Undead Legions vs Dark Elves, 2.5k

Overview

Undead Legions

General: Thundercake

• SA1 11 Skeleton Archers
• SA2 11 Skeleton Archers
• SA3 18 Skeleton Archers
• C1 3 Chariots
• M 2 Morghasts
• U1 8 Ushabti
• H 5 Hexwraiths
• HA1 5 Horse Archers
• HA2 5 Horse Archers
• C2 Catapult
• C3 Catapult
• CoS Casket of Souls
• SH Spirit Host
• ME Mortis Engine
• Z 11 Zombies

Dark Elves

General: Brett da Destroyer

• BT1 Bolt Thrower
• BT2 Bolt Thrower
• BT3 Bolt Thrower
• D 10 Darkshards
• E 29 Executioners
• W1 10 Warlocks
• W2 5 Warlocks
• DR1 10 Dark Riders
• DR2 5 Dark Riders
• DR3 5 Dark Riders
• DR4 5 Dark Riders

Deployment

I played  in a 2.5k game of Undead Legions vs. Dark Elves.

My list was:

Liche High Priest, Lvl 4 Nehek, Dispel Scroll

Master Necromancer, Lvl 4 Vampires

Necrotect, Charmed Shield, Obsidian Amulet

11 Skeleton Archers, Musician- SA1

11 Skeleton Archers, Musician- SA2

18 Skeleton Archers, Full Command- SA3

3 Chariots, Full Command- C1

5 Horse Archers- HA1

5 Horse Archers- HA2

1 Spirit Host- SH

5 Hexwraiths- H

8 Ushabti, full command- U1

2 Morghasts- M

Catapult - C2

Catapult- C3

Casket of Souls- CoS

Brett's List was:

Dreadlord, Giant blade, luckstone, charmed shield, OTS, sea Dragon cloak, heavy armour, dark steed

Supreme sorceress. Level 4 shadow, scroll, dark steed, dbane gem

Master. Bsb. Sea Dragon cloak, heavy armour, lance, dawnstone, potion of foolhardiness, dark steed

Master. Lance, Dragon helm, heavy armour, sea Dragon cloak, dark steed, obsidian amulet

5 dark riders spear shield xbow- DR2

5 dark riders spear shield xbow- DR3

5 dark riders spear shield xbow- DR4

9 dark riders spear shield xbow- DR1

10 shards- D

29 black guard standard, burning banner- E

3 bolt throwers- BT1, BT2, BT3

5 warlocks- W2

10 warlocks- W1

 

Deployment looks like this. My necrotect goes with the Ushabti. My Necromancer goes with SA1. My Liche priest goes with SA3. I roll up Smiting, Desert Wind, Vengeance,and Cursed Blades for my Liche Priest. For the Necromancer, I roll up Raise Dead, Hellish Vigor, Danse Macabre, and Wind of Death.

His Dreadlord and both Master's go in the big Warlock unit. His sorceress goes in the big Dark Riders Unit.

Turn 1 - Undead Legions

He move up some of his units during vanguard. Mine sit still during vanguard. Turn one, I move up a number of units. I charge a bolt thrower with a unit of horse archers. I mess up my angles on the spirit host and hexwraiths providing him an overrun into my hexwraiths if he makes the charge on my spirt hosts.

I roll a 5 and a 4 for winds of magic. I get two dice from the casket, putting me at 11. I attempt to caste smiting on SA1 with 3 dice, I fail to cast. I am too far away to caste anything else with that wizard. I then try to caste raise dead on 3 dice and roll triple 1's. I throw the rest of my dice at the casket spell which he is able dispel. My chariots take two wounds off of the DR2 and they flee to the edge of the board. Shooting from SA1 and SA2 takes two wounds of off DR4 but they pass their panic test. A catapult hits the big warlock unit and takes off a wound, but they pass their panic test. The other catapult either hits the Warlock bunker and does jack poop or it hits the Executioner block and does a wound or two. I can't remember. In close combat, he does two wounds and I do a wound and a charge, we stick.

