Malus vs Skulltaker showdown
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:25 pm
I was playing a new (new to demons, not fantasy) demon player in a 1500 point game. I knew he was taking skulltaker on a jugg with 2 bloodcrushers because he had been talking about skulltaker for about a week.
I decided I would have some fun and take Malus in my 1500 game as my general. I always liked the background to him, and he hits pretty hard for a hero. I also decided to take the standard of hag grief on his unit of Cold One Knights because that's where Malus is from and it would help a lot if I got charged by flesh hounds or Skulltaker.
Anyway, this isn't a full battle report, there was just one awesome moment...
The bloodcrushers and CoKs, each lead by their special characters were squared off. I change Malus into demon form and fail the charge by a hair. Next turn I get charged.
Skulltaker issues a challenge and is suprised I accepted with Malus (I wanted hatred so I could kill him before he kills me!) and not my unit champ. The demon player smirks.. nothing can beat skulltaker in a challenge... Malus hits with 2, reroll to hatred hits with another. 3 hits, wounding on 3s. Due to rerolls all 3 wounded Skulltaker. My opponent is visibly nervous. He then makes 2 out of 3 5+ ward saves. Damn. Then spite comes through like a champ and bites skulltakers head off.
It was awesome. We ended up tying combat that round (bloodcrushers hurt), but Malus owned them the next round and then steamrolled his flanks in route to a solid victory.
Just the mental image of Skulltaker confidently squaring off against a puny looking elf, then watching the elf turn into a demon, and then watching the demon kill him was great.
I decided I would have some fun and take Malus in my 1500 game as my general. I always liked the background to him, and he hits pretty hard for a hero. I also decided to take the standard of hag grief on his unit of Cold One Knights because that's where Malus is from and it would help a lot if I got charged by flesh hounds or Skulltaker.
Anyway, this isn't a full battle report, there was just one awesome moment...
The bloodcrushers and CoKs, each lead by their special characters were squared off. I change Malus into demon form and fail the charge by a hair. Next turn I get charged.
Skulltaker issues a challenge and is suprised I accepted with Malus (I wanted hatred so I could kill him before he kills me!) and not my unit champ. The demon player smirks.. nothing can beat skulltaker in a challenge... Malus hits with 2, reroll to hatred hits with another. 3 hits, wounding on 3s. Due to rerolls all 3 wounded Skulltaker. My opponent is visibly nervous. He then makes 2 out of 3 5+ ward saves. Damn. Then spite comes through like a champ and bites skulltakers head off.
It was awesome. We ended up tying combat that round (bloodcrushers hurt), but Malus owned them the next round and then steamrolled his flanks in route to a solid victory.
Just the mental image of Skulltaker confidently squaring off against a puny looking elf, then watching the elf turn into a demon, and then watching the demon kill him was great.