The Old World 500pts battle: Chaos Dwarfs versus Beastmen

 A 500pts game tonight as we do some try out for the Border Patrol tournament I'll be playing in september, and Steven was my opponent bringing his Beastmen to the table.

 

And it was a seriously savage army facing my Dawi'Zharr line of mighty warriors... and not so mighty Hobgoblins.

 

While my army had a senechal with Darkforged weapon and Helshard, joining a unit of warriors with hand weapon, shield and full command, as well as a unit of 10 Fireglaives as it's core, I also brought some levy along.  This was a unit of Hobgoblins with handweapon and shield, and a unit of 10 Sneaky Gitz for some behind the lines annoyanceing. 

 

His list consisted of a level 1 shaman with Deamonology on a Tuskgor chariot, an additional Tuskgor chariot, and a unit of 11 Gor with the True-horn and a standard bearer.   His smaller units included a 10 man short bow Ungor herd, a Razorgor (T5 3W impact) and oh-oh, a Dragon Orge Shartak (that's a save 3+, T4 W4 beast, how the heck do I kill that!).  That's a lot of impact hits thundering my way!!

 

Well, at least I have the numbers this time, but the question will be if we can hold against the savage slaughter that would come my way... and what better way to have them come my way then to hug the hill.  We played the second scenario of the tournament pack, in which you either must score the most in 6 turns, or if your army drops below it's Break Point (a tournament special rule).  My Darkforged weapon in the meantime turned out to be Hell-Forged.

 

As I won the roll, I had to take the first turn, and moved my regiments a little bit forward to take the charges, and bring the Fireglaives in range for the next turn, as the Beastmen advanced towards my line.

 

The Sneaky Gitz turned up behind the Dragon Ogre,  and together with the Glaives managed to take out 3 of the beasts 4 wounds.

 

The Razorgor however charged into the poor Hobgoblin slaves, snorting like crazy... and missing almost everything, the brave slaves actually holding the line after winning the combat.

 

To add more insult to the big beast, the lowly Hobgoblins actually took the beast down.  I said it many times, don't mess with the Hobgoblins!

 

 But their tribulations weren't over, as it was the Dragon Ogre that now plowed into them.  And once again they actually won and forced the beast 2 inches back...  The Infernal Guard and the senechal prepared themselves for the charge of the Gors and the Shaman on his chariot, while the Sneaky Gitz kept tossing kitchen utensils at the Ungors...

 

As the struggle between the Dragon Ogre and the Hobgoblins continued, the Gors charged in, but the Shaman, suffering from Stupidity thanks to his deities, failed his test and wasn't allowed to thunder in. 

 

The Infernal Guard soundly beated the goatmen, and they ran off, the pursuit taking them out of the charge arc of the chariot and the Shaman.

 

 The Shaman then charged the Hobgoblins, who somehow STILL where keeping their ground against the massive Dragon Ogre, even though they couldn't pinch off the final wound.

 

 The Tuskgor chariot thundered through the remaining two Ungors, and into the Sneaky Gitz, and decimating them the lone survivor decided to leg it.

 

 The Hobgoblins where taking to much damage and ran off the field, the Dragon Ogre in pursuit and off the table for a moment.

 

 The shaman turned his chariot now towards the Fireglaives on the hill...

 

 ... while the Infernal Guard kept moving after the now rallied Gors, ready to take them on should they care for another bout.

 

 As the Dragon Ogre and Tuskgor joined for the charge on the Fireglaives, the Shaman having failed his Stupidity once again, he was down to his last wound after a mighty volley from the guns.

 

The charge did come though from the other two units, and the Dragon Ogre was gunned down in the stand and shoot, while the Tuskgor chariot charged in but failed to trouble the armoured Dawi'Zharr to much, the combat tied in this last turn for the Beastmen.

 

The points where tallied, and it was a solid victory for the Chaos Dwarfs.  We had lost only both Hobgoblin units, mounting up a measly 108 points, while Steven had lost the Dragon Ogre and Razorgor, lost points for the Ungors and for his General being under 25% of his starting wounds.

 

Glory to hashut, and that means a trophy model to paint up for my slave regiment! 

Blood Bowl match report: Elfheim Union versus Vongalazthag Violators

 Time for another Blood Bowl match report in the club league, and I'm still with my back against the wall for the ranking.  Will this be the match the sleeping giant finally awakens?

