tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75782283774763083982024-03-14T06:13:22.793-07:00Darklord - King of WarDaniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-9307846512863697202023-06-18T22:22:00.000-07:002023-06-18T22:22:17.354-07:00<p></p><p><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Question - What is Blackmail in
Gaming?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Answer - Being forced into a
making a move, that you wouldn't otherwise make.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now in your typical one on one
game of Chess, it's irrelevant, you both want to win, you make the optimal
moves. You have to play defence as well as offence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj138b9EvQXaLy0GPsa1umO9GjaLr5lbF-NPED-6QReGMTdk6DbxV1qCCT48bGHbIgzgp1aiPu5fsaOqgcc7uQJxc6GlZgbxw-dw2eoT6359kH4fcJnqCmWXzw-ooia6gk4XZ-Eefy9kbNS7ik_WVUG5ljbw8Cik7Y12I-vPx0ndA3HLUN0ZGsiiVV9_g8/s986/Screenshot%202023-06-19%20061213.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 18px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="986" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj138b9EvQXaLy0GPsa1umO9GjaLr5lbF-NPED-6QReGMTdk6DbxV1qCCT48bGHbIgzgp1aiPu5fsaOqgcc7uQJxc6GlZgbxw-dw2eoT6359kH4fcJnqCmWXzw-ooia6gk4XZ-Eefy9kbNS7ik_WVUG5ljbw8Cik7Y12I-vPx0ndA3HLUN0ZGsiiVV9_g8/w400-h266/Screenshot%202023-06-19%20061213.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">But in a multiplayer game say a
4 player one, everyone at the table wants to win, and has responsibility to
stop others. If they choose to do nothing to help stop a certain player win
they can hardly complain when another player also does nothing!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Lets have an example. Players
A,B,C and D.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Player A makes a move, If no
other players make a specific move to stop them they will win. Player B ignores
that and advances their win, reasoning that the C or D will stop it. C ignores
it too... D is now forced to stop the win or the game will end. This is blackmail
in gaming.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">D duly stops the win, but warns
the other players if they don't help stop the win in future, then tough, they
aren't going to be the fall guy over and over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Player A makes another winning
move. B ignores it, C ignores it, D has to stop it again. At this point sure,
it's great for B and C they are getting closer to winning, but D is making no
progress, it's not fair and if the others want to stay in the game, they will
need to step up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Player A makes another win bid.
B and C both ignore it again. D says "Fine", makes a different move
and A wins. Players B and C, shout at Player D. WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP IT, YOU
IDIOT!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Player D at this point has had
enough and isn't willing to play any more...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>TLDR</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If any one player at the table
wants to win they have to invest, they cannot expect player D to save the
game over and over, just so that they can win. Why would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>player D do that? There gets to a point where
keeping the game going is not worth the effort for player D, the other players
are getting ahead, and if they refuse to help, you know they'll just end up
winning instead. Being the fall guy is not fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Of course everyone wants to win,
that is the goal of the game, but the aim of the game is to have fun. Telling a
player they are an idiot for not playing the game the way you want them to is not
conducive to this...<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkJtZXz4PA04vQLe4_-8K-xBYQlxC1ZX4iCnkgYnlByyv45xD0-iqQnY7gnXcEZLGTmllSGEhKIny8n4ETBujezqR2Hetl_hrEWOeRtWhF4x8hXlOov-4cTrPbcgdt3MYhT39vh5AAHNmB1vM7HsdgrFj5LY1W5lT4hHT0p2pkr_8DGahep9yryHpVNE/s497/Screenshot%202023-06-19%20061935.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="497" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkJtZXz4PA04vQLe4_-8K-xBYQlxC1ZX4iCnkgYnlByyv45xD0-iqQnY7gnXcEZLGTmllSGEhKIny8n4ETBujezqR2Hetl_hrEWOeRtWhF4x8hXlOov-4cTrPbcgdt3MYhT39vh5AAHNmB1vM7HsdgrFj5LY1W5lT4hHT0p2pkr_8DGahep9yryHpVNE/w400-h270/Screenshot%202023-06-19%20061935.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-83057911550330311882023-02-15T17:58:00.001-08:002023-02-15T17:58:26.023-08:00 Autism and the Gaming Community. <p><br /></p><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">There's a few things I want to touch upon here. I've recently realised I'm Autistic, this is my own self diagnosis. For anyone reading this who is themselves a diagnosed Autistic, please don't get annoyed at me for self diagnosing, I have numerous reasons for doing so. My son was diagnosed with Autism and I saw that for all the reasons he is, I am too. (It's really self evident to me, now) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXL2w3zPQu3uxlOiKD-fNcThN8WOoe2DKmuh7NWh1N4_VMgQ2dxmB4qs-vASDHH1x_JEYgDlh3Z6jz_4RoJGUX6WVoPrtCfVJL3xZ2GOgMdIYZipc-2Jc699qwEVdVF9d4pfWHRnH7d-w4iNjYbTAB2va5IeUhL9bbPyatt8x0_IvB7KuEowNKj2sE/s960/22814396_1960184780864248_3704272602145717326_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXL2w3zPQu3uxlOiKD-fNcThN8WOoe2DKmuh7NWh1N4_VMgQ2dxmB4qs-vASDHH1x_JEYgDlh3Z6jz_4RoJGUX6WVoPrtCfVJL3xZ2GOgMdIYZipc-2Jc699qwEVdVF9d4pfWHRnH7d-w4iNjYbTAB2va5IeUhL9bbPyatt8x0_IvB7KuEowNKj2sE/w400-h225/22814396_1960184780864248_3704272602145717326_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's quite an eye opener! Certain things that didn't make sense to me over my life now do. It's made me quite introspective, I've reanalyzed various events over my life and I see many now with a new light.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOT9CAyZTrLaeBlaMaEARMzUt8TMGwUUCIvotfxuwdqBrVgOmSfq8dgLlcuq79JxUjdkI2DDiXrC0Fu0mAQoBMIvXszuSi9j80-KLbMq2ylgwkd9-QGFARHupZUBrit4Y4vs97F3mnRiq3ZO_LmoF9Rg7ff8WfpjfkWINdtEa5P9YGgFTlYMGvBKLo/s1440/67776647_2338195479729841_2942445179245690880_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOT9CAyZTrLaeBlaMaEARMzUt8TMGwUUCIvotfxuwdqBrVgOmSfq8dgLlcuq79JxUjdkI2DDiXrC0Fu0mAQoBMIvXszuSi9j80-KLbMq2ylgwkd9-QGFARHupZUBrit4Y4vs97F3mnRiq3ZO_LmoF9Rg7ff8WfpjfkWINdtEa5P9YGgFTlYMGvBKLo/w400-h300/67776647_2338195479729841_2942445179245690880_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">I read an article recently (I'll link it later) and so much struck a cord. Like in the article I was bullied at school. I would get upset, cry and always struggle with my emotions, some things just wouldn't make sense to me, and I took other things at face value that I probably shouldn't have. I often felt lonely and yes I considered suicide. Thankfully family and friends helped me through the tough times. Work later was also difficult, I would sometimes be ostracized, and not quite understand why. </div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkklxQHSaL-wK8f6R8uWmK3ZJm6NGeR3X4mO6c4VE2wnjv8RrCckiKI8lg1cLaqVxLPJd33dJRnF_cxB6JGqRZPPRkxVyO3ZM2ffIsy7b_t9hJK6SLvEthmAGDrhoCE2DE58gsytVc1Dv8Oah_aD4foilnj3V0vst1r1RccoHjWUEORyedQY1QNel/s960/53886131_2244915329057857_6249470104816320512_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkklxQHSaL-wK8f6R8uWmK3ZJm6NGeR3X4mO6c4VE2wnjv8RrCckiKI8lg1cLaqVxLPJd33dJRnF_cxB6JGqRZPPRkxVyO3ZM2ffIsy7b_t9hJK6SLvEthmAGDrhoCE2DE58gsytVc1Dv8Oah_aD4foilnj3V0vst1r1RccoHjWUEORyedQY1QNel/w400-h300/53886131_2244915329057857_6249470104816320512_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">The same with hobbies, I played Warhammer on the tournament scene for a while but many of the people never quite felt like friends, some would