Wow, it has been two and half months since I lasted
posted. Damn that thing called Real Life
and a job. It has seriously cut into my
hobby time, with next to no painting, no non tournament games, no posting on
forums, and no blog posting. It is out
right depressing and has surely contributed to the massive amount of drinking I
have been doing. Though come to think of
it, I drink a lot when I play a lot. I
guess it’s just the Irish in me.
However, I have not let life stop my tournament
schedule. In March I attended Lonewolf
in Texas and in April, the West Coast GT in SoCal. This upcoming weekend I will be attending
SAWS where I am sure it will be a thousand and twelve degrees.
Preview of the SAWS Venue. Prepare for Gamer funk and ass crack sweat galore! |
So sitting here in the pre-SAWS heat wave, I have loaded up
the blender with Pina Colada’s and decided to start catching up on the life and
times of a demented warhammer tournament player.
We left this sad tale with our hero (that would be me)
preparing to lock horns with the best of the best of those willing to show up
at the first ever US Masters. I gave my
over view of the event and my army in the last blog post. How the hell did the our hero do.
Round 1 Mark-Skaven
I hate Skaven with the burning passion of 10,000 white
hot suns. The good news is Mark is one
the Texans I have gotten to know well and have even travelled to Texas to visit
for non-warhammer reasons. I had also
played him before and thoroughly enjoyed the game, which is shocking since he
plays nothing but Skaven. His list was
reasonably soft and most importantly, Mark seemed to forget that every Skaven
list needs a Grey Seer!
I felt I controlled the game and got the combats I
wanted. However, Mark has a singularly
superior skill, the ability to roll low leadership tests. Through the use of Treason of Tzeetch,
getting into flanks to disrupt, and widening the battle to keep the BSB out of
range I quickly forced Mark to make a slew of Leadership 5 and 7 rolls without
the benefit of a re-roll. Mark hit his
first five leadership 5 checks in a row and never failed a Ld 7 roll. Despite killing 2,453of his models, I decided that
since Mark is the TO at the next event I was attending, that it would be best
to declare a draw. Because That is the kind of guy I am.
10-10 Draw
Round 2 Ryan – Empire
Ryan was packing a Light Council Empire list backed by two
units of Demis, Steam Tank and two huge blocks of halberds. Feeling pressure due to a draw in the first
round, I drive straight at him, playing into his army perfectly. By round 4 I was headed towards a 20-nil loss
when the Chaos lord decided enough was enough.
He quickly finished the Stank, demolished the Arch lector and his war
alter, and hunted down the opposing BSB which had foolishly left a unit. There was a bit of hankiness with Ryan at the
end with his L4, which magically was not part of a small skirmish unit he was
sitting a half inch away and in perfect formation with when it was found out I could charge around his
peg captain and make contact with the unit.
Of course being part of the unit is handy when I was slinging magic
missiles around! In the end, I let it go
as I was a little pissed at my play.
6-14 Loss
At this point I decided to hold a inspirational “half time”
pep talk for the West Coasters, who were getting crushed.
Round 3 Brandon – HE
Brandon was rocking an anointed on a Frosty, 2 Flame
Phoenixes, Death and Metal Magic, nothing but Cav and Skycutters. Fast and hard hitting in the right
situations. Additionally, there where
objective markers to grab. However, I
was able to bait Brandon it bad charges, grab the objectives and clean up his
force. Half way through, one of my unit
champs turned into a demon prince and really hemed in the rest of his
force. With the Chaos Lord and DP
running amuck and forcing his cav into my infantry where I could pin them, I
earned a win that started to salve my bruised ego.
20-0 win
Round 4 – Ben-HE
Ben is a good guy and regularly travels cross country to
attend QCR. This would be my firstchance
to play him. A heavy shooty army backed
up by shadow. This can be very scary for
my force and I decided to play conservative.
I got Treason off on his big character bunker and killed a nearby
Eagle. Ben rolled his panic test, one
die rolled a six while the other skidded off the table. The tension built as he picked up the die to
re-roll. it was now a 50-50 shot that I
win the game right there since he would have gone off the table! Alas he did not panic and Ben quickly made
sure I could not pull that off again, Mostly by sending a eagle hero in to
assassinate the Tzeetch mage! I would
clean up his chaff, chariots, and RBTs while losing my chaff. My Chosen would get shot down to a single
model but I always kept the shrine between the survivor and his shooting to
provide a mobile hard cover platform.
Embarrassingly, Ben charged a unit of Reavers into the flank of my
Knights and was able to get a boosted Mindrazor off! Oh well.
I eaked out the smallest of wins.
12-8 to the good..err.bad guys.
Round 5 – Brian –WoC
Brian clearly made only a few concessions for comp and had a
kitted out Slanesh DP and a horde of tolls waiting for me. To add insult to injury, one of his unit
champs ascended to deamonhood and I was faced with two DP. I sent the Chaos Lord at the free DP with the
idea that I would Gateway the general off the board. Alas this would be a mistake as Winds were
piss poor the entire game for me. It
became a race to see who would kill more, his DP or my Lord. I finally got gateway off the final turn but
Brian made just enough Saves to have a single wound left!
12-8 win
With the two minor wins at the end, I was safely ensconced
in the middle of the pack for the finish.
With the exception of game 2, I felt I generally played well, set up the
conditions for wins without exposing myself to defeat. However, those conditions required either a
bit of bad luck or a mistake on my opponents part and neither happened all
weekend. My list was fundamentally
flawed in that I could not push a little harder to pick up more points.
My younger self is not happy! |
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