Wood Elves vs. Cursed Kings

My opponent won the first drop. Deployment order was

- 14 glade guards in the forest

- Archers

- Great eagle

- Skeleton Warriors

- Wild wood rangers

- Warmachines

- Glade guard

- Necrosphinx

- Wild Riders

- Characters ( Level 4 got Desert Winds, Smiting, Vengeance and dissecation)

- Sisters, Treeman, Characters ( Level 4 got Hand of Glory, Apothesis, Walk Between Worlds, Fiery Convocation )

I won first scout and deployed my horse archers near his wild riders (in hope for frenzy overrunning), he deployed deepwood scouts in the flank. Then after closely looking for the scout rules it says that anywhere within 12 inches or in the deployment zone. Thus I placed my horse archers in my deployment zone huntingthose scouts. He deployed scouts to tower.

I won the first turn roll. No damage from Glade Captain shot.

Movement as shown

Magic was 2+1 + cask 3 and channel. So 7 PD to 2 DD.

- 2 PD smiting on archers, my opponent dispelled it.

- 2 PD casket on deepwood scouts nearby. They all died

- 1 PD desert winds, I moved just in the edge of the forest and it was abyssal forest.

- 2 PD Vengeance on wildwood rangers. I reduced movement by 2.

At shooting, I tried to catapult treeman, but it got scattered away. Archers shot scouts in the tower killing 4 of them, no panic. No casualties by horse archers shooting. I tried to kill wild riders and sisters.

Turn analyze:

- I totally forgot ruby ring. Perhaps I should have used that to kil lthose scouts and focus shooting on his mage bunker.

My opponent decided to stay still with WIldwood Rangers.

Magic was 2+3 and both channeled. (that waystone helped my opponent) so 4 vs 6.

- 5 PD fiery convocation on skeleton unit. It was pretty high roll so I used my scroll to this

- 1 PD.... hand of glory perhaps? I dispelled it.

At shooting, his sisters all hitted and killed poor horse archers. Same happened to other horse archer unit when those glade guards nailed them. His mage bunker killed three archers from my bunker. His Glade Captain shot single shot and killed skeleton warrior (this was illegal, since he couldn't march and shoot... I demand rematch!! ;) )

I charged with necrosphinx to Wild Riders and they took voluntery flee. They went just out of theoretical charge range. I managed to redirect my charge to great eagle, which failed terror test. I catched the poor wagle, reformed. Too bad that I was at range of banestone, just barely.

Tomb Swarm got shifting sands, tomb scoprion received delay. Other tomb scorpion and necroknight arrived at scene.

Magic was 5 + 5 + 2, no channels

- 3 PD smiting on archers, dispelled

- 3 PD dissecation on glade guards, my opponent failed to dispel it

- 2 pd Casket, natural failure

- 4 pd upgraded desert winds, natural failure

At shooting I killed 6 glade guards with archers. I tried to shoot the treeman with catapult, but it got scattered away.

At close combat skeletons killed scouts and reformed.

Turn analyze:

- I think I lost the game in this turn. I probably should have stayed still with those skeleton warriors in order to block glade captain from charging, or do reform. I originally backup a bit so treeman charge would be little harder. Then I planned to use uppgraded desert winds to reform with archers and get necrosphinx out of banestone range. Too bad I rolled very low.

This picture is little off, but those Wildwood rangers had enough room to get decent charge on skeletons.

One of the glade riders got delayed. He wheeled his mage bunker facing towards necrosphinx.

Magic was 6+2 and my opponent channeled 1 (again with waystone +1 )

- 5 pd walk between the world to glade guard. My opponent rolled total score of 24. I used 6 DD to dispel it and my total score was only 16. He managed just barely escape with that move from my arc with knights.

- 2 PD hand of glory on his mage bunker +3 BS

- 2 PD apothesis just to increase lore attribute

At shooting, he managed to kill necrosphinx. It was mainly due banestone. Without it, he would probably land only 2 wounds total. He also managed to do wound on warpshinx with his sisters.