act oddly towards me, and rampant cheating and nonsense put me off. (some not all, I still have a core of awesome friends from those days.) </div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">I played D&D most weekends for a few years, but again issues arose through misunderstandings. I recall the owner of the shop getting irate with me because I was trying to be efficient. (he felt I was taking away his ability to shine) I didn't mean any harm, I was just trying to defeat the encounter! (I saw us as a team that would work the most efficient way possible)</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dAQZjzIP6pumNKZefGfBDuH98uwsTDePMWdPuz03Q7B_bwz9k-12Jcuqc-WBIcqv0JOmlhTHJ9DgHfReGu524ZMJpc98m6RXEzILWmRGSzFSIzUlLr0egx56JZ09RonouA62DGTTgBdHybLMu65gq058gjvPntGMBcnRqPbQG1lHKdNZp2fqJEo6/s960/71498776_2374588252757230_6868776643410788352_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dAQZjzIP6pumNKZefGfBDuH98uwsTDePMWdPuz03Q7B_bwz9k-12Jcuqc-WBIcqv0JOmlhTHJ9DgHfReGu524ZMJpc98m6RXEzILWmRGSzFSIzUlLr0egx56JZ09RonouA62DGTTgBdHybLMu65gq058gjvPntGMBcnRqPbQG1lHKdNZp2fqJEo6/w400-h300/71498776_2374588252757230_6868776643410788352_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Autistic means I see things differently, I'm not always good at understanding others emotions and motivations and I can cause upset unintentionally. (Aeronauts...) The thought of upsetting others really upsets me. What I'm hoping is now I know I'm not Neurotypical it may help me to understand others more, and vice versa! </div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I have offended any people out there please know that I may not be aware of it, and am always happy to have a chat about anything over a beer. I really hate conflict, I suck at it, and would much rather be friends with everyone if I can be!</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtc10KWih1X0rBbEvi09fG5mTpPv4TDQINjR0N5CPqZyzR9UYCD0DKn9XgUpQe2hk-oJrxleMytphze2ygAMvfXP7wRMEmjFwPp0SJsyaWcNfBnGYJWsmmBJAUE_Ksk-dcYzOpxtNX4rXNHpYMifHDK3Wf6dMzV3c8_D_QOyFhLyllJe_KCe6-qSkf/s960/31564107_2041629222719803_7540207154217615360_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtc10KWih1X0rBbEvi09fG5mTpPv4TDQINjR0N5CPqZyzR9UYCD0DKn9XgUpQe2hk-oJrxleMytphze2ygAMvfXP7wRMEmjFwPp0SJsyaWcNfBnGYJWsmmBJAUE_Ksk-dcYzOpxtNX4rXNHpYMifHDK3Wf6dMzV3c8_D_QOyFhLyllJe_KCe6-qSkf/w400-h300/31564107_2041629222719803_7540207154217615360_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">King's of War now has been my main hobby since first edition. I can say without doubt it's the friendliest community I've been part of. I was always made to feel welcome, and despite the odd misunderstanding, people feel accepting to a much greater level than I have known previously.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfjzAXoQ6FkaSWtmcu8CmNPxl2mj2ePsC4yy57k-9cozarSr-KjKucrJm4mffELgM85-11OClLeg-N08xetGrWLZsR2jvOSsVtzbSK4OSaYljHTqCl-iIrq914C-jhf0yZ58JixJMw_vUJXuLdlLW9PMIml2A4KWblv2QABbBcrt1lj_Tl-qiQJN2/s1440/241243832_2936655929883790_5977929435295122518_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfjzAXoQ6FkaSWtmcu8CmNPxl2mj2ePsC4yy57k-9cozarSr-KjKucrJm4mffELgM85-11OClLeg-N08xetGrWLZsR2jvOSsVtzbSK4OSaYljHTqCl-iIrq914C-jhf0yZ58JixJMw_vUJXuLdlLW9PMIml2A4KWblv2QABbBcrt1lj_Tl-qiQJN2/w400-h300/241243832_2936655929883790_5977929435295122518_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now they do say that like calls to like, it may well be that our hobby attracts the Neurodiverse. I certainly accept seeing as we play with toy soldiers, we're all a bunch of nerds! </div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll note here my inner thought process, I hope that my joke about toy soldiers and nerds will amuse people but I also worry that I may offend someone. (I worry far too much) Being Autistic means I constantly have to second guess myself, I try to make everyone happy, I don't like to make waves. It's not easy.</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbmK_DJDnP8ZP7QjeRleurNucqBlXd_TEDz7fI_8C9oGWzSFfEIuRELSEE5fiHEfQ6t2wHYdZxKqcjeUsyzR5DGnXh2Jci1YjUiRGdqrmmgIAXnccnTieGFLBVxyp2EhJ9Nj5Inl0C271n6eT5z0p9bwyb-Tzsb_IwGKjzEFzH8Cs-cQuCdX3tgG8/s960/278139758_3091720084377373_284705761060289500_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbmK_DJDnP8ZP7QjeRleurNucqBlXd_TEDz7fI_8C9oGWzSFfEIuRELSEE5fiHEfQ6t2wHYdZxKqcjeUsyzR5DGnXh2Jci1YjUiRGdqrmmgIAXnccnTieGFLBVxyp2EhJ9Nj5Inl0C271n6eT5z0p9bwyb-Tzsb_IwGKjzEFzH8Cs-cQuCdX3tgG8/w400-h300/278139758_3091720084377373_284705761060289500_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seriously though, I love our community. I have been made to feel welcome and loved by people worldwide. (being invited to America time after time and being made so welcome was a dream come true for me) Being RC for many years was a fantastic experience too. (You're awesome Mantic)</div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The gist of the article is this. I feel I'm accepted for who I am, even if quite what that is hasn't been defined. Considering that many people with Autism struggle, I think myself very lucky. It took a while but I found my people. Thank you. </b></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAPtx4McZxg0Yk0akv6brFEkzVS0yFb_Ns6mqJ7Gi2Kuohc4_9DSbv6xf0f11xsSZapp_SieAzn7Pu3ypLbCWon-XQFiMqy1QTHlCw7dzKTM5etHHVeKDm4eavGRama1xsTjXuAlFSwFbEg4U3DDf3BLhlysEjyMTaii8inNDVX6xtyOOS0nUhsKV/s1413/278133946_3095650793984302_7684611162054245131_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1413" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAPtx4McZxg0Yk0akv6brFEkzVS0yFb_Ns6mqJ7Gi2Kuohc4_9DSbv6xf0f11xsSZapp_SieAzn7Pu3ypLbCWon-XQFiMqy1QTHlCw7dzKTM5etHHVeKDm4eavGRama1xsTjXuAlFSwFbEg4U3DDf3BLhlysEjyMTaii8inNDVX6xtyOOS0nUhsKV/w640-h290/278133946_3095650793984302_7684611162054245131_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIJB4OAqc9JyBsDeblbFriJWjLdUXOPcbdFkoe1NRCwqy3n-tDruLqDNQUpB-0YrC4u7pZnvL82UiDnL1YWBo-cOGAkfta0fXaokPSum4-Bc5BGBt_fCaHXfXiV14dnd-N7JMUpUzNjFmNGdL5z3JqGS4Co-pcoLLYLcs3P-fsOswGD8RSoP_Cjni/s960/71592545_2373325189550203_4618589504045842432_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIJB4OAqc9JyBsDeblbFriJWjLdUXOPcbdFkoe1NRCwqy3n-tDruLqDNQUpB-0YrC4u7pZnvL82UiDnL1YWBo-cOGAkfta0fXaokPSum4-Bc5BGBt_fCaHXfXiV14dnd-N7JMUpUzNjFmNGdL5z3JqGS4Co-pcoLLYLcs3P-fsOswGD8RSoP_Cjni/w400-h300/71592545_2373325189550203_4618589504045842432_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-bruce-children-chris-packham-autistic-b2282801.html" target="_blank">Autism Article</a></b></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note the photo's show some of the many awesome people on the scene. I love all you guys out there though, photo of you shown or not! </div>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-37075714608809040452022-08-23T01:38:00.001-07:002022-08-23T01:38:40.655-07:00<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Pssssht Pssssht...</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRzifqMX82ZUcxceD1IZESRafVN4dh6Nctoa-AphhhP6GICwOUF45ZRv5dbbWhrDq4a0NWLgPD7P0o0RVtGR8fuNYb4tjs9WibVnwu51fdrH8_8vWLF_yA4tLLIVLVeWUXl8nuCv1ZjH3335xKEFEZB4aU0uCYGm2vyFe1LBhSh2ax2VUSuD9CP8g2/s3154/IMG_20220823_092934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3154" data-original-width="1760" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRzifqMX82ZUcxceD1IZESRafVN4dh6Nctoa-AphhhP6GICwOUF45ZRv5dbbWhrDq4a0NWLgPD7P0o0RVtGR8fuNYb4tjs9WibVnwu51fdrH8_8vWLF_yA4tLLIVLVeWUXl8nuCv1ZjH3335xKEFEZB4aU0uCYGm2vyFe1LBhSh2ax2VUSuD9CP8g2/w224-h400/IMG_20220823_092934.jpg" width="224" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm at a tournament admiring a display board, it's been made by a prominent player and it's gorgeous. No real surprise, his boards are always excellent. He's made a booklet, full colour that has his army background in it. Quite nice to see actually, backgrounds seem to have gone out of fashion. It's very detailed, I skim through it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The player walks over, he has a big grin on his face, and an aerosol can of compressed air in his hand, he squeezes it. Pssssht Pssssht... Wind effects I puzzle? He starts talking me through his army, it's all very impressive. He tells me all about the mini's he's used. Pssssht Pssssht. Painting style. Pssssht Pssssht. Their background. Pssssht Pssssht... This goes on for a while.