Xerxis vs Borka, 500pts Assassination

Played our local Trollblood player, he used the list he took to a tournament a few days after which he won. This report is also on his blog (http://trollbloodsmarch.blogspot.com), so I won't go to deep into it. We took the pictures together with his camera. He had: Borka with Keggy, Mauler, Impaler, Champions, min Stonescribes, Fell Caller, Pendrake and Gndrun
I had: Xerxis, Cannoneer, min Karax, min Ferox, max Swordsmen with UA, Guardian and Midwinter
Highlights:
The Karax with a Cannonneer behind them are (almost) as though as Champions.
The Guardian never fails to shine.
The Ferox going around to attack the Impaler and hurt him only for 2 damage.
Outcome: He tossed Borka behind my lines, but Xerxis was waiting inside a ... waiting for him with two fury. Borka dented Xerxis a bit and the Guardian kill Borka before I could activate Xerxis. Lessons learned:
Xerxis is a though nut to crack, with his defenise troll like stats, starting to like mr X.
Pictures:
Drunk Trollbloods

Sober Skorne

I need some ale!

And another one bites the dust.

Makeda and Morghoul vs Mohsar and Epic Kaya, 1000pts Assassination

My first 1000 points ever, played it a little while ago, but forgot to post the battle report, I will try to do it a little bit different this time, let me know which approach you like better.

Circle deployment
From left to right: Pendrake, minimal wolves with attachment, war wolf, gnarlhorn, gorax, shadowhorn, epic Kaya, warpwolf, blackclad, woldwarden, woldwatcher, Laris, druids with overseer and Mohsar (proxied by a blackclad).

The Skorne Army
From back to front (my left to my right): Full unit of ferox, full cetrati with behind them drake, krea, Makeda, savage. A guardian, agonizer, Midwinter, Morghoul, full swordmen, with behind them savage, krea, drake, and ending my line an other guardian. Behind everthing a full unit of paingivers.

The beginning of the battle
Both armies consolidated their left fanks and advanced their right flank cautious, using the cover of smoke or forest.

The battle commences
The ferox take the forest, jumping straight into it. The right flank is locked, so the beasts on that flank sprint over to the action. The center moves in, defensively, on the ready horde of huge beasts.

In the heat of the battle
The fight now breaks out. The swordsmen waiting for their chance, sprint out of the cloud cover into the druids, with magical speed. The warpwolf, which got teleported into the line, slaying skorne, gets put down by the combined effort of the Cetrati, some beasts and an Ancestral Guardian. At the left the Ferox kill most of the the wolves of orboros and Laris and Kaya rush to the battle here, killing some of the Ferox. Skorne beasts rush in and kill her in return.

Nearing the end
From here circle is fighting a losing battle. After a little Mohsar decides surrendering is his best option.

Final thoughts
It was a fun battle, which I really enjoyed. I can not really remember most of the details, but two warcasters give you so much more options. It also is kind of hard to get your fury good with two casters.

Reinforcements have arrived!

Post came in, and with it a package!

Immortals, Karn, Venators, voidy and the soulward. Opponents beware, it smells like fresh skorne cheese.


And of course my evil catzilla, ready for battle ;)

We are skorne! Finally some painting done...

Because I have this deal with my girlfriend, I cannot buy anything new when the old stuff is not finished I had to finish these bastards. I really hate the gold edges of the armor, and I did speed paint these, but they are done!





And I also did my second Guardian, which I did repose a little bit. The third one will have its halberd posed in the other direction, so they will be in "at guard" position.


So now all I have to do is epic Morgs, before the order comes in ;) which is now probably at some airport...

IABN The Iron Agenda Blogging Network

I have just been added to the new blog syndication site brought to us by the great people of the Iron Agenda Podcast (blog.ironagenda.com). (If you have never heard off this show, shame on you! (www.ironagenda.com)) Thanks guys!

As you probably have guessed my main and only Faction is the mighty Skorne. I have been playing these bastards ever since the Arcuarii came out (which I fielded rarely since the Cetrati came out) and have most of prime and evolution painted. Slowly moving into the new cheese fields of Metamorphosis. I have been keeping this blog since the start of the year and managed to give all my battle at least a short battle rep. I am also keeping a W/D/L on my blog, which is kind of higher then I would expect, but that is mostly because my friends are nicer then me.

In the future I will try to keep up with my short battle reps, which I mostly make for myself, to keep track of what I did and what I fielded (and what I FU-ed). It might also get me motivated to finally do some more in depth articles about models I think I do understand and more painting stuff. But at the moment I am also trying to spend time with my sweet girl and trying to get outside as often as possible. Also I am recovering from this stupid condition I had at the end of the last year and my pet project, the MK2 army builder www.forwardkommander.com, is also eating some of my spare time.

A long post, but I just wanted to say hi to everybody ;).