable. The vampire magic phase was a complete dud, even included the scary miscast on the army general. The dark elves couldn't break out to use their speed to hit the choas flanks and he bolt throwers were completely ineffective, with the dice going stone cold on any rolls... truely the chaos gods must have been intervening. Things turned around from there though. Seeing the mounting desperation around them, the witch elves launched a frenzied assualt on the chaos slave giant, counting on their poisened barrage of attacks to see them through the giants toughness. This they did (after the giant flung the hag into the unit behind her, killing her and wasting her manbane), and a poor break test by the giant saw him break, only to be chased down and hacked up by the witch elves. This created a gap in the chaos line the elves were able to exploit, and they went pouring through. Both sides has some horrible luck (chariots failing to wound on charges, miscasts, and chaos warriors breaking to a terror causer on the last turn) but in the end, the speed of the dark elves, and the undead's ability to raise and repair units, proved too much for the choas hoarde. The Dark Elf & Vampire alliance triumphed again, missing a Solid Victory by only 31 points. In the end, it was a hard fought and fun game. Both sides had moments of horrid luck, and both sides had points at which it look as if they would run away with the game. Hopefully, the 5 hour extravaganza was enough to slate joe's thirst for Warhammer until the next time he can come home.
s units to use their superior hand to hand combat prowess to gain an early advantage, that looked almost insermountable. The vampire magic phase was a complete dud, even included the scary miscast on the army general. The dark elves couldn't break out to use their speed to hit the choas flanks and he bolt throwers were completely ineffective, with the dice going stone cold on any rolls... truely the chaos gods must have been intervening. Things turned around from there though. Seeing the mounting desperation around them, the witch elves launched a frenzied assualt on the chaos slave giant, counting on their poisened barrage of attacks to see them through the giants toughness. This they did (after the giant flung the hag into the unit behind her, killing her and wasting her manbane), and a poor break test by the giant saw him break, only to be chased down and hacked up by the witch elves. This created a gap in the chaos line the elves were able to exploit, and they went pouring through. Both sides has some horrible luck (chariots failing to wound on charges, miscasts, and chaos warriors breaking to a terror causer on the last turn) but in the end, the speed of the dark elves, and the undead's ability to raise and repair units, proved too much for the choas hoarde. The Dark Elf & Vampire alliance triumphed again, missing a Solid Victory by only 31 points. In the end, it was a hard fought and fun game. Both sides had moments of horrid luck, and both sides had points at which it look as if they would run away with the game. Hopefully, the 5 hour extravaganza was enough to slate joe's thirst for Warhammer until the next time he can come home. photo 1 - Joe, inspecting our battle lines.
photo 2 - DE chariot and skellies combine charge nurgle knights, only to get counter charged by the spawn. Notice the Plague Bearers in the back, enjoying the RinP fun of "Curse of Years"
photo 3 - Early on, the giant is about to die. The chaos knights near him have too many targets to charge. The Khorne Juggernaut engaged in the combat he'll be in the next 5 turns! Notice the croweded conditions of the Dark Elf & Vampire line, awaiting the full Chaos charge.
2 comments:
I would get in on a battle royal with the priests any time you know.
Ben, thanks for the great photos. That was really a blast! Thinking back on that game, other then the banshee killing that entire unit of knights, one of the highlights for me was that juggernaught just crunching skeleton after skeleton, with no success!! He was there the whole game! Talk to you soon. I have some new posts on my blog too!
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