Trench Crusade Battle Report - Heretic Legion vs Court of the Seven Headed Serpent
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this 700 point game of Trench Crusade (ruleset V1.6) my Court take on Adrien's Heretic Legion in the scenario Hunting for Heroes. When I got asked to run the Trench Crusade campaign I hurried to make this board we're playing on. Over the last few weeks I have put so many hours into it. I love how modular it is and I'm working on way more stuff still. More to come on that...
If we made any mistakes please let us know in the comments. More battle reports coming soon. Put in the comments which factions you'd like to see.
**I say my wretched have trench knifes, that’s not a thing. I meant to say they have trench clubs. : )
We just started our local campaign this last week. 16 people signed up to play and with a club painting requirement in place every person who showed up had a painted warband. Was awesome to see.
Not only that, but guys built and brought some fantastic terrain to the meetup including an incredibly detailed trench board made by my friend Mike. If you'd like to see those boards go check out the video I posted a few days ago.
Makes sense, only need to paint at least 10 minis. Way easier getting them painted
Great report guys, nice n clear and helped me get used to the blood marker mechanic. Seems to be a ruthless game where even big scary stuff can be hurt just by luck of the dice.
@@borkthebasher thanks! Once you start getting blood markers in the mix with weapons or abilities to roll 4d6 or 5d6 for injury it improves the odds so much. But as shown in this game, dice will be dice sometimes haha
Learning in the games I’ve played so far that morale can be mean. Seems taking out the small troops can win you the game. Always good to see different routes to victory on a game system.
Great batrep guys! Consider me subscribed. Looking forward for more Trench crusade content.
A clarification of the rules: you don't move and dash to enter melee. If you want to engage in melee combat you have to declare a charge if you're up to 12" away of the model you want to charge. You can dash to get closer and then declare a charge rolling a d6 plus the movement profile of the charging model.
Regarding the length, personally i enjoyed this format quite a lot. It feels more dynamic and engaging that batreps that just skip the dice and tell you what happened. If there's any constructive criticism regarding the vid I'd say you could mind the noise in the audio but overall great video. Thanks guys!
@@nadirlusarreta2078 thanks for watching! I noticed the audio was pretty rough on this one. I blame my heater lol
I bought some wireless lav mics I’m going to try out on the TC battle report we’re filming this Saturday morning. Should be much more clear.
keep these reports rolling! i enjoyed watchin this report, easy to keep up with and the commentary fits in well. still waiting on my TP models but the Court impressed me a lot
Thanks for watching! We've got a good mix of factions and boards here locally so I'll try to get a nice variety on the channel. I'm almost done with my Iron Sultanate warband and want to try them pretty soon.
Nice Battle Report. Please more.
Great BatRep!! KEEP On with this amazing content!!
@@SoloAnteelDADO Thank you! More battle reports coming soon.
This game can definitely be brutal when the dice tell stories
Always great to see your videos dude! We need to get a game in!
@@westcoastbannermen8900 100% would love to roll some dice with you anytime! Been too long.
Another small correction. The knife of the priest doesn't add dice to the wound roll, but +2 to the result. This is a mistake in the army builder, if you were using it.
At 26:30 you reduced the down roll to a minor wound so you only suffer 1 bloodmarker. The 2 bloodmarkers while downed only applies if you roll ANOTHER Downed result, its basically compensation for not getting the main benefit of the downed result (knocking them down).
@@Animesguardianangel great catch!
Very nice report. It's normal you need to work in the rules when starting out.
Dashing into melee isn't a thing and Not doing it would have benefitted the Heretics.
Love it, heres a sub.
Great thanks. I've subscribed!
What did you think of the Court list you ran? It looked like a pretty solid list, did you find it was missing anything and any units you wish you had taken instead?
@@jakehoward4974 great questions. 700 ducats to start means a lot of tough choices, especially with Court having so many beefy models that want tons of gear.
Initially I thought having 4 wretched was a big negative since they’re easy to take out to force morale checks and I will never get first activation in a round. But in this scenario the extra numbers was good for swarming the objectives.
My praetor has been lackluster in the past two games relative to his cost imo. I think he needs a gun with assault to get more value out of him or an upgrade from hell blade to makebranche. But that’s a ton of ducats. With the mark of Cain for -1 damage die he’s been very tanky though.
I do wish I had found a way to get the sorcerer in the mix because the fireball spell ignoring armor on a direct hit is very strong.
Still learning and every scenario changes the game dynamic significantly so tough to know for sure until I try more of them.
Oh and the wrath aura on the saint for +1 melee and dash within 8” has been amazing.
I'm not sure about the rules but:
* Can you dash into melee? I thought charge only can do that.
* 1 Blood marker can be removed to applied a -1D, but you can't use 1 to get a +1D on injury roll
But may be I'm wrong or misunderstood what you were doing.
