Cry Havoc 2008 battle reports

[PaleKing]

Last weekend DWARF over at Dunfermline hosted their annual WFB tournament Cry Havoc. There were a few of us from SW along so I thought I’d write some brief battle reports for this years Cry Havoc while it was fresh in my mind.

Game one was a random draw and I drew Alex Eason and his Vampire Counts. I’ve known Alex on and off for a while so it was good to get a chance to actually get a game in with him. Game one was a 1000pt capture scenario. Alex had a pretty small looking army, with a unit of 30 Grave Guard flanked by Ghoul units. I sent off a Unit of Knights Panther into one of the Ghoul units and managed to destroy them, and managed to deal with the other Ghouls and newly raised Zombies fairly easily. Shifting 30 Grave Guard is another matter though and all I could do as we entered turn six was to hope that my army stayed put around the objective. I had the numbers to claim the objective, but not without being close enough to be charged by the GG. My Swordsmen broke and relinquished their hold on the objective. Final result was 348pts v 725pts = solid loss.

A loss in game one put me on table 12 for game two which was a Pitched Battle against Richard Cunningham and his High Elves. This was a pretty cool game that was fairly finely balanced for most of the game. I had a chance of taking out his BSB with a nice cannon shot after he failed his “look out sir” roll, but rolled a one to wound! The same Cannon crew rolled a one to wound after hitting his Dragon Mage later on… Richard's Dragon Mage actually started the game sending my Outriders panicking off the board and causing my Inner Circle Knights to leg it down the table in terror. As it happened, the Knights Panther redeemed themselves when they rallied and took on the Dragon, killing the mage and running down the beast. My Steam Tank functioned pretty well, rolling up plenty of impact hits against his Spearmen and against his White Lion Chariots. My Helblaster had it’s second good game in a row, blasting away without any misfires. In the end claiming three table quarters, three banners, the general and the BSB was enough to give me a decent massacre of 2688pts v 668pts.

A win was enough to put me on table seven for the last game which was to be a Flank Attack and I was up against Tam Whyte and his Empire. Tam chose to be the flanking force and kept back a unit of Sword and Flagellants for this purpose. As the defender I tried to keep the battle near the centre of the table and concentrated on taking out as much of this reduced army as I could as fast as I could. Both his flanking units were on foot so I reckoned I would have some time to do so if I could keep fairly central. Both of us threw our Steam Tanks and War Altars down the centre and I managed to get a charge off on his Tank with my Flagellants and Knights Panther. This was enough to tie up his tank and I managed to kill it over the course of three turns. I bogged down his War Altar with ranks of Swordsmen and although I won three combats against it I just couldn’t take the last wound off his Arch Lector so it stayed put. My Helblaster finally misfired and blew itself to smithereens after having a great tournament. In the end I managed a solid victory with 2089pts v 1050pts.

This was enough for 9th place overall which is much better than I usually manage and I had three really good games against good blokes who all played the game in a fast and friendly manner. This is just what we need at a tournament so cheers to Alec, Richard and Tam for that.

Well done and cheers to Brian and all the guys at DWARF for putting on a good day for us all.

Results are below - another strong tournament for Neil - surely only a matter of time before he nails a win. Also well done to Donald who took Best Army with his very cool Dragon Ogres OK army.




EDIT - opps - This should probably be in the Battle Reports section. My mod powers are weak, so could someone move it when you get a chance? Cheers.

[Big Dog]

Thought it was a good day out, a little dissapointed with 26th but still had a couple of really good games and three great opponents. Here's a bit about how they went.

