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Post by redknight on Apr 3, 2018 12:05:18 GMT
Hi guys ! Time for some action. I played a game with my friend this afternoon, VC against Dark Elves. It was my third game with the VC and I'm still learning. I made a beginner's mistake and got terribly murdered. I will not go into great detail, but I'll show you a few photos so you can get an idea of what happened. First, let's start with some backstory for my vampire lord; Lord Lian was once a questing knight of Bretonnia. Long ago, in a life that doesn’t seem to have been his anymore, an evil necromancer gave him fake visions of the lady of the lake in order to lure him into a trap. The dark sorcerer took him into a quest that would ultimately lead the young lord to a false Grail. Convinced that he had found the true Grail, the brave knight drank from it. He realized only too late that the goblet was not filled with the holy light of the lady but that it was in fact full of the blood of a dead vampire. He rapidly turned and thus became a blood knight. His rage became so intense that his will remained strong and the necromancer gained no control over him. Aware of his failure, the wielder or dark magic remained hidden. Thinking that it was the lady herself who lured him, Lian the vampire knight swore to take revenge upon the realm and to bring pain and decay to the kingdom that he used to defend. Using his newly acquired necromantic powers, the knight of the false grail decided to raise legions of undead, and marched into battle.Alright, now that my boy Lian has been introduced, I'll tell you what happened. I put my Vampire lord in a unit of black knights. At the end of turn 2, I got a little bit blocked by harpies (nice move from my opponent who is a good tactician). As the black knights were stuck and could not charge, I VERY WRONGLY decided to take my lord out of the unit of black knights to charge the flank of a unit of executioners that was in front of my horde of skellies. The skellies were about to get into a fight with witch elves and executioners, and even though they were led by a vampire hero, I was sure they would not survive the fight alone. They needed the support of my lord. First round of combat went very well as my lord killed more than half the executioners alone. The dark elves lost combat by 3, but they did not run. I got my ass kicked on the second round, lost by 6, and my lord crumbled. LESSON OF THE DAY - NEVER LET YOUR VAMPIRE LORD CHARGE INTO COMBAT ALONE.I learned the hard way, but it was still a fun game. Hope you'll enjoy the photos. Seeya !
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Post by sedge on Apr 3, 2018 18:50:44 GMT
I made similar mistakes to you when I first started VC - throw a solo Lord into a combat that also has a big block of VC fodder involved (skeleton warriors, zombies etc.) - the infantry will get slaughtered, and your lord is unlikely to kill enough to turn the combat around - he then crumbles on combat resolution. Even if your infantry block is big enough to be steadfast, your lord can still die easily if he's not part of a unit.
For images, when you're creating a new post/thread, in the top right there'll be a button "Add Attachment", click that and you can upload up to 3 images per post, so a battle report is likely to need several posts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 19:22:29 GMT
You learned a valuable lesson of Vampires101: weak units and strong units often do not want to be involved in the same combat as the resolution that the weak unit gives up often ends up hurting the strong unit. I love your backstory and am glad to see others playing games! Keep it up and don't stop! As far as your images go: These are the settings that I use when using Imgur to get my pictures to post directly into the post. You can just copy and paste that link into the body of your post - as many times as you wish! Good Luck!
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Post by redknight on Apr 3, 2018 19:49:09 GMT
Thanks for the tips on the photos guys, it works great !
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Post by riot on Apr 3, 2018 20:52:59 GMT
Cool looking game!
