Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition Battle Report | Vampire Counts vs Hordes of Chaos

[@darnokx9277]

Both armies are beautiful, but that Slaanesh horde is just AMAZING! Absolutely incredible, a true work of love and insanity.

[@SLCypher]

Giant has a rule that makes him ignore panic caused by cavalry size models and smaller

[@kjetilhr]

Vampire Counts, turn 5, magic phase: You cannot dispel a spell in play and then cast a spell of your own. See the 6th edition rule book, page 139. This is important because of the risk of miscasts: The magic phase might end rather abruptly because of a double one when you try to cast one of your own spells. If it is very important that you dispel a spell in play (like it was in your case), you might want to abstain from casting spells of your own, just in case you miscast. But generally a really good battle report, like always. Keep up the good work!

[@gbnilsson6212]

Currently making my own 6th edition Beasts of Chaos army beacuse of this channel, love the effort put into these!

[@ja37d-34]

That´s cool. :)

[@JG-fi1vq]

The chaos army is very wonferful.. the banners,the minis,very oldschool ...I LOVE them

[@rogueelementgaming]

Yeah mate, Duane does some incredible work!

[@cain40000]

Great game, fantastic emotional moments. Some thing to be aware of, if the chaos Knights are frenzied, they must pursue the Ghouls. They don't get to try to restrain. Also they would of had to declare a charge in the following turn as well (due to being frenzied)

[@robbyv101]

As always, what a fantastic start to the weekend! I think Dwayne would have been better served refraining from issuing challenges with Gronk, instead just swinging into the Necromancer who appeared to be in base-contact (the Zombies not having a champion meant he could not be counter-challenged, in this regard - which might be something to think about for your future battles!). Also, I'm sure it was played correctly, but just because it wasn't mentioned, Undead units can only march when within 12" of their General.

[@ThainEshKelch]

That was one of the best matches on your channel! The eb and flow of the game, and those amazingly looking old school inspirered Slaanesh models - Perfection!😊

[@NicholasKay]

So good to see my mans Duane back on the channel!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Always a pleasure to have him in for a game!

[@tylerbuenaflor9655]

Oh thank sigmar! Was contemplating sacrificing to the dark gods for a video Release, guess I gotta put the goat back.

[@ellesse3862]

That was a good game, twists, shockers, laughs, and groaners, everything I want from a game. Lovely looking table, enviable armies, so much eye candy ... even the weird stuff that makes me wonder if I need to roll for sanity loss. Thanks for another evening of quality entertainment.

[@KriegHammer]

My Friday just got SIGNIFICANTLY better! And damn that Slaanesh army looks more and more crazy every time x)

[@rogueelementgaming]

Doesn't it just!

[@blastvader]

Gotta remember that auto-break when outnumbered by a fear causing enemy my dudes. Also, Grunk should have taken a fear test even when using Steed of Shadows to charge I think, and obviously should not have issued a challenge, but I a respect the fact that he did as it's thematic. Additionally, refused challenges return to the front rank at the end of the combat phase which was well remembered (not that it should have mattered as Grunk should have fled regardless). Pretty sure that going by the Annual, that neither of the chases should have resulted in new combats. The fleeing player does have some leeway in terms of where they flee within the rules. So could have fled at a more oblique angle.

[@rogueelementgaming]

Everything with the mark of Slaanesh is immune to psychology.

[@the-old-tower]

The king of editions and the edition of kings! 👑 Just in time for the weekend, cheers both!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Most welcome my man! 🤘

[@robbyv101]

It's so nice that Duane saves all his bad luck for these battle reports... Love his army, kudos to him for sure! What a great game, so enjoyable to watch!

[@mrlion1102]

Finally I had time to finish the video and it really was a great and entertaining battle. The humour and commenting is great and it really gives me a push to continue the painting of my own army.

[@noelnield4475]

The amount of chase and chop down that you narrowly missed, so so unlucky. Great vid. Love the Fantasy content.

[@rogueelementgaming]

Tell me about it

[@BatedSuperior5]

Absolutely amazing armies. Duane delivers once more

[@rogueelementgaming]

Couldn't agree more!

