Belated Battle report - sort of!

Well, since the last blog entry I did play that Storm of magic rematch, but it isn't worth reporting, as it wasn't much of a game!

we'd positioned the fulcrums bang centre of the board so all 3 where immediately taken by the 2 Chaos Players on turn 1 with their flying Sorcerers including a Daemon Prince with a 2+ Ward save!

On 1 turn I fired 121shots at it for 1 wound!!! Yes thats not a typo a hundred and twenty one shots!

Needless to say it was a massacre, to be fair I had lost hardly any models and had taken out a unit of Chaos Knights, a unit of Warriors, and a few units of hounds, but I was well out of range to help Daves Skaven who where severely ganged up on!

Deployment is key!

So aside from  this I've been working on building more Crossbowmen, more Dark Riders and completed my unit of 20 Black Guard conversions along with my Dreadlord

So in larger games this will form the centre of my Battleline! Which should give me a good anchor to control the middle of the board, which just leaves the flanks... I'm hoping to amass a larger collection of Witch Elves which I'm currently converting for the future! But with rumours abound of Dark Elves getting the re-release this year I'm dubious to spend too much time and money on improving my existing collection at the moment! I'm hoping the rumours of a new dual Witch Elves kit circulating the web are true! I'll be buying a couple of boxes of those straight away!

A storm of Magic

Well its been a while since I last updated this, I've since played 3 more games and built almost a whole unit of Black Guard.... I've even stared painting my horde of spearmen!!!

Photos of games and new additions will follow in near future posts.

So what have my reviled Druchii been upto... as I mentioned 3 games... with 1win 1 loss and 1draw!

Firstly a 3k Storm of Magic game (my first one) against Daves Skaven, we only actually completed 2 turns before I had to leave, with Dave controlling more fulcrums than me after his Grey Seer turned all the wizards into frogs before punching one of mine off his Fulcrum and occupying it for himself. That was the loss.

The win was my second game. Against a new opponent Bear, and his Warriors of Chaos (Nurgle) army. I was a little optimistic going into it as Dark Elves can take the law of metal... and I did, 2 Level2 Sorceresses with Law of Metal, and a Level4 Sorceress using Death Magic. By turn 3 I had taken out all but a small handful of his warriors, for almost no casualties, saving for my Shades which fled off the table as a charge reaction and a roll of double6! At this point it was decided to call it a day. I did get some lucky rolls and and he had some bad ones, but I think he underestimated just how hard Dark Elves can be in Melee as well as magic and shooting.

Lastly the draw. A 2000 points Storm Of Magic doubles game, which saw Dave and I allied with 2k points each plus the additional 500 pts Monster and Magic allowance each, against Bear's Nurgle warriors and another guy who's new to our local gaming group and handily also had a 2k Chaos warriors army with him who where mostly mark of Nurgle, although he did have Scyla Annfinngrimm...Khorne will not be pleased! In total 10,000 points was on the table, and it took 3hours to play just 3turns, at the end of which we where tied 1 Fulcrum a piece. There where a lot of big combats and imminent battles about to take place that we hadn't fought, and so a rematch......

This Wednesday the same armies will be arrayed against each other with around 5-6hour time to play out the 6 turns of Storm of Magic. 5k points each side.....

The only decision now is what to take, I've been working on my Blackguard and on a Dreadlord on foot conversion, if I took him with the Dawnstar sword in that unit, there'd be nothing on the table to stand against them... but that leaves me without a lord level wizard. Some planning will be needed!

The battle report for this game will follow!