Game 1 I was drawn vs Antony Townsen with his High Elf army comprising of 14 White Lions, a lvl2 Mage, a Noble on Eagle, 2 bolt throwers and 10 archers. I started off by moving my entire army up onto the objective confident that I should be able to gain atleast those 400 points as Antony had set up on the board edge. I lost a fair bit of my pirate unit to shooting but by turn 3 still had Long Drong remaining. I used his two shots to shoot at the Noble on Eagle and scored a wound on each. Turn 4 saw my Doomseeker die to shooting and my trollslayer unit get taken down to 6 guys while the brotherhood unit was 5 models including my BSB and General however with their double unit strength banner I still felt reasonably confident of claiming the centre point. However turn 5 saw things take a turn for the worse as I rolled a double 1 to dispel a firey blast which managed to kill my entire brotherhood unit along with my bsb and general as some spectacular rolling from Antony was followed by me failing to make a single 5+ward save. Turn 5 also saw the only combat of the game as Long Drong stood and shoot another wound off the eagle before being despatched off by the noble. All in all a very short game that gave me the worst possible start for the tournament with me only getting 100 vp's to 1497 vp's.

Game 2 saw me on the second bottom table playing against Ken Watters Orc and Goblin army. Ken was feilding 4 large units of 1 each of Night Goblins, Black Orcs, Big uns and Orc Boyz along with 3 spear chukkas, a doom diver, 6 trolls and 2 units of 5 wolf riders. He had level 2 orc shaman, 2 blorc hero's one of which was a bsb and a blorc lord. This game saw my luck take a turn for the better with me generally rolling above average. Turn 1 I shot the goblin hewer and killed 6 big uns who had also lost 6 models to a failed animosity test. But by turn 2 we were already in combat and some terrible lucky by Ken saw his 17 Big Uns with Shaman and Hero as well as 30 Orc Boyz do not even a single wound to my Slayer Pirates before I replied with 9 wounds including having Long Drong kill the Shaman. This meant he failed both Leadership test and the Dwarfs ran both units down. Turn 2 also saw the Fanatics get drawn out but they only managed to wound a doomseeker and do little else through out the game. Turn 3 was the first time I'd got a doomseeker into combat all day and it held up well vs the black orcs but unfortunately blocked the charge of my lords brotherhood of grimnir. So I decided to take the risk of charging my character assasinating hero straight into the Black Orc Lord and managed to put 3 wounds on the lord killing it outright. From that point on it became a case of me mopping up the rest of the orcs as the pirates got a flank charge on the trolls and 2 doomseekers ran down the night goblins. All that was left by turn 6 was a doom diver which my great weapon unit (all that was left of it) managed to kill. The game was pretty much over by turn 3/4 (turn 4 saw the loss of the remaing black orc unit) but Ken kept playing on in true greenskin spirit trying to take down as many dwarves as he could. A massacre for me as I got 3050 vp's to the loss of 272 vp's.

By game 3 I was back up to table 12 and a big win could have saw me finish top 10 despite the terrible start. My opponent here was DWARF chairman Brian Forrester using his Empire army. Brain had a somewhat unusual Empire army centered around 2 large blocks of unbreakable flagellants as well as the mighty war altar. He also had 10 huntsmen, 5 knights, 2 cannons, 25 swordsmen with 10 free company and 10 archers, 2 level 2 mages, a mounted warrior priest, 10 crossbowmen and 2 units of 5 outriders. I was surprised a lack of steam tank but from what I could see throughout the game I think not having it only benefitted Brians army. I had a really strong start in this game with the goblin hewer sniping a lone mage who had the rod of power turn 1. Before Briains turn 3 I had already managed to kill the knight unit and seriously dent the swordsmen and Brians shooting phase had done little other than blow up a cannon. Turn 3 would prove to be the turning point however with my losing my slayer pirates except Long Drong to a unit of outriders and quite possibly the luckiest shooting ever saw 10 huntsmen shoot down all 3 members of the goblin hewer crew causing 4 wounds with 10 shots at 4's to hit, 5's to hit the crew and 5's to wound. The war altar also charged my brotherhood of grimnir and the specculum weilding Arch Lector issued a challenge killing my hero before he could strike back. I also lost a couple of doomseekers this turn to crossbow fire. I did manage in the next turn to take out the swordsmen and free company as well as make the archers flee but the flagellants put a dent in my unit of slayers with 2 hand weapons. Turn 5 saw my Lord get the second least glorious death possible in warhammer (second only to being shot by a gnoblars broken bottle) as he was kicked in the head by a horse, not long after the arch lector had killed my champion. However I did finally manage to kill off all of 1 flagellant unit but the champion took out my great weapon wielding hero. The other flagellant unit charged my other unit of troll slayers where again a champion killed my hero due to the ability to re-roll hits and wounds. By turn 6 I did mange to kill all the flagellants but all I had remaing was 1 doomseeker my wounded bsb and half a unit of brotherhood of grimnir. Briain however had managed to keep his outriders, cannon, mage and huntsmen out of trouble to not only deny me their points but claim 3 of the 4 table quarters. This ended up my second loss of the day with 1243 vp's vs 2333 vp's atleast it was only a solid loss and not a massacre.

