High Elf Brettonian Doubles Tournament Army (1000pts each 2000pts total)

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So we played the Ogre/Ogre army. We lost. A bit of a disaster really.
Ogre army consisted of 2 units of Mournfangs (6 and 5 respectively) 2 Iron Blasters a unit of 5 Iron guts and a unit of 6 Ogre Bulls, a Fire Belly and a Butcher.
The ogre army took a Gnobler Brewhouse which they placed in the centre of the board clearly planning to use it to make a stubborn mounfang line. To counter this we placed the Khemrian quicksand right next to it. This worked well as it split up their deployment massively.
We had previously done some mathshammer and reckoned that a charging unit of Knights of the Realm should lose a good 3 or 4 knights to the mounfangs but should in return kill one and win through static CR.

Hence the respective deployments.

Ogres line consisted of Mournfang, Iron Blaster, Bulls, Iron Guts, Iron Blaster, Butcher and Mournfangs.
Our line consisted of Yeomen, Phoenix Guard, Grail Knights, White Lions, Spearmen and Knights of the Realm.
I won’t go into the details too much because they are largely just details. Needless to say the Ogres soften us up wth magic and shooting (nothing horrific but bad enough) . Mournfangs charged the Pheonix Guard and routed them despite the PG being stubborn due to being within 6’’ of the brewhouse, the Grail knights ended up being routed by the Iron guts despite Ld 9 test and the spearmen routed after failing a steadfast check of Ld8. These dice rolls came inbetween the Kngihts of the Realm failing a charge on the mournfangs and being routed by the counter charge.

So dice were not kind to us.

However we also majorly ballsed up our deployment. We were way too focused on charging the far mournfang unit. We should have piled down the left flank.
Basically I think we are too inflexible in our mindset and we need to really know where our pressure point is that we are going to destroy as we did in our first two games.

Only good point was the White Lions kicked ass by killing an iron blaster and holding off an Iron Gut unit for a turn very nearly killing the Fire Belly.

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Got an update on this army.

We have moved things around somewhat.

Dropped the Yeoman Elf prince and Elf mage and replaced them with;
An Archmage and dispel scroll
An Elf Prince with Great Weapon, Armour of Caledor
Banner of Ellyrion for Spears
Trebuchet


Played a battle with the new list against a High Elf Dwarf team up. The Elf army was a tournament army that is going from 'our' GW to the tournie but his partner in this battle was a dwarf gunline army.

Elves had an Eagle two units of 35 spears two nobles and had brought along a wyrding well. The Dwarfs had two Organ Guns a unit of 16-20 Iron breakers (not sure which) with a thane of pain, a Cannon a unit of quarrelers and a unit of thunderers.

Battle went well. We successfully weathered a storm of fire to engage with the enemy and destroy them. Special notes got the Knights of the Realm who killed 35 unbreakable spearmen and a Elf Noble and the Elf Spearmen who routed a unit of Dwarf Quarrelers and Elf Spearmen.

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Final practice battle before the tournament.

High Elf/Brettonian vs Ogres/Orcs & Goblins.

Battle went pretty well. We deployed the Khemrian Quick Sand in the centre of the board to act as a nice way of splitting the opponents force which it did. The ORcs ended up with their hardest unit of 25+ Bigguns and Warboss on the far right flank facing not much.

Meanwhile in the centre the Knights of the Realm and a unit of four mournfangs sparred for a turn or two before the Knights charged and routed the mournfangs before swinging into face a unit of Ogre Bulls and a Bruiser which in the end routed the Knights! (never seen such awful rolls before. Six ones in a row!.

The Grail knights did well to break through a unit of lead belchers, while the Pheonix Guard supporting them excelled themselves by routing a unit of charging Trolls and spreading panic amongst the enemy.

On the Left flank our spearmen charged headlong through a marsh (Banner of Ellyrion FTW) and routed a unit of Orc Archers. They also would of destroyed a doom diver if it hadn't malfunctioned.

The unit of the game though was the 12 White Lions who hacked their way through a unit of 20 Black Orcs and routed the Ogre Bulls to win the game.

Conclusion.

I don't think our army is the most competitive in the world. On the other hand we have had plenty of practice and we have some nasty surprises (those units of 12 Pheonix Guard and 12 White Lions really pack a punch!)

We are hoping to win 3 draw 2.

I will post an update on how we did next week!