Edit: I will write the next post soon with the Turn 1 from both armies.
My opponent from the first game has been so awesome that he has written a battle report with diagrams!
It has been published in this blog:
http://www.cargad.com/index.php/2017/04 ... -by-mathy/Since it is in Spanish I will translate it and use the diagrams for my own battle report, and I will use the pictures I took.
Battle Report High Elves vs Skavens 6th edition
Scenario: Pitched Battle
Points: 2000 Points
Army listsI included the prefixes used for the diagrams before each unit.
High Elves: Explorers of the White TowerA1 Eldrael, Archmage, level 4, Jewel of Dusk, Seer, Dispel Scroll, Ring of Corin
G Lyara, Noble on elven steed, ithilmar barding, great weapon, dragon armour, Helm of Fortune, Guardian Phoenix
Lanz 20 Spearelves, full command, Lion Standard
A2 10 Archers
YP1 5 Silver Helms, heavy armour, shield, barded steed
YP2 5 Silver Helms, heavy armour, shield, barded steed
PDrag 5 Dragon Princes, full command, Banner of Arcane Protection
GdE 5 Ellyrion Reavers
GEsp 11 Swordmasters, Bladelord, Blessed Tome,
CdT 1 Tiranoc Chariot
LdR1 and LdR2 2 Repeater Bolt Throwers
AG1 and AG2 2 Great Eagles
Skavens: Horde of DoomG Mathy Sewer , Weeping Blade, Enchanted Shield, Warpstone Amulet
P Nesqueek, BSB, Storm Banner
I1 Pixie, Warlock Engineer, Storm Daemon
I2 Dixie, Warlock Engineer, Dispel Scroll
GAli 20 Stormvermin, full command and Doomflayer Weapon Team (rules adapted from 7th ed)
Clan 21 Clanrats, full command and Ratling Gun
Escla 21 Slaves
CdS 9 Night Runners
Excav 5 Gutter Runners as Tunnelling Team
RGig 14 Giant Rats
LdVE 4 Globadiers
HdR 2 Rat Swarm
Jezz 3 Jezzails
ROg 3 Rat Ogres
CdD 1 Warp-lightning Cannon
Abo 1 Hellpit Abomination (rules adapted from 7th ed)
DeploymentThe battlefield had a small hill (bottom left), two forests, two buildings and a field (top left) which counted as difficult terrain.
I rolled for Intrigue at Court and I got to choose my general, so I chose the Noble.
I also chose my Life Lore spells with my Archmage due to Seer, I chose Father of Thorns, Howling Wind, Master of Wood and Master of Stone.
I won the roll to choose side and I chose the north side.
The deployment can be seen in the next diagram:

I tried to place my heavy cavalry to avoid the Abomination but the Skaven had more drops and he managed to cover the flank of his Stormvermin with it.
He placed his Night Runners and Giant Rats to run towards my shooting base.
Both the Skaven Warlord and BSB deployed with the Stormvermin, the Warlocks one with the Clanrats and the other with the Slaves.
The Skaven players notes in the report that in retrospective he should have deployed the Slaves together with the Rat Swarms to help them cover the flank.
From the High Elves, I should have deployed the Ellyrion Reavers together with the Dragon Princes since they have an easier time getting around the Rat Hordes and distracting the Abomination, while the 5 Silver Helms could cover my shooting units from the Giant Rats and the Night Runners.
I won the roll to start the game and I decided to get the first turn (which will come next post

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A picture of the deployment and first turn of the High Elves! (there was a small accident where one of my eagles and one of my helms fell to the floor and the eagle broke from its base

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