Waagh of endyness

[Deraj]

Well, T minus 1 hour, and the only enemy I know for sure is Dark Elves, though there is a good chance of running into some High Elves, which I don't like. The list I'm using may as well be:

Black orc warboss with Martog's best basha and Talisman of Protectyness with-
11 Black Orcs; Shields, FC.

Black Orc BSB; Spirit Totem, Heavy Armour, Shield, Boar
[For a 2+ Save and +3 Dispel] with -
23 Orcs; Musician, Standard, Shields.

12 Big Uns; Extra Choppa, Musician, Standard. Waagh Banner.

20 Night Gobs; Bows, Musician.
20 Night Gobs; Musician, 3 Fanatics.
20 Night Gobs; Musician, 3 Fanatics.
10 Arrer Boys; Musician.
6 Spider Riders; Musician.
Orc Chariot; Extra Crew.
Giant;

Orc Shaman; Lvl2, Itty Ring, Waaagh Paint.
Night Gob Shaman; Lvl2, Staff of Stealin.

Doom Diver;


I'm going to try my d**nedest to win, may the waagh power my axe... No surrender, fight til the last orc, all that stuff.

I think I'm going to run into a nurgley beast army and an empire army too, judging by the people playing there.

[Deraj]

Well, this epicness just in: I have made some good friends with the people running the games here at RIT and an owner of a store. The store owner has won sever best general awards, as has another of the guys playing. Thursday night, the warhammer night, the owner and most of the players have decided to make a 30000 point battle of pure orc & gobbos vs empire, brettonians, dwarves, and elves. The store owner has 12000 of orcs and I have 3000, so it will be the owner using 5000 of his own points, another guy using another 5000 of his, and me using 3000 of my own and 2000 of his. The opponents will be 3000 points of Brettonians, 6000 of empire, 2000 of elves, and 4000 of dwarves. I will play 5 games tonight and the 100th on thursday. Apparently we will even do an escalation style tonight, with a 750, 1250, 1500, and 2 2000s.

[Arguleon Veq]

Sounds like it should be fun, good luck dude.

[Deraj]

Nooooooo!!!! (That always curses me)

Results are:
750 High elves-win
1000 lizzies-win
1250 empire-tie
2000 brettonians-win(seige)
2000 nurgle beastmen-win

I'll write up reports later, I was up til after midnight playing, then til 4 studying for an 8am midterm (Which I am pretty sure I did quite well on) and I just got back from that exam 20 minutes ago (I got out at 8:35, but it's a 2 mile walk with half an inch of ice, thank god for knowing how to roller blade.)

[Arguleon Veq]

Great Results, looking forward to reading about what happened. Looks like your on your way to ending your Orcs and Gobs with a winning record after all!

[Deraj]

Well, I can't possibly pull out of the hole, but I can still have a good ending...

I feel like talking about the Brettonian battle, because it was amazing and my opponent made it quite interesting.

The battle was a seige, so I felt like a tool, but wait til you see his set up:

Lord on Royale pegasus with wyrmlance and Virtue of discipline with heavy armor (1)
Paladin BSB with banner of the lady and virtue of empathy(2)
Damsel with holy icon(3) Lore of life 6,2
Damsel with power stones and dispel scroll (4) Lore of life 5,4
Seige tower (5)
(Numbers below in parenthesis corrospond with those above)
8 Knights of the Realm with full command
8 Grail Knights with the Banner of Twilight
A Grail Relique with 16 battle pilgrims(2,5)
3 pegasus knights w/ full command(1)
20 Men at arms w/ musician and standard
20 peasant bowmen w/ musician (4)
Trebuchet (3)

Can you tell he tailored?
..................................BU.........OC
..................................................G
MMMMMMMMM_______I---IGGGI----I____________MMMMMMMMM
MMMSRMMMMggggg-ooIABIGGGIDD-Igggg-BO-AG---MMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMM________I__IGGGI___I____________MMMMMMMMM


.......................TTTTT
.........................TTT
...........GK...KR.....PK......T............................ST....PA...MEA

Was the Set up as near as I can represent. There were two mountains with a massive wall between them, with a gate house in the center a tower to either side. I placed my doomdivers(DD on one tower and my Arrer boyz(AB) on the other. I used the wallcrawler rule to have my spider riders(SR) on the mountain side. The Orc Shaman was with the Arrer boyz, and the gobbos shaman was with the gobbo archers(AG). The BSB Black orc(I had dropped his boar for another 2 boyz) was on the wall with the regular orcs (O)for 4 more dispell and the other was with the big unz(BU) down below.


