2k vs. Traitor Dwarfs
Today I battled yet another dwarf player.
Dwarf List:
++ Characters [780 pts] ++
King [316 pts]
(Hand weapon, Great weapon, Full plate armour, Shield, General, Shieldbearers, Master Rune of Swiftness, Master Rune of Adamant)
Thane [268 pts]
(Hand weapon, Crossbow, Full plate armour, Shield, Battle Standard Bearer [Master Rune of Grungni + Rune of Battle], On foot, Master Rune of Bursting Flame, Rune of Accuracy, Rune of Rapid Fire)
Runesmith [134 pts]
(Hand weapon, Great weapon, Full plate armour, Shield, Master Rune of Balance, Rune of Spellbreaking)
Engineer [62 pts]
(Hand weapon, Heavy armour, Great weapon, Handgun)
++ Core Units [510 pts] ++
19 Dwarf Warriors [224 pts]
(Hand weapons, Heavy armour, Great weapons, Shields, Drilled, Veteran (champion), Standard bearer, Musician)
20 Rangers [286 pts]
(Hand weapons, Crossbows, Heavy armour, Great weapons, Shields, Ol’ Deadeye (champion) [Crossbow])
++ Special Units [486 pts] ++
16 Ironbreakers [326 pts]
(Hand weapons, Shields, Full plate armour, Ironbeard (champion) [Shield + Cinderblast bombs + Rune of Speed], Standard bearer [Master Rune of Hesitation], Musician)
1 Gyrocopters [60 pts]
(Hand weapons, Steam gun, Full plate armour)
Cannon [100 pts]
(Cannon, Hand weapons, Light armour)
++ Rare Units [222 pts] ++
6 Irondrakes [111 pts]
(Hand weapons, Drakeguns, Full plate armour, Ironwarden (champion) [Trollhammer torpedo])
6 Irondrakes [111 pts]
(Hand weapons, Drakeguns, Full plate armour, Ironwarden (champion) [Trollhammer torpedo])
My list:
++ Characters [886 pts] ++
Sorcerer-Prophet [435 pts]
(Darkforged weapon, Heavy armour, Level 4 Wizard, General, Lammasu [Mace tail + Sorcerous Exhalation], Mantle of Stone, Talisman of Protection, Armour of Meteoric Iron, Daemonology)
Hobgoblin Khan [97 pts]
(Hand weapon, Throwing weapons, Light armour, Shield, Shortbow (instead Throwing weapons), Giant Wolf, Ruby Ring of Ruin, Potion of Foolhardiness)
Black Orc Warboss [354 pts]
(Great weapon, Full plate armour, Wyvern, Trollhide Trousers, Effigy Of Mork, Enchanted Shield)
++ Core Units [564 pts] ++
16 Infernal Guard [246 pts]
(Hand weapons, Heavy armour, Shield, Drilled (0-1 per 1000 points), Deathmask (champion) [Hellshard], Standard bearer, Musician)
10 Hobgoblin Cutthroats [30 pts]
(Hand weapons, Shortbows)
10 Hobgoblin Cutthroats [30 pts]
(Hand weapons, Shortbows)
16 Black Orc Mob [258 pts]
(Hand weapon, Full plate armour, Stubborn, 8x Shields, 8x Great weapon, 8x Additional hand weapon, Boss, Standard bearer, Musician)
++ Special Units [365 pts] ++
Iron Daemon [275 pts]
(Steam Cannonade, Hand weapons)
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [45 pts]
(Bolt thrower, Hand weapons, Light armour)
Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower [45 pts]
(Bolt thrower, Hand weapons, Light armour)
++ Rare Units [185 pts] ++
Dreadquake Mortar [185 pts]
(Dreadquake Mortar, Hand weapons, Heavy armour, Ogre Loader)
We played command and control, using the Squarebased terrain layout.
So, in the spirit of my new Old World rolemodel @William, I won’t cover the battle turn by turn.
Essentially he had an issue with mobility, and my dreadquake exacerbated this issue further. On my end, I had two flying monsters and I rolled the steed of Shadows, which I used twice to great effect, getting my infantry into/behind enemy lines.
The Wyvern proved tanky as all hell, as expected, but didn’t have the greatest damage output, since it got matched with the Ironbreakers. They had the hesitation rune, so my various charge bonuses, as well as my stomps, got taken from me.
My Lamassu got oddly stuck in with his T10 king and his BSB…? It was a strange call on my enemy’s part. I wrecked the BSB and managed to wrestle out of combat with the king, so I could fly off in search of a more worthwhile matchup.
The iron daemon mostly shot the everliving crap out of the enemy’s dwarriors, so much so that the characters inside abandoned them. The iron daemon eventually charged them, they elected to flee, but the Daemonic tank engine ran them over. Some comradery on display there… It did get shot afterwards by a series of troll torpedoes, but ended the game having taken 6 wounds.
The black orcs flew up inside the enemy lines, causing havoc, taking out engineer and cannon, before running amok and slaying anything in sight.
The hobo Khan got a slew of fireballs off, never failing once, and in turn 6 he popped off his last one, in a twist of irony, burning to death the last member of one of the irondrake units.
I lost my hobgoblins, as was their wont, and my infernal guard received a beating at the hands of the Ironbreakers. The Infernal Guard weren’t wiped, however, so they awarded only 25% victory points.
Wrap Up
With the BSB dead, a banner taken, and my hobo Khan sneakily securing the center objective, I ended up on top with an 18-2 victory. Edit: turns out my hobo Khan wasn’t eligible to take the objective, but was able to spoil the soup for everybody, so no one could have it. This puts me under the threshold for a 17-3 win instead.
I forgot that my Lamassu would turn the King’s runed GW into a mundane hand weapon, so the 3 wounds I took might not have happened, but no harm no foul.
The Ironbreakers FBiGO’d behind my infernal guard in my turn, as I was setting them up for a rear charge. That was not good 
I’m hoping this list will stand up to the multitude of monstrous behemoths I’ve got coming at me in my last battle.
Oh and I have a 1600pts battle against Empire as well, but I think I may have that in the bag.