At close combat my hating skeletons killed 3 rangers, his killed 6. Thus I lost by 3 and three crumbled. At glade captain fight to my best luck he feared and did only 1 wound on HLP. He managed to stomp on wound to archers also.

I decided to try terror long charge with sphinx. Unfortunately both terror and charge failed. Necroknights managed to charge to wildwood rangers rear. No dangerous terrain failures.

At magicI got 6 + 4 + 1 (cask) no channels

- I casted 3 pd dessication on wild wood rangers. My opponent scrolled it.

- I casted 2 pd casket, my opponent got native failure from double 1 on dispelling. I managed to do 4 wounds on treeman

- I casted 6 PD big smiting, my opponent tried to dispel it but failed.

At shooting my catapult misfired and received one wound.

At close combat rangers managed to do 2 wounds on knights and 7 wounds on skeletons. My smited snakes + skeleotns managed to kill exactly 16 rangers and only champion was left. I decided not to pursue it, since i would have bring me more close to WIld Riders and I was pretty sure that lonely champion wouldn't rally with double 1. Best part was that when he ran through my knights and took DT he died.

At hierophant fight, my hierophant died. I managed to do single wound on glade captain with poison swarm. I lost the combat but, managed to reform with swarm, but failed to reform with archers.

Scorpion killed 4 archers, but since steadfast they holded and reformed to face scorp.

Ohter glade rider arrived at battle field. Wild RIders luckily failed their charge.

Magic was 3+3

- 5 PD fiery convocation on the skeleton bunker and it killed about 20 of them. Luckily my necrotect survived it this time. I tried to dispel it with 3 dices in hope of IF, but failed

- 1 PD hand of glory, but my opponent got natural failure.

At shooting, he managed to deal another wound on my warsphinx with sisters and killed screaming skull catapult. with poison.

At close combat treeman and glade guard nailed to poor bastards down. Scorpion killed more glade guards and broke them and subsequently cathed them.

My crumbles were pretty doable only scorpion received 2 wounds. Scorpion was at theoretical max range of glade riders. I took a shot with it. Then double charge with knights and sphinx to glade guards in the forest. Warphsinx received another wound from stand and shoot and had suffered 4 wounds allready. I charged with my necrotect and skellies to glade captain in hope of killing it (desperate action). We had little dispute wether it is possible to shoot hail of doom arrow as stand and shoot reaction, but he did, killing about 8 od them before ever reaching the target. I tried to aim scorpion so that it would redirect wild riders charge, but it got scattered away a bit and ended up behind the riders.

Magic was 5+6 amd 1 fom casket.

- I used 6 PD casket on treeman, but my opponent dispelled it.

Then i irrestible dispelled fiery convocation on my skeleton unit.

At close combat knights and warpshinx managed to survive the battle without a scrath. My opponent had 4 attribute counters and we ended up again in dispute when my sphinx crew scored killing blow, and total number of wounds to be countered with the attribute markes were 9 at the same initiative step. We concluded that since killing blow doesn't do wounds as per se and has special allowance for ward save, high magic lore attribute wouldn't work. Any how he broke the combat, and I decided to not pursue. But rather reform. I also saved breath weapon with sphinx

He failed rally with glade guards.

Magic was 4+1

- He casted 5 pd curse to necropolish knights, got IF and warded miscast damage.

At shooting he tried to do the last wound on scorpion.

At close combat he killed with the riders attacks all of my knights.

No crumble damage. I tried to do final points gathering with long charge with the scorpion in hope of doing the last wound to treeman, but it failed miserably.

Final score was 2150 - 1206

Game analyze:

- This was fun game and again I was very impressed about the wood elves new book. Wild riders really earned respect. Next time I will direct a lot more shooting to them, if I ever face them again. During the match I really missed that 4+ ward on hierophant, and perhaps I should include it again to my upcoming games.