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Post by redknight on Apr 5, 2018 14:51:06 GMT
Hi guys ! Here comes another battle. The knights of the false grail got their chance to fight against Bretonnia ! I let one of my friends use my army of Bretonnians to face my VC. I made the list for him. It's a famous build using lore of beast to boost Bretonnians characters, with a super killer assassin lord on pegasus on top of that. I wanted something fun that would give us the chance to have some good challenges, so I went for a Bretonnian lord with ASF, WS10, HKB, and the gauntlet of the duel. When boosted with savage beast of Horos, this dude delivers 7x S7 attacks. With his ASF and HKB, I thought he would make a good opponent for my vampire Lord and his 7 attacks with his own ASF and red fury. In the end I had a hard time and it was tougher than what I expected, but overall it was a great game with a lot of fun and epic moments. Here are some photos to give you an idea of how things went; Little overview of my forces; a horde of 40 skellies including a vampire lord and a wight king with great weapon, as well as 2 units of zombies and a lvl 2 necromancer. We played dawn attack and deployed as well as we could. Most of my army went on the right side of the table. The biggest part of the Bretonnian forces went to the right of his side of the table. Interesting set up. The Bretonnian left flank; bowmen, knights errants and pegasus knights on the back. The Bretonnian right flank; two units of knights of the realm and a lord on pegasus. I got first turn and planned to move my right flank as fast as possible to face what was in front of me using vanhel's spell to go away while the direwolves would distract the knights of the realm on the left. Of course, it did not go quite as planned.On their turn, the Bretonnians make 3 successful charges and engage the direwolves and the black knights on each side of the table.The direwolves get obliterated and the knights reform to prepare the next charge.On the right side, I got very surprised by how well the knights errant did. They were really eager to prove themselves and gave a bad time to the black knights. This certainly would have made them become knights of the realm if they hadn't died soon after. The horde of skellies comes to the rescue of the black knights and wipes the remaining knights errant.After a reform, the skellies are getting ready to receive some bowmen arrows.The zombies get in position to receive the next Bretonnian charge with the horde of skeletons supporting them on the back.The pegasus knights come to block the skellies with some good tactical movement. The horde engages the pegasus knights. They flee, get pursued and annihilated.The knights get in position for the last charge after wiping out the zombies. I place the remaining black knights in the back for a rear charge that they will never get to make. The last epic charge. My opponent successfully casts the big bubble of savage beast of Horos and gives ALL HIS CHARACTERS plus 3 attacks and plus 3 strength. The Bretonnian lord issues a challenge that I accept with my vampire lord. 7x strenght 7 attacks with HKB against my 7 attacks with red fury. We go simultaneously because we both have ASF.Both lord impale each other at the same time and die together as the remaining knights cut trough the last skeletons. Massive bretonnian victory, and one more crushing defeat for my VC. But it was really fun. Bretonnians got very lucky with their trebuchet (got spot on shots the whole game) and as well some good magic phases. I lost, but the good thing is that undead always come back ! I get to take my revenge tomorrow in a second round with battle line this time. We will see how it goes !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 15:51:30 GMT
great looking miniatures! Great game! Looks like you had a fun time. It's nice to see Brets on the table, and a victory for them to boot!
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Post by sedge on Apr 5, 2018 18:36:21 GMT
Even in undeath, Bretonnian peasants get oppressed by the nobility!
What happened with the Vargheists, Spirit Host and Be'lakor (proxying for a Varghulf?) on your left flank?
I'm glad you took that challenge with your vampire lord - it's the right thing for a Blood Dragon to do. You could've let the skeleton champion take it, and then slaughtered knights with the vampire... potentially tying the combat - but it wouldn't feel appropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 18:54:24 GMT
It seems like a perfect thing to do! Let the puny human tire himself out on your underlings then step in and finish him off yourself.
Or maybe that's the Chaos Way.
It's certainly the Skaven way, sans the stepping in yourself part.
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Post by redknight on Apr 6, 2018 0:01:21 GMT
Even in undeath, Bretonnian peasants get oppressed by the nobility! What happened with the Vargheists, Spirit Host and Be'lakor (proxying for a Varghulf?) on your left flank? I'm glad you took that challenge with your vampire lord - it's the right thing for a Blood Dragon to do. You could've let the skeleton champion take it, and then slaughtered knights with the vampire... potentially tying the combat - but it wouldn't feel appropriate. You’re right about the left flank. The Varghulf engaged the Bretonnian lord early on and made him go down to 1 wound but took an heroic killing blow afterwards. The Vargheists went to kill bowmen but they ended up so far away from the rest of the battle that they never really got to do anything else. About the final challenge, I knew that the game was lost and even if my champion (or wight king) had taken the challenge, I don’t think I would have survived the last charge. So I went for some good fun instead !
