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@SW-User just posted about a game he had where a player got taken out basically on turn 1 and it immediately brought a game of Age of Sigmar I had about a month or so ago to mind. (None of these pictures are the specific army builds mentioned, just there to give a visual of the armies involved for those that may not have a point of reference.) This is one I've since dissected multiple times and made note of as it happened, both for my opponent and I, hence all the following detail.


It was 1500 points, I was rolling out a Blades of Khorne army and my opponent, my teenage niece, was rolling her Sylvaneth army. At the time her Sylvaneth were still largely undefeated and everyone else was having trouble beating her but I had yet to go up against her. She had the Spirit of Durthu leading her force with a shield of Dryads and a Branchwraith while I had a Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage with a Daemon Prince just behind at the head of mine.


We ended up rolling and getting a deployment that put our forces relatively close together. I gave her a warning about it maybe not being favorable to her, but she went through with it anyway. I suppose confident she'd be able to beat me regardless. So we do our deployment and roll up initiative and I get to go first. She put her forces in a tight formation amongst a Wildwood to take advantage of her Sylvaneth abilities while I made a forward spearhead to charge straight at her. This would prove already to be the beginning of the end.


With me going first I used my Slaughterpriest to put Killing Frenzy on my Bloodthirster, so he hits on 3 ups instead of 4 ups, and planted my banner on my Bloodsecrator immediately, the outer edge of it just reaching behind my niece's forward units and scraping the front of her missile units in back. I advanced up most of my units as far as I could but I simply moved my Bloodthirster and Daemon Prince so they could attempt a turn 1 8 inch charge. I rolled the Bloodthirster first and he managed to get a 12, hopping completely over the front Dryads and directly behind them, into the core of her formation and cozied right up next to Durthu. Next I tried for my Daemon Prince to charge in and he failed his charge, leaving my Bloodthirster alone in the center of the enemy formation.


For a moment, I thought he was doomed. Then he swung his axe at Durthu. Five swings, five hits, 3 6s triggering 3 bonus attacks due to his Crimson Crown, two of those hit. Seven wound rolls, three of them come up 6s causing mortal wounds due to Devastating Blow and triggering Outrageous Carnage(an area of effect damage ability that decreases in effectiveness as the Bloodthirster gets wounded), only one fails to wound. Durthu immediately takes an over 20 mortal wound hit and is instantly decapitated by the charging Bloodthirster without any saves and the shockwaves from the force of the blows deal 9 mortal wounds to nearly her entire force, only just missing a Branchwraith and Tree Lord out on the far flank. All that was left was a handful of Dryads, the Tree Lord, Branchwraith and a couple Kurnoth Hunters.


On her turn she attempted to counter-strike and fire at the Bloodthirster with her Kurnoth Hunters, they whiffed their attacks and missed everything. The Dryads then charged into my Daemon Prince to stop him and try and attack but only land one hit that was then saved, dealing no damage. The Tree Lord hangs back, already feeling defeated by the initial devastating charge and my forces still completely untouched. On the second turn my Bloodthirster charges the Tree Lord and then splattered him in a similar manner to Durthu, the explosion of 6 mortal wounds from that engagement sufficient to clean up all but the straggling Dryads that charged the Daemon Prince which he mops up without issue or taking any wounds.


And thus the measly 280 point Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage annihilated an entire 1500 point Sylvaneth force practically single-handed and pretty much in a single turn. Hell, even just that initial decapitation of Durthu was an instant repayment of his point cost, Durthu is 400 points.

My niece is still hesitant about taking on my Khorne army to this day because of that engagement. XD