Honestly, I don't remember much else of the battle. It's been a few weeks ago, however, I was privy to an epic last stand by a single temple guard protecting his slann.
I only run 12 templeguard in my list, primarily because the guys I usually play rare make contact with my slann's unit. I tend to castle him behind my saurus and make my skink priest on his steg the 'bait' instead. That being said, my Slann is rather fond of blowing holes in his own temple guard. My buddies got wise to me using cupped hands, and now they tend to hide their wizards out of sight, so he goes poom! a lot. This particular incident resulted in the S10 template around the wizard, which ate all but 4 of the TG.
My opponent was playing high elves and shot a purple sun at me right after this happened which ate my entire block of 18 saurus and stopped right in front of the slann, eating 3 more of his TG. So all that was left was the guardian.
He ran a 5 man (er... elf) cav into the unit next turn. The guardian held off all 5 of them, knocking one off each turn for 4 turns. All the while, the geriatric slann was flailing about. I picture my slann fighting in melee the same way Mr. Burns from the simpsons attacks people.
Eventually the cav broke and the guardian ran them down (with the slann tootling around in his magic hover-chair rascal scooter) The slann/TG unit went on to win the game by clearin the 3 remaining archers from the tower. The Slann sitting atop the tower, basking in all his glory...
Seriously though, I can guarentee my TG has taken more casualties to their own slann than to anything my friends have thrown at them. That old toad is going to die in his sleep one day and no one's going to ask 'any' questions...
I only run 12 templeguard in my list, primarily because the guys I usually play rare make contact with my slann's unit. I tend to castle him behind my saurus and make my skink priest on his steg the 'bait' instead. That being said, my Slann is rather fond of blowing holes in his own temple guard. My buddies got wise to me using cupped hands, and now they tend to hide their wizards out of sight, so he goes poom! a lot. This particular incident resulted in the S10 template around the wizard, which ate all but 4 of the TG.
My opponent was playing high elves and shot a purple sun at me right after this happened which ate my entire block of 18 saurus and stopped right in front of the slann, eating 3 more of his TG. So all that was left was the guardian.
He ran a 5 man (er... elf) cav into the unit next turn. The guardian held off all 5 of them, knocking one off each turn for 4 turns. All the while, the geriatric slann was flailing about. I picture my slann fighting in melee the same way Mr. Burns from the simpsons attacks people.
Eventually the cav broke and the guardian ran them down (with the slann tootling around in his magic hover-chair rascal scooter) The slann/TG unit went on to win the game by clearin the 3 remaining archers from the tower. The Slann sitting atop the tower, basking in all his glory...
Seriously though, I can guarentee my TG has taken more casualties to their own slann than to anything my friends have thrown at them. That old toad is going to die in his sleep one day and no one's going to ask 'any' questions...
