First Battle report :)

Ok, as you probably already know this is my first batrep
Short - I am a new OK player, who now has 9 games under my belt! I was invited to a tournament yesterday at 2000pts 1st prize was £25 GW voucher. 3 other players I know from the 40k scene where I play competitively. They have all won their fair share of local tournaments, 1 O&G player, 1 HE player and 1 Bret player. The day before I heard that neither the O&G + HE were taking magic or artillery?! (They did )
Well the O&G player brought magic anyway, and the HE player brought WE lol.

Game 1 - O&G - Ogres 2000pts (He brought a goblin army!!!)
Army - mine can be found on - http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=26555.msg350783#msg350783
He brought - 15 Spider gobbos, arachnarok, 3 units of 50-60 gobbos with 6 fanatics total, 30 squigs and 3 wizards, 2 level 4 1 level 2 orc and a pump wagon.
Deployment... suffice to say I was deployed first and it was battle line.
Vanguard my sabretusk to block his spider vanguard. other sabre tusk to release the fanatics.
Turn 1 -
Movement -
I marched my star forward towards the spiders ( I didn't know how good they could be if they got the charge, he only told me after the game, also never played O&G so had no idea what units did what)
My sabre blocked a charge from the spiders, other sabre released fanatics, all 6 from 2 units. it died. He only got 1 over 10 inches other ones all stayed around 5".
I moved leadies up to the centre piece of terrain and shot his squigs. Cannon took 5 wounds off of spider + moved up 6".
Magic - got 10 on winds (double 5)
cast braingobbler on squigs... immune to psyche so... had +2 because of gruts and now another +1 because it was successful. Cast Comet in the middle of his two main night goblins and cast bone crusher on his wizard which he dispelled.
O&G Turn 1 -
Movement - He moved his pump wagon 6", spider 4" (to stay away from my guts) Spiders could not move without charging and he didn't want to be closer to my guts as it was already a 15" charge range, 4/6 fanatics hit impassible terrain! yay! the other two moved and blocked his night goblins (so they were stuck with the comet) Squigs moved up max.
Magic - He got 9 dice (goblins get +1 dice for every spell attempt?!!?!?)
I got 5 dispel. Cast that big template character test spell over my MFC and rolled str (does that go by my riders Str or the mounts?) I tried dispell and failed by 1 and the movement debuff on my mfc, some failed casts and he was done. My MFC passed their str tests anyway on the riders str.
Shooting -
He tried to hit with catapult on spider, done nothing and that was it.

turn 2 -
Movement -
I declared charge on spiders, declared charge on squigs with MFC, moved cannon 6" forward, moved leadies so they could see wizards.
Charge successful for my Star rolled 9! MFC Failed horribly rolled 2x2 (had movement debuff, which reduced them to 6" move)
Magic - Got 5+4 winds
Got troll guts off, irresistible, Str 10 hits on bases in contact passed all my regens.
Cast Comet again (dispelled - scroll) cast blizzard (Dispelled)
Shooting -
My Leadies killed a goblin mage (as revenge for casting that Str test vortex!!!)
Cannon landed 4 wounds on the spider (splat)
Combat - Impact hits killed 4 spiders He challenged with his some special character, I accepted with butcher and he took 3 wounds I took none.
I took no wounds and killed the unit to the man. Reformed to face down his flank.
O&G turn 2 -
Movement -
Pumpwagon declared charge on my star, squigs declared charge on mfc.
Pump wagon rolled 7 on 3 dice and made it easily (2" away) squigs failed moved 6".
Fanatics Spun towards his night goblins again blocking them but killing none yet.
Magic - he rolled double 1 and 1 channel.
He cast the something and failed (sorry I coudnt remember because it had no game effect)
Shooting -
he killed his own fanatics with short bows so he could move next turn.
Combat-
He rolled low impact hits and only dealt 2 wounds which I saved. attacks back I only did two wounds, but he lost combat and was unstable and blew up

Turn 3 -
Movement -
Declared charge into Night goblins Passed easily getting 11" (ogre charge, flank), MFC charged squigs again and failed! Seriously?! stumbled forward 4" or something.
Leadies charged one unit of night goblins (to hold them in place for comet)
Iron Blaster charged Same night goblins as my star (front charge)
Magic - Low winds - 2+1
Gruts Sickle for +2 and got guts off again (couldn't think of what else to do) he failed dispel
Combat -
Didn't bother counting CR for the NG fight--- I won and used my DHB for a laugh(didn't have many other units I needed it for) they fled, Cannon ran them down, Star reformed (restrained on 2nd roll) Cannon missed flank of other NG by about 2".
Leadies took 1 wound and drew combat. (I know)...

