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Was it worth the cost of the mag to read, or just half a page then archaon wins?
Also, was it just the two of them, or a larger battle report with more forces on both sides?
Also, was it just the two of them, or a larger battle report with more forces on both sides?
Menkeroth
A Knight of Blood
Boo. I picked up the white dwarf issue. It was neither a straight, one on one fight nor an real battle report with other stuff going on, but rather a wonky scenario with attacks chosen from a chart that gives a huge advantage to archaon, in that he can prevent nagash from using spells or ranged attacks at all, and gives archaon first swing in every combat round.
It's not even pretty or anything, just the table and text descriptions, very little in the way of pictures or anything. Why is every white dwarf battle report so pointless and terrible? -_-
It's not even pretty or anything, just the table and text descriptions, very little in the way of pictures or anything. Why is every white dwarf battle report so pointless and terrible? -_-
Both heroes choose an option from the table, then compare in the combat phase. From what I can tell, this is instead of anything else they would do (ie, ranged attacks, movement, spells) apart from command abilities. There is a command ability to allow an unengaged unit to attack the enemy superhero, then that unit is immediately destroyed.
From what I can tell, there's no restriction on using the same action over and over again, and, while the article claims making your choice is some sort of tricky, tactical game of out-guessing your opponent, in reality I don't see any reason shy Archaon would ever choose anything other than "all out attack", which guarantees first strike, ensures nagash will never cast a spell, and while you might suffer a penalty to hit if nagash defends, it's not like there's any action that would be better to choose if predicting a defense.
The course of the battle outside of this table isn't described at all, and only comes up twice due to nagash calling in units for the command ability attack, but it's hard to envision the death army actually clearing all nearby chaos models to get close enough to use them that way, and between that and the chaos player making overtly bad choices from the table as the feeling of a battle report deliberately obfuscating how pointlessly lopsided and exploitable this scenario is.
Menkeroth
A Knight of Blood
Picture of archaon & assorted, non-specified chaos guys, I think one already seen previously. Similar pic for nagash. Table. One picture of nagash & archaon models next to each w/ assorted models surrounding them, looks like it was set out as display for the picture, does not look like a scene from an actual battle that was played. Then a turn by turn recounting of what choices the abaddon & nagash players made from the table & results of those rolls, with no mention of any battle around them outside of skeletons and morghasts thrown in via the command thing. Whole thing maybe 5 pages, including full page for the initial 'army' pics.
If I had to place a wager, I'd bet that an actual battle was never even fought for it. At most, the two just rolled it out using the table and the dataslates for the characters, throwing in the undead unit swings via the command ability when nagash was faling too far behind, despite the players seemingly choosing their table choices at random.
If I had to place a wager, I'd bet that an actual battle was never even fought for it. At most, the two just rolled it out using the table and the dataslates for the characters, throwing in the undead unit swings via the command ability when nagash was faling too far behind, despite the players seemingly choosing their table choices at random.