I was surprised how many people were are the club - must have been around 16 in total over the 3 hours. Most seemed to be playing Warhammer 40k, I think 2 or 3 tables, even a game of GW War of the Ring my game of Kings of War - there were a couple of observers who hadn't got a game.
The Toymaster had 2000 points of undead:
Troops - a zombie horde, regiments of skeletons, wrights and ghouls, a horde of werewolves.
Heroes - zombie dragon with vampire, liche king, Necromancer and lady Ilona.
My 2000 points of elves were:
Troops - regiments of archers, gladestalkers, guard, Knights, a horde of spears and 2 troops of light cavalry.
Heroes - Dragon Lord, 2 mages and a standard bearer. I also picked up 5 Magic artifacts and upgraded the spells on the Mages.
Opening turn and deployment - The undead shambled forward.
Turn 2 - the elves unleashed a missile storm on the werewolves - they waver! No thanks to the dragon which didn't scored a single hit with 15 attacks! But the bane-chant and heart seeking chant worked a treat!
By the end of turn 4 (the elves second turn) both the ghouls and werewolves had been routed by missile fire!
The zombie dragon and wrights attack the light cavalry on the left - now little more than speed bumps.
A surge spell stops the zombies hitting the elven spears you an inch! Things seem to be going right for the elves. The Knights charge the undead Knights ...
The Knights rout the undead horse ......but an inspiring reroll changes the result .....Nooooo!
The result of this is shown below - the elven Knights surrounded and destroyed!
Anyway the elven archers were routed by the undead Knights - but the dragon saw these off eventually. The elven spears saw off the zombies - but were surrounded and routed by the Lady Ilona and the skeletons. The zombie dragon took out the elf guard but was burnt to a crisp by a Mage!
I did make a mistake in my final turn - I put 25 attacks on the wrights as they had taken damage and failed to score a hit. In retrospect I should have got the dragon to attack the skeletons as I would have had a good chance of a rout ..... Those 100 points would have given me the win!
The final score gave the Toymaster 715 points on the table to my 680 ...... Close!
I have to say I found the undeads lifeleach ability really annoying - but not as annoying as Lady Ilona - hard to hit, hard to damage and with 8 attacks coupled with lifeleach an absolute nightmare to deal with! The dragon couldn't kill her!
A good game and I will be visiting the club again! I will have my revenge!
Morts
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