Overall like I said I enjoyed the tournament and got to play three new opponents, I felt I was a bit unlucky in game 3 but that was perhaps making up for the excellent rolling in game 2.

Thanks to the guys at DWARF and to all three opponents, I should definitly be making a return trip to Dunfermline in 2009.

[Asurya]

Where to start....

Well, having had about 4 hours sleep each night over the course of the week prior to the tournament, it would be fair to say that perhaps I wasn't as mentally prepared for the event as I should have been.

Game 1

Got drawn again Daniel Thomas and his Orcs & Goblins which consisted off:

Orc Hero
Big block of Orc boyz
Block of Savage Orcs
Unit of 11 Arrer Boyz
Unit of 20 Night Goblin Archers
2 x 5 Wolf Riders
Orc Chariot
2 Bolt Throwers and a Doom Diver

Given that his deployed put his Orcs straight across from my Phoenox Guard and the objective I knew it would be fight between these two units decieding the game and so that unit got all of my Magic and shooting against it, but a lot of poor casting attempts saw me only reduce the unit by about 8-9 guys by the end of the game and they passed every panic test Burning Head made them take.
On my left flank, my Archers put 5 wounds on a Wolf Rider unit right next to them and then he passed all but one of the saves! A unit of Arrer boyz moved into range of my Archers and fired, killing a few along with the Wolf Riders and then the turn later, after moving sideways, the Arrer Boyz suddenly were out of range??
On my right flank, I lost an Eagle to the other Wolf Rider unit and the Noble on Eagle eventually engaged the Wolf Riders, hoping to restrain to charge the War Machines next turn but he failed and left himself with nothing to charge until the last turn.
As for the Orcs vs the Phoenix Guard, well a poor Waaagh! roll saw him out of range with the Orcs, but the Chariot hit home and won the combat, killing my Mage with directed attacks. The PG fled, but thankfully railed just in time to take another Chariot charge, but the Noble with Flaming Sword took care of by the last turn of the game.

1040 VP to him and 296 for me = Massarcred and 0 points. Nice start.

Game 2

Moved down a few tables and playing Klaus Zairns and his Vamps. which roughly consisted off:

Vamp Lord with Sword of Striking, Eternal Hatred, Flayed Hauberk, Black Peripat and Enchanted Shield
Necromaner Scroll Caddy
Wight King BSB on Nightmare
Vamp on Nightmare leading 9 BlackKnights
2 x 20 Skele's
20 Zombies
20 Grave Guard (with +1 to hit banner)
Black Coach

His deployed was as expected, all the blocks togather in middle with Knights behind the Skele's on my left flank and the Coach behind the main battle line, but what really suprised me was the walking Vamp Lord, Necromaner and Wight King. None of them joined any units.

Turn 1 saw his army shuffle forward and the Black Coach suck up 2 power dice. My turn saw arrows and bolts killing some GG and the my Noble on Eagle start a Flaming Sword and my Archmage robbing the Vamp Lord of his armour with a Vaul's. That was after I was forced to use my Sigil of Asuryan to dispel a Wind of Undeath he got my my lvl 2's miscast.

During Turn 2, his Coach sucked up another 3 dice, but nothing else happened much I charged my White Lions straight ahead into the Zombies, hoping to ploy through them and straight into the Black Coach. My Noble on Eagle (still with Flaming Sword) moved into a position to charge the Black Coach next turn.