 

And I will tackle them with knives and alchemical flame!

 

I lost the first league game against these pesky dodge elves, but now I'm bringing two Bull Centaurs and a Minotaur, as well as a trainload of additional skills, including a Flamesmith with Block and Tackle... many hopes rest on his shoulder tonight.  

 

I know he will always line-up with three lowly linemen at the kicking end, who'll dodge away at first chance, so they will have to be taken down immediatly... and hopefully the Sure Hands and Pro skills will help actually getting the ball of the floor and to the needed players...

 

I was forced to kick off first,  launching the ball in his half before starting to push up the line as he didn't get away fast enough.  Unfortunatly, it where only some stunned results.

 

 His thrower went to collect the ball, and as most of his line was down he started to look for an opening for them to slip through.

 

 One of them tried to go through the right field, but was collected by The Raging Trainwreck and Fixit and knocked over before a pass could come his way.

 

 But on the other side, his star blitzer slipped through, and we failed to intercept his pass.  The ball landed in the hands of the elf, merely squares away from my end zone.

 

But Carven Loreflame reached him, and belched a ball of alchemical fire, knocking the blitzer over. 

 

The ball scattered into his waiting hands, but as soon as he turned around two swift elves ganged up on him, whom dodged through the lines to try and take back the ball.

 

The ball fell to the floor, but as more Chaos Dwarf players came to aid, we didn't get any of them down.

 

 In the meantime, his injury box was filling, with two already taken out, so that would give me an additional league point unless I suffered a casualty myself.

 

On the other side of the pitch, the Chaos Dwarfs where causing havoc, smashing over elf after elf.  if we could get that ball out of my half, the road to the end zone was wide open.

 

 But elves being elves, and who cares seemingly about tackle zones, while my players could just stare ar that nimbleness.

 

The star blitzer scrambled up, received the ball, and scored the 0-1 after the Raging Trainwreck was injured, but healed by the apothcary, in a one die block... and that wouldn't be the last time a one die block went purely his way with a full smash.

 

We set up again for the final turns of the half, Numbers coming on the pitch to try and pick up the ball. 

 

Which he duly did, only to fumble the pass to the The Raging Trainwreck, who could have launched himself for the equaliser as the whole field was wide open after the Chaos Dwarf demolition works...  

 

The half ended, and we set up to receive at the start of the second one.

 

 His front line was pushed over again, as Numbers went to pick up the ball once again.

 

However, his pass failed again (heck, at least we are picking it up now), so far for Pro, and it fell amongst my players. 

 

And guess what, of course some elf comes in, dodges and picks it up before dodging out again without failing a single roll, helped by the fact Hot Milky Nipples started to rage at some clouds for three turns in a row...

 

 Ragnoth Karadras went to greet some of the fans in the meantime on the other flank...

 

We could take down the running elf though, but unfortunatly the position was swamped with more of them, so it wouldn't be easy to collect the ball. 

 

And the blitzer cut through the tackle zones as a knife through hot butter, scoring a 0-2 and my only remaining chances where now to pull out a draw at most.

 

 We lined up to receive the pass, but Numbers got into an argument with the referee, being stunned by him...

 

A sudden flash of a knife from one of the Stabbaz plunged into the heart of an elven lineman, and even with his apothecary ended up with two time a dead result.  We might lose, but that pesky elf won't tell the tale.

 

 The Raging Trainwreck got the ball, and the Chaos Dwarfs started to pummel their way through the line of scrimmage.

 

Going in tandem with Cochones Grande, both Bull Centaurs went to the right flank to try and score the goal of grace.

 

 But alas, the swift elves ran over, and another one die block took down The Raging Trainwreck, causing him to drop the ball.  Two strength 4 Bull Centaurs versus three strength 3 elves and still he manages to pummel me over on a full hit...

 

 We did manage to pick it up again though, but time had ran out and the Bull centaurs where now locked on the flank of the pitch, and couldn't reach the end zone anymore.

 

 To add insult to injury, he then proceeded to knock over Cochones Grande again on a one die block, and again with a full smash, he didn't fail a single one of the one die blocks against models with Block, rather frustrating, but the game ended 0-2.

