Fantasy Adventure

I've decided, after 15+ years, to get back into playing warhammer fantasy battle.

I've always like the brettonians and wood elf armies but after doing some research have found out that these two armies aren't very good in the latest edition of WFB. Now I definitely go for fun over winning but if I loose ALL my games then I'll just get depressed with the game and pack it up for another 15 years.

So I did a bit more research, and looked at the miniature ranges and have decided to go for warriors of chaos. The WoC and meant to be a simple army to use, run forward and hit stuff, but still has the potential for a lot of character, the marks of chaos. Also the miniatures from warhammer forge are too nice to say no to!

To start off I've purchased the WOC battalion to get the army kick started. All I had to purchase now was a sorcerer to lead the army, I like the idea of a corrupt wizard leading a war band :-) I suddenly remembered that having been to the last few games days I had the miniatures from them. These are a chaos sorcerer and a chaos champion. I had to include these as they're nice models as well as powerful characters. To round out the army I'm going to get a unit of 5 marauder horsemen.

So far I'm building a 1250 list which looks like this-

Chaos Sorcerer
    General
    Mark of Tzeentch
    Level 2 Upgrade
    Infernal Puppet

Exalted Hero
    Mark of Khorne
    Extra Hand Weapon
    Favour of the Gods

Chaos Warriors - 12
    Mark of Tzeentch
    Musician
    Standard Bearer - Blasted Standard
    Shields
    Champion

Chaos Marauders - 20
    Mark of Khorne
    Musician
    Standard Bearer
    Great Weapons
    Marauder Chieftan

Marauder Horsemen - 5
    Mark of Slaanesh
    Musician
    Standard Bearer
    Spears
    Marauder Chieftan

Chaos Hounds - 10
    Scaly Skin

Chaos Knights - 5
    Mark of Nurgle
    Musician
    Standard Bearer - Banner of Wrath
    Champion

I've got my first game this Monday so I'll see how it all works, if at all!

Mirrror Match

Had my first grey knight 'v' grey knight game last night. Game was capture and control with dawn of war set up at 2000 points, ended in a draw.

I used my 1500 point force with a few additions. Added a techmarine to the purifier squad, which I bulked out to 10 men. Also made the assault cannon dread into a venerable dread and bulked the terminators to 10 men.

He had an 'in your face' army of 2 dreadknights, deathcult in a stormraven and several terminator squads. This was all led by corteaz and a brotherhood champion.

Basically he stormed my objective and I stormed his. Although both armies work quite differently, depite being the same, we cancelled each other out.

Turn 5 would have ended in a draw, turn 6 was a draw, game did end here. We played a turn 7 to see 'what if' and I 'would' have won due his inability to kill a razorback with 10 terminators. Made up for me first round of shooting where I didn't kill a thing! A moral victory for me though!