Good morning lads!

So, last Friday I had two battles, against Empire, and against VC, I will share my experience from the one with Empire, as the other is not worth mentioning really.

You can check my list in here.

The Empire player brought (from memmory):

Sigmar priest on war horse, barding and magic sword that gave him re-roll to wound, and icon of magnus (immunity to fear, I think), heavy armour and shield.

2*empire engeneer w/ hochland rifle

6 knights w/HW

6 knights w/lances

8 IC knoghts w/FCT, lances, banner of immunity to panic

10-11 scouts

19 flagellants w/champion

2* G. Cannon

Hellstorm

I was prety scared when I saw his army. Especially those cannons were terryfying,as he is a really good spotter.

So, here a picture of the initial deplyment (he won the roll to choose side):

So, we have:
Impassable terrain on the Empire side, and a simple hill. On the Davi side, we have a forest (the newspaper :]) and a ruin. We decided the ruin is cover and defended obstacle, but not difficult to walk on.

The empire army is deployed, from the left, hellstorm (was sorrounded by scouts, which were deployed after I took the picture), knights with lances, IC's with priest, flagellants, GC w/eng and another one like it on the hill, knights with GW on the other side of the hill.

The Davi: BT w/RS, GT, Hammerers, Longbeards w/BSB, x-bows, warriors in ruins, OG (OG wa missplaced, I wanted to avoid flanking attacks, and in the end, it fired only once).

I won the initiative and chose to go first. I moved my warriors on the right full forward, counting on intercepting the GW knights, if they chose a flank manouver. Knowing that I only have one turn of shooting with the GT, I choose to shoot the IC's with priest. It falls an inch too close... d*amn! BT misses, but x-bows do just fine... shooting the GC on the hill, hitting twice, both hits lands on the ENG, and kill the basterd on the first turn! Good shooting!

Empire turn: As interesting as it sounds...nothing moves... only the scouts (not yet on the pictures), moves a bit forward, to screen the hellstorm from my BT. Both GC shoot at my GT, and both cannnballs land perfectly, leaving only debries on on it's way. Hellstorm aims at my Longbeards block... and missfires! The rockets land on the machine intself, killing all crew. Beautiull! I won't mention magic, because no prayer got through my DD's.

End of turn one:

Davi turn two:
Since my GT is destroyed, I move my GT crew closer to the BT, just in case. My warriors continue to move forward, and rest remained stationary. Shooting was not as effective as I expected it to be. BT killed one IC knight. The x-bows kept their good aim, hitting 5times! I put two wound on the machine, and kill one crew member. Close, but not close enought.

Empire turn 2: His GW knoghts advance towrd my main line, meaning, the OG will not have an aim on them, and therefore misspaced, as I sayd before. Scout advance toward BT, so does the 6 lances knights, screening the big IC block at the same time, which advanced on the hammerer unit. The flagellants advanced towards my LB block w/BSB. One cannon shoots at the OG, and the other at the BT. One overshoots because of a 10 on the first throw, and the other lands close, thanks to lack of re-roll on bounce (thanks to the x-bows... eng is dead!). This was close... too close! Scouts shooting is ineffective.

End of turn 2:

Turn 3:
Davi: I roll the warriors towars his GW knights, and move my hammerers left. The OG tryes to get into shooting possition. GT crew moves to the left, in an attempt to intercept the scouts from charging the BT from the flank. Shooting is the worst ever, x-bows do nothing this turn, and BT misses it's last shoot.

Empire: GW knights move forward, getting into flank charge range of my warriors, rest of the line advances. Shooting is ineffective once more. This time he tried to panic my warriors, and shoot down the BT. Warriors saw the cannonball landing in fron of their feet, as the second missfire on this turn could not be re-rolled by the ENG. BT stays safe, as it's over shott again. I consider myself to veeeery lucky. Two turns of GC shooting, and no loses.

End of turn 3:

Turn 4:

Davi:My warriors charge GW knight on the flank, they obviously run away, and land just behing flagellants. LB's and hammerers manouver to avoid any possible flank charge. OG advances. GT crew moves further from BT, to take the scouts charge. BT choots at something... since it did nothing, I will leave it with "no comment". The x-bows of doom prove to be worthy of their name and shoots at the GC on the hill once again... hiiting 5 times, destroing the cannon and leaving only one crew man alive! Good lads!

