ME campaign - Turn 5 - Daemons vs Dark elves

Deployment - Daemons
The daemons really wanted to beat the dark elves, and went as far as to choose the Diplomacy event to keep the dwarfs from attacking while the daemons challenged the elves once again.

Anyway, on their left flank the daemons have their lord, a Keeper of secrets, hiding behind a forest. Closer to the centre is a huge block of horrors protected by two units of plaguebearers. The battle standard bearer is in the horror unit.

















On the far right flank is a unit of flamers. So there are very few and very expensive daemon units.

















Deployment - Dark elves
The dark elf right flank is lightly guarded by a unit of dark riders and some crossbowmen. On the hill are two reaper bolt throwers, with a unit of cold one knights in front of them.

















In the center we have a large block of spearmen, black guard, a hydra, dark riders and cold one knights. There is also a master on a pegasus on the left flank. The daemons are severly outnumbered in other words.

















Dark elves turn 1
Everything moves forward as usual. Nothing cool going on. Shooting is mostly ineffective.

















Daemons turn 1
The plague bearers move up a bit to better protect the horrors. The Keeper of secrets hides in the woods and the flamer spot the pegasus behind the statue in the pond and blast it to bits. The rider runs off to join the black guard later on. In the magic phase, the horrors cast Bolt of kill everything on the black guard, but since the Ring of Hotek happens to be nearby, they mistcast and knock themselves down a magic level.

















Dark elves turn 2
The elves continue onwards. I believe the Keeper of secrets suffers a wound or two to shooting.

















Both the plague bearer units are now within charge range of the black guard and the cold one knights to the left. The hydra doesn't want to get too close until the flamers have been dealt with by the cold ones and dark riders.

Umm, sadly, there are no more pictures but it all ended pretty quickly with the horrors charging the spearmen block, hoping their Banner of lots of automatic hits would be able to break the elves. That didn't happen and with both the plague bearer units being slowly cut down by the elite elves, the daemons gave up. The Keeper of secrets barely failed a flank charge on the cold one knights as well, and he was shot to deth by bolt throwers, dark riders and xbows.

The daemon army basically relied on the horrors casting Bolt of change enough times for the plague bearers and Keeper to mop up the remains, but one Bolt per turn propably wouldn't have cut it. And the Ring of miscast up your ass further dampened the effectiveness of that strategy.