Khador Vs Everblight: Warmahordes Battle Report Begins!
September 6, 2013 by dignity
So guys it's time for something that people have been asking for since Beasts of War was born. We are in the studio for a game of Warmachine Vs Hordes and begin with a chat about what the opponents have taken in their armies and what their plans are for the game. What do you guys think of the armies they chose and of course, place your bets!
Here are the lists:
Kev's Khador List:
Army Name: The Butcher of Khardov
35+6 points, 34 models
The Butcher of Khardov +6 points
* Juggernaut 7 points
* Kodiak 8 points
* War Dog 1 point
10 Iron Fang Pikemen 8 points
* Iron Fang Officer & Standard 2 points
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich 2 points
Widowmakers 4 points
10 Winter Guard Infantry 6 points
* Winter Guard Officer & Standard 2 points
* 1 Winter Guard Rocketeer 1 point
Mike's Legion of Everblight List:
Army Name: Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight
Theme Force: Alpha Strike Tier 4
35+6 points, 24 models
Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight +6 points
* 2x Angelius 8 points each
* 3x Shredder 2 points each
Blackfrost Shard 5 points
6 Blighted Swordsmen 5 points
* Abbot & Champion 3 points
6 Blighted Swordsmen 5 points
Shepherd 1 point
Additional Rules
Add +1 to your starting game roll.
Swordsmen gain +2 SPD during your first turn.
Models/units in your army gain Pathfinder during your first turn.
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This is great. Two factions that I play going at it.
I have to go for Khador, for Honor’s sake, FOR THE MOTHERLAND!
This are my two favorite factions. 🙂
Be interested to see how this turns out. Sounds like Mike has some good plans in place for clearing out that zone.
Justin you need to stop throwing those cards about. 😀
This is going to be a tough-fought game for the Khador units I think. You’ll have to do whatever you can to disrupt the Legion formations and take away their movement options. Charge those Iron Fangs (pathfinder with their UA) straight up as soon as you can to engage the enemy on your terms rather than theirs (use Defensive Formation early in the game to charge and then reform into shield wall so you can weather the inevitable backlash). Do the same with the Kodiak. Engage a beast as soon as you can with him, boost your attack rolls to… Read more »
Good advice – where were you when we recorded this?!?!
So what you think of the lists?
Who’s your money on?
I was thousands of miles away across an ocean. I say this game comes down to good deployment and who gets the first turn. If Khador goes first, they’ll take damage first. Those widowmakers are either going to turn the tide somewhere critical or die on the second turn. It’s also going to depend a lot on terrain. If there’s a lot of forests, Legion has a huge advantage. If there are more solid buildings and obstacles, that will help Khador a little bit. That may be my one complaint about Warmahordes, the type of terrain on the board can… Read more »
My friend plays both these factions though I reserve a particular hatred for Legion. Beating them is more often down to luck than skill for me! Looking forward to seeing the game play out 🙂
Looking forward to the meat in this WarmaHordes sandwich, as a Khador player who plays against Legion a lot I know from experience just how tricksy they can be especially the Angelius, they should be high priority for you kev in the early game, my money is on Khador, also I don’t wanna be ‘that guy’ but mike is wrong about repulsion, each Angelius can only use it once!
Come on Khador
It’s a pity butcher3 wasn’t played. I’d like to see him in action myself.
It was recorded just before he got spoilt – I would have loved to throw that at Legion lol
kill the Shepherd. Long range armor piercing Angelius = bad news.
Looking forward to this game! I like both these factions
What no twerking of the camera from Warren in a miley cyrus fashion ?
Sooo anyone want to take bets on who’s going to win 😛
My money is on mike
Cool video, looking forward to the fight.
My money’s on legion, much as I love Khador. Trickery wins over brute force more often then not in my experience.
I really like the format you devised for presenting a battle report. I have practically zero experience with the game system, so it helps a lot to hear each player’s thoughts on their tactics, going into the game. It’s a way to introduce the strengths and weaknesses of different factions that is more fun and interesting than just talking about each faction in isolation, outside the context of a match-up. It will be just as helpful to hear the after-action analysis and hear how each player would things differently or the same. Please do more battle reports with this format… Read more »
This looks a good format to teach Warmahordes. Despite having that Kreoss piccy all year, I’m very much a WM/H novice. Looking forward to the next episodes.
Like the way you handle this series, so far. Good Luck to both of you and have fun!
Gah!! this is taking to long the apprehension is killing me!!!!!!!
looking forward to this play both factions but i want legion to win due to my trouble beating khador with my legion 😛 also mike is using my favorite caster against a caster i loath… sorry kev!
I am liking the format of this video series so far, looking forward to how it turns out.
So has this died and gone to heaven?
This went on BoW last Friday. Think the next part will be this Friday and the final one the Friday after.