I went with:
Lvl 4 Spellweaver with Shadow, and Moonstone, on Steed
Glade Captain with HoDA, Spear and LA, on Steed.
10 Glade Guard with Hagbane
10 Glade Guard with Hagbane
5 Glade Riders with Hagbane
5 Glade Riders with Hagbane
6 Sisters of Thorn
6 Wild Riders
8 Deepwood Scouts with the +1 to Wound against Order
8 Deepwood Scouts with the +1 to Wound against Order
8 Waywatchers (no arrow)
8 Waywatchers (no arrow)
1 Eagle
In the end the High Elves army I feared most (he's won about 99% of his games, with no exaggeration) never turned up.
I played the Daemons first, whilst the Dwarf army refereed/made notes on my new army
Despite the vote for no named characters, which I redid my list for, he still brought Epidimus, and kept him in some Daemonic Portal all game denying me a fair few points!
The rest of his list was:
Daemon Prince, level 4
Some other wizard, level 1
40 Nurgle Warrior-type guys (I don't know the names of many Daemon units...)
3 Beasts of Nurgles
2 Skullcannons
Using the Curse of Aranrheir (spelling?) I stopped his Nurgles moving turn one. March blocked them with Glade Riders turn two. They never made it to combat, and in the end I killed nearly all of them, leaving a single survivor to start turn five. On our fifth and final turn I shot at that one Nurgle with 20 Glade Guard, 8 Scouts, 8 Waywatchers and my Captain. He survived, denying me a half of the unit's points (we score full points for full destruction, half points for more than half the unit gone).
His Prince came forth on his own, trying to charge Waywatchers... who fled on purpose. I then shot it to death Turn 2, and the Waywatcher rallied (of course!).
His Beasts were scary, but I got Okkam's Mindrazor off on my Sisters, and they decked them with S9 javelins. Then my Wildriders got the charge on them and cleaned them up.
In short, only his Skullcannons did any damage to me at all, and when I charged one of them with an Eagle, Wildriders and a unit of Waywatchers all in one turn I still struggled to beat it in combat. It killed my Eagle, and half a unit of Waywatchers.
In summary, because I couldn't kill Epidimus (he never even came out
) or half of his ridiculous Horde, the score was about 1400 to 200, to the glorious Asrai. The dwarf player announced he had vastly changed his strategy for facing me Dwarves vs Daemons was a bloody mess, with most the Dwarves making a vanguard move on to a hill surrounded by rivers. The Dwarves had 30 Ironbreakers, 40 somethings (tougher than Warriors, with Great Weapons), an Organ Gun, a Cannon and 3 Gyrocopters. The Dwarves did terrible rolling, failing a lot of leadership tests and such, and again the Daemon player got his Prince killed early on and never brought out Epidimus.
Dwarves won about 800points to 300points.
I then played the Dwarves, who got very lucky with terrain. Because our group normally plays with zero terrain, and we were at my house so I insisted on some terrain, we compromised with D3+2 Terrain. So that meant three pieces... a building in each deployment zone, and a Nehekian Sphynx off in one corner... He deployed his cannon in his building, and surrounded it with his infantry; with one unit facing the back of the board in anticipation of the Glade Riders he had seen ambush the Daemons.
His Gyrocopters should have annhilated my troops, as he got off three unit-length breath/steam shots. He rolled terribly though, and killed a Glade Rider all game. My Eagle redeemed it self and killed a Gyro, Wild Riders killed one, and Waywatchers shot one down. It felt good. Then his cannon got a broadside shot on my Wildriders at 44"! I had not anticipated such a long shot, and it of couse killed 4 out of 6, and my Captain that was sitting within. That felt less good.
I cheesed a unit of Glade Riders into a tiny gap at the back of the board behind his building, with the intention of charging his cannon, but his cannon turned around and did its short range attack, killing them all. I then spent the rest of the game at 14" from his two blocks of infantry emptying my quivers, whilst he sat there and returned fire with a single cannon. There was one heated argument where he argued his cannon should be able to shoot my Spellweaver, despite it being behind a two-storey stone building...
His Organ Gun was universally unlucky; killing a couple scouts all game. At one point he got 20 shots off on my Sisters, of which 12 hit. I saved all of them on my 4+ Ward Save. He nearly upended the table...
In the end I beat him about 1400-600. Losing the Captain and half the Wild Riders hurt!
Lessons Learned
Bring arrows on Waywatchers before anyone else; they hit more often and would've gotten more value out of the special arrows.
Eagles are much better than I thought; sure they might not kill anything, but 'disabling' a cannon for two or three turns is awesome.
Glade Riders should never get in combat.
Wood Elves should never get in combat... besides Wild Riders once you've reduced a unit to 10% it's original strength...
Toughness is our enemy; I suspect facing other elves (i.e., the High Elves I was meant to face), or humans, or skaven, would be really advantageous for us.
Leadership 8+ across the board is incredible. You can flee every charge, knowing you'll almost certainly get to rally. Especially if you keep your General just behind your front line.
I can't check right now, but I could've sworn it just made S = Ld, which affects Javelins... but I could easily be wrong. I don't think not shooting the beasts would have turned the game; I could've cast it on the Wild Riders and charged them instead, but regardless I hope that I didn't get that wrong!
) but they're my best friends, and the best people to do pretty much anything else with 