Pecu's batrep thread

[DaemonReign]

Ah so not so lucky after all then, good thing you managed to kill off his magic fairly fast too then!

I felt the same way about the GDs when getting mine. Making one out of a Shaggoth is something that never occured to me though, and we actually had one laying around now that I think of it.

It worked really well though. I must say.

[Lord Tremendous]

Great reprot! Great Victory! Great army! MORE WINS! MORE BLOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

Looking forward to the lizardman report!

-Tremendous

[Pecu]

And here we go!


Game #2: Lizardmen, Dawn attack

My opponents list:

Slann (lore of shadow)
BSB, Higher state of consciousness, The becalming cogitation, Divine plaque of protection, Dispell scroll

Scar-veteran
Cold one, Crown of command

Skink chief
Stegadon warspear, ancient stegadon

39 Saurus warriors
Standard, musician

39 Saurus warriors
Standard musician

6 Chameleon skinks

11 Skinks
11 Skinks

10 Cold one knights


Spells for the game:

Slann: Miasma, enfeebling foe, Withering, Pit of shadows
HoTz: Shem’s burning gaze, speed of light


So a few big hitty blocks and some chaff. Definitely not the most powerful lizzie list, but still a very formidable opponent, after all he had beaten his last rounds opponent 20-0,




Deployment:

As said, deployment was Dawn attack.

My right flank

My center and left flank. As you can see I basically got everything on the left flank/center so I went heavy on this side of board (since there’s an imbassable terrain in the middle of the board and because slann+ancient steg was put to the far right flank thanks to dawn attack )



Lizardmen left flank

Lizzies center

Lizzies right flank



Lizzies get the first turn.


Turn 1: Lizardmen

Skinks charging forward

Center units slumbering forward

Right flank coming as fast as they can. Thanks to his placement, slann was out of range for all magic this turn

His chameleon skinks shot my fiend



Turn 1: Daemons

I charge my right flank crusher to his cold ones. He’s on a mission to assassinate the saurus hero

I make a long charge with left flank fiend to his skinks


And in combat I indeed get a killing blow on his saurus hero, byebye stubborn. Obviously the crusher gets killed when the saurus cav gets to hit but I don’t mind, he earned his points back already

Fiend breaks the skinks and catches them within 6” of the other saurus unit, which promptly decides to panic and runs through the other saurus unit. Though that unit passes it’s panic.




Turn 2: Lizardmen

Saurus cav charge thirster (lol)

Other saurus unit manages to rally, the other one slumbers forward

Skinks turn around to kill the fiend that killed their buddies..

..which they do.

Thirster kills 4 cold one, he does zero wounds back and he breaks. I chase the cold ones down and now I am ready to face his slann



Turn 2: Daemons

Thirster charges slann who tries to flee but gets caught with 21” charge.

Flamers moving to flame the skink chief on stegg

Letterhorde w/flamesword herald charge his saurus block

And in combat I kill ~20, he kills few back and breaks from combat. I don’t catch them but I end up to face his other saurus block

In magic phase, i get flickering fire through on his steg and kill it . And in shooting I finish off his skink chief

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Turn 3: Lizardmen

He charges letterhorde with his saurusblock

Skinks moving to get some shots at the flamers

Chameleon skinks do the same

Skinks shooting kills 1½ flamers

In combat I kill ~20 saurus’ yet again, he kills few back and breaks. I catch him and get ready to annihilate his last saurus block on my next turn.



At this point my opponent decides to concede since only thing he has left is the one unit 10 skinks, 6 chameleon skinks, and that saurus block that is doomed to die next turn.


So a 20-0 win for the daemons on turn 3a. .





-Pecu

[Lord Tremendous]

Excellent job and gratz on your 2nd flawless victory!

My Favorite part was "The Cold ones charge the thirster (lol)"

Game, set, match, there bud! lol! I know you're trying to be nice and all but this guy lost this game in deployment. Sent out his Cold ones before they were properly supported, failed to get his slann into range for magic, set up the slann to be overran / charged into if the cold ones broke (Which was likely due to the stubborn hero getting sniped, great job on that btw!) and then the skinks didn't block / redirect / do anything but play with chaff.

