Ok, slept enough. Good that I've got a free day today
It continues with
3rd game Vs UndeadWe made a 1600 pts game bec our head were about to explode after concentrating that much on playing and of course on that amounts of trash talk
I was facing some very nice painted skulls and bones ... my advantage was that my opponent has never played against Skaven before and I had to explain what my units do. We played a pitched battle and our deploiment took quite long bec. of those masses
I decided to do what I can do best: Make it big (the brigade).
He had the first turn and rolled far too high to get those frontline of bow-skeletons moving. So he decided to skip the other orders as well and it was quite about me to have the first turn. I did what should be done and moved in a quite better position to avoid flanking by any of his chariots or other hard hitters. Spread my front and sent a hero far away for upcoming Gutter Runner orders.
On his turn he failed to move his archers again but this time he didn't stop giving orders and sent his chariots on a journey. Also one of his Skeleton brigades moved a bit forward. The rest of his army still stood in the deploiment zone.
My turn again and suddenly sneaking Gutter Runners appeared in the flank of his chariots. They managed to charge them there and eat 2 of his units, then they fell back into the wood, still in the flank of his skeleton brigade. Also I seperated some Rat Swarms and put them into the woods just in case I have to flank an attacking enemy unit. The order on my main brigade failed and so my left flank wasnt covered by Rat Swarms again (but no problem because I usually keep a unit of Rat Ogres and some Plague Monks on the edge of my brigade ... on an enemy flanking attack there are still 9 Rat Ogres attacks and also 12 Plague Monks attacks). It all looked like this then:
His turn again and this time his bones moved forward quite fast. Attacking the Gutter Runners with his skeletons and some Rat Swarms with his flyers. The Gutter Runners were defendet and also fought quite brave. Lucky me they won the battle in the woods but didn't pursuit. The flying unit got some support by some summoned skeletons and finally they both ate 1 unit of Rat Swarms but also didn't pursuit and fell back.
My turn: Charging those nasty Skeletons with my Gutter Runners and a Rat Swarm using my initiative move. The Rat Swarms on the big brigade evaded from the enemy, so the Rat Ogres could easily get in contact with the summoned Skeletons by using their initiative. Orders put the big brigade a nice step closer to the enemy but too bad those plague monks weren't in the control range any more and had to stay behind. I also managed to get those Rat Ogres supported by some Rat Swarms. Just to be sure I put another unit of Gutter Runners in a quite flanky position. Magic was quite nice, I managed to give those Gutter Runners (the ones who were fighting the skeleton brigade) some death frenzy - too bad i rolled 2 times 2 - so those 2 attacks went against them.
Those Rat Ogres fought bad. Although they crushed the skeletons, they didn't manage to get the flyers and also lost one stand. No problem for me because the Rat Swarms and Gutter Runners on the top fought double-brave and killed 2 units of skeletons, then they fell back into terrain again.
His turn - and the turn I made the biggest mistake (and I'll never do again!!)
His flyers could get into the flank of my Stormvermin (his flyers are monsters + charging in the open). I had to attach my general (grey seer) into a unit and chose the Rat Ogres (bec. many hits, good save). Too bad he could charge those with some Chariots and even made his general do his +1 attack-thing for his chariot unit. Although they fought brave, they lost the battle and he got my general. That was pretty bad for me becuase the game was running quite good for me
Finally we ended in a draw bec. I even got pretty much more points from his units than he got from mine.
So you see - my gaming experience isn't the best
But it still was a great game (bec. it was mass-army VS mass-army).
These were the first 3 games from the first day. On the 2nd day there were only 2 games planned.
So 2nd day and
4th game Vs Daemons - I was defending my home, he attackedThe markers for definding my home were quite far away from each other so I had to split my forces. We were playing 1600 pts and I made a quite big brigade and a small one with some Rat Swarms and elite units like Rat Ogres and Stormvermin (and a unit of Clanrats). His first turn wasn't very good bec. he didn't manage to give many orders.
I just made 1 order on the big brigade and another one on the small one. Again, characters were moving into good positions for Gutter Runner orders but I didn't let them pop out now.
2nd turn of the Daemon player wasn't even better - only 1 order on a daemon infantry brigade was issued, the rest stood still again. My turn again and I was able to eat a unit of his swarms. After that I fell back into the terrain bec. of 2 missing stands of the clanrats and several wounds on the Rat Ogres.
