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The Empire at War ... The Gamers Guild => WHFB The Electors' Forum => Topic started by: Folken on December 15, 2008, 09:42:03 PM
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Hey guys,
This thread is to share stories from games where a core soldier has done something heroic enough to earn his promotion to the greatswords. I have two men from my army.
First is Recruit Odo Apelt. He served in the militia archer detachment keeping an eye out for enemy troops trying to maneuver for flanks on the 3rd Nuln Greatswords. During this, his unit bravely engaged a unit of chaos harpies who were attempting to break through to the Empire artillery batteries. He fought with distinction having slain 2 of the fell beasts buying enough time for the cannons to take out a greater demon of Nurgle.
Second is Sergent Günter Wolfdietrich Grothaus of the 14th Talabheim Halberdier regiment. They were on guard detail for White Wizard Matthaeus Kummer of the Light Order. As the Heirophant began an incantation of cleaning, a block of deamonettes charged in an attempt to prevent the spell's completetion. Keeping the mage out of harm's way as much as possible, he challenged the slaneesh herald commanding them to safeguard both his charge and his regiment. But fortune favors the brave, and with the divine protention from a Sister of Sigmar leading the nearby 25th Spearman he was shielded from the Slaneesh herald's attacks and manged to send it back to the void. The Heirophant managed to complete his spell successfully destroying much of the demon's ranks and with that we, the men of the Empire, were able to push the demons back in multiple engagements.
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Now that is true heroism! That sergeant and that villy Archer certainly deserves the rank of Greatswords!
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A horse archer named Seamus was flanked by a slayer. The rest of the unit was unable to particpate in the action and Seamus and the horse were able to deflect the blows of the dwarf and struck down the stunted one.
I'm not sure that Seamus would be suited for the greatsword regiment, however. His legs are bowed from a lifetime in the saddle.
Edit: Blast! I'm on the wife's account.
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While I haven't named my mighty Spearmen champion, I nominated him to become not only the Greatswords, but to be the champion of that unit as well.
General of the Empire Spengler and his 3 Wizards were engaging Dark Elves. A unit of War Witches lead by a Hag (Is that the correct name for the unit and Hero choice?) charged the unit of Spearmen holding the left flank. The Hag issued a challenge, which was met by the Spearmen Champion (who was bravely protecting the Wizard in the unit). The Hag, who had already suffered a wound from a Mortar, missed all of her attacks against the Spearmen champ. The champ, in return, hit and wounded with both attacks and no saves were made. The next round of combat, the Spearmen champ challenged the Witch's unit leader and also killed her. With both the hag and the unit champion killed, the witches turned tail and fled, only to be run down by the Spearmen unit.
Every game since that I've played against that DE player, I've fielded that spearmen champ as the champion of the Greatswords. It hasn't worked out that well since, however.
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Heh, well a horse archer wouldn't be an empire soldier anyways. Perhaps can seek promotion to one of the more elite Kislev cavalry.
And yeah Mathi that was my opponent's comment thus how this thread got started. ;)
And Endgame try this:
http://www.herofiles.org/utilities/namegen/names.php?sex=m&lw=n&branch=c&rank=27&qty=10 (http://www.herofiles.org/utilities/namegen/names.php?sex=m&lw=n&branch=c&rank=27&qty=10)
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witch elves, and death hag.
They suck, you are lucky he was fielding them!
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Many moons ago, back during 6th edition, there was this detachment of swordsmen who were protecting a unit of handgunners. They were led by "Pops" a grizzled vet who had long served but never been a hero. In a bloody battle vs. the skaven of clan skryre (yes a 6th SAD skaven army :icon_rolleyes:) his detachment was hit by warp lightning from a vile warp-lock engineer. The whole unit was killed to a man with the lone exception of Pops who somehow managed to survive. Enraged and wanting revenge he defiantly passed his Panic Test and was made even better alone than he was in a detachment since he was now a lone model. He could march back in those days, and not be targeted if near a friendly unit and not the closest target.
So he maneuvered out into the battle, march blocking the skaven for 2 turns before charging into the flank of the unit of clan rats that was guarding the particular engineer who had laid his comrades low. He put himself in base contact with the dirty rat-mage (the WLE was on the corner of the unit that he charged and had done a wound to himself with WL) and he stabbed the bastard in his side with his short thrusting sword, dealing the final wound the the creature. Nobody else could strike back against him (didn't have to maximize contact in those days), and he failed his break test and got away safely back to camp where he waited for the rest of the army to join him later.
