Since i'm a beginner i had no clue how to build my army, i searched forums, viewed the army book, battle reps, army lists etc. It finally came down to: "I barely have enough models anyway, lets use the ones i have."
Here's the dark elves:
Lords:
Lvl4 supreme sorc, dark lore, ring of hotek, dispel scroll, 295p
Core:
10 RxB with musician, 130p
10 RxB with musician, 130p
10 Corsairs with handbows, musician 120p (Never doing that again)
Special:
Rbt 70p
Rbt 70p
2 X 5 Shades with GW and LA, 2x95p
5 Cok, full command and standard of discipline, 195p
1200points exactly.
He went with something like this:
Lords:
Beastlord, blabla magic items blabla
Heroes:
Bray shaman lvl 1 (for signature spell)
Wargor, bsb
Around 25 gors (bray-shaman in it)
Tuskgor chariot
28 bestigors (Horde formation with beastlord and bsb)
I thought my list was shitty but i came to understand that shitty did not even justify the performance it made, taken into account that i'm a complete noob. I know loads of rules, some which he forgot about, and i know statlines and specific rules from almost every book but it's a whole different thing to apply them whilst playing.
Here's how it turned out.
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Unwise deployment on my part, not only did i put the CoK so that it had zero places to move but they also blocked a RBT. Swell. I placed my Sorc in one of the RxB units. He placed his Bray shaman with the Gors, his bsb and lord with the bestigors.
I should have probably put the left units of shades even far more left at the table edge so that he'd have to charge them and overrun off the table edge or reform and not being able to move, i guess.
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He moves up with everything. He uses his beastmen signature spell with the lvl 1 bray shaman to move everything further up but i dispel scroll it since i have insufficient dispel dice to do anything about it. His tuskgor chariot charged my shades, i stand and shoot, lose two of them to impact hits and a third to the crew. The shades made three wounds almost killing it, combat is tied. His ungor raiders shoots at my RxB on the hill and kills off one.
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I move my shades out of the way of my Cok. The CoK and the corsairs moves up so that both can receive a charge and then charge in their flank next turn. The corsairs are within shooting range and kills two gors. My two RBT and the RxB mage bunker shoots and magic the bestigors to a total of 1 wound. He dispells everything i do and almost all shooting misses. The shades and RxB on the right shoot at the ungors and misses everything due to my cursed gw dice. The tuskgor crew and the pigs kill of my shades and overruns.
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His second unit of ungor raiders show up by one of my RBTs and kills it off, swell. His unit of bestigors moves up in front of my mage bunker and the gors move up in front of my CoK, his bray shaman casts signature and both blocks come into base contact counting as having charged. My sorc along with the 10 RxB dies in an instant. I lose 1 CoK and manage to kill some gors. His tuskgor chariot charges my second unit of RxB. I stand and shoot it down but lose some wounds to impact hits which are apparently resolved simultanuesly. His ungor raiders kills a shade. His unit of bestigors reform as shown on the next img.
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My corsairs charge the gors. With them and the CoK, they do some damage but are one wound away from dropping there stubborness. He kills off some corsairs and two CoK. My RBT shoots at the Bestigor but misses. My shades charges his ungor raiders but they flee. My remaining RxB on the hill shoot at the ungor raiders and manages three wounds.
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His ambushing ungor raiders moves up and shoots down the other RBT. He charges my corsairs, kills them off, he kills the CoK with the gors and then he reforms with both blocks. His top right ungor raiders rally.
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I pretty much do my turn and then i concede.
Might be an uninteresting battle report due to the lack of experiance. I will play and post more however.
There are pretty much too many flaws to my list and my gameplay to start analyzing but i'm going to mention a few things.
* I forgot i could reroll hits in close combat due to ASF and higher initiative.
* Ring of hotek on the sorc and the whole idea of the mage bunker failed brutally.
* Should have dispel scrolled the second time he used the signature spell instead of first one for one extra turn of shooting/ getting charges.
* Corsairs are good but i'll skip the RHB on them in the future.
* Shades against beastmen? Waste of points. They have no warmachines, if they've got a single shaman standing around it might be worth the points. He knew my list and intentionally placed everything so that my shades were rendered more useless than they already were.
* I should exchange my shooting with combat blocks.
New list i have made out. OBS! The list is somewhat tailored for playing against the beastman army again. He's got more models and will probably not run the same setup again.
Dreadlord - Black amulet, dragonhelm
Master, bsb HA, GW, SDC, dragonhelm (shield with bsb no?)
lvl 1 sorc, lore of life, signature spell, dispel scroll
5 dark raiders with rxb
10 corsairs full command
26 executioners full command (dreadlord, bsb and sorc in here)
5 doomfire warlocks
Feedback, protips and thoughts are welcomed.
