Loidrial:
I start immediatly with WE LOST.
Me and a friend with wood elf played this noon vs a reasonable high skilled lizard (he usually win all the 40k tournaments in the area)
we played 800+800 vs 1600 with the idea of:
1 between rare or special
no lords
It was me and elf first match in years so we sucked.
After this intro here is what happened.
He Pwned us. Hard.
I lost the magma cannon at 2nd turn, just saying.
Lizard 3 unit of 10 skinks, 3 salamanders, 25? Temple guardian and horde horizontal position of 40 saurus
CD 21x2 hobs with bow + muso, 20 ID fc, sorcerer 2 death (gor useless spell, trait and the one that reduce the LD of a unit/hero -3) magma cannon
Elf 10 wayward, 10 x2 basic archers, 10 war dancers + mage
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1st Lizard turn he marches with skinks ending up already at half table, behind each of them the 3 salamanders, 40 horde and guardians, some shoot on the magma cannon, 1 crewmen dead
1st CD+elf I had to move on the right the 21 hobs (2 ranks) because of a miscalculation with the dwarf move behind them.
Elf moves bad the wardacers and wayward endig up on the edge of the table, 21 hobs vs 10 skinks = 1 death, the elf killed some of the horde, same as me with the magma cannon killing 10 saurus
my mage cant reach anything neither his.
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2nd Lizard. My sorcerer was next to the cannon so he could get reroll + watchout, 10 skinks = 20 poison shoots, hit only on 6, had to save 7 wounds, crew dead, hero with 1 W left, he moves the other 2 skinks in a way that if i charge them he can run and i will be counter charged by the horde or the guardians.
BASICALLY this is it, I already lost the match at this point, after lizard played just for let us see all the phases, but I basically lost the match at the 2nd round being outplayed at the fist.
WHAT
THE
FUCK
the fun was 0 and I felt really bad putting all the passion in collecting the minis for being trashed like this few months after.
So. I dont really know what to say.
Doombeard:
that does sound kinda lame but with small games they can be over in one turn, its more of a skirmish. i prefer 3000 point games as you usually get about 5 playable turns
Abecedar:
Got my hat handed to me a few years back by a (quite young) lizard man player in a tournament.
having never played against them before I didn’t envisage the effectiveness of the skinks at all.
Was a fun game though compared to some of the others but I’m admittedly not a very smart player, almost orcish. (went 8 for 8 losses)
Loidrial:
I forgot to add, at the last turn (the 3rd because the elf was too slow and we had to leave after) lizard started to charge for fun just for let us see some combat phase.
He charges with 2 unit of 5 skinks each my friend basic archers, then because the front was already taken, with his second unit he had to ridirect the charge on my 19 hobs left.
they were still in 2 ranks because who could expect a charge from 5 skinks?
he kills 3 models (they had only the bow) + 1 bonus charge
i kill only 1 and get the bonus for the 1st rank
I lose the fight of 2, LD test obviously failed, I run of 7" he chase me of 7"
Fuck that shit, makes perfect sense, 19 hobs that run from 5 stupid skinks and get destroyed in the run.
WOW. “Thanks Obama”
Loidrial:
Here I am, just finished a match 1500 pts vs Demons.
My list was:
2 DS 1fire 1 death both lvl 1
1 BSB
20 IG fc
20 x2 hobs with bow
1 magma
1 HC
2 Rockets
His:
25 khorne demons + General
15 horrors + bsb tzeench
5 x2 fury
3 nugle flies
4 nurgle beasts
Deploy, I followed what sam585 told me, put everything in a corner and wait.
I start, dont move, magic 1 fireball with 4 dices on the slugs, triple 6!
My general goes boom and get sucked by the wind of chaos, removed from the table and the 5" str 10 above everyone taking 4 hobs, 1 rocket crew 1 magma crew and 4 IG, BUT I TOOK 1 SLUG!
Shooting phase the rocket withouth DS near by misfires and guess what?
BOOM AGAIN! removed from the table.
Magma cannon withouth DS kills some khornetuff and few horrors
HC rolls on the big brick of khorne demons. MISFIRE! oh god no, reroll! MISFIRE AGAIN! STOP IT GODDAMMIT! Roll 6, I read on the table and there was written “BOOM”
Oh cmon f**k that! Another removed??!?! then I read it, nope. HC cant fire anymore but hit his target and everyone under take str 10 hit.
BLAM! only 13 demons left there.
His 1st turn, he comes closer with everything, some spells, nothing done, Im in a situation where both fury can charge my warmachines.
My2nd after thinking even way too much I decide to charge with the hobs the fury in front of me and make way for the now melee Hellcannon.
Shooting phase goes fine, his khorne unit is always smaller and smaller, same went probably for the horrors on the back.
I destroy the fury with the 20 hobs and stucked in a situation where i have to think how to rearrange that unit that will take in any case 2 charges probably.
I turn them in the middle of the table, getting charged by khorne and flyes on the front (stand and shoot on khorne and make even more deaths, they are less than 5 now) and the slugs on the back.
With his magic he cast an attack of khorne to all my units with roll of 6, and ofc he hits rocket and magma. Magma is gone too now.
He win ofc the fight vs the hobbs and they flee towards the middle of the field, he chases with khorne but doesnt reach them, instead hold 3 slugs and 3 flies in position.
In the meanwhile the other unit of fury was in the way of HC and IG
In my last turn this happen. the 5 hobs keep running for their worthless lives. the other 16 hobs shoot dead the last khorne demons leaving only the general alive, positioning them in a way i thought i could block the slugs, but they didnt (and actually that is better! because losing them would have changed the match)
IG and HC win against fury, IG impact on the flies.
My sorcerer with the basic death spell killed 1 fly
His last turn, he catches the 5 hobs with his general, charges with the slugs on the front of the IG. His magic doesnt go well and get 2 unstoppable, the 1st was a hit on the rocket that survived and his mage lost 3 lvls, the second unstoppable, much worse from the horrors unit hit my dwarves who cannot now use the benefit of BSB and rerolls.
BUT they get a hit str10 and they all die +1w on his mageBSB
Fight goes on and I win of 1 IG vs Fly and Slug. 1 extra slug dies and that’s was it.
He killed 549 pts to me and I killed 580 or so, Draw.
Thx all for reading and thx sam585 because after a terrible terrible start I was able to pull it back together following your advices.
sam585:
You had a really really awful start. To be fair 1500 points is a tough level for chaos dwarfs since our demonsmiths are can very likely die to a single miscast due to the toughness test .immediately after taking a hit from a miscast. Glad the castle worked!