During Turn 3, the Vamps moved forward again the Coach sucking the last power into itself. This time I declared a few charges, a double Lion Chariot into the Skele's the Vamp and Necromancer were standing behind, and since he never dispelled Flaming Sword, my Noble swooped into assasinate his Vamp Lord and if that didn't work, surely the Chariots would over run into them.

So now the game all goes horribly wrong. The Chariots get 2 Impact hits between them and so don't break the skele's and next turn are counter charged by his GG next turn and die and the combat with the Noble and Vamp went as follows:

4 attacks needing 2+ to hit = 4 hits
4 hits needing 2+ to wound (no save) = 3 wounds and he's gone and the army starts to crumble. So I rolled the dice and got 3 1's. 1 Wound on the Vamp Lord, who of course, turn around and smacked the Noble down of his Eagle.

Having dodged that bullet, the wheels came off the wagon so to speak, the next turn my Eagle rolled something terribly pathetic when fleeing from some Knights and was rode down and my PG were charged by the GG. They managed to hold out for a turn before being the Knights hit their flank. Meanwhile the Black Coach charged both my Bolt Throwers in the Woods of my deployment zone. During all this, my Archmage was throwing every magic missile I had at the Vamp. Lord (who was still walking around solo btw) but the scrolls were a plenty.

In the final turn of the game I charged my BSB into solo combat with the Vamp. Lord, going for another assasination with the White Sword, but instead being cut down and handing my opponent another 254 VP's and then to add insult to injury, neither of my Bolt Thrower crew rallied and gave up another 200 VP's.

In hindsight I wouldn't have charged the BSB in and just been content to try and get another magic missile of instead as math told me he didn't have any scrolls left.

Anyways 1194 VP's to Klaus and 647 to me, Minor Loss and 5 points. Had I not charged the BSB it would have been a draw.

Game 3

Down another few tables (lowest in any tournament I've played) and up against Mitch and his Cult of Slannesh featuring:

Drucci annoited with ASF and other stuff
Lvl 2 Sorceress
4 Bolt Throwers
2 x 5 Shades
5 Steeds of Slannesh
2 x 20 Chaos Warriors with MoS
20 Devoted of Slannesh

Game got off to a flying start, so fast infact that we forgot it should have been a flank attack mission and so another pitched battle it was.
Deployment saw my army castle into a corner as his Bolt Thowers split into 2 x 2 and deployment on opposite sides of the table and he countered by placing his Steeds and Drucci opposite my main units.
His Shades scouted forwards to just behind the difficult ground terrain sections just outside my deployment zone and one outside his.

Getting first turn, his Shades moved forward into the terrain they were behind and dropped the eagle from underneath my Noble. His RBT's on the right flank dropped about 6 Archers and forced them to Panic, forgetting I should have got a re-roll against it, whilst back on the left flank the other unit of Shades sat deep in their terrain and fired at one of my Chariots. I questioned this as surely they were too far back to see, but my opponent felt that difficult ground didn't block LOS and used model's eye view, other than the 2" LOS as per Woods. I then mentioned that well surely they couldn't have deployed there and was told I didn't have a problem at the time, which of course I didn't, thinking them to be out of LOS.

Losing the arguement (was too tired to push it) I then lost the Chariot to a series of bolts which were fired straight over the same terrain piece.

Knowing that I had to close the range and get into combat ASAP to stop these RBT, I pushed up as far as possible and got a nice IF on Flames of the Phoenix against the Devoted, which beleive it or not resulted in about 14 of the 20 models in the unit dead.

Next turn, I redirected one unit of Chaos Warriors with my Eagle and took a charge of the other with the PG, who won the combat, but the warriors held. Also, the Devoted charged the White Lions and I struggled to kill them due to having WS3, but the main event this turn was the Drucci charging into the rear of my White Lions after checking the LOS with his tape measure. Nothing wrong with that, but the side with the measurements was facing him, so called him for that, but he swore he didn't look at it. Only his word for it or course, but this was the 2nd or 3rd time the rules and spirit of the game were called into play.

