Reavers
by Finvalen on Sep.08, 2009, under Figures
Just finished 4 of the five Reavers that I will have in my army for next year. I need to purchase one more, but trying to catch one on ebay for a deal. I was pretty happy with the way the turned out.
High Elves versus their sundered Kin, the Dark Elves.
by Finvalen on Sep.08, 2009, under Battle Reports
Yesterday my High Elves got pitted against their sundered kin, the Dark Elves commanded by Brad Lang. Personally, I really hate playing against DE due to their Eternal Hatred toward High Elves, but I guess I still have ASF so I will have to do.
All in all it was not that bad of a game but both sides made crucial mistakes during the battle that greatly affected the outcome. Most of the mistakes were created by just unfamiliarity on both sides with DE. Brad will have to correct me if I am wrong with what he had in his list but it went something like this.
Dreadlord General on Dark Pegasus
Pendent of Khaeleth
Not for sure what else he had
Death Hag (BSB) w/ Cauldron (+ Hags)
Witches Brew
Not for sure if he had another character in there
Harpies
2 Units of Dark Riders w/ Repeater Crossbows
2 units of Repeater Crossbowmen
Cold One Chariot
Shades (w/ Assassin – rending stars)
Black Guard with ASF banner
2 Reaper Bolt Throwers
Hydra
So here is the battle report. My memory gets a little foggy sometimes with all that happens and the order in which it happens, but here is my best go at it. Brad please forgive me if I screw something up here.
ROUND 1
Nothing too exciting occurred the first round other than Brad popped out his shades in the forest near my spearmen and 1 bolt thrower only to kill a couple of spearmen and proceeded to get charged the bottom of one, fled, and continued running for the next three rounds. So that really sucked for him.
ROUND 2
Brad got a unit of riders through to a bolt thrower and destroyed it, which then led to a counter flank charge by my reavers which broke him in combat and chased him down. He also charged my lion chariot with his general. I fled and escaped (for now). Bottom of two I flew my general/star dragon (and a Great Eagle) up behind his hill that had a bolt thrower, crossbowmen, and Hydra on the other side of the other two units. This could have turned out bad due to opening me up to 2 bolt throwers. I took the chances knowing it would only be one round of shots from them before I get into combat and the dragon has 7 wounds. I gambled and it worked out OK. I breathed on the crossbowmen and the hydra. Killed a quarter of the crossbowmen and did not do anything to the hydra. Crossbowmen did not panic from casualties. Also charged a unit of Dark Riders with my dragon princes and tiranoc chariot – wiping them out overran DPs off the board and ended up leaving the chariot open for a flank charge by the Cold One chariot the next round.
ROUND 3
Top of three then became interesting and was a good round for Brad for the most part. His assassin destroyed one of my mages with his Rending Stars. He charged his general at the lion chariot, who had rallied previously, this time the lion chariot had to take it as Brad had moved his harpies behind it to prevent a flee. He also had declared for his second charge his harpies toward my other bolt thrower. He declared a charge on my tiranoc chariot with his cold one chariot, wiping him off the board. He also declared a charge from his hydra toward my sword masters. The general attacking at strength 7 auto destroyed the chariot and then overran in a great eagle. Ouch! The harpies attacked the Bolt Thrower, who also happened to have a mage scroll caddy in it, but proceeded to do no damage and the crew and mage held. The hydra battle did not go so well for Brad. The SM did some wounds and the hydra also did some. However, I won CR by 1. Brad failed the break test and began to run away. The SM then proceeded to only roll a 2 for pursuing thus not catching him.
The bottom of three continued adding a little drama to the battle. My general charged the RBT, he flees and I catch him running into the Black Guard. Dragon gets his charge move on Black Guard unit. At which time Brad informs me they have the ASF banner, CRAP!!!! Plus they are within range of the cauldron (Double Crap!!!) I had debated whether to fly over the BG instead of running into them and choose the later. If I had known about the banner, might have done things differently – Kudos to Brad for keeping that bit of information to himself. Also due to my inexperience with DE, did not realize that BGs were not only stubborn but also immune to psychology. Luckily for me, Brad forgets to use the cauldron blessing this round and I end up smoking, I think, something like 7 of the guard after all is said and done. My other great eagle who was behind his lines charged his fleeing hydra, which then auto fled back into the open arms of my sword masters and was destroyed. His general destroyed the great eagle it was in combat with and the BT crew and mage held again against the harpies, I think. At some point my Reavers charged into this battle and I eventually ended up losing the crew, but destroying the harpies with the mage still intact – who then joined the unit of spearmen.
ROUND 4
Brad’s general moves into charging range of archers. Cold One chariot charges dragon princes, Brad rolls really well on impact hits (7) and destroys the DPs from impact alone. My general attacks the BG and whittles them down some more, this time Brad remembers the blessing and tries to send killing blow my way but to no avail. Brad loses a few more BGs but holds again; stubborn and immune to psychology are nice things. Bottom of four, the table is starting to look a little bear. Dragon finishes up the BG. I try to take some shoots at the general with my archers do really well with the hits, but suck it on the wounds. Do nothing.