The rest of the acronyms are:
g=goblins
BO=black orcs
AG=gobbo archers
AB=Arrer boyz
o=orcs
SR=spider riders
BU=big unz
DD=doom diver
OC=orc chariot
G= Giant

t=trees
PK=pegasus knights
KR=knights of the realm
T-trebuchet
ST=Seige tower
GK=grail knights
MEA=men at arms
PA=peasant archers

(For my orc shaman I rolled a 5 and 2 for gork's warpath[awesome] and 'eadbutt,which I had never liked, but after last night I learned to love it.
For my Gobbo Shaman I got Gork'll fix it and Brain Bursta

Early Game:
He did not pray, surprisingly, or not so much looking at his list, and he went first. the first turn was pretty much a massive rush, and the pegasi just moved into the trees to prepare for a wall charge. Knowing he was about to fire a guess range weapon right beside an enemy guess weapon (my doom diver war right by the gate) he knew that he had to prevent the Trebuchet from being splintered. He tried to cast the rain lord with his single pool die (I stole one) and both of the damsel's power die. Since I had a ton of dispell, I used 4 die and stopped it. Popping a powerstone, he went for the Howler winds, but failed. His Other damsel attempted the Master of Stone, but failed. On his shooting phase, he guess far over the gate, then rolled a target. It landed right between the chariot and the big unz, and, sighing with relief, my turn began.

Well, there was to be no moving, other than shiftin my bigunz over about 2 inches (that was too d**ned close.) On to magic. Gork's warpath was dispelled by a scroll, and then came 'eadbutt. I actually wounded the lord. Next I cast Gork'll fix it on the lore of stone damsel. It passed. Now onto my Doom diver. Everyone knew it was coming, all I had to do was add 2" and hope for a target. I did not, but it moved 3 inches away. Oh, wait, doom diver; I got to roll back on target with a....5! I destroyed not only the crew, but the damsel as well. Crushed by a flying gobbo, does it get any better?

On his turn, he charged my wall with his pegasi but had his lord leave the unit, continued moving everything forward, including his grail knights and knights of the realm. Knowing what I do now about the grail knights... Anyway; His lord. Freaking wyrmlance. No, seriously, he moved right up to a unit of gobbos and flamed them, panicing them off the wall and plumeting to death. Luckily they tossed the fanatics out, and for some reason we had decided we would let them live on a 3+ when tossed off a wall [it was a trade off for him being a few (5-10) points over.] One crushed his lord pretty hard, killing it, 1 died, and one landed on some Knights of the Realm, killing 3. On his magic phase he had completely forgotten my spell and cast master of stone with 3 dice and was so happy about his unstoppable force..... until I reminded him that they were 1s. He rolled a 5 and a 6, which added up to... 6. Gork'll fix it is quite possibly the coolest spell ever, so I used it to cast Gork's war path. He failed to dispell it. (I think he did it wrong though, because he counted one of his 6s as a 1...) Overall it caused the deaths of 3 more Knights of the realm, 4 battle pilgrims, and 3 Men at arms... and 2 black orcs. This was too much for the knights of the realm, and they too fled. And ended on top of their friendly fanatic. In his death throes he killed the last 2. The pegasi knights charged my orcs, killing 4, though my retaliation killed 2 and the orcs won combat. The remaining pegasus fled, but sadley I could not persue.

My warboss left the orcs and walked across the gate to reach the gobbos, though he was several inches short of joining them. My Orc Shaman failed Gork's warpath. The gobbo shaman cast Gork'll fix it on the Grail Relique unit, then brain bursta. Both succeeded. I killed 5 battle pilgrims, though they did not flee. I fired my doom diver at the Grail knights, hitting them and killing 2. I fired my Arrer boyz and spider riders at them and killed a grand total of one more. 25%, but they did not flee. I fired my gobbos at the men at arms, taking down 5, and the men at arms failed to flee as well.

