- Feb 8, 2022
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Played a quick game over TTS last night against a friend who has his shiny new Nighthaunt book and is excited to use it...!
We only had a short time to play, so I took a fairly silly list - Avengorii, 4xVLoZD and 3x10 Skeletons!
I lost, by roughly 21 - 17, we "talked through" the last couple of turns as we were out of time and it was fairly obvious how things would progress. We played the scenario with "predator" units, forget it's name, and I missed a chance to score big in turn 3. There was a Mournghul on 3 wounds remaining, and I called Bring it Down. Shot at and charged into it with a VLoZD on full health, with Finest Hour, and caused... 1 wound... I remembered how surprisingly un-threatening Zombie Dragons can be! I missed out on 2pts for battle tactic, 1pt for battle tactic with a monster, 1pt for killing a monster, and 1pt for killing a predator with a predator. Could have swung the game!
On the other hand, I also rememberd how tough VLoZDs can be when they aren't facing off against mortal wounds. One of mine faced off against 20 harridans, 2 Mournghuls and a Knight of Shrouds, and only died in the 3rd combat phase! A combo of finest hours, mystic shields and all out defences meant I was mostly rolling 2+ saves against everything!
We only had a short time to play, so I took a fairly silly list - Avengorii, 4xVLoZD and 3x10 Skeletons!
I lost, by roughly 21 - 17, we "talked through" the last couple of turns as we were out of time and it was fairly obvious how things would progress. We played the scenario with "predator" units, forget it's name, and I missed a chance to score big in turn 3. There was a Mournghul on 3 wounds remaining, and I called Bring it Down. Shot at and charged into it with a VLoZD on full health, with Finest Hour, and caused... 1 wound... I remembered how surprisingly un-threatening Zombie Dragons can be! I missed out on 2pts for battle tactic, 1pt for battle tactic with a monster, 1pt for killing a monster, and 1pt for killing a predator with a predator. Could have swung the game!
On the other hand, I also rememberd how tough VLoZDs can be when they aren't facing off against mortal wounds. One of mine faced off against 20 harridans, 2 Mournghuls and a Knight of Shrouds, and only died in the 3rd combat phase! A combo of finest hours, mystic shields and all out defences meant I was mostly rolling 2+ saves against everything!
