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Randomly assigned opponents:
Round 1
The Albino Ram (beast lord on chariot)
VS
RotSnik The Spider King (Great Shaman on Arachnarok Spider)

Albino Ram wins the toss and charges in, The Spider King stands and fires (8 short bows), hitting and wounding 3 times, but all 3 bounce off the chariots armor.
Albino cringes at the mass of the spider, failing his terror induced fear test, dropping to WS1.
4 Impact hits fail to wound.
Cowering in terror, the Albino Ram hits once, wounds, and thanks to the biting blade, bypasses the armor of the spider.
His chariot scores a 2nd wound on the spider (thanks to the +1 S when charging).
The goblin crew strike back hitting 7 times (terror's a bitch!), but fail to wound.
The Great shaman swings twice, but fails to wound.
The giant spider hits and wounds with 3 (hits with venom surge, but fails to wound).
The Albino Ram has 3 for combat res (thanks to charging), to the Spider Kings 3; combat is a tie.

Magic Phase, Spider kings gets 6 dice, and channels for a 7th. He throws 5 at Ichy, and it goes off on a 21. Albino fails to dispel (19), and loses 4 points of move and init.
Spider King seals the deal with Gift of the Spider God.
Melee: Big spider does 4 poison wounds and drops the chariot.
Goblin crew and shaman do 4 poison wounds, 1 gets past armor, and the beast lord fails the ward, do to the shamans other tricksters shard.
Beast Lord swings back (3 bonus attacks), hits 5 times, wounds once, spider fails it's save.
The big spider stomps, wounds with 3, Beast lord passes 2 armor saves, but another gets past the ward (again, thanks to the shard).
Beast lord makes 2 more bonus attacks, hitting once, but not wounding.
Beast Lord loses combat, but rolls snake eyes to hold.

Poison Death is swift. The Albino Ram takes the hit from Venom surge, fails his armor and ward, and takes 5 wounds, turning him into a pile of goo.

Failing terror in the 1st round pretty much sealed it.
As an early prediction, I'm going to say that the winner of this tournament will be the one with the best performing mount.



-Matt

Really wishing I could have squeezed in Cardaverous Cuirass in on my Vamp Lord, I have a horrible feeling Matts Arachnark poison attacks may carry it all he way through the tournament!

Glad I don't have to worry about terror though

Looks like a fun battle- Great idea. Did my 2 Entries get through in time?

Lokirfellheart wrote:Looks like a fun battle- Great idea. Did my 2 Entries get through in time?

I'm accepting entries until I finish the first round of fights.

-Matt


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WombleJim wrote:Really wishing I could have squeezed in Cardaverous Cuirass in on my Vamp Lord, I have a horrible feeling Matts Arachnark poison attacks may carry it all he way through the tournament!

Glad I don't have to worry about terror though

I thought that guy was going to be pretty badass. That's why I posted him 1st.
He's got a high volume of attacks, but S5 is a bit limiting; and T4 with 6+ armor and 4+ ward is not exactly bullet proof for the character.
The magic does help though, 2 rounds of fighting with a possible super poison and armor piercing could do the trick.

We will see...

-Matt

Whens the next Battle?

Can i say, throgrim grudgebearer (my char) will target prioritse mounts, i forgot to say, and thought id say it here so you didnt miss it.

Thanks

Filth Cradle the Great Unclean One, vs the Unnamed Black Orc Warboss on Wyvern.

Filth generates spells and swaps for the #1 spell.

Filth wins the toss, and not having a ranged attack, charges.
Filth generates 7 power dice, and 4 dispel dice in the magic phase.
Filth throws 6 dice to make his opponent WS, S, T, I, and A 1.
Filth gets unstoppable, gimping the black orc and his wyvern. Looks like it's going to be a short fight.
Rolls on the Miscast table.
TWO. Not good.
He and the warboss take S10 hits, both failing saves and taking a wound.
Then, the big D6. TWO.
Filth Cradle is sucked into the dimensional cascade, and is removed.

WINNER: Unnamed black orc. Won the combat simply by showing up.

-Matt

Wow. Hyper lame. Guess it's always a risk, though!

Thanks for running the matchups.

The 3rd Pairing is the battle of the Chaos Dragons.

Thenska Ven-Tchar, Grand Archon of Tzeentch
Sorcerer Lord w Lvl4
Mark of Tzeentch
Chaos Dragon
Charmed Shield
Fencer's Blades
Talisman of Preservation
Other Trickster's Shard

Chaos lord
mot
dragon
amulet of preservation
helm of many
charmed shield
sword of might
favor of the gods
acid ichor
sporific musk
His name is Mlacaziuos tz dragon rider.

