This game was my fifth in a 6 game league I created. First can be found here, second here, third here, fourth here. League restrictions limit character points, no double rares, no triple specials. Basically they make the recent 5 books think while having little or no impact on the older books. League rules also remove the mundane equipment limits of older BSBs. Army size starts at 2300 pts.

Round 5 - vs Roger's Dark Elves
Because he is DE, he started short a hundred points. In the first two rounds, he was 2-2, so his army size has not changed. His losses were to a High Elf player that just won Best General at a GT, and to me filling in for a missing player as Warriors of Chaos. At 4-0, I've hit the minimal points of 2000, meaning he has a 200 pt advantage over me.

Dwarf list - 2000 points
Dwarf Lord, shieldbearers, gw, Stone, Resistance, MRoChallenge
Thain BSB, gw, MRoGromril, Resistance, Preservation
Thain, shield, gw (oops), MRoFlight, Cleaving, Fire, Stone
Runesmith, sh, gw, spellbreaker, spellbreaker, spellbreaker

10 crossbows
10 crossbows
24 warriors, full command
19 Hammerers, full command, Battle
Stone Thrower, engineer, Accuracy, Penetrating, Burning
Stone Thrower, engineer, Accuracy, Burning
Organ Gun
Gyrocopter

I know Roger likes magic, so I took the third spellbreaker. Since he knows I always have Furnace on my characters, I figured he wouldn't take Metal or wouldn't cast Burning Iron, so with closed lists, I left it out. The Lord is more vulnerable than I would like, but I couldn't fit the MRoSpite in without sacrificing something else on another character, and I think the MRoChallenge is required. MRoSteel is not really worth it against Dark Elves unless I really expect a dragon and/or cold ones.
I was going to run 4 bolt throwers, but I forgot to bring my extra two, and only one proxy is explicitly allowed by the rules. So I changed two into the big Stone Thrower, then realized there was no reason not to change the other two into the little Stone Thrower. After that I was a little afraid he wouldn't bring the Hydra, but Roger tends to run infantry units, so the Stone Throwers should still be devastating.
I have crossbows so I can shoot back at his RBTs, crossbows, and potentially other things. Against elves, I prefer the range of crossbows to the hitting power of Thunderers, and I need the point saving. Plus most of the Dark Elf army will not instantly obliterate crossbows in combat, nor autobreak them. And the things that will do that are welcome to obliterate crossbows instead of obliterating more expensive infantry blocks!
The most interesting choice is the MRoFlight Thain. He exists for literally one reason - Black Guard unit champion with Crimson Death. If I can kill that damn unit champion, the Thain adds enough hitting power to kill the regular guys if the Lord or BSB are tanking the DE character. I added Burning so maybe he could plink a Hydra.

Dark Elf army - 2200 points
Level 4 wizard, Pendant of broken, dagger of killing for power dice
Level 2 wizard, extra spell, immune to psych
Cauldron
BSB with Blood Armour and Soulrender

10 crossbows, shields
5 dark riders, crossbows
18 crosairs, full command, frenzy
20 power dice (warriors), shields, banner, musician
5 harpies
5 harpies
14 Black Guard, full command, Banner of Murder, Crimson Death
2 RBTs
Hydra

The four characters told me he didn't have any assassins, since these four must be close to the 40% character limit. Otherwise about what I expected.

He takes Lore of Shadow and rolls great. Big wizard gets Steed, magic missile, Lurker and Pit. Little gets magic missile, fear and Lurker. So 3 "must stop" spells in double Lurker and Pit.

Deployment
Playing on the Dwarf realms, we got a hill partially in a deployment zone, a difficult hill in the middle, some boulders (difficult, hard cover) near the front of a zone, a 3 story building, and crag (impassable except to fliers). Roger won the roll for sides and took the open hill and the boulders.

Scenario was protecting a Keg that is held by one core unit. It makes the unit Stupid and Stubborn, and requires that the unit deploy on the line in the middle. Fairly obviously, I picked the warrior block. Suddenly very glad I brought them!! He ended up picking his Dark Riders because he wasn't willing to risk the dagger-fodder failing stupidity and messing up both his wizards.

I have crossbows in the building (I carefully placed it entirely in a deployment zone for this reason) and the other crossbows next to it using the building to guard their flank. Gyro behind the building. Warriors with BSB and Thain, Organ Gun, Hammerers with Lord. Stone Throwers on table edge, Runesmith with the big one.

Dwarf deployment

He has crossbows on hill, harpies and Dark Riders, then Corsairs, Black Guard with BSB, dagger fodder. Hydra and RBTs in rocks to the east.

Dark Elf deployment

Turn 1
Roger wins the first turn and takes it. Cauldron wards the Black Guard. His infantry advance, but not max speed as they keep with the warriors who were slightly behind. The crossbows move to the front of their hill, while the Dark Riders take their beer and hide. Hydra stays?

His going first worries me greatly. I am tremendously relieved when he starts the magic phase with 4 dice Lurker from the level 2, miscasts, and ends the magic phase while taking a wound. Whew!!!

