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Tomb kings //me

Level 4 // 5+ward, +1 attack, DT, -1s and t
23 archers, musician
50 skeletons, full command
4 necropolis knights, standard
2 scorps
1 catapault
1 casket

Empire //BrinK

Level 4 //Life, thrones, regrowth, dwellers and flesh to stone
Hellblaster
5 knights with lances
Captain on horse
20 greatswords
WP
2x 20 halbrediers
5 outriders
10 handgunners
10 handgunner detachment
10 halbrediers detachment



Turn 1 TK

Magic

12 PD 7 PD

Casket on outriders, dispelled

+1 attack on archers, 4 dice IF, wizard level drops by 2, forgets +1 attack and -1s and t

Shooting

Archers inflict 1 wound on wizard //He suddenly tells me the wizard is mounted with light armor and a 4+ ward save...

Catapault scatters, nothing

Turn 1 empire



Magic

2 PD 1 DD

He stores 1 dice in rod of power, fails to heal mage

Turn 2 TK

All ambushers arrive, 1 scorp scatters off board, destroyed



Magic

11 PD 7+1 DD

5 dice DT on greatswords, 4 dice fails to dispel

6 dice casket on outriders, 4 dice fials to dispel, outriders wiped out

Greatswords fail LD check, flee 3 inches past the halbreds, 8 die to DT tests

Shooting

Archers do nothing

Catapault misfires, cannot fire next turn

Turn 2 empire

Left halbreds and detachment charge scorp

Greatswords rally, champ dies to DT

//He doesnt even reform the right halbreds to face me, i have no idea what hes doing...

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Magic

5 PD 2 DD

Tries to cast thrones on 1 dice, fail to cast //An observer joins and helps me translate, turns out hes new

Stores 2 dice in rod of power

Shooting

Apparently his captain has the dragon bow, shoots at catapault, fails to hit

Combat

Halbreds fail fear check, Scorp kills 1, halbreds inflict 1 wound, scorp auto dies due to unstable //Seriously? A s5 t5 monster automatically dies due to unstable facing a cheap 20 block of fodder?

Turn 3 TK



Magic

5 PD 4+2 DD

DT on knights, dispelled

1 dice saved in rod of power

Combat

Knights cause 9 wounds

Steadfast, stuck

Turn 3 empire

Tries to do a 20 inch charge with the knights, claims he has a standard that gives him +1d6 charge range, rolls 4d6. When i point out the empire steel standard is 1d3, he says its from the main rulebook. When i point out no such standard exists, he decides to use the +d3 standard from the empire book. I tell him to roll it seperately, he fails to charge and ragequits.

Comments :

Terrible game, terrible player. At least gave me a chance to test a ambusher heavy list. Funny, this is the 3rd time ive played a european with bad english whom tried to pull stunts on me...

First turn IF pretty much screwed me over.

Skeletons out of position didnt help much.

His wizard lord was surprisingly resistant against ranged fire...although i just realised his setup was illegal (4+ ward, armor of tarkus AND rod of power is over 100 pts)

I dont know what scorps are for when a 20 man halbredier unit auto kills it due to unstable rule.

I dont know what necropolis knights are for when a 20 man halbredier unit tarpits it for 2 combat phases.

Catapault was worthless.

Im not sure where else to go with this list...neither scorps nor knights seem to provide enough killing power.

Nice battle report to bad about the player though. He will learn one day to never quit on a game of Warhammer till your last man is dead ........Well I hope

Yeah, shame about the player, and the first turn IF, OUCH!

One thing Question, its halberd, not halbred (not being offensive, it just niggles at me like a loose tooth for some reason, sorry).

About scorpions/knights:

a buddy of mine has been running a heavy ambush list since the new book came out and I have noticed that scorpions=eagles in the sense that they are good at taking out small flanking units/harassers, warmachine crews, and lone wizards, they really do not belong in combat with full rank and file with high natural combat res.

The knights should be treated like the above (if you want solo targets) or fighting other small elite groups/Calvary. Also, he has had success flank charging with them ala chariots or any other Calvary/monstrous Calvary in the game.

Hope some of that helps,
hermit

edit to add: he has also run knights and warsphinx/collossus in pairs before and a combo charge from them can be devastating!