SpellArcher wrote:
One guy has taken out the whole firebase.
Sad, but the shooters were doing little in the first place. Simply to many undead bodies to take care of with arrows.
Turn 5:
I charge the side of the Grave Guards with my Eagle, for some extra CR. Spearmen move in front of the Zombies.
Magic is very good as I manage to cast
Withering on the Grave Guards, for a tremendous -3T!
This helps my unit immensely and some
11 undead elites go down to my guys, while
I only lose 6 PGs and the Eagle. More GGs crumble but the Vampire is still there.
I finally finish off the Spirit Hosts and my guys are ready to assault the hill. The Frostie keeps fighting with the lone Crypt Horror.
Ghouls charge my Frostie. Hexwraith assaults the PGs in the rear. Zombies charge the Spearmen in the north while the ones on the hill hold back.
My opponent dispels Withering and so manages no spells of his own.
Ghouls kill Frostie, though I do slay the last Crypt Horror before I die. The
Phoenix Guards again do great - I kill all the Grave Guards, and crumble the Hexwraith, the BSB and put a wound on the Vampire Lord! The Spearmen grind well with the Zombies, but
I lose my Archmage to the Wraith...
Turn 6:
Charge the hill!
Spearmen into the Zombies, White Lions into the Ghouls.
No real shooting or magic.
The
Vampire challenges and I accept with my BSB but still die to his flurry of attacks. I hold, but seem unlikely to finish off the enemy general. I am relieved to find out the Strigoi has a magical weapon and so the
White Lions whoop the Ghouls good. Both
Spearmen units do well against their respective Zombie opponents as well. Could I grind them down in time?
No movement.
In the magic phase my opponent throws caution to the wind and
goes for a big Nehek, to put some more bodies in front of my victorious troops on the hill. He gets an
Irresistible Force and so several Undead are brought back - crucially 16 Zombies on the main objective! The miscast turns out to be a
Cascade, however, and it seems his gains might be reversed in an instant. In this climactic moment the ancient Vampire manages to escape his doom, as my opponent rolls a 4. That was close!
The
Vamp kills the PG champion. The
White Lions finish off the Ghouls, with the Strigoi the last to crumble. The
Spearmen, unfortunately, leave 11 Zombies standing on the hill and so preventing me from claiming the objective - that last spell did prove to be crucial, after all!
The Vampire Counts win 1:0!