Empire: His scouts charge GT crew (I should have fled, it would delay them for a turn... but I hoped to hold them for 1 turn), knights w/lances charge BT w/RS general, Priest IC's charge hammerers and falgellants charge LB's. This turn and the next were deciding... In shooting. His cannon shoots at something... and did nothing (at this point, my friend was really mad at his cannons... 😛 ). Oh... and GW knight fail their rally test and run towards the edge of the board.

Combat saw the GT crew losing one davi, doing nothing in return. That is numbers and dmg for him, -2 Ld test for me... and I fail. They catch me, and overrun into BT vs kngiht combat from the flank. Baaad luck, the general is in trouble at this point. In this fight, he manages to kill my ENG and two crew man, I hold on stubborn. In the hammerers fight, I challenge him, he accepts with he general (other wise, he would have to accept with the champion, and it would leave the general with no targets). I kill one knight (chosen to fight with GW) The hammerer champion is the only one to die! I win, he holds, I expand.

Just before calculating CR in the hammerer combat:

In the flagellants vs LB's fight, I loose something like 2 LB's in the inicial charge (funny charge angle, there was no way to maximize), and he looses a couple, they obviously hold, I expand, to have more attacks in the next round.

Turn 5:
Davi: I advance the warriors toward the remaining GC, and the OG towards enge of ruins, facilitating shooting (no hope to fire it at this point). Fighting sees my last BT crew slayed, and RS doing nothing in return (those 1+Asv...), I fail to hold, he is run down by both attackers... no genral for the Davi. I repayed in blood thou! After moving the BSB to be in contact with flagellants, I beginr the carnage... leaving only 9 standing. The hammerers kill 2 knights, lose 3 in retunr, but hold they ground. Oh, and x-bows put a wound on the second cannon. 🙂

Empire:
Hi advances his scouts toward my lines, and turns his knoghts toward the fight, but because they ae behind the forest, they wont reach combat again. His other knights rallied on the turn before, and advance toward the fight. His cannon at last do somthing usefull, and shoots my warriors with tear tmplate, rolling a 8STR, killing almost half... but they are Davi, they don't panic! Combat saw the hammerers killing all knights but the standar 🙂 recieving 2 wounds in return. The IC's run away... and they are cought! No general for the empire 😛 . Fllagellans get chopped to pieces by the LB' and BSB.

End of turn 5:

Turn 6:

Hammeres advance, to claim tabel quarter, warriors charge GC. OG finally gets to do somthing, and shoots at the GW knoghts... killing one (ehhh). X-bows, having no better target, shoot at the lone crew man from the first GC... They are obvoisly tired at this point, as they do nothing. Conbat sees the GC crew losing two of their numbers (eng got lucky) and runing away, too fast for my warriors this time.

Empire: Short turn, his scouts try to hit hammerers, do nothing, his ENG with last GC crew man rally, and thats it!

After last turn:

Witha a catured abbner, two table quarters, and ponits from the table, I'm 2 points short for massacre!

Still, big victory for the Davi! Of course, I was really lucky, as the GC had awful throws on the artillery dice and the hellcannon missfiring on the first turn... as always with this oponent, the game itself was really fun and enjoyable.

Obverview:

RS: not much to do in this battle, as magic was not an issue, still failing to wound anubody, and failing a test on 7... a 3+ at maximum.

BSB: He killed his share of flagellants. Usefull, as always. 4+

Warriors. It took them 5 turns to get anywere, but they run down the GC and made the GW knights flee. Still, not being able to kill the ENG, gives them a 4.

LB: Solid, hard as hell, good quiality troops. They had their kills. 4

Hammerers: I believe they won the battle for me. They not only stopped the IC + general block, but killed enought to make them run in panic... and catching them at the same time. So, general, banner, table quarter... prety much, for 15 lads 🙂 5!

BT. It killed 1 knight in 3 turns of shooting! 2- it was dissapointing

GT. Missed by an inch, and killed in first turn. Not much to judge really.

X-bows: MVP of the match! Killing the ENG on the first turn, and the GC on turn 4... that is enought for me!

OG... missplaced. Not it's fault. But could do a bit more damage to the GW knights. 3

And that's about it!

It was a fun game. I'll post the report on the VC game a bit later, with only one picture, as the game was really boring... I hope you enjoyed the reading, adn sory for the TYPO's... 😛

cheers!