GAME 2 v Daemons - Great Unclean One, Tzeentch Herald, Nurgle BSB(with the staff), 2 x flesh hounds, furies, flamers, plaguebearers, horrors and bloodletters, 1 bloodcrucher.
The scenario was wyrdstone hunt where you need to gather shards.
He got first turn and advanced, failing to cast much due to my dice and both my scrolls. In my first turn I bait one unit of flesh hounds with my spear block and jockey around a little. He chose to apply the banner of sundering to fire magic (I had chosen it and dark) - but it had no effect against an irresistable conflagration of doom which took out half the plaguebearers!!
He repaid this favour in turn 2 by taking out the back 2 ranks of my BG with rancid visitation! My spears beat the flesh hound charge (they lost again in the next combat against my spears and subsequently died in turn 3). The Hydra starting absorbing the fire from the flamers, who had started to retreat as my monster eyed them lovingly...
I have a theory with the Hydra vs Flamers. I always use it to go after them as they cannot take it if I get the charge and so it is an effective way of keeping them away from the battle. On average it seems to take 3 turns for the Hydra to die.
My turn 2 was pretty uneventful and I am thinking that this is going to be a heavy loss for me as I can't control his magic, so he doesn't need to engage me to win the game. He has my magic under control...
Turn 3 and the greedy fat daemon throws 3 dice at Rancid Visitation to finish off the BG as they are now within charge range of him. This is where the 25pt ring of hotek suddenly says
"NO!" - and underlines that with a double 1 roll on the miscast chart.
Get him off I yell happily.
A great turning point for me. My Assassin then flies into the Tzeentch Herald and beats the crap out of him. 2 casters down in one turn thank you very much.
The rest of the game was tricky - points denial, shard collecting/denial - I end up with a greater number of vps but I lose by 1 scenario point.
Good game. Better opponent than the last and my guys are starting to wind up.
