Will try and post some shots and remember how I blew five games of hardcore in a single day.
Done about as much practise as I can stomach. although I might be able to sneak in another game on Friday night. Got my turn 1 down to 4 minutes and 9 seconds. 
Everything is painted to a reasonable level.
And I’ve posted my list to jty.
Roll on Sunday and my appearance as a tournament chocolate make weight.
Game 2 was against a nice local chap called Paul (didn’t catch his second name).
His lists were infantry heavy Morvhanna or beast heavy Kromac. I plumped for Rasheth again as I didn’t want to spend the entire afternoon being bogged down after game 1. I wasn’t confident that the Morgy list would have the capacity to clear out infantry under Regrowth.
His list (as far as I can remember)
Scenario was Incursion (which I’d played against chimp the night before, heh heh)
I rolled high and opted to go second.
He set up pretty centrally with the Wold shoo ties on his right and the Pureblood and LotF on his left.
I did the same with my Titan huddle in the middle, Gators to my left (hoping to flank around) and Nihilators right and centre.
The first turn he moved up cautiously and hid Kromac and the Stalker behind clouds from something (I think it was Mannekin explosion/forest). I copied but was a bit more forceful with my advance in the middle. In position to seize control points next turn. My Nihilators hung back around 6″ off the flag. Gators ran up and Rasheth arc’d Breath of Corruption through a Nihilator, hit the LotF but didn’t kill it despite boosting (left on 2 points).
The flag on my left (Gators) disappeared.
Titan huddle!
Nihilators to the right of me . .
Turn two his woldythings shot up but didn’t kill any Gators, the Lotf charged two Nihilators and killed them then shot a pain giver, teleported to it and slapped Rasheth opening a bit of a gash in his belly. Rasheth dipped a pickled finger and pondered what to do
Kromac put Bestial up and stuff shuffled forward. Everything stayed well out of my charge range.
I started by having two pain givers slap the LotF and plink him to death (gotta love his pitiful DEF). Nihilators moved up to the flag to claim a CP with a couple engaging his beasts. Sentry got Rushed and walked to the other flag where he put Locker up. Aggy pops ‘-2 damage from war beasts’ and the other one ran forward with ‘no animus on war beasts’ . Rasheth popped Carnivore on the Sentry and topped up the aggy. This meant that most of the Circle beasts were in the aura from the start of their turn . . there would be no yo-yo for that stalker. Canoneer kills the Sentry stone.
Gators killed most of the woldythings. Rasheth forgot to feat, pah!
Can I jump in there and chop him up? Umm, no . . poop.
See them Nihilators? They're annoying they are.
I see Gators
Turn 3 Kromac changes his underwear as he realises that he’s going to have to commit or lose on scenario. The Pureblood advances to contest the flag on my right and sprays some nihilators. The Stalker charges the Sentry (with Gorax animus on) but, due to the flag placement and Locker, is only able to get his sword in. Many attacks later the Sentry is sitting there about half damaged . . effective ARM 23 is not to be sneezed at.
Kromac is apoplectic at this point and sends the Gnarlhorn in. This is at dice-silly and does almost nothing. The Sentry begins to chuckle and look forward to next turn. Kromac casts Bestial again and hangs back with the Feral, who can’t get in due to Locker and no reach.
Rasheth wakes up and remembers his feat, does some incidental stuff. The Sentry and a Gladiator get engaged and the Stalker and Gnarlhorn get dead. All good. I can’t remember why I didn’t get a CP at this point, must have been the Feral loitering. Gators finish off wolds and move up to threaten Gorax. Nihilators do something (I confess that I possibly forgot to activate them – oops).
still can't get to the fat man
see those Gators there? You're lunch, you are.
Oh dear Kromac, what have you done?
Turn 4 Kromac has had enough and has the Feral go for the Sentry. It fails to kill it (now effective ARM 25). Kromac decides to do the job and bounds over having feated. He off’s the Sentry but ends up sat on his own without Fury.
Rasheth has the Canoneer shoot him and then Gladiator trample up and pummel him. Game over.
Somewhere in that narrative I lost a Gladiator. It really wasn’t important.
This drivel has been shamelessly lifted from the UKCORD forum. I’ll post some original and hopefully less tedious stuff (with pictures) later.
GAME 1 – Process of Elimination. Gav Roath.
Gav’s List (ish)
Mordikaar
Titan Bronzeback
Titan Sentry
Cyclops Brute
Paingiver Beast Handlers (min)
Preatorian Swordsmen (min)
Nihilators (max)
Gatorman Posse (max)
Paingiver Task Master
Void Spirit
Void Spirit
Swamp Gobbers
Orin Midwinter (grr)
I took Rasheth and we set up, my taking second turn. Terrain played almost no part in the game so I’ll not dwell on it.
