Supreme Sorceress w/Dark Pegasus, Pendant, Focus Familiar, Death Magic
-Soulblight, Fate of Bjuna, Doom and Darkness, Spirit Leech this game
Death Hag BSB w/Cauldron of Blood
30x Witch Elves w/Banner of Murder and a musician
30x Corsairs w/Sea Serpent Standard and a musician
18x Black Guard w/standard bearer
7x Dark Riders w/repeating crossbows and a musician
5x Shades w/extra hand weapons
5x Harpies
1x War Hydra
I played against a Daemons army and this was the basics of the list. I don't know daemons very well so I'm not sure of the gear, but he ended up with a 3+ magic resistance save on his Bloodletters unit.
40(or so) x Bloodletters w/command
25(or so) x Flesh Hounds w/Karnak (sp?) character upgrade
5x Flamers
5x Flamers
Skulltaker
Herald of Khorne
This battle was Dawn Attack with points for having your general in the enemy's deployment area at the end of the game and for each core unit you destroy to a max of 3.
During deployment, the Daemons put both charactes with the Bloodletters. He ended up with Flamers and Bloodletters on my far left, and the Flesh Hounds and Flamers on my far right. Everything I had came down in my right and center, with the Sorceress deploying in the Black Guard. Shades deployed out in the middle. I set up the Witches and Black Guard to take on the Bloodletters and it seemed like set up gave me the advantage. I then forgot to vanguard. This develops into a theme. It looked like this:
Daemons get first turn and the combat units move forward as fast as they can. Both Flamer units move toward the middle and I lose one shade to shooting. Looks like this:
Dark Elves first turn and I forget to use the Cauldron buff. Sorceress hops out of the Black Guard. Witches and Black Guard advance toward the Bloodletters using the Harpies as a screen so I can charge both in at the same time next turn. Dark Riders move up and combine fire with the Shades to do very little damage to the left side Flamers. My Hydra and Corsairs turn toward the Flesh Hounds which are moving in fast. Looks like this:
Daemons turn 2 sees both Flamers continue to the center. I lose all but one Shade to shooting and 4 Dark Riders. The Flesh Hounds continue to move up. The Bloodletters charge the Harpies, destroy them, and reform as expected.
Dark Elves turn 2 and I forget to use the Cauldron buff again (doh!). Witches and Black Guard combo charge the Bloodletters. Dark Riders charge the left side Flamers in the flank. The War Hydra moves up in front of the Flesh Hounds to flame them, then hopefully get charged and last one round of combat so the Corsair Horde can go into the flank. Of course then I forget to use the breath weapon! The Sorceress flies into the middle and uses the high power Soulblight, which hits all the deamon units.
The Witches and Black Guard manage to kill more than half of the Bloodletters, but the Black Gaurd get mangled in return thanks to the characters he has in there. The Dark Riders and Flamers almost kill each other off.
Daemons turn 3. The Flesh Hounds charge the Hydra as they can't wheel around to get the Corsairs. His Flamers squeeze between the gap in units to fire at the Sorceress, but do no damage. The Bloodletter fight continues, and the Black Guard are now almost gone. He is down to a quarter or less of the rank and file plus the characters. The Hydra holds up with one wound remaining against the Flesh Hounds and kills enough to tie combat. The Dark Rider and Flamer slap at each other.
Dark Elves turn 3. The game basically ends on this turn. I put up a ward save on the Witches with the Cauldron. I charge the last Shade in to help out with the Flamer. Corsairs get a flank charge on the Flesh Hounds. I roll 12 power dice, then cast my first spell with three 1's.......
The Black Guard are destroyed and the Witches lose by a point, but fail their rerollable stubborn test for being in range of the Cauldron. They get run over by the Bloodletters and are destroyed. The Hydra dies and the Corsairs basically bounce off the flank of the Flesh Hounds, who reform to face them. Ouch. The one high point is when I finally kill off the last Flamer in the left side unit.
Daemons turn 4. The Sorceress gets shot 20 some times by the Flamers and dies. The Corsairs lose 15+ models and run away from the Flesh Hounds, who fail to catch them, but will destroy them a turn later. All that is left for the Deamons is clean up, which is how they spend the rest of the game.
The result of this game is max points for the Daemons. I thought the deployment favored me and the Witches/Black Guard combo would beat out the Bloodletters, but that wasn't the case. That huge unit of Flesh Hounds was tough too. Probably would have helped if I remembered to use the Cauldron for the first two turns.
The other two games might pop up in a day or two. Anyway, tactics comments are welcome!
