Quick 24 point battle recap Sea Elves against defence 5 behemoth
My 'standard 24 point Sea Elf Build' 1x seekers, marines, ambassadors of the deep, merfolk with a priest and Demi-triton
against
Ben's T'lekkan, 1x Warriors, Princelings and 2x Larvae accompanied by the Behemoth. All Ben's units had standards, as did all my units bar the seekers.
I was the defender and placed as much movement impairing terrain as I could across the battlefield deploying my camp and bagge and the marines centrally, Ben then deployed his whole army. My seekers hid in a fairly central forest with the Demi-Triton and ambassadors on my far left.
My merfolk were in the middle ready to exploit any weaknesses or plug any gaps. Ben started, revealed his poker winning miracle cards (3-9) and got moving his Behemoth.
My first few turns essentially saw me shoot the Behemoth where I could with seekers doing a wound in a few goes at shooting and the marines being useless.
Ben moved the Behemoth to close in on my Marines (with priest) with a move that meant if I shot at it with either ranged unit and made it recoil, it would recoil very close to either the seekers or marines.
His Behemoth wasn't the only threat with princelings closing on my Baggage, warriors and one unit of larvae on my seekers. In a bold move my merfolk charged the Behemoth in the flank and did 3 wounds on it, taking it down to 8, though it would likely act first and crush them.
Sure enough Ben activated it first and did four wounds on the merfolk which I saved all four, (3 6's and a standard save).
I hit back and did 2 wounds to the Behemoth (down to 6 now) and it replied for another five attack successes, I made 2 defence successes and the standard saved another one, for a loss of only 2- so we both recoiled. I was quite fortunate here!
As this happened the Ambassadors had sacked the T'Lekkan baggage (crabs in Ben's baggage again) and the princelings had moved into contact with the marines and got soundly beaten off.
I managed to shoot the Behemoth in the flank with the marines causing it 3 (down to 3) wounds and getting it to recoil, so that it showed its flank to the seekers. The seekers seized their opportunity and shot it doing it four wounds and killing it!
Seeking vengeance the warriors charged my Demi-Triton and killed it outright in a round of combat and the princelings moved into contact with my camp. Despite a reactivated shot at them they managed to sack my camp as I killed one unit of larvae making it 8-8 victory points and all to play for.
The ambassadors and Black Warriors faced off with me backing off whilst the princelings were shot multiple times, reducing their numbers slowly but surely to 2 (I was killing one a shot).
I charged them with the marines but amazingly no side did a casualty and had to shoot them again, to eventually kill them making it 15-8 and match point to the Sea Elves! trying to take advantage of the chaos whilst my merfolk made a dash for Ben's baggage and managed to get into base contact.
Alas a unit of larvae charged them and wiped them out making it 15-11 and giving Ben a brief sniff of hope.
Alas for Ben the seekers whittled down the warriors where the Ambassadors at the second time of asking managed to break them in combat for a 23-11 hard fought win.
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