The pegasus rallied. The Grail knights charged THROUGH MY WALL! It was slightly amazing, and they ran into my Big unz. The seige tower charged my gobbos, releasing 3 more fanatics, which took down the seige tower. 1 died on the fall, the other 2 got 9 attacks total, killing some grail pesants. The damsel cast her stone spell once again, but I had a fair amount of dispell dice... and rolled double 1s. She killed 3 black orcs. 'Technically' the grail relique got onto the wall and into combat, somehow killing enough gobbos to take down enough gobs to cause them to flee off the walls and die. The big unz and warboss were crushed pretty badly, but held due to a challenge that my boss won.

On my turn I called a waagh to turn my orcs on the wall onto the grail relique. I charged the grail relique with the boss on the wall and the unit of black orcs, the chariot and giant charged the grail knights. I cast Gork's warpath on the men at arms, and was stopped again. Brain bursta passed and killed 5, and yet they still refused to flee. Gork'll fix it failed. I fired all of my shots at the archers, killing 6. The spider riders circled down and around, firing at the final pegasus knight, though they failed to bring it down, they did wound him. In combat I killed the Grail knights and all of the battle pilgrims, though the relique lived, keeping me tied up and preparing for:

The men at arms, lead by the Paladin on foot charged my black orcs. The black orcs actually fled off the wall.... The boss did kill the rilique though, setting him up to charge the men at arms. The pegasus charged the spider riders, getting shot down due to stand and shoot. At a -2.... The damsel cast the stone spell, which killed my doom diver. The archers shot at the goblin archers, killing 2.

On my turn the gobbo archers charged the men at arms on a side charge, as did the warboss from the other side. I opened the gate and had my orcs head for the door. Brain bursta and gork's warpath failed, but eadbutt killed one. My arrer boyz fired on the pesant archers, killing some. The men at arms lost combat and attempted to flee, but were caught and killed.

And we called the game over. Massacre for me, take that Brettonians.

[grunt90]

Nice battle report, epic win. I would of argued that the fanatics wouldnt die when they were released. 8 inches is still eight inches no matter how you put it, and no where in the rules does it say they take fall damage.

[Arguleon Veq]

Nice report, Seige games are always fun.

What rules did you use? those from the WD with the Siege Rules for this edition?

I haveonly ever had 1 Seige Game and that was last edition with my Dogs of War defending against a Skaven and Chaos assault, just scraped a win. They are always a blast.

So is that the last for your Orcs besides the up coming mega battle?

[Deraj]

That was indeed the 99th game. We used the seige rules from white dwarf, except we didn't have anyone pushing the seige tower, just said it was implied. We also game it T10 and 3 wounds.

[Deraj]

Alrighty, it was 6 hours of playing, but it's over. In the end there were 8 boar riders, 17 black orcs, 2 units of nearly full strength gobbos, 4 fanatics, 4 units of orcs, 2 units of arrer boyz, a unit of trolls, and a chariot left alive, alongside some assorted characters.

We won. I'm gonna go sleep off the massive warhammerization.

[Arguleon Veq]

5 Wins and Draw in your last 6 games is certainly a good send off for the Boys. Congrats on the good results man.

So what army are you going to focus on now?

[Deraj]

I love my Wood Elves, but I think it's about time to focus on Dark Elves. I'm thinking of getting rid of the Brettonians as well...

I like shooting, and I'm working on retreating more. It's close to my play syle with small mobile units, but I haven't been able to take the last step and retreat a lot. I'm building my tactic and it seems to suit wood elves and dark elves, I don't know which other armies it would fit.


I have decided to stay at the models I have for Delves other than some HQs, the new Malus, Morathai, and Melekith, then I'm going to get Orion and Ariel. (I'm still doing the 4 horsemen, but they're a pet project.)

After that I think I will get some of the DE bolt throwers then decide between wood elves and dark elves.