Crushed by a better army/better dice/better player

Phil (not Star-Dragon Phil) took up the offer of a game on Sunday so in War-of-the-Beardesque style the Dwarfs took on the High Elves. Phil's awesomely fluffy army was (and I may not have this entirely correct):

Prince (General) on foot (in White Lions)
Prince BSB with Silver Helms
2 x Level 2 Mages
Spear block - full command (FC)
Lothern block - FC
Big block fo White Lions - FC
Silver Helms - FC
Dragon Princes - FC
Lion Chariot
2 Bolties
2 Thrice-damned Eagles of charge-stopping, redirecting, bait-and-fleeing doom


In summary the game was characterised by:

Phil being a better player - a solid plan that took advantage of his awesome maneoverability (and my total lack of), decent shooting and quite frankly terrifying magic (6PD+bound - Ring of Fury - totally trumped my 4DD + magic resistance on the Longbeards). Mind you... 3 irresistible force Flames of the Phoenix's (Phoenii?) helped some... I on the other hand put the Hammerers SO far out of position they may as well just stayed in the box. Ugh.

Phil having a better army - with flexible shooting, great movement, some magical niceness, decent leadership, mix of armour, static res, a chariot, march blockers and diverters... his army is waaaay better than what the Dwarfs could muster. A flexible and quite fluffy force - still small, this is High Elves after all - but very capable. Nice work Phil!

Phil having better dice than me - I put this one last because really it's a poor general who whinges, bitches and moans about the dice "Ohhh... I was so unlucky. Ohhh... his dice were so much better. Ohhh... I want to blame random number generators for my failings and inadequacies" etc. Fact is though - his bloody dice were on fire. I don't know where the Lucky Dave shirt was but I sure as heck wasn't gettin any of it! Aside from the 3 irresistible forces (and admittedly a miscast in the last turn which took a wound off one of the Mages) points of note and the difference in our luck include:

- the Lion chariot moving through the wood 3 times and flippin surviving!
- me failing a fear check needing 9
- the Lothern Seaguard shooting dead my general - 5s to hit; 6s to wound; 2s to save = dead Dwarf :/
- me fleeing with my Thunderers a mighty 1" - that's right. Double ones to flee, minus one for being short and fat = 1" flee move. Equals dead Thunderers.
- my cannon blowing up with it's first shot (again)
- hitting the Prince BSB, wounding and then rolling a '1' for D6 wounds with the Grudgethrower (2+ and he's dead... sigh)


Long and the (Dwarfishly) short of it was a loss by 1009VPs which I think is around a 15-5 or so.

I lost HEAPS of stuff. Phil lost 1/2 the Silver Helms, an Eagle, 1/2 the chariot, 1/2 a Mage (from the miscast), one of the bolt throwers and the Spear block when he decided to make things "interesting" and rear charge the Longbeards (they bounced and were run down).

Phil is (naturally) a great sport but it was a tough match up and I'd rather not enter FluffyCon hoping for a nice draw to see me through. It's not much of a game plan is it?


Back to the drawing board...