The CF Times: P3 pinning set review, Bat Swarms, Infinity peak!

Hello guys!

So, I've been awfully inactive at hobbying lately, but that took a turn just recently! Yesterday I had two wonderful games of Infinity with a guy I've never even met before! And at his home, too boot (internet sure brings people closer).

And when I got home today, I noticed a thing I've been watinging for for over a month lying in the mailbox: A pinning set.

This above is the P3 pinning set. While I'm not a good reviewer, and I've only used it for like two hours, I'll tell you my impressions.
First up: Appearance.
I like the way it looks. Never liked pinning drills with balls on, so this is a nice option. Monocoloured silver. I like.

Feel:
Great! Lies down real smooth in my hand!

Ability:
Drills like a boss. Easy to spin too.

Extra pluses:
Good size for the brass rods included. Extra drill included, should the one you use go slow.
Also, it's cheap. Real cheap.

Con:
There's one bad thing... After using it for about 1.5 hour, the back of it (the part you rest in your hand) stopped spinning smoothly. Don't know why, but it started 'grinding' against the drill itself. I don't know if this happens to all the P3 drills or if mine just was a bad one... But I figure I'll just oil it or something!

But for the cost (as I'm living on a budget), worth it. I wouldn't say REALLY worth it, or exceptionally worth it. I just consider it to be a good buy, and I don't regret it. But if you have the cash I might suggest to try your luck on a slightly more expensive drill, if this 'grinding' issue is common. However, if the problem I encountered isn't common, then I strongly recommend the P3 pinning kit!

Now, can you guess what I've been doing ever since I got the drill..?



Working on my Bat Swarms obviously!
As you all may know, GW doesn't produce good bat swarms. They look... hideous. So I decided to search around for the best option, and found...
http://www.splinteredlightminis.com/1518mmswarms.html
Splintered Light Miniatures!

Now, they're an unknown company. Or perhaps it's just a single person, I'm not even sure it's a company. Either way, it's unknown and small. There were no reviews or words about their credibility or quality of minis. But I bought three bat swarm bags. So worth it!
For $8, you get 24 bats, size shown in my pic. I used one bag for two bases. I bought three bags, enough to fill six bases, or only four and then I'll have 24 to throw around my army (place around characters etc).
What I did was simple really. I drilled a hole in every bat's belly, super glue'd the brass rod, drilled a hole in the base, super glue'd other side of brass rod. Rinse and repeat. A little tedious, but well worth it. Didn't cost me much money, only time, and a great way to get a feel of the drill since the bats are very expendable. Highly recommended for you Vampire Counts players out there that don't like the looks of GWs bats!


And finally, remember I mentioned I played two games of Infinity? Well, I took notes during both battles, whilst my opponent (I'll call him Mr. M for now) snapped of random photos with his system camera. Don't be surprised if there's a batrep or two coming this way...
A little preview of how the terrain was set up for the first game:

Collected thoughts from the CF.

Hello everyone!
Sorry for not updating in such a long time, I just haven't been in the mood. But for this post, I'll discuss a but of everything I've been doing and thinking about since last time!
These will be, in order:

-What has happened with my Vampire Counts since last, as well as some talk about alternative miniatures.
-Beastmen. You will see.
-Infinity, both Nomads and... Shasvastii?

So, that's my Vampire Count. Sir Novkaer I've named him, basically an arrogant ex-bretonnian (now Vampire) roaming the lands.
The conversion in itself is rather simple. The Horse is the Gamezone Mournful Knight Hero, the body is Reaper's Judas Bloodspire, and the sword is the sword from GWs Zombie Dragon / Terrorgheist kit. It turned out pretty if I may say so myself! My usage of Greenstuff is subtle enough, but I need to put a little more work into his face someday -cough cough-.
I also have 5 more Mournful Knights ready to be painted... Just not in the mood.
Oh, and a word of advice for anyone thinking of buying the Mournful Knights - Be careful, they're tricky. And wide. Ranking them up is very difficult, believe me.

And I've gotten my hand on the best bat swarms around! They're 15mm, but as they're small animals, that doesn't matter. And everybat is the same, but at that size that's not a problem. I bought three small plastic bags of them, which totalled 72 (!) individual bats... Sad thing is I can't remember the manufacturer! It wasn't a big company. In fact, it might not even be a company at all (that's the feel I got). If you search around the web, I'm sure you'll find them.
The main problem is that I have yet to figure out a good way to place them on a base...

Now, what's this? Could it be... Yes, it can very much be!
As of late, our dear Erik, The Tomb King started up his second fantasy army - Empire, and this got me thinking: "ME WANTS MOAR PLASTIC CRACK TOO RAWRGH!"
So I looked around a little, and something crossed my eyes that I missed before it was the Gors.
There is something special about the Gors. Something very... primal, raw and manly. I find that very attractive and a bit beautiful in a very, very bestial way.
Then I looked up beastmen tactics. They're Leadership-dependant, something that would be a nice change from the Undead. They tend to use many diverters and chaff units, which I love. They've also got ace models (Go check the Beastlord model. Do it now. It's probably one of GWs best, despite age!), and they have some sweet monster stuff (and who doesn't love that?). The last icing upon the icing on the cake was that Lore of Beasts is a viably, well-used lore withing Beastmen. And I love the Lore of Beasts.

But I'm not just gonna jump in and start a Beastmen army. No, this will be slow. I've got my Fantasy army that I can play with, so I might as well take time to do this. A lot of time. I want to make a themed army.
Now, Beastmen are the Children of Chaos. Mutation and whatnot all day erry'day. But yet... They all seem very goat-y. Meh.
So, what animals do I like?
...
Insects.
Yeah, really. I love insects. And there came my idea. Gors will have legs of spiders. Centigors will be spiders or centipedes. Minotaurs can be truly gigantic Stag Beetles! The Ghorgon will be kitbashed with the Arachnarok and harpies will be flies! I can really see the awesome yet creepy army before me... But it will take a lot of time, and a lot of money.
But soon enough, I will surely get around to do it.

So, for those of you who doesn't know, that's the symbol of the Combined army in Infinity. But I will get to that later.
First up, I want to tell you that I've finally tempted an opponent in the FLGS into playing Infinity. And now that I've planted the seed of corruption, soon shall the whole shop fall AND ALL WILL PLAY INFINITY FOREVER!!!
However, so far I've only gotten one game with him. We can call him Mr. W. And the game was pretty much introductory to us both, because even though I know the rules well, you can't know them well enough until you've played with them.
It was my Nomads against his Haqqislam. Basically, we both spend our first turn moving towards each other. I drop one of his guys with my Grenade Launcher, and he then drops two of my guys... And that's a lot when you're only running 7 guys.
Then in comes my airborne doctor, promptly kills one of my guys (stupid doctor failing his checks) and starts to advance towards the enemy. I set up an defensive perimeter around a very critical door opening. I get some good shit going, and start to wrestle myself back into the game.
The rest of the game is spend by Mr. W. spending half of his orders to penetrate my defensive perimeter and the mine my Zero placed to well. The other half of his orders is spend on his doctor to climb up a wall where an injured Sniper lies bleeding. The doctor fell down every time, and when my well-armed Lieutenant reach the frontline, it's game over. She guns Mr. Ws Lieutenant down, and I chase him off the board.
Overall a good game. Got a better grip of the game, and learned the importance of tactics in this game. Defensive positions might not give a bonus when it comes to stats, but the tactical advantage is huge.

But that's not all. I wanted to start a second Infinity-army too. And Shasvastii was my choice. I just love Camouflaged and Hidden Deployment. And the Noctifier Missile Launcher... Oh god how I love it, it's beyond words. The mini is as ace as the ace of spades, and a TO Missile Launcher... It's like it's christmas!
So, I bought the Shasvastii starter and three more Shasvastii dudes just now, as well as some reinforcements for my Bakunin. Also waiting for both the rulebooks in the mail!

*phew* Wow, that was a lot more than I thought it would be! Perhaps I shouldn't procrastinate as much, haha!
That said, here's hoping that I get this blog rolling again!
Alea iacta est!

The Cornerfag

The Cornerfag Paints again! (AKA Not so very weekly)

Hello everyone!
Sorry for my lack of updates lately, I decided to take a little break from most things related to gaming in general, except my gaming evenings. But I'm back now, and I've brought some pictures of what I've managed to do since last!
First up, my skeletons.
These were with speed in mind, as I had promised myself to make at least ten of them per day, which made speed a necessity. The colour scheme goes as follows:

1: Spray white (Army Painter spray, the dull white).
2: Fill up areas where the spray missed with skull white.
3: Paint cloth in a thinned down Hawk Turqoise. If it's thinned enough, it will act like a thick wash and sink into the cloths' recesses, letting the white shine through where it protrudes and effectively create an automatic highlight.
4: Paint the rest of the fudging mini. (Essentially, I just randomized colours. For metallic areas I varied between Boltgun metal, Mithril silver, and Shining gold. For wood I used Scorched Brown, and for other things like scabbards and such I went with more Turqoise / Grey / Brown.
5: Paint shields as you'd like (I actually painted the Turqoise on the shields while I had Turqoise on my brush, and the black whilst there was black). Outline with w/e metallic.
6: Apply god liqui-- I mean Devlan Mud.
The result:






I'm pretty satisfied with them, actually...

And now
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help myself
For some reason, I've gotten into another Infinity hype.
I just can't help myself because IT'S SO AWESOME
...
Well, either way
I painted up my Reverend Custodier (She is the sweetnoodles, dat mini).
It's done differently from my Tomcat when it comes to colours, and to be frank, I like Miss Custodier more. So she'll be the model for the rest of my "army"'s (well, not really an army since it's a skirmish-sized game...)colour scheme.
I didn't really have any technique when I painted her, it was more of a "paint this area, paint that area, highlight this area..." approach. Which, combined with the sweetness that is Infinity's detailed minis, ended up in quite a time-consuming project.
The main colours are: Space Wolf Grey, Warlock Purple and Blood Red. A mix of Chaos Black and Codex Grey made the cloak, watered down skull white stood for the Highlighting, and then some codex grey on the gun.
Turned out like this:




And that's all for me this week!
Keep rollin' 'em dice!