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Heh, that story reminds me of a WD battlereport, back at the beginning of 6th edition, where it was Empire vs Orcs, and a lone Freecompany soldier (after his unit was killed by Orc magic), ran towards the Orc Shaman who killed his unit. The Orc shaman wasn't in a unit, so the Freecompany soldier charged him, but not before march blocking various orc units. Safe to say, the Empire man got his revenge. :evil:
I unfortunately don't have any soldiers worthy of becoming a Greatswordsman yet though. :icon_cry:
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I've got some elves who deserve it... more than a few Imperial Guardsmen as well... :engel: :icon_cool:
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Heh, that story reminds me of a WD battlereport, back at the beginning of 6th edition, where it was Empire vs Orcs, and a lone Freecompany soldier (after his unit was killed by Orc magic), ran towards the Orc Shaman who killed his unit. The Orc shaman wasn't in a unit, so the Freecompany soldier charged him, but not before march blocking various orc units. Safe to say, the Empire man got his revenge. :evil:
I unfortunately don't have any soldiers worthy of becoming a Greatswordsman yet though. :icon_cry:
I was actually going to post that.
There was even a bit of fluff asfter the battle where some dude offers him a commission to the greatswords, and hes like "nahhh" then drinks some beer.
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A horse archer named Seamus was flanked by a slayer. The rest of the unit was unable to particpate in the action and Seamus and the horse were able to deflect the blows of the dwarf and struck down the stunted one.
I'm not sure that Seamus would be suited for the greatsword regiment, however. His legs are bowed from a lifetime in the saddle.
Edit: Blast! I'm on the wife's account.
I was going to say that your wife is very studious of your fluff! :-o
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I have Greatswords who have earned demotions into the Free Company detachments. Do those count?
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Psh, you must not been using them right ;). I've had a troop of 7 greatsword fell a giant(was good there was 7 as the first attack he did as yell and bawl).
C'mon you gotta have sometime when a core trooper surprised you when it helped you a lot in the game.
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Victor Smitt Standard bearer for the Averland 29th Swords regiment. The battle did not go well against the Woodelves. The Woodelves launched an Hail of doom + 40 Glade guard shots at the unit after the dust had settled only Smitt and the company sergeant were left standing. Bravely the pair pushed onward toward the enemy. They were ambushed by 5 Woodelf Wardancers, with a strange dance they cut off the head of the sergeant but Smitt feeling the power of Sigmar within him stuck back killing one of the dancers. Holding his ground the next attack came in, each of the dancers having multiple strikes at him. Again he was able to hold his ground but is strength was failing and he was unable to wound the elves this time. This continued for three round until the Woodelves and Empire forces withdrew, leaving Smitt standing with the company's banner held high.
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A horse archer named Seamus was flanked by a slayer. The rest of the unit was unable to particpate in the action and Seamus and the horse were able to deflect the blows of the dwarf and struck down the stunted one.
I'm not sure that Seamus would be suited for the greatsword regiment, however. His legs are bowed from a lifetime in the saddle.
Edit: Blast! I'm on the wife's account.
*points* doppelganger .. doppelganger! *runs*
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For me, a unit merely surviving the damn battle is on the way to great things.
Unless they ran away.
Isn't that right, General von Kreighaus and the Inner Circle Knights of The Silver Lance..... :dry:
Also, 600th post. :-D
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Congrats Eight. Heh Farmer, Victor Smitt's story sounds like it got right pulled out of the fluff ;).
The current musician for the 3rd Talabheim Greatswords, Alfred Schlottmann, is known for his talent being the key to repelling a unit of boar boys who broke through and were in the flank of his unit, the 17th Swordmen, threatening to tear them up. His work was noted by his commanding officer, General Erwin Friessner, who was in the unit and injured during that particular engagement. Schlottmann's promotion came after a second commendation where his music managed to rally the his men to finish off a unit of Khorne bloodletters.
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Well, I must think if I got those kinds of models.
Well, there are a few WE ones, my old school Wardancer unit lead by Bigwigh (the old wardancer champion) have done some measly stuff on occasions, but they have done some utterly glorious stuff aswell, like slaying a TK with chariot bodyguard and a Tomb prince in the same fight.
But I am still waiting to see the true heroics from my Empire lads, but when the first 1500 points are ready for battle, we will see what comes! :icon_mrgreen:
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Heh, well a horse archer wouldn't be an empire soldier anyways. Perhaps can seek promotion to one of the more elite Kislev cavalry.
