[Archive] Adventures in Warbands...with Fred the Unruly

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BOGGO:

I’ve recently been playing in a warband league using my newly modeled/painted Chaos Dwarfs, and have had a blast. My list started as follows:

10 Chaos Dwarfs/standard/champion(Commander-Fred the Unruly)

8  Chaos Dwarfs/BB

4 Hobbos/Bow

4 Hobbows/Bow

Game 1 VS High Elves (3 units of 3 Seaguard, 3 White Lions, 7 Phoenix Guard w champ as commander).

My objective was to assassinate his commander which was the phoenix guard champ. I started the march across the board on the right flank with my champ’s unit, aiming for his phoenix guard, and sent my hobbo-bows and BB’s along the left, facing off vs white lions and seaguard. My BB’s couldn’t wound anything and ended up getting run off the board by the White lions, while my hobbo-bows traded shots with seaguard and came out ahead. At LD 6 test I was luckily passing panic checks (lose 1 guy=panic). My Champ’s unit locked with Phoenix Guard, and fought for 3 rounds of combat before the Elves ran away. I couldn’t get through his ward save, and he couldn’t get through my Armor and banner/rank/outnumber. That banner will continue to save me in every game I’ve played to date. I ran him down, got my objective and took the win. I used all the points I earned to buy back the stuff that didn’t come back plus 2 Bull Centaurs with Hvy armor.

Game2 VS Warriors of Chaos (hero on disk w/ flail, 3 hounds, 3 warriors w/ shields & xtra wpn, 2 marauder horse w/ flails).

My objective was to control more table quarters, so I deployed defensively, one unit of hobbos on a hill and the other behind a wall. Chaos BB’s were behind a wall as well, and main CD unit and centaurs set up in the center of the board. WoC came straight at me, and I braced for impact… that disk could hit anyone, anywhere. My hobbo-bows did nothing, my BB’s stayed put, I faced my Champ’s unit at the disk, and I hid my bull centaurs behind a forest. WoC charged my hill hobbos with marauder horse, and I offed one in my stand and shoot. The disk charged my BB’s who took it. His warriors moved up with his hounds. My Hobbos and BB’s held from the charge, locked in for another turn. My march-blocked champ’s unit dilly-dallied, my bull centaurs came to try and save the BB’s (revealing their rear to hounds), and my hobbo-bows killed a chaos warrior (ha!). His hounds charge and kill my Centaurs (lame) and my BB’s run and die to the disk guy, but my hobbos on the hill kill off the  marauder horse, so I charge his disk with my main unit, kill off another chaos warrior and hound with bows. I win against his disk dude, who proceeds to run off the table, and he can’t recover while I pick his wolves apart with bows. I win (barely). But my Centaurs don’t come back and I don’t have the points to replace them.

Game 3 vs Orcs/Goblins (Orc Hero, 5 Black Orcs/shields, 2 Boar Boyz, 3 Orc boyz w/2 choppas, 3 Orc boyz w/2 Choppas, 3 Arrow boyz, 3 arrow boyz).

I forget what my objective was (but I didn’t get it). In this battle we just go at each other, with my stuff lumped together except my BB’s who take the left to try and hold off the Boar Boyz, who try and sneak past me. Hobbos and arrow boyz shoot each other into oblivion, while my BB’s chase and shoot at his Boar Boyz, who won’t commit to battle or running, they just go back and forth getting shot at. Lucky for him I can’t kill anything with the BB’s (who I run 4x2 until one dies, then I bring them all forward in a line). My main unit meet his Black orcs and hero, who whiff their attacks and wounds save 2: I armor save one and lose one, plus I kill a Black Orc in return. My rank and outnumber and banner win me the combat. I continue to chase him until he flees off the board. He ends up charging my BB’s with the Boar Boyz, we each kill one of the others and boar boy left runs away. A big win for me (his double choppa boyz don’t see combat). I buy 3 wolf riders w/armor+shield).

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BOGGO:

I just changed my commander’s name to Fred, because it looks like somebody already has a Sargon (must have used the same Assyrian name generator as me). Oh well, Fred it is. He’s a more modern Chaos Dwarf anyway: that’s why he’s “the Unruly.”

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BOGGO:

I was able to get two more games in, and these ended up being quite a bit tougher than my previous ones.

Game 4 vs Lizardmen (3 saurus warriors/hw/shield, 3 skinks/javelin, 5 skinks/blowpipes, 5 skinks/blowpipes, skink wizard w/lightning bolt & portent of far).

