Army for sale!

A Friend of mine has a ton of stuff to sell.

Lizarsdman army(see pictures below)
all new in boxes.

Forgeworld Eldar

Cobra MkII
~professionally painted and comes with a custom KR case

Wraithseer

Spectre squad

He also has a Limited edition Eldar Bonesinger
(these normally go on ebay for £50)

Check the pictures below and if interested I can put you in touch.

Armegeddon! BatRep Warriors of Chaos Vs Dark Elves....

Ok so I fought this battle a couple of weeks ago now and so my mushy brain being what it is is unlikely to get all the facts right but please bear with me..

The Long awaited battle of the Clubs between my Home Club, BattleUX of Uxbridge and the Armageddon Club of High Wycombe took place a couple of weeks ago.

5 (or 6?!) of the Armegedonners rocked up and immediately started the trash talk.  "Who has Kholec ??" Well that was me and so I was paired up with James. A nice guy with a hozwwible Khainite Dark elf army.

here are the forces at play...

My army

LORDS

Kholek

HEROES

Festus

Exalted Champion (BSB)

Halberd, warshrine

CORE

24 Khorne warriors 

Halberds, full command

Chariot

SPECIAL

3 Dragon Ogres

Great weapons 

14 Nurgle Chosen

Great weapons, full command

RARE

3 Skullcrushers

Skullhunter

His army (as best I can remember)

LORDS

Hellbron (Witch elf lord character)

(In the witch elves , unsurprisingly)

HEROES

Hag (Battle standard)

Cauldron of Blood

Hag
Cauldron of Blood

CORE

40 witch elves

Full command, +1" charge banner

24 spearmen

Shields, full command

6 dark riders

Crossbows

6 dark riders

Crossbows

10 crossbowmen

SPECIAL

40 executioners

Full command

8 Shades

5 harpies

That's right! No magic!! 

My opponent was a really nice guy from the Armageddon club based in High Wycombe. During the pre game niceties I learnt he was a regular on the tournement scene so I realised I was going to have my work cut out. 

My first cunning move happened during the deployment. He was massing his forces to the centre right. My idea was to deploy my General, Kholek and his Dragon Ogres on the left and try and bait him deploy either his witch elves or executioners to oppose them. It didn't work. He ignored me and my dragon ogres would have to slug their way round the left flank to join battle. This guy had game. 

Spells, Festus gains Rancid Visitations a handy magic missile and I plumped for the signature spell.  Being able to cast this into combat will suit me fine. 

My chosen roll for their eye of the gods and receive +1T, naturally. 

We roll off for first turn. I get the +1 (for being hurrendously outnumbered!)

The enemy dark riders vanguard their way forward ready to bait my troops and pepper them with crossbow bolts. 

here is our deployment...

Naturally all forces surge forward.

In 

My left flank

My centre

My right flank

The enemy right

Enemy centre field

Enemy left

Deployment

Turn one and my forces move up, above you can see the Dragon Ogres and the Nurgle Chosen moving through the village on the hill. 

My Khorne wing on the right also moved up to engage the dark riders and executioners. 

centre field

After my Khorne warriors obliterate the Dark riders on the right they find themselves exposed to the executioners.  I'm quietly confident they can weather the storm until the Skullcrushers pile in next turn. 

Also you see the chariot has had to manoeuvre around the stern on the Khorne warriors due to their over ambitious overrun.   

Again due to an over anticipated overrun this time from the Nurgle chosen seeing off the second unit of Dark riders the Dragon Orges are having to carry out the same manoeuvre and coming round the back of the chosen.  

Kholek did manage to fry 2 shades who were doing a poor job of cowering behind the building in front of him..

In the Centre my BSB managed to turn himself into a Daemon Prince! which sounds great right? Well actually no. 40 gazillion witch elves later he's nothing more than Purple smoke :(

Oh and do you see that 10 man crossbow regiment looking at the flank of my Skullcrushers??

Yep they charged the Flank of my Skull crushers, and they won the combat, and... my skull crushers fled the table. Failing no fewer than 4 Ld tests, 2 with re-rolls.  

