Unnamed1999 Pts - High Elves Army
Commander @ 124 Pts
Lance; Dragon Armour; Shield; Ithilmar Barding
Helm of Fortune [25]
Pure of Heart [0]
1 Elf Steed @ [0] Pts
Mage @ 180 Pts
Magic Level 2; Lore of Heaven
Ring of Fury [30]
Dispel Scroll [20]
1: Second Sign of Amul [0]
4: Uranon's Thunder Bolt [0]
Mage @ 180 Pts
Magic Level 2; Lore of Fire
Ring of Corin [35]
Jewel of the Dusk [15]
1: Fire Ball [0]
5: Conflagration of Doom [0]
10 Archers @ 120 Pts
Longbow
10 Archers @ 120 Pts
Longbow
6 Silver Helms @ 189 Pts
Barding; Lance; Heavy Armour; Shield; Standard
Captain @ [14] Pts
7 Elf Steed @ [0] Pts
19 SpearElves @ 250 Pts
Spear; Light Armour; Shield; Standard; Musician
Captain @ [12] Pts
19 SpearElves @ 250 Pts
Spear; Light Armour; Shield; Standard; Musician
Captain @ [12] Pts
4 Dragon Princes @ 216 Pts
Lance; Dragon Armour; Shield; Standard; Ithilmar Barding
Banner of Sorcery [50]
Drakemaster @ [18] Pts
5 Elf Steed @ [0] Pts
Tiranoc Chariot @ 85 Pts
2 Chariot Crew @ [0] Pts
Spear; Normal Bow
2 Elf Steed @ [0] Pts
Tiranoc Chariot @ 85 Pts
2 Chariot Crew @ [0] Pts
Spear; Normal Bow
2 Elf Steed @ [0] Pts
2 Repeater Bolt Thrower @ 200 Pts
4 Crew @ [0] Pts
Casting Pool: 6
Dispel Pool: 4
Models in Army: 83
Total Army Cost: 1999
After rolling for spells I rolled to see who was my general. And he was the commander. Hurah! Though obviously meant that death of him would be disaster, 324 pts swing in opponent's favour. Got to be carefull with him. As I suspected I ended up facing empire. This time without hellblaster(phew). His army was:
warrior priest w/1+ save and great weapon
mage(lvl 2, 2 dispel scrolls)
army standard bearer 'Golja' (ring of volan, full plate)
20 swordmen w/full standard and detachments of 10 archer and 10 free company
2 unit of 10 knights, non-IC both. Full commands and other had warbanner too
10 handgunner w/hochland marksmen
12 flagelant
~20 great sword(ouch) w/full command and griffon banner(double ouch) with 5 free company detachment
2 great cannons
Terrain was good. For me. Thanks to winning choise of table edge I had nice little hill at roughly at my center, another at left bit forward out of DZ and another on right and bit more forward. He had 2 forrests around center to screw his DZ zone. I might note opponent just threw some terrain on board and then we rolled for choise of sides. Our usual terrain deployment style. Alas I lost roll for who deploy first. With 10 units to deploy vs his 8 he would get +1 ANYWAY and now I have to reveal my deployment before he has...In end it looked like this:
High elves. Left to right:
charriot, heaven mage, helms(7 wide) behind hill, archer, archer, RBT on hill, spearmen w/fire mage, spearmen, RBT, dragon princes, charriot.
Empire. Left to right:
knights w/warbanner, cannon behind(but overall good LOS to center and what's more charriot on left), handgunners, swordmen, archer screen front of handgunners and swordmen, free company detachemnt right of swordmen, gap due to forrest, flagelants front of great swords, free company detachment looking right(table quarter contester), gap due to forrest, knights, cannon at far right.
Then I won first turn with rolls of 2 and 6. Hurah!
High elves 1st:
Helms advance top of hill, charriot next to them, mage moves slightly behind hill but keeps LOS on knights for ring(just in case it does something). Spear units advance as well. Dragon princes and charriot advance top of another hill on right. Magic. 8 dices. I get rerolls off giving 3 rerolls, conflagaration dispelled with dices, uranon's scrolled, ring of corin removed ring of volan and ring of fury causes 9 hits to knights, 2 wounds and all saved. Shooting. Both bolt throwers aim at separate knight units using single bolts. Without even needing rerolls I killed 2 from both. Capitalising on this right archer unit aims at free company(10 strong one) that archers didn't QUITE screen and dropped 4 of them using all 3 rerolls(had nothing better to spend and I don't like those detachments). Other archer block killed 2 archers(no LOS to anything other in range). All in all not too bad for first turn.
Empire 1st:
Knights on left moved all ahead, ending ~2" from helms. What's up? Knights on right move bit more cautiously. Infantry advance. Magic. Nothing spectacular, comet is scrolled. Shooting. Charriot on left blasted apart, RBT on right as well. Handgunners dropped 2 silver helms. Damn I hate cannons.
