This weekend my boyz saw some serious action. First, they were massacred, and then they held the beating stick themselves against diverse followers of Khorne. I am currently at work with graphical ways of presenting them, but I thought a little "lessons learned" could be in order. The battles were fought at 2500 points and my love for rank and file really clogged my battle line. I fielded almost 200 models including eight blocks of infantry, three light cavalries, a wolf chariot, goblin squig hoppers, some trolls, a pump wagon and a couple of chukkas. I lost against Chaos mortals of Khorne and won against Chaos Beasts of Khorne.
The first battle was lost in turn two when a terror-causing giant and a demon prince drew near my battle line. Everything except my stupid savage orcs failed their terror tests with ld 9. Promptly, my BSB and my general fled towards the enemy's battle line. The squig hoppers tried to save the general by charging a beast herd and claiming the wood as an escape path for the general, but did not manage to inflict enough wounds to win the battle so chaos warhounds could run my general into the braying beast herd (enemy in the way). From then, every roll that mattered failed, while my opponent succeeded with every break test (one with his demon prince, and one with his aspiring champion. It turned out pretty one-sided, but all-in-all, I learned some good lessons about wielding a horde army. Facing a winged terror-causing monster, I should have kept my pump wagon and squig hoppers bouncing back and forth behind the battle-line. Then he would not have dared to fly behind me. Check. Keep depth in battle formation when facing fliers.
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