My objective was to hold more table quarters than my opponent. He also had an archetype ability which made me come to battle with equal points as him, so I left my wolf riders out. I faced 2 hobbo archer units off with 5 skinks that were behind a wood, my BBs with another skink unit that was next to a ruin (hard cover), and squared my champ’s unit off directly with his Saurus warriors with the skink priest hovering about. I tried to close the distance as his skink priest nailed my BB’s with 3 lightning bolts in a row, knocking me down to 4 guys. They got within range of the skinks in the hard cover (which meant nothing to my Blunderbuss’), but could not hit and wound for anything. They fired off 2 volleys and killed 1 skink, then were finished off by blowpipes. My archers surprisingly killed 3 skinks hiding in the woods (they needed 7’s to hit) over 2 rounds, but then the skinks came out and killed off one unit and brought the other one down to 1/2 strength. But those 2 hobbos left finished the rest of the skinks that killed their buddies. My Chaos Dwarf warriors crawled towards the Saurus warriors, who charged into my front with support to the rear from skinks w/blowpipes (I am shocked he did this, but I found out his objective was to capture my banner). I won combat but he held, then he broke and ran on my last turn. But he had gotten enough points for a victory against me. Bad thing was out of 8 BB dwarfs, only 1 came back, so I lost the whole unit. The rest of my points  replaced hoboblins I had lost, plus I bought 15 hobbos with no gear.

Game 5 vs Wood Elves (2 wild riders, 3 glade guard, 5 dryads, 5 dryads, noble with grt wpn and bow of Loren).

I ended up with the assassinate objective, and did not feel very confident that I could pull it off. I was able to pick my side, so I robbed him of the forest, but gave him a hill where he put his noble and glade guard, while his dryads formed in the middle, and his wild riders took a wide flank. I aimed all my bows at the wild riders, the wolves at his hill (but behind the forest that was now mine), Chaos Dwarfs up the middle, with the mob of hobbos within LD range. His dryads were not slack in gunning straight for my 2 ranked units, and I obliged him by moving into it. His archers picked off a rank of the hobbos, but LD 9 kept them in check from panic. my wolf riders used cover to get closer to the hill, and my hobbo bows wasted arrows shooting at wild riders. He charged my hobbos and warriors with dryads, my hobbo bows with wild riders, and sat their with his shooters. I lost the Hobbo-dryad battle but held, he lost the warrior-dryad battle but held, and I lost the wild rider-hobbo bow battle but held (I only lost one guy, plus with no musician he didn’t cause fear). I moved my wolves into charge range of his shooters on the hill, and moved my 2nd bow unit to a position to flank the wild riders if my guys held again. I lost my hobbos to the dryads who were now in position to rear charge my chaos dwarfs who could not kill or break the dryads they were fighting (though I was winning by 1 or 2 each fight). He tried to shoot my wolves but failed, and charged the rear of my dwarfs with 3 dryads that were left (my 8 guys were left fighting 3 dryads to the rear and 4 to the front, but that ward save was bugging). I won combat and the 3 to the rear ran away. although I was locked with the ones to the front. He kept whiffing with his wild riders though, and I killed one off and outnumbered him with my 3 bow hobbos, but he held.  Final turns, and I finally beat his dryads, and kill his last wild rider, my wolf riders slaughter his glade guard, but are then cut to shreds by the great wpn wielding noble, who chops them up and then throws himself at my Chaos Dwarfs: he kills one and loses combat, but holds. Game over, and neither of us get our objective, plus I didn’t quite pull out enough points for a win. It is a draw… but I have points to buy 2 bull centaurs with heavy armor.

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BOGGO:

This was my strarting 250 point force…



This is how it has grown over the coarse of 5 battles.

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BOGGO:

I was able to get another game in vs. Warriors of Chaos (5 chosen with champ, 2 marauder horse with flails/jav, 5 marauders with hw/shield, 4 marauders with grt wpn).

I beat him soundly and had enough points to by back my 8 blunder buss dwarfs. My Centaurs chopped people up good, and my Chaos dwarfs and some wolf riders won combat vs his chosen.

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Kera foehunter:

nice small army !! i like playing small so it make the game go faster and you don’t have to wait on people that talk all the time and forget what phase your in

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w3rm:

I love the blue beards on your warriors! It looks really cool. I hope you do well in your tourney but i have one little question. What did you make your hats out of and what did your make your dwarfs out of? It looks like normal dwarfs, not skull pass but I just want to know.

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BOGGO:

I love the blue beards on your warriors! It looks really cool. I hope you do well in your tourney but i have one little question. What did you make your hats out of and what did your make your dwarfs out of? It looks like normal dwarfs, not skull pass but I just want to know.

w3rm
They are all Skull Pass Dwarfs except the far left guy (he's from the new dwarf warrior set). The hats are made from jewelry beads: I have some WIP pics in the army Blog section. I tried a few things, but I was happiest with these.
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BOGGO:

I played with my Chaos Dwarfs in a mega-battle. There were 3 players to a side, with the objective set as the winning condition (it was a hill in the center of the table). Good vs Evil was the set up with Chaos Dwarfs, Beasts of Chaos, and Warriors of Chaos facing off vs High Elves, Empire, and Dwarfs. At the end of the battle it was the unit of Chaos Dwarf warriors sitting on top of the objective for the win. I lost a bolt thrower, a bull centaur, some hobgoblins but not much else. The high point was 3 wolf riders beating some crossbows, overrunning into a dwarf slayer hero and killing him in one round of combat (needing 6s to wound). That was pretty amazing. The Warriors of Chaos player on my side got beat up though, losing a spawn, chosen warriors, marauder infantry and horsemen. But we won, and I can max out my warband at 500 points now.