Vampires VS. Lizardmen VS. Highelves 1300 points each

 OK this is going to be an odd battle report I feel like it would work much better as a video but currently that is something we don't have a set up for so you will have to bare with me explaining as best I can in text form.

I only took pictures at the end of each turn because we altered the way turns work to make the game go more smoothly. first we roll to see what order we go in each turn to then each person takes there movement  magic and shooting portions of there turn. At the end of of all that we fought all the combats twice to simulate the turn half's.

 setup!

 general advance with some light shooting and some magic destruction mostly from the high elves onto the lizardmen

 The lizzardmen get really aggressive and charge my zombies I believe that the high elves like the saurus cav on fire with the big high magic spell so they will burn for the next turn or 2

getting close to total melee chaos sadly I seem to be missing the critical pic of all that melee happening sowe wil have to just jump past that turn and you get to see the aftermath

yeah... that was a lot of killing the the mash you see to the left of center is my grave guard and vampire fighting off everything and getting ground down with even more about to charge in

I ran off the skinks and turned back with the skeletons and the elves charged into the remnants of the mash up combat


Who won!?  Who knows we all had a ton of fun trying to make this work and we all killed some stuff and it was an interesting way to get a game in for sure. 

New Years resolutions / updated TO DO list

well first lets take a look at how I did last year before we look at what I will be shooting to do this year.
the red highlighted items are what i got done the rest I am still working on...   at some point... 

1. (This is a big one but it is possible)  Finish painting the Imperial fists!

• landraider #2   DONE
• Vindicator #2  DONE
• Tactical Squad #3
• Sternguard squad #2
• Ironclad dread
• black templar vanguard vets stand in
• rino/ whirlwind  DONE
• drop pod #2
• drop pod#3
• Devastator squad #3 DONE
• 5 assault termanatiors DONE
• 16 normal terminators
• the last few odd command models I have siting around  

    2. Paint up my current orcs

• shoota squad of 30 done 10/30
• slugga squad of 30 
• flesh out the nob squad
• battle waggon #1
• battle waggon#2 
• 7 deffcoptas 
• warboss DONE
• big mek DONE
• humm what do you know this one does not look to intimidating 

   3. Build up to the 50 point level with my Khador army
            61/50 points done

• I'm looking at you new winter guard infantry in February...
• possibly That crazy huge conquest...DONE

   4. Legion of everblight
           19/35 points done

• There are 21 points worth of them from the starter box that need painting..
• There are also a few other models that catch my eye so I think my goal for the year will be a painted 35 point army

  5. Vampires

• 30 skeletons 30/30done
• 40 zombies 
• coven throne 
• 20 graveguard
• zombie dragon/ terrorgiest
• 5 hex wrathes 
• 5 black knights 
• a few necromancers a second vampire on foot  and my Wight king BSB
• besides the skeletons this one is not too awful bad ether...

OK I just reread my lists and added them up and I have set my self to the task of painting 321 or so models all ready....

So that is not likely to get finished but I like to shoot high so lets add in some stretch goals.

6. finish that damn warhound titan......

7. paint up the baneblade

8. Finish up the adeptus custodes land raider

9. Start scratch building a Thunderhawk

10. Scratch build an ork gargant or some Ork super heavy

11. What the hell if I finish the warhound this year I should start on a reaver titan I do have a set of plans for one stashed on my backup hard drive some where....


I think that should do. If I can get all this done and play some games This will be one hell of a year of hobbying.

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well this year was the year of warmachine and warhammer fantasy that is for sure. I believe I managed to finish painting about 120-130 models of my 300+ I wished to complete. lets call it half so not bad at all I now have all most all the options I want for my Khador army painted there are maby a dozen left that I have around that I may get around to at some point but the core is deffentaly all there and looking snazzy

I also have the bulk of my vampires done for warhammer fantasy and for that army I really mean bulk painting. Zombies and skeletons are needed in much larger quantitys that anything else i have ever tried painting. I have to admit both of the batches I did for them really burnt me out panting wise for a wile but I love seeing them on the table in all there glory. I am just glad I don't need to do it again.

last but certainly not least are my beloved imperial fists they have not hit the table in a long time but there are murmurs of starting killteams up shortly with in my gameing group so they may get there chance soon.

So when you add in all the games I have actually played this year its been a great hobby year and next year is shaping up to be a banner year as well.

so now on to the hard part setting a new TO DO list up for the comeing year.

1: actually finish the Imperial fists!