Anyways, after that it was just a matter of time until my PG broke and were run down and my White Lions were slain to an elf before the Archmage fled and was cut down.

I have to admit that after about Turn 3/4 in this game I didn't care what happened as I was simply too exhausted to play VP denial and had to apolgise to my opponent, but he said it himself, Warhammer can make even the mildest mannered player lose their sense of humour.

Anyways, pizza was bloody good and as Brian at DWARF said, 3 games of toy soliders, pizza, pub and a day away from the family is worth a tenner.

Looking forward to next year.

[warsmith]

Well done to those that went along to the event. Great to hear you all had a good time.

A bit disapointed by Neil... what happen to first place you promise ;D

Also good to hear Donzo Ogre got best painting award, they are a really cool army.

Is there any photos from the event??

Jamie

[Agemman]

Great day out apart from some Ogre Kingdoms player I got in game 2 he was a noob

Heres the Dirt on my list, Units with *at the start were in the 1000pt list.

Vamp Lord, Forbid Lore, Masta Black arts, Summon Ghouls, sword of might, book arkhan, Walachs bloody Haulberk

*Vamp Dark Acolyte, Summon Ghouls, Helm of Commandment, Power stones,

*Vamp Dark Acolyte, Avatar of death, E/shield, Dispel scroll, Lycni

Wight King BSB Drakenhof

*14 Ghouls Ghast
*10 Ghouls Ghast
20 Zombies

*20 Grave Guard full command banner of the dead legion
6 Black Knight Standard
*3 Fell Bats

*Varghulf
Banshee & 2 Wraiths.

Game 1 TAKE & HOLD.
Michael Arnot with Vampires
2 x 6 Dire Wolf units
2 X 25 Skeleton units
20 zombies
3 Fell bats
10 Ghouls
Vampire

This game was rather swift & a bit dull as anybody that has played vamps V Vamps will know.
Both of us had the same sort of idea put big blocks in middle of deployment zone & move to center of table. Unfortunately for Michael I had a unit of Grave Guard to do this against skeletons, & my unit was Helm of Commanded making me WS6 ageist his Ws2 Skeletons was not pretty viewing for the skellies, they got caned by turn 4, with the other skeleton unit with a curse of years on it wiping th unit out, the Dire Wolves got gaze of Nagashed & the Zombie unit got a Vargulf in the side along with Ghouls to the front= dead Zombie unit. I did feel a bit dirty at the start of my turn 5 when my Varghulf that had been wounded 3 time I invokated the wounds back onto it to stop him getting any VP's sorry. I didn't lose a thing.

Good sport & a perfect start

Game 2 PITCHED BATTLE
Donald McCallum Ogre Kingdoms

Ogre Tyrant with kit
3 Butcher tooled up
3 Iron Guts
2 X 4 Bulls
2 X 2 Lead Belchers
1 unit 3 Belcher I think.
4 Maneaters
Trapper unit with the key SNARE FINGER (the real army general)
Other rare choice can't remember name. Big unbreakable beastie.

i set up on my right flank with most of my army to try & make the Ogres come at me from 2 angles my left & straight ahead. I put my Knight varghulf on my extreme left to try a move into the Ogres side/rear ltr on in the game.

Denzels army doesn't leave much room in his deployment zone so his army was spread acrossthe hole board but a Little to my right also.

He one turn one & moved the Ogre army to wards me at full throttle apart from the Eater who moved their 6" to shoot the guns. The ogre magic phase is not much to worry about for vamps as one of their main spells is useless & a couple of magic missiles are never gonna bother a undead horde, so you only reallyy need to stop the one that increase the Ogre stats eg Stubborn, +T +S magic resistance etc. With that in mind just about every magic phase was a non event for the Ogres.
Again with shooting nothing to worry about a couple of maneater shooting up some Ghouls is not a problem, However in combat they are a real problem for Vamps....