I don't know if banishment to Kislev is much of a promotion. :wink:
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Bob of the 33rd Nordland handgunner detachement finished of a bloodthirster wounded by 2 cannonballs in the head after seing his comrads mowed down in one sweap and fleeing from the carnage with his brother Shitaspunts. For his insane bravery and unheard of aim with a handgun, he was later promoted to captain by Emperor Karl Franz himself.
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I don't know if banishment to Kislev is much of a promotion. :wink:
Dangerous ground Wuss ....dangerous ground ..............
:engel:
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Good line, Midaski. Originality gets you a 3, timing an 8. :wink:
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Bob of the 33rd Nordland handgunner detachement finished of a bloodthirster wounded by 2 cannonballs in the head after seing his comrads mowed down in one sweap and fleeing from the carnage with his brother Shitaspunts. For his insane bravery and unheard of aim with a handgun, he was later promoted to captain by Emperor Karl Franz himself.
Heh, would have given the guy a Hochland and made him a marksman personally but cool story. :)
My handgunners often get scary accurate after a missile unit has been seriously bloodied.
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lol very nice stories i will have to present mine someday when i get some troops finally fielded... :icon_redface:
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My outrider champion of the pistoliers!
One of my first battles versus high elves. By turn 3, his 4 friends had been shot dead by some stupid scouts. Being the only person left of the unit, nobody paid attention to him. My adversary, however had decided to take his lvl4 wizard with the book of hoth out of his spearmen block, before that saw combat.
x wiz
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o champ
My champion saw his shot at glory and moved through the woods. He then unleashed his volley of 4 deadly pistol shots, all of which wounded and killed that nasty general dead.
And 2 weeks ago, he and his unit were charged by a unit of kroxigors. They could only stand and shoot, fleeing would lead to the kroxigors getting in combat with my main block. All his friends were wiped out, so he was outnumbered. He then proceeded to roll the snake-eyes, denying the enemy the overrun, allowing me to charge them after the next combat phase :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
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brutal!! lol i wish my outrider would do something that good...if i ever get them
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My champion saw his shot at glory and moved through the woods. He then unleashed his volley of 4 deadly pistol shits, all of which wounded and killed that nasty general dead.
Uh... what? :icon_eek:
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:eusa_clap: Good story Obi.
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Now, I would say that is one High elf magic foop well and truly owned!
:::cheers:::
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I have an artillary crewman that in his last 2 games has scored about 700 vp by himself.
Game 1 = Brets = A unit of knights errant broke my cannon crew and 1 guy got away. He rallied on the next turn on an unmodified 7 meanwhile across the board my pistoliers made a knight unit panic and run towards my back field. He fails to rally and they barely move. My next turn my lone cannon crewman charges them wildly with a cannon stuffer stick in hand. 4 knights flee into a detachment and die.
2 days later I play the brets player brother.
Game 2 = Dwarves = Turn 2, I didn't quit check line of sight on my cannon. It was kinda nestled behind a forest and declare a unit of hammerers to shoot at.
Him = do you have line of sight
Me = uh oh I hope so
Him = you can pick a different target if you want
Me = nah I declared it, I'll take it
We check line of sight and i can only see his dwarf lord on the edge of the unit of hammerers. So I take the shot and I hit!... barely.
Him = I'll take my look out sir. Anything but a 1......@#&$% (1)
Me = Hahaha.... Don't you have a Ward Save or something
Him = Oh Yea. 4+.....#*#$ (3)... Well I have 3 Wounds
Me = (6)........
Him = ......
Me = ......
Him = ..... Time for a smoke break
I look over and Guess whos manning the Cannon. After the game we decided he needed a purity seal or Something. I'm trying to come up with a cool name for him like... Billy King Slayer or Johnny Knight Stomper
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jonny knight stomper is better :biggriin:
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Thanks guys, I love the man too.
I think that crewman knows how to do stuff too! But be sure to never "promote" him to the rank of engineer! ::heretic:: ::heretic:: ::heretic::
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lol why not engineer?
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It wouldn't be promotion to the rank of engineer, it would be a demotion.
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Yes, but make him master gunner or something! :icon_razz:
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lol that would work
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I had a unit of Swordsmen get charged in the flank by 6 lizardmen coldone riders (one of which was a Scarvet) the Swordsmen didnt take a single wound then managed to chop all of the lizards to pieces. They all where up for promotion but the very next round they all got turned into goo by 6 salamanders.
