Cryx vs Khador 500pts battle
Posted: 11 Feb 2007, o 16:02
today once more I had a great pleasure to face my vicious opponent Deco... and his freshly dipped khadorians! 
unfortunatelly in the final minute of the game batteries of my camera run out and I didn't take a pic of vlad surviving deathjack's attack followed by 4x breath of corruption (that bastard survived with ONLY ONE bamage box!) spell... 
however I managed to take some piccies and here they are (sorry for poor quality - due depelting batteries I was forced to use "economic" mode to take as many photos as possible... 
)
FORCES
cryx:
-asphysious
-deathjack
-3x deathrippers
-10x mechanithralls
-2x machine wraiths
-pistol wraith
khador:
-vlad
-2x destroyers
-devastator
-mortar crew
-ninja eiryss b!tch
-alexia + risen
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DEPLOYMENT:
as it was I who was choosing table edge I decided to start with not much terrains at my table's zone - I knew Deco liked artillery (mortar, destroyers) so I prefered to have some terrains at his side to hide deathrippers + wraiths and to limit line of sight of khadorian shooters;
Deco's warcaster started game hidden behind devastator, eiryss started hidden in the ruins next to the risen;
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ROUND #1
all wraiths ran forward, same as mechanithralls and rest of my forces; obe deathripper and mahine wraith were sent on the left flank to distrupt artillery's attention from deathjack and to (hopefully :pray: ) mess with khadorians in the following rounds; DJ advanced 6" and generated necrovent cloud - second death-chicken and machine wraith used it as cover
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ROUND #2
Deco advanced with all of his forces; vlad casted blood of the kings and signs and portents (I hate these spells...) but even with such suppots artillery didn't manage to inflict any damages on by forces; thing I was seriously worrying about at that moment was devastator in the charge range: if I won't manage to remove that exploding threat - it's rain of death could consume lots of my models next turn!
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ROUND #3
that was critical moment but I decided to try solving devatator-problem:
I parked deathripper close enough to arc node parasite, after that skarlock casted scything touch on deathjack; my baby also got additional 3 FOC points (5 in total!) to attack devastator in most effective way; but to be sure Deco won't deliver rain of death too close if he managed to survive the DJ's charge I fired it with pistol wraith - khadorian jack has been death-chilled
after charge deathjack was causing 20+3d6 damage 3 times in a row against decreased to 22 devastator's armour; with my final attack I crossed all of remaining damage boxes of khadorian damn'heavy jack - leaving pile of junk on the table!
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looks like now I was about to suffer retaliation from devastator's bolshevic friends
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ROUND #4
Deco casted blood of the kings + signs and portents combo to gain jack-statiscics for vlad and to increase chances for hitting me hard;
devastator entered the combat, hit DJ with no problems but... DIDN'T MANAGE TO INFLICT ANY SERIOUS DAMAGE!
I was saved! it's was almost a miracle when he casted 1, 2 and 5 on 3 attack dieces! I was even more happy, becasuse of critical amputation rule of destroyer's axe! I had also luck while Deco's artillery-action: deathripper was hit my scattered mortar shell and 4 damage boxes were crossed, but it was all; looks like lord toruk himself guided dieces that round!
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ROUND #5
pistol wraith took down 2 risens so there was enough space for moving machine wraith to machine meld khadorian jack, mcthralls charged second destroyer and after that I possessed it my second wraith; tthanks to that eathjack avoided a free strike while moving to the vlad! boosted necro-cloud was spawned but I managed to inflict only a few damages...
(in this moment baterries run out
)
deathripper moved behind engaged vlad so asphysious could deliver 4 breath of corruption pukes (3 of them boosted) - I love iron lich's feat...
it was incredible but vlad survived with only A SINGLE point of life!
ROUND #6
vlad moved out of cloce combat, casted blood of the kings and signs... (for the last time during that battle ) and managed to banish wraith out of jack near DJ - after being freed destroyed moved into CC with deathjack damaging one of necro claws; one of risen charged at corporeal machine wraith but didn't manage to annihilate it; eiryss shot second dastroyer -> I failed CMD check with wraith so another khadorian killing machine was free, but the only thing it did was smashing machine thrall into pulp; risen thrall charged deathripper in the back leaving nothing more than some mengled junk - fortunatelly my jack played his role before it was sent back to the junkyard 
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FINAL ROUND
survived machine wraith possessed destroyer once more so deathjack could leave CC avoiding free strike; once again I placed 5 FOC points in total on DJ and advanced cloce to the vlad and alexia:
necrovent was used once again - alexia died immediately consumed by eerie fumes, vlad died a second after - I boosted damage roll!
