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Post by frozenfood on Jun 14, 2016 14:14:33 GMT
I like making lists. The Empire has never confronted Ogres in this part of the world so I'm not sure what to bring.
A gunline will be slaughtered by very fast Ogres. Halberdiers will get stomped.
I was thinking about a mounted list.
Lords
Arch Lector (+ Ironcurse icon + Enchanted Shield + HA + Warhorse + Barding)
--> ICK
Grand Master(+ Opal amulet + Shield + Sword of might)
--> Reiksguard
Heroes
Battle Wizard (+ Level 2 + Earthing rod + Warhorse + Barding)
--> 5 Knights, Shadow
Captain BSB (+ BSB + Lance + Cloak of Ulric + Shield +Plate + Warhorse + Barding)
--> ICK
Battle Wizard (+ Warhorse + Barding + Speculum + Scroll of shielding)
--> ICK, Death
Captain Peggy (+ Pegasus + Lance + Dragonhelm +Plate + Charmed Shield)
Core
5 Knightly Orders
5 Knightly Orders
14 Knightly Orders (+ Inner circle + Champion +BS + Musician + Steel standard)
Special
4 Demigryph Knights (+ SB + mus + Standard of Discipline)
4 Demigryph Knights (+ SB + mus + Gleaming Pennant)
6 Reiksguard Knights (+ mus + SB)
Rare
Steam Tank
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Jun 14, 2016 16:42:31 GMT
As an Empire guy I am intrigued by this. I like the GM armed with Runefang and Other Trickster's Shard (forces reroll of successful ward saves). I get that you are going all mounted...but I would prefer fewer demis, the Reiksguard unit up to maybe 12, and a few units of huntsmen/archers. Maybe a unit of 10 outriders? How about a galloper gun (mounted model but played as a great cannon)? Bronzino can be played as a mounted engineer. I also like those small core knight units fielded 3x2 (bump to 6)...unless you are facing bolt throwers and cannons.
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Post by frozenfood on Jun 14, 2016 17:46:14 GMT
I'm guessing his ogres won't have a ward save. Hmm, more reiksguard is an option.
Human archers against ogres can act as speed bumps but he'll ignore them mostly. It's the ironblaster that has me worried the most, AS1+ doesn't help against strength 10
galloper gun, bronzino? Please enlighten me
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Post by dannytee on Jun 19, 2016 9:34:47 GMT
I don't have to much knowledge on this match up so can't offer much. I would just be worried that his core might go all ironguts and at strength 6 that would mess you up pretty bad. And his characters could potentially be even higher strength really cutting through the armor. But all mounted is a cool theme so give it a try and see what happens. Against plain bulls I think you would do well.
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Post by KevinC on Jun 20, 2016 0:38:28 GMT
Very cool list and I love the theme. Interested on how you do against the Ogres...
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Post by frozenfood on Jul 9, 2016 7:02:40 GMT
FIGHT TILL THE END
That was a lot of fun. The battle went back and forth. He had a Firebelly, 6 leadbelchers, a Thundertusk, Ironblaster, Gutstar, 6 maneaters with poison and Stubborn, 4 Mournfang, 3 yetis, 20 gnoblars
Sigmar takes
My Steamtank had 3 misfires when checking the boiler in the beginning of the round. I rolled a 1 for movement 2 times in a row. He didn't kill the Ironblaster.
My first unit of Demis was stalled for 3 rounds by [BEEP]-ing Yeti's. Three rounds in a row where 8 attacks never did a wound. So many twos on those dice...
Lots of dangerous terrain tests, armour save tests with ones. As in 4 armour saves tests of 2+ and 4 ones. And this happened more than once.
My Archlector and BSB got killed by the ironblaster. They BOTH failed their look out Sir.
After the second round my Reiksguard was completely leadbelchererd, my general and BSB was dead, my Steamtank had 6 wounds and my demis were doing nothing.
Sigmar gives
He mispositioned his gnoblar and suddenly the demis broke his Yetis and overran into the Maneaters. ME broke and ran of the board.
My second unit of demi's fought the Thundertusk and leadbelchers and ran both of them off!
I multicharged his gutstar, miasmed the [BEEP] out of them and even the VHM Speculum got to challenge and give his Firebelly 2 S3 attacks.
He had only his Mournfangs and Ironblaster left.
Sigmar leaves
We decided to do one more round which let his Ironblaster fire one more time. This one shot killed 3 demis and ran my Captasus of the board.
According to victory points I won but we just cound the points left standing so he won by 110 points.
His Ironblaster killed over 900 points in one game, even with a misfire on the first roll.
Conclusion
A narrow loss but very even armies. The dice were very very weird. So many bad rolls, first for me, then for him, then the Ironblaster killing 270 points in the last round...
It was fun!
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Post by dannytee on Jul 9, 2016 9:46:17 GMT
Cool stuff. The back and forth swing usually makes for a good game.
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