Thursday, March 12, 2020

Being munched again

Another battle using my 2000 point army that I defeated Tracy with was used again against an Undead Army of Kevin from our club.


Now I only have one picture of the event(only ran 4 turns, I conceded as he had to leave), so I will best explain what happened:-

We did not play a scenario so I spread my forces, setting up first and moving first, by holding the left flank(my side being on the right of the picture), with a Tortured Soul Horde beside a Tower (unseen in pic).  Moving up the line my Imp Horde, Lower Abyssal horde, Lower Abyssal Horde (+2H), a Moloch horde and Gargoyle troop supporting and another Tortured Souls Horde in the far woods supported by the other Gargoyle troop.

Kevin had several Zombie hordes, a Zombie Legion, several Liche Kings, A Wraith regiment, a Wight horde, a Skeleton Archers horde, a Skeleton Swordsmen horde and Revenant Cavalry on the far left(my) flank(out of sight in pic, other side of the tower).  Most of his units Shambled and his Liche Kings provided a lot of Surge.

Opening round making me go first, I tried to close quickly on him, hoping he could not surge everyone, allowing me to get into a favourable attack position.  My strategy was to hold my left while cleaning up the Zombie units on my right flank and roll the flank up.

His Wraiths hit my Tortured Souls, killing them with a lot of hits(even he was amazed at how many hits he rolled every time).  His Zombie Legion hit my Imps, cleaning them up in one hit, leaving my left flank wiped out in one turn.
On the far side, I hit one Zombie horde with both Gargoyles and Tortured Soul horde, rolled for the nerve kill and rolled snake eyes.  Second time that night.  He counter attacked and killed the Gargoyles.  I tried hitting his Skeleton archers with my two Efreet, but after two rounds, with him healing, sixty dice still had not brought him down as I rolled a low never dice twice and his Wights flew in as my Efreet got to close with the Archers and they were not only hit and the first one killed, he then used the break through and killed the second one.

Throughout the battle, my dice rolling was abysmal, as I rolled another pair of snake eyes yet again.  It was a disaster as more than half my army gone for a loss of a Zombie horde and Zombie regiment.  We called it quits at Turn 4 and I conceded as he had to get up for work early and his heavy hitters had done their jobs and I had yet to receive a charge from his Revenant Cavalry.  All I had left effectively was a Moloch Horde, a Warlock and Matu-bu-su, a Lower Abyssal horde and a Tortured Soul horde.

On several occasions, all I needed was a roll of 5 or more to kill a unit and I could not even roll that.
Well done to Kevin, I don't think I played that badly, but the dice gods favoured him way more than me. I have to rethink what units to take to fight an Undead army in the future as this army option was ineffective against the Undead, considering how bad I rolled through the game.

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