‘Warhammer: The Old World’ – Attending A Really Fun 3K Event
Let’s talk about my time at a recent Warhammer: The Old World 3,000 pt event, using my Bretonnian Exiles list!
The other weekend I got to drive up to Holt, MI, USA, to play in a really fun 3,000 pt event. The event was held at AFK Games and saw 16 players duke it out with extra big armies. I took by old reliable Exiles and had 3 fun games, managing to go 3-0 and take the win. So today lets take a quick look at my army and how the games went.
My Bretonnian Exiles List
Bretonnian Exiles [3000 pts]
Characters -1210 pts
Baron -247 pts
– Lance
– Shield
– General
– Bretonnian Warhorse
– Bedazzling Helm
– Gauntlet of the Duel
– Virtue of Heroism
Damsel -106 pts
– Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]
– Bretonnian Warhorse
– Tome of Spellcraft
– Illusion
Outcast Wizard -147 pts
– Wizard [Level 3 Wizard]
– Warhorse
– Lore Familiar
– Dark Magic
Baron -272 pts
– Shield
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– Barded Pegasus
– Gromril Great Helm
– Frontier Axe
– Virtue of Knightly Temper
Paladin -192 pts
– Lance
– Shield
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– Battle Standard Bearer [Errantry Banner]
– Bretonnian Warhorse
– Falcon-horn of Fredemund
– Virtue of the Impetuous Knight
Paladin -106 pts
– Great weapon
– Heavy armour
– Shield
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– Arch-Lightning Rod
Outcast Wizard -140 pts
– Wizard [Level 3 Wizard]
– Ruby Ring of Ruin
– Daemonology
Core Units 1104 pts
17 Mounted Knights of the Realm -479 pts
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– First Knight (champion) – Antlers of the Great hunt
– Standard bearer [Monster Hunter’s Tapestry]
– Musician
30 Knights of the Realm on Foot -408 pts
– Great weapons
– Shields
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– First Knight (champion)
– Standard bearer
– Musician
10 Peasant Bowmen 50 pts
– Skirmishers
28 Yeomen Guard -165 pts
– Warden (champion)
– Grail Monk
– Standard bearer
– Musician
Special Units-388 pts
6 Pegasus Knights -388 pts
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
-First Knight
– Standard bearer [Banner of Châlons]
Rare Units -300 pts]
Border Princes Bombard [100 pts]
Border Princes Bombard [100 pts]
Border Princes Bombard [100 pts]
How The List Plays
This is mostly a variation on the Exiles list I’ve been running for a while. Its got two very hard hitting units. The Peg Knights don’t need a lot of explanation, and have a dangerous Baron to go with them. The other Baron+BSB+Damsel go in the big block of knights and are very very hard to kill, while having buffs to make them quite deadly. There are a couple big infantry units to tie stuff up and 3 cannons to put a lot of pressure on the enemy. I’ve got a number of wizards, mostly to cast buff spells and the occasional magic missile. And it can shut down Fly for 2 turns. I figured with people able to run 3-4 dragons at 3k this would come in handy. It’s not the craziest list, but was partly dictated by what I had painted.
Game 1 VS Empire
Round 1 I faced Jacob Kooistra’s Nuln List.