Battle Report! 2v2, Woc & OK vs TK & DE, 3000 pts per side!

Battle Report: WoC & OK vs DE & TK
Sunchasers vs. No-Name

After the battle between Ogre Kingdoms and Warriors of Chaos, the combined forces of Tomb Kings and Dark Elves descend upon the battered forces. Having made an unholy deal with the Dark Elves, the Tomb Kings once more seek to reclaim what's rightly theirs. Hate, the great Chaos Lord, and Sköll, the awesome Ogre Tyrant, have no choice but to combine forces to defend themselves from the oncoming forces. Oh, and the Hydra is in the garden again.

Here's our next, most likely awesome Battle report!
Actually this report was written the day after the previous one, but I've been procrastinating a little! Also, this Battle Report took quite a while to do, so it will substitute my Almost Weekly this time.
Today, the matchup is a 2v2, consisiting of Hate and Sköll pitted against EtTK (Erik the Tomb King) and Dark Elf Queen Philippa. Commentor and reporter is, as mostly always me, The Cornerfag! With on the sideline sits Dhaik, our ever-treacherous skaven player.
The point values are 1500 pts per player. Philippa is currently pushing her units to reach that, while Sköll is singing a song to crush the moral of his foes.
So Dhaik, what do you think of today's game?
Dhaik: Well, it seems that Hate & Sköll have devised quite the plan to crush the TK & DE-combination. We'll go into the details when EtTK isn't around...
That you say... Well, let's go on to the interviews!

TK List:
Lords:
High Liche Priest lvl 4 - Dispel Scroll

Heroes:
Tomb Prince - Chariot, Armour of Silvered Steel, Ironcurse Icon, Great Weapon

Core:
16 Skeleton Archers
6 Skeleton Chariots - FC, Banner of Eternal Flames

Special:
Warsphinx - Fiery Roar

Rare:
Casket of Souls
Necrosphinx

DE List:
Lords:
Dreadlord - Dawnstone, Whip of Agony, Armour of Destiny, Cold One, Shield, Sea Dragon Cloak

Heroes:
Sorceress lvl 2 - Opal Amulet, Sacrificial Dagger

Core:
20 Corsairs - FC, Sea Serpent Standard
14 Crossbowmen
12 Warriors

Special:
5 Cold One Knights - FC, Deat Piercer (Champion), Standard of Hag Graif

Rare:
Hydra
Hydra

Pre-game interview DE & TK:
So, what is your team name?
P: Uh, we have no team name... We-have-no-team-name... Wé-avve-nô-teãm-näm'e.
EtTK: Yes, exactly.
Dhaik: They don't seem to have any team spirit, compared to the other team...

What is your game plan?
P: Hydr... Yeah.
EtTK: We're actually running a lot of monsters. One Warsphinx, one Necrosphinx and 2 Hydras (P: Though one Hydra still is unassembled, so I'll have a Chimaera-stand in). Oh, and we'll have to take out their cannons. Fast. Philippas Dreadlord is our combat Lord, and I've got a Tomb Prince in my chariot unit, but very little infantry, only archers. Philippa just plays all that she has.


What are your hopes?
P: Ueeaahhh...
EtTK: Well, it would be nice to win, though I'm mostly looking to see what the Sphinxes are capable of.

What are your fears?
P: The Hydras to die.
EtTK: That Hate will throw dice at me.
TC: I see a pattern here...
Dhaik: No worries, EtTK. I will protect you.

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
EtTK: Sphinxes. They will only get a few attacks, and even if Sköll runs a Gutstar, they'll only wound on sixes. And Hydras will kill shit. Flaming attacks on Warsphinx and Chariots will prevent any random regeneration.

For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
TC and Dhaik in unison: DURR, HYDRAS.
P: Am I that predictable? Yeah, Hydras.
EtTK: I'm kind of interested to see what the Tomb Prince on Chariots can do.
(and now, P and EtTK start to wrestle out of nowhere while Dhaik cheer them on...)
So... I'll think I'll move to the other team now...

WoC List:
Lord:
Sorcerer Lord lvl 4 - Power Familiar, Enchanted Shield, Amulet of Preservation

Heroes:
Chaos Sorcerer lvl 2
Dispel Scroll, Conjoined Homonculus

Core:
24 Chaos Warriors - MoT, HWS, Standard Bearer
18 Chaos Warriors - AHW, Banner of Rage (I will refer to these as MoKs during the battle, because that's essentially what they are).

Special:
5 Chaos Knights - Standard Bearer, MoK


OK List:
Lords:
Tyrant - Heavy Armour, Brawlerguts

Heroes:
Bruiser - BSB, Great Weapon, Heavy Armour

Core:
18 Ironguts - Musician, Standard Bearer
10 Gnoblars - Trappers

Rare:
Ironblaster

Pre-game interview WoC & OK:
So, what is your team name?
In unison: TEAM SUNCHASERS! YEAH! *brofists*
What is your game plan?
Hate: To win.
Sköll: Yeah, it looks like this: The expensive unit shall not die..
Hate: Sköll, let's just win, ok?
Sköll: Yeah well, now that I have a little more units, I might be able to place them a little strategically.
Hate: I think we're gonna take them and win. Not much to say.

What are your hopes?
TC: Hate, shut up. I know your answer already.
Sköll: That the big unit will survive.

What are your fears?
Sköll: That the big unit will die.
Hate: I fear nothing, I've got the Gutstar on my side.
Dhaik: What about their monsters?
Hate: So? We've got a cannon.

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Hate: Like mentioned, cannon. And I believe we have the upper hand regarding units, it's their job to counter it. Sadly enough, no Exalted Hero this time though.

For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
Hate: May I take a unit not in the game? No? Well... Let's say my... Chaos Sorcerer Hero, because he has a tumour that talks to him. That's fun.
Sköll: The Gnoblars, I hope they'll flip some Chariots over. And I like the Ironblaster really much to, it will KICK HIS ASS. *pumps fist and high-5s Hate*


Pre-game info:
Mission:
Slaughterfest (AKA Just play the game with no special mission rules)
Magic:
Dark Elves:
Pit of Shades (AHH!), The Withering.

Tomb Kings:
The Protections Spell, The Killing Blow Spell, The Desiccation Spell, The Movement Hex.

Ogre Kingdoms:
No spells. LUL!

Warriors of Chaos
Lvl 4: Mystifying Miasma, Enfeebling Foe, The Withering, Pit of Shades (AGAIN!?).
Lvl 2: Flaming sword of Rhuin, Fireball.

Roll-off:
The no-names win the roll-off. Team Sunchaser begin deployment.

Terrain set-up:



Deployment:
Team Sunchaser finishes first, with a crowded south battlefield in the end. But the No-names win the roll-off, and choose to go first.



1st turn TK & DE:
Alliance roll:
Failed, and the Tomb Kings and Dark Elves get more mad at each other, going into a desperate alliance. Never trust a Dark Elf!
Movement:
Everything walks or marches forward, with the exception of: The Necrosphinx, whom chooses to fly up in the tower, the Cold Ones whom bravely place themselves straight in front of the Chaos Knights (I commend their bravery/stupidity). Also, the Skeleton Archers and Casket of Souls stay put.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 4 - 2, casket grants another 2. Final score: 8 PD, 4 DD.
Philippa casts The Withering on the Gutstar (4 PD + 1 Sacrificial PD). Sunchasers choose not to dispel it, and the Ironguts shrink into T2.
Next up: Pit of Shades, extended. 4 PD + Sacrificial Dice, result 21. Team Sunchaser ponders on how to stop it... Risk it with 4 dice, or the Dispel Scroll?
...
They go for the dice. And fail, but rely on the scatter to save them. But it hits! This could be quite the event... 14 Ogres are hit. I2 means a 3+ kills one, no saves, all wounds taken. Sköll rolls... and 9 die. That's 27 wounds. And a panic test, which is passed. But have we finally defeated the Gutstar?
Shooting:
Chariots pew-pew at the Ogres. 3 Wounds caused, one Ogre die.



1st turn WoC & OK:
All Khorne-frenzy passed.
Movement:
Team Sunchasers start out with a new technique: Moving backwards! Well, at least the Ironblaster anyways, and Chaos Knights. Gutstar reform a little and skip forward together with the Gnoblars, while Warriors of Chaos stay put.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 4 - 2, +1 from Familiar. Final Score: 7 PD, 4 DD.
First: Melker's (or something) Mystifying Miasma. Target: Chariots. Opponents let's it through. They lower the Movement Characteristic with 1.
Then, they Withering the Hydra. Philippa goes sadface and forces Erik to try and dispel it, but he fails. They lower it's toughness to 4.
Lastly, fireball, but it's easily dispelled.
Shooting:
CANNONBAAAAAALLL!!!
Target locked: Chariots.
Firing mode: Bouncing ball.
Firing angle: Flank.
They be in for a hurtin'.
Though only 2 are hit, both wounded.
TOMB PRINCE FAILS HIS "LOOK OUT-SIR!".
Tomb Prince fails his save!
Multiple wounds kill the Tomb King!
And the chariot beside him only take a wound.



2nd turn TK & DE:
All stoopids passed.
Movement:
Necrosphinx tries the charge against the Ironblaster. Hate calls out "One, one, two!". A few seconds later, the dice come up: One, one, and a two. It also fails the Dangerous Terrain-test for walking down the tower. (In other words, he just fell flat on his face).
For the rest: All move up, except for Casket. Sorceress-bunker and Liche Priest-bunker are walking behind their front lines.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 6 - 3. Liche Priest and Sorceress both Channel, Casket grants 3. Hate channels one. Final score: 12 PD, 7 DD.
First up: The Desiccation spell, 4 dice cast, against the Gutstar. It now has S3, T1. Pretty cool guys.
Then, Casket bound spell on 6 dice against the Ironblaster. Hate easily dispels it on 5 Dispel Dice.
Final two dice go to the protection spell on the Casket, but it too was dispelled.
Shooting:
Chariots unleash 12 shots of fury against the low-toughness-guts. 4 wounds caused, 2 unsaved.
Archers mimic their cavalry brethren, causing 6 wounds, 3 unsaved.
Crossbowmen don't want to miss out on the fun! But needing sixes to hit, only 2 hits and one wound is caused, taking the last wound from one Ogre.



