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  2. Kevin K
    I've been thinking a bit about the background of this Thunderscorn based army.  For whatever reason, from a narrative perspective, I really like Ghur, the realm of beasts.  Part of what made me finally take the plunge on Dragon Ogors was the fact that it gave me an excuse to take monsters in may army.  I really liked the book Bladestorm, which followed Thostos Bladestorm, a Lord Celestant of the Celestial Vindicators, as he leads a Warrior Chamber into Ghur to take a Chaos fort with a realmgate in order to complete some mission that I frankly forget (at that point it got a bit less interesting for me).  It was a pretty typical Realmgate Wars story, but there were a lot of things I really liked.  There was a tribe of humans awed by the Stormcast and thought they were angels sent to help them (they didn't).  It humanized the Stormcast as well as showed their very non-human aspects.  There were some epic battles (of course) with the Stormcast fighting a fort full of Khorne warriors and deamons. It also introduced the Ironjaws as they attack the fort.  My  Stormcast army are Celestial Vindicators based in Ghur.  I put them in the "present" 50-100 years after those events.  They are part of the Vanguard chamber left behind in Ghur to guard that area.
    The new official fluff for the Thunderscorn is great.  For those that haven't read it, they use to live in Azyr until kicked out by Sigmar prior to closing the realmgates.  They really resent that and have been trying to get back there for a thousand years (or something like that).
    My idea for the thunderscorn, is that the Shaggoth was whiling away the centuries in the mountains of Ghur, as they are wont to do, contemplating ways to get back to Azyr and take revenge on Sigmar.  From those mountains he saw the entrance of the Stormcast into the realm and watched the battles at the fort and the reactivation of the realmgate.  He recognized the Stormcast as children of Sigmar and therefore understood that the way to Azyr was now open.  From there he started the long process of planning and mustering the other Thunderscorn of the realm as well as other allied beasts that he could bend to his will.  This puts him in the same "present" as my Stormcast.  His plan is to come down out of the mountain, take the fort and realmgate and make his way to Azyr, fighting anyone in his way (of course) creating his own mini realmgate wars.
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    The Shaggoth is the most complicated resin model I've done (lots of metal back in the day and plastic recently).  I was out of the game when the finecast change came.  I think it mostly went together well.  I pinned the horns and am not sure I love how they went together.
    I would eventually like to make a custom herdstone, I'm thinking an obelisk with a lighting rod on top.  To keep things simple for now, I'm just doing a regular herdstone.  I'll want that if I ever run regular beasts I suppose.
    Started working on the first unit of Dragon Ogors.  Slow going so far.

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    It Begins...

    By Kevin K,

    My local game store is doing an event where everyone competes to complete a new army and then have tournaments at intervals with different sizes.
    https://www.facebook.com/events/2315441201860803/?ti=cl
    I have always loved the look of the Dragon Ogors.  With the recent release of Beasts of Chaos I thought this would be a good opportunity to build up an army.
    My first 500 pts will be:
    Heardstone
    Shaggoth
    Two units of Dragon Ogors


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    Kronak has been fighting from realm gate to realm gate, desperately trying to find his way back to Azyr.  He steps through the latest gate, the taste of metal in the air, Chamon, and it is cold, very cold.  As his army makes their way through the freezing environment, they find their next gate only to find a bad moon shrine, and an army led by a huge Troggoth arrayed against them.  He sends his expendable breyherd to encircle...he will not be stopped here.
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    I got my first game in since completing my 1000 points against a friend's Bad Moon army.  It was led by the big Trogoth, had two units of grot spears,  a unit of Trogs, squig hoppers, and a Shaman.   We rolled for scenario and got Focal Points in Chamon with the realm effect that says it is so cold that weapons break.  No rend from weapons.  That was really bad for the trolls whose biggest advantage is -2 rend.  We ruled that it didn't effect the stone's effect because it says "on the weapon".
    He gave me the first turn and I ambushed in the raiders, beastigors, and beast Lord.  The only charge I made was the raiders (after shooting) into a small unit of squig hoppers that were on an objective.  That was probably a bad idea but ended up working out.  They only lost three but I underestimated how bad their leadership is.  Thankfully I rolled a 1 for battleshock and they stuck, scoring the extra points.
    The big Trog attacked my Dragon Ogors in the center but without rend, they fought him off.  Same with the unit of Trogs that charged the Beasts behind them.  They didn't do much vs Trogs and Grots because of the -1 to hit (from nets), but they also didn't die very fast.
    The Ghorgon and Dragon Ogors on the right flank wiped out the Grots on that flank and started rolling through the battlefield.
    He tried to Hand of Gork a bunch of grot behind after I moved everyone up but failed the spell.
    It was a fun game that I won on points.  The dice were definitely in my favor in this one.  I was happy to see the Dragon Ogors and Ghorgon perform well and the Breyherd were a great distraction.