Turn 1 - Dark Elves

He charges my skeleton horse archers with his big unit of Dark Riders and Sorceress. He charges my spirit host with his big unit of Warlocks (and all the characters). The fleeing Dark Riders rally and move back up. He rearranges a lot of other stuff to get charges yet up or to create shooting angles. For magic he rolls a 1 and a 3 with no channels. He tries to caste Doombolt, I dispel it. In shooting he takes a wound off of the chariots using his Dark Riders. He kills a Morghast with his bolt throwers. In combat he easily wipes out the Skeleton Horse Archers and the Spirit Host. He reforms the Dark Riders while the over runs the Warlocks into the Hexwraiths (bad movement on my turn to allow this. He also takes another wound off of the Horse Archers that are engaged with the Bolt Thrower, However, I take a wound off the bolt thrower as well, leaving it with 1 wound.

Turn 2 - Undead Legions

The Mortis Engine gives everything but SA1, C1 and C2 a 6+ regen. This bumps the Ushabti regen to a 5+. I then charge the Morghasts into the flank of his character bunker/bus. I rearrange SA2 so that anything that charges it will overrun into thin air. I move the Mortis Engine and Ushabti so that they can counter charge W next turn or anything that overruns SA2. I move SA3 so that they can shoot at the Executioners. In magic I roll a 4 and a 2. I get two dice from the casket. I get bubble smiting off on everything but the Chariots. This regrows a Morghast (but it only has one wound remaining). I then try to caste Raise Dead for a chaff unit in front of his E, W, DR3, it fails on two dice. He dispels my two dice Casket spell. In shooting, the chariots fail to wound DR2. The archers in the building take a wound off of DR3. Between SA2, SA3 and the catapults I knock his Executioners down to 15 models. In combat, my Horse Archers kill his Bolt Thrower and turn around. His dreadlord goes to town on my hexwraiths killing 3. His warlocks get one wound through on the Mroghasts, bringing them back down to 1. Between the Morghasts and the Hexwraiths I do 4 wounds back. He has a banner, a bsb, and a charge. I have a charge and a flank. He wins by one. My Morghasts mean I don't crumble the one I lose by.

Turn 2 - Dark Elves

He charges his Warlock unit into my SA2. He moves his big Dark Rider/Sorceress unit into position to charge my Casket next turn. He blocks my Horse Archers with DR3. He moves everything up for the most part. In magic he tries to get off a big spell but rolls low on 5 dice and I dispel it. He gets a doombolt off that doesn't do anything. In shooting he puts a wound on the Casket from DR1. He kills a Horse Archers with DR3. He fails to wound the Chariots with his other Dark Riders. The Dark Shards either fail to wound the casket or it gets its regen saves. In combat his big Warlock unit and characters crush. The Dreadlord finishes off the Hexwraiths. The Morghast is able to do two wounds but also takes two wounds. It loses by enough to crumble. He reforms his to face the Ushabti. His small Warlock unit do four wounds to SA2. I do 3 (yay smiting for extra attacks!0 wounds back. He wins by two because of his charge and I crumble two.

Turn 3 - Undead Legions

The Mortis Engine gives everything but the Chariots, SA1, and C2 the regen. The Ushabti charge his character unit/ large Warlock unit. The Mortis Engine charges the small Warlock unit. My horse archer charges DR3. SA3 backs up just a little. In magic I roll a 6 and 5. I end up with 12. I try to get Cursed blades off on the Ushabt on two dice, he dispels it. I use 2 dice to Raise Dead and get 11 zombies that I put right in front of the Executioners. I then try to two dice get Casket of Souls off on the Executioners but it fails. I then put 5 dice into bubble smiting, he dispels it with his scroll. In shooting, my chariots fail to wound DR2 again! SA1 does a wound to the Executioners. C3 misfires and can't fire for two turns. C2 hits DR1 and does two wounds. They pass their panic test.

In combat, my Horse Archer dies terribly and he reforms DR3. Looking back on this I should've sent it at a bolt thrower to try and tie one of them up. The Mortis Engine is able to destroy the two remaining Warlocks after the Warlocks knock the archers down to 2. SA2 and the Mortis Engine reform to face big Warlock Unit and DR4. In the Ushabti combat, he issues and challenge and my Necrotect goes to the back. His characters go to town dealing a total of 6 wounds. Even with my hatred I am only able to kill the two Warlocks and put one wound through on one of his Masters. He does seven wounds overall. I lose by 3 after the charge and the banners cancel. I crumble another Ushabti. My armor save went away with the high strength and the 5+ regen wasn't enough to win that one. Martial prowess did it for the Elves.