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I had a unit of Swordsmen get charged in the flank by 6 lizardmen coldone riders (one of which was a Scarvet) the Swordsmen didnt take a single wound then managed to chop all of the lizards to pieces.
Is that even possible?
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If the swordsman unit was 30 (5 x 6) strong and the champ was in the corner then, yes. Even if the champ wasn't in the corner it would be plausable if the scarvet had lost one wound before the fight.
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Or it was over multiple combats.
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Well, that of course too = D
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I had a free company dude who managed to slay a ratling gun crew who had been steadily killing the rest of the unit for a few turns. The unit had gotten so far out that they couldn't make any contribution to the fight, so I decided to take out that gun if I could, and just barely managed it. I've named the militiaman Mandred. :engel:
My war machine crews have done some pretty amazing things. They've managed to kill a few units of war machine hunters, but the best was where they fired a mortar round at a screaming skull catapult, scattered wayyyy off the mark, and got a partial hit on the Tomb Prince, killing him with two 6's... one for the partial hit, and one to wound (those tough bastards are T5!). An amazing bit of luck... so my mortar crew has been converted to memorialize the occasion. I even have a mummified head on a pole to represent the prince. :icon_mrgreen:
Of course, I have had many more men shame themselves. So much so, that demoting them to robot horses would be too high an honor.
Let me tell you about the greatest shame my army has ever known...
One unit of knights (this was in the same battle as the miraculous mortar shot) was tasked with taking down the screaming skull catapult and overrunning into the Casket of Souls. Should have been easy as pie. They failed 3 consecutive fear tests to charge, and then, when the casket was finally unleashed (my anti-magic ran out!), it killed all of the knights but one, who panicked and fled like a sissy.
Four failed psychology tests in a row. For this they have been forever dubbed the Feigritters (Cowardly Knights in german). Their names have also been given to reflect thier cowardly nature:
The original unit was led by-
Wilfried Kleinehoden (Desires peace/small testicles): He fled the battle and has not been seen since. Arch Lector
Benedictus has placed a sizable bounty on his head.
The current unit is led by-
Bruno Kackehosen (Brown/Shit-Trousers): The champion. He rides a giant chicken into battle.
Wendel Schmetterling (Wandering/Butterfly)
Florenze Blumenherz (Blossoming/Flowerheart)
Winfried Schlappschwanz (Friend of Peace/Wimp)
Klemens Friedenswiesel (Gentle and merciful/Peace-weasel)
(As you might have guessed I'm very big on ironic or silly names!)
I'll give them a white flag a chicken banner-top on it (halflings have one), brass breastplates (yellow bellies), and various wussy shield emblems.
Here's Bruno: (http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg203/pistolpete308/BrunoKackehosen.jpg)
I tried to get the most pathetic empire head I could find... the guy least interested in actually doing any fighting. I thought "big-nose" from the artillery sprue was just about spot on. The silly hat is also a plus. I changed the angles on this body and arms to give him a very "relaxed" posture, as though he's not particularly close to the battle, and just watching it from a distance.
Strangely, it gives him a sort of noble vibe, as though he's posing for a formal portrait. :dry:
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Strangely, it gives him a sort of noble vibe, as though he's posing for a formal portrait. :dry:
....while riding a giant chicken. :-D
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....while riding a giant chicken. :-D
That's not a chicken. :closed-eyes:
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....while riding a giant chicken. :-D
That's not a chicken. :closed-eyes:
Rooster?
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Of course he fails tests - he's not painted ...................
:engel:
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Of course he fails tests - he's not painted ...................
:engel:
Of course he's not painted. He's having a portrait done.
No point in having your portrait done if you're already painted. :wink:
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I actually laughed at that.
He's a bit ridiculous, really. And I'm not talking about the chicken, but about the helmet. Where does he put his silly hat when he puts on his helmet?
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He's a bit ridiculous, really. And I'm not talking about the chicken, but about the helmet. Where does he put his silly hat when he puts on his helmet?
He keeps it on, of course.
That's why it's such a silly hat.
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Of course he fails tests - he's not painted
Well technically, Bruno is not the knight who ran off the field. That guy kept running and was never seen again, and the rest of those knights were slain. Bruno and the Feigritters were actually supposed to commemorate the shame of that moment or incredible weakness. Bruno has been given command of the unit and it is up to him to redeem it... or not.