My turn one never really moved anything to stay out of Ogre charge range on my left flank I did move the Black Knight & Varghulf out from behind cover to threating the Ogre Flank & a unit of lead belchers head on.
Magic was the usual sort of affair raise a few Ghouls summon a zombie unit Danse it into lead belcher unit on my right stood & shot killed a couple of zombies won the combat they fled zombies stood about like(well zombies). Key Gaze of Nagash at Maneater slaying one & putting a wound on the Ogre Tyrant.

Turn 2 Ogres moved right up in frontt of my entire battle line & my freshly raised zombie unit got charged (the shame). Magic again nothing to talk about. Ogre Lead belchers opened fire on my Black knights killing one, The Zombie unit that got charged of an Iron gut unit & lead belchers in the side got mashed no surprise there & there over run left them looking at the banshee unit. With the Iron Guts just behind.

I had a real problem here my Vampire characters were looking at a few Orge units about to charge, so I decided to go for evasive action with them all bar one whichh was tucked away behind the main battle linee nice & safe for Helming units around her. They left the units to skulk behind the main battle linee. The Banshees charged the Lead Bealcher unit, The Black knight declared a charge on the Belcher unit on my left who fled & escaped. The Grave guard moved forward to accept a charge from Iron Guts
Which did expose a flank of a Ghoul unit to Maneater unit & a Bull unit to the front but I never thought for a moment that Denzel would charge it with both units how wrong was I... I moved the Varghulf again to the side of the Bulls awaitingg a turn 3 charge...
Magic again the usual raise & gaze stuff but mostly raise.
Banshee scream did nothing with Tyrant cutting about at Ld9 o'well of to combat. Banshee & two Wraithss make hard work of Lead belcher in the flank who did no break .
Turn 3 McCallum went for it with full gusto charge all over the place can the vamps take it of course they can its dirty Vamps
Magic got through on a double 6 irresistible to make the Maneaters & friends S6 on the charge againstt my 20 Ghouls who were charged of 4 Bulls with Butcher to front & 3 Maneater with butcher & Tyrant to side (yip you guessed it my unit went pop) whichh got a good over run for one unit into my lurking Vamp but would mean a charge in the side from a Varghulf. Iron Guts charged my Grave Guard brave boys. & manage to hold for a few rounds of combat .
I think in total over the game Denzel managed to wound the Wight king 8 times but with the Drakenhof banner & vamps healing him it was just DIIIRRRTTY.
My turn 3 the only charge was now the Varg into the side of a bull unit to try & save my Nike vamp. Killed the belcher on my left with Banshee Iron Guts still held The main fight was the Vamp who challenged & it was accepted with the Butcher who fluffed his attacks ith the Vamp doing 1 back The Varg in the side slayed one orge also with another one getting wounded. which gave me a combat res of +3 with a Std & outnumber against me. the Ogres broke & were run down by the Nike Vamp who had now escaped the clutches of the Maneater unit but not the VAR it was a sitting duck for this Behemoth of a unit.
The Maneater went on to kill the Vargulf & Black Knights, to be honest I did not know how i was going to deal with this unit at all during the game & was a major problem for me. The rest of the Ogre army was whittled down after this & Denzel was left with a half wounded Butcher, Orge Tyrant, another Butcher 3 Maneaters & a unit of trappers.
Which lead to the Vamps getting a Solid Victory.

A tough game against a good player who has been playing the army to death for a while now so knows it inside out. A fair result in the end. Go Vamps

GAME 3 FLANK ATTACK
Andy Duncan
Ancient Usual kit
noble BSB Hail doom
2 x lvl1 Scroll caddies

2 x 10 Glade Guard
2 x 8 dryads
6 Glade Riders musician

6 Wild Riders
2 x 7/8 War dancers
3 Treekin

Treeman

Now I have came accross this army a few times in my old age & own the army myself, so I know how good it is & how hard it is to pin down with a decent player at the Helm of which Andy is.

To be continued I need my bed......

[Scott]

Great day out apart from some Ogre Kingdoms player I got in game 2 he was a noob

Must have been, because I hear that Iain McGregor massacred him too.

