Warmasters battle reports?

[Jack Shrapnel]

Could our representatives at warmasters perhaps give us some battle reports from this two days of carnage?

[stonecutter]

Here is what I recall but my memory is somewhat fuzzy from exhaustion ;D

Doubles:

Our List of Druchii & Daemons
3 x 10 RXBs, 22 spears, hydra
BSB on dark peggie, 4th lvl lore of death
30 horrors FC, 20 bloodletters FC, 6 flamers
Herald Tzeentch lore of life, Skull taker

Game #1 vs Vamps

3 hordes of ghouls, black coach, bats, corpse cart
2 x 4th levels (+2 PD each & helm commandment), 2 x 1st lvls, necro

We got absolutely spanked in this battle from the get go. Our magic phase never had more than 4 dice and theirs always started with 12. While we made a few minor errors in throwing the bloodletters at a ghoul block, we simply could not handle all the magic and huge hordes of ghouls with WS7 and poisoned attacks. We fought to the end of turn 6 but apart from my spears and sorceress, we were just about cleaned off the board.

Game#2 vs Mirror Image

Daemons same except herald of khorne and a 2nd unit of bloodletters. Druchii had cold one mounted unkillable BSB with unit of cold ones, hydra & single large block of ~30 RXBs and lore of shadow and sacrificial dagger.

This game started well as we moved the hydra and bloodletters on the left flank while spears and horrors advanced slightly up the middle. The opposing herald died to magic and we dropped a couple wounds on the hydra with RXB fire. The next turn, my BSB charged their horrors and ground them down over several turns (it would have been sooner but insane courage and a 3 instability roll kept them around!). Meanwhile, bloodletter fought bloodletter while our shooting continued to weaken them overall and their knights circled to flank our horrors. Our hydra flank charged one unit of bloodletters and nearly died to a flaming S7 herald but held on with one wound to win combat and begin the grind. The lore of life later restored the hydra a bit and gave it T7 so it rapidly began crushing the bloodletters. Eventually, our horrors died to the knights and hydra but by that time we had cleaned everything else of theirs off the board and victory was ours.

Game 3 vs TK & Daemons (I think)

2 x screaming skulls, ~40 archers, unshabti, liche high priest and Tomb prince.
Similar daemons to ours (I think)

Well, our hydra died on turn 1 or 2 to catapult fire but we dropped one catapult with RXBs and magic while the BSB flew behind their lines to threaten the archers and 2nd catapult. Magic and our horrors dropped their flamers to only 2 but they hid in a building and it took 2 assaults and the half the spears to finally finish them off. On the left flank, bloodletters, flamers and archers advanced toward the foe and wiped out a unit of bloodletters while their herald on the right died to death magic and the horrors began to drop. The BSB tied up the ushapti and ground them down over several turns while our own horrors engaged them in combat, aided by T5 lore of life buffs. Eventually, the 2nd catapult exploded and the remaining spears and BSB charged the horrors to pop the unit. The game ended with a flurry of fire on the skellie archers which left only the liche high priest and TP on the board.

Game 4 vs Dwarves & Woodies

2 blocks of stunties, shooting, runesmith and BSB, war machines
shooters, dryads, 7 treekin

We were cautious this game and used missiles and magic to grind them down before they came into range while the BSB went war machine hunting. Our horrors, bloodletters and skulltaker got crushed by a combo of dryads and treekin but this was necessary as our opponents were painfully slow once they started to get behind in points ( I would estimate they used ~25 minutes to our 5 for a turn). The good news was a KB to their general by the last bloodletter before he popped!! They wasted an organ gun on the BSB (10 hits and no wounds) before it finally exploded and then a combo hydra/spear/BSB charge finished a big block of dwarves with their BSB. Shooting finished off a unit of glade guard and we ended with another victory.

We finished the day at 3-1 and finished 8th of ~34 teams.