@rusty - Why aren't you bringing Wood Elves to Hexcon? I suggest you take the kind of list you tend to field there

@Sirgilly - I haven't played a lot with this army yet (at all!) so I still have a long way to go before settling in on how I want it. I'll have a look at your thread and share my thoughts though

I just finished my game against Iniesta. Long story short, it was interesting. What's that you say, you want the whole story? Ok, here's the battle report
:: Knights of the Apocalypse :: My list was the usual magic-shooting synergy.
Iniesta's list:
Vampire Lord +Wounds regained blade, Nightshroud, Hatredpowerthingy, barded steed, power stone
Vampire Hero ghoulkin, flying steed, +T potion, save magic dice
Wight BSB - Drakenhoff
Necromancer, dispel scroll
30 Ghouls, champ
52 Ghouls, champ
5 Dire Wolves
7 Dire Wolves
4 Bats
10 Blood Knights, full command
:: Pre-battle thoughts & deployment::We decided to play everything as if it were like the upcoming tournament. This meant the relevant scenarios were:
- Battleline
- Blood and Glory (the first one to break the other gets +800 VP: game goes on)
- Meeting Engagement
- Dawn Attack
We randomed Blood and Glory and I won the roll-off to deploy first.
Magic: He got 1,2,3 for his Vampire Lord and 5 for his Vampire Hero. I got 1,2,3,6 for Olannon. Great, courage is useless and I can't even swap it for Saphery since I already have it. Oh well, spell selection with a standard level 4 isn't that great and this is something I should know fairly well.
Deployment went like this:
- Eagle
+ Bats
- Archers on hill
+ Dire Wolves
- RBT on either side of hill
+ Small ghouls
At this point I knew his cavalry would either go on his right flank, with the Ghoul Horde centre, or the other way around. I decided that I wanted to stay away from his cavalry bus for as long as possible, feeding it cheap stuff and taking out the rest of his army in the meantime.
The rest went down according to this (ghoulkin move included):

Note: his characters were deployed like this
- Lord in Bus
- Flying hero in Bus
- BSB in Bus
- Necro with small Ghouls
:: Vampire Counts Turn 1 :: His right Ghouls charge, I flee. The rest move up.
Magic is box cars, leaving it 11v7. He starts off with Snakeeyes Vanhels from his Lord. I dispel the rest of his phase and he saves one dice with a magic item.
:: High Elves Turn 1 :: Again, I find myself in a position I do not like a whole lot: the blocking Dire Wolves mean I can't properly use my Eagle while the scenario + him getting first turn means he's way too close for comfort. I need good magic power and some luck to reduce him enough, fast enough.
I charge my big lions (the western unit) at his small ghouls, hoping to kill necromancer and tie him up. They fail their charge though, as I roll very poorly (needed 6+ on 2D6, rolled 3). The other Lions rally. The Eagle moves to block a direct Bloodknights charge, however due to his Wolves blocking me and his flying lord being on that corner, it's not 100% successful (only block a full-on charge on my Lions).
Magic - I roll a 5 and a 1. I fail to channel with either mage and the Banner of Sorcery gives me +1. Because he saved a dice it's now 7v6. I start off with a 3D6 Vaul's on his Bus, hoping to draw out the scroll so my next phase at least can give me full power. The Dice Gods are unwilling though, as I score a total of 5. I spend the remaining 4 dice on The Withering, scoring a total of 8.
Shooting - I decide to follow through with my original plan and reduce his Ghouls. I also decided to target his blocking Dire Wolves as they're so mobile he can have them wherever he wants to. The result is 5/7 wolves dead and ~8 Ghouls dropped from both units. Not too shabby, let's see what next turn brings!
Note: I forgot to move the Eagle in the diagram, he's moved in the next VC turn.
:: Vampire Counts Turn 2 :: Lots of charges: his Wolves go against my Lions. I have to move backwards to maximize so this is a pretty decent move. The ghouls again fail to charge my Lions on the Eastern front (needing 11+). The other Ghouls fail at charging my Archmage's archers, losing 1 to stand and shoot. His bats engage a Repeater while his flying hero jumps out of the bus to engage the other Repeater.
With the flying hero gone, my Eagle isn't blocking him properly anymore, even with the 1" rule. As such he marches past it to within 8" of my Prince's unit. The remaining 2 wolves marched to block my White Lions, angling themselves pretty smart.
Magic is 10v6 after he channels one and has one saved, after a 5-4 roll. Now, here's my point about impossible to defend against: he casts Vanhels on 2D6 with his Lord until I fail to dispel. The ensuing stand and shoot drops a single knight. No more magic gets through, he saves a dice.
Combat is brutal - Prince accepts the Lord duel (huge mistake, I could've activated Loec and targeted his BSB) only for him to reveal Nightshroud (removes ASF, reduced I to 1). My unit dies, the Prince teleports away to behind the big Archers. The repeaters are both killed. All units overrun off the table. The Lions kill the flanking Hounds.
:: High Elves Turn 2 :: I charge my Lions at his Wolves while my Archmage's unit go against his Ghouls. The Prince joins the big unit, hoping to whittle it down before they charge my Lions (the plan was to annihilate them in my turn 3, breaking the small ghouls this turn).
Magic is relatively uneventful, I get Shield through on my Archers.
Shooting sees him lose 7 Ghouls after my Prince fails to kill the first one and the rest roll somewhat poor.
Combat - I resolve the Lions first and they kill the dogs easily. The overrun brings me into contact with the impassable terrain, leaving me unable to assist the Archers. Obviously, they lose big. The unit fails its break test.
At this point, I concede the game.
Note: forgot to move Eastern Ghouls in the last picture so their movement is included here.
:: Victory Points ::As I conceded it was a massacre to the Vampire Counts!
:: Evaluation ::Honestly, I don't know what I could've done differently here. A few mistakes here and there didn't exactly help me out (e.g. the Prince not targetting his BSB) but in general, I felt hopeless.
As such, this is my shortest evaluation thus far. I'm very open to all ideas, whether it be list improvements, movement, priorities or whatever.
Regards,
~Olannon