Dwarves crushed Tyrion to his final death!

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 02:22:13 PST
From: Dalkwave GrudgeBear <[email protected]>
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Subject: [WHFB] [Dwarf] Dwarves crushed Tyrion to his final death! Full Battle Report.


Hello Short Legs belovers! I'm back once again!

King Kazador of Karak Azul took his Brave Dawi in Ulthuan
to crunch the Hight Elves.
As usual I beg your pardon for all the mistakes that hide in
those lines.
I wish you could tell me if you think some thing is going
wrong with the rules as we played.

Kazador Throng
*Kazador with Great Book of Grudges (stop screaming and read
bellow before ny reply), Runic Axe with Master Rune
of Swiftness, Rune of Breaking and Rune of Power (1d6 wound),
Black amulette, Gromril Armor and Shield : 395
*Burlok with Gromril Armor with Rune of Stone, Hammer with 3
Runes of Fury : 199
*RuneSmith with Scepter with 3 Runes of anti-magic, gromril armor
with Rune of Stone, Potion of Strength, Shield, 2Hand hammer and
additionnal weapon (so I can chose A3 F4 or A2 F6 going last) : 178
*Hammerer Hero with Golden Scepter of Norgrim and Jade Amulette : 165
*10 Hammerers with 2Hand hammer. Standard and Musician. 3 Runes of
Battle on Standard : 279
*15 Miners Standard and Musician. Baner of Might : 271
*7 Slayers Standard and Musician. Additionnal hand weapon : 108
*7 Slayers : 77
*3 Organ Guns : 195
*1 Gyrocopter with Rune of Penetration (S+1): 125
Total : 1992

High Elves Army
*Tyrion as General : 425
*Level 5 Mage with Crown of Saphery, Black Amulette, and additionnal
unknown magic items : 328+125+50+???
*5 Dragon Princes of Caledor with Standard of Protection : 227.5
*15 Spearmen with Ithilmar armor with musicien and
Standard of Battle : 321
*12 Archers with light armor and long bows : 169
*1 Repete Bolt Thrower : 100
*5 Elerian Reaver + bows + spears : 155
Total : 1900+???

Burlok (B) goes with Miners (M).
Kazador (K) and Hammerer Hero (C) go in Hammerers (H)
Runesmith (R) goes with one unit of slayers (S2) with M&S
Other unit of Slayers (S1) in one rank for screening
Gyrocopter (GY) alone
Organ Guns (OG)

Tyrion (TY) joins the Dragon Princes (DP).
Mage (M5) on his own!
Spearmen (S) without characters.
Archers (A) and Repete Bolt Thrower (RBT) are alone.
Elerian Reavers (ER) are alone too.

There is a tower on my right next to my deployement zone and a
small house further. A hill and a big house on my left. I got a
hill right in the front middle of my deploiment zone and another
smaller one on my left.

Setup as folows :

RBT S M5 A TY+DP ER

B+M S1 GY
K+H R+S2
OG1 OG2 OG3

OG1 is on left hill. OG3 and OG2 with R are on the central hill.
Gyro is hidden behind the tower on the right.
His Elerian Reavers don't use their free march move. I don't know
what he's affraid off?

He goes first for ones :-(

HE1 : Every thing moves forward execpt the archers. ER kill 2
Brave Slayers (S2) and archers kill another one from the screen
(S1). RBT kills one Miner. I get four cards in the magic phase
(2 powers and 2 dispells) and wait for the onslaught. But nothing
happens! He cannot cast anything! Can't help a little smile on
my face ;-)

D1 : All units move forward and Gyro sets behind ER. It fires at
three of them, but I get only 3's on the 4+ to hit!
OG3 succeed to kill 3 DP out of 5 shots! Yahoo, that's cool. Love
that OG. OG2 is less luky and missfire on first barrel. Danmed, it
was sooting at the Mage! I want to kill this bloody spell caster...
OG1 goes really cool and destroy RBT on shot 2. Yeepeeeeeee... Die
baby, die.

HE2 : Tyrion and Dragon Princes charge screen one (S1). Spearmen
charge Burlok with Miners. ER charge RuneSmith with Slayers (S2)
Doomed archers fire on S1 in HtH with TY+DP and kill one!
Once again, those honorless Elves are not afraid
to shoot on their own troops that they can't hurt (1+ save).
Tyrion kills two Slawers and DP kill one more, leaving two left! I
can't believe it, I was expecting more from them! Those two Slayers
bothers me because I want Kazador and Hammerers two charge and they
are on the way (just a little bit). But something is going to put
more trouble in my beautifull plan...
Elerian Reavers charging kill 2 Slayersbut they kill two back,
RuneSmith kills nothing :-(. ER loose because of standard but stay
put.
Spearboys, probably brothers of those destroyed in previous battles,
hit hardly my Miners and kill 2. Burlok is furious and kill 5 in return!
But the Spearsissies beg help to magic and their Standard of Battle
gives them a incredible FIVE! I stand there with my eyes open and my
mouth wide open too. I loose! We both have 1 extra rank and Standard
so I loose by two! And guess what. I roll a 11 on my break test! Of
couse I flee 7-1=6" and he roll 7. Dead! Burlok and 14 Miners dead!
My heart stop beating for a minute... Boy, you'll never going to see
me again without those 3 Runes of Battle!!!
The Mage want's to be worth his points so he casts The Tempest
(dipelled on 3+), and Fiery Convocation on the Hammerers but I
dispell with a Rune because I don't trust my dice anymore! End of
magic. Good.

