19 Feb 2006
Played a 500 point game against the Druchii. Going into this game I was paranoid as possibly could be. I Knew she would bringing alot of shooting as her 2000 point army is very shooty.
***Im not kidding about it being shooty... a lvl 4 wizard on a manticore (big lion thing?) and two lvl 2's on pegasus, with 3 units of 12 archers 2 rbts 4 units of dark riders and 2 chariots some scouts and flyers! ***
My list I decided to change to try out some new units.
Bruiser
Great Weapon, Longstrider, Wyrdstone Necklace
Core
24 Gnoblar Fighters
3 Bulls with musician
3 Ironguts with musician
His list
Dark Elf Noble
Dark Steed Heavy Armor Lance, Life taker, Enchanted sheild Sea Dragon CLoak
Core
10 Warriors with Sheilds and Reapeter crossbows
5 Dark Riders with repeater xbows ,standard musician
Rare
Repeater Bolt thrower
Terrain
on a 4 x 4 table (its really 4x 6 but we agreed to cut it down some to speed up the game some)
On side has a hill and a forest on opposite corners the other side has two diagonally facing walls in an inverted V in the middle of the table.
She won roll off and took the side with the hill, and chose to go first.
Her Deployment saw her rbt and xbowarriors go on the hill and the dark riders go on the other side of the deployment zone . the Noble was on the far edge of the table by himself hiding behind the forest.
My deployment saw me put the gnoblars in a directline with the xbow warriors, in a 4x6 formation then I stuck the ironguts behind them. the bulls went on their right flank and the bruiser went behind and to the right of the bulls.
Turn 1
Her dark Riders moved forward and shot at the gnoblars but missing every single one, Her Rbt multishot into the bulls killed one. Nad her Xbowwarriors were out of range. The Noble shot ahead 18's down the table edge.
My turn
Of course the fragging gnoblars bicker. Stalling them and the Ironguts from Moving, the bulls and bruiser angles a little away from them and moved a full 12"( I was JUST outside marchblock range at the end of my movement)
Turn 2
Her dark riders decide to move forwards into close range of the gnoblars flank and shoot killing 3. The noble moved ahead all the way to my table edge.The XBowman shot at the bulls wounding one and the Rbt finished it off, but the unit passed it panic test.
My turn
My Gnoblar moved forwards and the ironguts moved to use the big flanks of the gnoblars any shots from the dark riders. the Brusier and Lone bull tried a charge but failed.
Turn 3
Her noble raced behind my lines, and shot the life taker at the gnoblars killing two. The dark riders still procceded to ounlesh hell into the gnoblars killing 8.( who passed their panic test somehow) The xbowman killed 3 more gnolbars and the rbt managed to get a Nice clean shot at the stupid bruiser who no longer was in 6 inches of another unit and was now a valid target(dumb mistake) One big bolt threw his chest and him at 1 wound saw him run like a scared girl.
My turn 4
the gnoblars proceeded to bicker again and the bruiser ran off the table! But my ironguts and lone bull had the charge on the xbowarriors which just ahppened to be angled just right to be a flank. the Bull owned his attacks with 3 wounds, and the gut's 6 attacks equaled 6 more dead elves
I overran with the guts straight into that RbT.
Turn 5
the dark riders charge the gnoblars in the flank and the noble comes racing back up the table shooting the lifetake at the bull inflicting two wounds and making him bail off the table edge. Needless to say the gnoblars got wiped out but did manage to drag a rider down. They decided to not run the gnoblars down to stay in place.
My turn 5
The guts overrun the rbt and run off the board.
Her turn 6
she angled her troops at where the guts would come back on the table. and stood there looking at the table edge.
My turn 6
My Ironguts came back on the table edge, near the hill. At this point I asked if she wanted to keep playing and she said no becuase she pointed out I could never catch her units from this point on and she could just keep boucning around the board shooting my guts till they all died.
