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First game in a long ass time 6+ years, did fairly well tbh. My dice HATED me on my ld checks in the beginning.

Me DE

Lvl 4 sorc-peggy familiar pendant
lvl 2 sorc- darkstar cloak, scroll
master with some AP great weapon, full mundane SDC with Black guard
2x10xrcb
5shades
5dark riders with rxb
Cauldron
14 black guard with master, tower guard with CD, hag graef
12 witch elves with BoMurder
Hydra
Reaper
Reaper

Him HE
Lord on dragon (this guy was my downfall)
Lvl 2 archmage with shield and drain magic
10 archers
3 bolt throwers
20 spearmen
20 swordmasters
20 pheonix guard with mounted BSB

Terrain
From my view.
Forest middle left
Hill on adjacent corners (each on our lefts), buildings on adjacent corners(each on our right). I pick the side with the 2 story building.

I had a unit of rxbers ready to go into the building, Bolt throwers on the hill, Dark riders, peggy sorc, and the other units of rxb on the far left. In the middle was the hydra, with the WE and black guard on each side, with the cauldron right behind them, and the lvl 2 sorc right next to it. Shades deploy right next to the building( this was a huge mistake)

He had has reapeaters on the hill, spearmen, pheonix guard, and swordmasters (in that order, my left to right) Dragon right in front of them. Archers with the archmage right behind the building.

1st turn -he rolled to go first (fml)

He moves the dragon up 20 inches, cast shield,(dispelled) drain magic with (fml again) this is the only magic he gets off ALL GAME! and cant find anything in LoS to shoot at. so he passes. (oh he also moved his archers into the building)

I move my hydra up a little ready to take the charge from the dragon (first big mistake) move the black guard up, witch elves up, cauldron up (gave +1 attack to the black guard)
RxB move into the building, other RxB wheel around and move 1" towards the dragon. peggy Sorc moves just around the edge of the forest. Black riders march up the flank (and are what i though was out of ranger of the repeaters)

Magic, tosses familiar around forest edge to give me LoS to the building with his archers (dragon was out of range, my second mistake, shoulda hit him harder with magic) Bladewind gets dispelled, Word of pain on the archers in the building (ws1 bs1) which he fails to dispell, was out of dice on this sorc, didnt try to cast darkness cause of drain magic.
Other sorc cast conflagration of doom on the spearmen, which he scrolls.

Shooting phase
18 repeater shot at the dragon put a wound on it and the lord (think im doing pretty good here) 20 RxB shots dont touch him. Turn is passed.

2nd turn( this is where things get nasty) my panic and break tests epic fail.

Dragon charges my hydra, all his other units march up.

Shooting
his reapers put 2 wounds on my dark riders, they break.
archers take a shot at my shades (yeah was hoping to go around the building and take that unit out, but he went first (dumb by me) they kill 2, they fail their ld test and break


Combat
His dragon rider rolls the nuts, puts 11 wounds on the hydra, i flop the scaly skil and the regen roll and it dies Beastmasters pissed that the hydra is dead wound the lord. They then autobreak.. he elects to pursue, i roll distance feth. He rolls a 6, kills them, and lands an inch in front of my sorc on foot.

Me

i March the black guard up towards his 3 units, and wheel the witch elves a tad to charge the dragons flank, cauldron put a 5+ ward save on the black guard. Dark riders fail to rally, shades fail to rally, on foot sorc fails her terror test cause of the dragon and runs off the table ( my dice hate LD rolls... yay for 8/9 leadership. Peggy sorc flies behind the witch elves. the rxb unit in the buiding passes its ld test ( bout time). Cauldron moves up.

Magic
Peggy sorc fails to deliver, darkness gets dispelled, the chillwind i through at the dragon doesnt go off, word of pain gets dispelled.

Shooting.
18 repeaters at the dragon put the last wound on the lord (of course he passes the monster reaction test). 20 rxb shots at the dragon manage a wound, another 20 from the other unit all whiff.