 

Cochones Grande was elected MVP, so he is close to getting to pick his first skill up, and having caused 5 casualties we picked up at least a second point for the League.  We crawled back into the 8th position for the moment, and reached our 10 games requirement to be allowed to enter the play offs at least.  But I really, really need that win left or right to consolidate myself in that top-8, as it is very, very close between spots 7, who has 21 points, and 10 with 16 points... 

 

Let's see if we manage next time... 

 

 

 

 

The Haul Report 420: A massive haul with a lovely birthday loot stash!

 Time for another instalment in the Haul Report series, your irregular oversight of stuff I added to my collections and hobbies!

 

And we kick off the week by something very, very modest this time...

 

Because it's a simple, second hand book.  It's also the opening book of the story of the fantastic The Expanse sci-fi series, whose first season covered about the first one and a half books in the series.

 

I did spend the past period cruising around to some thrift and goodwill stores, and scored a nice set of books while doing so.  From Kringloop Wijnegem came Deltora and the Bolitho book, while Opnieuw & Co in Mortsel yielded me the elves book and the third book of the Mortal Engines series. 

 

But I also have been adding items for my LARP gear, as Celtic Merchant had a promotion on the bags section of their website.  That way, I picked up a sword bag, a money pouch and a regular pouch, because those are things you will always need after all... 

 

Archonia send out my latest issue of My Dress-up Darling this period, so that is even more reading material!

 

While my order from Agents of Gaming also came to the mailbox, allowing me to now field at least 5 points of Raid level in every era of the Earth Alliance. 

 

It's also the period people tend to put boxes of books outside for people to take along for free, which of course triggers my inner Ferengi.  But sometimes, it also contains some nice little gems, like this volume from the Beast Quest series. 

 

A parcel from Vinted arrived as well this period, in which was contained The Shadeborn, an Aelven warband I was still lacking and definitly want to play one day, as the leader is a fantastic miniature. 

 

My birthday also fell in this period, so a lot of goodies came my way, thanks everyone.  First of these was an order for my Belgian army from Warlord Games, an order I made including the birthday budget my mother granted me.   

 

From my beloved Thorin and Noshi, I received Edge of the Knife and the new Spearhead core set Sand and Bone. 

 

More books and Underworlds in one go, as through Vinted I managed to get my hands on one of the novels around the game, Harrowdeep. 

 

From CCGWinkel in The Netherlands, I obtained some cheap 10mm terrain from the Argatoria range, coming at 7 euro a pack.  This will serve to be my entry for the next Artizan Contest, whose deadline is in October, and will be a "camp" for the game. 

 

From Bol I got some "hobby essentials" in the form of more plastic inserts for my binders, for all those printed rulebooks, as well as a small size 15x10 picture album to store my Underworlds and WarCry warscroll cards in. 

 

The next piece of haulage came from a gaming buddy who sold his Sons of Behemath spearhead.  I told him I would need only 1, very maybe 2 of the giants to rebase and repaint as a Citizen Giant for my The 9th Age army, and the other(s) will go back on the trading pile.

 

Of course, no celebrations without a beer gift, as my mother brought this along from her citytrip to Durbuy... 

 

While shopping for some additional price support for Into the Under-Ekeren III, I picked up a sale of the Horns of Hashut dice, as well as an extra bottle of the Dark Blue for my Chaos Dwarfs (I pick these up now wherever I can, as it didn't go over in the new Vallejo range).

 

So that was a strong period of haulage, onwards to the next heap! 

 

 

On the Painting Desk 338

 So, we finished the "needed" hobgoblin models in the past week, in that they even went to war yesterday and will be featured in a battlereport after the weekend.

 

But that means the main focus this week was on painting even more...

 

... because I'm aiming to complete both regiments to "full strength" first in order to put them nicely into the collection cabinet.

 

 

Furthermore, I also completed the third of the four ruins pieces from the first Spearhead box, meaning I can go and work on the last one now, to finally round out that set... and begin the terrain sections of the second box, Sand and Bone, that I received for my birthday two weeks ago.  Now I must admit, with the announcement of the new Chaos Dwarfs, I am fully into "Hashut mode" again, having lost intrest in other projects at the moment.  This will cause serious stress to complete the Belgian army by the deadline, but I will try my best to do it none the less, probably firing up on all cylinders once september comes around and the holiday period is over. 

 

At least that is the plan, check back next week to see on any progress!