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I start to look closer at his board, it's actually not as good as I thought. He's scattered dungeon tiles from Advanced Heroquest all over it. Unusual. Also there's no miniatures on it currently, perhaps they are still at the table from his last game?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The player regains my attention, our eyes meet, his grin grows impossibly wider. His hand gently caressing and squeezing the can. Pssssht Pssssht...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0hmV9EN0v3JOMwoX2TDYPDzXdVcHNyjq7X7Zm-UcL7s8G2nH4W51c3fpjLihoPlnBt-SU7TbWSWVo-LaxRToliEPMH6tgf_5FYxYjxvtHm2Elhla9ozMs0IQSGFahSGbf37Tv4bLrRk0_Quh_xyzShNzrA4w5LZVM5zpIN6Oc-YI3GdoOyA1QCje/s432/Screenshot%202022-08-23%20093316.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0hmV9EN0v3JOMwoX2TDYPDzXdVcHNyjq7X7Zm-UcL7s8G2nH4W51c3fpjLihoPlnBt-SU7TbWSWVo-LaxRToliEPMH6tgf_5FYxYjxvtHm2Elhla9ozMs0IQSGFahSGbf37Tv4bLrRk0_Quh_xyzShNzrA4w5LZVM5zpIN6Oc-YI3GdoOyA1QCje/w295-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-23%20093316.gif" width="295" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And then I wake. It's 4am and my wife is snoring in the bed next to me. Pssssht Pssssht. I nudge her and her snoring increases in volume... I gently pull her arm suggesting she sleeps in a different position. "STOP WAKING ME UP!" She exclaims, the decibels rising. I decide it's probably better to let sleeping lions be, and spend the next hour thinking about writing a blog the next day...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Pssssht Pssssht...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhedKMuhv8ktv6hK3Gy6NVi2dncXPXGFtOgjudpBXypTWT3nystLYb8c0JHZPLnlCZKf-23dF9jafHBjQbXpOpPtg0gE9zr6zU4iwgkEjRFbOoz_gQwNc90etSBXOYqjx1fZ1GkpF57-gdFc68IWAdXTPsqQx0aQK5K675puRgymoss8wJBI13IsoJF/s553/Screenshot%202022-08-23%20093434.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="553" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhedKMuhv8ktv6hK3Gy6NVi2dncXPXGFtOgjudpBXypTWT3nystLYb8c0JHZPLnlCZKf-23dF9jafHBjQbXpOpPtg0gE9zr6zU4iwgkEjRFbOoz_gQwNc90etSBXOYqjx1fZ1GkpF57-gdFc68IWAdXTPsqQx0aQK5K675puRgymoss8wJBI13IsoJF/w400-h274/Screenshot%202022-08-23%20093434.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-75638052234520434662022-06-20T02:04:00.001-07:002022-06-20T02:38:43.059-07:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Northern Kings GT22 Review</span></p><p><br /></p><p>This weekend gone I pottered over to the NK GT, it was their first event in a while and it was at a completely new venue. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBU-cNJnvgCnP551uoZr-xCy14ANCuf3j6Qr1v3WzzgL5Kk63XIY3haQZNPJ8IC1LlaqM1Ql_9fbjRxb6TZCWgJngDvIc2rIY6rwLAgrcXJwc8W7aKMSvFBFhlQy4E-Db3TbfRW3PNi-ktuGi554WA7Kd5celCLXPdddSHuBbnU1jvR4q4GjJR_f9W/s3648/IMG_20220619_131313.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBU-cNJnvgCnP551uoZr-xCy14ANCuf3j6Qr1v3WzzgL5Kk63XIY3haQZNPJ8IC1LlaqM1Ql_9fbjRxb6TZCWgJngDvIc2rIY6rwLAgrcXJwc8W7aKMSvFBFhlQy4E-Db3TbfRW3PNi-ktuGi554WA7Kd5celCLXPdddSHuBbnU1jvR4q4GjJR_f9W/w640-h480/IMG_20220619_131313.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Location</b></span></p><p>First up, for me the location was pretty ideal. I loved the drive there and back again with my hobbits, beautiful countryside. I went from Cheshire to Derbyshire to Lancashire. All lovely. </p><p>The hotels aren’t right on the doorstep of the venue, but it didn’t matter. I enjoyed the walk back to the hotel each night with Matt Hobday. The venue was in the town centre with some excellent food options nearby and some terrible karaoke! We needed to get Matt James singing! (no, not Diggy diggy hole... Which was on repeat Sunday morning.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiybPWPTWFj1NHXv-I8eppKGMPe2TgLys56SuHQNyFFcMSHXcjclxk44VR5LYwyECByM13SDZvFdLi6qTv5Qt-iSR7ejmhunN1sE9CduJ39KmGMfZyT4HBojecsIRBr1H8axlNxsiW2IrgUJu9qeDdrfSFaaO76DerEsnCXUc0e-qt-o0d-L12W0P/s3648/IMG_20220619_162344.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiybPWPTWFj1NHXv-I8eppKGMPe2TgLys56SuHQNyFFcMSHXcjclxk44VR5LYwyECByM13SDZvFdLi6qTv5Qt-iSR7ejmhunN1sE9CduJ39KmGMfZyT4HBojecsIRBr1H8axlNxsiW2IrgUJu9qeDdrfSFaaO76DerEsnCXUc0e-qt-o0d-L12W0P/w640-h480/IMG_20220619_162344.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Venue</b></span></p><p>The venue itself was spacious, plenty of room to move around. Toilets were good. (you cannot assume this) The bar could have been open earlier, but it wasn’t a big deal, and it was very cheap! It was cash only, but as we knew in advance, I brought enough. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Terrain</b></span></p><p>The terrain was beautiful, Nick went above and beyond here. I loved every piece and each battlefield was both gorgeous and very practical. I especially loved the walls, which could be picked up from their base, all walls should be like this. The hills were good, my favourite being one with stone bricks built into it.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvBveXrccGCwDsWYtU9-IuVCK481NgVFoL8rCTncFYoeX5EQAQJ-7ZgNAp2eTUG_FxJNc-0vzDiH2PUkdm2-OxaqIoQDEPFBWouuRI6B6CSEI6cRprwa0IOWdITPuXrwnN4MPYydTQX2JME0XmlwjXYRV7FbwXFW2BhSZJLDH5SEveRyjHvyrjIJf/s3648/IMG_20220619_131334.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvBveXrccGCwDsWYtU9-IuVCK481NgVFoL8rCTncFYoeX5EQAQJ-7ZgNAp2eTUG_FxJNc-0vzDiH2PUkdm2-OxaqIoQDEPFBWouuRI6B6CSEI6cRprwa0IOWdITPuXrwnN4MPYydTQX2JME0XmlwjXYRV7FbwXFW2BhSZJLDH5SEveRyjHvyrjIJf/w640-h480/IMG_20220619_131334.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Catering</b></span></p><p>The guys deserve absolute praise for this, they used a shoestring budget and went above and beyond. The fish and chips on the Sunday was my favourite of the lot. I actually missed that tea and coffee was available unfortunately, I really could have done with a cup of tea Saturday morning!</p><p>For any TO’s reading this, please, please, please charge an appropriate amount for your costs. Add £5 on top of what you think it will be even! If this event had been £70 I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid and still been more than happy.</p><p><b style="font-size: large;">Extras</b></p><p>They went the extra mile in almost every way, we got mimosa cocktails on arrival, cakes to nibble mid game, goodie bags with sweets, a sprue from Mantic, all sorts! There were numerous prizes for randomly everyone to win too! Honestly every TO does not need to go this level, but hey if you want to, feel free!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmt0m5cQ3V05TDdLoC6lnX-kfd8BSHN6szBb4bJmOs27AnTtefKD1d6c3Dzz1LIm8ncjl82tRX2vvWZSSGLKRp8c42-UKvSzjB486k2xg4PvLPiedOVmf-o4Q5BlF70rgoyuI7l2Vzu-Ucf3Dm5itVfkro-X3cKh_pSjJTXl70ccLEfHJu1Xh5jIa/s5632/IMG_20220618_100554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4224" data-original-width="5632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmt0m5cQ3V05TDdLoC6lnX-kfd8BSHN6szBb4bJmOs27AnTtefKD1d6c3Dzz1LIm8ncjl82tRX2vvWZSSGLKRp8c42-UKvSzjB486k2xg4PvLPiedOVmf-o4Q5BlF70rgoyuI7l2Vzu-Ucf3Dm5itVfkro-X3cKh_pSjJTXl70ccLEfHJu1Xh5jIa/w640-h480/IMG_20220618_100554.