High elves 2nd:
Dragon princes + charriot declared charge at his knights on right, no other charges(I concidered charging with helms but opted to risk for flank shot at his knights after all). He opted to flee and ran straight offboard. Hurah! Spearmen units just shufle around, no need to go anywhere. Heaven mage moves to other side of hill looking at swordmen. Magic. 10 dices. Thunderbolt scrolled, 2 rerolls off(he failed to dispel), ring of corin dispelled, ring of fury failed to do much, conflaragation did little as well. Shooting. RBT shot at flank of knights and hit with reroll. Bolt scythed through 4 knights before it failed...At which point I rerolled and killed the 5th knight. Hurah! Only 3 standing. Bless Isha for flank shots
Archers dropped 3 swordmen and 6 archers and final archers ran never to be seen again.Empire 2nd:
Great swords charged dragon princes, flagelants spearmen unit without mage(he couldn't reach the other one) and detachment of free company charged other spear block(trying to kill the mage). Knights on left opted to not charge. Spearmen(both units) opted to hold as did dragon princes as I thought I was out of range. Alas I was in range so dragon princes got charged and commander was out of range. Crap. Atleast free company was out of reach. Infantry moved ahead some more. Magic. Rerolls got off but didn't do much if anything. Comet dispelled, 5+ ward save for warrior priest. Shooting. Cannons fell short and badly. My charriot is looking forward to charge it. Handgunners killed another silver helm. Combat. Dragon princes killed 2 knights(including champpion in challenge between him and warrior priest) for loss of 1 great sword(hoooo!). Obviously I broke. After rolling 4" I thanked Asyr for griffon banner. Elsewhere flagelants killed 4 spearmen for loss of 3 flagelants. After this panic checks. And charriot failed it and ran offboard. CRAP!
High elves 3rd:
Dragon princes rallied. Silver helms opted to charge empire knights. DUMB DUMB DUMB! Sure I had numerical advantage of 4-3 but it's only 1 model difference. And I had RBT that could soften them up. And uranon's thunderbolt. Damn but this was big mistake. Elsewhere fire mage detached from spearmen unit(swordmen unit aproaching). Magic. Fireball killed 2 free company, thus taking them to 4. Rerolls dispelled, then miscast ends the magic phase. Crap. Shooting. Archers(both unit) + RBT concentrate on swordmen and dropped 11 of them. This was too much for them and they fled. Combat. Spearmen killed 6 flagelants leaving only 3 alive. And silver helm charge was disaster. I killed none(infact only one horse hit and failed to wound!) and I lost knight in return. Learning of warbanner was final blow and nerve of knights broke. He crashed straight into heaven mage. Ooops!
Empire 3rd:
Great sword charged dragon princes. This time I opted to flee. He tried to redirect into spearmen(which he couldn't charge due to dragon princes blocking the way) but they were bit too far. Swordmen rallied. Magic, not much. Shooting. Cannons concentrated on free spearmen block and killed total of 8 of them. Handgunners added to tally and killed 3 more. Ouch! Atleast their nerve held. Combat. Mage killed, knights overran into archers. Spearmen killed TWO flagelants. Crap.
High elves 4th:
Knights(both units) rallied, hurt spear block backed off to get out of reach of handgunners. Magic, not much. Conflaragation was cast but failed to do much(as was whole game. Whenever I got it off 1-2 hits was only result, except once when I failed to wound with all 4 hits). Shooting. RBT dropped Golja(the army standard) who was bit too close to me for his own safety. Archers killed 3 handgunners but panic check passed. Combat. Knights killed ONE archer, archers killed ONE knight and I lost by 1 but held. Hurah! Final flagelant died(phew. Otherwise greatswords into flank).
Empire 4th:
Greatswords charge flank of spearmen unit which opt to flee(obviously). Swordmen starts to move away from combat(obviously) and gets behind forrest(so since conflaragation did nothing I managed to do nothing to them). Magic, not much again. Shooting. 1 spearmen died to handgunners. Cannons failed to do anything again(felling short). Combat. Archers lose by 2 but hold.
High elves 5th:
Dragon princes into flank of great swords. He opt to flee and roll 5". We check it and I was ~13.5" from him so they were run down. Hurt spear block charged free company which held. Hurah! Silver helms move to flank the empire knights(keep fighting archers!). Magic nothing. Shooting. RBT and archer unit concentrate on handgunners killing 3 more and this time they ran. Combat. Archers killed YET another knight leaving only standard bearer. I still lost by 2 when he killed 2 archers. But archers still held. They fought like being possessed by Khaine. And free company lost 3 of them and final one broke(after killing champpion) and somehow I decided to pursue. Luckily didn't take them into close range of handgunners but that was unneeded mistake.
Empire 5th:
No charges. Handgunners rallied. Magic. Comet top of dragon princes. Shooting. Utter failure, again. Got few spearmen from badly damaged unit but nothing major. Combat. Archers did nothing, knight standard bearer killed 2 archer again(damn lucky. How can he kill 4 archer with 4 S3 attack?) and this time -3 break test was too much. This also panicked silver helms(ran offboard) and other archer block. And his knight just ran off the edge so RBT couldn't shoot him. CRAP!
High elves 6th:
No comet, dragon princes charged cannon and got to it(thank god). Archer unit failed to rally and so ran offboard. Crap. Magic failure again. Shooting didn't do much with only RBT. Combat and cannon was run down.
Empire 6th:
Not much since cannon failed to hit flank of knights. Game over.
End result was victory for high elves ~550 pts. Dunno what's it in official result table but since we used 2000 pts table it was only minor victory. Had helms passed panic check it would have been solid victory. Damn. But overall it was fun game. Even if I missed my eagles