[@tylerd.1077]

Again, superb batrep. The fun you guys have is just cool. The result is, that me and at least one buddy are restarting 6th edition as well. Skaven (me) vs Hordes of Chaos. But more armies are already in the making. Cheers from Germany

[@mw5753]

honestly didnt expect this to turn into such a nail biter after those brutal morale checks in the first few rounds. Awesome Game boys, I hope the unluckiest of giants is happy about his zombie in a bag consolation price

[@EntropicEcho]

Lovely batrep, I'm pretty impressed that it takes a giant in full swing, a unit of knights and a brutally kitted out hero to kill a unit of basic skellies!

[@phillbaska]

i always love stos' reaction to a double 1

[@rogueelementgaming]

😆

[@Swindondruid2]

Fantastic armies and a great game to watch - thanks for sharing it. I always find a grave guard unit with a vampire in it unstoppable. The Slaanesh army was beautiful.

[@damonb4505]

Oh yeah, been waiting for this one to drop! Love seeing the latest additions to Duane’s awesome army. That Chaos Giant is gorgeous - 👍👍 Tip top vid as usual Stos 😊

[@rogueelementgaming]

It's a bloody monstrosity, in all the right ways. Glad you enjoyed it mate!

[@aaronishappy]

Great battle! My 2 favourite factions going at it. That Chaos Giant in particular is amazing. Would love to see Ogre Kingdoms sometime!

[@thel1chking]

Congrats on the 4K. You should play a 4K game to celebrate !

[@JulienBourjault]

Hi, Just noticed some mistakes: - marauders don’t have to take panic test, because the one fleeing is a single model with less than 5 wounds - the giant too doesn’t need to take panic test, because of his special rules (size of cavalry or less) - you can pursue a unit only if you won the combat phase, so after marauders fled after panic, you can’t chase them since there was no combat phase yet

[@JulienBourjault]

Very entertaining by the way !! Going to watch more of your games 😎 (btw, frenzy units can’t hold to pursue, and zombie having combat skill of 2, will hit CS5 on a 5+).

[@patrickhill8494]

Wow, what an incredibly beautifully and disturbingly crafted Slaanesh army 😂

[@damonb4505]

Finally finished watching the bat rep and what a great see-sawing battle it was! I thought Duane might have had it in the bag towards the end, but he managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory with the untimely and unfortunate death of his General. I could imagine Dragislav just pissing himself laughing as he watched his enemy plunge his own sword into his chest and drop dead. GG boys!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Hahaha such good imagery!

[@ThePitofSidLord]

God zamn that giant. A beasting look, and beasting in combat.

[@jamessmith6234]

Laid up sick with Covid and bored out of my mind. This will make things much better. Cheers for the good timing folks!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Glad to be of service my man!

[@rocallen5291]

That Chariot is insanely cool what an amazing army

[@wodefang8646]

Great game, I spotted a couple of errors but most have been addressed already. The only one that hasn't is the Knights could not restrain from pursuing the Ghouls as they were frenzied and had to.

[@rhelyk7893]

I got my own VC assembled enough to play with last week! Thanks for these videos for being an inspiration for me and my old gaming buddy, doing great work!

[@TheRealActualPaincake]

Hell yeah! Duane Report! I'm here for it!

[@microamperio]

Thanks for sharing Warhammer Fantasy!! Amazing battle! 👏👏👏

[@FA-cf4ex]

