Dogs of War

My troops and deployment
Left flank: (opposing his sturdy right flank) 5 Golgfags, 4 Ogres with champion and GW,both giants of Albion and Hengus and last but not least Asarnil with Deathfang.
Centre: 2 level 4 wizards, 1 level 2 wizard, Paymaster, Beorg's bearman, 6 knights with FC, 12 Lumpin Croops, 4 Ogres with champ and Banner, 10 crossbowmen and 5 fast cavalry dudes.
Right flank: 6 Voland's and 5 fast cavalry.
Richard's army
Richard had: grey seer, 2 Warplock engineers, 2 plague priests, battle standard bearer, 2 slave units, 3 clanrat units. 4 giant rat units, 1 gutter runner unit, unit plague monks with a unit of censerbearers, Jezzails, 2 mortars, 2 ratlingguns, 1 warpfire thrower, 1 unit rat vermin (with bell), 1 unit poison wind globadiers, 5 weapon teams (2 mortars, 2 ratling guns, 1 warpthrower) and I hope that I didn't forget anything. [edit] 2 warplightning cannons [/edit]

In short the battle was like me storming forward en sweeping everything except his right wing aside. The winning mood was a bit tempered by the bad dice throws of Richard. (I like to win by cunning and good generalship. As Richard put it:"I can't help this!" and he was right) The photo's do tell the story very well I think



My empty right wing

an a little bit more busy centre

The left wing advancing 12 inch forward each, Hengus is running to keep up pace as well, Asarnil is hopping to the next building (and protects Hengus underneath the wings of Deathfang).

My opponent denied a flank. His left wing and his centre was held by just 6 units. on his rightwing the rest of his units, incl a 1000 point block with Screaming Bell, Grey Seer and Battle standard Bearer. As you can see my left flank opposing his Right held the units I put over there when I realised the denied flank he wanted to make during his depoyment. Normally I don't put 2 ogre units, 2 giants and 1 dragon on one flank It were all units I had left by that moment.




The centre of Richard's army after 3 turns of play

Richards 1000 point unit ripping Golfag into pieces luckily that behemoth only came moving in turn 4 so I only had 3 turn troubles from it It was the only block to survive at all




My "graveyard" at the end of the battle

Richard's "graveyard at the end of the battle

an overview of the almost deserted battlefield. only 1 unit of slaves, a few weaponteams and the 1000 point big unit survived. My costs, a giant and an ogre unit. with voland's and one ogre unit under half strength


conclusion of this battle:
-Massacre for Dogs of War.
-Richard didn't had a lucky day, and that is an understatement.
-6 dispel scrolls and 8 dispel dice make magic almost impossible even if you bring 5 Skaven wizards into a battle.
-Regiments of Renown Rock big time!

Cool pics. Good to see the dogs doing their job well. Althought I really like the skaven too.

Yea skaven are a hard army to play !! now that they have new rules i bet there even tuffer !!how bad did you get hit by the skaven canon and there gun crews

not at all! he shot one ogre, the unit panicked and didn't rally anymore., that's it ....he missed, Asarnil two times, a giant one time and then he had no cannons left .....

He had 2 ratling guns.. he fired 6 times and had 4 doubles...(meaning not firing at al or random direction...)

He had a warplock jezzail unit.... who killed 1 duellist and then panicked of the table

1 mortar shot a direct hit on Beorg's, he did not scatter but he threw a miss fire.. after which I could put the template on a unit within 2d6" distance or something like that... that other unit was his own.

The first cannon blew in round 2, the other one panicked in turn 4 after I charged and broke a block of clanrats..... it ended up in front of a heavy cav unit who had just turned into that direction after finishing a second clanrat unit and a poison globe mortar weaponteam. It rallied but just to get overrun by 6 angry HC...


I told you Richard had a bad day... a very bad day

Nice victory! I truly enjoy battle reports with pics; they make it so much easier to envision the game. I bet he thought the new Skaven would walk through your mercs.