The Chaos Lord is exceptionally lucky. HE IS ILLEGAL, have 2 enchanted items (favor and helm of many eyes).
Gear is randomly selected for destruction, until he becomes legal, and the first selected is the Helm of Many Eyes; making him legal again.
The Organ gun of punishment misfires, and he walks away largely unscathed.

Sorc generates spells, rolling 1,4,5,5. He chooses to swap for 6, giving him flickering fire, Gate Way, and 2 spells that have no effect on characters or mounts. Lore of tzeench looks pretty crappy from here.

Chaos Lord wins the toss (thanks to the +1 for being cheaper).
He closes in and Roars, 3 hits, all on dragon, no wounds.
Sorc Lords Turn: 8 power dice, 6 dispel dice.
Casts Gate Way on a 24, chaos lord rolls all 6 to dispel (fails on an 18). Gate Way does 7 hits at strength 10!
6 Hits on the dragon, 1 on the chaos lord. The chaos lords charmed shield discounts his hit.
Chaos Lords Dragon Takes 3 wounds (rolled three 1's!!!)
The Caster follows up with a flickering fire, but fails to wound.

2nd Round of Combat:
Chaos Lord Charges in, hits the Sorc Dragon 3 times, and wounds once, dragon fails.
Sorc Lord Swings back, no wounds.
Dragons tear into each other.
The chaos lords dragon does another to his evil brother.
Not to be out done, the Sorc Lords dragon swings back doing 3 unsaved wounds, killing the chaos lords ride.
But, also at init 3, as the dragon falls from the sky, he breathes the gas (better odds). Does a whopping 4 hits, no wounds. The chaos sorces dragon, starting the round ahead by 3 wounds, saved his breathes.

After a quick glance through the rules, no eye of the gods is made, as the character did not drop the monster.

Init Last: Thunder Stomping on chaos lord; 5 hits, 4 wounds, no armor, makes all 4 wards, but must re-roll and fails 1.

Combat: Chaos Lord 2 wounds + charging for 3. Sorc Lord: 4 wounds.

Chaos Lord breaks on an 11, and is run down.
Had he held, he would have failed his fear test, and been munched by the dragon. (I forgot the break test, made it half way through the next sequence, and rolled the break I had missed).

Blood Curdling Roar cost the chaos lord the match. Because he's got the ranged attack, he held back rather than charging in. Had he just charged in, he would have been safe in melee, unable to be targeted by those nasty tzeench spells.

If the Chaos Sorcerer Doesn't get the round of magic while not in melee, he may be in trouble....


-Matt



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The 4th Pairing:
Fileur Mort (vampire lord on dragon)
vs
Qukai-Itza, the invisible slaan with lore of metal.
Spells are 0,1,2,4,6

Fileur Mort generates Summon Zombies, Van Hels, and Curse of Years.

The Slaan wins the toss (due to being cheaper)
Looking at the pairing, the slaan pretty much has only 1 chance. He's got to drop the vampire with his one and only magic phase. 1 attack at WS2 and S4 (no armor) isn't going to cut it.
Slaan Generates 7 power dice, and 5 dispel dice; Fileur Mort channels a bonus dispel die.

Slaan throws 2 dice at the golden hounds, targeting the vampire, it goes off on a 12. Vampire throws 3 dice at it, rolling 1,1,2, failing to dispel. 3 hits, 2 wounds, 1 ward save. Vampire takes a wound.
Then the slaan unloads 5 dice on Searing Doom (going for the 20+); which goes off on an unstoppable 29!
5 hits (3 on dragon, 2 on vampire), Vampire fails a ward and take another wound!
Dragon Takes a wound!
Slaan detonates, though he is touching no one.

Vampire's Turn.
Vampire passes stupidity check and Charges in!
Magic: 3 power dice, 2 dispel dice, Vampire must discard 6's.
On a 12, he heals himself. (slaan fails to dispel on a snake eyes).
On an 8, he creates 6 zombies behind the slaan (not very sporting!).

Melee:
Slaan passes terror, fails fear, but passes on re-roll.
Vampire does 1 wound, despite the red fury and re-rolls; though he's back to full strength.
Slaan misses (by a lot).
Dragon Tears into the slaan, scoring 5 wounding hits! (that's all of them), and the slaan fails 2 saves.
With only a wound left, the dragon stomps (yeah, slaan is infantry).
Slaan takes 5 more hits, 4 more wounds, and fails 2 more saves, dying.


Guys, keep an eye on the vampire lord, this guys got potential.
And yeah, if the combat went long enough, those zombies were going to charge into the rear for the combat res.

-Matt

Ahahahah! Now that, I was totally not expecting. I largely entered for the lolz, not having a rule book for the basic items, I just gave him da biggest choppa, the biggest mount and threw him in there.