Turn 3

His dragon charges my witch elves, nothing else wants to move cause of my black guard.

Shooting

repeaters take 4 black guard down. Shooting kills the fleeing dark riders.

Combat

His dragon kills 3 witch elves. The get pissed and put a wound on the dragon (now at 3/7)

My turn

Charge with the black guard ( out of range by 2 inches ) Shades rally. Cauldron moves up, Peggy sorc flies behind the and to the side of the cauldron, out of LoS of the repeaters. Left RxB unit moves towards the building.

Magic

Peggy sorc Delivers. Power of darkness casts +4 power dices (8 total now) Bladewind gets dispelled, Chillwind gets doesnt cast on 1 dice, throw 4 dice at black horror and roll about a 15, he cant dispell it. Drop the template on his swordmasters unit, he loses 7-8 of them. they pass the panic test.

Shooting. Repeaters have only the building in range and fire 18 shots, kill 3 archers. RxB shoot into the building and kill 2.

Close combat, Witch elves put another wound on the dragon, he puts 4 on them and breaks them, and overruns them.

Turn 4

He charges the shades with his dragon

Shooting

Bolt thrower puts 8 wounds on the black guard, dropping them to just the master and the standard bearer. Archers in the building kill 6 of my rxb and they break

Combat

Dragon meets Mr. Assassin that was hiding in the shades. Assassin strikes first and puts 1 wound on the dragon (Yay manbane) dragon then eats him and the last 2 shades.

My turn

Cauldron puts +1 attack on the last of the black guard, and they charge the swordmasters.

Magic Ms. peggy sorcs cast darkness, dispelled. Bladewind, dispelled. black horror delivers and kills 8 spearmen and 5 pheonix guard. They pass the panic test

Shooting,

Repeaters volley and put another wound on the dragon (god that thing is annoying when your dice hate you)

Combat

I finally get some dice love and kill 6 of the swordmasters, they in turn kill my master. I win combat by like 1 or 2, he breaks, the now lonely and pissed of standard bearer runs them down. (ending up like 2 inches from a bolt thrower.)


Turn 5

He flies dragon towards my peggy sorc who is just out of range of a charge. Charges the cauldron with his spearmen and pheonix guard.

Shooting
12 shots from the bolt throwers at the peggy sorc only do one wound ( yay pendant of cant kill me)
Breath weapon from dragon fails to wound

His spearmasters and pheonix guard manage to kill all but the death hag with the cauldron, she in turn takes her 6 swings and kills 4 spearmen.

My go

Peggy sorc isnt afraid of mr dragon and nothing moves ( secretly praying the repeaters finish mr dragon) the 4 running rcb rally!

Magic
Power of darkness goes off, but only replaces the two dice used to cast it, Cast word of pain on the pheonix guard, dispelled. In a masochistic rage she cast black horror and $$$
drop the template over the pheonix guard, spearmen, and my death hag ( she still loves you). Kill 6 pheonix guard, and 11 spearmen!

Shooting
Repeaters deliver and finish off the thorn in my side that was the dragon!

Close combat. Death hag challenges, he declines ( boo) she takes 6 swings and kills 3 more pheonix guard, they kill her and the cauldron is removed.

Turn 6

Not much happens tbh,

He kills all but one of the rxb and he holds.

Fails to finish off peggy sorc with the repeaters.

My move

Peggy sorc wipes out the rest of the pheonix guard with a bladewind and black horror

the lone RxB takes out one spearmen.

Game ends

I had 587 points to his 922, minor victory for him.


Made quite a few errors in judgement since it was my first time back in so long, also threw another 250 points on there at the last minute so the list wasnt optimal. Really glad to be back and the game was a lot of fun!

Yes, nice report though it may help if you don't give too much away in the first part. Also why did you use the cauldron to give +1 attack to the Black Guard first turn and not a 5+ ward save to something?

