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We are playing an escalation style campagin. The first 3 weeks are at 1250, 2 weeks at 1500, 2 weeks at 1750, and then 2 weeks at 2000 to wrap it up. This was a week 2 game for me.

My list at 1250:

HQ
1 Herald w/ chariot, bolt of tzeentch, master of sorcery, we are legion
1 Herald w/ chariot, bolt of tzeentch, master of sorcery, we are legion
1 Herald w/ chariot, bolt of tzeentch, master of sorcery, we are legion

Elites
3 Flamers
3 Flamers
3 Flamers

Troops
7 Horrors
1 Horror w/ bolt of tzeentch

7 Horrors
1 Horror w/ bolt of tzeentch

8 Horrors
1 Changeling

Heavy Support
1 Daemon Prince w/ mark of tzeentch, daemonic gaze, breath of chaos

His list
HQ
1 Ghaz
1 Grotsnik

Elites
15 Loota's

Troops
5 Mega Nobz
1 Trukk

20 Ard Boyz w/ slugga, choppa, pk nob

Heavy Support
1 battlewagon

The mission was capture and control, deployment was pitched battle.

Deployment:
You can't see it in the picture but the Ork objective is behind the tree's next to the ardboyz with the loota's on the other side of the tree. The meganobz, ghaz, and grotsnik are all in the battlewagon.




Daemons Turn #1
My chosen wave is 3 heralds, and the 2 8 man units of horrors. I get my chosen wave. I deep strike in staying way far away from the battlewagon with nobz and deploy to take out loota's. 16 horrors, and 3 heralds later there are still 3 loota's left, gotta hate cover. They pass their break check.

Ork Turn #1
The loota's hop in the trukk and it drives away from the horrors. Battlewagon moves up and the meganobz get out and attempt to shoot down a herald (causing 1 would). The ard boyz move up and then run to get closer to the heralds.



Daemons Turn #2
I get one unit of flamers. They drop in and flame the meganobz killing 2. One unit of horror's gets in range of the ard boyz. I launch some bolts at the wagon and destroy it, I also shoot the gazes at the ard boyz and then charge with all 3 chariots. If it had been normal orks I think I could have pulled out a first turn kill but he made a lot of saves and I took some wounds.

Ork Turn #2
Meganobz have to charge the flamers, so they do and kill them all. The loota's attempt to shoot out of the trukk, roll a one for number of shots and kill one horror. I win the ardboyz combat and run down the ork mob.

Daemons Turn #3
I get one pack of flamers, the daemon prince and the horrors, my horrors deep strike in on my objective (it's out of the picture down to the bottom right). The horrors and the dp drop in and flame the meganobz again, now only ghaz and grotsnik are leftt. I blow up the trukk with some daemonic gazes, and us the horrors to kill of the loota's.

Orks Turn #3
Ghaz and grotsnik charge in and kill my daemon prince.

Daemons Turn #4
I flame and shoot down ghaz and grotsnik. At this point ghaz had his waagh up so it was the weight of shots from the horrors that finally took him down.

A close up of the heralds assaulting the ard boyz. These are my work in progress heralds. Anyone know the best place to pick up some chains so I can link the screamers to the chariots?



This was my first attempt at adding in some pictures. This is more a test of the pictures than it was for the battle. Anyone have tips or tricks on how to center the camera to get more of the table in. This was taken just using my iphone so I don't know if there is much I can do with it. But any comments or suggestions are welcome

You can get the chains your looking for from your local hobby/craft store. Go to the jewelery-making section and look for the charm chain or something like that.

Great report! Have you tried out boon of chaos yet? I have been tempted with the tzeentch stuff I have been using lately to just go crazy and have 7 different spawn forming models on the table.

i've made telion into a spawn. are those 60mm bases for your chariotts? they look sweet.

@Somnicide: I haven't used boon yet, it's just so expensive and situational. I guess you could always say that you don't have any spawn with you in a kill point game. I may have to do it on a tzeentch daemon prince and try it out tho.

@enmitee: Yeah, those are my heralds on chariots, they are still WIP. Hopefully I'll finish them up before the holidays and get some better pics of them up.

Even if you have the spawn model you don't have to use it - page 73 daemon codex (emphasis mine)

"If the player using the Gift has a Chaos Spawn model available, he may replace the victim with a Spawn..."

I just started thinking about it because of Eldrad and storm shield assault termies that seem so prevalent these days.

Here is where I got my chain and metal loops for my chariots.

http://www.kitkraft.biz/home.php