• Tactical Squad #3
• Sternguard squad #2
• Sternguard squad #3 yes I had to add this when the new kit came out I am weak...
• Ironclad dread
• drop pod #2
• drop pod #3
• 16 normal terminators
• the last few odd command models I have siting around  

2: mop up the last vampires that need painting

• coven throne 
• 5 black knights 
• second vampire on foot
• Terrorgheist (my wife got me a second model for Christmas so I could build a actual Terrorgheist. yes she is great!)
• 10 Ghouls
• 10 hounds 

3: Warriors of chaos

• 3 units of 12 warriors 
• 10 Chaos knights 
• daemon prince 
• 3 skull crushers
• 10 hounds 

4: orks

•  shoota squad of 30 the last 20 for the unit
•  slugga squad of 30 
• flesh out the nob squad I think there are about 10 of them 
• battle waggon #1
• battle waggon #2
• 7 deffcoptas 

5. finish that damn warhound titan......

6. paint up the baneblade


7. Start scratch building a Thunderhawk   

8.  Finish up the adeptus custodes land raider and get the units in order so they could be a kill team or somthing....


about 177 models this year much easier then  last year.....

Sword brethren / vanguard veterans

finished up these guys today not sure when they will get to the table but now they are an option!

Vampires vs. lizardmen game five

Deployment: yes we are still using the flamer templates as a river... yeah I need to fix that at some point. 

 Vampire turn one: general advance + bulking up units the normal stuff

 Lizardmen turn one: they move up quite a bit and due to magic the saurus got to move an additional ten inches and get around my flank so early

 Vampires turn two: to save my self from a flank charge I charged into combat exposeing the saurus on my flank to my hexwraiths soul striding thru them to kill a few plus the terrorghiest screaming several of them to death.

 Lizardmen turn two: they got the charge in with the saurus cav into the skeleton unit wile also charging the back of my zombies with the left over saurus

 

 Vampires turn three: The terrorghiest destroyed the skink skirmishers that were comeing in to poison him and  my zombies were utterly annihilated.  

 Lizardmen turn three: Seance the zombies are not in the way any more the units that kill them are free to charge and kill my terrorghiest

Vampires turn four: my skeletons died and the only unit left is the hexwraiths   

 not sure what happened picture wise hear but I walked thru the skink cohort to allmost destroy them   

 and now they get killed to combat resolution

A rather solid lizardmen victory 

lizardmen stegadon

I tough I would post some work in progress shots of the stegadon I would have just given to my friend mike who owns the lizardmen army that appears so often in the battle reports. as you can see I have gotten a lot done all ready the skin on the steg and most of the basing for the colors. As of right now I have a week till Christmas to finish this up and a lot of other work to do so that is enough typing time to get back to painting. 

Black Templar sword brethren / Vanguard veterans

I have seven of the ten veterans finished and also need to get done my emperors champion and i will have a nice little allies force of Black Templars ready to go at least when you take into account that I all ready have a tactical squad around some place

Vampire Counts VS. High elves Game one

 Deployment: the empty plate is supposed to be Forrest in a few battle reports they will finally have there trees that were lost in my basement for a long time  the only other confusing thing on the table is the set of templates. They are a river I need to get around to building some scenery to represent a river as they come up a lot but I have not gotten to it yet.
Oh and this is a watch tower mission and the house in the center is the objective

 

The high elves got to go first  and shuffle forward a bit to set them selves up for later they also took a shot at the terrorghiest with the bolt thrower and did nothing to it

 The first vampire turn was also a general advance and bulking up my units with magic.

 High elf turn two consisted of pinking away at my units and moving up his reaver cav to block me from marching 

 Vamp turn two my necromancer finished off the cav on my flank with magic missiles  I should have moved my hexwraiths out to the flank of the skeletons but sadly I did not   

 High elves turn three the sword masters charged my zombies and the seaguard charged my skeletons if I am not mistaken this was when he challenged my vampire I accepted and got wiped out due to him drinking a potion of strength and with his high initiative and always  strike first rule getting him rerolls to hit and a really high chance to wound me.  

 Vampire turn three I swooped over the combat between the zombies and the sword masters with the terrorghiest to screech at the bolt thrower in combat the sword masters finished off the zombies and the skeletons keep grinding down the unit of seaguard  

 High elf turn four: The sword masters are now in the tower and the ongoing combat with the seaguard is slowly going to the undead due to healing of losses and dragging down a few elves each combat.

Vampire Turn four: The terrorghiest moves over to get at the archers because the swordmasters have the banner that gives them a 2+ ward save vs. magic so the chances of doing wounds was really low
the rest of the turn was ongoing combat   

High elf turn five: The ongoing combat is coming to an end but the elves survive again and the archers take some shots at the terrorghiest  

Vampire turn five:I finally finished off the elves with the skeletons I also charged the archers they chose to flee 

 High elf turn six: The archers failed to rally and the sword masters easily hold the tower

 Vampire turn six: The hexwraiths ran down the archers and I reformed the skeletons to attack the tower a day late and a dollar short sadly 

So the high elves hold the tower and win the game!  after this game  I decided I needed a unit of graveguard both to serve as an effective combat block but also to take that damn tower after some one with decent combat skills takes a tower.

Still this game was a blast to play and I look forward to fighting them again in a different mission.