Characters -969 pts
General Hans von Löwenhacke -190 pts
Captain of the Empire -152 pts
– Great weapon
– Full plate armour
– Shield
– Battle Standard Bearer [Totem of Wrath]
– On foot
– Witch Hunter’s Ward
Priest of Sigmar-104 pts
– Great weapon
– Light armour
– On foot
– Armour of Silvered Steel
Captain of the Empire -102 pts
– Light armour
– Brace of pistols
– Empire warhorse
– Squintsoffen’s Marvellous Magnifier
Captain of the Empire -102 pts
– Light armour
– Brace of pistols
– Empire warhorse
– Squintsoffen’s Marvellous Magnifier
Master Mage -92 pts
– Hand weapon
– Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]
– Empire Warhorse
– Wizard’s Staff
– Daemonology
Master Mage -92 pts
– Hand weapon
– Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]
– Empire Warhorse
– Wizard’s Staff
– Daemonology
Empire Engineer -45 pts
Empire Engineer -45 pts
Empire Engineer -45 pts
Core Units -756 pts
29 Nuln Veteran State Troops -400 pts
– Halberds
– Light armour
– Shields
– Drilled
– Veteran Sergeant (champion)
– Standard bearer [Griffon Standard]
– Musician
– 5x State Missile Troops [Hand weapons + Handguns + Sergeant (champion) + Repeater handgun]
6 Outriders -136 pts
– Sharpshooter (champion) [Grenade launching blunderbuss]
– Musician
6 Outriders -136 pts
– Sharpshooter (champion) [Grenade launching blunderbuss]
– Musician
12 Empire Archers -84 pts
Special Units -913 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
Great Cannon -125 pts
5 Empire Knights of the White Wolf -163 pts
– Preceptor (champion) [Witch Hunter’s Ward]
– Standard bearer
– Musician
Rare Units -360 pts
Helblaster Volley Gun -120 pts
Helblaster Volley Gun -120 pts
Helblaster Volley Gun -120 pts
How Game 1 Went
I won’t lie, facing off into 6 Cannons and three Hellblasters was a bit daunting! Luckily there was good bit of cover thanks to a ton of impassable terrain. Jacob got to go first, but it meant his Hellblasters were out of range. 6 Cannons and some Outriders managed to take out one of my Cannons and cost me some knights (both mounted and foot) but nothing I couldn’t survive. On my turn I went all in, do or die, pushing forward with everything and flying the foot knights up. I managed to magic missile away a unit of Outriders.
The gamble paid off. 5 of Jacobs 6 Cannons missed firing into the ground and the Hellblasters couldn’t do enough damage. On my 2nd turn My foot and Peg knights got into his arty and the big bus destroyed the Griffon banner unit. After that is was really just clean up. I managed a 20-0 win in the game. Had the Cannons done a little more I might have been in real trouble, whew.
Game 2 VS Wild Herd
Round 2 saw me face off vs John Ottman’s Wild Herd.
Dallas’s 3K event -2996 pts
Characters -1478 pts
Beastlord -302 pts
– General
– Full Plate Chaos Armour
– The Black Maul
– Slug-skin
– Gnarled Hide
Wargor -181 pts
– Great weapon
– No armour
– Shield
– Battle Standard Bearer [Banner of Swirling Wind]
– Heavy Chaos Armour
– Pelt of Midnight
Great Bray-Shaman-300 pts
– Braystaff
– Wizard [Level 4 Wizard]
– On foot
– Flying Carpet
– Full Plate Chaos Armour
– Tome of Spellcraft
– Uncanny Senses
– Lore of Primal Magic
Great Bray-Shaman -325 pts
– Braystaff
– Wizard [Level 3 Wizard]
– Tuskgor Chariot
– Full Plate Chaos Armour
– Hagtree Fetish
– Power Scroll
– Elementalism
Bray-Shaman -130 pts
– Braystaff
– Wizard [Level 2 Wizard]
– On foot
– Ruby Ring of Ruin
– Lore of Primal Magic
Bray-Shaman -125 pts
– Braystaff
– Wizard [Level 2 Wizard]
– Lore Familiar
– Daemonology
Bray-Shaman -115 pts
– Braystaff
– Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]
– On foot
– Chalice of Dark Rain
– Lore of Primal Magic
Core Units -1006 pts
Primal Warherd -142 pts
– Foe-render (champion) [Great weapon]
– Musician
– 10x Gors [10x Hand weapons + Shields]
– 10x Ungors [10x Thrusting spears + Shields]
38 Gor Herd -333 pts
– Hand weapons
– Shields
– True-horn (champion) [Great weapon + Scourge of the Burdened]
– Standard bearer [Monster Hunter’s Tapestry]
– Musician
Tuskgor Chariot -85 pts
Tuskgor Chariot -85 pts
Tuskgor Chariot -85 pts
1 Razorgor Herd -52 pts
1 Razorgor Herd -52 pts
1 Razorgor Herd -52 pts
12 Ungor Herd [60 pts]
– Shortbows
12 Ungor Herd [60 pts]
– Shortbows
Special Units -512 pts-
Razorgor Chariot -120 pts
Razorgor Chariot -120 pts
7 Harpies -77 pts
– Hand weapons (claws)
Herdstone -100 pts
1 Dragon Ogres -95 pts
– Great weapons
– Light armour
– Shartak [The Blackened Plate]
How Game 2 Went
This was a pretty intense game and I actually only took a single picture during! My bad. From running into 9 warmachines to a host of Vile Tides. However I really had luck on my side this game. It started off with me accidently landing a cannon round on one of his wizards and taking him out. At the same time I pushed up a bit. On his first turn he also miscast with the Dark Coven, dropping a number of templates on himself and killing another wizard. On my right he had a lot of his chariots and razorgors, but I managed to fly up very close with my foot knights and prevented him from getting impact hits.