Turn 3 - Dark Elves

On his turn he charges the Executioners into the zombies. He charges DR2 and DR3 into my chariots. He charges DR1/ with the Sorceress into my Casket. In magic he rolls decent. He puts four dice into the spell that reduces weapon skill and targets my Ushabti. It goes over irresistibly. It eats the rest of his dice and puts the small template on his sorceress. The blast kills 4 of the Dark Riders, leaving 2. It does not damage the casket. He then shoots one of the two remaining skeleton archers in SA2 with DR4. He pours everything else into the Mortis Engine (the bolt throwers and Darkshards). However, the armor saves and regen saves are enough to stop any wounds from going through. In combat, his Excutioners crush the Zombies and reform to face the building and Morits Engine. His characters, this is all that is left in W1, do 3 wounds to my Ushabti. I do nothing back and crumble another Ushabti, leaving me with 3. He manages to get a wound through on my Chariots but the Chariots do four wounds to DR3. He sticks. Finally DR1 attacks the Casket and is able to do a wound. The guard are able to kill the last two Dark Riders, leaving just the Sorceress.

Turn 4 - Undead Legions

The Mortis Engine gives everything but the Casket, Catapults, and Casket the regen. I move SA1 up to shoot at stuff. I move the lone skeleton archer up to try and march block or chaff up a charge. I move the Mortis Engine back so that he characters will overrun past my Catapult if they charge it. In magic I roll a 1 and a 2. I get 1 dice from the casket. I get smiting off on SA1 and fail to caste raise dead on two dice. In shooting my other catapult misfires and can not fire for this turn or the next turn. SA1 picks off two or three Executioners. SA3 kills one Dark Rider in DR4. In Combat, the Chariots kill 2 in DR2, win combat and run down the remaining Dark Rider. The Casket Guard is able to Killing Blow the Sorceress. The Ushabti take 6 wounds and the Necrotect dies. I am able to kill one Master. The rest of that unit crumbles.

Turn 4 - Dark Elves

On his turn he charges his Master and Dreadlord into the Mortis Engine. He moves up his Executioners to face the building and skeleton archers. He moves the Darkshards up. He has no magic. In shooting, DR4 kills the last skeleton archer. His Darkshards put the last wound through on the casket. It explodes and doesn't get any wounds through on the two characters. His bolt throwers are able to pick off the Chariots, because of the overrun he can go through all three of them. In combat his Master and Dreadlord wipe out the Mortis Engine and overrun into C3 and wipe it out.

Turn 5 - Undead Legions

I move SA3 into teh building and move SA1 out of the charge arch of the Executioners. I should have moved the Necromancer into SA3 but forget about it. I roll a 3 and a 5 for magic. He dispels a bubble smiting that I tried on 4 dice. I then caste wind of death? (the template spell) into his executioners and take out 4. Between all of the archers shooting and the catapult I take out 5 more. This leaves that unit with 3 models.

Turn 5 - Dark Elves

He charges his characters into my last catapult. He moves up his Darkshards and Dark Riders to shoot at SA1. He thinks about charging the building with the executioners but with three guys decides not to do it. He has not magic. In shooting, his Darkshards, Bolt Throwers, and Dark Riders kill all of the Skeleton Archers but not the Necromancer. He crushes the catapult and reforms his characters.

Turn 6 - Undead Legions

I move my Necromancer towards the building. In magic I roll 4 and 2. I get Smiting off on my big unit on 4 dice. He is unable to dispel it. I try to get desert wind off on the Necromancer but fail to caste it. In shooting I put two wounds on the executioners, leaving one model!

Turn 6 - Dark Elves

On his turn he shoots the Necromancer and kills it. He does not try to shoot into the building. He wins, I only have 300-400 points left. His executioner unit is worth 500. If I had taken that down, the final tally would have been a lot closer. At the end of the day, there are a number of things I could have improved on. I could have tried to preserve my archer units and heal them back up instead of throwing them out in the open. I needed to set up my Hexwraiths better. If I hadn't lost them I probably could've taken out his bolt throwers and some of his chaff with them. I should have also restrained with my chariots and let the last Dark Rider flee to keep them alive.