He set up with the Nihilators on his right, Mordi and his support in the middle, then titans with Swordsmen in front and the Gators + handler on the left.
I had my nihilators and gators on my right with all my titans and fatty in the middle, my support stuff hung back. My plan was for the Nihilators to provide a bit of a screen for my own troops early on.
For this game I’ll not detail everything as it was pretty much a grind, feel free to ask or point if something makes no sense.
He put hollow on the Swordsmen and ran them up, ran up the nihilators and put the void spirits just behind his front line. The gators moved just over a walk.
I countered by running a gator the full tier 14″ with the rest hanging out a bit. Titans walked forward, nihilators screened most of them. Rasheth arc’d a Breath of Corruption and killed a beast handler, filled up the agonisers.
On turn 2 he feated (+3 DEF and poltergeist – very handy)
Ran his troops into contact and generally gummed stuff up. Nothing of any significance was killed.
I responded by killing a bit of his stuff and feating (-2 STR and ARM on all enemy living things in Rasheth’s CTRL and I get 1 health back for anything that dies) , every titan put up the animus and the agonisers put out -2 damage (in case his beasts came in – I have a theory that a Bronze back won’t actually attack anything unless it’s on ‘dice + something’ so his just ambled about). Rasheth also took out both Void Spirits with Sunder Spirit (phew).
There then followed a war of attrition that ended up with me taking a loss on the third tie breaker.
Key moments for me were missing a BoC on his brute (and Mordi), boosted needing a 7 on the dice as he used prescience to make me re-roll. Poop. Mordi had no transfers so it could have done serious damage.
On my last turn he also made 6 consecutive tough rolls on a nihilator that was preventing me from slamming his gladiator over Mordi and the brute (and gobbers and so on). Had this come off I would actually have won on the third tie-breaker if I hadn’t killed Mordi. He had 2 transfers so it wasn’t likely.
IMO if we had carried on I would have had him. ’twas not meant to be. Nice chap, can’t wait for another chance at the ETC.
Further thoughts tell me that if I’d had a better ear out for the 15 minute warning then I should have just moved into the control zones on my turn and not tried anything offensive. Doing this would have secured me the win. Good to know.
As a pre-ETC test of the waters I decided to enter the WM/H tourney at Vapnartak on 4/5th February.
Vapnartak is the York Wargamers annual trade show, held at the racecourse, and also hosts a number of events as well as the usual trade stands on the Sunday. In order to fit 5 rounds in there were 2 games scheduled on the Saturday from 1pm.
Having been battered 1-4 at the ETC last year I felt the need to see how I did against a wider group of players . . . over the next few posts I’ll give some basic battle reports. Some of them will even have pictures (but not all as it was timed turns and I tended to get flustered).
The format was SR2012, 50 points with no duplicated characters across lists. Both lists must be used over the weekend . . .
I chose Skorne (mostly painted) as I am more comfortable with them and find the Fury mechanic more forgiving than the Focus of my Menoth (that and I can remember what they do and so play in 12 minute turns!).
List 1 (and the list I’d play all the time given the choice).
This was Tier 4 so the Titans were 1 point cheaper, the Agoinisers start with 3 Fury each, deployment is 2″ further forward and the Gatormen get +2 SPD on turn 1. All good. It was the first time not running a Bronzeback for me, which was a risk but previous outings had shown too little infantry clearing ability. In hindsight I think I’ll stick one in next time! Might need to get another Gladiator, hmm.
List 2
There’s no tier this time, just a plain list. The idea was to take it against the less infantry heavy armies and use the heavy beasts to punch a hole to the caster for Morgy to exploit. Wrong Eye is there mainly to allow me to spread out a heavy hitter by more than Morgy’s 10″ control would normally allow. This was a total experiment and I was not at all comfortable with it.
I’ll post the reports over the next day or so as I get the opportunity.
I’ve been doing some painting, my eden bamaka’s are about half done and I’ve started on my circle constructs. I’m finally getting the hang of the airbrush and finding I can do a wold in 5 minutes with the aid of a hair dryer . I also found I can mix in the airbrush feed well so I started with a small amount of my base colour and then added white for highlighting mixing in the cup by backing up the airflow.
Game 01
E doomy vs E Sorshia
Saw I was against Khador and decided to go beast heavy to crack the armor, bad mistake, James my game one opponent placed his one jack on the table and then proceeded to surround with infantry in abundance.
Round one the kriel rolled lucky on their toughs and only lost about half of their numbers. This was going to hurt.