From now on, he is called Dat Kucky Sod.

All the other combats are sweet. ^^

Any chance of posting all the Match-Ups?

RaptorsTallon wrote:Any chance of posting all the Match-Ups?

Because the entries are still open, I won't be posting match ups yet.
When I've got time to do the battles, the database randomly selects combatants (who haven't fought yet).
If I assign all the pairings, whoever entered last would know who they are fighting, gaining quite an advantage.

-Matt

HawaiiMatt wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:Any chance of posting all the Match-Ups?

Because the entries are still open, I won't be posting match ups yet.
When I've got time to do the battles, the database randomly selects combatants (who haven't fought yet).
If I assign all the pairings, whoever entered last would know who they are fighting, gaining quite an advantage.

-Matt

OK

Baals I know I forgot something gahhhhhhhh should have re writen the whole thing when I posted thought I took favor off.

Ha got ya Cow! Seriously lucky with my spells though, seriously unlucky with your breath weapons!

cheers

Papasmurf

Man I was worried for my Vamp a bit against that magic phase, still nervous about coming up against a combaty lord

keep up the good work Matt I am loving this challenge

This is a really good competition.
Can't wait to see who my character faces.

Hmm, just realised my guy is the most expensive guy here (i think) and is one of the only named ones, oh well, i was tempted to take thorek ironbrow for armor sheninigans. Looking forward to more battles.

Haha papa next time I'll get ya and with the dragon helm that couldhave ended differently gah such a stupi mistake never the less I'm going to run my lord in a game ( legal lord so no favor so he's legal).

You still there matt? Im getting worried about you...

Where are you Matt? I hope you are Ok.

I am looking forward to my match up. Soon hopefully...

Still working long hours, but here's a new one for you:

Overtyrant Gold Tooth vs Arch Lector Otto der Speculum (or maybe it was Schlauer)

GoldTooth wins the toss and charges.
6 Impact hits, Alter takes a wound.
Stat swap in the challenge,
5 gnoblars swing, 3 hits, 2 wounds, lector saves them both.
Horses swing: 1 wound on the T4 goldtooth.
Lector and goldtooth both strike last:
Lector 3 hits, 3 wounds (leaving gold tooth with only 2 wounds)
Gold tooth swings (S10 thanks to magic scepter),
Both hit, both wound. S10 bypasses armor, and the lector avoids taking 6 wounds due to the ward save.

Magic: 6 power, 4 dispel, Goldtooth shuts it down.
Gnoblars Swing, 3 hits, 1 wound, saved on 1+ re-roll.
Horses swing, hitting once but not wounding.
Tyrant and Lector strike, Gold Tooth scores 2 wounding hits, and does 3 wounds each, the lector fails both ward saves, And is Splattered. (double checked the rules and saw that Goldtooth does not ASL).

Round 3, free of the speculum, the overtyrant regains his full stats.
2 horses, both hit, 1 wounds.
Gnoblars: 2 hits, 2 wounds, failed armor, and fails ward.
Gold Tooth: 2 hits, 1 wound, saved by ward.

Round 4:
2 horses: misses
Gnoblars: 4 hits, 2 wounds, both saved by armor
Goldtooth: 3 hits, 3 wounds, no wards, 5 wounds inflicted on the waralter smashing it to pieces.

Very, Very close fight. Goldtooth with 1 wound remaining, advances on. He's one of the few that had a good shot at the Lector (thanks to S10 scepter of D3 wounds), and his low base attacks of 3.

-Matt

Wow i didn't think Greasus would do that against another of my favourite Character builds.

Gorillawizard wrote:Wow i didn't think Greasus would do that against another of my favourite Character builds.

The speculums weakness is average stats and superior gear. Honestly, I think the wizard lord build is superior.
Wizard lord, barded steed, armor of tarnus, sword of swift slaying, dragon bane gem, and speculum.

-Matt

Surprised the priest didn't get anything off magic wise. With 6 dice, he can two dice two prayers, and two dice the war altar, which is pretty tough to stop with only 4 back.

Red_Zeke wrote:Surprised the priest didn't get anything off magic wise. With 6 dice, he can two dice two prayers, and two dice the war altar, which is pretty tough to stop with only 4 back.

Hammer of Sigmar was dispelled on 1 die, soul fire and 2 dice, and the light spell failed to go off.
Remember that non-casting characters get a +2 to dispel.
Looking back at it, the lector should have thrown all 6 dice at soul fire.
But 2 dice at 3 spells was my initial thought too.

