WAP battle - hobgoblins vs daemons

 So it was a dark day as the daemons seized the watchtower and despite our valiant efforts we could not shift the foul beats of the north.

The giant, wolf riders and war beast hit a blood letter wall.

A double charge of Keshig into the skull crushers removes them.

Belakor destroys the hobgoblin line after they try to destroy each other in a treacherous display of unity.

Ghazrak orders a valiant retreat as his unit of kheshig is destroyed. He joins Oglah Khan’s unit and leaves the daemons to their prize. Vengeance will be pursued another time.

My favourite miniatures - Greater Daemon of Slaanesh

This is the first greater daemon of Slaanesh I remember being released and is one of my favourite minis of all time.

This range was not constricted by GW's current pg rating and captures the pleasure and pain aspect of the slaves to darkness era. I guess you could say this mini also pre dated the cisgender definition that we now use.

Paint job was done about ten years ago inspired by a 40k Slaanesh force in an old white dwarf.

Play style wise I used him/ her throughout 7th and 8th edition as a combo magic lord and combat monster before the times of end ruined the old world.  The combination of the old Slaanesh spells and a couple of nasty upgrades made him/ her hard to kill if I made it into combat but I have lost count of the number of times he/ she received cannon balls to the face.

3000 point game

Recently I took 3000 points of chaos dwarfs against some daemons of nurgle.

I was rocking drazhoarth, a bull centaur Taur'ruk, a level 2 daemon smith and a BSB, two units of infernal guard, 38 hobgoblin archers, the dread quake mortar, iron daemon with skull cracker and 3 bull centaurs.

My opponent was rocking the double papa nurgle, epidemis, 2 units of four beasts of nurgle, 2 units of plague bearers, three plague drones, furies and lots of nurgling bases.

The plan was to rush the right flank with the bull centaurs and the skull crackers up the middle.  The infernal guard and drazhoarth would rush the beasts with his fiery attacks and the banner of eternal flame on the warriors.  The dread quake would reduce epidemis and his unit.

Well things did not go to plan- the skull cracker got nervous and then failed the charge but the big one was when drazhoarth and the warriors made it into the beasts he got hungry and unleashed flames of azgorth which of course scattered back onto him.  

As the pic shows of course both drazhoarth and cinderbreath disappeared and although the warriors dispatched the beasts, papa nurgles finest decided to take out the bsb and his unit.  The only highlight was a direct hit from the dread quake before he charged in and killed the bsb which caused the unit to run.

Overall it was a crushing loss to me but the lessons are:

Don't use direct damage spells in close combat which scatter - the laws of warhammer will mean it will scatter onto you lol.

Hobgoblins are pretty useless but in a horde can hold off lots of nurglings for a couple of turns.

Use a destroyer in big games.  I love the destroyer but in small friendly games you will lose friends!

Bull centaur unit need to be at least six strong plus a Taur'ruk.

When flames of azgorth goes wrong

I will let the pictures tell the story (brief battle report to come soon).