So here my promised battle report 2000pts Skaven VS Dark Elves (Stefan):
Lists were very funny - I played highly skilled, expensive Skaven (2x Rat Ogres, 3x Plague Monks, etc) and he mass Dark Elves (no cold ones). My Break point was 14 and his' was 12.
Turn 1:
I run forward bec. I didnt fail a single order. Also Stefan rolled sufficient well to place his army very good. He failed a charge - order and therefore was in initiative range for my units in the upcoming turn. Too bad he mad some hits on the Rat Ogres placed in my wood -> Stefan rolls 4cm for the drive back - still enough for me to stay in initiative range BUT: Rat Ogres AND Plague Monks were confused (YAY I love my dice
) -> See the blue mark.
Turn 2: I massively initiative charges into his Crossbows, Dark Riders, etc. I also manage to order some support (with some veeery cheesy support formations
) and even charge in the flank with some Stormvermin. I manage to cast Death Frenzy on the Plague Monks. 2 Dice: 4, 4 ... Damn so those attacks go against me in the first melee round. Second Death Frenzy goes right to the Rat Ogres. I roll only 1 dice: 3 ... No greed this time
After some rounds of battle, I manage to eat most of the units, but my plague monks on the left side of the battle failed hard after the 2nd round of battle and scored a deuce. Meanwhile the Rat Ogres and the Doom Wheel do their thing and eat up the whole right side. They are even good enough to manage to get into the brigade of Bolt Throwers, which is completely destroyed by the Rat Ogres and the Doom Wheel. The last stand of Crossbows manages to stop the charge of the Rat Ogres + Doom Wheel, which are both destroyed.
Turn 3 (Stefan): He charges by initiative - he does not get a single order. So my Clan Rats on the left side get charged by Spearmen and Witch Elves. The remaining brigade of Stormvermin, Rat Swarms, etc. get charged by Spearmen (out of the field). Poorly enough, also his Dark Riders can charge into the flank of my Stormvermin unit - due to a very bad reformation of mine. He eats up both brigades ... only my Stormvermin (which were charged from the Dark Riders) survive and manage to destroy the attacking elves
.... see the black mark) HEROES OF THE GAME!!! After the battle Stefan falls back into my wood with his remaining Spearmen.
This was a risky but important battle for him - I didn't expect him to destroy the whole brigade on the right side.
Turn 4: I could have won this game this turn, because of almost getting his break point. All I had to do was to finish off those units with 1 or 2 stands left and also the Harpies. First some initiative charges from my Rat Ogres and Storm Vermin to destroy the remaining Witch Elves and Spearmen, also from my Rat Swarms into the remaining unit. I managed to spawn some Gutter Runners but always failed to make a 2nd order on them. Also the rest of my army didn't want to move bec. my order rolls were very ... strange
Short story: I eat them all, fall back and hope for bad order rolls of Stefan next turn.
(Pink mark shows my casualties)
Turn 5: No initiative charges but awesome order rolls made by Stefan and he could manage to get my Stormvermin + Rat Ogres unit with Dark Riders. Also the rat swarms in the open are charged. Then Stefan started to count the victoy points and decided only to eat the Stormvermin+Rat Ogres units. He succeded and the game was won by him.
(pink mark shows his casualties)
He got my break point but the victory points difference wasn't very big. So 3:2 for Stefan.
Nice game
Sorry about the blurry pics. I forgot my cam and therefore had to take pics with my phone :/