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Website</b></span></p><p>The new website Nick had built for this was fantastic. There were some technical issues. From a player perspective these were a non issues as they were resolved via a workaround very quickly. I love how the site had the scenarios with full descriptions, and it even had all the terrain heights! (I liked the height 1 ponds)</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Evening Entertainment</b></span></p><p>Fun stuff, Friday was very messy! On the Sat it was nice to keep the majority of us together, I enjoyed the quiz, and called the Yorkshire answer for nearly every question of the last round!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RLX0qFyw7E65mhIxmumGfa-4MadBi7MBKT2TIo75UyP980jAqjOg6bu8QWy7cpKQnl9q1N7oAJBWNlH6_3eWnq_pXcNGeTys1-_eEr67Z4StuKsnhv7N8HmIKJxcJnqlxl8X4RP_KCrSyNyfwyx_pAj9OUeftn0Rtldtfc9CPpJ990ftskfwMzmh/s5632/IMG_20220617_192545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4224" data-original-width="5632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RLX0qFyw7E65mhIxmumGfa-4MadBi7MBKT2TIo75UyP980jAqjOg6bu8QWy7cpKQnl9q1N7oAJBWNlH6_3eWnq_pXcNGeTys1-_eEr67Z4StuKsnhv7N8HmIKJxcJnqlxl8X4RP_KCrSyNyfwyx_pAj9OUeftn0Rtldtfc9CPpJ990ftskfwMzmh/w640-h480/IMG_20220617_192545.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8u-LB4oR4F_5Kb2uMUGOm0-4Ws-yqvIVntKJz6282W3xSQPtZcSLMm4PHY4PhwGW0pzJJlnpM576ICHjInU-7GuQgGgsh_ZtjPOBHLtKGDxCdHkM7_PQv86-gYclwHNDMn_hYFZOYNg66sZ9G4EAnY3n3FHVv8CAOyOcE3rvA3N3DIGNQjGdMjw8v/s5632/IMG_20220617_214630_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4224" data-original-width="5632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8u-LB4oR4F_5Kb2uMUGOm0-4Ws-yqvIVntKJz6282W3xSQPtZcSLMm4PHY4PhwGW0pzJJlnpM576ICHjInU-7GuQgGgsh_ZtjPOBHLtKGDxCdHkM7_PQv86-gYclwHNDMn_hYFZOYNg66sZ9G4EAnY3n3FHVv8CAOyOcE3rvA3N3DIGNQjGdMjw8v/w640-h480/IMG_20220617_214630_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hobby</b></span></p><p>I was really pleased to see a UK event that actually encouraged us to make an effort with hobby. The wide selection of awards was lovely. For the rest of the UK’s TO’s, more of this sort of thing please! </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBj23JZ9kR81y-R5SK-zw1jybiWJs_zaz5Ri9QdKg99Omv19jstQyLYRDUAVH7q6UYxzgY96b-9DoOGo2maA36GhQEZAvFHgZdZHGj-sklVmKu3vwK8-w2KqGELyQ9SXDsIBotSSCznd8yOO45NTxhYwU_WLXEdSirxflg_9L6B6cX_9rWEtO7NFK/s3648/IMG_20220618_100631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBj23JZ9kR81y-R5SK-zw1jybiWJs_zaz5Ri9QdKg99Omv19jstQyLYRDUAVH7q6UYxzgY96b-9DoOGo2maA36GhQEZAvFHgZdZHGj-sklVmKu3vwK8-w2KqGELyQ9SXDsIBotSSCznd8yOO45NTxhYwU_WLXEdSirxflg_9L6B6cX_9rWEtO7NFK/w640-h480/IMG_20220618_100631.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p><p>It was really nice to see everyone and hang out, I had some great games. I enjoyed every single one despite a horrible hangover on the Saturday… Maybe I’ll drink less on the Friday next time?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqAnbg_6oXObGwtq7_sIq13zRS0uYibTh1jJMcK8vZRn2NX7mDQHj2jCD7qXrMtwu9dvmXZsGzIo1owRHUKJFHrtCvbPW-TLhtYABuVA2fxp10l-A8a-FdldCyPEVEfJ5WGPOGxnd9xhDoEWfpRlvlcjdSbgpNijb9UaJvHOUd9eR9z5sVrJc55kh/s3648/IMG_20220618_100623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqAnbg_6oXObGwtq7_sIq13zRS0uYibTh1jJMcK8vZRn2NX7mDQHj2jCD7qXrMtwu9dvmXZsGzIo1owRHUKJFHrtCvbPW-TLhtYABuVA2fxp10l-A8a-FdldCyPEVEfJ5WGPOGxnd9xhDoEWfpRlvlcjdSbgpNijb9UaJvHOUd9eR9z5sVrJc55kh/w640-h480/IMG_20220618_100623.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XetOamK4QXpuJZWUaIUABaQfcuxZsn5Q2hY_LYkLj2KfONnWxqj1vmB5WRIe2GzwyPK5_MTGWo9vgjejsUuulaxTsNXTdR3uWUaszW20y-waON1nM7qvUv_hINMFQc2KrsHqWG0TTxZmg8cclGoLdxTBCxdHV_2gB8T_DW2tcA8M69bztBNmCuza/s3648/IMG_20220619_134741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XetOamK4QXpuJZWUaIUABaQfcuxZsn5Q2hY_LYkLj2KfONnWxqj1vmB5WRIe2GzwyPK5_MTGWo9vgjejsUuulaxTsNXTdR3uWUaszW20y-waON1nM7qvUv_hINMFQc2KrsHqWG0TTxZmg8cclGoLdxTBCxdHV_2gB8T_DW2tcA8M69bztBNmCuza/w640-h480/IMG_20220619_134741.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-18441459513322019902021-10-15T04:18:00.000-07:002021-10-15T04:18:07.609-07:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Toxicity on the scene
and List shaming.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When is something not just a joke? When it’s carried on too
far, when people are actively upset. This is the time to draw a line and say no
more, or at least nothing hurtful. This last week since the events around the
Clash of Kings UK, I have sunk into a pit of depression and helplessness. Honestly
near suicidal. This is not easy to write.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UKymhHteCdE1PoNxRo1vUJxeZ0yFdQWrCk8Hu1fSr64udfQqSuTjf5P-tCeCfsG2leh_0JSIseHPrJ2nnw2YSCKndAjyd-OkFKvYgdaAmVlVnk2oQUPTnHOe817alzptphmqCheRw_w/s960/244600030_2962377927311590_4052273718881516416_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UKymhHteCdE1PoNxRo1vUJxeZ0yFdQWrCk8Hu1fSr64udfQqSuTjf5P-tCeCfsG2leh_0JSIseHPrJ2nnw2YSCKndAjyd-OkFKvYgdaAmVlVnk2oQUPTnHOe817alzptphmqCheRw_w/w640-h480/244600030_2962377927311590_4052273718881516416_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Background</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">People know me on the scene and hopefully most would say I’m
a nice enough guy, who gives a fun a tactical game. I like to take powerful
lists usually focused on melee and speed. Preferably with less painting
involved. :p<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Back in August I was looking at the Halfling beta list on
Easy army I noticed that Aeronuats were not irregular. I fed this back to the
RC and was told they were going to leave it how it was for now, and see how it
went.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In September I spoke with a good friend of mine Matt Hobday,
the list had still not been updated, so Matt contacted Mantic direct and was
told the list would not be changing, I also contacted Mantic and found the
same. I knew they were going to be made irregular going forward so thought this
would be a fun chance to take a very unusual army to Clash of Kings, hopefully
one that would be fun for me and my opponents. (They are speed 7 without Nimble,
so even a cavalry army would outpace me) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also at the time of writing there was going to be no other
changes to Aeronauts other than Irregular, so thought if the unit did turn out
to be slightly too good (as I had reported in my feedback) It could be slightly
nerfed. I have since been accused of lying for wanting to provide feedback because
I did not run them as if it was irregular. I wanted to provide feedback on
Aeronauts, not the specific list, and yes I wanted to take the strongest list I
could.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I mentioned my list to one member of the RC and they had no
issue with it, I mentioned it to another RC member and they thought it would be
hilarious and actively encouraged me! Buoyed on by this I spent nearly all my
free time for around 2 weeks painting and building the army.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Submission<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the day of list submission I get messaged by an RC member
in front of a group of others who said I was being a dick taking the list. I
felt shamed by this and somewhat confused, the other two RC had had no issue
with it. Several people in that group reached out to me, saying they were on my
side, and that it looked fun. I started to feel down, should I pull out, would
others have a go at me? Chatting with the others we agreed it was so random I
probably wouldn’t get more than say 4 wins, I agreed, but thought since Matt
Hobday had printed the army for me, it’d still be fun at least.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I asked how the RC member had got my list and it turns out
the RC had been sent my list, and at least 1 playing RC member in fact had all
of our army lists, so they could “validate them”. I pointed out this was
unfair, and was told by Mantic that all our lists would be made available.