O&G Turn 3 -
Movement -
 He couldn't move the NG's near the comet as one was in combat, the other was blocked in by my IB + star. Squigs Failed Charge Treble 1 2" short or something. Wizards moved around away from comet.
- Magic -
He rolled Double 6 and put 5 Dice into Movement reduction on my MFC ( I think he had given up)
Miscast and blew himself up (sucked into the warp), Other orc Wizard Cast with 6 Dice but I cant remember what, also miscast + Lost 3 wizard levels. Cant remember what it was he cast (either that or we were laughing to much and forgot the resolve it) comet went off! 4 Markers and he lost LOTS of Night Goblins and I was out of range

He didn't even want to roll combat and just conceded.
We shook hand and he told me he would bring a proper army next time

Chris

fun to read, thnx!

only thing is that sabretusks don't vanguard if they are not accompanied by a hunter 
The additional dice the goblins get per spell is a mushroom that can cause IrrForce (iirc)

Looking forward to the next 2 reports.

Cheers

Ogres Vs Brets 2000pts

My army - http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=26555.msg350783#msg350783
I cannot remember his exactly, 2 had 2 large units of kotr (1 character bus) 6 Grails, 50 Men at arms (I think)
15 archers and a treb. He had a damsel also but Neither of us really got magic off!

Deployment - Dawn Attack Again!
I deployed spread out a little bit (bad deployment)
He kept everything central.

I got turn 1
Movement -
I kept gutstar where it was, moved my MFC 4" (to keep it a long charge range)
Moved my sabres to my gut stars flanks, Canon moved up 6 same with leadies.
Magic - Double 1 no channels! didn't opt to use gruts as this magic phase wouldn't be worth losing my general lol.
Cast bone crusher, he dispelled!
Shooting -
Leadies killed 3 grails!? I was so happy lmao
Cannon killed another two. (Might have been other way around) I was over joyed either way.

Brets turn 1 -
Movement -
He charged my MFC (success) he moved men at arms to the flank of the star, his character bus moved towards my stars front his grails moved wide closer to my leadies + cannon (not close range)
archers stayed.
Shooting -
Treb misfired and spun around archers Killed my sabre tusk on men at arms flank.
Combat -
I wont go into it... But I lost horribly! and and run down (so far MFC haven't done me any favours! )
they re-formed to face my rear. (of gutstar)

turn 2 -
Movement -
Gutstar stayed put, Cannon + Leadies moved up 6"
Sabre moved up to block the last grail knight
Magic - 3+4, used gruts as this was going to be a messy combat.
I got Troll guts off on my guts. *phew* and got curse of the midnight wind off on his generals unit! (re-roll 6's)
Shooting -
Leadies killed remaining grail knight, Cannon misfired and spun to face the direction it was going lmao!

Brets turn 2 -
Movement -
Character bus declared charge on front, men at arms on side, kotr on rear... all made it... I thought I had lost lol.
Magic - He rolled low
I used dispel scroll. He was buffing his HKB general! (sorry cant remember spell name)
Shooting -
Treb blew its self up, archers done nothing.
Combat -
I lost (fairly easy to assume why) I didn't take many wounds thanks to re-rolling 6's and trollguts.
I lost 2 wounds I think 1 on my SM. So 1 guy died (gruts sickle)
Killed a but load of men at arms trying to get some easy combat res but not nearly enough lol.
I passed leadership (stubborn) and we stuck around.