You deserved that victory and he was right to concede in 3 turns. lol! REALLY looking forward to your next game!

-Tremendous

[DaemonReign]

Man you're on a roll Pecu! Keep it up.
Tremendous covered the important stuff I guess, so I'll just chime in and congratulate you on the win.
And of course, looking forward to the next report!

[LAV-Kitsune-]

Haha, oh man your first opponent must have been annoyed. First he trains for like 2 months against my daemons once on every week losing every game and then on his first game he meets a list he complained most (letter hordes and thirster). I really feel bit sorry for him, as his gameplay as improved so much and with some extra luck he could have made that massacre a minor loss or even a draw =)

Looks like your games went quite well indeed, so congratulations for that. Unfortunately I didnt manage to get there as all my 3 friends cancelled the tournament and thus I couldnt afford mega expensive trains =P
Well, next tournament here in Kuopio will be on my store then, so perhaps we will meet in there *hehe*.

[Pecu]

Ya, we actually talked about that he had had several training games against a very similar daemons list and I knew it was you he was talking about . There was definitely a chance for him to get it into a draw, or even a win. Thankfully my chaff units were able to hold up and harass his units just enough so he couldn't focus all of his attention on my blocks.

When are you going to host the tournament? Soon? I do hope so .

[LAV-Kitsune-]

I am still doing bit more terrain so we can have good amount of it on every table, but I would think that the tournament could be organized at july or september. I have one extra big convention coming up before that and it takes most of my resources. I will let you know.

[Pecu]

July would be awesome, since in september me and I could bet that whole bunch of other wanting to participate that tournament are back in school/work..

[Pecu]

Hi guys, time for…


Game #3: Skaven, Battleline w/ 400vp objective in the middle of battlefield

My opponents list (not 100% sure of it, I forgot to take pics/notes of it..)

10 Rat ogres
3x40 Slaves
40 Stormvermin
Abomination
Warplightning cannon
Doomwheel
2x8 Gutter runners
Grey seer
BSB (storm banner, which decided to seize working on turn 1)
Engineer
Engineer


Spells for the game:

HoTz: Speed of light, Banishment

Grey seer: Plague, scorch, Skitterleap, Howling warpgale
Engineer: Warp lightning



Going into this game, I really didn’t know what to expect since I don’t get to play against skaven. At all. I’ve faced skaven twice in the past, and both times I faced them with my Warriors of Chaos. And even though DoC and WoC are sort of similar to each other, combat heavy armies, it’s still a whole lot easier with WoC to go against skaven. T4, 3+/5++ on tzeentch warriors and T4, 1+ on knights compared to t3 5+ on bletters.. :/



Deployment:

Skaven left flank

Skaven center and right flank


Daemons left flank

Daemons center

Daemons right flank




Daemons got the first turn


Turn 1: Daemons

Left flank rushing forward

Same thing on the right flank and center


My magic & shooting does very little, no remarkable casualties on the skaven side


Turn 1: Skaven

Units coming forward, though stormvermins holding back. Notice that the Doomwheel has disappeared, it decided to drive through that swamp there. Rolled a 1 and took 6 wounds. .

Right flank

Abo charged my poor fiend

G.runners moved nearer

Abo kills the fiend and overruns to crusher.



Turn 2: Daemons

Chaff units going around stormvermins to go after the warp cannon

Thirster charges ratogres and letterhorde charges slaves

Flamers flank and rear charge abo...

..and make short work of it in the combat

Thirster kills rogre champion, letters kill a ton of slaves but slaves hold.

Magic does little and it’s calm before the storm on left flank



Turn 2: Skaven

Stormvermin move right in front of my letterhorde

Gutterrunners move to get shots at my crusher

Plague comes through and kills 10 letters…

Crusher dies to poison


Slaveunit fighting letters, breaks and dies.


Turn 3: Daemons

I charge his stormvermins with letterhorde

Letters freed last turn, join thirster

Other letters take a beating


Needless to say, I broke the ratogres and pursuited into his slave unit


Turn 3: Skaven

Stormvermin still beating the other letterhorde

No more pics from that turn..

