Warhammer Underworlds battle report: The Court comes forth

 Time for some good old casual experimenting, and what better band to do that with then one of the most beautiful in the game: The Crimson Court!

 

And a deck build from Emberstone Sentinels and Realmstone Raiders, which on paper should give some good combinations of striking from or near treasure tokens, and then slink onto those objectives, while having a bunch of Guard and no push back power cards.

 

And the first game put me against Thibaud and Kurnoth's Heralds, who ran a deck made from Emberstone Sentinels and Hunting Grounds. 

 

Both warbands deployed, and the aristocracy of the night prepared itself to go and slug it out around the central objectives.

 

But their bones where still stiff from years of dormancy, as they barely hit anything, and soom Vellas fell to the massive axe of Cullon.

 

The first round ended on 4-5 as such, both bands getting ready for what might be a round where casualties might mount.

 

Gorath braced himself, as Cullon kept taking swings at him, Lenwythe in the meantime fruitlessly sniping away at the vampire.

 

 Prince Duvalle retreated from the duel with Ylarin, as he wanted to go and secure objectives for Iron Grasp and possibly Supremacy.

 

As Ennias swooped down onto the right most objective as such.

 

But alas, Duvalle was taken down by the Heralds, and the second round ended in 9-11 on the scoreboard.  Even with limiting raiding though, the Court managed to hold on, albeit barely.

 

In the third turn, it was Gorath who tried and went to secure the objectives, as Ennias delved his down to reduce the needed amount at least for Iron Grasp.

 

But unfortunatly, he was one-shotted by Ylarin, blocking out all my end phase cards as a result and costing me the game, as it ended on 11 - 16 for the defenders of the glades.

 

The second game had me face Nico, who is preparing for a throw at a Golden Ticket this weekend, and his Jaws of Itzl.  The band had a deck of Blazing Assault and Deadly Synergies, so that would mean some hardhitting pure violence coming my way.

 

The bands deployed, and I hoped to sneak in some early objective grabbing objectives.

 

 But alas, I had Raider's Rapture out immediatly, yet managed to miss with all my hammer attacks, not scoring any of the raid related surges I had in hand.  And the pain train was advancing towards my lines...

 

Gorath tried to shift the saurus warriors to buy the others time to get on objectives and get those raid surges going, but even against a staggered saurus he failed to connect...

 

 But then all hell broke lose, Ennias being one-shotted, and Duvalle taken down by combined attacks from the big beasts, the first round ending in 0-8.

 

Immediatly into the second round, Gorath also went down as he was one-shotted by Kro-Jax, leaving Vellas the lone Vampire standing.

 

At least she hit for once, and that brought me on the scoreboard, but she was gravely injured by So-Kar, before a savage mauling finished her off in only the third activation of the second round.  All the vampires banished, it was 3-22 at that point as Annihilation came out, before in his last round another standing on my Aqua Ghyranis token made it a final score of 3-23, ouch.

 

Well, that didn't go to well at all for the sexy neckkisser, the fact I didn't hit wasn't helping, but neither over the course of the two games did I manage to even inspire a single Vampire.  The Court is a hard band to play, but it remains as I said such lovely models I will keep bringing them for some gametime for certain!

 

And I won't go the BACA route!!!!