I forgot to get the Army list from the VC player but its pretty much all in the report.
Deployment
VC – Left to right: Dire wolves (vanguard move), Zombies, Corpse Cart, Ghouls – attached Vampire lord, Wight King, Vampire Thrall (BSB), Crypt horrors, Terrorgheist, Black coach, Vargheist
O&G – Left to right: Doom diver, Night goblins – attached Night goblin boss (BSB), Savage orcs, Savage orc big’uns – attached Savage orc Warboss, Savage orc Shaman, Arachnarok spider, Night goblins, Savage orc Boar boyz – attached Savage orc Warboss, Doom diver, Forest goblins (vanguard move)
Magic:
Vampire Lord is a level 4, and has IoN, Van Hells danse macabre, Hellish Vigor and Raise dead. Vampire is a level 2 and has IoN, and Curse of Years. Also he has the Cursed book.
O&G the hand of gork
VC turn 1
Putting the Terrorgheist true to
its name it flew towards the poor forest goblins and screamed only scoring a 3
on the ld test I thought I was safe, but add the 6 wounds to the roll and it
was enough for 3 forest goblins to die and panic the unit off the board. The Vampire used curse book losing one power dice to cast Doom and Darkness on the
Savage orc Big’uns (-3 ld)
O&G turn 1
(note: The fanatic from the NG1
unit popped at the wolfs (moving 6 inches) and at the start of my turn it went
in front of the wolves off the bored (we remembered to roll after I charged realizing
the fanatic was supposed to be released during his first turn)
The night goblins find courage
and charge the Dire wolves saving the doom diver in the back. The savage orc
boar boyz in a fantastic show of orcy rage charge the Terrorghiest in the
flank. The fanatic from the Night goblin 2 unit smashed into the crypt horrors
Killing one. The rest of the green tide marches towards da dead fings. Both
doom divers show that I should NEVER go to Vegas and do some gambling… I rolled
a HIT and MISSFIRE on both doom diver shots that were aimed at the Corpse Cart.
Rolling a 4 on both charts the doom divers were done for 2 rounds (sigh). Magic
was a fat flop I was dispelled (it would have been nice to move the savage orc
big’uns BEHIND the Ghoul unit but that’s what you get when you tangle with a
level 4 vampire lord.
This was a very bloody game in the
first few turns as you will soon see. The night goblins make a show of force
killing 4 wolfs and losing another 5 to instability. The savage orc boar boys
do fantastic, the Warboss deals 2 wounds with impact hits from armor of Gork,
the Terroghiest kills one boar boy and is crushed by the remaining boys, then
overrun off the board after making their kill.
VC turn 2
Zombies and ghouls charge into
the tide of green as the corpse cart and black coach both fail. The Varghiest unit
no longer see the doom diver as a threat move to set up a rear charge for the
savage orc big’uns. The map doesn’t represent it great but the Corpse cart is 6”
from the ghouls just enough to have Vigour Mortis work. The vampire lord
attempts to cast the spell with 4 power dice and is dispelled by an irresitable dispell from the
savage orc shaman, the vampire lord then casts Van Hells danse macabre on the corpse cart
and is successful giving the ghouls first strike and moving the corpse cart 8”
closer.
CC was another bloody affair. The
night goblins finish the Dire wolf and reforms to help the savage orcs. The savage
orcs give choppa a new meaning by killing 15 zombies and taking no wounds and
watching 10 more zombies crumble before them leaving 3 zombies remaining. I
wish I could say that things for the big’uns went better but they didn’t. The Vampire issues a challenge and my warboss accept. Finding out after the fact the
potion of speed is only usable on the start of the TURN the Vampire had first strike and due to initiative rerolled hits. He dealt 2 wounds to the warboss taking none due to the fact that he beguiled the warboss, making him reroll hits. The Vampire Lord dealt 7 kills to the savage orcs while the Wight King dealt 1, but the main event (the ghouls) had a staggering 34 re roll poisoned
attacks that fell 14 more savage orc big’uns. Crypt horrors kill 3 more of the
boyz before losing another of their rank leaving one crypt horror left. I
figured the only chance I had was to try and kill the Vampire Lord, Wight King
and Vampire, I was able to wound the Vampire Lord once, and the Wight King twice, and 3 more wounds killing another crypt horror. Needless to say I lost the
combat… by a lot, and ran. Thankfully I out run the remaining crypt horror by 1 inch and
the ghouls passed a leadership to reform.
O&G turn 2
The blood bath continues as the
fanatic slams into the Black coach dealing 1 wound and the savage orc boar boyz
arrive back on the battle field only to fail their animosity and do nothing
this turn, the Night goblins 2 unit fails as well and decides it would be a
good idea to charge the black coach, they pass their terror and frolic towards
their doom. The night goblins 1 unit moves into better position and the savage
orc big’un’s rally. Magic proved helpful this time I was able to cast hand of
gork with a 20 and the VC Lord only got a 19! I used this to move my savage orc big’uns to the backside of the Ghouls horde. The Arachanork
turns around and fires on the varghiest but fails to wound them.
