Overall I think the army balance at Dumf was better than at
Reading, the comp clearly missing the power of Daemons whilst hitting a few
other armies, so un-comped actually allowed a more balanced field.
Both held at Community type venues, so nice locations for
events, Reading had a bar, where Dumf had better food facilities with a sort of
kitchen thing on the go. Reading takes
the win at the tables with the extra 6” round the side to dump junk on but Dumf
had the better scenery, the stuff at Reading was a combination of badly placed
(nothing in the middle of the table) and pretty ineffectual for what it was
(low hills that don’t block LoS, woods & difficult ground on the whole) so
combat armies at a real advantage.
My results also flip flopped between the two, Dumf I came 7th
pushing daemons around and Reading 49th (6th bottom) with
TK. A fine combination of Daemons being
far better than TK in general and matchups (the daemons flier army got to run
at a dwarf gunline, who they should smash most of the time! The TK got Ogres
with the biggest gutstar in existence!).
My Reading games were
a fantastic fun monster mash WoC list featuring Scyla, Kholek, a giant and a
shaggoth plus a bunch of other things running across the table at me! A fairly
standard skaven list from a couple of years ago with a bit of everything and an
Ogre list that was the most character heavy deathstar I’ve ever faced. Results
were big loss, small win, big loss.
Both really fun events, was able to catch up with friends
from the tourney scene I’d not seen for a while at each and that’s pretty much
the main reason for doing these things!
