Friday, April 10, 2009

1500pts vs Khorne Demons

This was my third game ever with the Dwarves, and my first game in the local GW store with them. Still completely unpainted (only primed) but the store lets you play with unpainted figures now. Not that I usually like to, but when you're just starting out the army it is nice to be able to start playing before you've finished painting. Craig had already finished one game with his demons (apparently quickly as the games on the other tables were in their middles stages), so I offered to play a game against his Demons.

The Dwarven Forces:
(listed as deployed from the Dwarves' left to right)

20 Longbeards w/ thane general (w/ shield, RoFury, Ro Stone)
Grudge Thrower w/ Ro Accuracy
20 warriors w/ thane BSB (Ro slowness, Ro Guarding) + runesmith (shield, MRo balance)
10 thunderers
organ gun
(on a hill in the corner:)
10 thunderers
cannon

The Demonic Forces:
(listed as deployed from the Dwarves' left to right)

5 Furies
5 Flesh Hounds
5 Flesh Hounds
1 Bloodcrusher
18 Bloodletters w/herald w/ +d6" first charge
18 Bloodletters w/herald w/ +d6" first charge
12 Bloodletters
5 Furies

The Battle:

OUCH! These guys were on me faster than I could kill any consequential number of them. The furies didn't bother killing my war machines, one unit got exploded by my organ gun, the other hung around behind my lines to make sure I died when I ran. My longbeards held out against the hounds and bloodcrusher for quite a while but the rest of my army was anihilated as soon as it got hit with the full force of the demon charge. Not enough of my guys were alive after the bloodletters attacked to get significnat attacks back... killing blow was big as it seemed like I didn't get saves against about half of the wounds he did.

Lessons Learned:

I'm really not sure what I could have done against these guys. Need some Hammerers and/or Trollslayers to counter their lack of running away. Shooting was somewhat effective but I'd probably be better off with more block units. Definitely needed to deply more tightly in the corner to force him to come all the way around the table to me, and also to let fewer of his units into combat at once. The shooting could be more effective if it was concentrated on the flank that had much further to come around. But his block units were so strong it was difficult to hold them back even with my tough dwarven blocks.

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