As we spoke about last time, we finally got around to fighting one of the Round 3 Escalation battles.
This was the Skaven vs High Elf engagement. The game went so fast that I didn't have time to take many notes or pictures. Instead, I'll just rely on the very brief recap I received from the High Elf general. Also, I'm extremely jealous of my buddy Le Coq Fou and his simple, yet awesome battle report style. Checkout his blog and his great painting.
Deployment Pictures:
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| Overview shot |
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| Elves |
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| fucking rats |
Most interesting thing about the deployment pictures is the new High Elf Mage that has made an appearance. Our "newbie" players are quickly picking up the painting skills necessary to get models on the table.
Round 1
Rats -
March to midfield for giant rats.
Clan rats and plague monks in tow.
Warlock engineer forgets to cast warp lightning
Elves
No movement.
Mage casts second sign of amul and score 3 Rerolls for the turn.
Archers take aim at giant rats (1 rat dies) Rerolls did not work out
Turn 2
Rats
Giant rats approach the archers
Plague monks approach the spearmen
Clan rats move wide planning a flank charge on spearmen
Warlock engineer moves up between Plague Monks and Clan Rats
Warlock engineer takes out a rank (7) of elf spearmen with warp lightning.
Elves
Mage sees the giant rats bearing down and jumps into the unit of archers
Mage casts storm of chronos to no effect
Archers take aim at giant rats again picking off a few more.
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| Plague Monks about to charge... |
Turn 3
Giant rats charge in archers
Plague monks charge into spearmen
Clan rats maneuvering again for flank charge
Warlock engineer tries to cast warp lightning into the plague monks and spearmen but fails
Archers lose combat and run with the mage in tow. Giant rats run them down and off the board.
Plagues monks lose combat and run. Spearmen run them down.
Warlock engineer and clan rats start to run away
Elves
Spearmen reform facing where the giant rats left the board
Turn 4
Rats
Warlock engineer and clan rats rally on two rolls of 1-2
Giant rats return
Elves
Spearmen charge at giant rats and break them but can't quit catch them
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| clan rats still running |
Turn 5
Rats
Giants rats run off board
Warlock engineer cast warp lightening another rank of spearmen
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| plague monks rallied on the hill |
Elves
Spearmen reform into 3 ranks of 4
Turn 6
Rats
Clan rats out of range for charge
Warlock engineer casts warp lightening on another 6 spearmen
Elves
Lick their wounds
The Skaven take the win in Round 3. Warp Lightening proved powerful in these small-point games.
The Orcs and Goblins still need to schedule their fight against the Bretonnians for Round 3. It's coming soon. All of this will result in two very epic final 1000pt battles, with no army list restrictions.
After this game we played a very interesting High Elf vs Dwarf battle at 1500pts. Battle report to follow soon.
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