The big brigade didn't move because of a missed order-roll. One point was held by some Rat Swarms. I wasn't very afraid of his flying monsters to destroy them bec. I even had Gutter Runners left to pop out and countercharge those (just in case).
His 3rd turn went better. His daemon hordes charged my little brigade by initiative (wasn't a good decision in my opinion) and finally his army started to move a bit around
Cavalry moved in a quite good position (very flexible one) and his other infantry got into defended positions in the terrain. Too bad for his charged-by-initiative unit: I was defended and had 2 Units in support. He made a few wounds (he needed 5s) but not even enough to stop the rage of my Rat Ogres + Stormvermin. Those rolled sufficient well to crush that unit after a few phases of battle. I re-positioned them quite well after the battle.
My 3rd turn went quite well. The good positioned Rat Ogres charged the Daemon Hordes and my Stormvermin could see the same brigade to do so too by initiative (on the photo you see Trolls in the first line but he played them as daemon hordes too - he didnt have enough miniatures). I moved my big brigade in a better position (avoid to get flanked again) and expanded my Rat Swarms backwards so I held the second point of this scenario. Very badass tricks were about to come up bec. I managed to get a unit of Gutter Runners on the other side of this battle (see pic). They didn't get the second order to attack but this maybe was even better. My potent mages pushed the Rat Ogres to a death frenzy and I scored additional 8 attacks for them. Even the fact that I had to roll on 5s and that it wasn't a charge in the open didn't avoid my victory. Stand by stand was pushed back into the Gutter Runners, which did the rest of the work by just standing there.
His turn again and he tried to charge my scenario - holding Rat Swarms with his chariots. Order 1 was applied but he didn't manage a second one. Bad for me: they stopped on my general and I had to stick him to a unit of Rat Ogres which were charged in the flank by both units of his flying army (he made the important 2 orders he had to give this time). That didn't shock me bec. he also touched a unit of plague monks. I was expecting that the Rat Ogres will survive the first combat phase and after that the flyers won't have any more punsh. Also the lonely unit of daemon hordes charged the last standing alone stand of my Clanrats in the terrain. Then he started magic which could be banned by a scroll of dispelling
So he made a bad to-hit-rolls of with flyers. Even the enemy general which was supporting them in combat didn't change the fact the he made only about 4-5 wounds (and I even saved 1-2 of those). Striking back meant the end of the game because I ate those units which means that I simultaneously reached his break point.
Great victory bec. he didn't get very much (I guess it was a full unit of Clanrats and half a unit of Stormvermin) and I held both of those defending points and even got his general+BP.
This brings me to my last
5th game Vs dwarfs - this time with cannonsPitched battle was to be made. He had the first turn, put his cannons on a hill, got his dwarf warriors and slayers into the wood and other terrain. As I had my first turn I knew this is going to be a hard game bec. of his dwarfs just standing in terrain. My first turn wasn't very spectacular. Activated my Rat-Swarm-anti-artillery-force-field
, seperated some Jezzails to await the Rangers and arranged a shooting corridor for my Warplightning Cannons with the Rat Swarms of the little, shooty brigade.
(cheesy force field, isn't it?
Thanks here to Lex
)
Don't want to describe very much here - it ended up by Gutter Runners in the wood, which were slain by the warriors and some Slayers. His gyrocopters managed to trouble my Jezzails which were shot from both sides (Rangers from front, Gyros from behind). They didn't charge by initiative (my mistake). They didn't even shoot 1 of those nasty flying machines. His cannons had to shoot at the force field Rat Swarms but didn't deal much dmg, bec. they weren't able to bounce in another unit. The whole shooty brigade was slain by some Slayers (but my Rat Swarms didn't fight bad
).
What broke my neck was the time, bec. the dwarf player had 4 turns and my poor little Skaven force just 3. This may sound like and excuse but even if I would have had a 4th turn my Skaven wouldn't have been able to slay that many dwarfs bec. he really was very good positioned in the terrain.
It ended up with a win for the dwarfs bec. he scored more victory points.
Some pics:
Gutter Runners slaying some Slayers
He was preparing for good positions in the wood
I was aiming to get at least his Rangers with some heavy hitters but I didn't manage to roll sufficient well for orders
The shooty brigade before it was erased by a unit of Slayers (or warriors).
Hopefully you enjoyed this 5 battle reports - was quite a lot of work finding the best pics
If you want to see more pics of EuroGT (even some nice close-ups) just klick here:
http://www.diefestung.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=46346Greetings from Austria
May the Horned Rat be with you
Peter
