1300p wood elves vs lizardmen

Turn 1:

Lizardmen
All stupidity test passed.

Charges: He declared a charge with his saurus warriors against my scouts needing a 9 and got it. 

Movement: He moved cold ones and skinks forward.

Magic: He started out with a pretty big fist magic turn around 8 dice against. 5. He got off the throne of vines that I let through and then big forced flesh to stone on the warriors turning them into Toughness 8 with a miscast saved by the throne of vines!

Shooting: No shooting.

Close combat: Warriors made a slaughter of the scouts and overrun a bit further in. Now in pretty good reach of my aincent.



Wood Elves

Charges: Ancient and Treekins charged the warriors but only the ancient made it. Treekins was a bonus, just wanted to make sure the Ancient got in to hold the fort for some turns and got out of shooting and reach for magic. I still wasn't sure how good it would hold the fort but guess S4 vs T6 should be good enough for a lot of tuns with stubborn LD 10. I didn't expect him to do much more than a wound or two.

Movement: I repositioned my glade guards and wild riders to better be able to pick up a later fight depending on where it would be (cold ones or temple guard).

Magic: normal/subpar magic phase but managed to get rid of his throne of vines.

Shooting: Here the Wood Elves shine and waywatcher went to town on the cold ones. even wounding on 5 was enough to pick out 2 cold ones and seriously hurting them. Trueflight killed of some skinks. And poison glade guard took out one more cold one.

Close combat: My Ancient did what was expected and killed one Saurus warrior but took 0 wounds back and hold ground.

Turn 3:

Lizardmen
Passed stupidity on cold ones but not on skinks who stumbled forward.

Charges: Temple guard charged the Treekins. Scar veteran charged the way watchers and died.

Movement: Skinks moved forward.

Magic: Big magic turn again but ended with a kaboom! I opted to dispell throne of vines. He then continued to cast dwellers from below on wild riders and got 3 6s. 2 wild riders died but 10 Temple guards died on a miscast table result of six!!! This kind of swung the battle in major favour of Woodelves as the block now was low enough for the wild riders to charge it.

Shooting: Skinks started shooting on the way watchers and killed two.

Close combat: Treekins Elder challenged (or warrior champion/don't remember) and removed a lot of attacks from the temple guards. Ancient and Treekins could now start harming the Warrior block as they no longer had T8. Both blocks hold on steadfast.



Wood Elves

Charges: Wild riders charged the temple guard flank.

Movement: No more movement to maximise shooting.

Magic: Cast Throne of Vines.

Shooting: Continued shooting some skinks.

Close combat: Ancient and Treekins together with wild riders managed to break the Temple Guards and warriors. Warriors fled but were overrun by Treeman. Treekins reformed to face the rest of the Temple guards.

Post game analysis:

As always the dice had some major roll in this little game with a big miscast.
But I felt the Skinks were left way back to earn their points worth of damage. Also, my opponent did not really understand the no armor save rule of way watchers. But think he never will forget now.

Also, he thought wild riders had Strength 3 and not 4 when casting Dwellers so I bet a stone to flesh on temple guard would have been a lot better.

Also, I am not totally sure on the dice/winds of magic. It felt he had around 7-9 on his turn and I had 3-7 on my turns but I might have mixed some things up. I have not played Wild Riders in a year so it was fun to field them again and they do hit and then die like a real glass cannon. 

Yeah, and he also had this roll with his saurus warriors




Then adding second rank 4 attacks below:


Killing the scar wet was lucky indeed.

For me depends on number of dice, and important magic spell in own turn. Lets say 7-5 in dice, if my oppnent 3 dice throne I might hold back 5 dice to last spell. And then in my turn, I don't have any big spells to cast I use my spells to dispell his throne.

That was my thoughts first turn as I had no good spells In my own turn. But then he got off flesh to stone with irresistible force

I can't stand Throne of Vines. The whole Lore of Life is dependent on having it, and then all your magic phases boil down to trying to cast that, and then your opponent wastes their magic phase dispelling it, and before you know it your expensive wizard lords have failed to cast a meaningful spell all game. That's obviously not what always happens (as here), but I'd rather throw my magic dice at a spell that has a meaningful effect.

I'm glad your Treekin finally had a game they didn't run away! Your army list worked really well in this match.