After clearing out a few light things (and shutting down his flying carpet twice) he charged the big gor block into my Yeomen. This should should have been an easy win for him, but he made the mistake of also charging a Razorgor into my big block of knights and fighting with it first. When I killed it this let me overrun into the flank of his big block and fight again that turn. Just a mistake. On my turn I sent the Peg knights into the other flank of the Gors and wiped them. I was able to clean up for a 20-0 victory again.
Game 3 Vs High Elves
Round 3 saw me facing off vs Brandon Sullivan’s High Elves.
Characters 1133 pts
Prince -348 pts
(Hand weapon, Full plate armour, Shield, General, Lothern Skycutter [Eagle-Eye Bolt Thrower], Ogre Blade, Seed of Rebirth, Sea Guard)
Noble -330 pts
(Hand weapon, Lance, Full plate armour, Battle Standard Bearer [Battle Banner], Lothern Skycutter [Eagle-Eye Bolt Thrower], Shield of the Warrior True, Seed of Rebirth, Sea Guard)
Storm Weaver -195 pts
(Hand weapon, Wizard [Level 3 Wizard], On foot, Lore Familiar, Power Scroll, Dark Magic)
Ishaya Vess -170 pts
(Hand weapon, Mathlann’s Ire, Warbow, Heavy armour, Shield)
Mage -90 pts
(Sword of Hoeth, Wizard [Level 1 Wizard], On foot, Warden of Saphery, Illusion)
Core Units -750 pts
30 Lothern Sea Guard -447 pts
(Hand weapons, Thrusting spears, Warbows, Light armour, Shields, Veteran, Sea Master (champion), Standard bearer [Razor Standard], Musician)
5 Ellyrian Reavers -101 pts
(Hand weapons, Cavalry spears, Light armour, Shortbows, Skirmishers, Standard bearer)
5 Ellyrian Reavers -101 pts
(Hand weapons, Cavalry spears, Light armour, Shortbows, Skirmishers, Standard bearer)
5 Ellyrian Reavers -101 pts
(Hand weapons, Cavalry spears, Light armour, Shortbows, Skirmishers, Standard bearer)
Special Units -828 pts
7 Dragon Princes -330 pts
(Hand weapons, Lances, Full plate armour, Shields, Barding, Drakemaster [The Loremaster’s Cloak], Standard bearer [War Banner], Musician)
28 Swordmasters of Hoeth -498 pts
(Swords of Hoeth, Heavy armour, Drilled, Bladelord [Sacred Incense], Standard bearer [Monster Hunter’s Tapestry], Musician)
Rare Units -285 pts
10 Sisters of Avelorn -150 pts
9 Sisters of Avelorn -135 pts
How The Game Went
Now Brandon is one of my oldest friends, we even owned a store together in Texas way back in the day (so you could say we both drove from TX to MI just to play each other, even if the drive took a few years). Given that I knew this would be a fun game. And it started out pretty rough with my opening moves doing very little. Meanwhile his early shooting took out half my Peg Knights and he managed to get his Dragon Princes into my foot knights. Over a few turns they took them apart with easy and mopped up my flank.
However I was able to pin his two sky-cutter characters in the back with no fly for a couple of turns. He also made a critical error in placing a unit of Sisters in from of his Swordmasters so I could hit them and overrun in the Swordmasters. On that turn I managed to get Glittering Robes, Battle Lust and Demonic Vigor off on the Knights (the +1 I coming in handy). The Peg Knights hit the big block of Swordmasters and the big knights killed the Sisters and overran into the on going combat, getting to fight again. This destroyed the center of his army.
That wasn’t the end of the game however. My Peg Knights went into the Seaguard and killed them (the champion killing Vess in a duel!). On the other hand his two Sky-Cutters killed by general and drove the big unit of knights back across the table. After some hard fighting and a few more losses, I was able to take out the two cutters, a lucky cannon getting one. This netted me a hard fought 15-5 win, and allowed me to claim victory in the event. A big thanks again to all the wonderful people who played in and ran the event!
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