Knowing this, I decided to put my list and some pictures on KoW Fanatics for
all to see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Feedback was mostly good, I got various likes and
laughs. The majority left amusing comments/memes. However I got responses from
two members RC saying the list did not look fun and from one that I was “Exploiting
the F**k out of the list”… Again I was confused where the hate had come from,
the other two RC I had spoken with previously had no issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course as it turned out the other lists were not posted,
giving an unfair advantage to those who got to see and study them without
anyone else even being made aware…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clash of Kings<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On arrival Friday I was told that an RC member had already
been talking shit about me and my list, apparently, I was a dick for taking it.
RC why did you not just change the bloody list if you had a problem with it
being taken…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My weekend already tainted, I pressed ahead and finished
painting the army.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6 games over the weekend, and mostly good games, I did get
an outburst in one game saying I should just admit the list wasn’t fluffy and
themed. I immediately said well sure it’s an insane bullshit spam list, I was
joking... I was taken aback by the vitriol in this, from someone who is
normally very mild mannered and friendly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many people take spam armies, be it Zombie, Badgers,
Shooting spam, Knight armies. Do they get shamed and called a dick by multiple
people? No or at least they shouldn’t be.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aftermath<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the event, with everything that had occurred I felt
pretty down. I’d brought a legal list and been shamed for it. I also did worse
than if I had brought a normal balanced list. I ended up going 4 and 2, exactly
as I and others expected. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I posted on Fanatics saying how random the army was and although
fun I would not recommend it as a serious tournament army. I got a response
saying that some of my opponents had not. This worried me as I want everyone to
have fun, so I reached out, I got reassuring comments back from all bar the one
person who had got upset in the game.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I do want to say here, that person did say how they
normally enjoy playing against me, and I genuinely like the guy! However they
said that <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The overwhelming
view I heard from people about the list, was that it was "a dick move,
made to try and win the event at the expense of your opponents experience” also
comments saying what I had said was rubbish. So now I didn’t know what to
think.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I apologised in any case, and said I had no plan to bring
such a list again, I felt more and more depressed with the whole situation. I
considered reaching out, wrote something up. Then deleted it. I didn’t have
enough emotional energy to keep refuting and arguing with people who decided quite
unfairly I was a dick and a liar.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ripples<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But that wasn’t the end of it. Over the next few days people
posted comments about Themed Fluffy armies, some may have been jokes, but with
everything over the weekend they hit me hard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I dropped from a future tournament that would contain some
of these people who had been/still are making toxic comments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lets move on.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As of today there are still posts going up accusing me/Matt
of lying and similar. Please everyone I can’t take this any more, can you stop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of the people who have made these comments are people I
genuinely like, I just want to move on. Lets be friends everyone please, I’m in tears here…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-74048248650008480572020-08-03T06:52:00.001-07:002020-08-03T07:05:32.752-07:00Evil Ascendant<p style="text-align: left;">Barksain Boltstruck surveyed the ruins of his capital with sadness, the evil Orcs and armies of Dust had killed his subjects, their sheer brutality shocked him to his core. The lands had been despoiled, surely this was not the Green Ladies will?</p><div>His remaining Elf forces lead by Elf King Mai-Ladieral had vanished in the night, obviously the cowardly King had had enough, perhaps he would retire to a duckpond...</div><div><br /></div><div>Barksain turned to Gnarlsly his Warden, "What of our allies, The Red Redeemer and the Brotherhood of the Green Lady?" Gnarlsly bowed her head, "Routed Sire... There is little chance they will return." </div><div><br /></div><div>"Is there no hope for the West?" called out Barksain? in his deep slow booming voice. "NONE." called out a green figure, appearing translucently before him. Was it, could it be, the Green Lady?</div><div><br /></div><div>The green and feminine ghostly figure, glided forward. "YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO SUCCEED MY FOLLOWER." I THANK YOU, BUT YOUR TIME HERE IS DONE." She paused as if is considering how much to share, then continued, with a sad smile. "GOOD WAS IN THE ASCENDANT, AND NOW BALANCE IS BEING RESTORED." , her form beginning to fade. "IT IS TIME FOR EVIL TO ASCEND." And then she was gone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Barksain bowed his head, and in a broken voice slowly and quietly said to the empty air. "Your will, my queen..." The once mighty king, and his remaining Treekin spread apart, and trudged slowly into the green places of the world. There they stopped and ever so slowly they re-assumed their basic natures once again. They would await the call of the Green Lady, her will be done.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the last movement left the forms of Barksain Boltstruck and the warden Gnarlsly, their bodies intertwined, locked together for the ages.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMwQw7neptMik67knURaCtMX5M69eFaKUWu6XDhbb1mUKF6HSNhyphenhyphenw020IKWlM782C-ith4orR0nvJDQpBiRmH7uJYTEA3Z4pf7sifC6fowIirXuEGZcCKSPrqbytRM_1dhr457CRc6ck/s529/Intertwined.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMwQw7neptMik67knURaCtMX5M69eFaKUWu6XDhbb1mUKF6HSNhyphenhyphenw020IKWlM782C-ith4orR0nvJDQpBiRmH7uJYTEA3Z4pf7sifC6fowIirXuEGZcCKSPrqbytRM_1dhr457CRc6ck/s0/Intertwined.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture by Josephine Wall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-12174900085915062582020-07-30T04:51:00.001-07:002020-07-30T04:51:35.121-07:00Elksberg Offensive<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Elksberg Offensive</span></div><div><br /></div><div>This was a roughly even battle between myself an Dan Caltagirone, part of the ongoing campaign. He had 900 points and I had 600 + my King Barksain Boltstruck. (worth 320 points)</div><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">My Army</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Unu4A8uPLcZqSXB-kZZeh1GnkfHTC7CstmWH_Qc5wnJ7_dShSN5jLDlIrZCuZS-GtwyLs7NkHEaq_1_jx-uzgVw0JOhjvtFYZxcJi9QdhyphenhyphenHTjJn4L2QujAOm1mTZKAN42tVzH8lanWQ/s885/Mine.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="885" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Unu4A8uPLcZqSXB-kZZeh1GnkfHTC7CstmWH_Qc5wnJ7_dShSN5jLDlIrZCuZS-GtwyLs7NkHEaq_1_jx-uzgVw0JOhjvtFYZxcJi9QdhyphenhyphenHTjJn4L2QujAOm1mTZKAN42tVzH8lanWQ/w625-h358/Mine.png" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPXIF3FJ-xZgUmHkM8VjaGKdQt-CUDi6QqYrKQFe8U1KHW2dvb_IZQ34koTFpbALsMdJIME0oXAZnApIxceHuXaWKCGtIP30UaFKyzdkFMn9vs6dkdz5iUwbWebnEncaufA-5D7TDoW8/s1428/Barksain+Boltstruck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="1428" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPXIF3FJ-xZgUmHkM8VjaGKdQt-CUDi6QqYrKQFe8U1KHW2dvb_IZQ34koTFpbALsMdJIME0oXAZnApIxceHuXaWKCGtIP30UaFKyzdkFMn9vs6dkdz5iUwbWebnEncaufA-5D7TDoW8/w625-h124/Barksain+Boltstruck.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dan's army</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXlQCvXsqXWhwUoBkdJGc6CdLSorKwAIbROvye303ZVtODUHZzQGdoSIApALaStYp64UfSw7su0B8BgT-9KZ2D5M1p9Z3HWJoLudjWbmnRQa6bFXqXpq8XC9X9l0TbALgNY704uwHzA4/s1023/Dans+list.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="915" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXlQCvXsqXWhwUoBkdJGc6CdLSorKwAIbROvye303ZVtODUHZzQGdoSIApALaStYp64UfSw7su0B8BgT-9KZ2D5M1p9Z3HWJoLudjWbmnRQa6bFXqXpq8XC9X9l0TbALgNY704uwHzA4/w875-h976/Dans+list.png" width="875" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Scenario</h4><div><br /></div><div>We played a Control on a 4' x 4' board. I mean Dan did, I played Kill. :p (If everything is dead you'll probably win the scenario)</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Prologue</h4><div>Barksain Boltstruck pondered the situation as only a Tree Herder can. "Hmmm..." Several hours passed as he considered the vile confederation of Dust and the Orc. They had swarmed over his lands but then run away when he had expected an attack on his capital.