Else the video pretty readable 👌
Good job, keep going
You can use an enemy’s blood marker to get +1D on your injury roll against them, yes, but you can’t use it to get a flat +1 yo the roll. You can’t use only do a normal move with Dash, so you can’t use it to charge.
Good catches. I believe you're correct about the dash. Upon looking at it more it seems the only way to get into base to base is a charge.
I think you're only partially correct on the blood markers. From my understanding they have two uses, one is when an enemy is attacking, spend to give -1 dice to the attack roll per blood marker. The second use seems to be when your mini attacks you can spend them to add +1 dice to damage per marker.
I could be incorrect but that is my understanding : )
@@thedicelab You may spend a blood marker on the acting model to add -Dice to the models "Action Success roll" (this includes dashes and special actions that need to make a Success roll).
You may spend a blood marker to add +Dice to "Injury Result rolls" made against the model with a blood marker
Thanks back, I mixed up the injury +1D and the Blood Bath rules.
So indeed you can use the blood marker to get +1D on injury chart roll
Plz continue the battle reports!!
@@the_pink_cactus5703 filming another one this Saturday! Court vs Sultanate.
Очень профессионально с точки зрения монтажа
terrain models all s cool
My opponent last night had a brilliant desecrated saint loadout, try this out.
Hell blade, Hammer, optional third weapon. The idea is that you hit hard with the hell blade because wounds consistently, optional third weapon, then once they’re downed you can hit them with the hammer and spend the blood.
Mathematically, the hammer’s -1 flat to armor makes the extra dice from down + blood SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to kill.
@@donk8961 thanks for the tip! Currently my load out is hell blade and two swords but I think I’ll try out swapping the swords for hammers.
Having so many melee attacks has made him pretty consistent at murdering. My praetor wishes they could be that effective
@@thedicelab it’s an absolutely nuts model. The Sloth and Lust auras he gets are insane. Sloth makes all minor wounds a down, so you wound w lesser weapon to down then slam them with strong weapons with +dice to wound. Not immortal, my war wolf and chorister ate it alive but I HAD to commit that hard or it would have wiped my army.
Thanks for the report guys, looking forward to more I can watch at work. My gluttony is only surpassed by ‘Bub himself.
Amending a rules mistake on my part (and therefore, my opponent): Desecrated Saint only allows one two-handed weapon. The loadout I suggested is therefore invalid, as both hell blade and hammer are two-handed weapons.
@@donk8961 no worries, and good catch. I’ll have to stick with my hell blade and two 1H swords. Good thing is with the saint rolling so many dice, the critical comes up relatively often.
@@donk8961 Honestly the envy aura is pretty silly too, make the enemy just 1v1 all your big nasty demons
@thedicelab, Can you explain what the tape measure is for? I've never played a tabletop game but have gained interest with the trench crusade lore. This is the first time I've seen an actual game played.
@@gamingbuffalo_6078 welcome to the world of tabletop games! It’s an amazing community with so much to explore.
If you’ve ever played a tactics style video game, a good example is the way units move a number of squares. Generally in tabletop wargaming units move a number of inches since the tables don’t have grids.
@@thedicelab thanks for responding! yea i love the world building character creation aspect behind tabletop gaming its like the board games monopoly, clue, etc. i used to play on steroids
great work and please keep them coming but next time try not to rub the mic as much!
@@smokydokey3814 this one was filmed with the onboard mic. I just bought lav mics and used them for the battle report we filmed this morning.
The sound quality will be much better going forward. Though I still caught myself bumping the mic a few times today n,,n I’ll get better at it haha
1:00 is that the Hades music lol? I don’t mind one bit but stg its familiar and trying to pinpoint it
@@novataco5412 close! The intro music is from the game cult of the lamb and the other background music is from Elden Ring.
So a model can stand at the start of it's activation to move at half speed but for all intense and purposes it is still treated as down?
@@AshleyRedden-r4t it’s my understanding that a model who stands to start their activation has half speed and every action they take becomes risky. I would think once they stand they are no longer treated as down.
Someone more knowledgeable than me should confirm though : )
@@thedicelab if a unit is downed by your opponent then when you activate the downed unit you can stand them up all movement is halved for that activation, and that's it.
The risky stuff comes from if your unit is downed during its activation, like setting off a mine, or maybe falling(?). Then your model can't move, and suffers -1 dice to any rolls, and can only stand up with a risky action.
Actually I forgot the -1 dice effect, seems good for Lions of Jabir that stops small units from standing up.
@ thank you! That’s a
very helpful breakdown.
@@AussieBBQ-01-1 is only on a DOWNED models action roll. You can stand at the start of your turn and are NOT considered down is my takeaway. Pretty much i feel only relevant if you try to retreat from combat?
From v1.6 playetest rules:
At the start of its own Activation, a Downed warrior can Stand, but any movement (Move, Dash, Charge, Jump, Climb etc.) it can take is halved. If a model is Downed during its own Activation, it may attempt a RISKY ACTION in order to Stand. Otherwise, it remains Down for
the remainder of its Activation.