Empire battle reports on Youtube

[Once Bitten]

Another army, another thread. After 1 year with High Elves, 3 years with Bretonnians, and 1 year with Beastmen ... I thought I'd try Empire. Here is the report from my first battle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MktVeGG6VcA

[Malorian]

That mistake with the witchhunter obviously changed the outcome of the game. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if played with that part fixed.

I understand your feelings on the stationary core. I get the same feeling when I go from orcs to dwarfs. Don't worry though, there will definately be times when you get to be aggressive with them especially since you don't really have much serious shooting apart from the stank and the outriders.

Interesting idea of the VHS on the witch hunter though. I hadn't thought of that one. Makes sense, but I guess in my mind my first objective is to keep him as cheap and cost effective as possible.

[Once Bitten]

Yeah, I feel really bad about that mistake. Both of us were figuring out the 'to-hit' roll, but still... That's just part of learning a new army, I guess.

[Malorian]

Don't feel bad about it. It's a new army and you were excited.

In no time you'll have all these things worked out

[willowdark]

Did your Hurricanum do anything? I watched the vid twice and I don't think I heard you mention it once after deployment.

What about trading your Knights for Demigryphs? The models are sweet. They have lots of high strength attacks. The models are sweet. They're fast. The models are sweet.

[Sexiest_hero]

Hey we all make mistakes, I'd been playing my Herdstone like a dark eldar webway portal till you pointed it out. If you wantto be more fighty try the Crazy guys who got moved to special from core. I forget their name.

[Once Bitten]

Did your Hurricanum do anything? I watched the vid twice and I don't think I heard you mention it once after deployment.

What about trading your Knights for Demigryphs? The models are sweet. They have lots of high strength attacks. The models are sweet. They're fast. The models are sweet.

Firstly, the Hurricanum gave my halbardiers and greatswords +1 to hit. In terms of its bound spell, yeah, I pelted a unit with soft droplets of rain at the mere cost of 3 powerdice.

As for the demigryphs, I like your thinking. Cool looking models are a great reason to field a unit. However, I want to build and paint my core units first before buying even more models.

[Jericho]

Unpainted core models never stop me from buying shiny new toys

[Frankly]

Any chance of adding cannons? Or is that not your style?

Nice report ... but I'll miss the beastmen reports

[Malorian]

Well he does have the cannon that comes standard on the stank.

[Swordthain]

I loved it, OB. That was a fun game!

[bigbear bailey]

yeah well played bud

[Frankly]

Well he does have the cannon that comes standard on the stank.

ooohhhh yeahh. I forgot about that.

[Once Bitten]

I own two cannon models and plan on adding a cannon if I remove the steam tank. For now, though, I love the stank because of its versatility - it can shoot its cannon in the early turns, and then tie up and grind down elite units that I don't want getting into combat w/ my infantry.

Is the stank still considered overpowered or undercosted?? If so, I would eventually drop it for that reason alone.

[Djekar]

Liking the look of the army on the tabletop sir. I think that the colors are working for you!

[Malorian]

Is the stank still considered overpowered or undercosted?? If so, I would eventually drop it for that reason alone.

Some people do, but it's far more balanced now.

[Ville]

Is the stank still considered overpowered or undercosted?? If so, I would eventually drop it for that reason alone.

I think it's just fine with the new rules. Nothing overpowered about it.

[Mentat Bashar]

Haven't actually read the new stank rules (remember the rules published in WD years ago, 2 pages that made me scream "tl;dr", sounding a bit like "Teeehlll - Deeeeehrr"), but have people ever STOPPED complaining about the "beardyness" of the stank? It's like people react to the fact that it is a tank - if it was an unbreakable, high-toughness, firebreathing monster maybe less people would lift an eyebrow.

[Sexiest_hero]

It's fair now, I used to hate it as much as flamers.

[TsukeFox]

Firstly, the Hurricanum gave my halbardiers and greatswords +1 to hit. In terms of its bound spell, yeah, I pelted a unit with soft droplets of rain at the mere cost of 3 powerdice.

As for the demigryphs, I like your thinking. Cool looking models are a great reason to field a unit. However, I want to build and paint my core units first before buying even more models.

Huge fan of the Hurricanum-
just for the chance to spin an enemy unit on its center making its front arc look the opposite direction that it was currently facing.
at the very least a turn is wasted as the target unit might have to reform to correct itself - giving the empire player another round of shooting & keep the enemy from charging as well.

Hitting on 2s is nasty as well