50pt Farrow v. Legion game notes

Chad dropped by today for a 50pt Hordes battle pitting his Lord Carver Farrow force against Thagrosh and some of his Legion minions.

My force consisted of
Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight (*5pts)
* Harrier (2pts)
* Harrier (2pts)
* Nephilim Soldier (5pts)
* Carnivean (11pts)
Blighted Nyss Archers (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Blighted Nyss Archers Officer & Standard (2pts)
Blighted Nyss Swordsmen (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Blighted Nyss Swordsmen Abbot & Champion (3pts)
Blighted Ogrun Warmongers (Leader and 2 Grunts) (5pts)
Blighted Nyss Shepherd (1pts)
Blighted Nyss Sorceress and Hellion (4pts)
The Forsaken (2pts)
Spell Martyr (1pt)
Spell Martyr (1pt)

Chad’s army was
Lord Carver (*6pts)
* Gun Boar (5pts)
* Gun Boar (5pts)
* War Hog (8pts)
* War Hog (8pts)
Farrow Bone Grinders (Leader and 5 Grunts) (3pts)
Farrow Brigands (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Farrow Brigands (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Professor Victor Pendrake (2pts)
Rorsh & Brine (9pts)

As I have said here before, two War Hogs are just nasty and with the addition of Boars with guns… well I was ready for some nasty beatings to occur.

My Legion force was limited by my lack of model selection. I have a sizeable number of new figures coming in to add some flexibility to my games and I also picked up Typhon so I should be able to bring some different forces to future games. New to my force this game were the Spell Martyrs and the Sorceress and Hellion. The intent was that she was going to use her Blight action to allow the Archers or Swordsmen to cut through some infantry. Sadly against Chad’s army I don’t think she was necessary.

Chad was able to pull off a win but it really was a matter of who would get their dice to work first. Both of us suffered from abysmal dice rolls. Chad rolled so many 1s it was ridiculous (including rolling three 1s for damage in an attack where I did more damage back via Spiny Growth than he did with his Wart Hog) and I missed so many rolls by 1 it was equally farcical.

In the end Chad was able to knock down Thagrosh by using Brine to toss a badly wounded War Hog at him and then Rorsh shot Thagrosh.

Chad had to do this after his dice abandoned him and two War Hogs were needed to take out my Carnivean and he then missed a slam against my revived Carnivean who would have slammed into Thagrosh.

I made a few mistakes in the game that I need to watch for in the future.

• I forgot Thagrosh’s Dark Shroud ability. I think that the Carnivean, combined with Chad’s dice luck, would have survived the rasher of attacks against it from the War Hogs
• Forgot that Flight isn’t immune to Free Strikes
• Forgot that Thagrosh could cast an Amius for free (until the third turn that is)
• Forgot to leave a Warbeast with less than max Fury so I could transfer

The Sorceress and Hellion weren’t very effective but that is mostly my lack of familiarity with them. The Warmongers did next to nothing but poor dice rolls once again made them a very ineffective unit. I think I need to look into a buff for them.

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