Arheiner wrote:Yes, nice report though it may help if you don't give too much away in the first part. Also why did you use the cauldron to give +1 attack to the Black Guard first turn and not a 5+ ward save to something?

I figured (very incorrectly) he would charge the black guard with his dragon..... Which with the Hag Graef banner would have him taking like 16 something attacks........

now it makes sense why he didnt charge the black guard....

In retrospect he definitely made the correct move, and I made a rookie mistake.

How did i give away to much?

I think maybe just the note on the dragon and rider- "This guy was my downfall". Definitely tipped your hand as to the winner with that comment, but it didn't bother me. Thanks for posting.

RZ

I think you did pretty well vs. the dragon all things considered. I would just soil myself and give up inside.

- Blackbone

Blackbone wrote:I think you did pretty well vs. the dragon all things considered. I would just soil myself and give up inside.

- Blackbone

Yeah the one poor judgement on my part killed it. I should have though, would I have charged that black guard? Answer is most definately not, he would have been looking at like 16 attacks, which with some decent dice roll would kill it (or at least the lord) before it could hit me back...

Another mistake im pretty sure i made is when the dragon had 2 wounds left i volleyed 12 shots at it with the bolt throwers when it was like 20 inches away (close range). I would have hit on 3+ and wounded on a 4+ with D3 wounds which more then likely would have killed it I should have just sent 2 full strength shots at it.

ShivanAngel wrote:Another mistake im pretty sure i made is when the dragon had 2 wounds left i volleyed 12 shots at it with the bolt throwers when it was like 20 inches away (close range). I would have hit on 3+ and wounded on a 4+ with D3 wounds which more then likely would have killed it I should have just sent 2 full strength shots at it.

You mean hitting on a 2+, as the Dragon is a Large Target.

So you made some mistakes, we all make mistakes from time to time. Since it was only your first game in a pretty long time, you did pretty good.

Airmaniac wrote:

ShivanAngel wrote:Another mistake im pretty sure i made is when the dragon had 2 wounds left i volleyed 12 shots at it with the bolt throwers when it was like 20 inches away (close range). I would have hit on 3+ and wounded on a 4+ with D3 wounds which more then likely would have killed it I should have just sent 2 full strength shots at it.

You mean hitting on a 2+, as the Dragon is a Large Target.

So you made some mistakes, we all make mistakes from time to time. Since it was only your first game in a pretty long time, you did pretty good.

yeah meant 2's. Probly should mentioned i typed this at 2am the next day..... soooo might of messed up a few things.

Thanks for the report. I think the key to your future successes is that you are learning from your mistakes.

A wise man once told me that "virginity is like a bubble; one prick, all gone" sorry that has nothing to do with this. He actually said that what makes a wise man wise, is all the mistakes he has already made. Or something like that. Basically he has learned from his mistakes or experiences.

yup next weeks game is against brets, or maybe TK if the guy loses and drops down a level on the board (which i dont see happening).

Gunna jot down notes if my opponent is cool with it, so hopefully a good report will come from it.

That would be cool. I don't see him having a problem with it as long as it isn't too time consuming.

Good luck. BTW even great generals will tell you it is sometimes better to be lucky than good.

boogeyman wrote:That would be cool. I don't see him having a problem with it as long as it isn't too time consuming.

Good luck. BTW even great generals will tell you it is sometimes better to be lucky than good.

yup had some absolutely horrible rolls early on (DE's dont fail Ld tests that often...). My dice heated up about a turn to late.

Like I've been saying to anyone who will listen- absolutely no substitute for playing games. I learned 10x as much from my first 5 games as I did from hours of reading forums. Glad you're up and running!

RZ

Red_Zeke wrote:Like I've been saying to anyone who will listen- absolutely no substitute for playing games. I learned 10x as much from my first 5 games as I did from hours of reading forums. Glad you're up and running!

RZ

yup having a blast, but this shops fantasy crowd is only on fridays. Think i found a place in Houston that has a weekday crowd tho, so hopefully will get more games in.