2nd turn WoC & OK:
Frenzies passed.
Movement:
Ironguts fail their charge. They seem to fail a lot these days, actually.
MoKs get their charge on the Hydra.
Chaos Knights back up all the way to the board edge.
Gnoblars cannot decide which way to go, what units to block. In the end, they decide to stop the oncoming Dark Elves.
Magic:
Sköll gets to roll for once. 6 - 4, one channel. Final result: 11 PD, 6 DD. Approved.
Flaming sword of Rhuin on the MoKs in combat with the Hydra. 6 dice + tumour speech = Score 22. 6 dice to the dispel, score: 24. Dispelled.
The Enfeebling Foe is cast upon the Hydra. Dispel Scroll'd.
Shooting:
Ironblaster grapeshots the Necroswinx. Misfire, hah. It turns around almost completely due to the misfire chart.
Close Combat:
Hydra vs MoKs.
Handlers hit 2, wound 1 unsaved.
MoKs roll a shitload dice as per usual, causing 8 wounds (ouch!). But 7 are saved, hah!
Hydra hits 6, wound 4, kill 3.
Then it breathes, 10 S3 hits. 2 wounds, 1 die.
5 Thunderstomps, 4 wounds. 4 die.
Hate lose combat, calls out "I will roll a nine on my leadership", and rolls nine on his leadership. The MoKs flee, and get run down.



3rd turn TK and DE:
I sense game depends on this turn...
Movement:
Chariots and Warsphinx charge Ironguts.
Hydra charge cannon, Cold One Knights charge Chaos Knights, Corsairs and Warriors charge Gnoblars.
Hydra gets there.
Cold One knights get there.
Skeleton Chariots get there.
Warsphinx gets there.
Warriors and Corsairs get there, losing 3 warriors and 4 Corsairs in the process due to Trappers.
Necrosphinx move to hunt down the lvl4 Sorcerer, Sorceress bunker keep following the frontlines and the Liche-priest bunker have problems keeping up with their incapability to march.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 3 - 2, +1 from Casket. Final score: 6 PD, 3 DD.
The withering cast on-- Nevermind, Scroll'd.
Then, protection spell upon the-- Nevermind, dispelled.
Badum-tish.
Shooting:
Archers shoot upon the Chaos Warriors (MoT), killing one.
Close Combat:
Let's begin with the Hydra in the Ironblaster rear.
Place your bets... Though that T6 could prove slightly useful. We shall see...
Handlers are a bunch of fail.
Hydra, although all it's HATE, only cause one wound, which is unsaved.
Ironblaster cause two wound, both failed to saved.
Sköll take the ld-test with a -2 modifier, and passes it.

Next in line: Cold One Knights... with ASF, and +2 S from charging.
Dreadlord cause 3 wounds, 2 which are saved.
3 hits from Cold Ones, 2 wounds, both of which are saved.
Unit champion tries to be awesome, not doing anything.
Cold Ones bite well and hard, causing three wounds... Two unsaved.
There's something weird with these saves.
Hate strike back, causing one unsaved wound.
The frenzy Chaos Knights remaining simply decide that there is something more interesting outside of the battlefield and run away, whilst the Cold Ones turn to face the Ironblaster.

Chariots and Warsphinx vs Ironguts:
Impact hits cause 4 unsaved wounds, chariot-guys cause one unsaved wound. Sphinx cause one more wound, unsaved, and then breathes upon the Ironguts. 5 wounds caused, one saved.
Will Sköll survive this?
Bruisers punch the Sphinx in the face, causing one wound.
Tyrant kills a whole Chariot, while the Ironguts kill one and puts two wounds on another.
But the Ironguts hold their ground!

Lastly, Gnoblars vs Corsairs and Warriors! DUN DUN DUUUUN! I cheer for the gobbos!
Corsairs strike first with their 2 guys in b2b, killing 3 of the poor gobbos!
Warriors kill another 4 poor gobbos, wah!
GOBBOS MAD, GOBBOS KILL! KILL... NO ONE!
Leadership test-- SNAKE EYES! WOOOO!
GOBBOS HOLD THEIR GROUND!



3rd turn WoC & OK:
Movement:
MoTs charge the Corsair, to aid the Gobbos in their valiant stand!
Lonely Lvl4 wizard fail his marching test, and just stroll around the garden.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 2 - 3, Familiar and one channel for each side. Result: 7 PD, 4 DD.
First off: Pit of Shades upon the Necrosphinx, just scratches it after scatter! But it passes it's test.
But, as it was miscasted, Hate lose his remaining dice.
Close Combat:
MoTs and Gnoblars vs Corsairs and Warriors.
MoTs begin, hit 9, wound 3, 2 die.. (You're beginning to understand the bad luck Hate has?)
Next in line, Corsairs: The bucketload of dice cause 4 wounds, but Hate commands his dice into saving them all!
Warriors next! They kill 4 Gnoblars, which is all the remaining ones, sadly...
Leadership-test for Philippa... But she passes it, argh!
At least the Warriors run away.

Let's move on to the Ironguts vs Chariots and Warpshinx.
Things move pretty fast on the TK side, but he did a few wounds here and there.
Tyrant cause 2 wounds on the Chariots, Ironguts cause 4 wounds. Bruiser cause 2 more.
Both the Chariot remaining and the Warpsphinx crumble to dust.

And finally, the Hydra vs Ironblaster.
Handlers fail around.
Ironblaster cause ONE WOUND! Which is what is needed to kill the Hydra
Philippa fails the armour... But passes the Reg!
However, the Rhinox cause another!
The armour is failed!... And the Reg is failed! It is dead!
However, the Hydra gets it's attacks, since it has the same I. One wound caused, but it lives! It turns to face the Cold Ones and Dreadlord. They have to test for panic. And roll a perfect 10!



And by now, it's getting late. People are getting hungry, and Team Sunchaser, the WoC and the OK, concede.

Redux:
Hate: Bad luck sucks. And while we could continue this one more turn, it's getting late and so.
Unit of the game: Exalted Hero (on Juggernaut). It's because he wasn't in that I lost. Really.

Philippa:
Idk.
Unit of the game? Hydras. (I did not see this one coming.)

Erik, the Tomb King:
Never multicharge with a Sphinx.
Unit of the game: None. I am not pleased. THEY DID NOTHING: PHILIPPA DID EVERYTHING!

Sköll:
Effing Pit of Shades.
What did you think of the Gnoblars? They did what they were supposed to. They lived, and were in the way.
Unit of the Game: Ironblaster.


Oh, and as always, a serving of awesome picture:

The CF's almost weekly 2!

Woot, already been two weeks?! I've been so busy. I still am, and I'll tell you why in today's almost weekly (which is, I admit, a little rushed).
I've been trying to expand my Black Knight units from 5 to 15. I'm almost there, having assembled 9 more horses (the tenth is going to be a Wight King, AWW YEAAHH).
Anyways, it's looking pretty good on that front, so I'm satisfied.


The other thing that's been keeping my busy and working is that my Mantic Games Skeletons and Zombies arrived! 120 Skeletons and 60 Zombies to assemble, and they're sadly not going to assemble themselves!

There's about 60 - 70 of the Skeletons in that picture. That means there's at least 50 left, as well as 60 zombies! -sigh-

But anyways, for today's topic, let's have a short review of the Mantic Skeletons, shall we?
The first thing that... stroke? Striked? Whatever, the first thing that straught me was the level of detail and armour compared to GWs own skeletons. Where GWs skeletons range from nude to loincloth+shield, Mantic's range from Loincloth+shield to chainmail, ex-clothing, pretty helmets, birds eating their flesh and shield. That's a plus for me. I've always wanted my skeletons to look like they're actual dead warriors, and now they do!
The second thing that came to me where the pretty little bits. It's not so much, but now I have 6 tombstones, 6 skeleton Wolfrats and 5 skeletons bursting out of the ground (a champion took the sixth skeleton for his hand weapon). It's just a little something that made me a bit happy anyway. Everyone loves bits!
Third difference I notices was their faces, and I'm not sure if this is positive or negative. It's the fact that the Mantic Skeletons have their faces slightly twisted into expressions (mostly anger from what I can see, or just seriousness), unlike GWs in this case slightly more realistic skeletons whom have little to no expression at all. But I have yet to decided if it's good or bad. It's slightly silly and unrealistic, but it adds character and make them seem slightly more frightening.
Another bad thing was that the MG skeletons weren't as well done when it came to the bones. To many ribs and such, not like a real skeleton. But that is countered by the extra armour, so I'm fine with that.
Next thing in the list of differences is the poses. GW skeletons has the pose of marching forward. Mantic has the pose of standing still.... More or less. Although you would believe it to look bad on the battlefield, it actually does not. If you want an example you're familiar with, look to the ranged infantry units in your army. In almost every case these will be standing on their place, not marching forward.
And the last thing (and the thing I loved the most) was the simple effectivity of assembling them.
Every lower part (from feet to stomach) is in one piece, for every skeleton. Then there are six complete upper parts, six upper part where you get to choose weapons (Spears, Swords, Axes, or a flail), and eight where you may customize a little bit (Choose head, gear for both hands, sometimes even pose the arms...).
So there's like the generic guys, the slightly generic guys, and the characterful guys. Yay!

I'm not even gonna bother telling you the price comparison. Let's just say Mantic aren't GW.

And for a final, a little size comparison between them and some VC models!


As you can see, they scale pretty well. The Grave Guard may look shorter, but he's hunched forward, and even so still more bulky than the little warrior, so he appears larger in any case.

All in all, it's a win for Mantic Games. I know where I'm getting my future Skeletons from, should I ever need more.