  6. Kevin K

    Cuchulag's Vindication

    By Kevin K,


    Battle Report
    Kronak looked out at his enemy, "So the followers of the blood god have found this amber deposit as well.  He will be happy with the blood flowing today, but it will not be ours.  Cuchulag, we will handle the brunt of this.  Go to the right flank and deal with his lesser followers and try to stay in the fight this time."
    Cuchulag grumbled at the disrespect but followed the orders.  He sent his group of Bestigors to sweep around and attempt to outflank the enemy.  As he looked out, he saw what appeared to be a new champion of Khone who he'd not met before.  He rod a giant Manticore and had the smugness of all of these followers of these so called chaos gods.  These are simple pretenders of chaos.  He swore that he would would show the blood god who the real champion is.  He would show them what true chaos is.


    Predictably, the followers o Khorne immediately charged forward throwing all of their might in a reckless pursuit.  The huge bloodthirster, who appeared to be in command hurtled himself into the Dragon Ogors and although the newly bound Chimera severely wounded him with the lighting breath the general killed all of Kronak's Dragon Ogor guard.

    In response, the bloodthirster paid for his recklessness with his life, though the speed of thee great warrior surprised Kronak and his Chimera was severely hurt.

    Cuchulag led the right flank and fared very well.  His outflank maneuver worked flawlessly and his bestigors made quick work on the reavers.

    At that movement, he saw the veins of amber break the surface in front of him.  "Of course, I am the favored of chaos.  Glory will be mine today!".  But the champion of Khorne would not let it be that easy.  He appeared out of nowhere on his terrible beast and slaughtered the bestigors where they stood.  His manticore put it's paws on the amber vein as the chaos champion looked over with an evil smirk.

    At the same time, Kronak was being beset by wrathmongers of Khorne but his adamantine scales protected him and his great axe did the work he expected it to do.  Though he was taking damage, he held up his loadstone and called down the lighting.  He felt rejuvenated and his enemies perished.

    Cuchulag, not to be outdone, call forth to the champion of Khorne and spurred on his great chariot.  He crashed headlong into the great beast and his huge axe cleaved it in two while his tuskgors crushed the champion underfoot.  "This vein is MINE!"

    At that point more ungors came in on all sides of the battlefield and the field was fully controlled.  Kronak became emboldened by the success and charged the last remaining bloodthirster to finish the battle once and for all.

    It was at this point that his scales failed him.  Though he did great damage to the bloodthirster, every flaw in his scales were found and Kronak went down.

    Seeing this, Cuchulag took command of the battle.  He pressed forward destroying a priest of Khone and brought his remaining beasts forward to protect the amber.  Daemons came seemingly out of nowhere and that bloodthirster slowly healing from the wounds Kronak had inflicted.  In the end, he held the field, and the glory.  He fought the great daemon, and though he needed to leave the battlefield, he left as the victor.  If Kronak survived the day, he would have to respect Cuchulag, for it was he who won the day! 

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    We played a 1000 point game using the GHB2021 battle "The Veins of Ghur".  We each had a 25 point Anvil of Apotheosis character in addition.  His army was two bloodthirsters (Incessant Rage and Unfettered Fury), a unit of Wrathmongers, a unit of Bloodreavers, a Bloodsecrator, and a Slaughterpriest.  He was a tad over 1000 pts so I just took a Triumph in compensation (reroll charge).  My army was a Shaggoth general, shaman, ungors for slaughter, 1x10 bestigors, 3 Dragon Ogors, a Chimera, and a Cygor which come to exactly 1000 pts. 
    Since it was the first time using the new Dragon Ogors, they of course were removed from the table before ever doing anything :).  I shot and then charged his general, thinking it was an easy kill but totally forgot that he attacked first in combat.  Somehow, the Chimera survived though and killed it.  I was using a tanky version of the Shaggoth after watching the Bartoz on AOS Coach.  I was able to keep him in a 2+ save most of the time and he did great until he didn't.  took the second bloodthirster to 12 damage (our of 14) but was done 6 hits back with a -2 rend and d3 damage.  He failed every save and just barely died.  It I'd have made even one save, he'd have lived.
    Overall, it was a fun game and very BoC victory.  I got really lucky with objective placement and dropped some ungors in his back lines that he had to deal with, keeping him busy enough, and far away enough that I was able to hold the other two for the rest of the game.  The Cygor did fairly well.  I rolled really well to hit on his rock, though never did more than 2 damage.  I mostly just held him in the back waiting for a chance to use a monster on something.  He did help out with a couple battle tactics.
    End score was 38-20 BoC.
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    Power in Numbers...of Spooky Ghosts

    By Kevin K,


    Battle Report
    As darkness descended, the army prepared to eat what little was left of the last village they raided.  Cuchulag, still feeling smug from his last victory, the breyherd amusing themselves, the thunderscorn off, away from the others as normal.  Suddenly a chill came over the camp.  This wasn't just the normal chill of night coming on, but something much more sinister.  Cuchulag could feel the excitement building and sensed something else, another challenger....