Hey guy with the glasses, where is Stos and what did you do to him? XD Kidding aside, another lovely battle report with the army of my favorite Chaos god - not Duane, Slaanesh ;) - with its old credo "been there, done that". Love the new models (and the pink and purple post-its in the rule book)! And man, this game was so flavorful when Duane was rolling so many 6s all along the way to please his infamous god! I'm still looking for the proclaimed empire army from Duane to strike back. Maybe there will be one with some chaos influence in the future ^^ Nonetheless, I have a ton of questions and remarks and maybe Stos and Duane you can give some insight into your decisions: 1. The turn when the Chaos hounds got charged by the wolves you forgot that the hounds were only allowed to roll 6s, as they did not pass their previous fear check 2. I think the undead steeds have WS2, so they should've hit the Chaos Knights on 5s 3. Do characters move back to front rank in the next turn, when they previously refused a challenge? Thought they would stay in the back rank until the fight is over? 4. @Duane: Good to see you use your Chaos Marauders in a block to generate rank and file boni. But why didn't you attach the Exalted champion to add combat power right from the start? Chaos Warriors 6-wide to increase their damage output, but equipping them with handweapon and shield is in my humble opinion achieving nothing. So either play them 6-wide with halberds or two handweapons or 4-wide with handweapon+shield 5. @Stos: Why the Zombie block 6-wide? I know you play most regiments 5-wide like I do, but Zombies are just there to be a tarpit 6. @Stos: I can understand your flavor reason to put Dragislav in the Wights, but then you have a costly unit (aka Death star) that can easily be dodged by a smart opponent! Loved to see a 9-man Ghoul unit, Well done! 7. @Stos: As the vampire player you could use the tactic of summoning new units and dancing them into flanks/rears more often (was a bit late for my taste, when you did that in turn 5 (?)) 8. Skirmishers and single characters should be able to march, right? I had the impression, that you didn't move them at full speed when you could 9. @Duane: I love your chariot model. Especially with the tiles on the platform. But why did you mount your Sorceror Lord on it? Why no normal Warhorse? If I remember correctly, you don't get the +2 armor save in close combat, as the character steps down from it. And if you remember some previous games, then your Chariot riding general will be a prime target for artillery ;) You could accompany him with 4 normal Chaos Knights at 132 points (adding a Mark of Slaanesh and Command models as you like) Kind regards FA

[@arnulfswedishsson4062]

Beautiful armies and table! Well done!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Thank you very much!

[@Geerdie]

So excited for this game, good Lucky for the both of you

[@mattmorris857]

Nice game lads. Very back and forth. Just FYI the giant didn't need to take a panic test as stated in the Beasts book on pg29. "Ignore Little 'Un Panic". Cheers.

[@rogueelementgaming]

Bugger! Totally forgot that about giants.

[@mattmorris857]

@@rogueelementgaming it happens to everyone!

[@recn6149]

Vampire Counts turn 5. Combat results are worked out with ranks counting from the start of the combat, not what ranks are left after fighting. So the Chaos warriors had a supporting rank which should have given them an extra +1 in your combat resolution that round. Probably wouldn't have stopped them fleeing off the table, but something to remember next time.

[@JescoJimBo]

Its impossible to paint and listen to this bat rep at the same time.. I'm in tears laughing,, also crying cause I goofed up some gold armor trim on my nice pristine white armor,, damn it!! Hilarious!!!

[@chiefchurpa5739]

epic back n forth battle, great stuff

[@coljmuzz]

Aww man! Why do I live on the other side of the world! I'd love to give you a game! Great armies guys and another brilliant video. Cheers!

[@ja37d-34]

Oh lovely! just got home with a box of River Trolls to build and then this - great background, thanks Stos and Duane!

[@ja37d-34]

Time to rewatch this while painting some weedy Night Gobbos.... ;)

[@eclecticoelho]

Great video, amazing armies like always! Thanks for making possible. Stos: Nehek have range and there are many times without measure. Also the ranks are taken into account in some combats and in others they are not (Duane takes the brunt) Anyways.... always a pleasure watch the battlereport! Cheers up with your projects

[@isakjohansson112]

Awesome game! I think "Suicide Duane" has definitely improved his game a fair bit! 😉😁 This one felt really close.

[@isakjohansson112]

But as stated in other comments already, I was really dissapointed when Gronk didnt assasinate the necromancer. That would have been such a sweet, and potencially game winning, move. Instead he lets him off the hook and gets beaten by the zombies. ☹ Something to remember for next time I guess. 😊

[@ralphpaglucca1399]

What a beautiful Chaos army. Cheers mate !

[@ja37d-34]

I miss Duane.. He needs to face the new stuff you have! So chill with guys like him, we need more of them in the community. He puts his effort so nceily into making beautiful stuff.

