Warhammer Underworlds Battlereport: Elathain's Soulraid versus The Thricefold Discord

 Yesteray I went back to Outpost Antwerp for another game of Underworlds, as the tournament in halle draws ever closer.

And now, with the full power of the Spinefish at my disposal, as during last week's game I finally got it together how to use the little fish, and more importantly, the pressure it's shoal counter generates on an opponent.

Facing me was Johan, the TO for the Halle event and present to seduce more souls for Slaanesh, I mean Halle, and the demon band of the Thricefold Discord.

The boards are set-up, the warbands deployad and off we went!  The fist action of battle came with Tammael and Lascivyr exchanging blows, or stab at air might perhaps be a better description, as neither landed a hit on the other.  Fuirann charged off in the farthest reaches, attacking Vexmor.  He failed his defence, taking two wounds, but this also resulted in Lascivyr inspiring as a result.

 

Vashtiss moved in and attacked Tammael as well, surrounded by friend and foe alike.  But as she didn't take anyone out, she moved off to harass my warband with magical attacks later on.  The first round was also riven with a heap of critical defences, resulting in turn one ending in a 3-3 on score, and no casualties so far.

The second round picked up where round one ended: critical hits being negated by critical defence rolls, but this couldn't last and Tammael was in the end the first model to fall.  However, combined efforts from Fuirann and Elathain saw Vexmor himself fall, meaning Tammael duly returned to battle.  As Vashtiss kept plunging damage around, Elathain fell in the barrage, and the Discord went in the lead after the second turn with a 7-6 on the scoreboard.

The third turn as such meant I needed to score big, though I had some scoreable cards in had, beginning with sneaking a glory to the score with Fury of the Storm and as he discarded getting Smothered Memories.  Duinclaw kept chasing Lascivyr, managing to bring him down to a single wound before being taken out of action himself.  

But on the other side of the board, Fuirann, supported by the ever present Spinefish, took down Vashtiss.  With two more activations to go, only Lascivyr remained... and I forgot to take a picture of Spinefish's moment de gloire.  Appearing next to the assassin, it's Spinefish Toxin took out the assassin of it's final wound, and made me score three cards as a result in the end phase: one for managing to get three warriors on his half (thanks to relocating in his final two activations), one for taking out two enemies at the end of a round (I had discarded the one for being within two hexes of the same warrior and got this one) and one for having no models on the board adjacent to others.  The Discord couldn't put enough glory in the final end phase against this, so a 14-10 victory for Elathain was the result.

Okay, so the fish was without a doubt the MVP, dropping assists, making an objective of the Discord in the final round a 'dead card' and even taking out an enemy.  I was also amazed that (albeit upgraded) Fuirann for once lived to tell the tale.

The Discord are a special cookie, and with the Force of Frost deck Johan used as well, have some dirty tricks up their silk sleeves, but in the end I guess they fell mostly due to the combination of the ever present supporting fish to boost my attacks / defences and their leader not having been able to take a strong role in this game, as he was rushed pretty fast.  With fast being relative, considering his wounds and boosts he had to mitigate damage.

But a good fun game, and I look forward meeting my opponent again in Halle.