Well well well, welcome back my ghouls and gals how are we all? Sorry for no new posts in a while but I've been busy with Christmas and New Years and what not. Did you all enjoy your festive seasons? Santa bring you any Warhammer? My lovely girlfriend got me an Xbox so I've been smashing some Skyrim. It's been positively wonderful. I've also managed a to squeeze in a couple of battles that have been not so wonderful...
So lets have a look then. The first battle was against Prince Mantor and his High Elves. He used a different list this time. The force was still led by Mantor himself (a High Elf Prince) riding atop Pinky (his Dragon). He used some Lorthern Seaguard, Swordmasters, some Archers, Dragon Princes, Silver Helms, 2 bloody Bolt Throwers, a couple of Mages, a Lion Chariot, a Tirinoc Chariot and some Reavers. I used the same list I used last time we played partly because I liked it and partly because I'm lazy. Well if you read my battle report about the last time these armies met you'd know it was a close and bitter fight but the Vampires came out on top. Jimzan Ghoul King and leader of the Dead Host personally cut down Prince Mantor and sealed the win. This time the Elves were hell bent on revenge, and boy, did they get it! This was one of those battles that (for me) just got worse and worse. My deployment wasn't great. I tried a similar thing as last time, heavy blocks of Skellies and Zombies on the right and my fast hard hitting stuff to the left. The trouble was the terrain was stopping me from keeping all my blocks of infantry next to each other. Mantor played really well. I made a few errors and he totally capitalized. My left left flank got smoked. His Lion Chariot caught my Black Knights and his Swordmasters charged my Varghulf, killed it, and over charged into my Varghiests. The Varghiests wound up winning the fight in the end but it took most of the game. Damn. My blocks of infantry (though my Zombies managed to charge his Dragon Princes in the front and flank) slowly got smashed down and I just couldn't summon enough back. As I said one of those games were I couldn't get a foot hold. There was one spectacular high light though. An epic clash between both generals. It was Hook battling Rufio all over again. Jimzan the Everliving V.S Prince Mantor. This time it's personal! Mantor charged Jimzan and issued a challenge. Now both of these guys have ASF and Initiative 8 so they strike simultaneously. The two mighty warriors ran at each and swung, instantly slaying one another! So that was kind of nice. Apart from that little gem it was all pain for me. Still it was fun and Mantor played really well so it's gonna be a great clash next time.
Okay so my other doomed encounter involved more stupid Elves. This time at the hands of my mate Will and his Wood Elves. He'd put together 2000 points of combat dudes. It was a pretty cool list. No Way Watchers or Glade Guard. He had blocks of Spearmen (Eternal Guard?), some War Dancers, a Spell Singer, two units of Wild riders and two more blocks of fighty guys (I have no idea what they are). I had decided to use a Vampire Lord instead of my Ghoul King. Well that was a mistake. The game started off well, I got some lucky magic off and Gazed some of his expensive guys, the Terrorghiest and Banshee were screaming around and causing loads of damage and then I decided to charge this Vamp Lord into combat. I'd given him the Sword of Striking, Red Fury, a 4+ ward save and the Night Shroud. So his build was okay, but the dice told a different story. He couldn't do anything. It was like hitting a brick wall with a wet fish. Anyway he eventually got wiped through combat res. And the rest of my stuff got owned. So yeah............. Oh well, Will did a really good job and I actually really like his army. He played it well and completely destroyed me (well except the Terrorghiest which actually survived both battles. Yay!) The whole combat Wood Elf list was surprisingly tough and I think it's pretty fluffy, if not traditional, and cool. So good job Will.
Anyway all these beatings have left me bloody and bruised but also thirsty for revenge. I'll pop the Vamp Lord back on the shelf and stick with the Ghoul King. An Undead reckoning is upon us and the Elves will pay. Oh yes they will!
So in other hobbying news I painted the first unit for my Warrior list, 5 Marauder Horsemen and I think they look good. Also I just bought a buttload (a battalion, Doombull and a Ghorgon) of Beastmen so there's gonna be a tonne of modelling coming up. It's going to be great to get some different flavors onto the battlefield. Speaking of, my mate Dan has just about got his Ogres ready for war! So plenty of blood to be shed then blogged about! So stay tuned guys tonnes of stuff coming up. Don't cry for me, the Dead will rise again.
So lets have a look then. The first battle was against Prince Mantor and his High Elves. He used a different list this time. The force was still led by Mantor himself (a High Elf Prince) riding atop Pinky (his Dragon). He used some Lorthern Seaguard, Swordmasters, some Archers, Dragon Princes, Silver Helms, 2 bloody Bolt Throwers, a couple of Mages, a Lion Chariot, a Tirinoc Chariot and some Reavers. I used the same list I used last time we played partly because I liked it and partly because I'm lazy. Well if you read my battle report about the last time these armies met you'd know it was a close and bitter fight but the Vampires came out on top. Jimzan Ghoul King and leader of the Dead Host personally cut down Prince Mantor and sealed the win. This time the Elves were hell bent on revenge, and boy, did they get it! This was one of those battles that (for me) just got worse and worse. My deployment wasn't great. I tried a similar thing as last time, heavy blocks of Skellies and Zombies on the right and my fast hard hitting stuff to the left. The trouble was the terrain was stopping me from keeping all my blocks of infantry next to each other. Mantor played really well. I made a few errors and he totally capitalized. My left left flank got smoked. His Lion Chariot caught my Black Knights and his Swordmasters charged my Varghulf, killed it, and over charged into my Varghiests. The Varghiests wound up winning the fight in the end but it took most of the game. Damn. My blocks of infantry (though my Zombies managed to charge his Dragon Princes in the front and flank) slowly got smashed down and I just couldn't summon enough back. As I said one of those games were I couldn't get a foot hold. There was one spectacular high light though. An epic clash between both generals. It was Hook battling Rufio all over again. Jimzan the Everliving V.S Prince Mantor. This time it's personal! Mantor charged Jimzan and issued a challenge. Now both of these guys have ASF and Initiative 8 so they strike simultaneously. The two mighty warriors ran at each and swung, instantly slaying one another! So that was kind of nice. Apart from that little gem it was all pain for me. Still it was fun and Mantor played really well so it's gonna be a great clash next time.
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| "Looky, looky I got Hooky" |
Anyway all these beatings have left me bloody and bruised but also thirsty for revenge. I'll pop the Vamp Lord back on the shelf and stick with the Ghoul King. An Undead reckoning is upon us and the Elves will pay. Oh yes they will!
So in other hobbying news I painted the first unit for my Warrior list, 5 Marauder Horsemen and I think they look good. Also I just bought a buttload (a battalion, Doombull and a Ghorgon) of Beastmen so there's gonna be a tonne of modelling coming up. It's going to be great to get some different flavors onto the battlefield. Speaking of, my mate Dan has just about got his Ogres ready for war! So plenty of blood to be shed then blogged about! So stay tuned guys tonnes of stuff coming up. Don't cry for me, the Dead will rise again.
