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Warriors of Chaos Army
Characters
Kholek Sun Eater
Valkia
Lvl2 Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle, daemonic steed, dispell scroll, power familiar, blood curdling roar
Lvl2 Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle, daemonic steed, dispell scroll, book of secrets, conjoined homonculus
Lvl2 Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle, daemonic steed, infernal puppet, third eye of tzeentch
Lvl2 Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle, daemonic steed, black tongue

Core
5 Marauder horseman w/ light armor, flails, mark of slaanesh
5 Marauder horseman w/ light armor, flails, mark of slaanesh
5 Marauder horseman w/ light armor, flails, mark of slaanesh
5 Marauder horseman w/ light armor, flails, mark of slaanesh

Rare
Hell Cannon
Hell Cannon
Hell Cannon


High Elf Army

Characters
Tyrion
Teclis
Lvl2 Wizard
Lvl2 Wizard (between the two wizards they had +1 spell, +1 power die, the ring of fury)
BSB on horse with talisman of loec, and helm of re-roll armor saves
White Lion Special Character

Core
10 Archers
10 Archers
10 Archers

Special
White Lion Chariot
White Lion Chariot
White Lion Chariot
10ish white lions with banner of sorcery, skiensilver

Rare
Bolt Thrower
Bolt Thrower
Bolt Thrower

The battlefield: His deployment zone my he had a woods about 8 inches in from the left and then a building in the center of the right half. My deployment zone had a building opposite his woods, and then a wood opposite his building, there was a tower on a hill about 8 inch's in from the right hand side of the table

Deployment High Elves: Left to right: Lion Chariot, Lion Chariot, bolt thrower, white lions with teclis and white lion special character in the trees, archers with wizard, dragon princes, archers with wizard, bolt thrower, archers in building, chariot, bolt thrower.

Deployment Warriors of Chaos:Left to right: Hell Cannon, horseman with wizard and kholek behind the building, Hell Cannon, Hell Cannon, 2 units of horseman behind the woods with sorcerers, valkia behind woods, and horseman behind hill.

I finish deploying first for the +1 and win the role to go first.

WoC Turn #1
The left most horseman and wizard move out into the middle, the other three horseman stay behind the hill but angle shots at the bolt thower next to his building. Valkia flies up behind the tower within line of sight of one bolt thrower. In the magic phase I fail my first 2 attempts at buboes, manage to get the third off with the use of the homonculus, and he dispells the fourth as well as my regen spell and my steed of shadows. Hell Cannons shoot at teclis twice and tyrion once, tyrions deviates off, teclis makes his look out sir and I'm done for the turn. Like an idiot I forget to use his lightning shooting attack (first time using him).

High Elves Turn #1
Chariots on the left, white lions and tyrion all move at a march towards my lines right side chariot moves up next to the tower. Between magic and shooting he puts two wounds on the leftmost hellcannon and wipes out a marauder block. First note valkia is amazing against str4 spells and shots. -1 str to all attacks is just awesome

WoC Turn #2
Valkia Charges an archers/wizard block and they flee. One marauder unit moves up in front of the building and the other moves around the back of the tower the third unit moves up the middle. Kholek stays hiding behind the building. I manage to get one wound on the army standard bearer with a buboes (again failing two buboes casting values). In the shooting phase my first hell cannon misfires rolling a 6 but failing to get the partial hit on the lion chariot I was centered on. The next hell cannon misfires as well getting a three! Both of his wizards lose a magic level and take a wound, I take a wound on one wizard. We can't really decide if Teclis is immune to it or not so we diced for it (Teclis says that he ignores the first miscast he makes, my argument is that Teclis didn't miscast the cannon forced him to, we dice for it and he wins the dice roll). Kholek does his super duper lightning attack killing 3 dragon princes and they fail their break check.

High Elves Turn #2
Chariots try to charge the hell cannon on the right but are out of range. White lions move up. Tyrion rallies, archers with wizard rally. He moves his chariot to block my horseman threatening his bolt thrower on the right. His magic and shooting kills another full unit of marauders and puts a wound on the center hell cannon and makes it so that one of the cannons can't move or shoot.

WoCTurn #3
Valkia charges the other unit of archer+wizard he rolls low enough that I catch and run them down. Leftmost hellcannon charges the leftmost chariot it fails it's fear check and flees off the table. I charge the center bolt thrower and it flee's. I buboe's the rightmost bolt thrower manage to kill one and the remaining crewmember runs. My one hell cannon tries for teclis again but he makes his look out sir role. Kholek kills off the last of the dragon princes.

High Elves Turn #3
Teclis moves into the building that kholek is hiding behind. Blessed be the mark of nurgle that saves my wizard from the bolt throwers of my opponent (3's just don't help against nurgle). His left chariot fails it's fear check and can't charge my hell cannon. The failed charge from the horseman gives him a perfect line to charge with tyrion and the battle standard, forcing me to flee the horseman and two of my wizards everything makes it away but it's still not looking good. Teclis puts 3 wounds on kholek and kills all the crew on the centermost hell cannon. He gets a side shot at a marauder cav unit killing one of my sorcerers with the bolt thrower and 2 of the horseman.

