So this weekend I went over to a one horse town minus the horse called Orivesi (which means water horse haha) and took part in a tournament of about 16 people. The entrance fee was 10 euros (R110) which is about the price of a largish meal at a Turkish kebab place or MacDonalds, so very very reasonably considering the prize support, but more on that later. I was referred to by all as "The Englishman" which was rather funny, and although technically correct, I didn't want to correct them for fear of having to explain my white Africaness AGAIN. Anywhoo...
Game 1 versus Empire.
I
took my dwarfs out on thursday so see if I could get them going since I
have the whole army here, and found far too many things in need of
repair. I settled with a skaven list that limped along due to a lack of
billions of models that are sitting in Musgrave right now. Must get them
back in December! But basically my first game was against an army I
will forever call, "The Mother-in-law". 2 steam tanks, and 17 knights in
one unit, the front row made up of a captain, grandmaster, warrior
priest and level 4 light wizard. About as subtle as Will Ferrell. HAD I
brought the right amount of slaves, I could have parked any number of
unfortunate ratmen in front of this ball breaker and let them kill chaff
while I got his weak points, but my list was designed to fight straight
up. It didn't go well. The combo resulted in troops only hitting them
on a 6 (pha's protection -1, and white wolf banner or somemat -1, to
hit) and then getting hit back at str 6. Yuck. Despite this, I managed
to get my grey seer in a good position and use jaws of the world
wolf...ooops....I mean cracks call on both steam tanks at the same time,
destroying them with one spell. Huzzar! This brought it back from a
massacre to a draw and there was much squeeking and gnawing of teeth. As
I said before, the dwarf army I intended to bring would have minced
this list in 2 turns =P
Game 2 versus Chaos Dwarfs
Now
in all my long years as a gamer, I have never fought against the Dawi
Zharr, and although I have read older books and know how they work in
theory, the new Forge World Tamurkhan Chaos Dwarf list is a beast. He
brought two war machines, a wizard, some hobgoblin chaff and a unit of
chaos dwarfs in shard armour (full plate, 5+ ward versus fire). The
center piece was a k'Daai Destroyer, a demon possessed golem with
flaming attacks, half immunity to non magical weapons, extra frenzy and
movement 9. Holy Hashut that thing is mean! The scenario was dawn attack
which is practically random deployment, and the horned rat smiled on me
and put most of my stuff on the opposite flank to his, hehehe. Randomly
deployed load flank for the win. it didn't help at all. it kept me safe
from the horrible warmachines (the earthshaker is a horrible thing,
daemon possessed guided shells in a fantasy game, for shame!) but
luckily he kept missing or damaging clanrats which I didn't really care
for. The big highlight of the game was turn 1 his sorceror tried to
explode my grey seer with a big spell, got irresistable force and
scattered away, and in the subsequent miscast, lost all his magic
levels. tee hee hee lucky me again. I managed to out move his much
smaller army, but when you have a K'daai on your ass, there is not much
you can do except send in the mutant poisoned rat ogres and hope for the
best. It worked, but just. Combat starts with the K'Daai getting a str 4
flaming hit on each model in base to base. Ouch. Then it has init 5, so
goes first mostly. It has 5 attacks plus d3 frenzy at str 7. When you
wound it (toughness 6) with mundane weapons, so have to reroll the
wound. And finally it has a 4+ ward save. Its downside, each turn it
takes a toughness save (so on a 6 it fails) or loses d3 wounds since it
burns itself out. Yeah didn't happen once. Still managed to kill it with
poison which was mightily fun, and got to face a new army. Result,
minor loss to me.
Game 3 versus Skaven.
A 10
year old kid in a hoodie who looked unimpressed with getting to play
The Englishman, and had less skaven models in his army than I due to him
being new to the game. I wont go much into this game since it was kind
of boring and over quickly. but I got a minor win against him. It ended
up being a civil war between two rival grey seers and there much much
magical dueling.
End result of the tournament, 39 of 65 potential
points and full for painting. I probably came second in the army
painting competition, but there is no way a horde of brown rats will
compete with a dark elf army with custom lava bases for each man =(
I mentioned the
prize support earlier. These guys dont mess around. Even though it was a
really small event, there were trophies for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and best
painted. 1st place got a 65 pound bull taurus model from Forge World,
2nd place got a whole unit of Forge World Fimir, 3rd got a blister of
chaos dwarf heros, and best got a pro painting kit. Really impressive
considering the low entry fee.
Overall was fun and a poor mans substitute for my usual ICON adventure, but most welcome.
Regards, The Englishman! =P
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