Wight King BSB Drakenhof

Pfft, what a beardy Grave Guard unit. Infantry units should never have regeneration, and even the character has it! Plus the unit never takes psychology! What was GW thinking when they made a unit like that...beardy beardy beardy.... *paints a Plaguebearer*

Sounds like you all had a good day. For the record it was also a good day in the Morrisons Cafe.

[PaleKing]

Jun 16, 2008 16:31:21 GMT warsmith said:

Is there any photos from the event??

Only got a couple of snaps - but here they are:





Gus was reaching for his inner-calm. He was ready to blow! Read his battle report for the deets.

[Scott]

How long have they had those T-shirts for? I've never seen them before.

[PaleKing]

Jun 17, 2008 22:05:48 GMT Scott said:

How long have they had those T-shirts for? I've never seen them before.

I got them done for the five of us that went down to the Warhammer Players Society tourney last year in Nottingham.

[asterion]

Sounds like a great tournament, but what a lineup of FILTH!!! ALl sorts of double rares from what I've heard!

What's happened to you boys north of the border. I read a report on TWF that mentioned one Iain MacGregor, who was apparently fielding 2 treemen and a dragon!! Never heard of such filth.!!

I'll know in the future there's no point in bringing a knife to a lascannon fight up there!

Well done lads, keep it up! Some good reports.

I think in total over the game Denzel managed to wound the Wight king 8 times but with the Drakenhof banner & vamps healing him it was just DIIIRRRTTY.

Ahh! New-found respect Neil! Something that dirty would be right up your alley. You were happy with it? It's hard enough wounding that WIght King once, let alone 8 times, and soul destroying to have him at full wounds at the end of the game.

Was the tyrant's unit even too hard to put the GG into? The tyrant might have been a danger for the Wight King (one of the few things in the game that would be!) so you'd probably need a fighty VC lord in there which you didn't really have...

[Agemman]

GAME 3 FLANK ATTACK
Andy Duncan
Ancient Usual kit
noble BSB Hail doom
2 x lvl1 Scroll caddies

2 x 10 Glade Guard
2 x 8 dryads
6 Glade Riders musician

6 Wild Riders
2 x 7/8 War dancers
3 Treekin

Treeman

Now I have came across this army a few times in my old age & own the army myself, so I know how good it is & how hard it is to pin down with a decent player at the Helm of which Andy is.

Setup In this scenario is horrible I was the defender & had to setup my entire army before Andy had done a thing, then (as i would have done) he proceeded to put nothing in the flank attack & set-up lots of match ups on the table that suited him.

My set was the usual T formation with zombies left of centre Grave guard centre & Ghouls right of this unit with Helm Vamp in unit of Ghouls & Wraith unit behind that front line, on my extreme right I put the Vargulf Black Knights & FellBats.

Andy put alot of stuff on both flanks with the centre consisting of his Glade Guard, the Hard stuff like the Treemen were across from my Var, Knight & Bats poor fellows

In this game the attacker goes first so the Treekin & Treemen moved down my Right flank the rest of the army shuffled about their deployment zone not venturing to close & on my left the Wild riders moved down my flank. No Magic. The shooting was ass expected deadly from WE taking out most of the bigger unit of Ghouls but not killing the unit off phew.

