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Topic Started: 21st January 2008 - 07:15 PM (121 Views)
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This might be a better spot for this.

Allrighty, I got a strange bug up my ass the night before the tourney and decided on a completely different strategy.

at 9 pm I drove 45 min to the nearest open stroe and bought a bunch of stormvermin and some gnoblars to replace my 5th ed clanrats who were being slaves (seriously the slaves were bigger than the clanrats and it was bugging me)

So now with painting no longer a factor I whipped together this list:

Warlord
great weapon,warpstone armor,talisman of prot,skavenbrew

Plague Priest
weeping blade

Engineer
kit -pistol,Dscroll,stormdaemon

Engineer
kit -pistol,Dscroll,death globes

25 clanrats w/spears, mus,stand,ratling gun

25 clanrats mus,stand,WTF

23 Stormvermin mus,stand,champ,banner of the swarm

20 slaves
20 slaves

5 golbadiers

5 gutter runner w/poison, tunneling

3 Rat Ogres

6 Jezzails

17 Plauge Monks w/ahw, mus, stand,banner of burning hatred

5 Censur Bearers

Tourney special extra Hero for scenarios:
Chieftan w/hvy armor,BSB,Banner of the storm



All in all a great time was had, my 3 opponents were all fun to play, the scenarios were interesting as well, we were told to write up an extra hero choice, less than 200 pts.
First scenario the two special champions basically had to duke it out in the middle of the table to give your side reroll tokens, was kinda neat.
Second scenario the champion turned traitor and you gave yours to the opponent, extra VP for killing the traitor, if the traitor model killed more than his value, all points he killed were doubled. This worked out way to my advantage, as most people took and extra wizard or combat heavy hero, and I took a BSB. Best of all I ended up giving the Banner of the Storm to a gunline dwarf smile.gif
Third scenario, the heros didn't get used, but it was a dogfight to the end. All fleeing models auto rally at the board edge. So it was a meatgrinder. This scenario was perfect for me and I Slaughtered my opponent.

Couple of points, now that I look back at it I wish I had just used a scroll caddy and grabbed another unit of something. but thats hindsight as I rolled crap for my casting, never miscast but lots of 6s and 7s on 3 dice.

My first opponent was a chaos player with 11 power dice, and that scared the crap outta me, but he ended up rolling bad as well and got very few tide turning spells off. This was a minor loss for me, just couldn't kill his character (that weapon that gives chaos guys a wound back when they kill something is not fun to watch as it heals the same guy from 1 wound left to over full 4 times a game )

Second opponent was the Dwarfs, they weren't pure gunline, just pseudo gunny. I forced some deployment by dropping a unit of slaves first on the far end of the table, so he started his line there, then I stacked the other side. This was a minor victory for me. I tried to get his little dwarf hero that I now controlled to kill stuff so I could get the extra VP for stuff he killed, and last turn I finally got my chance, his big unit of longbeards surrounded on 3 sides by ogres, stormvermin, and the little hero. We break them amazingly, and they run 5 inches...I chase first with the hero, here is the time for glory! and i roll......2 inch persue...stupid dwarf. Great game all around.

Third games was Vs empire in the grind fest scenario, and it just wasn't pretty. I mauled the crap outta everything. He was a newer player and fell into a lot of traps, and I didn't want to crush his spirit, so after he lost his only caster I stopped using spells as well and made sure he knew his options when he was making decisions, like who should i shoot with this hellblaster, the remaining 21 slaves, or the 2 rat ogres with 1 packmaster left,he seriously thought about this for about a min, before I had to chime in with some advice, this ended up costing me a unit of ogres, but Id rather he learn and become better, as good opponents make for good games.

All in all I came in 5th, and won best sportsman. Would have got higher but I had unpainted models on the baord and that docked me, but I knew that going in.

Merged double-post. Please do not double-post; make use of the Posted Image button. ~Sebrent~

Also, one of slave units will be getting some bits upgrades, as they were the stars of the tourney. This ragtag unit of 20 slaves killed 2 Dwarf cannon crews, a Hellblaster crew, and 3 Chaos Minotaurs. They also took board quarters in 2 of the three battles.
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Also, one of slave units will be getting some bits upgrades, as they were the stars of the tourney. This ragtag unit of 20 slaves killed 2 Dwarf cannon crews, a Hellblaster crew, and 3 Chaos Minotaurs. They also took board quarters in 2 of the three battles.
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