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Yesterday I played against a friend of mine. Last time he destroyed my cryx, although it cost him everything he had. This time he is up against my small Legion army. I have only played this army 3 times, so I am not completely down with the rules yet. Besides that I am a bit fuzzy on the details, so I am only going to describe the main events in any given turn.

Legion:
Vayl
- Shredder
- Shredder
- Protector
- Carnivean
- Scythean
Full warmongers
Warchief
Shepperd

Trollbloods
Madrak Ironhide
- Impaler
- Impaler
- Axer
Full stonebearers
Full Champs
Runeshapers
Fellcaller hero
Champion Hero
Swamp gobbers

I got first turn. I deploy everything in a line in the center. Terrain will not really come into play, so I will leave that out. from left to right it is:
Shepperd, Carnivean, shredder(1), Protector, Vayle, Shredder(2), Scythean, Warmongers, warchief

He deployed his army also in the center. ('-' = for spread out line, '.' is for free space) The brick looked like this
----------------- Trollblood champs -------------------......Gobbers
Impaler(1), fellcaller, Madrak, Axer, Impaler(2).. Runeshapers, champ hero
-------------------- Stonescribes ------------------------

Legion First turn: I cast leash on protector and chiller on scythean. All run up and rile where needed.

Trolls first Turn: Champs move up in defensive line. Madrak follows and casts surefoot. 2 fury go into the vault. Rest of the brick follows and stonescribes activate vault. Gobbers move forward and smoke. runeshapers and champ hero move up

Legion second turn: I upkeep both spells. I then move forward a little. I stay just outside of his Champs chargerange. The warmongers take up position to protect vayl from incoming shots. the left shredder and the carnivean use a terrainpiece to get out of LOS of the champs (so they do not get charged) and carnivean casts animus on self. Vayl casts carnivean animus on scythean. Scythean and right shredder take up positions on right flank.

Trolls Second turn: Surefoor is upkept. Move up in brick again. farstrike from madrak on left impaler, rest into the vault. Impaler boosts hit and damage. 1 warmonger down to 1 health. The other impaler farstrikes himself. Boosts to hit and gets a crit on a second warmonger. It is slammed over vayl, but survives at 1 health. Vayl and warmonger are knocked down. Runeshapers use spell to obliterate the shredder on the right. gobberr move up and smoke.

Legion third turn: I notice Madrak is in range of the scythean. (blocked by 2 trolls). I decide to try the assasination. I upkeep chiller. Vayls stands up. She moves up a bit (to catch most trolls in command) and casts incite. She then gives the scytheans animus to the scythean. She also feats. I start with the left shredder. It goes rabbid and moves up to a champ. It knocks him down to 2 wounds. I buy an extra attack to hit the other champo in base contact. It is brought down 1 healt. Then the carnivean assaults. It misses 3 champs with the spray, but hits the impaler on the right. It takes 5 or 6 damage. it then kills 1 champ, but the second keeps making thoughrolls. Last 2 fury I use to cast animus on self. Scythean charges. Its first attack kills a troll. I can now hit madrak, which I try. Madrak gets hit 2 times in total. He is down to 10 or so wounds, but survives thanks to some scroll. I then charge up warmongers and warchief. the chief kills 1 champ. On the right a warmonger charged a gobber. It gets hit and a berserk chain starts. I kill a runeshaper. Another shaper makes his thoughroll. 2 other warmoners also strike at trolls killing 2 more champs. Shepperd releaves fury on the scythean. I then end turn, so all models move again. The warmongers engage the entire front line, plus the champ hero and surviving shapers. The beast pull back for a second round (I am glad I remembered to use the feat )

Trolls Third turn: Surefoot is upkept. left champ kills 1 warmonger, but leaves the chief at 2 healt. Impaler finishes him off with double boost. On the right the champ kills a warmonger and the axer kills another. (main brick is now free to move.) Impaler throws at scythean, doing 3 damage to 1. Shapers wiff. The champ hero does a few points to 1 monger, and kills the other. Madrak takes shelter amongst the fellcaller and the stonescribes.

Legion fourth turn: So close, and yet so far... Chiller is upkept. I start with the warmonger. He kills 2 shapers and wounds the champ. The Scythean charges the impaler and kills it in 2 strikes. Its animus goes off and I kill the right champ.I engage the impaler on the left with a rabbid shredder, doing some damage, but not enough. Vayl is up and I use the orb on my scythean. It hits, but fails to damage. She then nodes a rampeger on the axer. It moves towards the right impaler with it's back towards me. He misses. Vayle casts arm animus on scythean. Protector moves towards her to protect. Carnivean moves up and uses its spray. He hits the axer, scribe, madrak, scribe. In the end I damage the axer and madrak (down to 6).