RBTs kill 3 Hammerers.

end Dark Elf turn 1

My warriors back up about an inch and the gyro flies out. I debate greatly how to use the gyro. Ideally I don't get in front of his infantry so I can fly behind them and steam repeatedly. But since he went first, I want to slow them down immediately, which means fleeing a charge from the corsairs (who I am pretty confident have the frenzy banner). So the gyro will steam harpies.
Worried about the harpies, my Dwarf Lord joins the Organ Gun. I realize too late this exposes him to Pit, but I restrain any comment to avoid giving Roger ideas. Initiative 4 might live anyway.
Obviously I could MRoChallenge the harpies, but I'm saving that for his general. Since he went first, if I MRoChallenge the dagger fodder turn 6, they cannot flee and I have a very good chance to kill at least one, probably both.

Big Stone Thrower goes for the Hydra and misses. Little Stone Thrower hits and destroys an RBT. Great!
Building crossbows kill 2 on the hill, ground crossbows miss entirely. Gyro kills only one harpy, MRoFlight another one. Organ Gun only kills 3, leaving 1 and 4.

end Dwarf turn 1

Turn 2
All harpies charge crossbows on the ground. Corsairs frenzy charge gyro, which flees away.
Infantry line advances but stays with the failed charge corsairs. Dark Riders really go hide. Hydra advances.

Level 2 misses Lurker by 1. Magic missile gets lucky and kills 4 Hammerers. Power of Darkness fails and I scroll a Pit. RBT kills another Hammerer while crossbows wound the gyrocopter.

The harpies inflict no damage on the crossbows. The crossbows kill all 5 harpies outright! Perhaps my Longbeards were annoyed about being left out and snuck in, disguised as crossbows. Would explain why they couldn't hit anything with the crossbows.

end Dark Elf turn 2

Gyro rallies and flies over the corsairs. I foolishly have it facing as if it was using the breath weapon, when it should have been facing the RBT to potentially charge next turn.
Warriors back up another inch and a half. Lord rejoins Hammerers. Runesmith starts running east so he can join the little stone thrower and claim that table quarter if the Hammerers have to move west.

Stone Throwers both shoot at Hydra, one scattering but the other hitting for 4 wounds. No more breath weapon threat! Organ Gun kills 6 power dice, which tells me the level 2 makes them immune to psych. The turn 6 MRoChallenge plan won't work! Building crossbows kill another 2 off the hill, ground crossbows get a Black Guard.

end Dwarf turn 2

Turn 3
With the two combat units march blocked, and the power dice knowing their job, his line advances 5 inches. Hydra runs forward though. Cowardly Dark Riders return to the middle to shoot the Gyrocopter, while the crossbows turn to shoot it as well.

I dispel a Lurker exactly and scroll another, while his third big spell doesn't cast. The magic missile makes up for its way above average first casting by doing no damage this time.

The Dark Riders and crossbows shoot the gyrocopter, but cannot wound its Toughness 5. The RBT tries a single shot and misses.

end Dark Elf turn 3

Warriors move up slightly, trying to achieve the 11" range that lets me MRoFlight his champion without getting charged. Hammerers advance to cover their flank from the Hydra, and angle slightly towards it.
Gyro moves up behind the infantry to steam the Black Guard. This was actually quite dumb of me, since I forgot about the Dark Riders behind. I should have gone west of the corsairs to be out of Dark Rider charge range. Or just gone after the Dark Riders or RBT. Or something else.

With one wound left on it, I decide the Organ Gun can be back-up so one Stone Thrower can shoot the Black Guard. Little Stone Thrower scatters to nowhere at the Hydra. Organ Gun has to finish the job and succeeds, firing a 10 that splatters the beast.
Big Stone throwers kills a few Black Guard and the Gyro another one or two. Ground crossbows knock out a corsair.
Building crossbows improve their aim again, killing 3 on the hill and panicing them. They will rally behind the hill so I only get half points.
Finally, the MRoFlight is exactly where it needs to be - 11" from the Black Guard. Champion dies, taking his frickening Strength 6 with him!! At this point, even if he does nothing else, I think my 150 pt character was worthwhile just to kill that 50 pt unit champion.

end Dwarf turn 3

Turn 4
Dark Riders charge the gyrocopter. Slapping my head for being dumb, I flee. Then roll 4 inches and die on the Corsairs. Looking at the picture, I see now we made a mistake and the Dark Riders moved their full charge distance when they should have gone half. Oops.
Black Guard and Corsairs shove themselves into my face. Dagger fodder hang just out of charge range.

Using the dagger for an extra dice, he produces double 6s to Pit the warriors. However, these warriors are incredibly agile and pass about 9 of 14 initiative tests, meaning only 5 die. Shocking. The rest of his magic phase does not quite work; I didn't use my last spellbreaker and I'm not sure I used any dice at all.
RBT kills another Hammerer.

end Dark Elf turn 4

Used to the ASF banner, it doesn't occur to me the Black Guard didn't take it against Dwarfs. Probably wouldn't have charged anyway, since the Thain has something important to do, but it should have occurred to me.

