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Battle against Empire

Mangler scoots 16'' down the table (too long) and just manage to reach and splat a tiny unit of 5 Free Company dudes. My opponent laughs, as this makes the Mangler uncontrollable, and there are 3 buildings surrounding it.

He ignores the Mangler with his shooting, as it is surely about to pulverize itself against a building.

My next turn, the Mangler manage to move neatly between two of the buildings and position itself in the middle of the Emperial lines.

My opponent no longer laughs.

Especially as his shooting has been crippled by a succesion of Misfires and hits by Rock Lobbas.

Still, 10 Handgunners ought to fix the problem with a salvo. Right? Wrong. They cause one wound between them and the Mangler is as fresh as ever.

Now, the Mangler takes a right turn, goes another 16'' and make a complete mess of 5 knights, killing them all.

No laughs at all, and now the Handgunners cannot even hit the Mangler once.

Finally, the Mangler goes an astounding 17'', smash through a regiment of Greatswords and cause so much havoc (maximum hits and wounds) as to panic them off the table, carrying the BSB and a lvl4 Wizard with them.

It then thundered into a wall and that was it.

The rest of a battle was just mopping up the remains.

Ah, the memories of an old Orc General...

My mangler story is that they are collecting dust, since I still haven't put them together.

Cheers,
G

Turn 6 my Mangler, virtually last model of mine left on the board waltzed a full 18" to take out a chaos lord.
Was very impressed.

Most games though they just go and bounce against the board edge.

Rolling three 6's for movement should have killed it outright!

finally managed to get a mangler within attacking distance, still had 2 wounds left...rolled for it to hit a unit of slayers, which were 1inch infront of a unit of hammerers, so the mangler would have bounced through both units (right?) but no..i rolled a triple six for movement!!

gutted!

Last weekend tournament last game 30 high elf spearmen step on a mangler to kill it 16 get killed next magic phase his miscast kills the rest of his unit:D

I bought the manglers and the first battle I send two of them against undead.

Knowing how much damage to do I felt victory was near. Ofcourse the undead player had two ghost units and he just walked over them wich killend them instantly.

At that moment I was not very happy about the money I spent on them

That was a very hard way to learn about the expression. "Glass Cannons"



This post has been edited by Ruront on Oct 4 2012, 01:59 PM

You would still have moved through both units if you rolled a triple 6, right? You basically move the number of inches way you pointed the mangler and every unit you go through takes damage.

Theo

Both my Mangles keep on getting shoot down, by wood elfs, tomb kings and ogres. but first time playing against tomb kings his Colossus charge my mangler killing itself. nice

people spend most their time shooting at them freeing up the rest of my army

Alright, so after 7 games without the mangler doing anything but killing some chaff or eat some shooting/magic I finally managed to preserve it through an entire game. It moved around in my deployment zone, then finally opportunity came.

My Huge horde of black orcs had momentum to kill a greater daemon, but not in a single round of combat, and a horde of bloodletters was comming in on the flank only 5 inches from the mangler, giving me the oppotunity to hit the bloodletters, land in front on them and force another hit once they charged. a totalt of 5d6 S6 hits!!!

So I charge the greater daemon with the black orcs and bounced the mangler towards the bloodletter... 4 inches!!!! I hate mangler Squigs!!!!! So I wounded the greater daemon, but need two more rounds too truly kill it. The bloodletters charge the flank, break my stedfast and me down



The next game I used it, it did eat 9 questing knights though, so that helped

Now that I have my 2 colossal manglers, they have gone on a rampage~

vs High Elves (1) - One eaten by an Eagle, oh well. Second one reduced White Lions down to manageable size yay

vs Skaven - Slaves stepped on one.. :[ Abom stepped on the next and died but.. oh man, it came back with 6 woudns D: daaaaaaaamn That sucked

vs Dark Elves - he didn't know how dangerous they could be and... on top of it ... managed to place his army in a perfect diagonal...
Mangler #1 went through spears, Cauldron and Knights, killing 6 spears, nothing on the cauldron and leaving only 1 Knight alive
Mangler #2 went through a Hydra which had 5 wounds then had 0 all of a sudden (: and also connected with Black Guards which almost halved their current numbers. There rest of the game both bounced around happily and bumped into building or impassable terrain often - they both deserved their free play time.

vs Empire - did one hell of a good job at being ... the #1 target of his Hellblasters, keeping my infantry units alive and well ~(:

vs High Elves (2) - Again an eagle on one but the second escaped that fate and I forget but he drew fire and eagle attention, thats fine with me

All 5 games were massacre wins for me o_o T'was insane.

Tournament in 2 weeks, 4 games, lets see how they do - might have them painted up by then.