</div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps the power of the Green Lady had scared them? This could be a good time to restore his former lands. Splitting his host, he left his ancient fortress under the control of Exemplar Julius Anguita - The Red Redeemer his liege lord and ruler of the Brotherhood of the Green Lady. Two of Barksain's armies were sent to recapture villages while he would venture forth, and return the town of Elksberg to it's proper place.</div><div><br /></div><div>As he got closer he saw many Orcs gathering, this worried him as he'd thought hey had all fled the area. However they appeared dull and tired. They must have marched all night to be at the battle. This could be in his favour, perhaps they would make errors in their strategy? </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Battle</h4><div><br /></div><div>Seizing the initiative Barksain and his small force sped forward, beginning to encircle the enemy, watching for weakness. He didn't have to wait long.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMP-SPwKr55DDMBGjes1LCbjLBp__w72kwdNY2JK_GSMyAxpjq91Qs_WQAa6QSHm2fHTQSoUuEYsTC5br_ZN9JxdSPa4vGWk5iFlfaKLKw9GgE9QOfPHN8xfpzNmHjtE1hz7poC7M7RE0/s860/Start.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="860" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMP-SPwKr55DDMBGjes1LCbjLBp__w72kwdNY2JK_GSMyAxpjq91Qs_WQAa6QSHm2fHTQSoUuEYsTC5br_ZN9JxdSPa4vGWk5iFlfaKLKw9GgE9QOfPHN8xfpzNmHjtE1hz7poC7M7RE0/w625-h610/Start.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seizing the Initiative<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Orcs slowly edged forward for the main, however one large group of impetuous Young Ax moved up, apparently ignoring Barksain! They seemed intent on the main force perhaps concentrating on the Dragon Lyffang?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Seeing the flank offered to him and deciding decisive action was the way forward, Barksain sped forward into the side of the foolish Orcs. Screaming with something between fear and anger, the Elf King Mai-Ladieral, on the Great green Dragon, Lyffang charged into the front of the Orcs along with their recently dscovered new allies, the Riverguard Treeleapers. The Orcs held for mere seconds before streaming away. Orcs scurried everywhere, routed with ease</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNZ6upISK1ecXWc8OuTNyQa8cpzK7wryFl0Pti2tDTYZFTfdKiG1FL7STrTGz9_g70kY3yg7kzPdbnwxtApswus-bJ8Ml4L8YYfZJnCxq80ZAbZu_sP0YzFOupwEaUVONBN6xzFdYk6E/s718/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="718" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNZ6upISK1ecXWc8OuTNyQa8cpzK7wryFl0Pti2tDTYZFTfdKiG1FL7STrTGz9_g70kY3yg7kzPdbnwxtApswus-bJ8Ml4L8YYfZJnCxq80ZAbZu_sP0YzFOupwEaUVONBN6xzFdYk6E/w625-h625/2.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charge!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The remaining Orcs seemed flabbergasted at this briefly, then a lone and either very brave or very stupid drummer, turned towards Barksain. Hoisting his drum up high he began to madly charge directly at Boltstruck himself! Surely this was doomed to failure? Somehow he swung his drum with enough force to slightly damage the oaken skin. The Orc was exultant! However seconds later, a green light burst out of Barksain, the Orc shielded his eyes and then... Unbelievably the Tree King was unmarred once again...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In typical form Mai-Ladieral on his mighty Dragon stood and watched as a group of Orcs with great bladed axes ran his way, and timing his defence terribly, the Orcs caused major wounds to his poor mount Lyffang, and even he suffered a long scvratch down his arm! "Arrggh!" he yelped, and as per previous battles he once again considered fleeing... "Back Lyffang!" He panicked. Looking round wildly he exhorted his Dragon to back away and take refuge in the nearby duck pond. Scattering the few wildfowl that we're currently hiding in the undergrowth. Mai-Ladieral looked around wildly with fear as a goose honked in his direction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The far braver Riverguard Treeleapers, engaged the other unit of great axed Orcs, but somehow failed to do much too them, thier weapons not piercing the lightly armoured Orcs nearly as well as expected.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Barksain and the Hunters of the Wild seeing the distress of Mai-Ladieral both charged the flanks of the Great Axed Orcs routing them quickly. Barksain turned to Mai-Ladieral briefly. Seeing him standing in the duck pond dripping and cowering Barksain let out a deep sigh, if only his Elf allies could be more reliable...</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfleYEfxOs6dLotmAVU7X-z5NFKw6e52r0-mZyOE7VUKSUGHhFPVYwv8perpGnvNPH_AEE1bdMwar8F3J82Dp1Evd6g4kvVZIxFPshvVEL6tFbPAswZZtJkl5hBs93OFlTRzlWRQkobA/s699/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="699" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfleYEfxOs6dLotmAVU7X-z5NFKw6e52r0-mZyOE7VUKSUGHhFPVYwv8perpGnvNPH_AEE1bdMwar8F3J82Dp1Evd6g4kvVZIxFPshvVEL6tFbPAswZZtJkl5hBs93OFlTRzlWRQkobA/w625-h330/3.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pond is safe right? HONK!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The remaining great axed Orcs counter charged the Riverguard Treeleapers and routed them with ease, the frogs jumping away in all directions...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Barksain was too busy to note this however, as the final horde of young Orcs charged off the hill, their Godspeaker chanting to try to aid their vigor, but thankfully the impetuous Orcs ignored him. Their axes began to bite, however this wasn't enough to topple the ancient Tree Herder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprms7cI_8VmCh-78WaUhIHwtk88M201bpCV8EqyEuSTvuEvgpyKyam3oEqS6d7xPyTySfv6m1WNVDRUN-rUf6XBITYq1j7eXmDbWeubUB7MxDDPBX7rosUH9ONvg30YONYHffcBhJYH0/s714/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="714" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprms7cI_8VmCh-78WaUhIHwtk88M201bpCV8EqyEuSTvuEvgpyKyam3oEqS6d7xPyTySfv6m1WNVDRUN-rUf6XBITYq1j7eXmDbWeubUB7MxDDPBX7rosUH9ONvg30YONYHffcBhJYH0/w625-h485/4.png" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mai-Ladieral was still feeling unsure about the situation, but Lyffang the powerful Dragon had had enough. Jumping forward he powered himself straight into the flank of the young Orcs causing terrible wounds with his claws, felling Orc after Orc with ease. Letting out a roar of wild excitement , Lyffang exulted as the few remaining Orcs fled. Mai-Ladieral barely holding onto the saddle above him let out a weak shout, and then dropped his weapon, which tumbled to ground. Barksain shook his head once again, perhaps he'd bring Kai, Mai's brother to battle next time...</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6edRj7pOh3VISSrpJHu5L3ahiKkj81xa0SjgAMiBS16NlGOx70trmyTK3wP_uEV7o1-fG0-L2BXAccY21eCmUbnSo4AWd_g7-qc1P97ZZ7xa0khIk464cqPlWfzMEijg-opRn1dE6N2M/s719/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="719" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6edRj7pOh3VISSrpJHu5L3ahiKkj81xa0SjgAMiBS16NlGOx70trmyTK3wP_uEV7o1-fG0-L2BXAccY21eCmUbnSo4AWd_g7-qc1P97ZZ7xa0khIk464cqPlWfzMEijg-opRn1dE6N2M/w625-h451/5.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">End Throes<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Barksain then took a few seconds to deal with the plucky Orc and his drum, impressed with the drummers earlier bravery, he knocked him out rather than killing him, he doubted the Orc would have done the same. Turning he saw his Hunters of the Wild engaged with the last remaining Great axed Orcs, by the time he got there though the Orcs routed. The Orc Flagger went the same way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As the battle ended the reluctant Mai-Ladieral decided it would be safer to encourage Lyffang to deal with the Godspeaker from afar, Lyffang shot huge gouts of flame towards the Orc over the building but most of it missed, and the battle for good or ill was done.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Bscca2LR0JHpYmd3wsa3y8MC0FT4FWjXnB2XdjuWQHkgiWhhDtrNFdhVIaoeyQMAytAkhfrWnP7gq6IJCw-lzPt5HvRFA5vsxRmrh8O5QH2_rXYcElrMYQ8eGQxDLWxxp5W7j1SLhCA/s715/6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="715" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Bscca2LR0JHpYmd3wsa3y8MC0FT4FWjXnB2XdjuWQHkgiWhhDtrNFdhVIaoeyQMAytAkhfrWnP7gq6IJCw-lzPt5HvRFA5vsxRmrh8O5QH2_rXYcElrMYQ8eGQxDLWxxp5W7j1SLhCA/w625-h375/6.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Brave" Mai-Ladieral encourages Lyffang to engulf the God-Speaker.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />Epilogue</h4><div>Elksberg had been recovered, the Orcs dispatched with ease but Barksain Boltstruck was not pleased. Seconds ago his scouts had returned news that the Armies of Dust and Orcs had tricked him, their retreat had been a bluff. </div><div><br /></div><div>A mighty combined force, had in fact attacked his capital which he had left undefended bar for his allies the Brotherhood of the Green Lady. Was this the end or could Julius Anguita - The Red Redeemer, his now liege hold it for him? Surely the Green Lady had a plan... Or was this the end?</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXMYa1FAwKvaHGDPuWydZTEjOSse0zHHfR_xtyuX19pKzgLUqls-Ui6I5oTllPfbe0VPznxXBMsxRNxgDoVu3iCXvozfM4c874pDL-nWV1Wf4R5LhA3OE1uErs0MLqDmSJU6nzEFgnnw/s1357/Campa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1357" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXMYa1FAwKvaHGDPuWydZTEjOSse0zHHfR_xtyuX19pKzgLUqls-Ui6I5oTllPfbe0VPznxXBMsxRNxgDoVu3iCXvozfM4c874pDL-nWV1Wf4R5LhA3OE1uErs0MLqDmSJU6nzEFgnnw/w625-h406/Campa.jpg" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The current turn of the campaign<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-36040518258635573072020-07-11T10:50:00.000-07:002020-07-11T10:56:47.638-07:00Battle of Bognor Bridge<h2>