Total Point tally
me, with 270ish her with 323 ish effectiveley a draw or minor victory for her but a moral victory to suvive the a pretty bad shooting army so I claim I win!
***Im not kidding about it being shooty... a lvl 4 wizard on a manticore (big lion thing?) and two lvl 2's on pegasus, with 3 units of 12 archers 2 rbts 4 units of dark riders and 2 chariots some scouts and flyers! ***
My list I decided to change to try out some new units.
Bruiser
Great Weapon, Longstrider, Wyrdstone Necklace
Core
24 Gnoblar Fighters
3 Bulls with musician
3 Ironguts with musician
His list
Dark Elf Noble
Dark Steed Heavy Armor Lance, Life taker, Enchanted sheild Sea Dragon CLoak
Core
10 Warriors with Sheilds and Reapeter crossbows
5 Dark Riders with repeater xbows ,standard musician
Rare
Repeater Bolt thrower
Terrain
on a 4 x 4 table (its really 4x 6 but we agreed to cut it down some to speed up the game some)
On side has a hill and a forest on opposite corners the other side has two diagonally facing walls in an inverted V in the middle of the table.
She won roll off and took the side with the hill, and chose to go first.
Her Deployment saw her rbt and xbowarriors go on the hill and the dark riders go on the other side of the deployment zone . the Noble was on the far edge of the table by himself hiding behind the forest.
My deployment saw me put the gnoblars in a directline with the xbow warriors, in a 4x6 formation then I stuck the ironguts behind them. the bulls went on their right flank and the bruiser went behind and to the right of the bulls.
Turn 1
Her dark Riders moved forward and shot at the gnoblars but missing every single one, Her Rbt multishot into the bulls killed one. Nad her Xbowwarriors were out of range. The Noble shot ahead 18's down the table edge.
My turn
Of course the fragging gnoblars bicker. Stalling them and the Ironguts from Moving, the bulls and bruiser angles a little away from them and moved a full 12"( I was JUST outside marchblock range at the end of my movement)
Turn 2
Her dark riders decide to move forwards into close range of the gnoblars flank and shoot killing 3. The noble moved ahead all the way to my table edge.The XBowman shot at the bulls wounding one and the Rbt finished it off, but the unit passed it panic test.
My turn
My Gnoblar moved forwards and the ironguts moved to use the big flanks of the gnoblars any shots from the dark riders. the Brusier and Lone bull tried a charge but failed.
Turn 3
Her noble raced behind my lines, and shot the life taker at the gnoblars killing two. The dark riders still procceded to ounlesh hell into the gnoblars killing 8.( who passed their panic test somehow) The xbowman killed 3 more gnolbars and the rbt managed to get a Nice clean shot at the stupid bruiser who no longer was in 6 inches of another unit and was now a valid target(dumb mistake) One big bolt threw his chest and him at 1 wound saw him run like a scared girl.
My turn 4
the gnoblars proceeded to bicker again and the bruiser ran off the table! But my ironguts and lone bull had the charge on the xbowarriors which just ahppened to be angled just right to be a flank. the Bull owned his attacks with 3 wounds, and the gut's 6 attacks equaled 6 more dead elves
I overran with the guts straight into that RbT.
Turn 5
the dark riders charge the gnoblars in the flank and the noble comes racing back up the table shooting the lifetake at the bull inflicting two wounds and making him bail off the table edge. Needless to say the gnoblars got wiped out but did manage to drag a rider down. They decided to not run the gnoblars down to stay in place.
My turn 5
The guts overrun the rbt and run off the board.
Her turn 6
she angled her troops at where the guts would come back on the table. and stood there looking at the table edge.
My turn 6
My Ironguts came back on the table edge, near the hill. At this point I asked if she wanted to keep playing and she said no becuase she pointed out I could never catch her units from this point on and she could just keep boucning around the board shooting my guts till they all died.
Total Point tally
me, with 270ish her with 323 ish effectiveley a draw or minor victory for her but a moral victory to suvive the a pretty bad shooting army so I claim I win!