D2 : First, and the least I must admit, my Hammerers with Kazador
fail their test for a destroyed unit near by! I roll a 11 for the
second time on my second Ld test. Damned, I'm doomed. I need a beer.
A galon of beer! My Kingdom for a beer... Every body else stay put.
Anyway, Gyro goes far in the back of the archers (can't fire). OG3
reloads, and OG1 misfire on first shot without any dammage (can shoot
next turn). So only OG2 is ready after resolving a little problem and
shoots at Dragon Princes and Tyrion. They are still in HtH with two
slayers, but those two are on the far left and I have a really clear
sight of view on the DP and TY. They are in 45� so I almost can claim
to hit two with one shot (but I don't). And guess what? A miracle!
The two last DP die with the first three shots. Tyrion is alone.
Barrel 4 fires, hit and wound Tyrion. He fails his special save! I do
3 wounds! Dead. But this is not over! He comes back to life with one
wound thanks to the Heart Of Avelorn.
Barrel 5 fires, hit and kill Tyrion for the second time! Dead meat.
Burlok is avenged. Big cheers to OG2.
Nothing happens for RuneSmith with Slayers (S2) versus ER and even
if I win with standard, those damned ones stay put.

HE3 : Only the archers panic and fled after their General death.
One question here :
if the Gyro was right behind them should they have been auto
destroyed because they run into enemy unit while fleeing?
Am I right with this rule? In the battle in WD between
Beastmen and Mercenaries, there were Harpies behind Pikemen,
and the Pikemen fled but they were moved to the right and not to
their table side because of the presence of Harpies on their way of
retreit. Why did they not fled straight into Harpies and be destroyed?
Spearmen charge the fleeing hammerers with General Kazador that are
only 3" away. I roll 9-1=8 so I'm 11" away! They fail the charge.
Yahoooooooo!!!!! I really thought that this was the end. If I had
lost my General and Hammerers, I was toasted.
ER kill two more Slayers but the RuneSmith, that did not forget this
time to drink his portion of strength at the begining of the turn,
kills two. Grrrr, they don't flee again. But that is good after all,
because I would not catch them for sure.
Mage cast only Fiery Convocation on the Hammerers but I auto dispell
again. This mage is really useless : I negate all he can do with a 75
pts Runic item (allright, 178 pts is more appropriate to say) and he
must cost something like 550 pts!

D3 : Kazardor tell hard words on the Hammerers and they rally :-)
Gyro charge fleeing archers and with it's 24" charge range catch
them back easly (they fled as reaction to the charge and stoped 1" to
the border table). My Gyro goes out table of course but it will be
back on my next turn (one left).
OG2 reloads while OG3 missfire on first shot! Hopefully, it's wet
powder in cause but it won't be able to shoot anymore. OG1 has 3
shots left so there we go, barrel 3 fires at Mage, strike and wound
but the Black Amulette saves him!
Barrel 4 missfire again and OG1 is useless for the rest of the
battle. Gosh, none of the OGs blowed up but I got so many missfire,
I could not believe it!
Hopefully the RuneSmith kills the last Elerian Reaver but there is
only 2 Slayers left with him. RIP.

HE4 : Spearmen finaly charge the King and his Hammerers but in their
hurry they kill only one since Kazador strikes first (Master Rune of
swiftness) and kills 3. Hero blast 3 more spearsissies and even with
the help of their magic banner (5 again!) they loose by 3 (I got 3
Runes of Battle!). As usual they flee but there is so many dead
bodies that they run away 4" only! I roll for persue ...
tatatatata (drums!) 8-1=7! The last 4 spearpussies are crushed to
dust. There is only the Mage left! He casts Fiery Convocation again
but I use my last Rune to get rid of it. He gots only one power card
left in his and guess what, that bloody coward use it to casts
Coruscation of Finreir so I can't shoot at him on my turn with the
OGs.

D4 : Gyro comes back but can't charge because of his return from
outside the table. OG2 can't shoot at Mage because he's in the air.
Nothing happens!

End of battle.

Score quickly made up : 12-4 without table quaters and banners.

After thoughts : You'll NEVER see me again without Runes of Courage
on my Hammerers Standard and 3 Runes of Battle on my Miners one.
That's for sure.
My General was a bit expensive but I guess if he was to face Tyrion,
his costly weapon (120 pts) will have been worth it.
I was lucky and unlucky at the same time with my Organ Guns.
Most of the time they missfire on first shot but if they did not,
then nothing can stand up long.
They all three cost 195 and they destroyed for more than 750 pts.
Great. But next time he's going to have Shadow warriors, and it's
not going to feel the same.
I plan on buying a Flame Canon soon because he's going to have
those "cheesy" White Lions too. I wanted to buy CrossbowDwarves
but my shop just can't get any! They do not appear in their price
catalog anymore! Is it the same in UK or US?

Feel free to comment.

That's all folks.

Dalkwve Grudgebear.