Okay, tournament update. Played the first three games today, last two games tomorrow. My record right now is 2-1. I won my first game against the reigning champion of our LGS. He's a super tough High Elf player. for some reason, he decided to field a lord on a star dragon for this tournament, and then inexplicably forgot how to use it effectively. I think he was tired.
Anyway, I crushed two units of spear elves with minotaurs (though my minos with AHW and the BSB flubbed horribly on their attacks and actually LOST combat on the turn they charged) and my jabber flew around mostly making empty threatening gestures. He did account for a lion chariot though, which took three wounds from his aura of madness over two turns (the other wound was by a spawn). In the end he killed my minos (though not my characters), all of my harpies, spawns, all my chariots, and got my jabber down to one wound. Both of my shamans effectively killed temselves with miscasts. He had only half a unit of shadow warriors and his dragon (plus 2 wounds on his general on top) A victory for me!
As a reward for my tactical prowess I was then slotted to fight Khorne daemons. The guy's list was Bloodthirster, 3 heralds, one with the -3 to cast banner, two units of hounds, and 3 units of bloodletters. I put two wounds on the thirster, and then he wrecked face on my entire army. In the end I killed one letter unit, one herald, half of another herald, dropped another unit of letters down to 4 models, and killed both hound units. He was very upset at my blackened plate, because all his heralds had the +1S flaming gift, but the thirster took him out with his 2d6+2 attacks. Best part of the game was when my jabber took a charge from a diminished unit of letters with herald, bled all over the herald, killing it, then was missed by the now non-hating bloodletters, and did enough wounds back to actually win combat! Then he died in the next turn. But still. In the end I had both shamans, all my raiders, and my harpies left. Loss for me!
Daemons are broke. The guy playing them told me so.
My next opponent was another high elf player. He had a more traditional high elf list with three repeater bolt throwers, 2 units of archers, a block of white lions, block of swordmasters, unit of 6 dragon princes, 2 lion chariots, a lvl 2 mage, a bsb in tiranoc chariot, and a lord. I had my herdstone next to a wood that I hid my shamans in, and tried to get harpies up the flank to kill his bolt throwers. It did not work. I killed one of the bolt throwers with magic, and then the other two killed ALL of my harpies, two units of raiders, both my shamans, a spawn, and dropped my jabber to below half on turn 6. I hates them precious. I misjudged a charge distance and allowed dragon princes to hit my gw minos (I put both my characters into the ahw unit and walked it toward his elite blocks), they killed two minos and my return attacks only killed two princes (stupid ones!
) I wrecked everything else he had though. Minos got a flank on his swordmasters, while a chariot hit them in the front and jabber hit them in the rear. His mage was in that unit. They died good. Got his BSB with my minos when he charged my chariot and I fled with it (of course I was not going to stay!) the tuskgors chariot failed to rally and fled off the table, but who cares? My minos were pretty much out of it at that point, being off in a corner by their lonesome, but they did their job well. Got a couple staggered chariot charges into his white lions (lines got crowded), and eventually lost both those chariots, but it set me up for a flank charge by jabber into the white lions with the lord. Turns out, he had his lord set up with the ethereal thing that makes him not able to attack. Nice against Bloodthirster, but I know he was regretting it when he only got a single white lion attack on my jabber because his lord could only sit there (I knew about the lord before I charged, because of the previous chariot attacks). Jabber won and ran down lord and unit, then was lucky enough to see the lion chariot that was now in his rear arc fail his fear test and not be able to charge. Then the jabber flew behind the unwounded chariot, and he rolled an 11! for his madness test, and the jabber licked the last wound off the chariot with his slythey tongue. Fun times! In the end I had both of my mino characters practically unscathed, my entire ahw unit intact, jabber at half points, and some raiders left. he had a single chariot, dragon princes, and 2 bolt throwers left. Another victory for me!
All in all I am enjoying this list a lot. I have absolutely no answer whatsoever for big character monsters, but I have faced the only two armies that have them. Tomorrow, two more games. Till then, stay thirsty my friends.
