I had my first 500 point battle the day after Thanksgiving. John and I met at Phoenix Comics and Games in Logan to pit his Protectorate of
Menoth force against my army of undead
Cryx. John used a new
warcaster and
Feora did a good job of keeping my units back using a wall of fire. I used Bile Thralls to cut into the knights exemplar force and once free the
mechanithralls quickly disabled one of his light
warjacks. The fire of salvation was able to inflict enough damage to my slayer that with the sustained fire my slayer became disabled shortly after I was able to get my machine wraith into the fire of salvation.
The battle was pretty even until I was able to get an arc node into position along with two pistol wraiths. I popped
Deneghra's feat and was able to catch John's
warcaster and lower her stats. I followed this up with the scourge spell which connected and caused some damage, but the big bonus was that it knocked her down giving her a base defense of 5 for the pistol wraiths to work with. The pistol wraiths hit with all attacks which did not do a lot of damage, but by hitting with all attacks I was able to combine their chain attack which caused his
warcaster to forfeit attack or movement, and since she was knocked down she ended up having to forfeit both.
John was able to block and tie up a couple of my arc nodes, but I was able to sneak one in and continued to use scourge and the pistol wraiths. John popped
feora's feat and this put a huge dent into my forces. I lost the
skarlock, one of the pistol wraiths, most of my bile thralls and
mechanithralls. I cast scourge but missed even with a boosted roll. I was worried that if I didn't finish John off I was running low at models to throw into the fray. Luckily my last pistol wraith was positioned behind
Feora and with the back attack was able to connect and finish off the
warcaster.
Another great game, I think we ended up at right around 2 hours which for us is not bad at a 500 point army.
I have been working on painting more models and should have more pictures soon.