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My first game of eighth edition.
I had my orc and goblin army lined up in a traditional battle line with my mage in an archer unit at the end. This unit was at a slight angle to be able to potentially shoot or release fanatics at more of the demon army in front of me.

On the first turn, the blue scribes (or something, maybe it was just a basic tzeentch herald) stole "Curse of the Bad Moon" from me with some special power and used it to fire a gigantic vortex right down my battle line, wiping out 50% of my army due to failed initiative tests. The rest of the game was a formality.

I sure felt it was worth my time to pack my stuff, walk down to the store, wait for a game, place a hundred and something models on movement trays to essentially lose the game before I'd gotten to do anything due to some lucky rolls on my opponents part.

I was so unimpressed I've barely played any 8th edition since.

Curse of the Bad Moon is a vortex spell that moves along a linear path. So all he had to do was have LOS down my battle line and roll well and he could hit lots of units. I mean, deploying in a line is a fairly standard thing, and it's kind of unavoidable with orc and goblin armies.

I wouldn't mind losing a single unit to a spell but situations like that along with increased model counts don't make for a fun experience, to me.

It's entirely possible the Daemon player had his rules wrong, but he told me (and didn't have the army book to check) that the ability he was using used my wizard as the casting point as you guys were saying. The problem was that my archer unit (which had the wizard) was slightly angled, so he could draw a LOS from my wizard down a significant portion of my battle line.

It's possible we played it wrong, but I am still leery about the time spent deploying just to have a unit wiped that quickly.

Ah, okay. That goes some way to explaining it. However, I would still content that any mage with flight could have done the same thing.