Now, as a final note is the thing that spurs me so currently.



The convent Gothcon is coming up! It's during April, 6ht to 8th I believe. And I decided to join their WHFB tournament. I need to have everything bought, painted and assembled by then!
I've made a rough list of what to bring, so that's planned. It includes be buying two Necromancers and my kitbashed Vamplord. That'll be a good 400 crowns. Some Direwolves are also needed, basing materials, new Movement trays and foam trays for my GW bag. Also spraypaint and more paint. I'm not even sure I'll have enough money. This will be rough.
But I'm gonna make it!

The Cornerfag's almost weekly! New Vampire Counts and first game of Legend.

Hello! Time for my first what I hope will be almost weekly tradition, a slight update on everything I've been doing lately!
This time I'll talk about two things: Legend (the role-playing game), and the new Vampire Counts armybook!

I'll start with a review of the new armybook.
I'm using a scale of 1 - 10, where 5 would be average, 10 would be strictly better than every other book, and 1 being unacceptable. 7.5 is... above expectations/very well done/me gusta.
For simplicity, let's go from front to end.

It starts out... Bad. The front artwork, I hate it (more or less). The Vampire's hair, his weird arm-pose, the bone-spikes on his armour and the stupid amount of blood running down his hand, looking like a glove... Sigh. 3/10 here.
But then I opened it.
The page layout is pretty good-looking actually, and the first pages are the fluff pages. I have to admit I haven't had the time to read them through, but it seems to be just like the last edition, which was good (although they still focus a bit too much on the von Carsteins...) 7.5/10.

Army special rules:
Undead - Okay, so no difference here, that's good, except for marching is only allowed within 12" of the General. I'm fine with that.
The General - Forcing me to take Lore of the Vampires on my General.. I don't prefer it, but it's okay since it's rather fluffy. But what's good at this part is that you're now able to have backup-generals. That is, your general is now not an auto-lose button. Sure, if he dies it'll hurt you, on the first crumbling. But, if you have another Lore of Vamps-wizard, he'll take over before the next crumbling. Sweet.
Battle Standard Bearer - No difference. I wanted him to be of little more use to the Vampire army that he was before, but I guess not...
Vampiric - Here be Vampires.
It's hard to grade the army special rules... So I'll just say I like them.

Unit entries: Okay, so for this section, I wont rate the rules, just the... entries.
And that's some entries, I tell you! The artwork here is amazing! All-colour and fantastic, it makes the cover even worse (for good and bad). Solid 9.5/10, and these pages actually made the price tag acceptable for me.

Lore of the Vampires:
For me, this is a slight step back... Being able to spam spells was unique for the Vampires, giving them more personality. They kept the power level roughly the same, but pushing the book into being more.. generic, if I may say so. As for the spells themselves...
Invocation of Nehek: Now targets an area around the caster, and that's fine. I'm good. Also raises D6 + Caster level on infantry, 1 + Caster level on everything else that's not Vampiric, Etheral or Large Target (whom only regain 1 wound). Also the Signature.
Vanhel's Danse... Nerfed. Argh! They removed the possibility of chargin with it, and you ONLY get re-rolls to hit in CC. But you're capable of extending it to target every unit within 12"... But that doesn't make up for charging in the magic phase being gone.
Hellish Vigour: Re-roll to wound in CC. That's nice in combo with Danse. Approved.
Gaze of Nagash: As worthless as usual.
Raise Dead: Raising 2d6+3 Zombies, cool. Also able to extend and make those zombies skeletons, cooler. Do not award Victory points, awesome!
Curse of Years: The same as before. Still kind of cool.
Wind of Death: This spell is... odd. A vortex causing D6 S3 hits per rank (no armour saves allowed) on any unit it touches? So... For maximum efficiency, you'd want it to just barely touch as many units as possible? Weird. Also extendable into S4, large template.
Lore attribute restores a wound to a character within 12" for every successfully cast spell.
Spell rating: 7.5/10

Vampiric Powers and Magical Items:
We still have roughly the same amount of powers, while our magic items section has been cut down... As for the powers, I like them. Very well priced, fluffy and useful.
The Magic Items... I know some people mourn the Drakenhoff banner, but not me. In fact, every item here is cool. I like The Cursed Book (casts one out of six spells randomly by sacrificing D3 power dice)... The only item I don't like is Skabscrath, because it's slightly overpriced... I think. 6.3/10 (lesser rating due to less items... But that goes for every 8th ed. book).

Miniature showcase: Same painting on every mini as always. The only thing that struck out to me was how badly painted the standard showcase-Hexwraiths actually are. The two other examples of them look way better. 5/10

The army list: I'll write a little about every entry, trying to keep it as short as possible. But I'll skip Special Characters... Because my eyes don't register those.

Lords:
Vampire Lord: Ah, the ever-present DIY Vampire. Love him, still do. One magic level lower (but still access all the way to lvl4), one more attack and a slight price increase but access to mundane items and two more spell lores... At first I was kind of disappointed with him, but after running some numbers and trying some builds, I'm proud to say that he's at least as good as ever.

Master Necromancer: A pretty cool guy for the Necromancer-lovers out there, also a easy access to a level 4 wizard.

Strigoi Ghoul King: Now this was unexpected for me. Slightly more expensive than your DIY Vamp, but with a 5+ reg, poison and Infinite Hatred, but no access to armor... He's cool, and good to see some non-Carstein love around in these parts.

Heroes:
Necromancer: Slight point increase, access to two lores and no longer picks spells... He's good.

Vampire: Same points, access to two more lores and mundane items. Solid.

Wight Kings (my forever beloved Wight King): Point increase, and.. that's it. But he's still the Wight King I know and love!

Cairn Wraith and Tomb Banshees: Cool guys. Cairn Wraith add a good punch to any unit, and Tomb Banshees seem solid to fly around solo, screaming at stuff.

Coven Throne: For some reason, my eyes always just graze past this entry. Probably because it seems so... Un-special to me. Chariot, can move through terrain, 4+ Ward save, cool leadership-tes stuffs... Cool, I guess. I believe I'll mainly use it as a Hero-vamp-mount, if I'm going to use it at all.

Core:
Zombies: Point decrease, stat increase. Cool. Finally, worthy tarpits and character-bunkers!

Skeletons: Point decrease... And that's it. They're still the Skeletons I know and love!

Ghouls: Point INCREASE (Yes, you heard me). But they're still cool, though I don't use them.

Dire Wolves: Now this is the shiny part of the Core for me. I love the Dire wolves sculpt. I love outmanouvering, redirecting and blocking charges with small, fast units. And now the count towards minimum core, have +1S on the Charge and a Vanguard move! I approve, approve a lot!

Special:
Corpse Cart: Whenever affected by a Lore of the Vampires spell, it grants ASF to every unit within 6"? Cool. But it is now a Chariot, and has ha point increase.

Grave Guard and Black Knights: Point decrease on both? I approve with joy.

Fell Bats, Bat Swarms and Spirit Hosts:
Fell Bats, if I don't recall incorrectly, have gotten a hefty point decrease, making them viable. Spirit host is still the same. Bat Swarms give ASL to any unit they combat, a special rule I've been very tempted to try and make good use of... But I don't know how.

Crypt Horrors: Like Ghouls, but BIG!

Vargheists: Like a Varghulf, but SMALL!

Hexwraiths: The unit I cannot bring my mind around. I want to use them, but not sure if they're worth it. They inflict auto-hits on any unit they pass through, and are fast cavalry... So they're the perfect flank/rear harrasser... But they're pretty worhtless against rank-and-file... And can't march by themselves... So, they're risky. I'm going to try them out when I can, because the concept of them is cool.

Rare:
Varghulf: The same as always, the perfect choice for a Strigoi army.. But I belive we'll be seeing a little less of these, since it no longer grants a marching bubble.

Blood Knights:
Same as before, but with a small point decrease. Personally I'm a little afraid to use them...

Cairn Wraiths: Same as before.

Black Coach: Same as before, and that means cool.

Terrorgheist: The cool, flying, giant, screaming bat? Cool, but overpriced if you ask me. Or, a little too unsurvivable. He needs more protection.

Mortis Engine: The to-go for any spellcaster! Increase all your spells, and mess with the miscasting table! Also grants AND improves regeneration saves! GET YOURS TODAY!

Units with rules get a solid 8/10 for being very well balanced and allowing for fluff in many directions.

Overall, the new Vampire Book is a good Armybook, with the glaring exception of the cover.




Now that's that taken care of, I'd like to include a little note on the roleplaying system of Legend. Not knowing it, I was the GM for this weekend's session, and I decided to use that opportunity to introduce, and try to learn, Legend.
Legend, for those of you who don't know, is a new, free, roleplaying system. I love it, personally. It's based upon the OGL of DnD, and is an improved version of it according to me. It enables for more individuality in characters, whilst still simplifying it (not that in this case, simplify does not mean dumbify, as it usually tend to do).
My players seemed to like this new system, and it's pretty much straight up usable together with DnD and PF. I even used monsters from the DnD wiki, as I was unprepared. Feats and skills are too easy to implement.
The main problem is that, as the game is in it's first iteration, it has some balancing issues here and where... But nothing a little houserule can't fix. Really, saying "Your spell is too powerful. I limit it." isn't as hard as I would have expected it to. I also decided to use the Weaponry from DnD, as I found the Legend Weaponry lacking.
Overall I found the session, although unprepared, to be quite good. The players quickly came up with cool character concepts. I believe it will take a little while before we've figured out and balanced Legend to suit our tastes, but I'm certain the journey will be a delightful one!

And that's what I have been doing and thinking lately.
Until next time!

~Pro maior risor~

Batrep! Warriors of Chaos vs Ogre Kingdoms, 2000 points!

Battle Report: Ogre Kingdoms vs Warriors of Chaos 2000 pts
The inevitable has happened. In their greedy quest, the Ogres have turned upon the Warriors of Chaos. It's Ogre against mutated man, Sköll against Hate.

