Battle report: Maurader horde vs gobbo squigs

My marauder horde faced a night goblin squig ramshackle last night and it didn't go too well for me...

Squigs! Faasands of 'em!!

A friend and I played 2400 points last night after work at the local wargame club we help to run. He has a bit of a reputation for being tricksy and using all sorts of goblin-esque schenanighans. So I thought I'd play him at his own game.

My Northman horde. Bot a warrior in sight.

I normally squeeze as many skullcrushers as I can into my armies and load up on big killie powerful lords. 

I knew my friend wasn't going to change his list to tailor my army but I thought I'd try to throw him off track. 

Firstly I was worried by his fanatics. He usually takes 9 fanatics and 2 mangler squigs. So 4 units of warhound with vanguard and 2 units of marauder horsemen with throwing axes would take care of them I would have thought. And they did. 

I had a further 8 marauder horsemen with shields and light armour on escort duty for my sorceror Lord and my exalted Battle standard. 

The rest of my army was Tzeentch daemons.  A Herald in a unit of 18 horrors, 4 screamers and 5 flamers. 

I'm an equal opportunities killer. I kill Squigs of all shapes and sizes. Here we see a Giant Squig, in game terms, its a giant.

even more squigs

I'm not going to go into a full battle report however Ill cover some of the major points.

The game started off with me making a vanguard move and enticing out the fanatics who dutifully killed a shed load of their own gobbos by moving through their own units.

Magic in the first two turns managed to damage our own forces more than the enemy. I managed to miscast and wound every sorceror on my side. the gobbos managed to send some magical vortex the wrong way and the daemon winds of magic turned a shamen into a herald of Khorne!

Word to the wise. If your mate sets up the battlefield before you reach your table, make sure you swap sides so he can't stick his doom diver in a tower.... 

My vanguard move to draw out the fanatics

On my left flank my daemons size up the Giant (squig)

After a fanatic put paid to the marauders and my Tzeentch herald miscast and took a wound off my sorceror lord it only took 22 exploding squigs to kill off my 2 remaining characters.

When I eventually managed to engage to huge units of squigs I learnt the hard way that they hurt. If you do managed to break them they explode and kill you anyway.

My daemons did manage to down a giant before it got to cause any real danger. Screamer flyby and flamer barrage took care of that.

My main unit of horsemen with the sorceror and Battle standard being bored of sitting round dodging magical vorticies, mangler squigs and fleeing warhounds decided to charge through a fanatic,
bad idea. it killed 6 horsemen leaving only characters left.  They did manage to vbeat the squigs in combat but they then exploded and well, I died howwibly howwibly...

goblin advance

1  Screamer Vs 30 goblins, why did I charge them again???