[@TheInverseLook]

I was just thinking only yesterday that I could do with a REG upload 😊

[@abboxley7510]

Duane I am digging your army composition here. Reasonably competitive, and really really creative. Lore of Slaanesh is one of the more interesting in the game and I thought you used it well - the combination of frenzy and unbreakable was well-used, especially on the 1+ AS knights where you're (mostly) safe from the d6 S3 hits. You're reasonably lucky to have survived the daemon sword as long as you did, but bold and fun choice to put it on the wizard lord. I suppose the downside is it probably would have warranted being slightly more careful with who he charged as the risk of kabooming himself is very real (great idea to put him the chariot for +2 to AS though). The steed of shadows hero is a really cool idea, especially as a sneaky WM/wizard hunter. Violating your Slaanesh theme, but you could give him mark of nurgle to add fear and +1 W to the equation. Downgrading to an aspiring champ would offset the points difference over mark of Slaanesh. Something you might want to consider is adding some skirmishing units. You have very high point sinks on characters I've noticed in your lists (probably not least of all because they're very fun to convert and paint!), and if you shed some of those points you could get a unit or two of beastmen giving you a lot more tactical flexibility/screening capability. I'd certainly take them over Marauders, the T4 and ungor meat shields would keep them alive about as long, and the 360 degree charge at 10" would have been hard for Stos to counter with things like flimsy bats, wolves and reliance on IoN+charge tactics. One of my favorites I've watched, thanks guys!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Most welcome mate, glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@damonb4505]

👍👍 for time-stamps!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Cheers mate! It's a bit of a pain in the arse to do. But gotta give the people what they want.

[@andywarlock4268]

Epic BR! Art_of_duane is fantastic

[@IronDuke_xX]

Im really hoping they bring back the 25% allies rule, I want to do Chaos Warriors with beastmen!

[@ja37d-34]

Really cool battle, very exciting - poor Duane´s dude killing himself but hilarious!

[@DeusMachina71]

I love these mats.. wish you noted where you get them from.. great batt rep thumbs up

[@TCyoutube1]

Awesome Bat Rep with 2 amazing armies. Great video. Where did you get your Vampire count army from or did you already have it unpainted?

[@rogueelementgaming]

I had a couple of models left over from my old 5th ed Undead army. But mostly from Ebay and Facebook market place.

[@TCyoutube1]

Thanks!

[@joshrowley5995]

The Slaanesh Army was very vibrant but also a lot of questionable composition decisions. Game ended up looking close because A. Vampire Counts can't capitalize on any of the big weaknesses and B. the dice were very lopsided for most of the game. Only major rules issue that I saw was Giants don't Panic from small models, Cav and Infantry, so that might have changed something. Otherwise good game. :]

[@PeppeMea]

What a crazy match! Love it!

[@internalspark]

Love the battle rep, Duane's army is looking absolutely spectacular as always! A pleasure to see both armies in action!

[@NecromancerNightmare]

My pleasure. Love your work!

[@rogueelementgaming]

Bloody champion 🏆

[@LamboHJ]

Gronkh ? is the true Hero of the Game.... The Vendetta of the Zombies was successful ... at last, Turn 5 of Vampire Counts brings the Swing of winning, the Giant is awsome (Miniature and combat Power), at the End two new Units to use, stop the Giant and the Knights to rampart the Rest of the Army (goog Strategy), Interesting Battle, thank you

[@strigoi_guhlqueen8355]

Very exited to see you clash

[@MrBenedictus25]

Lol i love hiw the General killed Himmeself against zombies

[@MrBenedictus25]

When the 1 knight died from the side effect if that frenzy spell shoukdnt they have taken a panic test fir 25%

[@damonb4505]

Frenzy = no psychology tests

[@stonem0013]

mate, have you considered using some tactics other than charging everything forward all at once to get into melee? Maybe some flanking/evasion maneuvers? 😅 Love the vids though haha, cheers from Sydney

[@rogueelementgaming]

I'm not super subtle or skilled at those levels of play. 🤷‍♂️ but I'll give it a go!

[@stonem0013]

@@rogueelementgaming haha fair enough. I used to play wood elves, which really forces one to learn a more manoever-based style of play. If you charge head on you just get crushed!

[@mjf7257]

vamp count turn 5. rolled a double one in magic . but didn't show or roll on miscast table

[@johnroberts8793]

Duane's punching himself in the face again...

[@rogueelementgaming]

He's a wild man at times 😅

[@MrBenedictus25]

Why not Charge zhe chariott kn turn 4 and xast hand of dust. U strike first because of charge

[@MrBenedictus25]

Back in time when i played the Opponent rolled if ur iwn army git Hit by something from yourself. Like with the knights and that spell. Stoss woukd roll how many wounds and wiukd do the wound rolls

[@williamlegg5514]

Great battle as always. But I am at a complete loss as to why the exalted champion charged those zombies. if you're going to pull that move the one thing you DON'T want to do is declare a challenge then you just smite that nerd straight out of the front rank.