Hello, here's another (un)friendly battle report from Svartblod Gaming, starring Hate, our Warriors of Chaos-player, and Sköll, our Ogre Kingdoms-player. Battle reporter is once again me, The Cornerfag.
Our gamers are currently devising their armylists of total destruction and utter annihilation, whilst I am writing this.
That said, I'll have to once again utter a slight warning for the haters of unpainted models. Although we strive to complete our forces by our best capabilities, Sköll, a very new Warhammer-player, has still some unpainted minis from christmas. For those of you whom have read previous reports including our OK-player, however, will probably be satisfied to see that his amount of painted minis have gone up... a little.
Anyways, here's our first contestant:

Ogre Kingdoms List:
Lords:
Slaughtermaster lvl 4:
-Ironfist, Greedyfist, Grut's Sickle.

Core:
18 Ironguts
-Full Command, Dragonhide Banner.

Special:
3 Mournfang Cavalry
- Full Command, Heavy Armour, Ironfists

8 Leadbelchers
-Thunderer, Bellower

Rare:
Thundertusk

Pre-game interview: Sköll:
What is your game plan?
Sköll: Yeah, uh... Game plan... Yeah, no... Well, unlike when I faced Vampire Counts last week, I hope to be able to place my units in a way that seems legit.
...
Well, I don't really know what units he uses, not so aquainted with WoC so... I know something about Wizards, a guy on a Juggernaut, but...
TC: So you don't really know what he's capable of doing?
Sköll: Correct.
(Hate: Close the door!)

What are your hopes?
Sköll: That the Gutstar does what it's supposed to do, and the mammoth doesn't die like it usually does. You know, get a charge or something.
TC: And that's pretty much all your important units?
Sköll: Yep.

What are your fears?
Sköll: That he's gonna win. Or, well, that he win bigs and makes me look bad. I want to at least show him what I can do.
TC: That's the spirit.
Sköll: I'm also a bit afraid he'll get mad and throw dices at me. I've gotten damaged before, you know.

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Sköll: The Gutstar will counter everything.
TC: Good.

For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
Sköll: The Leadbelchers, I hope they'll... Bah, kidding, Ironguts ofcourse. I hope they'll execute some of his little men.
TC: Sounds good. You're free to return to the battlefield.

Warriors of Chaos List:

Lords:
Sorcerer Lord, lvl 4
-Mark of Tzeentch, Talisman of Preservation, Powered Familiar, Enchanted Shield, Biting Blade, Conjoined Homonculus

Heroes:
Exalted Hero
- Battle Standard Bearer, Mark of Khorne, Juggernaut, Sword of Battle, Helm of Many Eyes

Chaos Sorcerer, lvl 2
-Dispel Scroll, Book of Secrets, Third Eye of Tzeentch

Core:
24 Chaos Warriors
- Additional Hand Weapon, Mark of Khorne, Standard Bearer

24 Chaos Warriors
-Shield, Mark of Tzeentch, Standard Bearer

5 Chaos Warhoundss
5 Chaos Warhounds

Special:
5 Chaos Knights
-Mark of Khorne, Standard Bearer

Pre-game interview: Hate:
What is your game plan?
Hate: To win.
TC: I'm not even surprised. I'm just gonna skip to the interesting questions.
Do you have any fears? Except losing?
Hate: Actually, no.
So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Hate: Well, not really, but I'm running my classical list and hope it holds. From what I understand he only has a few units, so I'll just... I don't know... Uhm... Focus force upon his biggest unit, the... Gutstar? Hit him hard where it hurts. I've got some magic and such for the other, lesser units.
For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
Hate: The classical Exalted Hero on a Juggernaut. He's such a good guy, always gets the job done.
TC: Sounds great. Off to the battle with you!d

Pre-game info:
Mission: Our usual let's-just-have-a-killfest.
Magic:
Warriors of Chaos:
Lvl 4: Uses Lore of Tzeentch. (2) Baleful Transmogrification, (3) Pandemonium, (4) Treason of Tzeentch, (5) Call to glory
Lvl 2: Uses Lore of Death. (S) Spirit Leech, (5) The Fate of Bjuna. Book of Secrets grants Pit of Shades. (TC: Wow. Well, what do you know.)

Ogre Kingdoms:
Lvl 4: Uses Lore of the Great Maw. (S) Spinemarrow, (2) Bullgorger, (3) Toothcracker(5) Trollguts



Roll-off:
Hate wins the roll, forces Sköll to deploy first.

Terrain set-up:


Deployment:
Since Sköll only has 4 units, and has to deploy first, Hate places his two Warhound units first (much to Sköll's chagrin), gaining a weightly advantage during the deployment.


1st turn WoC:
Both Frenzies fail, but BSB fixes that problem.
Movement:
Hate measures closely, careful not to get to close to the Thundertusk with his important units.
Warhounds rush up block / redirect the Thundertusk, and the other Warhounds block / redirect the Gutstar. Warriors walk up, Knights prepare to flank the Thundertusk.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 6 and 1, +2 from Familiar and Book, counting in at 9 PD, 6 DD.
First off: Treason of Tzeentch with 3 dice. Gains 15. 3 Dispel Dice also gets 15. Phew!
Next up, Pandemonium! 2 Dice, exactly 9. 2 Dispel Dice, exactly 9.
Hate: Time to reign with my magic.
4 Dice on pit of Shades... Result: 12. A fail. Sadly.
Close Combat: Nope.



1st turn OK:
Movement:
Gutstar charges Warhounds successfully.
Leadbelchers move to peek around the corner of the house. Mournfang place themselves in front of the ruins
Magic:
Dices come up 4 - 3. A good roll. 7 PD, 4 DD.
First up, Trollguts. (I hate that spell...). Extended, on 6 dices. Didn't get his Irresistable, but got a score of 22. Dispel Scroll'd, lul!
Spinemarrow on one measly dice. It got dispelled. Hah!
Shooting:
The Thundertusk spews his ball of ice upon the Warriors, but scatters 10" upon the Hounds in combat, killing two. Harpoon misses the wizard, bear-trap.
Leadbelchers belch the lead upon the MoT WoC, 8 hits. 4 Wounds, 3 die.
Close Combat:
18 Ironguts vs 3 Warhounds. PLACE YOUR BETS!
The hounds died. A free reform almost gives Carl a free flank charge, but, after asking me (as an unaligned judge), luckily not


2nd turn WoC:
Movement:
Knights, with the Hero on a 'naut into the flank of the Thundertusk (after a long charge through the woods).
Warhounds flank charge the Gutstar, MoT-warriors frontcharge the Gutstar, MoK-warriors charge the Gutstar. Danger, danger. This is the combat that will determine the outcome of the game, I believe.
Magic:
The winds come up 4 - 2, a channel and +2 Dice later and the final score is 9 PD, 4 DD.
First up, Treason of Tzeentch on the Leadbelchers. Sköll let's it through. 5 Wounds are caused. The Leadbelchers are rolling hot!, against themselves.
Next: Pandemonium. Sköll fails to dispel it with 2 dice.
Call to Glory! on 3 dice. Sköll let's it through.
Final spell, a failed Transmogrification.
Close Combat:
The Exalted Hero has to challenge, and indeed does. Sköll does not accept, and Hate pushes the Slaughtermaster to the back row.
Thundertusk vs Knights: ASL vs ASF lets the 'NautHero strike at his own initiative, which is before the Tusk. 2 Wounds made.
The it strikes back, 4 attacks, 1 wound, 1 dead Knights. The riders of the Thundertusk wack some flies instead.
The Knights... megafail. All 7 hits roll 3 or less. Juggernaut bites for one more wound.
The Thundertusk flees in horror a whole 4", and the Knights chase it down by running 6". Swiftly.
Now, for the important stuff. MoK-warriors dish out 25 attacks, 14 hits, 6 wounds. Sköll passes three 6+ saves. It's the battle of luck vs bad luck.
The newcomer Exalted Hero causes 2 wounds.
MoT-warriors dish out 13 attacks, ending in 4 wounds, one which was saved.
Now... for the WARHOUNDS! 5 attacks, 4 hits, 1 wound! Not saved, and it was the final wound on one Irongut. Good doggies.

Now, the retaliation!
24 attacks against the MoT-warriors, 13 hits, all of them wounding. Hate, hoping for a
shred of luck, rolls his 6+ / 5++ saves... 7 Warriors die.
Then 21 attacks on the MoK-Warriors, 9 hits, 7 wounds, 7 dead.

Hate loses combat by two, and even with the aid of a BSB does his MoT-warriors flee. But his MoK-warriors hold their ground. So does the ever faithful Warhounds.


2nd turn OK:
Movement:
Mournfang move slowly up on the Arcane Ruins. Leadbelchers move around the house.
Magic:
Winds of Magic: 4 - 4, and no channels.
Trollguts cast on 6 dice (forcing Irresistable?). Though no IF, he got a score of 20. Carl does not manage to dispel, even with all 4 dice.
Spinemarrow with 2 dice gets through.
Shooting:
20 shots of Lead on the MoTs, 9 hit and 4 wounds. One is save, three die.
Close Combat:
Things are looking grim for Hate... I hope he manages to survive this round in able to get the Knights charge in the rear.
20 attacks from the Frenzy-less MoK-warriors. 17 hits, 12 wounds. The tide of luck seems to have turned. But 12 saves later, 5 wounds remain.
Ironguts make 25 attacks, 14 hits, all wounds.
Skip forward a bit. The lonely surviving MoK-warrior flee, and warhounds flee. The Ogres pursue, killing the lone MoK and getting into combat with the MoTs.


Hate accepts his defeat here. The MoTs are going to die, and the Knights can't carry this by themselves.


Redux:
Hate: First and foremost, I need Halberds against that Gutstar. So I'll make sure to get some of those.
Other than that, I can't say there's anything I could've done differently. I think I did the right thing charging the Thundertusk, and going all in against the Ironguts. It was a gamble, and I lost.
It's a pity the Pit of Shades didn't through. I'm probably going to run a Lore of Shadow-wizard against Ogres in the future.
Other than that, there's not much to say. Didn't happen much besides the epic battle in the middle. But I'm happy it turned out to be a game not based as much on luck.
Model of the game: Exalted Hero on Juggernaut. As always. He's pretty cool, and no one else managed to do anything.