CC - The savage orcs finish the
zombies with no issues at all and over runs into the corpse cart (I’m not sure
that we played this right as you can only over run the first turn of the charge
but the VC player insisted that with fury you always over run (true but only
when you can overrun) I was too tired at this point (I normally go to bed at
8pm because I wake up at 3:45am for work) so I just deferred to him and didn’t
go through the “looking up the rule ritual”) anyway the savage orcs run into the Corpse cart. Here is the power
play of the night I think. The 26 night goblins that I thought were going to
just fall apart on the black coach not only beat it in combat but destroy the
unit all together due to the finally unlucky roll of double 6's on LD for the crumble test! I passed my Ld test and reformed. (and yes this program
makes the movement arrow’s mess up at times)
VC turn 3
Ghouls charge the savage orcs,
varghiest charge the Savage orc Big’uns, Magic channels a 2-1 for a grand 3 and
I was able to channel a dice leaving me with 3 dispel and him with 3 power
dice. And attempts to cast incantation but is dispelled with another double 6!
CC- The vargoyle does not challenge, but is challenged by the warboss a challenge he has to accept. (The warboss had forgotten to use the potion of speed at the
start of the turn again). The champion and warboss kill each other and the last
varghiest kills the shaman taking 2 wounds from the savage orc bigun’s. Thank fully
I win the combat by 2 and reform, he failed his LD roll by 1 but due to the BSB didn't take any unstable wounds. The ghouls
(or I should say the 3 heroes in the fun bus) proceed to lay waste to the green
horde. The Vamp lord deals a mighty 7 wounds and heals himself with The Hunger special rule. The Vampire Hero deals 3 and the Wight King deals 1 followed by 3 from the ghouls and corpse cart. The savage orc boyz
wound the corpse cart twice and can’t wound the lord in turn… They lose combat
and run being chased down by the ghouls. The corpse cart reforms.
O&G turn 3
Ng move back 2” Arachanrock
charges the last crypt horror, the night goblins move as well as the boar boyz.
THANK goodness the VC forgot about the doom divers because the look on his face
when I reminded him was a good one. The doom divers rain doom (heh) on the
corpse cart blowing it off the table. (I wish that was turn 1 sigh…)
CC- the Arachnarock and crypt horror fight each other and the spider takes 1 wound as the crypt horror takes 2, then crumbles due to LD. The savage orc big’uns kill one of the varghiest wounding the
other one but fail the combat and flee. The Varghiest stays so he doesn’t run into
the night goblins.
VC turn 4
Ghouls attempt a charge on the NG
but I chose to flee for my charge reaction moving 7” the ghouls roll a 1 – 4 for a 5 and moving the 4”
forward. The varghiest moves to intersect the savage orc big’uns. Vampire lord
casts Raise Dead and heals a wound from the Wight King, and fails the rest of
his spells due to rolling a one on both his Vampire Lord and Hero when trying to cast augment spells.
O&G turn 4
(the map again isn’t the best
representation of the field, it came down to half an inch but the varghiest
couldn’t get the orcs that were fleeing without clipping the night goblins, the
goblins moved to block the savage orc boyz (because of the varghiest that was
going to clip the night goblins)
The night goblins rally and
savage orc boar boyz move down the field, night goblin 2 moves to block the
death that the varghiest would deal to the savage orc big’un’s. Doom divers are
50% this time as only one hits the varghiest and deals 3 wounds to the unit
killing 1 and wounding the other. ( I wish the other doom diver had hit because
that removed the screen the goblins were providing… the savage orc’s were
doomed)
VC turn 5
Varghiest charge down the rest of
the savage orc big’uns. The Ghouls charge and destroy the poor knight goblin
unit. They pass the leadership to not surge foward off the board and reform awaiting the
savage orc boar boyz. VC player forgets to charge with the zombies (heh)
O&G turn 5
Doom divers kill the last remaning varghiest, the savage boar boyz fail animosity and roll a 6 (thankfully) which would make them charge if they could, but they cannot reach
the charge so I got to move them foward 7 inches, then march again foward, leaving the ghouls a roll of 10 to chage the boar
boyz. (rarely will animosity work in my favor). Flinger hits the Ghouls leaving the unit with ASL.
VC turn 6
Ghouls failed charge 3” and 4 dice
for spells VC player casts Van Hells danse macabre and Hellish Vigor giving him reroll
hits and wounds. (again forgets about the zombies)
O&G turn 6
Realizing it would be suicide to
charge the ghouls now I chose to fire the doomdiver in attempt to snipe his
lord and he passed the lookout sir and a ghoul died instead.
End game.
I thought I had a slight chance
to pull off a win but turns out over HALF the army of VC was that one unit… I
got a little over 900 victory points from VC and he took 1280 victory points to
give him a solid victory.