Turn 3 -
Movement -
Leadies moved towards the central combat, cannon charge flank of character bus.
sabre marched towards archers.
Magic - Rolled 4-4 + Gruts Sickle + 1 to cast from Maw magic's attribute
Rolled Guts off on my star- easy, got curse off on his generals unit again, and Blizzard also. He failed to dispel anything.
Shooting -
My leadies killed a few archers 3-4. passed their test.
Combat -
I challenged his HKB general with my SM - He fluffed and I killed him outright. That re-rolling 6's saved my a$$!
From then on I cleared most of the men at arms, a few kotr and killed 1 paladin + 1 wound left on BsB.
Cannon Done LOTS of damage from impact and the rhinox is awesome!
I won the combat and over ran his generals unit, Ironblaster held and reformed to face fleeing rear charging kotr. (they ran 7")

brets turn 4 -
Movement -
He rallied men at arms on snake eyes! kotr rallied.
Magic - I killed his damsel
Shooting - archers done nothing.

Turn 5 -
Movement -
Cannon charged kotr (success) Ironguts charged archers (failed) leadies and sabre made it in to archers.
Magic - I skipped it
Combat - Cannon took no wounds killed pretty much all the kotr left and ran them down and off the board
archers did no wounds and all died.

My opponent conceded.
I felt that this was a LUCKY game lol.
My magic saved me from my bad positioning of my MFC and my jammy dice rolls.
I lost 3x MFC, 1 Sabre tusk and 2 Ironguts and 2 wounds on my Bsb, and SM 1 on my butcher.

Chris

I thought they could vanguard! oh well
Ill ask him to bring the same army for a re-match

He told me it didn't count towards Irresistible?
acht well at least I didn't vanguard in my 2nd game lol.

Chris

Ogres vs Wood Elves ( He told me he was bringing magicless High Elves... At least he only half lied! lol)

My army - http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=26555.msg350783#msg350783
I honestly cant remember his exact list, 2 level 2 casters, 1 life 1 book lore (which he never actually cast from)
1 unit of dryads, 3 units of archers (I cant remember their names) Glade guard? I think, 1 unit of wardancers and a unit of 5 eagle riders and a unit of fast cav.
One of the terrain pieces was wood, so I let him place, He placed centre board and we cleared the rest of the terrain. Again rolled bloody battle line! (this time it wasn't me rolling!) Tbh I wanted to re-roll it but he hadn't played battle line yet and it was the last game. So hey ho

Deployment -
He went first, Placed his eagles on my far right flank, I placed my Sabre tusk mid, and he clumped the rest in the middle of the table heading for the woods! and one unit of gladeguard on left flank.
I placed my gut star on left of forest, MFC on right flank with Ironblaster, Leadies on left with gutstar.

He won roll off
Turn 1 Elves -
Vanguard - He moved eagles up 12" and fast cav into woods.
Movement -
He moved the fast cav (get infinite wheel movements?) up and wheeled to face my gut stars flank.
His eagles flew 20" and right infornt of my IB + on flank of my MFC.
Dryads marched towards forest, glade guard and war dancers moved to right flank with MFC.
Magic - Very low - 2+3 No channels for him I got 1.
He threw everything into dwellers and failed lol.
Shooting -
I never knew they had so much!!
He fired an arrow that caused my MFC to take a panic test (which they passed ofc) *phew* he done 1 wound and that was it.

Turn 1 Ogres -
Movement - Moved my sabres right up to flanks of forest, leadies moved 6" towards glade guard dead ahead.
MFC moved up 5" Cannon charged eagles (they were 3" away)
Gut star swift reformed and moved towards fast cav, within 1 inch to stop them wheeling and running.
Magic - What a flop I rolled double 1 and he channels twice...
So I didn't try and cast lol.
Shooting -
Leadies killed 2 glade guard
Combat - (my opponent only realised he had hit and run, but he chose stand and shoot because he forgot)
Rolled 6 on impact hits and killed 3 They attacked back no wounds, and rhinox killed them. I over ran 3" lol.

Turn 2 Elves -
Movement -
He stayed pretty still except moving the dryads and some glade guard into the middle of the forest. (just text him, he also had Eternal guard) they moved into the forest with the dryads.
According to him even though Im an inch away they are fast cav and can wheel unhindered and run behind me again?? Is that correct?
Magic - He rolled 2+3 and put it all into flesh to stone on his cav. +4T!
I tried dispel and failed.
Shooting -
this one hurt. I lose 3 wounds on my cannon 1 wound on lead belchers and 1 wound on MFC.