Sköll: It was an even match, a pity the Thundertusk died as usually (though it's really just a decoy!). The Leadbelchers got their shots, and the Gutstar won the game at me. It's a good thing it was a fair game though. No dice where thrown, and I got to show what I am capable of.
I should have more units, so that I can place them more strategically. And I shouldn't be so careful with the Mournfang. Other than that, I'm all good.
Unit of the game: Mournfang, they rode so beautiful, and the one-legged hornblower remained a one-legged hornblower, and nor did any one of them die.

Meanwhile, in the Mournfang corner...


Overall, a great game, together with the obligatory handshake:

Clash at Opalvägen! 1650 pts Lizardmen vs Vampire Counts!

So, yet another Battle report! This time, I'll actually be one gaming, with my Vampire Counts! Although I don't have a full army, but Tomb King Erik borrowed me his skeletons, and Hate borrowed me his Chaos Warrior Chariot to use as my Black Coach. I also had to proxy a wraith as a Necromancer, and my normal Wight King as a Wight King BSB. Not that many proxies though, they're barely visible between the skeletons!
However, since I'm playing, that means someone else has to write the battle report, and that someone is... Hate! I'll be leaving now, to tend to my Undead army.
So give a warm welcome to Hate!

Hail!
The cool evening breeze blows across the fields of Opalvägen (which actually is pretty close to Bärnstensvägen). The lizardman general, Erik is slowly moving towards the evil Vampire Count Jack's undead forces... The clash of forces is imminent.
So, today I will be doing the batreping. I'm bringing you a battle between The Cornerfag's Vampire Counts and Erik's (not the Tomb King player) Lizardmen. It will be an ultimate showdown of life vs death.
As usual, it will be a friendly game.

Vampire Counts:
Lord:
Vampire Lord
Weapon: Blood Drinker
Armour: The Flayed Hauberk
Talisman: Crown of the Damned
Power: Infinite Hatred
Power: Beguile

Hero:
Necromancer
Spell: Vanhel's Danse Macabre
Arcane Item: Dispel Scroll

Wight King
Battle Standard Bearer
Talisman: Luckstone

Core:
36 Skeletons
Musician
Standard Bearer

10 Skeletons

Special:
19 Grave Guard
Great Weapons
Full Command
Banner of the Barrows

5 Black Knights
Barding
Hell Knight, Banner
Standard of Strigos

Rare:
Black Coach

Lizardmen:
Lords:
Slaan w/ two disciplines, cupped hands, wardrum of xauthec

Hero:
Scar Veteran w/ bane head and bsb and halberd shield, light armor

Core:
30 Saurus warriors w/ champ and standard
10 Skink skrimishers
10 Skink skirmishers

Special:
20 Temple guards w/ champ and standard

Rare:
Ancient Stegadon

Pre-game interview:
Erik's Lizardmen
What is your game plan?
Erik: Uhm... I don't really have a plan. I'm goint to try to kill his Black Coach with my skink skirmishers, because it's going to annoy me. I'm going to face his unit of skeletons with my saurus warriors and crush them into bone-dust. My temple guards will be able to kill his Black Knights pretty easily, and then I'll leave my Stegadon and other unit of Skinks to give long-range support across the field.
Hate: So you don't intend to just win?
Erik: I guess I'll try... But I'm just here to have fun. I didn't want to make a competetive list.
Hate: Define fun.
Erik: Crushing him, winning.
Hate: Good boy.

What are your hopes?
To have "fun" (win). I hope the skirmishers will roll a lot of 6:s, and kill that black coach (I find this very likely due to Erik's extreme luck...)
Hate: So you think it's going to be "fun"?
Erik: Yes, I will find it enjoyable.. But Jack won't.

What are your fears?
Erik: That I will be too lucky and roll lots of 6:s and evolve his black coach way to early.
Hate: Horrible fate being lucky and all.
Erik: Yeah, you know. People hate you. (I do, how ironic when I'm called "Hate"..)
Hate: Wonder why...

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Erik: My Saurus warriors will destroy his skeletons and my skirmishers will take out his expensive and tough units.
Erik (Tomb king): It doesn't work that way.
Erik: My stegadon will STOMP.
Hate: How can anything go wrong?
Erik: My luck could suddenly disappear.
Hate: That would be quite unlucky.
Erik: Indeed.
Erik(Tomb king): IT REALLY DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!!
Hate: And that is all.
*Erik ran away, fetching terrain.*

The Cornerfag's Vampire Counts:
What is your game plan?
TC: Well fudge... I usually don't have any. I haven't played my army enough to make good game plans. I just play units that are COOL!
Hate: Define cool.
TC: Define cool... Yeah. You know that awesome unit that you just wanna play? The unit that really sucks but you play anyway?
Hate: ...
TC: I just realized I have a game plan! The black coach will lock down his magic phase and then charge the flank toegether with my Black Knights. I call it the "Black Flank Technique". And my skeletons and grave guards go phalanx.
Hate: Okay.

What are your hopes?
TC: HOPES... Ahhh... A good and even game. And that my Vampire will beguile something.
Hate: So you have no hopes in winning?
TC: Yeah, but I really don't care.
Hate: ...

What are your fears?
TC: That it will be a short and uneven game.
Hate: Any specific unit that you fear or such?
TC: The stegadon. I don't have any way to counter it.

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
TC: I really don't know what units he got..
Erik (Tomb king): Saurus warriors.... etc
TC: We shall see!

Erik the Tomb King will be joing me on the sidelines (as you may have noticed already).

Pre-game:
MAGIC:
TC: 5, 6: Summon Undead Horde, Winds of Undeath (but swapped for Raise Dead) (Vampire lord)
Erik: Lore of Light (All spells via loremaster.) (Slann)
TC: So, Sköll. Who do you think is going to win?
Sköll: I think you're going to win.
Terrain Set-up:


Deployment.
TC gets to deploy first and picks the west side. He starts of with putting his big skeleton unit with the wight king BSB in the centre of the board.
Erik deploys his saurus warriors with Scar Veteran facing the spooky scary skeletons.
TC deploys Black Knights on the south flank close to the ruined wizard tower.
Erik places his ancient stegadon by the arcane ruins.
TC summons for his black coach and places it right behind his Black Knights.
Erik's Slaan and Temple guards are deployed facing the Blackflank.
TC deploys his Grave guards and vampire lord next to his skeletons.
Erik deploys his skink skirmishers between the stegadon and the saurus warriors.
TC builds his magic bunker (10 skeletons with Necromancer) slightly south of his skeletons.
Erik places more skink skirmishers on the north flank.
That's it for deployment.
Sideline's Comment:
Hate: Well.. The stegadon is placed in a pretty bad spot based on his gameplan...
EtTK: I agree.



Turn one goes to The Cornerfag's undead forces!
Turn 1
Movement:
TC marches his black knights forward more to the south flank. And then follows them with his Black Coach. Then he marches the Grave Guard forward into the woods, taking cover from the (not-so-very-)lethal darts of the skinks. He moves his necromancer and his bunker closer to the vampire lord. The big skeleton unit marches forward.
Magic:
Roll: 5, 2. No channel
The black coach eats two of his precious power dice.
TC tries to summon an undead horde with four power dice... And miscasts.(Hate: Delighful.) Twenty dead rise from their graves, forming an evil line of DEATH.(EtTK: Slightly above average.) The miscast results in a magical feedback (Hate: Reminds me of Bärnstensvägen...) He loses one power dice and saves all wounds on his casters. Then he fails to cast his next spell.



Erik's Lizardmen turn 1
Saurus warriors charge the dreaded zombie line and get there. The northern skink skirmisher unit tries to march, and passes their Ld-test. They march into the northern woods. The stegadon moves forward slightly, and the temple guards move up to the fence, defending it (Erik the Tomb King called this action.). The skinks moved forward "slowly".
Magic:
Roll: 5, 3 No Channel
The Coach eats two more delicious power dice.
Erik tries to cast Banishment aiming for the Black Coach with 2 + 1 power dice (He gets a free power dice from a discipline). TC lets it pass, and Erik fails to wound it. (Hate: He should have aimed for the knights. EtTK: I agree.)
Then he tries to cast Net of Amynoodlepants (Hate: I won't bother with the names..) with 2+1 power dice.. And miscasts, of course. The result of the miscast being dimensional cascade. Erik comments "Serves me right fo rolling all those 6:s..". The entire unit is hit by the large template. 18 of the Temple guards die and the Slaan is wounded, but manages not to be sucked into a maelstrom of evilness.
Then he tries to cast Shem's Burning Gaze... And miscasts yet again... But this time, just a magical feedback. Wounding the Slaan and loses his last power dice, although killing two Black Knights.

Close Combat:
The Saurus warriors pass the fear test.
The zombies and Saurus warriors fight, resulting in no wounds from the zombies... And 8 of the zombies die. So the dreaded line of zombies crumble to nothingness (or a pile of rotting flesh).



TC Turn 2
Movement:
TC: Let's go for the full out fudging shit, dawg!
(Hate: Probably meaning everything will charge)
The grave guards declare a charge against the Saurus warriors and the skeletons charge the skinks. Los caballeros negro de la muerte charge the Slaan.
The grave guards fail their charge, moving four inches further into the woods. The skeletons make their charge! The skinks stand and shoot, making three poisonous wounds on the skeletons.
The black Knights make their S-test and then make their charge.
The Magic bunker moves forward, and so does the Black Coach.

Magic:
Roll: 5,6 No channeling.
The black coach get another power dice for lunch.

TC cast invocation of Nehek twice, Erik just dispelled it once, on the Skeleton unit. Then TC tries to cast Vanhels Danse Macabre three times, Erik dispells it only twice, on the Skeleton unit.

