Back from tournament – Fun was had

1st Game

 

 

His list was something like this.

2 Archnodes, Bane thralls with UA, Bane Knights, Min Bile thralls, Blood witches with UA, Saxon Orric, 2 Pistol wraiths, Bane Lord.

I had only played against this matchup once and knew that it had a huge advantage against my lists. My choice went to the coven as needed bile thralls to clear up some of that infantry to score some points or get a clear shot to the caster. I aggressively ran my kraken its 14 inch in my first turn and tried to esablish the line of skirmish far ahead, forcing my opponent to keep his caster way back. In the grind I managed to get my blood witches to take out his biles, a pistol wraith and some of his bane knights on one flank. On the other flank one of my archnodes and a scrap thrall managed to deal with his blood witches and a pistol wraith. This left his middle at a point disadvantage winning me the grind and finishing the game 5-0.

2nd Game

List was something like this.

2 angelius, 2 scythean, Aflector, 2 shredder, 2 death striders, 2 spell martyr, 2 forsaken and swamp gobbers.

I picked my skarre2 list in the hope that I could target his heavies with my feet. I managed to get deathjack in melee with the warlock on turn 2, sadly I forgot puppet master on him and rolled quite low so she managed to pull out with only 7 damage. I took out quite a lot, but I have never played against angelius so I underestimated their ability to clear a zone and lost. (15 models and an archnode is not enough, I know that now) Lost the game 5-3

 3rd Game

 

His list was something like this

Storm troll, pyre troll, Impaler, Full kriel with cabers and UA, Min Krielstone, Full Longriders, Fell caller, Horthol, Janissa, Runebearer, stone scriber

I played the coven since I imagined him playing a brig so my feet would effect all his models. Since one of the most common troll problems seems to be hitting minus 2 mat and rat should be great.

I was extremely interested in how this list was playing seeing as I have just bought some trolls. It started out well, but my opponent was new to his trolls as well. He played a slow game, and made loads of errors. As I saw the time was running out for him, I did not even bother to correct him in the spirit of fair play, but this player was so stressed by the clock that he kept activating stuff in the wrong order, targeted models with spell without having line of sight, activated and finished one long rider and then the other. It was a mess and I hope that if I were in his situation I would play more structured or just give up. Nice person however and he went and did well in the tournament later. Won the game by timeout.

 

4th Game

 

His list mercenary heavy and looked something like this.

Ol’ Rowdy, Boomhowlers, Nyss hunters, forge guard, Alexia, lady and holt, Journeyman, Reinholt, mayhaps Sylys.

I picked Skarre since Cane can takeout the coven in a single round of shooting. The table had too much terrain and that worked to my advantage. I was second player and in turn two I was able to clear and scored at my opponents objective. Same turn I ran a skarre feat stalker in melee with Cain. Next turn Cain had little chance for a comeback, and due to difficult terrain, he was unable to put much into his zone. I cleared it, ran a witch and won the game. Won 5-0

5th and final Game

 

Same list as first game with the exception that he removed a pistol wraith and gained Darrah Wrathe. Good trade.

Since the coven did so well I tried to do the same thing. This player however knew how to use his list, and knowing what I know now, I should never bring a colossal against Aspyxious. His feet can almost always take it out, so the more expensive model you bring the more point he gain. I actually had a chance to make a shot on the caster with the kraken, but learned that kill shoot only activates when you kill “a living model” good to know, cost me a boosted hit and damage against a 15 – 16 caster. In the end I managed to get an achnode to cast 2 boosted stygian abyss on him, dealing some 7-9 damage just before being cleared off the table. Not having fired at him with the Kraken earlier when I had the chance was my biggest regret in that game. Loss - removed from the table

I ended up 5 place out of 20 since due to the tiebreaker strength of schedule. I forgot to take some pictures but I did win best painted jack and best painted army. To be fair I think that some armies where better painted, but those armies had a few unpainted models and thus could not win the price. In jack I won over one of my friends awesome Ol’ Rowdy. He was not the only participant, but without a doubt the best. I wanted to put my deathjack, but one of my friends said, “NO biggest model – Best model”. I won even though the skill put into Ol’ Rowdy was much higher, so who said size did not matter? Fools with tiny models, that is who!

Won me these:

 

Other than that we had a load of beer, barbeque, air hockey, and 2 horrible night of sleep. What the hell is up with my fellow geeks snoring like shit. Nice people, but damn I had to sleep with earphones playing music all night.

Most memorable in game moment Stalker hitting Cain with a free strike for 11 damage, most memorable moment outside of the game is a tie between loosing in air hockey 7 times in a row while drinking beer or some person sleeping, suddenly wake, yell and sprint out of the room. Wait, no, that wins, damn that was strange.

Best tournament yet, and it has inspired me do better at the Danish Masters in a few months. 3 list format with character restrictions. Might even turn to the dark side of cryx to improve my chances. Some would argue that cryx is the darkside of warmachine, but I might turn to the blackest black that exist in this game, Asphyxious2 the black hole from witch no light can escape. You can bring revenant crew of atramentus the bastion of all that is fair in cryx, and people will still call you beardy, even with his new errata. He is that black. Nuff said rant over, painting trolls, new technique I am working on, show you later. Relates to this: