Vampire Counts versus Lizardman Campaign Game

This is another battle report for the campaign I am currently taking place in.  This time the combat was against one of the two Lizardman players where he was invading my home lands.  Remember in this campaign only the total list construction has to meet the percentage rules.  Sublists or banners moving around the board due not have to abide by that rule.  His list was as follows:

Skink Priest
15 Skink Skirmishers
15 Skink Skirmishers
25 Skink Cohort w/ 1 Kroxigor
10 Chameleon Skinks

My list was:
Dymtra the Bone Rattler (Master Necromancer)
20 Zombies with Muso/STD Bearer
8 Crypt Horrors
Spirit Host
3 Vargheist
5 Hexwraiths
Terrorgheist

Here is was everything looked like after deployment and the vanguard.  The game was played with the Dawn Attack rules.

VC's 1st turn

I was able to steal the first turn by rolling a 6.  I move the hexwraiths and the vargheists to put pressure on the large cohort.  The Horrors move up to take on the Kroxigor.  The Terrorgheist moves into position to scream away the pesky Chameleon skinks who scout out from the swamp.  In magic he lets the Wind of Death go off but it only kills two skinks.  I raise a unit of zombies and also got off Invocation to grow my bunker out.  He stopped Gaze of Nagash.  The terrorgheist killed 6 chameleons with his scream and they fled away from him.  

 LM 1st turn:

Here his Kroxigor charged my raised unit of zombies and slaughtered them.  They over ran from that. Otherwise he just positioned his cohort to take the Hexwraiths head on.  In magic he casts iceshard blizzard on the hexwraiths.  Then he irresistible forces Thunderbolt killing all 5 hexwraiths.  For the miscast he rolled up the models in base contact one so nothing happened.  He inflicted a wound or two on the vargheist from the skinks.

VC's 2nd

The vargheists charge the cohort which flees but is chased down.  The horrors charge the Kroxigor which also flee and they stumble forward.  He is able to shut down my magic with dice and a dispell scroll this round.  The terrorgheist goes after one of the skirmisher units killing 7.

LM's 2nd Turn

The kroxigor and the chameleons both flee off of the board this turn.  Both units of skirmishers start the retreat.  In magic he rolls three dice up and manages to irresistibly cast Thunderbolt again.  This time with the lore attribute he is able to kill the rest of the vargheist unit.  Once again he rolled up the hits to models in base contact, so he got off for free again.  

VC's 3rd Turn

Not much happens here except the terrorgheist finishes the one unit off.  The horrors charge again but, he flees and ends up running off of the board his next turn.  

Overall, this was a large win for the Vampires.  My force was kitted out for a fight where he was not.  His couple nice magic rolls allowed him to delete two off my units.  

Vampires vs. Ogres Campaign Game

I am not going to diverge the whole contents of the list as this is for a campaign and the other people in the campaign will be reading this.  In general my first list has a unit of zombies with some Cairn Wraiths and Sorin the Rotting(Master Necromancer).  There is a unit of crypt horrors and a unit of hexwraiths.

The Ogre play had a unit of 8 lead belchers with a Firebelly.  A unit of 4 Mournfang Cavalry and sabertusk tiger in his first list.  

Here is the deployment after the vanguard.

Ogre's 1st Turn

He brings on a Ironblaster, a unit of Gnoblars, and a unit for Ironguts with a Slaughtermaster.  He moves he army forward.  In magic he cast the magic missile from the Lore of the Maw killing two hexwraiths.  He focused his fire on the zombie unit with the ironblaster and leadbelchers killing 9 or 10 zombies.  

VC 1st Turn

My second banner arrives with the following.  

- 3 units of zombies

- 2 units of dire wolves

- 2 spirit hosts

- Necromancer (in the Z2 unit of zombies)

- 3 Vargheists

- 2 Terrorgheist

The hexwraiths charged into the sabertusk killing it and overrunning into the Mournfang.  Sorin could not control the winds of magic resulting in a three dice phase and a dispelled Spirit Leech on the Slaughtermaster.  One of the terrorgheist was able to scream 2 wounds off of the Mournfang.  

Ogre's 2nd Turn

Not much happened in the magic phases.  In shooting the Ironblaster hit a Terrorgheist but only inflicted a single wound.  The leadbelchers were able to take 4 wounds off of the other terrorgheist.  The Mournfang used the dragonhide banner to kill of the hexwraiths before they could do any damage to them.  

VC's 2nd turn

I am positioning to combo charge the leadbelchers in turn three with the larger unit of zombies and crypt horrors.  A spirit host charges into the Mournfang to tie them up while the two terrorgheists move up to scream on them.  Their screams did 7 wounds combined to the unit.  

In magic I rolled up four dice and irresistibly casted Purple Sun aimed down the flank of the Mournfang towards the leadbelchers, but the necromancer could not focus the force correcting landing the vortex on himself.   This combined with the miscast killed 16 of the 20 zombies in the unit.  

Ogre's 3rd Turn

In this turn - the magic phase did not produce much.  The ironblaster misfired this turn while the leadbelchers finished off the wounded terrorgheist.  In combat the Spirit host was able to cause a wound and the Mournfang failed their leadership and were chased down by the spirit host.  

VC 3rd Turn

I had a lot of charges this turn.  A unit of wolves and a spirit host charged the gnoblars breaking them and the wolves overran into the leadbelchers.  The Vargheists charged the ironblaster breaking it sending it fleeing through the leadblaster combat.  The crypt horrors and the zombies with wraiths charged the leadblechers.  

Once again the magic phase was disappointing. In the end of the turn the Ogres are severely crippled losing most of their units.  

Ogre's 4th Turn

The ironblaster rallies and other than that not much happened on this turn.  He attempted to cast his level 6 spell but failed.  

VC's 4th Turn

The Vargheist charged in with a unit of zombies to clean up the ironblaster and were able to kill it.  Once again in magic nothing really happened.  

The Ironguts turned and ran on the board in his next turn.  

Summary -

It was an big win for the VC.  The scenario for the campaign  allowed me to start deployment on the right hand side of the table where I knew my reinforcements would be showing up.  I could have spaced out my reinforcements a little better to get bet use out of my terrogheist the first round.   If the Purple Sun did not misfire this game might not have lasted as long as it did since I was able to bring the Necromancer in with the Z2 unit of zombies.  

Introduction

I am creating this blog to serve as a place to share topics on Warhammer Fantasy Battles.  These topics will range from tactica surrounding the game, reviews, a painting log and battle reports.  By no means am I actually an expert on any of these topics, but by sharing them with other people and actually having a place to log these topics, I hope grow and expand my knowledge and skills related to the game and hobby.

Currently, my hobby efforts are going toward building a Vampire Counts army that I acquired when starting the game in November of 2012.  I am close to completing painting on a 2500 point list which would be my first for the hobby.  Beyond the VC, I dabble in making my own terrain for the wargaming table I have built.  A second army of High Elves is starting to be assembled.  This was after a short stint with Orcs and Goblins that never really got off the ground. 

That is enough for now and I hope to post my first battle report in a couple of day.