Close Combat:
The battle starts at the skeletons and the skinks. The wight king strikes first, killing two of the skinks. Then the skeletons kill five of them. The skinks retaliate, killing a couple of skeletons. The skeletons are victorious, and reforms, facing the saurus warriors.
The black knights kill the two remaining temple guards. They drive the Slaan of the board with their victory, overruning 10 inches straight forward. Right off the table.



Turn 2 Lizardmen.
Movement:
The Saurus warriors try to charge the grave guards and fail. The stegadon reforms, facing the skeletons.

Shooting Phase!!!!
The stegadon unleashed hell with his giant blowpipes! Killing three of the skeletons. Then the skinks fire at the grave guards, failing to do anything at all. As usual.



TC turn 3

Movement:
Grave guards declare a charge against the saurus warriors and succeed! The Saurus warriors elect to hold. Then the Skeletons also charge the saurus warriors and get there aswell. The blood god will be pleased with all this bloodshed...

Magic:
Roll: 4, 1. 2 channels:
The black coach eats one power dice.

The necromancer casts Vanhels Danse Macabre on the Grave Guards, succeeding. Then he casts the same spell again, failing. And all concentration is broken.
The vampire lord casts invocation of Nehek twice, returning all dead(?) skeletons.

Close Combat:
The Vampire lord challenges the Saurus warrior unit, and the champion accepts. The Vampire slays the champion, overklling it once. The graveguards hit all of their attacks, wounding nine of them. All of the wounded die. The wight king kills one.
The Saurus warriors retaliate. Killing seven in total.
The saurus warriors flee and Erik considers the game over and conscedes.



Redux
Erik: I would have put my skinks on the south flank instead of in the middle and in the north flank. I would also put my stegadon on the north flank instead. I don't think I could've done anything differently because I had som bad luck. (Hate: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!11) My Scar-veteran was my favourite unit, because it killed many Grave Guards (4).
Hate: The blood god is pleased.
Erik: So are the Old Ones. Also, I would've changed the Scar-veteran for an engine of the gods.
Hate: Told you.

TC: My deployment bothered me. There was something with the Black Coach... The whole Blackflank was.. I don't know. Odd. My favourite unit is either the Grave Guards or the Black Coach. But, the Black Coach did nothing, so my pick is the Grave Guards. They killed lots.
Hate: The blood god is pleased.

That concludes this battle for Opalvägen.
Ave Victoria!
/Hate

(Oh, and not to forget: Friendly aftergame handshake!)

Payback at Bärnstensvägen! Ogre Kingdoms & Tomb Kings vs Warriors of Chaos & Dark Elves!

Battle Report - Payback at Bärnstensvägen
Having been utterly humiliated, the Tomb King Erik has decided to reclaim his lawn with the help of the mercenary ogre band of Chaos Grinders, lead by the cruel Tyrant Sköll, to kill the Chaos Warriors.
The Chaos Warriors leader Hate however shall not be found unprepared for their assault, and creates an unholy pact with the sadistic Dark Elf Queen Philippa.

Note: Well, another friendly game in my gaming group. 2v2, one new player on each side. You'll see some grey minis and some proxying, but I hope you can stand that. It's the second game for one of the new guys, and the first for the other! So I hope you don't mind.
If you really do mind, and can't stand the sight of grey minis or proxying, then please don't read any further.
If you don't, then feel free to go on reading ^^
The teams are Ogre Kingdoms and Tomb Kings vs Warriors of Chaos and Dark Elves, 1500 pts per player.
The proxies are a a Troll proxying a Irongut, and 3 Tomb King Chariots as well as a Warsphinx proxying 4 Mournfang Cavalry.
Oh, and we play the alliances as trusted, but we can't be arsed using the fragile alliance rule. We simply ruled them as trusted, so we won't have any rules-questions mid-game.

Pre-game interview:
Ogres - Tomb King (Bone Gnawers)
What is your game plan?
Erik: Not to die as fudging hard. Just like last time. Hopefully things will go better with the Ogre pawnch.
Sköll: I'll be true to my faction and follow my gut feeling. Ohyeah.
Me: So basically, Erik does what he always does while Sköll kills everything?
Erik: Yeah, pretty much. My plan is to stand there and get hurt while Sköll manages to hurt the opponents.
*Sköll giggles*
Me: Okay...

What are your hopes?
Erik: Yet again not to die as fudging hard, maybe even with the slight possibility of winning, depending on the Ogre hitting power.
Sköll: I just want to make Erik happy.

What are your fears?
I'm not even gonna bother to write Eriks answer because you already know it.
Sköll: To get too many hits in my guts.

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Erik: Ironguts go kill the Hydra and Chimera while Leadbelchers shoot the soft parts (extrahandweaponguys and the likes) or some annoying Dark Elf sh*t. The Skeleton horde goes anvil while Tomb Guard stand beside them and try to do something... for a change. Necropolis Knights go butthunting from beneath the sands, possibly to kill the BIG UNIT. Oh, and to kill the Dark Elf Sorceress, so I'll be able to do ANYTHIIING with my MAGIIICCSSSS!
Me: Anything to add Sköll?
Sköll: I'll just make sure to follow orders, so I'll get paid later.

For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
Erik: So yeah, my favourite unit is my Skeleton Horde, because it's painted and beautiful! However, they don't do anything (Me: So skeletons are just like the goggles? Lol.) So I'll just hope they'll survive.
Sköll: My favourite unit is the Tyrant (proxied by a Butcher), because he's fudging bloody and got a cool sword. I hope he'll kill something for dinner.

Chaos Warriors - Dark Elves (Team Satan)
What is your game plan?
Hate and Philippa in unison: To win.
Me: Anything more specific..?
Hate: Well, to destroy... annihilate... eradicate... obliterate... exterminate... and purge.

What are your hopes?
Philippa: To win!
Hate: Victory.
Philippa: And hopefully it'll go well.

What are your fears?
Hate: Philippa.
Philippa: Darn it. Oh well, that's usually the answer to that question...
Me: Any real fear then?
Hate: As in the opponents? Well... no.
Philippa: I'm fearing they'll kill my Hydra. I mean... it's my Hydra...

So, do you have any plan to counter his units?
Philippa: I got a Hydra. Other than that, I really don't know.
Hate: No not really. I haven't faced Ogres before, so I made a pretty generic take-all-comers list.

For a last question, what unit of yours is your favourite, and what do you hope it will achieve?
Philippa: Corsairs. Heh, nah just joking. Hydra. I mean, Corsairs are good-looking, but Hydra. And I hope he'll feed until he's full. Oh, and I like my Cold Ones too!
Hate: I would say my Chaos Lord. The very same that in the previous battle had the Eyes of the Gods upon him, even though he only was a meager Exalted Hero. And he still got his Juggernaut.
Me: So what do you hope he'll achieve?
Hate: Is that even a question..? To kill is the answer. Bloodshed.

Lists:
Ogres:
Lord:Tyrant w/ Ironfist, Sword of Anti-Heroes, Gut Maw, Giantbreaker - The General
Hero:Bruiser w/ Dragonhide Banner, Ironfist, Heavy Armour, Battle Standard Bearer
Core:6 Ogres w/ Ironfists, Full Command
6 Ironguts w/ Full Command, Banner of Eternal Flame
Special:4 Leadbelchers w/ Thunderfist
Rare:4 Mournfang Cavalry w/ Heavy Armour, Ironfists, Full Command

Tomb Kings:
Lord:Liche High Priest lvl4 w/ Dispel Scroll, Scroll of Mighty Incantations
Hero:Tomb Prince w/ Armour of Silvered Steel, Dragonstone Pendant, Great Weapon - The general
Necrotect
Core:48 Skeleton Warriors w/ Shields, Spears, Full Command
15 Skeleton Archers
Special:20 Tomb Guards w/ Full Command
3 Necropolis Knights w/ Entombed Beneath the Sands
Rare:Casket of Souls

Dark Elves:
Lord:Supreme Sorceress lvl4 (Shadow Magic) w/ Sacrificial Dagger, Dispel Scroll, Ring of Darkness
Hero:Master w/ Armour of Darkness, Crimson Death, Cold One - The General
Core:20 Corsairs w/ Additional Hand Weapon, Full Command
16 Crossbowmen w/ Full Command
12 Spearmen w/ Full Command
Special:Cold One Knights w/ Standard Bearer, Dreadknight
Rare:Hydra
Chimera (We let her play the Chimera because why not?)

Warriors of Chaos:
Lord:Chaos Lord w/ Mark of Khorne, Juggernaut, Helm of Many Eyes, Sword of Bloodshed - The General
Hero:Exalted Hero w/ Battle Standard Bearer, Armour of Silvered Steel, Additional Hand Weapon
Chaos Sorcerer lvl2 (Lore of Fire), Powered Familiar
Core:15 Chaos Warriors w/ Mark of Tzeentch (MoT), Shields, Standard Bearer
15 Chaos Warriors w/ Additional Hand Weapon (AHW), Standard Bearer (Banner of Rage)
Special:5 Chaos Knights w/ Mark of Khorne, Standard Bearer

Pre-game:
Mission: Battleline.
Roll for magic:Tomb Kings has the Killing Blow Spell, the Protection Spell, the Attack Spell, the Movement Spell.
Warriors of Chaos has The Piercing Bolts of Burning, Fireball.
Dark Elves has Enfeebling Foe, The Withering, The Penumbral Pendulum, Pit of Shades.
Terrain:The terrain, with a pretty hydra in a pretty garden:


