Played
in a local 1250 point tournnament last week.
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My list
Exalted
Daemon Soul Hunger; Diabolic Splendor
Daemonic
Herald mark of Khorne; Greater Icon of Chaos
Bloodletters
10 Light Armour;
Nurglings
2
Plaguebearers
16 Standard Bearer; Unholy Icon
Plagueriders
3
dispell 3
Total
1250
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Well the
turn out for this "tournament" was less than spectacular -
four of
us total including the store owner (a store owner who plays
the games
with his customers is one of the reasons I've started to
go to
this store.)
First
game played a tomb kings player.
he took a
general (liche priest or whatever)
A BSB
with killing blow and an item that raises lost members of the
unit
a casket
of souls with attached liche priest
3 member
unit of ushabti
1 unit of
archers
1 unit of
skellies
1 unit of
grave gaurd including the BSB and the general
I set up
going from left to right with the nurglings screening the
blood
letters, plagueberers, general set up behind some trees and
plague
riders on the far right.
His set
up my left to right were grave gaurd, casket on a hill,
archers ,
skellies, ushabti.
My
biggest concern going in was the casket of souls - even with DL's
leadership
I was worried about damage to my expensive models who
were all
facing the darn thing.
Turn 1 he
rumbled forward with his army - casket of soules
dispelled.
I set up plagueriders about outside of 10 inches and to
the flank
of his ushabti.
Turn 2 He
moved to close to striking range, and then used his magic
to get an
additional charge in - his grave gaurd hit the nurglings.
However
the ushabti were out of range of the caster, and were stuck
in the
middle of the board with their flank to the riders. My turn I
counter
charged with my DP and the plague bearers into his general
and grave
gaurd unit. Unfortunately the nurglings (who took no
wounds in
the first round) blocked the letter unit. The plague
riders
charged into the ushabti - with 10 attacks in the first round
and
outnumbering and a flank attack - I took the unit down to one
model. My
general in the meantime traded blows with his general and
inflicted
minimal damage.
Turn 3
his archers aided by magical movement assist moved to flank
the
plagubearers who were in turn flanking his grave gaurd. His
other
unit of skeletons charged the plague riders (head on. . . )
15
attacks
later there wasn't much left of those skelies. I started
moving
the 'letters laterally to try to get around the log jam in
front of
them. Because of numbers, and wounds inflicted I was able
to stay
ahead of the combat res he generated from flanking. The
plaguebearers
despite having 10 or so skellies from front and flank
hitting
them held without any wounds taken. In the meantime the
plague
riders rolling 14 attacks this time continued to decimate the
unit of
skellies in front of them.
Turn 4 My
general finally killed his general(we failed to roll for
damage to
his army after this) However because of 'curse of _____'
my
general took 5 wounds as punishmet - bye bye ED. in the meantime
the log
jam continued with his BSB raising casualties I inflicted.
The
difference this turn was the plague riders clearing out the unit
of
skellies that was holding them up and in my turn charging into
the flank
ofthe archers. 12 attacks (and somebearer support) later
the unit
of archers had gone from 16 to 4 models - not enough to
break my
bearer's ranks anymore. . . . With that the rout was on, as
my static
combat resolution and the wounds I inflicted were enought
to wipe
out the rest of his unit of grave gaurd and the skellies.
Turn 5-6
I moved my army to destroy his casket of souls (which I had
dispelled
all game)
Result
massacre.
Second
game we decided to run a 4 person battle, brettonians,
tombkings
versus , my daemonic legion and dark elves.
In brief
- the plagueriders crushed two lances of knnights. The
plague
bearers with a rear charging unit of dark reiders autobroke a
unit of
pegasi knights after not taking any casualties and having
enough
static combat resolution to win.
My
general who was trying to maneuver to knock out the casket of
souls was
flanked and destroyed by the unit of grave gaurd. I was
rather
dumb here with my positioning given his access to magical
movement.
The
letters were themselves flanked by the grave gaurd and destroyed.
The
nurglings were destroyed by the grave garud as well.
As you
can see this time around I didn't do as well against the
gravegaurd!
The dark
elf noble eventually knocked out the casket of soules.
By the end
of the battle all that was left of the brets was a
unit
of
peasants, the undead had the grave gaurd with characters, I still
had my
bearers, and riders, while the dark elves had lost a unit of
spearmen
and a bolt thrower. I believe we won, though we didn't
count up
wounds.
What did
I learn.
Plagueriders
get a
opponents
can do some casualties.
That six wide blood letter formation is wonderful if it hits
directly,
and not so good if it's stuck behind terrain or hit in the
flank.
I should
have in both occasions challenged with my prince - in the
second
battle I was facing attacks from both of his character models
and the
surrounding skellies. If I had challenged I still would have
lost on
static combat resolution but would have taken less direct
wounds,
and would have had a chance to kill at least one of the two
characters.
I had had the vain hope of killing enough skellies to
come
close to tieing on static combat resolution - I would have been
better
off just trying to kill one of the two characters for VP's or
hamstringing
his army in the case of the liche priest.
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