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2500 points of Tomb Kings at Pack Rat Open

I went to Pack Rat Open last weekend and took the Tomb Kings I was working on. The list looked like this:

Lords

• Liche High Priest
  Lore of Death, Wizard Level 4
  •   Dispel Scroll, Ironcurse Icon, Talisman of Preservation
     
• Liche High Priest
  Hierophant, Lore of Nehekhara, Wizard Level 4
  •  Earthing Rod, Talisman of Endurance

Heroes

• Necrotect
  • -Obsidian Amulet 
• Tomb Prince
  Great Weapon
  • Armour of Destiny

Core

• 19 Skeleton Archers 
  Champion, Musician
• 12 Skeleton Archers 
  Musician
• 5 Skeleton Horse Archers 
• 5 Skeleton Horse Archers
• 48 Skeleton Warriors 
  Champion, Musician, Standard Beare
  • Light Armour 

Special

• Khemrian Warsphinx 
  Fiery Roar
• 5 Necropolis Knights 
  Champion, Musician, Standard Bearer

Rare (490pts)

• Casket of Souls 
• Hierotitan 
• Screaming Skull Catapult 
• Screaming Skull Catapult 

I used a bone giant and a scratch built bone giant as the catapults, both have skulls in their hands that they are throwing. I used Titan-Forge crocodiles for the Necroknight mounts. I also converted up an old metal giant for the Hierotitan. 

It was also the first display board I had made. It was simply a cork wall board/bulletin board that  I glued a bunch of sand too and used cork pieces to create the hills or rocks in the back. One thing I learned from making the display board is that it is much easier to spray paint the sand on a display board than to try and use a brush to paint it. 

In the picture below you can see the Necroknights. 

In the next pictures you can see the converted catapults and the Hierotitans. 

All in all, I am pretty happy with the army. I ended up getting best painted at the event (out of 24 people). I don't think I am a great painted but there are some things that I think helped me take home that prize. 

1. There is a clear color theme throughout the army. 
2. Everything is painted and based. 
3. The board and bases have paint, flock, and on the board and bigger/important models either extra bits or more than one type of basing. 
4. I used a color that stands out. Some armies are really well painted but look really dark and dull from fair away. This one doesn't.

Current State of the Army

Here is a group shot of everything that is completely painted and based.

All together it is:

1 Liche Priest

1 Tomb King/Prince

1 Necrotect

1 character that can serve as a Tomb Prince or Liche Priest

40 skeleton warriors with hand weapons and shields

58 skeleton archers, two sets of full command

10 skeleton horse archers

6 chariots with full command

2 Warsphinxs

1 Tomb Scorpion

1 Casket of Souls

1 bit made Bone Giant/Screaming Skull Catapult

Here is a closer picture of the characters

Here is a closer one of one of the Warsphinxes

Here is a closer picture of the other side

And here is what is currently on the paint bench. The crocodiles will end up as proxies for Necropolis knights. I have a Khaldia model I am working on getting painted. The Bone Giant will also serve as a Screaming Skull Catapult (I dislike the model that GW makes).

There is a one day event I am going to at the end of April that I need to have the Bone Giant, about 8 more skeletons, a Hierotitan, and 5 Necroknight proxies painted for. After that, the goal is to get the scorpion and remaining characters painted in May, Tomb Guard painted in June, and Ushabti painted in July. At that point I should be pretty satisfied with the army.

Screaming Skull Catapult / Bone Giant

Started building this guy in February, got him finished a few days ago. I need to start putting lightening around my pictures so the flash doesn't wash things out like it did in this (and all the other ones).

It is on a 50 by 50 base that was made by cobbling together two cavalry bases. Most of the bones come from skeleton horses. Most of the bronze is from Tomb Guard bits (mostly shields). The weapon is a modified Tomb Guard banner turned upside down and modified a bit.

The wrappings are green stuff that was used to cover up joints and to hold the model together. If you want to see WIP pictures, here is the album. http://imgur.com/a/l4Y8y