    The glow in the distance alerted the army.  Kronak deployed most of the army in the center.  "Prepare and huddle together.  I've seen these before, and they will come from anywhere."  Cuchulag seeing his rival separated from the rest of her army, ignored Kronak's orders.  "You do not command me any longer!  Bestigors, with me!"
     

    Kronak held the line while the ghosts in the distance moved up slowly. "We shall wait to see where they go and then strike with the speed of lightning!"  Suddenly, a large group of specters with chains clanking appeared on his right flank and with extreme speed were on top of him relentlessly fighting.  At the same time another group surrounded the Cygor with no warning.  This would be a fight for their lives!  

    Severely hurt and dragon ogors down, Kronak was also looking down at a large number of large sword wielding ghosts coming from the front.  He attempted to slow them down with a storm but the winds of magic were not with him tonight.  Between the mighty Chimera, the Dragon Ogors, and the himself, they nearly destroyed the first onslaught but not without serious wounds.  The swordrasps then crashed into him and his dragon ogors immediately killing them all and nearly killing Kronak himself.
    On the other flank, Cuchulag, cursing Kronak's poor planning that would keep him from his prey, for now, he crashed his mighty chariot into the swarm of chainrasps attacking the Cygor, for here there will be glory!  He slaughtered many of them, but they kept coming back.  The Cygor went down attempting to trample the ghosts and Cuchulag fought on.  Cuchulag felt the power of chaos come over him and the speed of his slaughter increased.

    The bestigors meanwhile had found their way around and surprised the lone, pitiful ghost caster.  "Cuchulag said to be careful, but look at her", yelled Fellhorn.  She turned and charged the group, holding merely a small, glowing dagger.  The Bestigors fell on her for the slaughter!  To their surprise, she deflected or let pass through all of their attacks, then with startling speed, her dagger extending to massive length, slaughtered nearly all of them.  They ran, yelling for help.  Help came in the form of a cockatrice, called in from the wild, but too late to save them.


    The battle ground down to a stand-still.  Cuchulag and Kronak both fighting viciously but making little progress.  The cockatrice finally made it and with petrification and slashing claws eliminated the spectral hero but too late to matter.  Cuchulag finally finished off the ghosts and withdrew to a corner of the battlefield where his shaman had called in reinforcements.  He cursed that monster had deprived him of his prey and that those ghosts had held him up so long.  As dawn came, the ghosts that remains disappeared back to wheree ever the had come from, clear in the knowledge of their victory.
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    This was a very weird battle for Beasts of Chaos.  I figured, give him the first turn, figure out where the reserves come in, and deal with it.  Generally, I like to go second and had the choice.  My opponent got crazy good rolls for his two units of chainrasps with charges of 11 and 10 giving them extra attacks and then had great attack rolls.  The Shaggoth actually was down to 2 wounds left after the first round and that was with the Command Trait to give him a 3+ save.  I basically never moved the entire game with almost any of the troops.  That being said, the Shaggoth with the 3+ save in v3 is really survivable.  I was able to heal him up almost fully by the end and with save stacking (should defiantly be removed) I was usually at 2+ save and he just tanked the rest of the game.  His damage is soooo swingy though, made worse by the ethereal.  Some rounds he'd kill 6-9, other's he'd do nothing.  It felt like there were always 3 left at all times and they'd just come back.
    The Chimera was also weird.  My current tactic is to back up my front line (DOs in this case) with the Chimera for "unleash hell".  It did it's job with that.  Usually, against melee armies, I get one round of good solid attacks from it, then it goes down.  This time, for some reason, it didn't so much damage but survived for a really long time.  My opponent was putting a lot of attacks into it but didn't roll great and I rolled really well for armor saves, but then it did sometimes no damage back anyway.  It was strange.  It did keep a ton of attacks off my Shaggoth until I could knock them down to a manageable amount.
    I helped my opponent put together a 25 point AoA character prior to the game and he gave her 6 damage 2 attacks but not much defense.  That being said, the 4+ ethereal is almost enough by itself and  she was super strong.  I got pretty lucking with the cockatrice.  This was the first time playing it and it did well.
    We didn't use battle tactics and instead used environment cards and AoA cards that were built for this campaign.  Cucuhlag got a card that let him attack first in combat at the cost of 3 VPs.  Gamewise, probably not smart to take, but I thought Cuchulag would want that.  It totally matched his namesake that I based him on, the Celtic hero Cuchulain,  May opponent pretty much took all the VPs but burned them early to stop me from summoning onto them.  I ended up holding one until the end of the game plus I got 3 VPs from an AoA card to offset the 3 I lost.
    Final score: 8-12, spookiy ghosts win

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