So I took my filthy Lizards to Winter Incursion which ended up being a 108 player event held at Maelstrom Games in Mansfield, England. A bit of a treck to get to but thankfully Will had offered to do the 6 hour drive.
Dirty death magic lizards as I'd been using for the last while, this was my first real chance to show just exactly how horrible they are and true to form they didn't disappoint. I ended up coming 18th of 108 players which was by far my best result and has to be attributed to the army power.
My 6 games were:
Ogres, DE, WoC, Daemons, Lizards and Lizards
After round 1 I was playing on the top 20 tables all weekend and went 4-1-1 with my loss being to the WoC. The scoring system was 5000vps with your total score being determined by the vp difference deciding on a W/l/d total (big win was 2500) to which you added your vps scored. So the loss I decided to try something risky, made a stupid mistake but ended up scoring as many points as had I just sat back and it been a draw.
6 new opponents including finally getting in a game vs Andy Potter, one of my fellow team scotland players from the last couple of years, he was the one with the WoC army too. I'm glad I got the chance to play him as he's off travelling for a few months so not likely to see him for quite some time.
All in all a good event that was only slightly soured by my final game which only made it to T4 and was a bit niggly, opponent was very focussed on trying to get a good result rather than just having a good game so wasn't as much fun as could have been.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Thursday, 8 December 2011
ELG Campaign Round 3
So round 1 was a beatdown by warriors army after my shooting and magic achieved epic fail
Round 2 was a beadown by Ogres after my shooting and magic achieved epic fail
Round 3 I decided to drop all the shooting and went with the beatstick options from my book
lvl 3 Deepwood sphere, Stone of Rebirth
10 Glade Guard
8 Dryads
8 Dryads
4 Treekin
1 Treeman
My opponent was HE with
lvl 2 +1 spell, heavens
BSB - Horsie 2+ AS, Magic sword of +2S and D3 wounds vs anything other than infantry, luckstone
3x10 archers
15 White lions
2 eagles
Bolt Thrower
So the BSB was optimised to kill my army, which I only discovered when he solo charged my treekin and ripped 2 off them up with his hits and then ran the other two down. My mage lord & archers got run down by an eagle in the flank causing no wounds either side and an 11 on my breaktest. But that was after he buffed up a unit of dryads with +2 toughness and they raged on the white lions, I6, T6 meant that the WLs weren't doing much and I tore up 5-6 per turn. The treeman's strangle root accounted for about 10 archers, the BSB and the made and he killed the bolt thrower in combat.
All in all it ended up a 104pts victory to me, so woot!
Then got in another intro game of Malifaux, this time it was Victoria with her obvious crew choice of the Victoria's. Her first game so we ignored scenarios and went with the option of just doing a big fight. 24 stones each side had the Vics box set vs Sonnia 2 x witchlings, 1 x judge, 1 x deathmarshall & 1 austinger. Basically because that showed a variety of abilities and they specifically wanted the austinger on the board because it looks cool!
Sword Vikki went into combat first after a few pistol shots off each side but we'd missed the better tricks of how to combo the vics up so she did a load of damage to the judge but he was left standing (vics with no stones so couldn't push through the damage), he flurried back and managed to kill her, I'd not realised just how fragile the Vics are.
We then traded various models until finally Sonnia went overkilll with her spells blowing 2 crew members off the board and turning gun vic into a witchling. I then threw her into combat with the last crew member to let him cut me down but some bad flips resulted in her surviving so I just put up inferno and ended the turn with the 3 wounds being enough to drop the last player leaving me with Sonnia and the witchling which I summoned from Gun Vic.
All in all I think it went quite well as a demo, Victoria took to the game mechanic instantly and got the rules down quickly, so a bit more familiarity with the crew and the abilities and I'd have been smashed I reckon. I think we've got another regular player likely to be available. The other thing is Victoria is an amazing painter and her crew looks beautiful. Really good showcase to have on the board so should help draw some more interest too.
Whilst running there were a couple of other people popped over to watch so hopefully get them hooked in too!
Does mean I'll need to get to work with a few more models, as need to expand up my crews to get some more options to put down on the table. A Malifaux order I placed months ago finally arrived Maelstrom had been struggling to get some stock in so a bit delayed. I'd ordered a mix of Guild and Neverborn:
The Twins (Lilu & Lilutu)
Guild Guard
Austinger
and possibly something else, I forget.
I've also got Collodi and his Marionettes to paint up still so plenty to be going on with.
Finally Jon showed off his Von Schill crew. I've spoken about Jon's painting a few times, he's the 'I can't paint' player down the club and safe to say I think he's finally getting over it. The crew have a really solid paintjob on them and he seems incredibly enthused about them.