Deployment:
Roll-off:
Team Satan wins the roll off and lets Bone Gnawers deploy their first unit first.
The Casket of Souls is deployed on the northernmost hill.
Team Satan insults the other team ("JUMP IN YOU FUDGING FOOLS!") while placing 15 MoT Warriors rather south, about 6 inches from the south hill.
Bone Gnawers places Skeleton Horde with Tomb Prince very centrally.
Chimera flies down close to the northern forest.
Skeleton Archers march up diagonally behind the Horde (And I dare assume this is to cast support magic).
Chaos Knights go to support the MoT Warriors, south of them.
Tomb Guard with Necrotectare placed on the other diagonal from the Archers (for moar support magics).
Crossbowmen walk up next to the Chimera. (And by now, it starts looking like it will be Tomb Kings vs Dark Elves and Warriors of Chaos vs Ogres... It seems pretty split up).
Ogres with Tyrant and Bruiser get's deployed straight forward from the Chaos Knights and MoT Warriors.
MoK Warriors then cover the Knights' other flank. Either that, or they'll just be in their way, it seems to me.
Leadbelchers are the next to get to the battle, positioning themselves south of the generic Ogres.
The Hydra gets driven forth in front of the house's garden (in which it is standing in the terrain picture. Personally I just think it wanna go home there again, but the mean Tomb Kings chased it out of there!).
Suddenly, wild Liche Priest appears! In the archer unit. Wow, I'm so surprised.
Hate deploys the Lord on Juggernaut in between the Chaos Knights and MoT Warriors, as a part of the Knight-unit. Straight in the sight of the Tyrant with Giantbreaker. Awesome challenge ensues.
Ironguts are placed on the other side of the woods from their fellow Ogres.
Corsairs are the next up, getting placed... Wait what, they are placed on the CHAOS SIDE OF THE BATTLEFIELD OMG! This is actually the first unit to be placed this way, every other unit has been grouped up with their brethren. And the Corsairs are straight ahead of the Ironguts.
Next skeleton chario-- err, Mournfang Cavalry, are placed (in an attempt to imitate the Dark Elf feat) beside the Tomb Guard. Not sure what they aim to do though. Kill the Chimera?
Now, only Team Satan have units left to deploy.
Exalted Hero go hugging the MoK Warriors. El wizardo of chaos goes to assure the Crossbowmen act nicely and join their unit. North of the Chimera, Dark Elf Spearmen move into position with their Supreme Sorceress while Hate goes searching for his family. I mean familiar. And then the Cold One Knights with Master place themselves even more north. Though what they're doing there I have no idea. They'll stand no chance against the Mournfang...


Team Satan win the roll for deciding who gets the first turn, and decide that Bone Gnawers go first.

Turn 1 (Bone Gnawers):
Movement:
Forward is a good song by Angels and Agony imo (We go forward, forward~). Also, it well describes what happens. Skeleton Horde, Archers and Tomb Guard go forward. This is also true for generic Ogres, Leadbelchers, Ironguts and Mournfang Cavalry.
Magic:
Roll is 6 - 3, Casket of Souls grants 1. So 10 Power dice, 6 Dispel dice.
First spell in the air is the Movement Spell, successfully cast and moving the Skeleton Horde, Tomb Guard and Archers even more forward.
Next up: Extended Protection Spell, which is dispelled by Philippa.
Casket bound spell kills 2 Spearmen.
Shooting:
Leadbelchers, go! Firing at the Chaos Knights, but three wounds does not manage to kill any of them.
Skeleton Archers kills two Crossbowmen.
Close Combat:
Nope.


Turn 1 (Team Satan):
Movement:
Charging attempts!
Chimera say ROAR and tries to charge the Tomb Guard. A swiftstriding 17" seals the deal.
And yet again everything goes forward. Except for Cold One Knights, who just wheel a little and then back up away from the Mournfang. The Supreme Sorceress' Unit seeks shelter in the woods, while crossbowmen simply hold their ground.
Magic:
4 Power Dice, 3 Dispel Dice. Powered Familiar grants another Power Dice, and so it's 5 vs 3.
First cast is Power of Darkness, granting 1 extra dice. 6 Power Dice, 3 Dispel Dice.
Pit of Shades is then cast on all 6 dice, but is promptly sucked up by a dispel scroll.
Shooting:
Crossbowmen fire their awesome volley of bolts at the "clusterf*ck" as Philippa lovingly described the Skeleton Horde. Pew pew! Actually, that's a lot more pew than I thought. 4 Wounds, and three 6+ saves saved later, 1 Skeleton die.
Close Combat:
CHIMAERARAREARAREA gets attacked. 13 attacks, and 6 of them wounds as Philippa begin to despair. However, saves keeps the Chimera alive with one wound. The Chimera exacts vengeance by killing 4 and then stomping 5 for a total kill streak of 9. Combat resolution kills another 6 of the Tomb Guard. Sweet.


Turn 2 (Bone Gnawers):
Movement:
And now is the charging turn.
Mournfang charge the Supreme Sorceress and spearmen. Generic Ogres charges Chaos Knights. Ironguts charge corsairs.
Mournfang fail though. Ogres fail too. And even so the Ironguts.
EL CHARGOS DE LA MUERTE. 'Cept notrly.
Skeleton Horde shuffle forward, while Leadbelchers moonwalk to the side in behind the forest.
Magic:
6 - 1, Casket give 3. 10 Power Dice, 6 Dispel dice.
First off, the Attack Spell on the Tomb Guard, with 3 dice. All 6 Dispel dice go to stop it, and stops it indeed.
Next up, the Protection spell. Fail by 1 point, and concentration is broken!
Luckily, the Casket is there to provide a Power Dice dump, killing another 2 Spearmen.
Shooting:
Archers and Leadbelchers fire at Crossbowmen and MoT Warriors respectively.
Archers down another 3 Crossbowmen, while Leadbelchers fail to do anything at all.
Close Combat:
Ohshiiit, will the Chimera make it? Erik rolls... One wound exactly! AND THE SAVE FAILS NOOOOOOOOO! Chimera dead.


Turn 2 (Team Satan):
Movement:
Charges:
Chaos Knights charge the generic Ogres. Personally I'm in favor of this, to witness the Chaos Lord facing the Tyrant. Ohyeah. And they succeed on their range! WOOH!
Regarding the movement, Hydra does not go back into its garden as I wanted it to (My friends tell that it's a naughty Hydra :c ), but instead choose to go alongside the fences and BURN THE SKELETONS! KILL THEM WITH FIRE! It actually ends up just an inch beside the Skeleton Horde, so they won't be able to charge it. Nice.
Sorceress' unit backs away from the Mournfang. MoK Warriors move up to the fence and spy into the garden at some unsuspecting pretty flowers. Cold One Knights does some weird side-dance.
Magic:
3 - 1 (again). Power of Darkness gets dispelled.
So it's 3 dice vs 2 dice now.
So what do you do? You do a IRRESISTABLE MISCAST PIERCING BOLT. At the Skeleton Horde, killing 6 of them.
Now for the miscast. Magical Feedback, 'tis, causing one wound on the Sorcerer and Sorceress.
Shooting:
Hurr durr Hydra flame. S5 Flame hitting 32 models. Wait wat. Eight of the dice are 1's though, so only 24 of the Skeletons die. And few of them remain.
Let's see if the Crossbowmen can keep up with the efficiency of the Hydra then.
Well, no. 3 wounds caused, three 6+ saves saved. Erik got some luck yo (except for that broken concentration thing, but oh well..).
Close Combat:
Lord challenges the Tyrant, who has to accept! Tyrant takes one wound, and is now punching back. I feel like the Lords demise is near. But the Chaos Lord saves both of the S7 wounds he got. So the Juggernaut bites back, adding another wound to the Tyrants lost wounds total.
Now for the units: Warriors roll their attacks with a grunt of disapproval from Hate, and to wound with a short shout of disapproval. And horses bite too. But they actually manage to slay two Ogres, who cannot into killing (i.e. they kill nothing!).
And Ogres break! And get run over, wat?! Well... That's the Ogres, and Tyrant.. And Bruiser Battle Standard Bearer. Yeah...


Turn 3 (Bone Gnawers):
Movement:
Charges:
Ironguts fail their charges yet again, stumbling forward. Mournfang Cavalry too. Hurr durr... Is it just me, or is the Cold One Knights / Mournfang Cavalry flank war pretty lame?
Anyways, the bold Tomb Guard charge the Hydras flank! Excitement!
Leadbelchers turn towards the Chaos Knights.
Magic:
12 Power Dice, 6 Dispel Dice.
First up, Extended Protection Spell with a barely success! After some consideration, they decide to use their Dispel Scroll instead of dispelling.
So a movement spell is cast, and dispelled by 2 dispel dice.
Now, the Killing Blow Spell, and it gets through. Some Skeletons are raised, and this is followed by a Mighty Incantation-Attack Spell, Irresistably Miscast. Some wounds are regained, and the Liche Priest loses one wound.
Shooting:
Leadbelchers shoot they Knights they face, killing one of them. Sköll as raging at the damned Knights by now.
Archers however unleash a MIGHTY VOLLET OF (UN-)DEATH, killing two spearmen.
Close Combat:
Hydra handlers strikes! 4 attacks, 4 hits, 3 wounds, 2 dead. Fair, I'd say.
Retaliation! 1 Wound, saved, from the Tomb Guards.
HYDRA MAD! And by mad I mean killing Tomb Guards mad.

And now, with the Tomb Guard pretty much dead, the proud Tomb King finally realise his defeat and concedes. Bone Gnawers no longer see any chance to win this. They are severely weakened, forgot their Entombed Beneath the Sands and stand in a generally impossible position. The Hydra will Flank Charge the Skeleton Horde. Both the Chaos Warrior units are totally unharmed. Cold One Knights are too, and Chaos Knights pretty much. Ironguts won't handle the Corsairs and Chaos Warriors by themselves. So it's a concede.

Redux: What do you consider your biggest mistake? What have you learned?
Erik: No forgetting Entombed Beneath the Sands. Use Halbers on Tomb Guard. But they killed a Chimera. I'm proud of them.
Sköll: I held back too much, no holding back. I need to go for the guts, with the guts. I'll have to move farther ahead, and not being afraid of getting charged. The Mournfang Cavalry showed this very well.
Hate: I made some wrongs in the first magic phase. We should have done better and thrown some fire magics. I've gotten some basic understanding of Ogres. And Hydras are good.
Philippa: Hydra.

In my opinion though, this battle was won by some excellent manouvering more than dumb luck. Sure, some luck was had on both sides, but in the end the manouvering, particularily that of the Hydra to kill the Skeletons and keep the Mournfang away was the game-winner.
However, most importantly of all, the Hydra returned home.