Saturday, Full Time and myself ventured up to our friendly local gaming store known as the Dragons Keep to play a game of Warhammer. I used my trusty old High Elves and Full Time, because he doesn't own his own army yet, used my lizardmen army. It was a very fun game.
Above is a photo of the battle field after the set up, but before the game began. The High Elves ar positioned on the right, and the Lizards on the left. Both armies are very heavy on the Infantry. The High elves have NO cavalry, and the lizards only have one unit of Cav, but have a very large monster in the Stegadon, and some very formidable smaller monsters known as Salamanders. Both forces have very strong casters. The elves have the always formidable Teclis, High Loremaster of the White Tower. And the Lizards have a very powerful Slann Mage-Priest. I could tell from the start, whoever controlled the Magic Phase would win the day.
So, to make what could be a very long story short, the Lizard dominated the magic phase. I showed mercy on Full Time in the first turn and cast a very devastating spell "Pit of Shades" on a unit of Saurus instead of his Slann Unit (which it could have decimated) and payed for it dearly. He proceed to destroy my unit of archers with his salamanders, and got off a few spells, but failed a charge on my unit of White Lions. All in all, Turn one was a draw.
Turn two was the turning point. I failed to cast my first spell with Teclis, which meant I couldn't cast any more this turn. I failed a charge with my White Lions on his Cold One Cavalry, But I got the charge on his Skink unit with Sword Masters and totally destroyed them. pretty good eh? well, In his turn two, Teclis was destroyed by a well cast spell "The Dwellers Below." After that, I did well in combat, but not well enough. all that survived was a spearman.
Lessons Learned? If your are going to cast a spell with Teclis, roll enough dice to make sure you get it off, Sword Masters better break the unit they fight in turn one ir they won't survive, and White Lions don't ALWAYS run.
