Greetings fellow Clansmen!

Today I fought my first full battle in 8th (and only the second battle in the past 2 years). It was against an experienced 7th edition player but he had never played 8th. I have a tournament in 1 week so was glad to get some practice in.

Also, I apologize for how bad my reports are. I keep forgetting to take notes or pictures so have to go off of memory and will get a lot wrong.

Anyway, my list:

Characters

Dwarf Lord @ 251 pts
General
Shieldbearers
Great Weapon
Runic Armor (Rune of Resistance; Rune of Stone; Rune of Preservation)
Runic Talisman (Master Rune of Spite; Rune of Furnace)

Thane (Battle Standard Bearer) @ 175 pts
Runic Standard (Rune of Guarding; Strollaz's Rune)

Runesmith @ 151 pts
Great Weapon
Shield
Runic Talisman (Master Rune of Balance; Rune of Spellbreaking x1)

Master Engineer @ 89 pts
Dwarven Handgun
Greatweapon
Rune of Stone

Core

29 Dwarf Warriors @ 344 pts
Great Weapons
Shields
Full Command

15 Quareller Rangers @ 230 pts
Musician
Great Weapons
Shields

Special

22 Hammerers @ 366 pts
Shields
Full Command
Runic Standard (Master Rune of Grungni)

Grudge Thrower @ 155 pts
Rune of Accuracy; Rune of Penetrating x2

Cannon @ 130 pts
Rune of Burning; Rune of Forging

Cannon @ 125 pts
Rune of Forging

Rune of Burning to deal with any regenerators I might have (Dark Elf Hydra which will make an appearance).

Rare

Organ Gun @ 120 pts

Total Roster Cost: 2500

His list:

Chaos Lord (Had 8 attacks that he rerolled misses)
Sorcerer Lord (Took Lore of Death)
Throgg (Troll Special character)
Exhalted Hero BSB on Mount

16 Chaos Mauraders (mark of Tzeentch)
12 Chaos Warriors (Mark of Tzeentch) Mage here.
12 Chaos Warriors (Mark of Khorne? or banner that gave them Frenzy) Lord Here.
6 trolls. BSB and Throgg here.
2 x Chaos Warshrines
Hellcannon

Alright, here is a rough summary from memory.

Deployment:

There are two big buildings halfway up the table and dividing it in thirds from the side (So if you start at the middle, go in from the side 1/3 of the way first building, another 1/3 second building). Only two pieces of terrain to note).

I position Hammerers and Warriors with BS to go up the middle. Warriors with Runesmith to go around building on left. All of my warmachines are positioned near engineer to the right of center. Rangers deploy far out on his left (my right) flank.

He puts trolls in the middle, frenzied warriors on their right (my left) with Tzeench warriors on the other side. Marauders go to the side of the Tzeench warriors. Warshrines behind and hellcannon in the far left corner.

Turn 1:

March (after a march from BSB) forward. Runesmith warriors start to go left around the building. Organ Gun marches up the right side of the right building. Rangers march closer to get a charge off next turn against the marauders.

Cannon with burning kills 2 trolls and gets rid of regenerating. Other cannon kills 2 more trolls. Great start! Grudge Thrower misses.

He marches forward but tries to stay at around my maximum charge distance so hopefully I will fail and he'll charge me next turn. Sorcerer leaves Marauders and goes into building on the right. They reform and face my Rangers. Frenzied warriors head to go around the left building to head off my runesmith warriors. He rolls double 1's for magic phase and I steal a dice so nothing happens there. Hellcannon kills 5 or 6 hammerers.

Turn 2:

I declare a charge against the trolls with my hammerers but not against the warriors with warriors. I figure I wanted another round of shooting against them. I needed to roll a 10 and I did, crashing into the trolls. Rangers charge Marauders and make it.

Shooting ends up doing poorly. I think I killed 1 warrior of Tzeentch. I also positioned the Organ Gun really bad the whole game and it only ever shot once so was pretty much a waste (due to bad tactics).

In combat my Lord gets in a challenge with his BSB but they don't do anything to each other. I think I did a couple of wounds to the trolls but they ended up doing a lot back. Neither side flees.

He charges my warriors with BSB. Tries to cast -1 S and -1 T on all units within 24". Luckily he doesn't roll double 6's so I spellbreaking rune it. One of his Alters gives +1 attack to the troll unit though and combat is bloody. He killed around 10 hammerers. My Lord kills the BSB though. I lose but stubborn on leadership 10 so not going anywhere. Tzeentch warriors don't do much of anything and I win that combat but they hold. Rangers get a push against marauders.

Turn 3:

I try to charge Chaos Lord warrios but fail to reach. I remember his Sorcerer is in the building and unload with my artillery (one time that the Organ Gun got to fire). He dies to an organ gun and a canon. Grudge Thrower again misses its shot due to scatter.

I break the Tzeentch warriors but can't run them down. Trolls get down to 1 troll left with a few wounds and Throgg. He is in a challenge with my lord. Decides to vomit (no Armor Save) and rolls a 6!. Does three wounds. However, I luckily roll 3 ward saves. I do 3 wounds back and he regenerates 1.

Rangers win combat (Marauders are having a hard time wounding me at T 4) but Marauders hold.

His lord unit charges my runesmith warriors and proceeds to wreck havoc. I lose by a lot but hold due to steadfast.

Oh, and his Hellcannon blew up 😃

Turn 4:

I charge and run down the fleeing tzeentch warriors due to him rolling a 3 to flee and run into a war alter. I manage to finish off the troll unit this turn but only have Lord and 6 Hammerers left.

He charges Hammerers unit with 1 warshrine. Other warshrine dies to warriors. Marauders die to rangers. However, hammerers can't kill the Warshrine. That thing is actually tough to kill if you don't have ranks to help you win combat. 3+ wardsave with mark of Tzeentch and a toughness of 6.

Runsmith warriors are killed.

On his turn he turns around his chaos lord unit and starts to come back around the building. Hammerers stayed tied up with Shrine (I think I did 1 wound but lost 2 hammerers).

Turn 5:

Rangers charge Shrine. Warrior unit reforms and starts to come back down (by running down all those units they had gone all the way to the table edge of his deployment zone). Grudge thrower misses again.

In combat the Shrine dies and units reform to face incoming warriors.

He tried to charge the hammerers but fails to make it.

Turn 6:

I back off the hammerers as much as I can. Rangers shoot at the chaos warriors and kill 1. Grudge thrower again misses (and yes I'm using my rerolls!).

He gets a charge off against the hammerers unit barely. He needed and 11 and that is what he rolled. Kills all the rest of the hammerers (3) but after about 12 attacks (including 5 from the chaos lord) against my lord, he failed to do a single wound. My lord kills 2 in return. Still loses combat but holds. Game ends.

End result was a massive victory for me. I had left:

Lord
BSB
25 Warriors (BSB Unit)
9 Rangers
All War machines

He had:

Chaos Lord
8 Warriors

Final Thoughts:

Chaos Lord and Frenzied Chaos Warriors are NASTY. Avoid at all costs. Chewed threw my unit of warriors with runesmith like they were nothing.
Glad I had 1 rune of burning to take away regen.
Dwarves are pretty tough overall. Toughness 4 really makes a big difference. That's what made the Rangers win combat, and helped alot against trolls and Tzeentch warriors.
Not sure I liked Quarreler's as Rangers. I only ever fired once. I can get 15 Longbeard Rangers for the same price, which I think would be a lot better.
Glad he never got to use his magic as that could have been nasty.

Again I apologize for the format. I didn't take any notes or pictures so that is as best as I can remember it.