8th Edition Dwarf Blog

[Arguleon Veq]

Finally got round to playing a game under the new rules and thought I'd crack out the old Dwarfs.

My Dwarfs did ok under the last edition using a Lord with Hammerers, Warriors with BSB, Runesmith, a Slayer. 2 Units of Thunderers, 4 Bolt Throwers, an Organ Gun some Miners and a Gyro. Their 10 Games finishing with 6 wins, 3 draws and a close loss to Tomb Kings. My Lord wracking up some impressive kills including Keeper of Secrets, Sorcerer Lords and Vampires. I think Dwarfs are better under these new rules as opposed to the low tier army they were last edition who usually at best managed narrow wins.

So here is the list I used for my first game, it is still open to changes though;

Lord; Shield Bearers, Great Wep, Rune of Stone.
Runelord; Anvil.
BSB; Master Rune of Gromril.

23 Warriors; Shields, FC. [5x5, joined by Lord]
23 Warriors; Great Weps, FC. [4x6, joined by BSB]
10 Thunderers; Shields. [2x5]

Cannon; Engineer with Pistols.
Cannon; Engineer with Pistols.
Grudge Thrower; Rune of +1S.
Flame Cannon;
Organ Gun;
Gyrocopter;

My Opponent for my first game was a regular Chaos rival, he had just come 4th [having to play Lizards in 4 of his 6 games though, so he was glad when i decided I didnt want to try my old Lizards out haha] in a fairly competative 50 man tourney but this was his first go under the new edition too. His list was as follows;

Sorc Lord; Lvl4, Disk, Golden Eye, Armour of only ever take 1 wound [?], Spell Fam, Tzeentch.
Sorc; Lvl1, Puppet.
BSB; Tzeentch, 4+ Ward from Rulebook, Hand Weapon and Shield.
He didnt realise that the parry ward didnt stack so had assumed that this guy got a 2+ ward in combat, still a 3+ aint bad.

17 Chosen; Tzeentch, Shields, FC, Rapturous, Favour. [Joined by BSB]
25 Marauders; Tzeentch, Hand Wep + Shield, LA, FC.
25 Marauders; Tzeentch, Hand Wep + Shield, LA, FC.
5 Horse; Slaanesh, Throwing Axes.
5 Horse; Slaanes, Throwing Axes.

Hellcannon;
Warshrine; Tzeentch.

Pre Game Thoughts; I was only really concerned about that Sorc Lord, Hellcannon and those Chosen, I would focus on those before firing on the rest of his army. I trust my blocks to chop down those Marauder units, annoyingly his Lvl1 got Pit of Shades from the Lore of Shadow.

He deployed his Chosen facing my Lord and Warriors with his Shrine behind and Cannon supporting their flank. His Marauders heading at my BSB with Great Wep Warriors and his Horse and Disk on my right facing mostof my War Machines.

Early Game; I go first and move my Gyro up, I use wrath and ruin on some horse, and roll a 1, then I roll another 1 and my Anvil explodes, first time ive ever used one and it dies first turn haha.

My Cannons open up on his Hellcannon and kill it. My Grudgethrower kills a Chosen who have +1S.

He advances and his Sorc casts Flickering Fire on a Cannon and does 1 wound, he Gateways my Thrower and does 2 wounds.

I continue to rain fire down on those Chosen but he is passing 1 in every 2 6+wards and he has +1 armour thanks to his Shrine in his first turn [This is the first time I have ever played this guy where he has not got the 4+ Ward result for his Chosen by the second turn!]. My Gyro shoots down 1 Horseman from one unit and 3 from another.

Horsemen surround my Gyro and throw axes at it, doing 1 wound but I pass my save. His lines continue their advance whilst his Sorc flys out to cast gateway on my Great Wep unit, he gets 7 S9 hits, thankfully not instant killiny my entire unit but 6 Warriors die.

Firestorm!; My Organ sights his Sorc Lord, overconfident in his 3+ Ward, I roll 10 for my number of hits, wound 7 times and he fails 3 saves, killing him!. I keep pouring fire into those Chosen although my Grudgethrower does kill 8 Marauders. My Gyro moves around and guns down more Horse leaving just 2 in each unit.

With his Sorcerer Lord dead his Shadow sorcerer sees his chance for glory, summoning the winds of chaos he unleashes Pit of Shades in its biggest incarnation onto my Lords unit, I fail to dispel and he kills 16 Warriors! as my Warriors are sucked into the ether his lines continue their march towards my lines whilst his throwing axes wound my Gyro.

My Gyro moves around his undamaged Marauder block, killing 5 of them as I reduce his Chosen to only the Standard Bearer.

Seeing his army fading my opponent desperatly throws his BSB into combat with my Lord, knowing I couldnt afford any expensive gear on him because I also took an Anvil. As I have no ranks, and he charged and is a BSB he actually starts the combat on +2 Combat Res compared to my 1 for my standard. The BSB hits all his attacks and wounds 2, 1 of which I fail. I now need to kill the BSB or lose the combat, my Lord hits 4 times, wounds 4 times and 2 of his 3+ Wards are failed. Chopping the BSB down.

With his Shrine, 2 units of 2 horse and 2 depleted units of Marauders left he calls it a game his army losing their courage after seeing their battle standard fall in single combat with the Dwarf Lord.

Result - Win

Massacre for the Dwarfs.