In the picture above you can also see 3 Khorne warriors remaining of the 24 which stood there before. turns out even striking last Executioners are tough hombre's. Of course it didn't help that with 24 attacks I hit with only 7, removing only 5 executioners.  When they struck back, (with re-rolls due to eternal hatred) I died, howwibly howwibly.  

So with Khorne well and truly abandoning me i turned to my other units to exact revenge. The chariot charged and (unsurprisingly) wiped out the crossbows.

And the Chosen wiped out the harpies.... The chosen now eyed up the spearmen who moved in to intercept them. 

In other news the witches moved forward and mullered my warshrine, overran with the aim of lining themselves up against the Dragon Ogres. Having seen the sheer volume of dice these girlies put out I was not feeling confident. 

Chosen Vs Spearmen

Witches look to charge the Dragon Ogres

My chariot right before it...

Above we see the almost inevitable conclusion to the Witch / dragon Ogre combat.  Kholek suffered 6 wounds to the hands of Hellbron in a challenge and despite wounding her in return twice I rolled snake eyed for the total wounds. Kholek's Thunderstomp killed 3 or 4 more witch elves but it wasn't enough. My guys broke and were run down. Suffice to safe the rank and file Dragon Ogres didn't get a chance to hit :\

As the dust settled the Chosen and the 30 remaining Executioners line up for bragging rights but at this point he game was at an end.   I would have like to have seen how this combat would have gone. 

I was at T5 with a 5+ regen and sporting great weapons, he outnumbered me almost 2-1 With Festus being good in challenges and his ability to cast into combat also on my side I think I could have won this combat....

...Then again I though I would have hit more than 7 times with 24 attacks

... I though Kholek could have squashed Hellbron

...I thought my Skullcrushers would not have fled the board...

:\

until next time.....

Battle Report: Warriors of Chaos Vs Tomb Kings (2400)

Warm up game

So you may have noticed I've been on a push to paint up my warriors of chaos army ahead of an inter club  show down.  Us at BattleUx (Wargamers of Uxbridge) are taking on the some up starts from High Wycombe. 

So in my practise game I drew Stephen and his tomb kings.  I really like his army he's put a lot of love and thought into it and like me he doesn't try to find some gimmicky trick to pull off the win at all costs, er, win.  He plays the game because he enjoys it, like me.  I knew this was going to be a good game. 

Now you'll forgive me if I get this wrong, this was the first time I've fought against these guys so was fighting in the dark a lot but here's Stephen's army


Tomb King
~can't remember what he took but he was quite killie and with a 4+ ward and obviously, regen.

Battle Standard
~banner with resurrect bound spell

Level 3 priest
~lore of death

40 skeletons
~spears shields

6 Chariots
~full cmd

6 Chariots
~full cmd

12 Tomb guard
~full cmd

2 Scorpions

10 archers

10 archers

Warsphinx

casket of souls

2400 or thereabouts. 


My Army is a lot more compact...

Kholek Suneater
(with Dragon Ogres)

Exalted Champion
BSB, halbard
Warshrine

Festus
(with Chosen) 

24 Khorne warriors
Full cmd
halberds
shields

Chariot

14 Nurgle Chosen
Full cmd
Great weapons

3 Dragon Ogres
Great weapons

3 Skullcrushers
Skullhunter

Here are some pics of the setup..
On my left my skullcrushers coz lets face it they can handle it.

My left flank, all of it!

In my centre my Chariot and my large regiment of Khorne warriors. there guys are flanked as you can see by a house on the left and a wood on the right.

My centre

On my right flank is where I deployed my strength. My Warshrine with battle standard in a central position, my general, Kholek and his Dragon Ogre bodyguard and then the Nurgle Chosen on the left with festus. Incidentally their eye of the gods table roll resulted in +1 armour save.  I could have taken +1T but as I had rolled Curse of the Leper meaning I could buff their toughness I though a 3+ save would be better here.  as Festus's second spell I declined Blades of Putrifaction (I didn't expect having trouble wounding) for the signature spell. After all I will be getting up close as soon as possible so that poisoned template attack would come in handy.

My right flank

Enemy deployment!

On his left (opposite my skullcrushers) are deployed one unit of chariots, then inside of them 10 archers and then the warsphinx....