Trolls Fourth turn: Madrak upkeeps surefoot again. The axer turns around and hits the carnivean 2 times, (that hurts) bringing it down to a few wounds. The fell caller finishes the carnivean and I reave fury. The impaler kills the shredder. Madrak stands about an inch behind his scribe shield. The warmonger gets finished off.

Legion fifth turn: I decide to try and kill of all beast and be done with it. The impaler has 3 fury on it so I decide to try something. I upkeep chiller. I move vayl to within 10 inch and cast malice. I do 5d6 damage for a 33 total. This finishes the impaler. I then cast incite and the scytheans animus on the scythean. The scythean walks into combat with the axer, fell caller and 3 scribes. It hits the axer 2 times. Slaughterouse kicks in and all in combat with it die. I then rile the beast for 4 fury (need to get it somewhere ). Protector moves up to protect vayl.

Trolls fifth turn: Only 2 scribes, a champ, 1 gobber and madrak left now. Madrak moves into contact with the scythean (to close to charge). He hits it 2 times, boosting damage. The champ hero then finishes the job. I reave fury. the scribes move to stand before irtonhide as a shield again.

Legion sixth turn: I cast chiller on the protector and incite. The protector charges the champ, killing it. It then kills of a stonescribe with a bought attack. The shepperd charges the gobber, but fails to hit.

Trolls Sixth turn: Surefoot is again upkept. Madrak fails to finish killing the protector (4 left). the scribe tries, but only does a point of damage.

Legion seventh turn: I upkeep chiller and cast incite. I also cast a hoarfrost at the stonescribe. I critical hit and madrak, the shepperd, the protector and the scribe are frozen in place. The scribe is killed and damage is boosted on madrak. The protector then hits madrak and boosts damage killing him off.

What a game of atrition that was. Fortunately I made it through most confrontations in 1 piece, although I had nothing left in the end. It was a pretty close and hard fought game in which the pendulum swung both ways. (although he never had a real shot at vayle thanks to her fury and the protector keeping her safe.
I like the army I picked. Everything can hit hard and the berserk on warmongers is great for clearing models. If the thoughrolls where not on the trollside he would have been finished off sooner, but what can you do...

Get a Scythean...it eats trolls for lunch with it's Takedown animus (no tough checks for YOU!).

have you read the report?? the scythean is one of my beasts... try again

Get more Scytheans....

as an all comer list I like including the Carnivean as well. It is a very flexible beast... Besides 1 scythean is enough. Trolls can only make so many thoughrolls....

any other comments?? or are you gonna keep harrassing me for more scytheans

Oh, I'm sure I can find something else to harrass you about.


Trolls are always a pain for my legion to deal with due to the mass medium bases and tough, because nothing slows your attacks like tripping over that one kriel warrior that just won't die.

Have you thought about adding the Thrullg to your list? I have one, and i've been kicking around the idea of bringing one since the Legion lacks anti-spell abilities in general. Surefoot, eh? Nom nom nom.

If you don't want Scytheans get the Screamer-Killer Carnifex .

The protector, it's the only beast I like in the legion line and I'm pretty happy it go the all important kill.

mm, I do not like the trullg-model. it is just as ugly as I find most of the legion line. (really only a couple models I like)

Thing is I am a not playing a "tournament legal" list and it is almost impossible to add models to my collection, since rackham stopped producing metal... Now that they are broke I wonder if there ever will be cool metals like that again...

as for the protector getting the kill, I really did not expect it to live after the charge. I thought I would have to cut for full fury and then cast a couple hoarfrosts into madrak. It turned out a lot easier when the protector survived and I only had to heal 2 The hoarfrost was just for show. I think I would have got him even if he was not chilled. Alternatively it would have been fun to first try killing him with the shepherd. She really needs to kill a caster

You need to reread Malice. It only adds one point of damage per fury on the target, not a die. The Forsaken does that.

Thanks for posting this. I am getting into the game with Legion so am voraciously devouring every batrep I can find. Nice to see Vayl do well in a protracted game. She looks so squishy I think playing her would give me an ulcer.

@somnicide:
Vayl is exceptionally fragile when she gets hit, but she's not easy to assassinate. Between her reposition on the feat turn, high fury allowing her to camp 3 easily, and the threat of dark sentinel, she can normally sit pretty safe.

She can also play both attrition (by getting first strike due to speed of legion + leash / slipstream and feating backwards) or assassination (with ideal conditions, she can have a scythean charge things 16" away at effective MAT10 POW19).

If you're looking for more batreps for legion, I recently posted my Adepticon ones in the Legion forum on the PP site. All three posts are still on the 1st page at the moment.