I got a game in with my updated Hexbringers list (
[1850] - Word Bearers - Hexbringers Post-Legion/WoM ) yesterday, and it was pretty entertaining.
I was up against a DE player with some unoptimized stuff, but it was still fairly reasonable.
He ran:
An Archon
3 units of Warriors in Raiders w/ Splinter Racks
2 units of Trueborn in Venoms
3 units of 3 Reavers, each w/ one Heat Lance & Cluster Caltrop
2 units of Scourges, one had 2 Heat Lances/Haywire Blasters, another had 2 Shredders
A Razorwing
A Voidraven w/ 2 Monoscythe Missiles
A Void Shield Generator.
For the mission, we rolled The Relic. The table is a giant "cityfight" board with lots of ruined terrain. This turned out to help me more than him.
For Psychic powers, my Sorcerer rolled Weapon Virus, Gift of the Leper, Incursion, and Summoning. My Herald rolled Possession (which I swapped for Summoning), and then I chose Prescience. One of my Horror units rolled Prismatic Ray, and the other rolled Doombolt. My Sorcerer rolled Nexus of the Gods, letting me adjust Chaos Boon rolls by +-1 for characters near my Warlord.
He kept the fliers in reserve, and AT Scourge unit in DS reserve. I kept the Doombolt Horrors and Terminators in DS reserve. I didn't have Brimstones so I didn't use Split rules.
This is my first time running the army in this form and fashion, so I made a few deployment mistakes. I put my Lord in the center of the action and my Sorcerer (my Warlord) on the flanks. This mostly meant that when rolling for 8-fold path, I didn't have characters in range to benefit from Nexus.
He got first turn, Nightfight, and all the works. He sends a Raider forward to attempt to get stuff in range for Splinter Rifles as well as to disembark stuff for the Relic. His shooting opened up with a single Hullpoint on my Helbrute and some dead Cultists. My Bikes and Spawn emerge unscathed.
My turn comes, and I roll
Blood Rage for my Helbrute. I use 8-fold path on a Bike Champion
to make him even harder to kill, and my Lord rolls for Scrolls of Magnus, getting Sunburst. I advance up the center of the board, summoning a unit of Flesh Hounds and a unit of Screamers, my Sorcerer taking a wound in the process due to Perils. The Screamers Sky-slash one of the Reaver Units, and move to the far side of the Void Shield, while the Hounds camp in some Ruins. My Helbrute charges the closeby raider, needing a 10 to make it. He fails the charge at first, then succeeds the second time around thanks to Fleet. He punches and explodes it, killing 7 of the passengers in the process!
The next turn comes and he passes all of his reserves. His Razorwing comes in on one flank, his Voidraven on another. The Razorwing did a HP on one of my Rhinos, the Voidraven kills a Screamer with its Implosion Mine, and 10 of the Cultists guarding my Sorcerer with Monoscythes. Venom-fire proceeds to do another wound on my Sorcerer from failing Look out Sir, and 2 wounds on my Lord from failing it. His Shredder Scourges did some serious damage to my Hounds, Splinter Rifles from another Raider killed my Screamers, his AT scourges killed one Helbrute, Reavers killed the other one, and a multi-charge by more Reavers and Scourges finished off my Flesh Hounds. We made a mistake at this point, and forgot the FAQ said you can no longer consolidate after Assaulting a Walker (which to be fair is kind of a dumb ruling), so I recommended that he try to consolidate back towards his VSG bubble because things were about to get nasty.
And nasty they did. My turn comes, and the Horrors failed to arrive from Reserve, but my Terminators did...right into the center of his Void Shield setup where they can start shooting stuff from inside. I used Eight-Fold Path on my Sorcerer, who rolls multiple boons
for his armor save and Strength to his Bolt Pistol (whee). My Lord rolls Inferno for his next power. One of my Marine units disembarks to provide emergency bodyguards for my Sorcerer, while my Spawn barrel forward to provide a backup guard for my Lord. The Bikes start crashing through the ruins, taking dangerous terrain checks. My earlier Biker champ rolled a 1 and failed his save, so that extra wound he got saved his bacon.
It's then that I get my Lord right in the center of all the Reavers and Scourges that rushed forward to kill my Flesh Hounds, and I get Sunburst off. Sunburst proceeds to kill off two Reaver Jetbike units, the Shredder Scourges, a DE Sybarite, half the AT scourge unit, AND do a HP of damage to the Razorwing(!) This left me rolling for Champion of Chaos 4 times, and each time I roll, I roll twice and get to choose the results I want.
Ultimately, my Lord got all his HP back, got a 2+ rerollable armor save, and +1 Toughness just to make things even more unfair. It's at this point we call it, as I still had 10 Warp Charge left for powers, and hadn't even summoned anything yet.
It was fun. :>
Edited to remove excessive rules description and explanation in accordance with forum rule 1 - Iris