[@f.javier3802]

Well, the first time you could think he fell in a trap, but the next combat round, again... I said it last time, some players need some help. This game could ended in turn 2. Bad charge to the gouls, bad not using dispell scroll against dance macabre, mad charge with a exalted champion just to kill zombies...too many bad choices. But dude, if you are getting charged in all combats (by undeads....), if you challenged and fall in a trap, and next turn do the same...I don't know, maybe there is no hope. The Slaneesh army is amazing, and the list is quite interesting. Daemon weapon in a LvL4 sorcerer in a chariot is very nice, I have never though about this posibility. But Duane has to think a battle plan, and think his movements. Playing randomly makes victory an impossible

[@philiphutchinson32]

Yeah sad to say I agree with these points. If you want to kill the Necromancer obviously you can't issue a challenge. And please God don't charge the Ghouls, the trap was not exactly subtle.... I also feel the dogs could be better used. If you're gonna make your Knights frenzied screen them with the dogs. Also, those black Knights should've had dogs in front of them blocking and redirecting for sure. I do like the army, Slaanesh magic is excellent too. And the Daemon sword on a Slaaneshi Sorceror lord is a good pick I think. It would be interesting to use Steed of Shadows on him actually. Having the combat profile of a Keeper of Secrets somewhere unexpected could be pretty clutch.

[@isakjohansson112]

Please dont charge the ghouls?? The knights were frenzied ringht..?

[@f.javier3802]

@@isakjohansson112 there is no reason to cast this spell on the knights before they are in combat. You make them uncontrollable and risk yourself to suffer casualties. This spell can be (and should be) cast when the unit is in combat, not before. In any case, probably Duane was going to charge these ghouls without frenzy as well. He doesn't have any plan, doesn't think about any movement. "Why have you charge with your exalted champion to my zombies?" "i don't know". Prior that, I was thinking that was an absolutely genius movement...hunting down a necromancer, maybe lose the paladin, but the necromancer is more important. But then, a cold water tsunami in my face: challenge with Grot. One turn after another. There wasn't no plan about kill the necromancer, it was just random: I can cast this shit and charge. Go ahead. Why? Who cares. And probably that's the question. Duane doesn't care the game at all. He is probably the best at conversioning miniatures of the f****g World right now. He enjoys that, and plays only to see (briefly) his toys on table. He doesn't care about rules, deccisions, listbuilding, tactics...none of that. If he doesn't get a galactic amount of luck, he will never win one single game. And he doesn't care. He plays absolutely random because has no interest at all in the development of the game

[@rogueelementgaming]

Pretty harsh bud.

[@hodeken]

Very nice game with beatiful armies. Tell me if you are going to Europe. Feel invited to challenge my empire army from Talabecland. Regards from Germany!

[@klasclaywood2667]

Where are the rules for the chaos Giant from?

[@matteoprovasi4130]

If a wizard refuses a challenge he should not generate power dice and cast spells in the magic phase, right ?

[@CTA12356]

Considering the magic phase happens before the combat phase…no(?)

[@ericksid]

Whats the name of that grunk miniature?

[@strigoi_guhlqueen8355]

If one would get into Warhammer fantasy, wich edition would you recommend? Or wait for old world ?

[@lincolnwargamer7582]

Play 6th for now, the King of Editions, we dont have any idea of when ToW will be released. when it does finally come out youll be to much in loive with 6th and then you can just carry on playing 6th 🤣

[@MrBenedictus25]

In turn two of slanesh. Wouldnt the guy flee automatically you are more than him and cause fear right?

[@rogueelementgaming]

Mark of Slaanesh makes him immune to psychology.

[@HungryGamerReviews]

poor chaos.

[@samott19]

Yes Duane!

[@YouTubeuser6294]

Those challenges, why? They make for entertaining content that's for sure, but still... 😂

[@WarhammerFantasy]

🙌

[@knedoshane]

It's a dog eat dog world...

[@rogueelementgaming]

Hahaha!

[@ja37d-34]

Congrats for reaching 4k! It will keep growing, love it that you show of the bets edition, Peak Warhamemr! :D