ROUND 5
Top of five, Brad’s general charges my archers – gone. Bottom of five, dragon charges shades – flee. Sword masters charge the cauldron. This is a mistake on my part, not realizing exactly what the cauldron consisted of. I just thought that the cauldron was the unit with three hags as crew. So I threw all my attacks at the crew and got 6 wounds. Then when Brad only removed the 2 hags, I realized my mistake, but thought oh well it is probably some “mage” like attacks coming back at me. Nope, Death Hags can hit. So because of her witch’s brew (which negates flank, outnumber, and ranks) and ran with my swords in between my legs. For future reference, I would throw as much as I could at the Death Hag, but oh well, such is life. Also considering she was the BSB – BIG mistake on my part.
ROUND 6
Top of round six, Brad charges fleeing SMs with General, destroyed. Brad charges spearmen (w/ mage) with chariot from behind, which I was an idiot and did not see that he had line of sight around woods. They flee, thinking that they should be able to rally in the bottom of round considering they have a musician with them. Bottom of round six, dragon charges shades and destroys them. I fail to rally spearmen, so they are done also.
At the end of the game, I had the Dragon left and my Reavers. Brad had the cauldron, his general, cold one chariot, and maybe a unit of crossbowmen. Push on table quarters, and I had a banner. Final score – Brad 1344; Chris: 1350. Like I said at the beginning, Brad and I both made poor decisions in the battle and mainly due to poor knowledge of the way the army played. I would probably say that overall, Brad had a worse than normal game when it came to his rolling.
Now this is little tidbit for Ben Nietzel – you HAVE to take the cauldron. It is super nice and plays really well. I cannot imagine a combat driven DE list without it.
Labor Day Weekend = Warhammer Weekend
by Finvalen on Sep.03, 2009, under Army Lists
Well, it looks like we could be playing some Warhammer this coming Monday (Labor Day). I am pretty excited and am going to try a new list. We shall see how it goes, hopefully I will not have to play Brian’s Demon list.
Prince @ 621 Pts
General; Lance
1 Star Dragon
Armour of Caledor
Vambraces of Defense
The Amulet of Light
Mage @ 140 Pts
2 Dispel Scroll
Mage @ 140 Pts
2 Dispel Scroll
7 White Lions of Chrace @ 105 Pts
12 Sword Masters of Hoeth @ 207 Pts
Banner of Ellyrion
5 Ellyrian Reavers @ 85 Pts
5 Dragon Princes of Caledor @ 150 Pts
1 Tiranoc Chariot @ 85 Pts
Chariot
1 Lion Chariot of Chrace @ 140 Pts
Chariot
10 Archers @ 110 Pts
18 Spearmen @ 162 Pts
2 Great Eagles @ 100 Pts
2 Repeater Bolt Thrower @ 200 Pts
Total Roster Cost: 2245
BoB 2009 list
by Finvalen on Aug.21, 2009, under Army Lists
Here is the army list of what I took to the BoB this past year. I did not do well with battlepoints going 0-4-1, but I did decent with sportsmanship (probably due to the fact that everyone kicked my butt) and painting. I finished 66th overall. Oh well, it was my first tourney ever.
Archmage (363 Pts)
General; Level 4 Upgrade; Elven Steed
1 Power Stone @ [20] Pts
1 Dispel Scroll @ [20] Pts
Staff of Solidity @ [20] Pts
Guardian Phoenix @ [25] Pts
Mage (197 Pts)
Level 2 Upgrade; Elven Steed
1 Dispel Scroll @ [20] Pts
The Seerstaff of Saphery @ [30] Pts
Mage (152 Pts)
Elven Steed
Ring of Fury @ [40] Pts
Noble (218 Pts)
Barding; Lance; Dragon Armour; Shield; Battle Standard Bearer;Elven Steed
Battle Banner @ [80] Pts
6 White Lions of Chrace (185 Pts)
Musician; Standard Bearer
Guardian @ [27] Pts
Banner of Sorcery @ [50] Pts
2 Units of 10 Spearmen (90 Pts each)
5 Dragon Princes (190 Pts)
Standard Bearer
War Banner @ [20] Pts
5 Dragon Princes (185 Pts)
Standard Bearer
Banner of Ellyrion @ [15] Pts
2 Lion Chariots of Chrace (140 Pts)
2 Great Eagle (50 Pts)
2 Repeater Bolt Thrower (100 Pts)
Total Roster Cost: 2250
Other rank and file troops
by Finvalen on Aug.20, 2009, under Figures
Here are the other rank and file troops that I have painted thus far. I have 2 lion chariots (the chariots are magnetized to the lion base and I also have magnetized horse chariot bases for them to connect to if I take the normal chariots instead), 3 bolt throwers (I have never taken all three in an army), 10 dragon princes, 20 spearmen (15 showing), 8 white lions (SWEET troops!), 5 phoenix guard and 2 great eagles.