My enemies left

In his centre, his horde of skeletons with 3 characters, tomb guard and second unit of archers. Skulking behind is the casket of souls.

Enemy centre field

The enemy right!

The second unit of chariots eyeing up my Nurgle chosen.  In the woods on the hill you can spot the 2 scorpions. they're currently burrowing their way beneath the sands ready to strike on turn 2.  

My enemy right

So the game starts! First turn on either side sees us move towards each other. I can see he's going to get the initial charge but I'm confident my guys can hold their own. 

Shooting phase (his, obviously) see a bunch of petty arrows scatter off my armour.  The magic phases are far more interesting. He casts Purple sun of Xerxes on my Warshine  I fail to dispel but the spell scatters harmlessly out of the way.  With all my dispel dice gone he casts the casket of souls bound spell and reduces a Dragon Ogre down to 1 wound.  

In my magic phase I cast Curse of the Leper on my Dragon Ogres granting them +1T however I manage to catastrophically detonate Fetus's head. 3 chosen are caught by the blast, 2 make their regen roll and one perishes. Festus shrugs off the would rolling a 1 to wound! A lucky escape.  I then try to cast the Warshrine's bound spell to buff all my unit champions. However Stephen is not wanting any more buffs and dispels my attempt easily.

Turn two and the inevitable charges occur. Below we see the first unit career into my Skullcrushers. I have to say the dice were against Stephen here as the impact hits were not good to him and I managed to butcher a whole bunch of his guys including 6 wounds on his unit champion in a challenge with my skullhunter. I roll on the eye of gods table and get.... +1BS :(

Enemy engaged

Also in turn 2 the scorpions turn up and foil my charges next turn. the scorpion in the centre sits plumb in front of my chariot and the second one in front of my Dragon Ogres.

The magic phase and the shooting phase was less than entertaining. In fact I can't remember a single thing that actually happened here... Oh actually, Kholek managed to kill a chariot using his Lord of Storm attack. I had a funny satisfying feeling when I felled something from afar.  Maybe this is what High Elves feel like....

The centre awaiting the big push!

The second charge into my Nurgle Chosen was, for me, the highlight of the turn. Stephen rolled better for his impact hits and caused a fair few wounds. He then followed up with a couple of wounds in the combat, however they were not enough. hitting on 5s against T4 foes with a 3+ armour save and then a 5+ regen save meant he managed to kill only 4 of my chosen.  With my 2 front ranks still intact I hit back with 15 attacks needing 3s to hit and wound. needless to say as the dust settled the chariots were no more.  Stephens face was a picture.

The right  engages

Turn three was a bit of a disaster for me.  My Skullcrushers finished off the Chariots on my left and Kholek and his Dragon Ogres charged and destroyed the scorpion in their way. But this was where my good fortune ended. 

My own Chariot failed to kill the other scorpion foiling my plans to overrun into the flank of the Warsphinx but even more worryingly though was my centre. 

The Khorne Warriors being all brave took aim at the horde of skeletons in front of them. My successful charge was short lived as with 24 attacks I managed to hit only 7 times. I killed 5 skeletons. Plus the 2 wounds I put on the enemy Battle Standard Bearer meant I ended up losing combat.  Having lost frenzy and a flank charge from the tomb guard meant in the next turn my Khorne warriors broke and were run down.  Their blood curdling in the mud under bone heels may have pleased Khorne, but not me. I was miffed. 

Regrettably, the game had to end there as we had run out of time. If we were to continue, I could see light at the end of the tunnel but I'd have to fight for it. 

A really enjoyable game Stephen. A rematch is on the cards...

Chaos gathers

A quick update to my Warriors of Chaos army.

Coming along nicely I think. Our Big inter club mash up has been postponed a week So I may be able to field a fully painted army for once!

Dragon Ogres base painted, the one on the left is almost done

based and washed

These are the Warshrine bearers which will stay on the spur as I'll be using an Ogre Stonehorn to carry the war shrine

warshrine bots awaiting magnets...

the most painful model youll ever put together. so many spiky bits!

The rest of my Chosen awaiting paint

Chariot awaiting paint

fun thing about magnets. novel places to put things to dry!

Dragon Ogres in the process of being based

blade of the great axe needs some work