And from this turn forward, the game began to look quite grim for me and totally forgot to take pics during my turns... Sorry about that , it was late Saturday night when we played the game so I was bit tired (I slept ½ hours on the night before the tourney)

Turn 4: Daemons

We were still locked in combat so not much else happened. Apparently I killed the slave unit that thirster and letterhorde were beating

Turn 4: Skaven



Thirster dies poison shots. Earlier it had already taken 2 or 3 wounds from that cannon



Turn 5: Daemons

Letterhorde fighting stormvermin gets killed. Other letters charge cannon, kill it and run off the board.


Turn 5: Skaven

Stormvermins charge horrors

Gutterrunners finish off flamers

Horrors die


Turn 6: Daemons

Last horrors die, freeing his stormvermins to get a charge on my HoTz..

Turn 6: Skaven

Which they do, and obviously HoTz gets annihilated..


So in the end it’s a 20-0 loss for the Daemons. I just couldn’t get enough attacks on him to get rid of his guys quickly enough. Even though he is t3 and has little/no armor, he just had so many bodies that I wasn’t able chew through them. And on top of that he gets so many attacks (which although hit on 4+ and wound on 3+/4+) that get to hit before me.

But it was a very fun game, my opponent was great and we had a good time playing so I don’t mind losing to him. He ended up coming 2nd in the tournament.



And that’s all for this time. Next batrep against Dark elves in game #4.



-Pecu

[DaemonReign]

Well you had the better looking army so don't beat yourself up about it!

Another great batrep and it's funny I've just been reading about how supposedly Tough the Skaven are and what-do-you-know it's the first batrep you've posted where you actually lost.

That happens to all of us, and should happen from time to time as well I might add - but this was an ETC-orinted game right?

I ask because it's just another example of how I believe ETC is really missing that mark of "holy balance" that they proclaim to be after. When Daemons are up against an opponant sporting the sort of cheap stuff that Skaven can bring, there's just no way those restrictions are going to work.

Take that Bloodletter unit that you had, which got hit with Plague and lost 9 models. Now that unit should have been a unit of about 40 Bloodletters (even by 'normal' ETC caps = max 40models, max 450pts?) but since they've got that arbitrary restriction saying that Daemons can only bring 30 models (wtf?!) - well, what the hell were you gonna do after that, going up against 40 Stormvermin with 20 Bloodletters deployed 10-wide. That was a death-sentence right there. I'm actually impressed with your mental stamina you continued playing after that.

So yeah, when facing Skaven I think Daemons need to be allowed to bring their Official (and True) arsenal of toys etcetera. I'm not saying you shouldn't blame yourself for this loss, or that you shouldn't credit your opponant - but there's something to be said for these damn comps all the same.

Oh well.. Sorry for whining. Like some other posters on this Forum I'm the sort of bloke who'd like to illegalize ETC. It was a good report, thanks for that - and like I said, your army looked a lot better than his so that's something nobody can take away from you.

[Lord Tremendous]

No shame in this loss man.

From what I can see your skaven opponent played his army beautifully giving you the slaves and the rat ogres to soften up your letters while concentraiting fire on your thirster and flamers. The ABO is always going to be a pain but at least it was killed early AND the fact that the doom wheel killed itself is a victory in itself!!

Maybe if your magic phases had been a bit more potent it would have helped, but honestly it looks like you were just on the poop end of the stick and lost to a good, skilled opponent. Which is also a victory in itself.

I'm just amamzed there wasn't a huge brick of Plague mice with a furnace or a bell running down the middle. Almost seemed like an incomplete army at first. lol!

Great rep! Looking forward to the next one!

-Tremendous

[Pecu]

Time for batrep #4.