WoC Turn #4
Horseman rally, and one of the sorcerers rally, the other keeps running. The leftmost hell cannon charges his lion chariot he decides to flee but makes a low run role. Valkia charges the other archer/wizard block, i purposely don't contact where his wizard is because I want to try to over-run into his bsb, valkia whiffs only doing 2 wounds and he passes his break check. One of my hell cannons raged so it couldn't shoot, the other scatters wide trying to shoot tyrion (seriously how can you miss a building 4 inch's away from you). But kholek puts some shots into the unit killing all but the standard bearer (dammit I really wanted that d3 to go away).

High Elves Turn #4
Teclis charges a hell cannon wih full crew. And then to in the magic phase teclis rolls 11 str 6 hits on kholek and he disappears. Valkia whiffs again only causing 2 wounds, but he breaks, and valkia pursues all of 6 inch's. The bsb charges my horseman who run off the table. His lion chariot runs down my just rallied wizard. And Tyrion repositions for a charge

WoC Turn #5
Leftmost hell cannon charges the bolt thrower and kills them (they would have run off the table). The other sorcerer keeps running off the table. Valkia charges again avoiding the wizard so I can line up a charge on the bsb (sound familiar). She actually manages to wipe out all the archers, but doesn't make it to the bsb. My hell cannon shoots the building and hits killing the standard bearer, korhil, and i role 1 wound on teclis :(.

High elves Turn #5
Teclis fails his terror check from the hell cannon and run's. The BSB charges in using his talisman of loec on the hellcannon. Causes one wound suffers one from the talisman and dies (kholek had put a wound on him earlier).

WoC Turn #6
The no crew hell cannon rages and charges Tyrion, valkia charges tyrion. Tyrion hits and wounds with all 3 of his attacks Valkia only saves one. She then misses with 5 attacks, hitting with one that teclis saves. My hell cannon lands dead on target and kills teclis.

High Elves Turn #6
Tyrion puts another wound on a hell cannon.

I think I'm getting a little mixed up about what happend around turn 4-5 but man was it a total bloodbath. At the end of the game he had tyrion, a white lion chariot, and 7 archers in a building. I had 1 untouched hell cannon, and 2 cannons with no crew. Points wise he had about 250 on me but I had an extra table quarter he got my general but his bsb was dead so that was a wash. A very fun game. I think I probably should have been a bit more aggressive with Kholek, but I knew that Teclis would put some pain on him with the lore of metal. I went for the win with valkia and whiffed I probably should have just contented myself with charging and killing his bsb and leaving Teclis to beat on the two hell cannons, that probably would have swung it my way, but whats the fun in that! The list was a lot of fun to play and I think I'm going to keep it for ard boyz. I'm currently pondering making a normaly 2250 list with Valkia in it, I can see now why people like her so much.

Thank you for the battle report!

The twins can certainly be a real pain to deal with, however, i do have to say you have the most bizarre army for Chaos I have ever seen. 3 Hellcannon must be a real pain to control, especially since they got nerfed into the ground from Storm of Chaos. It probably never makes any game boring however

HiveFleet wrote:Thank you for the battle report!

The twins can certainly be a real pain to deal with, however, i do have to say you have the most bizarre army for Chaos I have ever seen. 3 Hellcannon must be a real pain to control, especially since they got nerfed into the ground from Storm of Chaos. It probably never makes any game boring however

My usually 2k-2250 lists look a little more standardized. Just trying to think outside the box for the Ard Boyz tournament. Actually I rather like the new hell cannon rules the only thing I really miss is the re-roll on the artillery dice. At least now they can re-strain on a 9 and don't have to charge the great eagle that leads it around for the whole game . And the unbreakable is really nice to have.

Loving the fact of the three hellcannons, my 3000point army is going to have. they're hard to control though. Not enough armour though i think. a unit of chaos warriors wouldn't have gone astray. Good battle report though.

Nice report, though the WoC army isnt too varied.

Good report - I've seen that list run somewhere else before but can't remember.
I know it's in a discussion and believe it's in a FAQ on the Teclis miscast issue, but I believe he still suffers it as he himself did not cause the miscast - check the verbage in his description for something along the lines of "ignores the first miscast he casts" or something like that.

I've actually wondered about spamming hellcannons and bringing the infernal puppet to modify peoples' miscast rolls. Provided you get lucky with misfires [that sounds weird] you could really ruin a magic-heavy army's day!

I'm not real familiar with WoC, but I do play High Elves. The Lion Chariots cause fear, so unless the hell cannons cause Terror, the LC's should have been able to charge it and shouldn't have fled from their charge/assault.

The Hellcannons do cause Terror.

What spell that Teclis knows could have put 11 Strength 6 on Kholek? Just wondering... Probably something obvious but nothing from High Magic can do that...
Only one I can think of is Infernal Gateway and last time I checked Teclis didn't have a Mark of Tzeentch .

Apart from that it was great to see some wacky lists meeting in a succulent bloodbath. Good Batrep, cheers.

Dark Fire wrote:What spell that Teclis knows could have put 11 Strength 6 on Kholek? Just wondering... Probably something obvious but nothing from High Magic can do that...
Only one I can think of is Infernal Gateway and last time I checked Teclis didn't have a Mark of Tzeentch .

Apart from that it was great to see some wacky lists meeting in a succulent bloodbath. Good Batrep, cheers.

It's from the lore of metal. 2dt str x hits, where x is inversly proportional to your armor save. Don't remember the exact name of the spell.

Spirit of the Forge! FAQ'ed to inflict hits instead of affect models, which makes it wicked nasty.

RZ