Hammerers wheel west while the Thain moves to the eastern edge of the warriors.

Big Stone Thrower drops 12" onto the corsairs and wrecks them. Little Stone Thrower misses the RBT.
Crossbows in building improve their aim yet again, now achieving a silly level - they wipe out the Dark Riders with one volley. Since the Dark Riders were barely at long range, a correct failed charge move the last turn would not have made any difference.
Ground crossbows shoot down a corsair or two. Organ Gun reduces the Black Guard to the BSB and 3 guys.

Finally, the MRoFlight shows maybe we should take it more often. The miscast did a wound turn 1 and MRoFlight means now the the little wizard is dead!!

end Dwarf turn 4

Turn 5
With things looking bad, the remaining Black Guard charge the warriors. My ground crossbows are properly positioned and the corsairs do not have enough space to wheel in front of the crossbows to flank the warriors. So the corsairs go into the crossbows.

With the level 2 gone, he only has 6 power dice. I stop power of darkness, he fails to cast the magic missile even after daggering one dude, then rolls horribly to cast Pit. In retrospect, I should not have used dice against power of darkness since he has nothing left to lurker. All dice could go into stopping Pit.

RBT shoots my wandering Runesmith (wow that wandering around was dumb!), but I armour save the second wound.

6 wide corsairs kill 3 crossbows, which is about average. I kill the champion in return, also about average, and hold. So nice to fight things that don't cause fear!!
My warrior champion bravely dies twice in a challenge with the DE BSB. Black Guard put a wound on the Thain and kill a warrior, but my Thain and BSB wipe out the Black Guard. Down 5, the elven BSB displays lots of guts and holds.

end Dark Elf turn 5

While charging the dagger fodder is tempting, with the immune to psych gone, it would be useless. They would flee, rally in 6, and cast magic happily while almost certainly living. If I MRoChallenge them turn 6, I probably get to break and thus kill them all.
Only movement is the Thain moving over to be in contact with the enemy BSB.

Big Stone thrower shoots at Cauldron and scatters. Little shoots at RBT and scatters. They do the same turn 6.

Crossbows are tired after wiping the Dark Riders last turn and miss. Organ Gun kills 5 power dice, leaving just 2 plus the wizard. As they take a panic test, I realize perhaps shooting them was a mistake, but they thankfully pass.

Corsairs fail to kill any of my crossbows, while I get two in return to win combat. Remember, this unit already demonstrated they are better fighters than shooters, now they are doing it again. Foolishly, I did the combats in the wrong order and the BSB is still around. Double 6s on the break test re-roll to a 4 that holds.
My opponent wants to kill regular guys for CR, so doesn't issue a challenge. He armour saves my Thain and my BSB whiffs, but a regular warrior does a wound that produces a '1' for armour save. Go Dwarf warrior! Elf takes revenge and kills that one warrior, but no others. He breaks, but outruns my weak pursuit. That poor pursuit cost me a scenario bonus point, because getting the warriors (keg unit) into the enemy table half would be one I don't have.

end Dwarf turn 5

Turn 6
I MRoChallenge the last two dagger fodder and their lady into the Dwarf Lord. Fleeing BSB rallies.

Being only 3 wide, the wizard has to be in the center and has no LOS to anything. I scroll her attempt to Steed out of combat and she cannot do anything else.
RBT tries to kill my runesmith again (who I forgot to move!!), but fails.

A power dice lands a Cauldron killing blow on a Hammerer, but I kill the rest of the power dice anyway. All attacks bounce off the Pendant of broken and she holds on both halves of turn 6.

I kill all but one of the corsairs, but they also hold on both halves of turn 6.

The warriors charge his BSB in the bottom of turn 6 and my BSB kills his outright, but the Cauldron prevents any attempt to overrun into that half the table.

final position

VICTORY FOR THE DWARFS

Analysis
After the spell selection rolls, I could have been in massive trouble. The weakness of Lore of Shadow is you have to roll 5 and 6 or it sucks. Double Lurker and Pit could be really bad news for me, although double Pit would be much much worse. The two one phase ending miscast was very bad, then his turn 4 dice were simply awful. He got the IF Pit, but it did very little.

However, he was generally trying to Pit my infantry units, not my war machines. If he kills most of the Hammerers, they are still capable of engaging his 'power dice' or flanking the Black Guard. As long as he doesn't get the Dwarf Lord, or allow the RBT to get the Dwarf Lord, I can function.

Dropping an RBT turn 1 was big in my opinion. Just as big as his non-magic phase, although obviously a ton more probable. Putting the Hydra near both RBTs was not a good move on his part, since it made my initial shooting a no-brainer with the potential for scatters to still be great.

Without more combat characters, his units are not instant death for mine. Especially since the scenario made the warriors Stubborn. Killing the Black Guard champion with MRoFlight made that assured.

My final game is next week against 2000 pts of Lizardmen. If the Lizardmen player wins, he wins the league. If I win, I still need someone else to beat/draw a High Elf player for me to win.