Played a great game against Derick earlier this week. And when I say 'played a great game' I mean the game was great but I played like sh!t.
The problem you see, is that my deployment was totally buggered thanks to two forests sitting just outside my deployment zone either side of the centre of the board. Actually that's not what buggered my deployment. What did it for me was deploying the Crossbows and Handgunners between these two forests and then putting the Spears behind the Handguns and the friggin Flagellents behind the Crossbows.
What the hell? Honestly I had no idea what I was doing either.
The result of this lack of strategic forward planning (or indeed lack of any planning at all) was that the vast majority of Derick's Chaos Warrior-heavy army happily rampaged down one flank, ignoring my shooting and totally stoked that they didn't have to waste precious time battering their way through the Unbreakable Flagellents. Bereft of any combat to get involved in the Flagellents were reduced to cheerlessly waving pom poms for the beleaguered Swordmen and Arch-Lector who were promptly cut to ribbons. A sudden lack of magical defense saw Derick then pummel what remained of my army with three L2 Chaos Sorcerers and it wasn't pretty. Something in the vicinity of a 15-5 loss ensued and I rued my inability to form a single cogent thought let alone the inability to play Warhammer in a sensible and logical fashion.
Having been down this path many times I'm really wondering what's wrong with me - why can I not learn my lesson and deploy... better?!
Later in the week Dark Elf Phil and I hooked up for a game. This was an exciting battle - a 10-10 result (draw) which we were both pleased with. These games (or the 11-9 or 12-8 games) are the best - things hang in the balance, moves are cagey, nothing is certain. On the flanks cannon fire did for the Chariot and an amazing 58" guess along the board nailed 3 Cold One Knights. Pistoliers caught Dark Riders after carefully using my own Knights as a meatshield. 8 Flagellents clocked up an incredible 4 wounds (and the two handlers) in a quick battle against the Hydra, running it down in pursuit.
In the centre despite my best efforts, 6 surviving DE Spearmen (from a unit of 20) blitzed through my shooting base. Bladewind is awesome against warmachines, much to the dismay of my poor Mortar crew :) The Witchelves blended the Swordsmen but the hugely frustrating Arch-Lector survived and held up the block of pyschopatic chickies for the rest of the game (although he fled in the last turn dammit). The Cauldron was fantastic!
In this game my deployment was much better but still the Handgunners were left without targets for most of the game (not necessarily a bad thing) and the Pistoliers spent some time wondering where to go and riding in circles.
I've been quite sick recently so have played less than I normally would. Time to get well, get re-energised, and get back into the 2-3 games a week I'm used to. Lord knows I need the practice!
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