Post Game Thoughts; I thought he conceeded a lil early to be honest, his Marauders were ready to charge some of my guns and it would have been hard for my infantry to respond to them, he could have wracked up quite a lot of points killing my War Machines on my right flank. Still a pretty good showing from the Dwarfs in what was a pretty boring game. I feel as though my list is a bit boring despite the anvils fireworks in the first turn, I have the same amount of warmachines as i always had and only 1 less infantry block and those were only thunderers anyway but i am missing some of my movement from the miners, I may drop something to squeeze them back into the list.

[Arguleon Veq]

Game 2 - Vs Night Gobbos - 2000 Points - Blood and Glory

I played against this Night Gob army last week with my Empire and we thought it would be a nice fluffy match up to take it on with my Dwarfs. He has dropped 2 units of Hoppers for a 40 strong herd of Squigs. A much better choice in my opinion. I have also changed my list;

Dropped - Runelord, Anvil, Miners.
Taken - 18 Hammerers, Runesmith with Rune of Balance.

My opponents list was as follows;

Gobbo Lord: Great Wep, Tricksy Trinket, Amulet of Protectyness.
Night Gob Boss: Bauble, 2 Hand Weps.
Night Gob Boss: Brew, Great Wep.
Night Gob Boss: BSB, Poison Banner.
Night Gob Great Shaman: Lvl4, Staff of Sneaky Stealin

50 Night Gobs: FC, Nets, 2 Fanatics.
50 Night Gobs: FC, Nets, 2 Fanatics, Spears.
50 Night Gobs: FC, Nets, 2 Fanatics, Bows.
20 Night Gobs: Bows.
20 Night Gobs: Bows.

8 Squig Herds:
4 Bolt Throwers:
Rock Lobba:
Doom Diver:

Pre Game Thoughts: My main concern was his firepower and fanatics, I had nothing that I could cheaply lure out fanatics with and they could cause a lot of damage as I only have about 75 Dwarfs facing 200+ Gobs.
I would be able to blast his warmachines with mine but as I needed to take out his banners and general, that would be useless, so they would have time to seriously weaken my units. I think overall I should cause more damage with my warmachines and be able to just about take his units in combat with my own. Those Squigs would be a main focus for my firepower as despite them not having a banner, if they hit my lines, they would roll it up.

We both have 6 breaking points.

Early Game/Deployment: I deployed pretty tight, despite the threat of his rock lobba. I had my shield warriors with lord on my left, great wep warriors with BSB and runesmith central, hammers and thunderers on my right. All interspersed with my warmachines, the organ gun on my far left, thrower on my far right.

Facing across from me he had his spears with lord lined up against my lord, poison bows on my great weaponers, squigs facing my hammers. He had a 20 strong bow block on each flank and his hand wep gobs with his great shaman quite wide on my right. His bolt throwers in amongst his units with his diver and lobba behind his lines.

I go first and open up with a cannon smashing apart a bolt thrower, my thrower lands on his poison bows killing about 12. My other cannon misfires and cant shoot this turn or next and nothing else is in range. My gyro moves up behind a rocky outcrop.

His advance is stalled slightly with a few squabbles. His rock lobba lands dead on my flame cannon and kills it and a great weapon warrior also dies in the blast.

My gyro moves behind his sqiugs, making sure to stay out of fanatic release range of his main blocks. I really start to pour the fire on his poison bows and seriously reduce the unit with my organ gun, a cannon and my thrower. They pass panic though. I also start to work on those squigs with my thunderers.

This turn ALL his units besides his lords unit [who squabbled last turn instead] squabble. His lords unit surge forward though and this pretty much levels up his advance. His shooting takes my organ gun down to 1 wound and kills a few more great weapon warriors.

My gyro guns down a fair few squigs, the thrower scatters off target and a cannon misfires but the organ gun and thunderers add to the dead squig tally.

My opponent finally gets a turn that isnt crippled by squabbling and his line is now drawing close to mine. His lobba kills off my organ gun with another direct hit.

I move my hammers to intercept his squigs but I fail the charge, just to make sure of things going my way in that combat I blast down more of the unit with my gyro, leaving just a big boss, 1 squig and 3 herders left. I also start to shoot the lords spear unit, blasting down about 8.

Ancient Animosity: His lord and unit declare a charge on mine, but his charge fails, this does relase his fanatics at me but they fall short, both rolling a 3. His squigs succeed in thier suicidal charge on my hammers though but all are cut down for very few hammerer losses. His bolt throwers shoot down one of my cannons.

I put a my remaining firepower on his lords spear unit, taking down about another 4. My hammers and great wep warriors close in on his poison bow unit with BSB, who are now down to about 10 models.

His fanatics whirl out of the way and hos lords unit charges mine. His shooting kills off my other cannon, that rock lobba dead on target once again.
In the combat our lords fight a challenge, his unit nets itself though and his lord cant hurt mine. My dwarf lord does 2 wounds in return. His gobbos do no damage whilst my dwarfs cut down 3. I win and I have more ranks, he breaks and I run him down.

With my hammers and great weps right on top of another 2 of his break points, which will see him lose the game, he conceeds.

Result - Victory for the Dwarfs


Post Game Thoughts: Well that all went pretty much to plan besides his rock lobba smashing all my warmachines besides my own stone thrower. My opponent was very unlucky in this game, his army hardly stopped squabbling and then he even managed to net himself. Our stone throwers were certainly models of the match with the amount of kills they both wracked up.