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between myself and Sam Sowden Garcia. We had approx 3300 points each, Sam
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><b>Exemplar Julius Anguita - The Red Redeemer</b></span></td></tr>
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Redeemer on Winged Unicorn, Unit Strength 2!, Brew of Sharpness, Blessing of the
Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Barksain Boltstruck surveyed the land. He knew that foul enemies were all around him, planning to
chop down the trees, kill the peaceful creatures that lived there, and pollute the land. </span></span><br />
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surely must not want this outcome, and he knew he had her favour as her Avatar had
appeared to him to help defend the land!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just then the Warden of the High forests Gnarlsly returned, bearing news
from the scouts. "Sire!" She laboriously croaked, "It is worse than we
thought." , "We are being invaded over the River Bognor by the old ones bridge!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Hmm" said Barksain slowly, a deep
groaning vibration emanating from within him. "This is the point we must meet them and destroy their forces, we need that to hold that bridge to stop
their invasion of the land". "But Sire!" said Gnarlsly, "The humans, they call
themselves the Brotherhood of the Green Lady, and Sire...". "They also have a supposed
Avatar of the Green Lady herself!". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"WHAT!" thundered Barksain, an electric spark crackling around his branches. "She must not be a true Avatar, unless" He finished thoughtfully...
"The Lady wills us to leave this place?". </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gnarlsly shifted nervously from trunk foot to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">foot, her roots trailing.</span></div>
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the Lady herself decide." Barksain said with calm and measured groaning tones. "As
she wills.", "Gather the banners, call our Elven allies."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lady and their numerous forces we're drawing close, their pennants and banners fluttering
in the chill wind. The bridge had to be held. Barksains forces scouted ahead and at
last minute bursted from the trees. Surprising the enemy and hurtling forwards with supernatural speed!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lady given agility, he sped forward and struck a Unicorn, before the
Brotherhood could react! If the Lady willed, he would crush it, and with his
momentum then strike the flank of the Water Elementals. His ally the Wiltfather charged the Elementals front simultaneously, his mysterious dark miasma oozed out towards the enemy, spreading decay into them, wherever it went.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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whinnied in terror! But then some mysterious force of will steadied him and Barksain was
repulsed!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This was a terrible omen and the nearby
Redemption Knights, despite being momentarily taken aback ,soon regain their
composure and charged into Barksains flank. Near instantly, his animating lifeforce
was deadened and that was the last he knew, bar one long thought. "Green
Lady, why have you forsaken us?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Wiltfather on the other hand, knew much of death and loss, and despite Water
Elementals surging into his flank, held on. The Sylvan Avatar of the Green Lady
speed onwards and healed the Wiltfather somewhat, and together with flanking Tree
Shamblers they managed to rout a Horde of Water Elementals, turning the ground into a messy muddy puddle. Perhaps her favour was
returning? No, it was not to be, like a tsunami the remaining Elementals
swept onwards and the Wiltfather was knock prone uprooted and deadened on the
cold ground, as his body began to sink into the mud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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they knew they must keep the enemy away from the bridge, and despite the loss
of their leaders so early the needed to hold!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The plucky Gur Panthers charged into the enemy all over the battle field, and somehow many of them kept the enemey occupied. The Earth
Elementals and Knights seeming somewhat frightful of these large predatory cats. The Knights even wavered briefly and looked to be on the edge of fleeing! But
they were too headstrong for that and seconds later, they rebounded into the fray.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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On the other flank huge flying monstrosities including the Julius Anguita, the
Red Redeemer on his flying Unicorn faced off briefly with the Elven Kings
before running away, heading over the Sylvan forces in an aerial flyby
display that beggared belief.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><b>The Elven King Mai-Ladieral riding </b></span><b>Lyffang.</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Elf King Mai-Ladieral, on the Great
green Dragon, Lyffang, could see things going badly for his allies and knew the
Treekin sorely needed help. He wished he'd been able to muster more of people, but only he and one other on the fastest Elven horse had, had the speed to get to the battle in time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Spurring the great Lyffang on, he sped towards the flank of
the great horde of Brotherhood Knights. Landing with devastating impetus he hewed them with his mighty enchanted Polearm, again and again!
The Hunters and Shamblers also engaged the horde, but due to some unknown force
they fared poorly and did not even scratch the Knights armour.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Due to
this abysmal turn of events the Knights we're not killed and merely began to
waver as like the other Order of Redemption. But... Again their headstrong nature swung them
back into the action! They hit the Hunters with extreme anger and disintegrated
their life energies with ease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the horde of Knights and finish them. Or a quick flight into the Flank of Order of Redemption. Deciding perhaps wrongly that the Horde was dealt with for now and blocked in place, they could be
safely left, the Dragon, Lyffang launched itself into the air! And then crashing down again into the Redemption Knights flank causing carnage! But once again some
bizarre turn of events stopped them from fleeing and with insane courage the
knights held on!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we're facing off, each hurling out green and black auras of arcane energy. Healing magic was bursting forth from the Unicorns and nothing was dying! But
then eventually the Sylvan's magic faltered, the Lady favour turned towards the Brotherhood and the remaining Shamblers we're killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">If they had only lasted one more turn, but alas it was not to be. This critical failure meant the Water elementals could direct their attention to the bridge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Red Redeemer on his winged unicorn had spent most of his time
fighting Gur Panthers on the far flank but then as the day progressed,hurtled back to the centre and
started dismembering Hunters of the Wild. Thing looked grim, and faced with mere Men at-Arms, the Elven King
Mai-Ladieral decided it was time to leave and cowardly fled the battlefield! It
was now the last stand of the Sylvans...</span></div>
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Gnarlsly had taken a back seat, but she could see surely all was lost, the
enemy would surely capture her Liege and they would not willingly ransom him, this could not be allowed, she would give her life for him if need be. She saw a slim chance and took it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Red Redeemer had his back to Gnarlsly
treating her with obvious disdain. Well she'd show him! </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With a cunning anger she sped into his rear
and hit him with incredible force, and felled him. The Red Redeemer was down!</span></div>
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If the battle was decided now it would be a draw, but the Brotherhood made the
choice to fight on just a little longer, disaster!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The final throws of the battle saw the loss of
most of the remaining Sylvan forces. Gnarlsly was seen dragging away
the body of the Red Redeemer, a handful of Forest shamblers and the Avatar of
the green lady, also disappeared into the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Brotherhood of the Green Lady had won, but
at great cost, both armies had been battered. Was this truly serving
the Green Ladies will? In the coming days, their envoys met and the Kings were ransomed one for one.
