Vampire Covenant vs. Daemon Legion

ARMY LISTS:

- I had Crushers ( I own 6 of them, but haven't still painted and assembled them complety) so in this game they were proxied.

DEPLOYMENT:

- Opponent chose table edge.

- Necromancer generated from Path of Evocation. ( 2 + 2 ) He chose Touch of the Reaper

- Horror champion had predifined spells.

Deployment order was following:

- Mounted Sirens + Furies

- Ghouls

- Sirens

- Rest of the Undead

My opponnet chose not to vanguard with wolves.

My opponent won the starting roll

MAGIC: 5+4 + PD

- Evocation of Souls to Skeletons 2 PD -> 9 Skeleton Raised

- Danse Macabre to Skeletons 2 PD

- Touch of the Reaper to Horror Champion 4 PD, dispelled with 5 DD

MOVEMENT:

- Furies, Crushers and Horrors declared charge to Skeletons. (furies managed to draw line of sight just barely from the corner)

- Siren Chariot and Sirens declared Charge to Ghouls

MAGIC: 6+4 + DD

- Hand of Heaven 5 PD ( 20 ) Dispelled with 5 DD

- Cleansing Fire upgraded to Siren Champion 4 PD ( 14 ) Dispelled with 2 DD

CLOSE COMBAT:

- Crushers killed the Necromancer and they did ton of damage against skeletons which failed to do single wound nor reform. Furies were dropped out of combat due shrinking unit.

- Sirens and Siren Chariot landed some wounds, but Ghousl were on FIRE they managed to score total 10 wounds this round and lost only by 3.

TURN ANALYZE:

- Funny thing is that my opponent Armeli actually accidently cut him self with the tape measure, thus literally spilled the first blood. It seemed that his action pleased the Blood God as he managed to dispel my breath weapon with only 2 DD rolling 11 and then doing some extra ordinary rolls with ghouls!

- My opponent made crucial mistake by feeding his Necromancer to flank charge, but it most certainly helped me during the game.

MOVEMENT:

- Barrow Guard charged Siren Chariot (it had to charge its rear)

- Shrieking Horror Charged Horrors

CLOSE COMBAT:

- Crushers bounded skeletons and after combat there were still 3 standing.

- Barrow Guard / Vampire destroyed Siren Chariot and Ghouls / Sirens battle was draw. Barrow Guard reformed (as said, they were in the rear of siren Chariot)

- Shrieking Horror killed my Horror Champion as well some horrors

MOVEMENT:

- Deamon Prince charged Shrieking Horrors flank

- Furies Charged Ghouls flank

- Mounted Sirens Charged Direwolves

CLOSE COMBAT:

- Crushers killed remaining Skeletons

- Mounted Sirens killed Direwolves

- Daemon Prince and Horrors did total 5 wounds to horror and DP survived the shriek without a scratch.

- Siren/Furies were left with 3 ghouls after the combat.

TURN ANALYZE:

- My gåd! I didn't realize that my Daemon Prince had a real possibility to be one shotted by the Horrors shriek. To my best luck my opponent failed with to wound roll (only 1 wounded) but my I managed to save it with ward.

MOVEMENT:

- Barrow Ghouls charged Mounted Sirens, they fled with Elusive and Barrow Guard redirected charge to Sirens. TO my best luck it was just barely in front arc and thus clipping charge since there was still gouls left.

CLOSE COMBAT:

- Ghouls were anhilated and Furies dropped out of combat. Barrow Guard reformed to deeper formation.

CLOSE COMBAT:

- I challenged with Harbringer and the Count took the challenge. Neither was wounded and I only lost 2 sirens so there still was champion and Harbringer left in the unit. Thanks to reroll from BSB I didn't break

TURN ANALYZE:

- This turn took me a lot of time to think. I was almost sure that my sirens would be toasted and I tried to think how to place my units. Especially since those Barrow Guards were going to be able to reform and charge next turn. I though about using both furies and mounted sirens as redirectors, but then though that he simply destroyes other and the other is going to be left as road block to my own charges. Then again my horrors couldn't really move much out of the way (not back either due the building) I finaly concluded that I was going to lure the barrow guard with horrors hopefully they wouldn't break in the charge with some luck and then I would have nice flanking / rear charge position. Well to my best luck Sirens and Harbringer didn't break :D

NOTE: I accidently failed with the battle chronicler and mixed the turns. ON vampire covenant turn nothing interesting happened as they were stuck in the close combat:

MOVEMENT:

- All but Horrors charged Barrow Guard, Crushers failed dangerous terrain test and received 2 wounds.

CLOSE COMBAT:

- My opponents blood sacrifice to blood gods had run out. He failed to do any wounds at all. I did some wounds. My daemon Prince dropped out of combat after combat resolution and in retrospectice I probably should have charged them other way around so that Prince would touch the front corner and crushers on the other, but you cannot always do the "right" thing :D

MOVEMENT:

- Daemon Prince couldn't finish the charge to the rear, so it moved for next turn assault.

- Horrors went for break through

CLOSE COMBAT:

- Harbringer finally died in the hands of vampire

CLOSE COMBAT:

- All of the Barrow Guards were destroyed and the vampire failed to do any significant damage before it was crushed due unstable rule.

GAME ANALYZE:

- I didn't realize that 9th age had given little boost to Unstable with the steadfast / stubborn addition. Personally think that is good change to give them some effect from rules that benefits "normal" armies alot. As I own both Vampire Covenant and Undying Dynasty this is good improvement for them.

- I was excited that my opponent chose to invest so much on magic with +3 modifier caster. Sadly due the fact that I managed to kill the Necromancer in turn 1 I really couldn't say how much would it actually helped him should the Necromancer remained "alive" little longer

- When I also lost my Horror champion and the game went to no magic, I actually liked it alot, made the game little faster and removed some extra calculating from the process.