-Matt


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Ara-kor, Chosen of Quetzl (Saurus Oldblood)
Great weapon, Light armour, Dragonhelm, Dawnstone
Talisman of Preservation
Mounted on a Carnosaur
Look at that, 2 talismans:
Random Destruction, loses the dragon helm, then the dawnstone.
Hell Blaster fire, misfired.

VS

Vampire Lord- Miroslav Van Dyke
The Red Fury
Forbidden Lore (Lore of Death)
Blood Drinker,The Flayed Hauberk,Crown of Damnation
Level 3 Wizard,Zombie Dragon

For his lore he Always picks (Including when you roll a double) and casts Pit Of Shades whenever possible...
Seeing how none of the spells you listed are in the lore of death, you're plan just went out the window.



Oldblood wins the toss, after 3 ties.
Charges in: and the Init 7 vampire swings 1st.
3 hits, 3 wounds, no saves, 3 bonus attacks, 1 hit, 1 wound, no save. Carnisaur takes 4 wounds. Blooddrinker heals nothing, as nothing is wounded.
(dragon choose to breathe at init 2).
Carnisaur: 3 hits (even with the -1), 2 wounds, no save, does 2D3 wounds to the dragon 4 wounds.
Dragon does 3 hits, 3 wounds, and kills the carnisaur.
Breath does 6 hits, all allocated to the dead carnisaur (all init 2 attacks are at the same time; wasted the breathe).
Strikes Last: Oldblood hits once, and wounds, bringing the dragon down to 1 wound.
Dragon Stomps on the now on foot oldblood.
2 hits, 1 wound, fails armor, passes ward.

Both did 5 wounds, Old Blood charged, vampire loses by 1 and crumbles for 1.

Magic: 10 power dice, 6 dispel dice; the plan is to
invoke(2dice), invoke (2dice), soulbight(3dice) and doom and darkness (3dice).
Invoke on 13, saurus lets it go off (saving dice for lower rolls). Dragon is healed for 1.
Invoke on 11, goes off, dragon is healed for 1.
Soul blight on 9, dispelled.
Doom and darkness on a 10 (dispel 9).

Fear test: snake eyes; so much for doom and darkness.
Vampire: 2 hits, 2 wounds, 2 armor saves.
Dragon: 3 hits, 1 wound, 1 ward save.
Saurus: 1 hit, no wounds.
Thunder Stomp: 6 hits, 4 wounds, 1 armor save, 2 ward saves.
Vampire wins by 1, saurus is testing against Ld4 (doom and darkness)
Saurus Fails, breaks, and...

Is run down.

Another fight ended by thunder stomping.
Very close fight, 1 more wound would have put both the combatant on foot, and crumbled the vampire for 2 wounds at the start of combat.

The Carnisaur is no dragon.

-Matt

High king Thorgrin Grudgebearer

vs

Vermin Lord!
(breathe, vermin tide, wither, cloud)
The high king is type unique, so he doesn't take the 13th spell.

Vermin Lord wins the toss and charges.
Magic: 12 DICE! (vermin lord channels), 6 dispel dice.

2 dice vermin tide goes off, unopposed. 13 hits, but not a single wound.
4 dice Wither! Unstoppable, followed by Detonate!
The High King loses a wound to the hit, and 2 power dice are lost.
3 Dice Cloud of Corruption, cast on 14, dispelled on 4 dice.
1 Die Pestilent Breathe, goes off on a 10!, 9 to dispel fails.
1 wound and the ward of failed!

The magic phase nets the Horned Rat 2 wounds on the Dwarf King, and drops his toughness to 4!

Combat:
Init 10 rat goes 1st.
5 attacks, 4 hits, 4 wounds (thanks to wither), 3 ward saves, The King takes 3 from the D3!

Dwarf King Swings back!
4 hits, 2 wounds, 1 ward passed
The Horned Rat take 2 wounds from the D3.
The Kings throne bearers score an unsaved wound.
The Horned rat wins by 1, but the stubborn king holds.

Round 2, the Horned Rat has 2 wounds left, King is down to 2.

The Horned Rat:
4 hits, 4 wounds (again, 2 wounds due to wither).
Only 2 are passed by ward, and the horned Rat does 4 more wounds, toppling the High King.

Init 10, and S6 no save D3 wounds was too much for the king to handle.
Both combatants were wounding on 2's and doing D3 wounds; but the speed of the Rat let him make the kill.


-Matt

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The Horned Rat has answered my prayers.
I think the Vermin Lord would be prety much screwed without that magic phase though...


Edit: Why didn’t you put his name there?
A Vermin Lord isn’t a special character.

Um...
Why did the Sarus lose the dragon helm?
He didn't break the rules on magic armour as far as I can see.

Magic Armour replases ordinary mundane armour, but both light armour and the dragon helm was purchased