Wood Elves vs. Cursed Kings

Lore:

As King Loriel was defeated by Chaos Warrior demon prince, he badly needed new forces. Not too far away was a ancient Wood Elf burial ground. King Loriel remembered it from his time as magistrate of Nehekhara High Elven Colony. He actually attended burial ceremony of his old friend Kilandrail. As so Loriel ordered one of his trusted High Lich Priest to gather and army of former wood elven marksmans. Now those long buried bones risen up and took the asrai longbows which were buried along side with them. As the ritual took place Wood Elven assault party reached the battlescene and engaged this vile Liche priest.

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My opponent made his forest venom thicket. He deployed his forces first

His level 4 had Doom bolt, Word of Pain, Bladewind nad soul stealer

His Level 2 had miasma and withering

My level 4 had desert winds, cursed blades, protection and smiting.

My opponent deployed first and secured first turn.

Army design:

Basic idea was simple. Out shoot the shooters and usage of desert winds. I wanted to have tomb scorpions and swarms since I was pretty sure that I had hard time when his forces would retreat. So having many EBtS to make march blocks, and rear charges would be very beneficial to this type of list.

I had hard time of leaving my horse archers from the battlefield, but then I realized that they would just die pretty much against anything. Another 20 block of archers is rather hard for my opponent to shoot down and since the "skull fortress" formation bubble augments would heal them greatly.

I took catapult just to shoot treeman. I was almost absolute certain that he would have brough a treeman to this battle, since I knew he had treeman figure bought.

Movement pretty much as seen.

At magic my opponent rolled 1+5 and I manaeged to channel one dispel dice.

- He casted 2 PD word of pain on my hierophanst unit, which i dispelled with 2 DD

- He casted 4 PD bladewind in my hierophant unit, which i dispelled with 4 DD.

At shooting he managed to do 1 wound on screaming catapult with poison tips, 1 wound to casket, 3 wounds on archers 2 unit and 4 wounds on archers 3 unt.

I wheeled a bit my flanking archers and moved straight forward with my hierophant and the other archer unit right behind it.

Magic was 4+3 + 1 from casket.

- I tried 2 pd light of death to deepwood scouts threatning my casket, but my opponent dispelled it.

- I casted 2 pd desert winds and rolled high 5+6. My opponent decided to let it go as he was afraid of smiting. My flanking archers managed to move just enough to have them all firing and both unit only regained 2 wounds.

- I casted 2 pd smiting on archers 3, which got dispelled

- I casted protection on archers 3 with 2 pd and they regained full strength.

At shooting I tried to use catapult to hit sisters of thorn. It got scatterd away. I shooted archers 2 to scouts threatning the catapult, killed 4 of them and they fled of the board. I shooted with archers 3 scouts that threatned casket, killed two but he passed panic test.

He charged the flank of archers 1 with great eagle. He managed to move sisters of thorn right past the carrion front arc (it was close call, and this picture is little off. He backed up with middle gladeguards and managed to drop archers 4 back rank from range.

Magic was pretty high was it 5 + 4 + 1 from channel. I didn't channel.

- He casted 4 PD blade wind on my hierophant unit and got double 6. He killed total 7 archers and then got dimensional cascade. My carrion was wounded, two of the sisters were killed and finaly the mage got sucked in oblivion.

- He tried to cast shield of thorns on great eagle from sisters, but I dispelled it

- He tried to cast miasma, but I dispelled it also.

At shooting he tried to concentrate shooting to my hierophants unit, and it might have been that not a single skeleton died. On archer 3 he maanged to kill few with sisters.

At close combat my casket nearly survived. My opponent rolled pretty badly, but still it wasn't enough. First time ever I played casket correctly with unleashed souls and it didn't do anything Great eagle won the combat, but I reformed. I didn't want to add ranks, since that I would have gotten inside the blood forest and having a lot of augments isn't really ideal.

All of my EBtS field some scattering little bit. I used swift refom on archer 2 and since it failed i used swift reform with archer 4 and they failed it also.

Magic was pretty average.

- I casted protection on archers 1 and they regained full strength.

- I maanged to cast small version of smiting on archers that just entered the building and they regained their strengh. My opponent tried to dispel it

- I managed to 1 pd desert winds. It healed arch 2 to full str, carrion to full str and some models from my hierophants unit.

At shooting I tried to shoot forest glade guard block with my catapult. It scattered away. I shot 15 multiple shots from tower to sisters and 4 of them died. Last one holded.

At close combat I managed to draw the fight with eagle and since I had musician I won it. Eagle holded break test.

My opponent tried a desperate sister charge right against my hierophant. He also charged to tower with his glade guards. He tried to swift reform with forest glade guards but failed.

Magic was pretty average. To be honest I don't exactly remember what he tried to cast., but I managed to dispel them all.

- It was probably shield of thorns and miasma.

At shooting, nothing too bad happened some wounds some where

At close combat those glade guards failed fear test and we drawed the battle. His sister failed to land wounds on hierophant (theoretically it was possible since my hierophant suffered a wound from the blade wind earlier)

At this moment my opponent decided to yield.to save time. He got early morning at work

Total score was 1699 - 135

Lore:

As Loriel's High Lich Priest returned with massive hordes of archers wielding asrai Longbows he was reliefed. King Loriel inspected his new troops closely and when he saw familiar locket on one of the archers unnerving memory roused up. It was Kilandrail. Once a sturdy noble elf, who was revered from his wisdom and talend with bow, now a drudge in cursed undead army. Loriel saw his friend eyes in empty sockets of the archer. He knew that if he felt something this would really hurt him. He remember the feeling, he just didn't feel it.

Game analyze:

- I knew that this list would be HELL for t3 no armor elves. And I was fairly confident that he would bring a lot of elves. All in all I think new wood elves seemed a lot of fun to play