Round two feated, trampled with all my beasts trying to reduced the amount of high def chaff of he board. Mulg managed to crit slam the spriggan over sorshia.
Sorshia feated ( double damage ), Mulg, EBDT and Mauler vanished. Then retreated. Remaining kriel gut butchered.
Round three, hail mary, axer charged the spriggan getting with 8″ of Sorshia. I needed above average rolls to assassinate the injured sorshia with primal shock x 2, boosted to hit with the first one, and giant surprise, missed, hit with the second, boosted damage and gave her a scratch.
James proceeded to mop up,
Round four, Doomy retreated, Lanyssa who’d been forgot about for most of the game, defended my zone from inside a wood. Up walked a winterguard with spray and game over.
James is a tournament player, with a tournament list. Think he went on to win it, and I’m not surprised.
Game 02
E doomy vs E denegra
Opponent was Jame’s friend think he was called Phil, who hadn’t played against trolls before
Round one won the roll, wild aggression Mulg, refuge EBDT, axer put RUSH on mug, everything ran. Phil moved up a little too close.
Round two, feated, EBDT ploughed in killed an arc node and a bane, mauler charged a seether, boosted to hit with initial attacks, hit with both triggering chain attack, double handed threw what was left of the seether onto denegra boosting to hit, knocking her down. Mulg charged tartar sauce who was in front of Denegra, splatted him with Wild aggression, goaded up to Denegra and game over.
Felt a bit dirty but after the first game, charity was not going to be an option.
Game 03
Gunnbjorn vs Morty
Never played Gunnbjorn before so this was not likely to go well.
Round one, Gunnbjorn puts snipe on bushwhackers and drops a wall, bushwhackers advance and then using 18″ range shoot a AD’d scrap thrall, and a Bile thrall who was stood in front of Morty, who promptly pops and blows his guts over Morty, and the cryx mechanic whose name I forget. Going well. Digmis dig. Everyone else advances.
Cryx advance and the dirt dolphins burrow.
Round two, Gunnbjorn upkeeps snipe, bushwhackers shoot and then retreat, gumming up the krill who advance. Gunnbjorn cast guided fire advances, shoots the deathjack and blasts him onto his back 3 inches back then camps on 2, dum move should have dropped a wall. Blitzer moves up and shoots the death jack 3 times. Impaler whose plan was the shoot the stalker gets carried away and shoots the DJ. Bomber advances and misses the seethed, then pops him with the second barrel. Impaler advances and hits the seethed for a bit more. Burrowers pop up and shoot the seethed to death. All good but have left Gunnjorn exposed to a flank attack from the stalker. Move up the swamp troll and cast his animus to try and reduce the stalkers hit chances.
Greymane does his Morty shenanigans feat, overrun, TV and all that, chargers the stalker past the swamp troll in gunnbjorn with inches to spare, and thats that.
again.
you’d think I’d learn…
E Dene’s moment of doom.
‘where on earth is that death jack?’
Oh there he is, in the thick of it.
Kriel stone conga anyone?
So, something of a short notice decision, but making the trip from the Shire (the west country) up to the NWGC this coming weekend to partake in the Winter Showdown. These are the lists I’ll be taking;
Baldur Tier 4 Rock of Orboros
Baldur the Stonecleaver (+6) - Megalith (10) - Woldwarden (8) - Woldguardian (8) Sentry Stone & Mannikins (3) Shifting Stones (2) - Stone Keeper (1) Shifting Stones (2) Druids of Orboros (7) - Druid of Orboros Overseer (2) Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers (5) Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers (5) Blackclad Wayfarer (2)Kromac Non-Tier
Kromac the Ravenous (+4) - Warpwolf Stalker (10) - Warpwolf Stalker (10) - Gnarlhorn Satyr (8) - Gorax (4) Shifting Stones (2) - Stone Keeper (1) Shifting Stones (2) Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers (5) Druid Stoneward & Woldstalkers (5) Blackclad Wayfarer (2) Blackclad Wayfarer (2) Druid Wilder (2) Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew (1)It’s possible this list will change, but I’ve tried it with Max Bloodtrackers + Nuala in the 10pt slot taken up by 2 units of Woldstalkers, and Bloodtrackers have the problem that they’re all in one place (i.e. a single unit), which if they’re front and centre, they’re in the way of the two Stalkers that want to be zipping in-and-out. Whereas I think (theorymachining here!) that two units of Woldstalkers allows me to have a unit on each flank, to make the most advantage of Warpath triggers. They also have a bigger threat range than Bloodtrackers, building on the theme of the list of having bigger threat ranges than my opponent.
With any luck I’ll have some results and pictures after the tournie this weekend!
