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Warmaster => [WM] Warmaster Fantasy Discussion => [WM] Battlereports => Topic started by: jchaos79 on September 28, 2010, 04:18:06 PM
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Emerald Empire advances against the territory governed by the Alliance of the Hammer and the Lance. An expeditionary force of High Elves (1660) with elite artillery found the first line of dwarf defences: “Mag Griñot Line†was called. (1500 pts). It lays in a woody valley between high mountains.
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The dwarfs advance martially forward to take the centre of the valley, coming thigh together between the nearby woody terrains. Meanwhile, the elves speed up to take the hill deploying a line of archers and a force of glade guardians. In the south the cavalry force goes forward some yards.
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The gyrocopter, making strange noises and leaving a trail of burned beer smell, take the hill and fire loads of lead to the glade guardians. But a quick advance of elf infantry overwhelms the gyrocopter. The hero called “The Eagle Guardian†ride forward his giant eagle to join the skirmish. The gyrocopter is destroy to pieces.
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Meanwhile in the south, the cavalry force starts to surround the woods. This movement make to the rangers and a group of warrior to stop his advance, and return from they came from to watch the dwarfs rearguard.
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The first line of trollslayers runs across the valley in a fanatic mood withstanding a rain of arrows. In the north, the elf warriors go across the wood, attack the cannons with success, then they return to the safty of the woods quickly.
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Dwarfs thunderers take a formation an repel the elf advance for all the rest of the game. No matter what the general neither the sorcerer says or cry out, the elves were intimidated by the powder and do not leave the hill nor the wood.
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In the south the rangers starts a charge against the elf cavalry force. They silver helms and the chariots were waiting for arrival of “The Eagle Guardianâ€. At last the hero arrives on time flying his mighty eagle, and leads a counter charge! The cavalry charge crush against a wall of rangers in close formation. The dwarfs endure the charge and force the silverhelms to flee. But the cunning rangers had leaved some traps in the way and know the terrain perfectly so they chase the disordered elves knight. The unit leaded by “The Eagle Guardian†became confused during his drawback. At last all the elf cavalry force were killed or captured. Now the head of “The Eagle Guardian†hang over a banner with a lance and a hammer.
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In the center, the archers and artillery shoot against the troll slayer, that still advancing the determination of a madman. All the main warrior dwarf force goes to the wood, except a regiment leaded by Kazad-Enbaji-Doom, who charge the side of the elf battle line. After causing some damage to the elves, they goes cunningly to a position that threatens the elves rearguard and were save of the archer line of sight.
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The dwarfs regroup in the nearby woods joining the rangers, meanwhile the elves make effort to make a improvised line of defence of the menace of Kazad-Enbaji-Doom regiment.
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The sun hides in the horizon and the general of the emerald warparty evaluate the damage: They have lost all the cavalry, and a hero and a friend. The dwarfs roar loud from woods and they seems ready to continue fighting all the night, their axes still thirsty of blood. Before some minutes of evaluation the elf general give the order and the elf warparty start to come back out of the valley in order. They can not achieve to destroy the dwarf line of defence and attack the Alliance lands. Now they have to take the bad news to the sultanate of Emerald Empire.
In their way home, they found an emissary of the emerald empire, a young high elf raiding a white steed. The emissary tell that in the north another elf war party, leaded by “The Master of the Dragons†has brake the dwarf defence and enter in the Alliance empire… maybe it is not all lost for the Emerald Empire Incursion.
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Jchaos the narrator: Sorry if I make some grammar mistakes. I hope the battle is explain in a enjoying way.
lets see what happens in the other regions in turn 2.
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great report.
But seriously getting beaten by stunties is very humiliating :'(
Made even worse by them being unpainted :-\
You should have taken a dragon ;)
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Unpainted? Thats the polished dwarven armor gleaming in the sunlight. :D
Congratz to our mighty dwarven ally who showed the high elfs their place!
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Nice report, thanks ! I like the arrows indicating where the units moved. It's important to understand the battle.
And of course they are painted. As Guthwine said, it's mithril shining :)
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Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!
Mithral face masks to. Tolkien mentions dwarves faired better then the pointy eared wimps at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears since the Dwarves brought their halloween masks.
The Dwarf player needs to post what beer he was drinking and how long his beard is. These are important prebattle facts. I suspect the other dwarf player shaved that day, and drinks @#$@#$ american "beer" (aka water)
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:D :D :D
Get back to your mines you grubby little men :)
The High Elves will emerge from this war victorious as ever.
'Master of Dragons'
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Nice report. I will do a report too after fighting against Dark Elves with my Skaven this friday.
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Go on Dark elves!! lets chase the mice!
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May the children of the Horned One smash the druchii.
That said go Malekith and his dark horde
::)
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Great battle report jchaos, an enjoyable read :) I like the way you've added captions to describe the troops, that helps a lot.
I've had a go at doing a battle report, but my pictures weren't very good. The flash kept ruining my shots, i tried turning it off but then the pics were blurry.
Did you use natural light for your pics? or shine a light onto the battlefield?
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Did you use natural light for your pics? or shine a light onto the battlefield?
Thanks to all which enjoy the battle report and expresed here. It is appreciated and encourage me to do another.
For the pics I use artificial light (it was a basement) and flash with the camera. The original pics was a little dark. I use the maxima definition in the pics and they are big files. Then a go for the photoshop or microsoft photo editor, and a atuomatic balance. The pics then get color saturated and a slightly manual change in brightness, gamma and contrast is necesary to be color nice.
At last I change the size of the picture to handle it and upload it without waiting an eternity.
hope it helps
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Thanks for the report! As somebody noticed the captions and arrows help greatly and I think I will try to do that for any future report I might be writing. I am also looking forward to the next battle. This time HE should be victorious! :)
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Thanks for the good report.
Especially, that the dwarves beat the High Elves even with a 160 point advantage and Elite Army.
Jurisch
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@ jchaos
I can totally understand you. I really know how it feels when you get beaten by the dwarves. :-[ But let's look forward to round three! I enjoyed your good report.
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it feels like getting a large hammer on your head ;D
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@ jchaos
I can totally understand you. I really know how it feels when you get beaten by the dwarves. :-[ But let's look forward to round three! I enjoyed your good report.
Well, I only watch the battle and make the report, Edmund was the elf player. I play in the mighty Dark soul alliance of the black empire with undeads. I enjoy also making it :)
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it feels like getting a large hammer on your head ;D
I hope we challenge the red team again.... ;D
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We are ready! :D
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ready? someone is stealing the gold of the dwaves and the taxes of the bretonian gleva...
(sometimes I think this is like playing with fire when being tainted with oil) :-\ :-X
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I want to play red again (my only opponent). :'(
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@Azrael: If you find someone who would be willing to represent another empire. I could still put him in... ;-) Come on! Enlist someone! :-))
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you are joking right?
Do you not think I have tried ???
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Hi Azrael.
Your wish shall be the order....we will demand revange of the RED ONES.
Regards
CLaus
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Thank you sir.
Will my opponent fall for the 3 dragon trick again, then again have we selected elite army again?
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Check the YELLOW empire google page.....all details are there ;)
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Apparently there has been a discussion in the red empire on how to beat a 2000 point 3 dragonrider high elf list :)
I look forward to the outcome of their discussions :-*
As far as I can see you drop the 3 dragons into position on turn 2 and kick ass :)
No matter what dwarves have, it is never going to be enough :)