Bruno will be unpainted until I can get the rest of the boys together. That could be awhile. :blush:
Over the summer I got a bit sick of army building and took a few months off to focus on other things (Mordhiem was one of those things). And about a month and a half ago, I got sent to cleveland for work reasons, so unfortunately, it's been awhile since I actually got any converting in. And since all my stuff had to be left behind, I'm stuck here without any warhammer stuff to build.
Bottom line is that I'm not sure when the Feigritters will be ready, but I'll keep youse guys posted in my army blog in the brush and palette as projects come along. I may be going back to california for a short trip, or possibly for good, so if that's the case I'll give my army some more attention.
Where does he put his silly hat when he puts on his helmet?
The hat would probably be folded up and tucked into his belt or a convenient pouch, if he ever found himself in a situation where he's actually be expected to fight. The fact that he's wearing the hat, and not the helmet reinforces the idea that he's not actually going to be fighting any time soon.
And the hat's not really THAT silly. The garrison cap Uncle Sam issued to me in the army was far sillier than this beret thing. :closed-eyes:
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Once had a group of Spearmen from the 34th Middenland Detachment who bravely charged a goup of sixteen orc archers. For four whole turns these men held out, fighting to one man, when he was finally relieved by the occupied parent unit of Halberdiers. It was a bloody mess, but he survived with honours, killing his fair share of 2 boyz over the course of the combat. Talk about luck :biggriin:
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Hear! Hear!
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Once had a group of Spearmen from the 34th Middenland Detachment who bravely charged a goup of sixteen orc archers. For four whole turns these men held out, fighting to one man, when he was finally relieved by the occupied parent unit of Halberdiers. It was a bloody mess, but he survived with honours, killing his fair share of 2 boyz over the course of the combat. Talk about luck :biggriin:
Damn that guy owns!
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Setting the scene:
Dark Elf lord failed his upside down ward save vs. a cannon ball and was turned into mist. The second cannon ball took 3 wounds off the Manticore. The unit of 10 Crossbowmen defending the cannon took 1 more wound off the Manticore. The Fell beast went frenzy and charged the Crossbow men just inside the stand and shoot range, the crossbowmen could not ready there bolts in time the tide of battle was looking grim. It all came down to the Crossbowman's detachment of 5 swordsmen who counter charged. Striking first they need to cause one wound on the beast.
As his fellow unit members hacked wildly at the beast Swordsman Pol Helmet took his time and waited for the right moment driving his sword through the eye of the beast.
Swordsman Helmet survived the bloody encounter and was reward the right to skin the beast and donate the treasure to the Cult of Sigmar and promoted to the front rank of the Reikland 3rd Swordsman unit.
Who knows, Helmet may reach the dizzying height of champion of the 3rd before the month is out.
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well...no fluffly story but my master engineer lasted combat with a master assassin from Dark Elf team and eventually killed him....lol
he surprised the mortar team...
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I made the comment last year that my buddy's halberdier champion should be promoted to greatsword......
I charge in with my wardancers on one side and my wild riders on the other (wardancers in front wild riders in the rear.. :wink:) and my wardancer noble challenged ( hoping against hope that his bsb would except). The challenge was excepted by his halberd champion who took zero wounds from my 5 Stregnth 5 atacks (missed all but one and rolled a one for the wound) and subsequently chopped my poor 2 wound noble to pieces. Though the halberdiers lost the combat by 3(I rolled really bad this round) their sargeant managed to keep his troops in line. In his next turn he charged my wild riders in the rear with 20 militia and ended up winning the combat and making both of my units flee and my wardancers were caught and run down while my wild riders got away (his halberd champion managed to kill another wardancer in the second round of combat for a total of 1 character and 1 wardancer and later on 1 wild rider when they tried a second go at the halberdiers. His champion killed more models that any other close combat character in eithre of our armies)
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Excellent story! Sounds like got a future Count's Champion.
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And the hat's not really THAT silly. The garrison cap Uncle Sam issued to me in the army was far sillier than this beret thing. :closed-eyes:
Gah the old rectangle ones is what your talking about right? had to put 2 fingers on the bridge of your nose to see if its sitting right for inspection.
having never played empire I dont have any. However I can recount a few instnaces where my elves rocked (mind you this was 6th ed, before the current book) Playing against skaven and DEs. I'll post them later as they were quite fantastic.