My turn (& in my opinion go straight for them) moved my whole battle line in the centre 8" forward apart from the Zombies who wheeled a little to stop a flank charge from those pesky wild riders. on my right the black Knight move forward about 6 inches enough to stay off of tree man charge range & the Vargulf went straight down the flank on the extreme right 16 straight ahead looking in on the table hoping to give Andy something to think about. The bat lurked behind the wood on my right waiting for their moment to pounce. Magic was terrible raised a few ghouls back in the unit that took the shooting & the Vamp lord couldn't cast a thing with his Lore of FIRE failing all his missile attempts at the Treeman lurking to his right.
Turn two Any reacted to my Varghulf by moving the Ancient toward it but faced it down towards my board edge along with a unit of Dryads. Again on my left the Wild riders move further down my flank & faced in toward my Zombie unit with a unit of Wardancer moved up a bit to support the potential charge in either the front or side depending what was exposed. No Magic
Shooting the entire wood elf battle line opened up on my now depleted ghoul unit with Vamp in it taking out the whole unit out along with a wound on the Vamp (I should mention that it was a Hail of Doom arrow also ). The Ancient strangle rooted my Varg causing a wound That was that.
Vamps Turn Varg charged the Dryads Black Knight declared a charge on the Glade Guard with mage who fled & escaped but left my Knight unit exposed to Treeman & Treekin.
My main force moved up again a little more gingerly trying not to expose any flanks to the woodies & to the side of the Zombie unit who were now facing out to the left in case the Wild riders charged I placed the Banshee unit to stop the wardancer charging as they cannot hurt the unit. O yeah the Vamp on his own now joined the Ghoul unit at the rear of the battle line.
Magic again was pretty poor with my lord still struggling to learn how to cast a frikin fire ball/blast, a wind of undeath brought out a dispel scroll that was about it poor poor showing from the Vamps here so the only way is up in the magic phase.
Shooting aBanshee scream on the War dancers managed to slay 1 of them.
The Vargulf killed 2 Dryads who done nothing back one the combat by one they held with a re-roll from the BBS 7generals Ld.

Turn three the GG who fled failed to rally a fled to about an inch of the board edge. The Treeman & Treekin charged my poor black knights. Again the Wild Riders move round my flank again into my rear arc now. The war dancer moved back a little & the GG in the centre along with the Glade Riders & Dryads done nothing, but the MAge left the GG unit as it was about to be charged. The Ancient turned to face the Varg who was now posing a real problem a BSB along with some Wardancers moved up onto a hill to help out the Dryads next turn.
No Magic
Shooting nothing much here either taking down a GG I think would have been more but for the Drakenhof banner
Combat the Vargulf won the combat again & the Dryad fled running them down & the overrun took my straight into the BSB with Wardancers ;D. The Treeman & Treekin slayed the Knight bar one still standing at the end of the combat.
Vamp Turn three
Charges the Wraiths charge the Wardancers The GG charged th other Glade Guard unit who fled shock horror. The Zombie again turned to face the Wild riders who ar not keen to charge a Zombie unit cannot think why....
Magic a little more productive taking a couple of wounds of a Treeman & Zapping a mage.
The Vargulf ate the BSB for fun & the Wardancers done nothing back winning me the combat by one again the held.
The Carin Wraith killed a War dancer making it a Draw. the Treeman nailed the last black knight as expected.
Turn 4 one GG unit rallied the other kept fleeing taking it to within a wisker of the board edge. Glade rider started to move through my now broken battle line. Wild riders backed off so not to be charged, the Kin & Tree turned to face my flank but they were a long way & the Ancient moved in to kill the Varg.Dryad lurking in the centre charge the Wraith unit but the length of the charged meant that only one Dryad was in contact like a conga line.
No magic
no shooting.
The Varg took a few WArdacners with him before succumbing to combat res & dieing. The Wraith unit lost a couple of wounds & caused a couple back, still was their though.

Vamps the Lord charge the unit fleeing near the board edge causing it to flee taking the other mage with it key. thats it move more forward keeping out of treeman range.
Magic nothing really to speak of put all the wounds back onto the Wraith unit & Dansed my lord Back into the GG unit
Combat seen the Wraith unit breaking the Dancers & dryads.

To be honest nothing really happened in the last couple of turns I killed the Glade Rider with a Burning head spell & killed the remaining Dryad unit with the Ghouls & 2 vamps charging them, the Wild rider just stayed out the way ( Go zombies they =80pts Wild riders =180pts ).

O yeah can't remember what happened to my Fell bats but they did die to something early on ;D

Great game against an opponent who new what he was doing, with an army that he has used quite a few times I think. Woodies are always a tough match up.

Thanks to Micheal Donzo & Andy for three great games & a good day to boot.

Now bring me my shiny new Dark Elf book!!!!!

[asterion]

So... what was the result for that last game Neil and where did you place??

[PaleKing]

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