Tale of Four Gamers

[boagrius]

He's awsome. he'll be making an appearance in my army.

[MorGrendel]

Huh, Ironic, I just picked up the White Dwarf dedicated to him . . .

[MorGrendel]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
So after being handedly dismantled by Dwarven shooting in two games already, I was somehow “tricked” by a drunken Dwarf Warlord to try my hand at it again. Only this time it would be TWO Dwarf players, against Goblins and Skaven. I must have been “bamboozled” by all his squeaky green-skin talk of trolls, because I totally missed the fact that he only brought ONE troll. Apparently his bridge must have been under construction.

The Good
The single troll managed to avoid fire and stupidity. He made an insane charge by himself into the Dwaven General’s unit, where I think he WON the first round of combat, and then he stayed put despite losing combat in the later rounds.
The Dwarf Crossbowmen singled out my Warpfire Thrower and failed to even land one hit. It’s like they know something.

The Bad
The Goblins and Skaven had about even luck with their “very special” units. Six Fanatics burst on to the scene, and struck nothing, nahdah, zilch. They managed to make a unit of Dwarves turn around and back away leaving their rear exposed. Except . . . we can’t exploit it because then we would have to charge through 6 Fanatics
So my Warpfire Thrower finally gets in range, lines up its shot, notices a bolt sticking out of the hose, and then explodes. But it doesn’t just explode – First, they run into my 10 Night Runners holding the flanks and then explodes. Uhhggg. Did I mention the Night Runners got charged two seconds later?

The Ugly
The Skaven Chieftain is a poor leader. He should have realized that there were not enough Miners on the flank to remove my rank bonus. Because of their small number (less than two ranks), the Skaven Leadership Bonus would still be intact. Also Steadfast, having more ranks, is not affected by a flank attack. So my stupid leader should have been Break Testing on 10s not snake-eyes.
However, the Skaven Chieftain did an excellent job cutting the Dwaven Champions to bits, but it may have been wiser if he cut down rank and file instead, because then there would have been less attacks back.

Skaven: 1-3
Goblins: 0-2
Dwarf #1: 2-0
Dwarf #2: ? 2-1 ?
Stupid Dwarves!

[Titus]

High Elves - 2-1

[lilscutt]

Dwarf #1 Hail from a long line of aussie dwarfs apparnetly...
Dwarf #2 is 2-1 but it was epic when skaven warp fire blows up into the back of night runners, and the miners sit back and watch bwaahahaha. jk skaven... and vetern step up from within the miners to take the challege from gaint rat, that day so he could save his fellow man..or should i say dwarves. But overall it was a great battle of intense waiting and then close combat

[Lokki]

Try not to freak out to much at the fact that I'm posting.....

The ancient, steadfast and vengefull throng of Goex Foe-Breaker has finally returned in his shortships after being lost for centuries during the war of the beard. Still bearing his oath stone, vowing to settle all wrongs done onto the ancesters (witch techically he is now one of due to the passing of a age or two...wait its actually four!) has stubbornly crushed the armies of Elves and Skaven warbands and showed a few young Dwarflings how to handle a foul and chaotic, Goblin and Skaven co-elision. Vengence wages on after 3 victories they search for proper trees to fell to replenish there depleted supply of crossbow bolts!!

March on brothers of Snorrii... death to all hairsplitters!!!

[MorGrendel]

As we are also supposed to record our trials and tribulations, here is my day.

It has finally stopped raining and the pollen count is low, you know what that means . . . Time to spray some models. Oh and so many models to paint. The ones in the front are my new 500 point Horde Army. Yup, that’s 112 models at 500 points. Yikes.

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Except . . . I promised myself no painting until I based my models. Bummer! No worries, I’ll just use the sand from the IGG (Ill gotten Gains). Oh wait, I forgot, the cats used it as a litter box.

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So now what? I know what will make you happy, your new “Fear Machine.” But Jeff isn’t that a little big? Shut your face, it not just a doom-flayer. It’s a Doom-Flayer “Fear Machine.” But it’s like the size of two chariots? Are you complaining? Unacceptable!

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Ahh, I feel better. I’ll just use this sand mix. I think I actually prefer the different sizes of gravel, it’s more cavelike. I must remember to NOT leave it out. I do not want another incident.

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Believe it or not I got them all based in around 2 hours. Hopefully tomorrow we can spray. Check out my awesome BSB.

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[Titus]

So, I hate this new spray I just got. It bubbled on the model. Bubbles, honestly what the fuck bubbles.

[lilscutt]

The Adventures of a noble army coming together (Dwaves)


This is start of the adding to the glarious army of the Dwaves.

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This is my first conversion im proud of the little guy.... added antlers to helm so had to cut off the horns and cutt off his arm and put different one on.

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[MorGrendel]

What we learned today:
Forests take away Steadfast for rank-and-file.
Magic Resistance does not work on miscast effects.
Cav have supporting attacks too, but not the horses.
However, (supposedly) HE horses also strike first (Are they horses that live a long time too?)
Combat reforms are cheeky and awesome, but don't work if you are enaged on multiple flanks.
Steadfast is great, skaven Ld not so much.

[Fritz]

Pretty sure High Elf horses don't get always strike first. Not sure where i remember reading that, but I want to say it's in the errata.

[MorGrendel]

First skirmishes
He came upon his knees. His form was low, but not low enough. The insolence, it displeased Turgor Shunt, the most militant of all The Cozenrook. However, a low crouch usually meant good news, or at the very least a well-spun lie. “Why disrupt me you worthless puke?”, he roared.

“Master, I have good news from the Island campaign. We have secured a solid foothold. Despite a feeble attempt at an outmaneuver, we have wiped out the pathetic Elven reinforcements. We stalked them, and when they landed, we attacked them and destroyed them to the man. They were so unaware of our presence, they never even noticed the warpstone traps we set. Their magi exploded in a wonderful conflagration.”

Then there was an awkward pause, as the servant raced to think of something else to say. As he opened his mouth, Turgor sucked the air out of the room. “And what of the cave?”

“Uhm, uh. In that respect we have been less effective. Our scouts seem to have hit a great deal of resistance. There are way more Dwarves than early reports let on, and they seem to be prepared, like they are guarding something. They seem of two minds; some are stubborn and unmoving, others seem speedy like Gutter Runners. Also, we were attacked from all sides by an army of Dwarves and a spattering of Goblins. We can not be sure why they are working together, but whatever it is it must be important. Overall, only few of our scouting parties, mostly slaves, have been killed or scattered. Wrenchit survived two such attacks and has recaptured the Rat Ogres that wandered off. Apparently, the homing beacons and flashy lights we implanted worked. Also we lost a Warpfire Thrower to an errant arrow, but that is to be expected. What's important is we killed a bunch, maybe even twice our number, of pointy-eared pin heads. Farhet would be proud.”

“Enough! Guard, ready my war litter. We go to investigate.”

[Lokki]

I can confirm i was cheated too HE horses do not get the speed of the ages or what ever the prissy gay homos get.

[Titus]

Boo hoo, you wiped the floor with me and used a loop whole in the rules to trap a unit.

[Lokki]

Best loop whole ever.... Lets Dwarf infantry outmanuver High elve fast cav!!!

I'd like to thank Jason for teaching me the rule during that match. With out it i could not have won this award, "Wisconsin cheese monger" (best use of a rule to beat a opponent)

"Beware of them pointy ear blokes, the'll give ya a shave"
-Snorrii-