the battle was over, and we both have good fun*
*I suspect I had better though
unfortunatelly in the final minute of the game batteries of my camera run out and I didn't take a pic of vlad surviving deathjack's attack followed by 4x breath of corruption (that bastard survived with ONLY ONE bamage box!) spell... however I managed to take some piccies and here they are (sorry for poor quality - due depelting batteries I was forced to use "economic" mode to take as many photos as possible... )FORCES
cryx:
-asphysious
-deathjack
-3x deathrippers
-10x mechanithralls
-2x machine wraiths
-pistol wraith
khador:
-vlad
-2x destroyers
-devastator
-mortar crew
-ninja eiryss b!tch
-alexia + risen
Click to see full-sized imageClick to see full-sized imageClick to see full-sized imageClick to see full-sized imageDEPLOYMENT:
as it was I who was choosing table edge I decided to start with not much terrains at my table's zone - I knew Deco liked artillery (mortar, destroyers) so I prefered to have some terrains at his side to hide deathrippers + wraiths and to limit line of sight of khadorian shooters;
Deco's warcaster started game hidden behind devastator, eiryss started hidden in the ruins next to the risen;
Click to see full-sized imageROUND #1
all wraiths ran forward, same as mechanithralls and rest of my forces; obe deathripper and mahine wraith were sent on the left flank to distrupt artillery's attention from deathjack and to (hopefully :pray: ) mess with khadorians in the following rounds; DJ advanced 6" and generated necrovent cloud - second death-chicken and machine wraith used it as cover
Click to see full-sized imageROUND #2
Deco advanced with all of his forces; vlad casted blood of the kings and signs and portents (I hate these spells...) but even with such suppots artillery didn't manage to inflict any damages on by forces; thing I was seriously worrying about at that moment was devastator in the charge range: if I won't manage to remove that exploding threat - it's rain of death could consume lots of my models next turn!
Click to see full-sized imageClick to see full-sized imageROUND #3
that was critical moment but I decided to try solving devatator-problem:
I parked deathripper close enough to arc node parasite, after that skarlock casted scything touch on deathjack; my baby also got additional 3 FOC points (5 in total!) to attack devastator in most effective way; but to be sure Deco won't deliver rain of death too close if he managed to survive the DJ's charge I fired it with pistol wraith - khadorian jack has been death-chilled
after charge deathjack was causing 20+3d6 damage 3 times in a row against decreased to 22 devastator's armour; with my final attack I crossed all of remaining damage boxes of khadorian damn'heavy jack - leaving pile of junk on the table!
Click to see full-sized imagelooks like now I was about to suffer retaliation from devastator's bolshevic friends
Click to see full-sized imageROUND #4
Deco casted blood of the kings + signs and portents combo to gain jack-statiscics for vlad and to increase chances for hitting me hard;
devastator entered the combat, hit DJ with no problems but... DIDN'T MANAGE TO INFLICT ANY SERIOUS DAMAGE!
I was saved! it's was almost a miracle when he casted 1, 2 and 5 on 3 attack dieces! I was even more happy, becasuse of critical amputation rule of destroyer's axe! I had also luck while Deco's artillery-action: deathripper was hit my scattered mortar shell and 4 damage boxes were crossed, but it was all; looks like lord toruk himself guided dieces that round! Click to see full-sized imageROUND #5
pistol wraith took down 2 risens so there was enough space for moving machine wraith to machine meld khadorian jack, mcthralls charged second destroyer and after that I possessed it my second wraith; tthanks to that eathjack avoided a free strike while moving to the vlad! boosted necro-cloud was spawned but I managed to inflict only a few damages...
(in this moment baterries run out
)deathripper moved behind engaged vlad so asphysious could deliver 4 breath of corruption pukes (3 of them boosted) - I love iron lich's feat...
it was incredible but vlad survived with only A SINGLE point of life!
ROUND #6
vlad moved out of cloce combat, casted blood of the kings and signs... (for the last time during that battle
) and managed to banish wraith out of jack near DJ - after being freed destroyed moved into CC with deathjack damaging one of necro claws; one of risen charged at corporeal machine wraith but didn't manage to annihilate it; eiryss shot second dastroyer -> I failed CMD check with wraith so another khadorian killing machine was free, but the only thing it did was smashing machine thrall into pulp; risen thrall charged deathripper in the back leaving nothing more than some mengled junk - fortunatelly my jack played his role before it was sent back to the junkyard Click to see full-sized imageFINAL ROUND
survived machine wraith possessed destroyer once more so deathjack could leave CC avoiding free strike; once again I placed 5 FOC points in total on DJ and advanced cloce to the vlad and alexia:
necrovent was used once again - alexia died immediately consumed by eerie fumes, vlad died a second after - I boosted damage roll!
the battle was over, and we both have good fun*
*I suspect I had better though