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Post by sedge on Apr 6, 2018 6:19:30 GMT
It seems like a perfect thing to do! Let the puny human tire himself out on your underlings then step in and finish him off yourself. Or maybe that's the Chaos Way. It's certainly the Skaven way, sans the stepping in yourself part. For most other undead, yes - but Blood Dragons are all about their martial honour and challenging the biggest and best to single combat. A Necrarch or Lahmian would definitely have saved their own skins and let their minions take the hits.
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Post by redknight on Apr 6, 2018 9:00:05 GMT
It seems like a perfect thing to do! Let the puny human tire himself out on your underlings then step in and finish him off yourself. Or maybe that's the Chaos Way. It's certainly the Skaven way, sans the stepping in yourself part. For most other undead, yes - but Blood Dragons are all about their martial honour and challenging the biggest and best to single combat. A Necrarch or Lahmian would definitely have saved their own skins and let their minions take the hits. Ooooh yes. I like it when we get fluffy
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Post by redknight on Apr 6, 2018 11:43:16 GMT
Alright ! Today was the rematch. We played battle line and things went a little bit better for me this time. The vampires were out for blood as they had got their ass kicked in the previous game. I gave my vampire lord an ogre blade, as I thought the strength bonus would help with the knights high armor saves, and it definitely did ! Here's how the two armies deployed; skeleton horde and zombies in the center with black knights on the left and vargheists on the right for me, while my opponent evenly split his knights and put bowmen on each sides. I got first turn and moved my whole army forward. I put the dire wolves on the right in position to bait the knights errant into an early charge, while my spirit hosts and vargheists stayed in the back to counter-charge their flank afterwards. With my first magic phase I used raise dead to make another bait, for the knights of the realm this time. I wanted them to charge the zombies and get closer into charge range of my horde and my killy lord.The Bretonnians took the baits and charged the dire wolves and the zombies. My horde of skeletons took a serious hit from the trebuchet and the bowmen killed a few zombies and dire wolves on the left. Meanwhile, the Pegasus knights advanced to protect the flank of the knights of the realm from the black knights. The knights errant on the right killed the dire wolves and overran, but not far enough to avoid the flank charge from the vargheists and the spirit host. In the center, the bretonnian knights destroyed the zombies and reformed to face the skellies. The black knights then charged the pegasus knights and the skeletons horde made a successful charge against the knights of the realm. The black knights and skeletons were going in for the kill;On the right flank, the vargheists hit hard and made the knights errant flee and murdered them all brutally. Back in the center, the black knights killed the pegasus knights on the charge. The knights of the realm got cut down to pieces by the vampire lord and his ogre blade, but the remaining unit of knights charged the zombies head on and the Bretonnian lord placed himself in prevision for a rear charge. The last knights of the realm ran away and got caught by the skeletons. The horde reformed afterwards to face the remaining knights. The other unit of knights of the realm wiped out the zombies and reformed to face the black knights. At the same time, the vargheists tried to position themselves for a rear charge. The last remaining bretonnian knights put everything they had into a powerful charge in the name of the lady, seeking vengeance for their fallen comrades. Their anger was so great that they annihilated the black knights on the charge and took only one casualty. The Bretonnian lord tried to charge the skeletons, but failed and ended up right behind the knights of the realm.
The knights of the realm overran but they did not go far enough to avoid a flank charge from the horde of skeletons. In the same time, the Bretonnian lord got charged in his own flank by the vargheists, and in the rear by the zombies. He fought bravely and killed 2 vargheists, but lost combat and ran away. At this point, my opponent surrendered and recognized that today was the day of the undead.
Another great game, and my first true victory with the VC ! The undead came back, and they got their vengeance against the realm of Bretonnia ! I promise you that for the next game, we will not fight in the desert ;D Seeya all !
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Post by sedge on Apr 6, 2018 14:45:34 GMT
I like your reports - a good clear summary, and great photos too. It must be satisfying winning the rematch, and so crushingly! You completely outmanoeuvred your opponent there.
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Post by strutsagget on Apr 6, 2018 18:56:04 GMT
Nice! I mostly look at the minis(think I have some kind of addiction ) and like your painting a lot. Those zombies and skeletons look awesome!
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