Jdredsox wrote:Awesome reports (took me a day to get through it all), great job pulling it out the bag with the last battle after that start. Shame about your shooting and magic. Next time I'm sure the dice gods will favour you to balance it out.

Red_Zeke wrote:Just read the first one so far- good stuff. Unfortunately, my (admittedly old) computer has an aneurysm trying to load that page, what with all the pictures (I'm guessing). Gonna try to let the rest load while I'm off doing something else, then come back and read through.

Thanks for writing it up!

Charles Rampant wrote:Thanks for the report, that was a really enjoyable read! Painting scores are always pretty iffy, I think, so I'm glad that my local tournaments do an all-or-nothing system (i.e. 20pts for being fully painted or 0 for less than that) which avoids the issue. Your army did well, and despite the woe of so much Warriors of Cheese, I think that you brought the right tools to handle them. Thanks again for the read, and I hope that you do more WFB reports in the future.

Charles Rampant wrote:

 Xaereth wrote:


Yeah, I agree that painting scores are pretty subjective. I wish that major tournaments would give people access to their painting scoring cards so that they could at least have feedback. As it stands, I have no clue where I missed those two points. Ah well.

At any rate, thanks for the kind words - I feel like at this point I'm most qualified to play against Warriors of Chaos, having played against them 6 times in the past 11 games haha! Maybe it's just the natural Dark Elf strength against the things Warriors have, but I guess I don't really understand why so many people think they're so good. That isn't to say my games weren't tough, but I never felt like I had zero chance to win. /shrug

Dark Elves have access to a lot of the right tools, and especially so did your list. Many armies really struggle to handle so many fast, tough 1+ save units rushing at them, since they just can't stop it all in time. Orks and Goblins are their worst matchup, since they have so many lovely S6 attacks and whatnot.

Obviously I'm not trying to say that you didn't play well - I just wanted to comment that Warriors are a nightmare matchup for many armies (mine especially, hence my borderline hatred of them ) and to explain why you are seeing so many of them.

Red_Zeke wrote:Great report- finally managed to make it through. Don't know how you find time for all the pics! When I take 'em, I tend to forget about it part way through. Well done and much appreciated.

If I have one minor quibble, I'd say its with so much talk of the unfortunate dice. I absolutely recognize that it happens, and empathize. I also appreciate when you soldier through. At the same time, I personally don't find gripes about misfortune to make particularly good reading in a batrep. (And this probably makes me hypocritical too- I'm sure I do it in my own batreps).

That one minor criticism aside, I'd very much look forward to more reports down the line!

RZ

P.S. Those have gotta be Devil's Claw seed pods on your display board for trees, no? Brilliant idea...