Ok,so this is my first report so please forgive my mistakes in the diagram making program and in the game since my friend and I are still trying to learn the 8th ed.

My list:

Runelord:AoD,RoFury,RoCleaving,MRoBalance,RoSpellbreaking.(I equipped this guy to the teeth with runes because I didnt know what to expect)

Thane:shield,RoFury,RoCleaving,RoBrotherhood,Oath Stone.

Thane:BSB,MRoGromril,RoCleaving.

30 Longbeard Rangers:GW,throwing axes,FC,RoBattle.(thane goes in here)

14 Thunderers

30 Warriors:FC,GW.

Grudge Thrower:Engineer,RoPenetrating.

2 Bolt Throwers:Engineers,Ro Penetrating

2 Cannons:Enginners

2 Organ Guns

His list:

40 Saurus Warriors w/ Saurus Old Blood

16 Temple Guards

10 Cold One Knights

13 skinks w/ skink priest

13 skinks

Stegadon w/ bolt thrower

Stegadon w/ Lord Mazdamundi

The battlefield:
We decided to play a simple Battleline.And the field looked like this:

Deployment:It was hard for me since it was the first time I played with so few units and so many war-machines and I was pretty much terrified of the thought that the stegs reached my lines so I cornered up.Rangers were placed in his left flank to flank the stegadon and generally to slow his flank while I blasted the other one with my altillery battery.In the end it looked like this...

Lizarmen turn 1:

He wins the roll for the first turn and basically he moves with everything forward.He manages to cast a spell on my rangers and kills 3.He aslo shot with his bolt thrower at my warriors but missed.(HA!Lizardmen shooting...please... :dirol: )

Dwarf turn 1:

I hold my ground in the main battle line but I try to charge his steg with my rangers but they fail.The runelord seeing the rangers from the other side of the battlefield tries to help,so he strikes the rune of oath and honor but they fail again!At this point I am starting to regret trying out rangers...In the shooting phase I gave the lizards hell by making the unit of skinks that blocked my LoS to the big nasty Saurus unit go poof,killed 2 Cold Ones and took a couple of wounds out from the steg on my left flank.

Lizardmen turn 2:

He moves again with full speed towards my line.The skinks with skink priest stayed on the hill with ruins because the priest was trying to pull off some magic but failed since I had his magic completely shut down for the rest of the game.Steg reforms to face my rangers plus it was in charge range.When that happened I thought "yeah,my 500 point unit is done for..."In his shooting phase he kills 3 of my warriors with his bolt thrower.

Dwarfs turn 2:

I move towards the steg with my Rangers and charge it in the shooting with the help of my Runelord.The shooting phase was beast :hunter: !With a couple of good rolls I managed to kill the stegadon with the bolt thrower,reduced the Cold Ones to 4 and the Saurus to 33! :dance3: In other news,the living steg takes down some rangers and in return they did 3 wounds.(!)Steg loses combat but holds being stubborn.

Lizardmen turn 3:

He moves again and now he is at charge range.Skink priest tries to pull off chain lighting but fails which as I see it results in a little spark coming out of his finger :rofl:...The battle between my Rangers and his steg with Mazdamundi on top of it,still rages on with neither side backing down.Steg now has 2 wounds left.

Dwarfs turn 3:

This is the game winning turn.I move my warriors and then charge the saurus unit with the help of the one and only Runelord.In shooting I destroy the rest of the Cold One Knights and I take out 2 Temple Guards.I kill the stegadon with my rangers leaving my thane on top of its corpse shouting victorious and lord mazdamundi alone and on foot against my horde.At the other side of the battle field Saurus and Warriors are exchanging blows(don't remember the exact number of the dead) and warriors lose by one but hold!

And that's it,after this turn my opponent conceded( Don't know why,i think that he had hope)...At the end I had only lost some of my troops while he had lost the two stegs,10 cold one knights and 13 skinks.

So VICTORY for the Dwarfs! :dwarf:

Final thoughts:

I had underestimated the power of the runelord.He is far more effective than I ever imagined,without his help the whole match could have ended differently.So he is MVP of the battle!
Stegadons look scary but with a few good blows they are done for...
The worst unit of the game was the skinks w/ the priest.they did absolutely nothing the whole game.They just stood there,on the hill the whole game.
Rangers do work properly!It was the first time I used them and they can give your opponent nightmares!

So,hope you enjoyed!I have an other report coming,this time against bretonnia.If you have questions please let me know!See ya!