Adepticon – Warhammer Championships– Round 1 – Jason Eversole – Daemons of Chaos

Terrain:  All forests are mysterious.

My forest is a wildwood.

Deployment: Battleline

Special Rules

Every spell casting attempt is cast with irresistible force and miscast on any double 6 and any double of the number matching the game turn.  Opponent may modify any miscast by 1 in either direction.

Bonus Points

+1 for each enemy model/unit that can channel or generate power/dispel dice that is destroyed at the end of the game to a maximum of +3 points.

(Plus 3 Points for Terrain)

The List

Great Unclean One, Level 4 wizard, lore of nurgle, greater gift, greater gift

Epidemius

Herald of Nurgle, BSB, level 1 wizard, lore of nurgle, greater locus of fecundity

Hearld of Nurgle, greater locus of fecundity

35 Plaguebearers of Nurgle, full command, gleaming pennant

19 Plague Bearers of Nurgle, full command

6 Beasts of Nurgle

2 Nurglings

2 Nurglings

Respect for no skill cannons.

Magic

I ask him at the beginning if he rolls for gifts before or after magic.  The reason it matters is that Searing doom doesn’t do anything to his army unless his greater daemon takes the 2+ armor save.  We roll off, and it’s decided that spells are decided first.  I want to kill that daemon, and armor saves without searing doom would make that VERY hard.

I take searing doom on my metal wizard with purple sun and spirit leech on my death caster.

He takes Miasma, curse of the leper, fleshy abundance and plague wind on the daemon.  Unlike the nurgle spells on the game a few days before, these spells can defiantly touch me.  The BSB picks up stream of corruption.

The greater daemon ends up taking soul feeder and bale sword, giving him the ability to heal and D3 wounds.

Deployment

Jason bunkers his army in the left corner.  I think this was a great play, as it limited my ability to move around and allowed him to react to me more directly as he kept me in front of him.  Looking back he probably should have done it in the other corner, as that would have left me moving through the water as I moved around, versus in the open.  But I still think it was a great idea.  Spreading out his unit formations some might have helped as well.

I deployed in the center as I didn’t want to deal too much with the water.

The swarms both went in the forest in my deployment zone.

I vanguarded strong on the right, and in the center.  The left just turned to face the swarms.

He gets the first turn.

Turn 1 – Daemons of Chaos

Jason starts by advancing up, keeping his beasts covering his back flank so I can’t move around.  Downside is he is slow.  The greater daemon does strike out a little bit ahead to get into spell range.

The forest does 1 wound to the swarm unit.

A 4/3 magic phase reduces his ward save.  A 4D plague win goes off as I fail my dispel.  It kills 2 dark riders and 1 doom fire warlock.  He gets a plague bearer added to the larger unit.

Turn 1 – Dark Elves

I charge the first swarm unit with just the extra dread lord.  Going in with the unit would put me too close for comfort with the beasts.

The forest kills a sword model.

I roll an awesome 2/1 magic phase and put a 2D soul blight onto the swarms.

All my shooting manages 2 wounds on the greater daemon.

The swarm loses but lives with 1 wound.

Turn 2 – Daemons of Chaos

With the solo lord out of range there are no charges.  I think I left him some max charges in the hopes he’d give me some stand and shoot, but he doesn’t bite.

He continues his advance, but opens up his left flank by moving the beasts towards center.  He starts to get bogged down in the water.  The greater daemon again stays ahead.

A 9/8 magic phase sees no 6s.  A 3D curse of the lepper on my bunker lowers toughness by 1 on a failed dispel.  A 3D plague wind at the unit fails to cast.

I kill the swarm.

Turn 2 – Dark Elves

I move my bunker into the hole on the back edge.

Its turn 2, and my magic phase will see a lot of 2s.  I start with a 9/5 magic phase.  I 2D irresistible soul blight on the greater daemon.  I then 2D soulblight from the other dark rider unit on the greater daemon.  I then 5D irresistible purple sun down his unit line.  I only roll a 2, but still kill 8 plague bearers.  I get 3D back (12/5) and lose 2 warlocks.  I then 3D a doom bolt at the greater daemon but its dispelled.

All my shooting puts 3 more wounds on the greater daemon.  He makes 12 5+ saves, so 12/15 on a 33% save.  Massive.

Turn 3 – Daemons of Chaos

With a really wounded greater daemon, Jason has the option to charge him into a bolt thrower and pick up 2 wounds back with soul feeder.  For some reason he doesn’t, I’m not sure why.

Jason does dart the daemon to my deployment zone and begins to scramble with his units as I get around him.

An 8/6 magic phase has me making a leadership test with a caster.  I pass.  A 3D curse of the leper is dispelled and I scroll the plague wind.  I’m hopeful I will kill the greater daemon on the next turn with focused shooting and so don’t feel the need to save it.

Turn 3 – Dark Elves

I debate charging the greater daemon with my bunker.  I may kill it but if I fail the charge I would get flanked by the beasts.  I decide to keep playing it safe and don’t charge.

In moving, my BSB takes a wound and lose a warlock thanks to the forest.

A 9/7 magic phase has me 3D irresistible soul blight on the greater daemon.  I then 3D irresistible it again on the daemon.  I take 2 wounds, 1 on the metal wizard and one doom fire warlock.  A 3D doom bolt on the greater daemon is dispelled.

The first bolt thrower takes down the greater daemon.  With my shooting out of position now, I’m only able to kill 3 plague bearers off the big unit and 1 off the small.

Turn 4 – Daemons of Chaos

The last swarm unit tries to flank the doom fire warlocks but fails.  He moves around a little.  But has lost what control of the game he had.

Turn 4 – Dark Elves

I continue my dance.

I roll a 10/6 magic phase.  He dispels my first 3D soul blight on the large plague bearer unit, but the second 3D spell goes.  I then 4D doom bolt, but only kill 1.

Shooting kills 11 off the large unit.

Turn 5 – Daemons of Chaos

Still trying to track me.  He rolls double 1s for his magic phase which does a wound to the swarms.

Turn 5 – Dark Elves

I find that I can’t get out of the way in all cases.

9/4 magic phase sees the first 3D soulblight on small unit going off with the second dispelled.  A 3D doom bolt on the large unit kills 5.  My shooting kills 12 off what was the larger unit.

Turn 6 – Daemons of Chaos

The former larger unit fails a charge at a bolt thrower.  The smaller unit does charge the character bunker, losing 1 to stand and shoot.

A 10 on the magic gives him +1 ward save… very well timed.

IN combat, I kill the character and 10 plague bearers, leaving 5 to fight.  He pops on the snakes test.

Turn 6 – Dark Elves

My bunker flanks the former large unit.

An 11/6 magic phase sees 1 soul blight going off on the unit.  In combat I kill everything remaining but the two character who then die on the leadership test.