Round 2 was a beadown by Ogres after my shooting and magic achieved epic fail
Round 3 I decided to drop all the shooting and went with the beatstick options from my book
lvl 3 Deepwood sphere, Stone of Rebirth
10 Glade Guard
8 Dryads
8 Dryads
4 Treekin
1 Treeman
My opponent was HE with
lvl 2 +1 spell, heavens
BSB - Horsie 2+ AS, Magic sword of +2S and D3 wounds vs anything other than infantry, luckstone
3x10 archers
15 White lions
2 eagles
Bolt Thrower
So the BSB was optimised to kill my army, which I only discovered when he solo charged my treekin and ripped 2 off them up with his hits and then ran the other two down. My mage lord & archers got run down by an eagle in the flank causing no wounds either side and an 11 on my breaktest. But that was after he buffed up a unit of dryads with +2 toughness and they raged on the white lions, I6, T6 meant that the WLs weren't doing much and I tore up 5-6 per turn. The treeman's strangle root accounted for about 10 archers, the BSB and the made and he killed the bolt thrower in combat.
All in all it ended up a 104pts victory to me, so woot!
Then got in another intro game of Malifaux, this time it was Victoria with her obvious crew choice of the Victoria's. Her first game so we ignored scenarios and went with the option of just doing a big fight. 24 stones each side had the Vics box set vs Sonnia 2 x witchlings, 1 x judge, 1 x deathmarshall & 1 austinger. Basically because that showed a variety of abilities and they specifically wanted the austinger on the board because it looks cool!
Sword Vikki went into combat first after a few pistol shots off each side but we'd missed the better tricks of how to combo the vics up so she did a load of damage to the judge but he was left standing (vics with no stones so couldn't push through the damage), he flurried back and managed to kill her, I'd not realised just how fragile the Vics are.
We then traded various models until finally Sonnia went overkilll with her spells blowing 2 crew members off the board and turning gun vic into a witchling. I then threw her into combat with the last crew member to let him cut me down but some bad flips resulted in her surviving so I just put up inferno and ended the turn with the 3 wounds being enough to drop the last player leaving me with Sonnia and the witchling which I summoned from Gun Vic.
All in all I think it went quite well as a demo, Victoria took to the game mechanic instantly and got the rules down quickly, so a bit more familiarity with the crew and the abilities and I'd have been smashed I reckon. I think we've got another regular player likely to be available. The other thing is Victoria is an amazing painter and her crew looks beautiful. Really good showcase to have on the board so should help draw some more interest too.
Whilst running there were a couple of other people popped over to watch so hopefully get them hooked in too!
Does mean I'll need to get to work with a few more models, as need to expand up my crews to get some more options to put down on the table. A Malifaux order I placed months ago finally arrived Maelstrom had been struggling to get some stock in so a bit delayed. I'd ordered a mix of Guild and Neverborn:
The Twins (Lilu & Lilutu)
Guild Guard
Austinger
and possibly something else, I forget.
I've also got Collodi and his Marionettes to paint up still so plenty to be going on with.
Finally Jon showed off his Von Schill crew. I've spoken about Jon's painting a few times, he's the 'I can't paint' player down the club and safe to say I think he's finally getting over it. The crew have a really solid paintjob on them and he seems incredibly enthused about them.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
25% off sale
I've been doing a bit of shopping recently what with OG having a 25% off on all carrying stock sale.
Ended up buying:
2 x 5 DE cold ones
3 x 16 DE spears/Xbows
1 x 10 Savage Orcs
1 x 10 Black Orcs
2 Empire Cannon/Mortars
1 x 8 Knights
1 x 5 Pisotliers/outriders
1 x 2 battle wizards
2 x 20 Stormvermin
1 Doomwheel
Already have 5 pistoliers, 20 free company, warrior priest and some other bits and bobs so all of that gives me a decent chunk of an empire army and a DE army to work on after my Skaven.
The Orc stuff was just random to check out the kits, but I'll probably turn the Black Orcs into Dragon Ogres using some of my spare lizzies cold one models.
Also picked up some Tau Kroot which I'm going to have a look at turning into plaguebearers to expand out a daemon army from my old slannesh stuff.
Once again I've totally blown my 'paint what you buy' stats but on the plus side I've painted 500+ models so far this year, so not as though I'm slacking in that regard.
Ended up buying:
2 x 5 DE cold ones
3 x 16 DE spears/Xbows
1 x 10 Savage Orcs
1 x 10 Black Orcs
2 Empire Cannon/Mortars
1 x 8 Knights
1 x 5 Pisotliers/outriders
1 x 2 battle wizards
2 x 20 Stormvermin
1 Doomwheel
Already have 5 pistoliers, 20 free company, warrior priest and some other bits and bobs so all of that gives me a decent chunk of an empire army and a DE army to work on after my Skaven.
The Orc stuff was just random to check out the kits, but I'll probably turn the Black Orcs into Dragon Ogres using some of my spare lizzies cold one models.
Also picked up some Tau Kroot which I'm going to have a look at turning into plaguebearers to expand out a daemon army from my old slannesh stuff.
Once again I've totally blown my 'paint what you buy' stats but on the plus side I've painted 500+ models so far this year, so not as though I'm slacking in that regard.
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