Game #4: Dark elves, Blood & Glory

My opponents list:

Dreadlord (general)
Dark Pegasus, Sword of might, Cloack of hag graeff, Dawnstone, Black dragon egg, Heavy armor, Shield

Supreme sorceress (lore of shadow)
Lvl 4, Talisman of preservation

Sorceress (lore of metal)
Lvl 2, Dispell scroll, Ruby ring of ruin

Death hag
Cauldron of blood, BSB


21 Corsairs
Standard, musician, sea serpent standard (frenzy)

20 Spearmen
Full command, shields, Gleaming pennant

10 Crossbowmen
Musician

10 Crossbowmen

20 Black guard
Standard bearer, musician, Banner of murder

7 Shades
Adhw

7 Shades
Adhw

Hydra

5 Harpies



Spells for the game:

HoTz: Shem’s burning gaze, Net of amyntok

Lvl 2 metal: Searing doom, Enchanted blades of aiban
Lvl 4 shadow: Melkoth’s mystifying miasma, Enfeebling foe, Penumbral pendulum, Okkam’s mindrazor



As said, scenario was blood glory, with me going at 5 fortitude and him at 6 fortitude. Which basically meant that if he kills thirster I lose, if he kills my letterhorde with BSB I lose.



Deployment:

Dark elves left flank

Dark elves center and right flank



Daemons left flank

Daemons right flank




Daemons get the first turn


Turn 1: Daemons

Chaff moves forward. My goal is to charge that lone crusher into those spearmen and assassinate his lvl4

Right flank advancing as well.

In magic I irresistible force net of amyntok through on his spearmen. In return I lose my magic levels to miscast.



Turn 1: Dark elves

Dark elves “advancing” on left flank

Units shuffling on the right

Dreadlord flies out of thirsters charge arc.


In magic he fails his strength test on lvl 4 on doesn’t get to cast. Lvl 2 tries to get big searing doom on thister but I scroll it. In shooting he does two wounds on thirster.


Turn 2: Daemons

Fiend and crusher get a charge on his spearmen with lvl4 mage in there. In combat he does a wound on my crusher and I do a wound on his sorceress.

Right flank rushing forward. I realized that I need to get thirster into combat before it gets killed by shooting and magic



Turn 2: Dark elves

Hydra tried to get a charge on my letterhorde with flamesword herald but failed a 10” charge.

Not much movement on center or right flank



He shoots everything he has at thirster but does no wounds. Crusher + fiend vs. Spearmen + sorceress combat still rages on.


Turn 3: Daemons

Letterhorde charges hydra, kills it, overruns to spearmen which get annihilated. After combat I reform letters and in pursuit fiend ends up in combat with cauldron.

Crusher charges xbowmen. Thirster charges black guard, kills like 8 and they fail their re-rollable stubborn ld 7 and run. Thirster catches them. At his point my opponent is down to fortitude 4.



Turn 3: Dark elves

Combat still going on.

Corsairs reform

Cauldron kills my fiend

Xbows kill the lone crusher

Dreadlord charged my other horde to its flank. I lose combat but I manage to reform looking at dreadlord.


Turn 4: Daemons

I charge my letterhorde to his corsairs. He kills my herald before I get to strike. Thirster flies into cover, behind the letterhorde and hill.

Center of the board looking like this



Needless to say, in combat I slaughter his corsairs and get their standard. Winning me the game on turn 4a with 20-0 victory.


Yay.




-Pecu

[DaemonReign]

Well played, and congratulations on the victory!

I don't know if its the restrictions hitting DE too hard or if his list was just intentionally a bit soft somehow. Nobody carrying the Pendant? I know the Sacrificial Dagger is practically banned.. (?)

Seems to me he would have had to take better control of the board in order to really deal with your Bloodletter-hordes. For this being a Blood&Glory battle he seemed stretch out his forces a bit much in deployment.

Oh well, I'm certainly no expert of these things. Very nice report! Two very nice-looking armies fighting it off once more.
Cool stuff!

[Lord Tremendous]

Excelelnt job with the net spell stopping his lvl 4. Not to mention just taking it to your opponent. Clearly I wasn't there but thru your pics and report its pretty clear your opponent was scared of you and held back hoping his shooting and magic would take you down. Way to capitalise on that and bring home the victory!

Where did you place in this tournament anyway?

-Tremendous