Turn 2 Ogres -
I swift reformed my gutstar and moved towards the dryads in the forest ignoring the fast cav.
Leadies moved into short range! yay!
Canon moved slightly so he could get a shot along the flank of the glade guard  on the right flank
MFC Failed charge (wtf! are you serious) lol
Magic - Rolled double 6 with 2 channels what a waste... and what are the odds lmao!
Used gruts, Cast Troll guts on my ironguts, he tried 4 dice dispel against my 4 dice. I won
I cast blizzard (big one) on the unit of glade guard with the arrows of fear (As I have dubbed them)
had 3 dice left and I got off Bonecrusher on the unit of dryads and rolled double 1... and done no wounds lol
My SM didn't die!
Shooting -
Killed all bar 2 Glade guard with my leadies and they ran.
Iron blaster Fired cannon ball, but again that rule came into play where cannons cannot fire through forests? I argued but its the way we had been playing and I forgot so a wasted shot. Is this correct?! Is really annoying

Turn 3 Elves -
Movement -
Wardancer charged my MFC (success) Dryads charged my Ironguts (Success) Glade guard rallied, they were 15" away from my leadies
Magic - 3+3 no channels
He threw them all at Flesh to stone on the dryads! irresistible and lost 2 magic levels his throne of vines didn't save him lol
Shooting -
Everything fired at my cannon took it down to 1 wound (forgot about blizzard, he offered to re-roll but It was my fault so we let it go)
Fast cav took 2 wounds off my ironguts
Combat -
Dryads are deadly at T8!
I killed 6/10 and won combat, they stayed. I also used dragonhide banner because I wanted to make those T8 dryads flee lol. I lose 1 ogre (2 wounds total)
War dancers used dance of death? I saved everything. I attacked back and done 8 Wounds. Over ran into his unit of glade guard. Which stood and shot? Is that possible on an over run?

Turn 3 Ogres -
Movement -
leadies charged glade guard  (they were so far away from everything else! made it anyway, by the skin of my teeth)
Ironblaster failed charge the eternal guard. *sigh*
remaining sabre tusk rear charged the same glade guard as my mfc (I have forgotten about them on previous turns 1 died in turn 2, the other moved round everything. Sorry!)
Magic - *Drum Roll* ... double 1.
I used gruts and threw it at trollguts and he used his dispel scroll.
Shooting - zilch
Combat -
Leadies killed the glade guard and reformed to look at the rest of the battle and sit idly by waiting for it to finish lol.
Dryads were still ASL so my characters butchered them and over ran a whole 4"! right on the edge of the forest
MFC rolled 11 for their charge and I got 5 impact hits killed 5 and ensued to kill the entire unit! Yay MFC! you made it to combat!
took no wounds in return.
Over ran, couldn't restrain and my opponent conceded.
We shook hands and I moaned about Lore of life

Anyway I won the "mini-tournament" I think they let me off really easy though! the lists didn't seem that hard at all. The elves were hard because of my crap rolls lol.

Anyway MVP is my MFC for actually making it to combat!!! it only took 11 turns...
(counting all 3 games lol)
Anyway like I said my first batrep ever
Let me know where I could improve and don't say don't forget sabres

Cheers
Chris

He was right about the mushrooms not counting towards IF, instead if he throws a 1 on the mushroom die,  it cancels the spell (unless cast with IF) and breaks his concentration (as per FAQ). He must also roll aother D6 and on a 1-3 it counts as a poisonous mushroom and causes a wound to the caster with no armour save.
The mushroom die MUST be cast by the way and does not count towards the 3+ for the 'Not enough power' rule (as per FAQ).

Thank you ardecay
However I am wondering about the fast cav and the characteristic tests.

Do the characteristic tests go against the mount (higher) or the rider?
And fast cav, even though I blocked their wheel they are still able?
thanks!
Chris

I don't know about WE special rules, but normally you cannot do a charge reaction (Stand & Shoot / Flee) against an overrun.

Fast cavalry can reform as many times as they want when moving, not when Charging and you should use the riders characteristics for tests, only with monstrous infantry you use the highest T and W value iirc.

hope this helpes.

Thank you again Ardekay +1 Gnoblar for your help

But yes the characteristic test was on my MFC. So the mount would then take the test with the higher toughness/str? correct?

thanks
Chris

just if it is a T test or relates to the amount of wounds. So a S test would be against the riders.