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meant he had no safe route to his lands. Now a vast army stood between him and
his home, and his forces we're sorely diminished. He'd had disturbing reports
of an evil alliance of Orcs and an Empire of Dust invading his homeland, but
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Last weekend saw a trip down south to Bristol, this was
great fun as there was a few of us coming down from t'north. (Walter Simpson, Paul Welsh, Nick
Williams, Sam Barker) Much drink and fun was had Friday night, Matt James the TO even joined
us/tried to get us drunker still. :P</div>
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We arrived nice and early (if somewhat worse for wear) and started with the champagne
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Ah Ed, he’s an old friend of mine, but we’d never played KoW together!
To rectify this Ed challenged me, and I was happy to accept.<o:p></o:p><br />
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flank, and they faced off vs two Knuckers. I briefly considered holding them just
out of charge range but figured Ed would keep me at bay all day if I did, so instead I
moved up to by the impassible Height 4 rocks and placed both Chimera together angled towards each other slightly, thereby
preventing a multi charge onto either model. I picked on one Knucker with a Conclave and slightly
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Unfortunately we only got a couple of turns in when Nick ended
up having to concede, as he wasn’t feeling up to continuing. It was a real
shame, as I had hoped to earn the win more, (it had started well for me, but you
never know how a game will go) But a bit of rest was nice and left us both
feeling ready to continue on in Game 4.</div>
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<b>Game 4 – Paul Fox –
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Yes! I’ve been really wanting to play Paul again! I’d played
him 3 times in the past and got 2 losses and a draw, and those results had kept
me from winning the Clash of Kings and Masters! So this time I was super keen
to play as well as I possibly could and earn myself a win!<o:p></o:p></div>
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His list was strong, however I noted that I had the long
range firepower advantage, also from previous experience Paul doesn’t tend to
sacrifice his units, which was helpful foreknowledge as we’ll see!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We both deployed the majority of our forces on the left
flank, with a lesser amount on the right and my Conclaves in the middle. I went
first, I pushed all the Fallen forward slightly just out of 20” of his nearest
flyers. On the right I moved my Wolves within charge of the Tortured Souls with
Haste and set up a flank charge with the Haste Chimera. Paul went for it,
failed to rout them and then I countercharged, putting the Haste Chimera into their flank and took them out. It took a few turns but between them and the Magus
Conclaves I was able to rout everything on the right. (I lost my Wolves but it was a fair sacrifice)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now back in the middle Ba’su’su came out to play with my
Pathfinder Chimera, the Chimera bugged out (pivot, run away 11") and then Ba’su’su decided rather than chass it fancied
a Conclave instead (which it failed to rout due to the difficult terrain
penalty)<br />
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At this point I brought back the Pathfinder Chimera, and one of Fallen in
the stand off, bugged out. (Nimble turn, go 16”) towards the centre threatening Ba’su’su. The Chimera Breathed and combined with the other Conclave I got a waver! Ba’su’su tried to
crawl away, but the Chimera and Fallen joined together and ripped him to
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Meanwhile back on the left, the Tortured Souls all moved forward just into their charge range, then I backed out of it, this continued all
the way till turn 4, when Paul finally committed a regiment further forward
than I could back out of! Also at this point his unit's finally got to the Ransack token,
I sacrificed my Fallen at this point to prevent him getting a token till turn
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Both Chimera’s grabbed a token as did the Fallen giving me 3
tokens. Paul took the Fallen out on the left with ease but was then unable to
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On the final turn 7, Paul had one chance, he charged the
slowly reversing Fallen, (now speed 5 without Nimble due to the token) with his
Well of Souls if he rolled well, he could take the token and grab a draw. It
was not to be, giving me a win! Hurrah, my first ever win against him. :-D<br />
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to my sacrifice on Fallen on the left Paul actually killed slightly move than I
did making the result 14-6 to me. Phew, great game, and I think I showed extreme restraint on
my left, but I knew I had to play the scenario and play it well to pull off a
win. :)</div>
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So end of day 1. We went out for a nice curry and had a few
drinks, including some rather excellent cider! Mmm…<o:p></o:p><br />
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Just two games today, and I felt a bit more refreshed after
some extra sleep! Let's get it on!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Game 5 – Matt James –
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Aha I got to play the TO, who had won every game so far same as me. He had a lovely Orc list with Abyssal Allies. (yes I face Tortured Souls,
3 games on the row!) I was pleased to get to play Matt as I’d enjoyed hanging
out with him over the weekend, also by reputation he was a very good player so
I knew it’d be a tough game, which it was!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking the Great Ax Horde in
the centre with the tokens had to be done, but it was well protected which meant dealing with
the flanking units first, or that was the idea...<br />
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Matt went first and advanced
generally including putting his Haste Krudger on Winged Slasher into 22” range
of my Pathfinder Chimera. I decided to try and bait it into a charge into
difficult terrain, this seemed sensible. However I foolishly didn’t check to
see how far the 22” would get him and the Slasher neatly flew over the top and
landed behind out of all my charge arcs… How many times have I done this to others?
Well now it happened to me, and it wasn’t pleasant. :P <o:p></o:p></div>
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To compound the error, Matt’s Tortured Souls charged the
Chimera preventing me from simply flying away… I came up with a sacrificial
strategy, charge the T Souls with my Fallen and offer the Slasher a rear,
meanwhile pivot my Chimera to allow me to then deal with the Slasher assuming
the Chimera actually survived a charged from Gore Riders in the flank! O.o I
know it sounded risky but with terrain odds, were reasonable I’d be ok. (16
hits, 8 damage)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thankfully it all worked! The Chimera survived, killed the
Krudger (rear attack) then turned back to the Gore riders for the front charge on Matt’s
turn. I breathed a sigh of relief as
crisis was averted. Sadly he didn't last much longer before the Riders ground him to dust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the left my Haste Chimera was being battered by Gakamak,
the Wolves dropped their token and ran into a flanking position on some
oncoming Orc Ax, but Gakamak then sped off and attacked them instead! Leaving
the Chimera to face the Ax by itself. Now interestingly Gakamak failed to waver
the wolves and my Wolves the wavered him in return! The Chimera dealt with the
Ax but was now heavily damaged. Gakamak used his Fury to countercharge the
Wolves, (who gave him that…) and routed them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now amusingly I was all set to breath attack on Gakamak and try to
kill him off when Matt pointed out his Wardum was in charge range, not one to
look a gift horse in the mouth I happily took that, which left me behind the
Greatax horde! (we'd both made a positioning mistake now!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the centre, I sacrificed my Horse raiders to block the Orclings and consequently the Great Ax behind them, this worked great keeping them in place for several turns. My poor Fallen though, my Skald’s
banechant from the Lute of Insatiable Darkness stubbornly refused to work, this meant my Fallen bounced and then got flanked and routed.<br />
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Ok it was looking decidedly dodgy, I had one Fallen unit
left, if they could rout the Gore Riders they could turn round and go possibly into the
Great Ax, with both them and the Haste Chimera, with at least one into the rear I
could just possibly pull off a win. No, the Bane-chant still stubbornly refused
to work and I bounced off… This spelled their doom and sadly the last realistic
chance of a win.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I knew the Chimera couldn’t take out the Great Ax by
itself (short of a double 6 to waver it and a turn 7 and another double 6) I
decided to go for the fun option of charging the undamaged Krudger on Gore with
a chance of an overrun into the Gore Riders. It worked! I killed the Krudger and
wavered the Gore Riders. Except there were some pesky Orclings sitting behind the
Chimera, Not routing the riders meant a rear charge, 36 attacks later dead Chimera. :P<o:p></o:p></div>
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That left me with my Conclaves and the useless bloody Skald…
The Conclaves at least finished off both the Gore Riders and Gakamak before the
game ended, giving Matt a big win. (17-3)<o:p></o:p><br />
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Wow amazing game, honestly Matt outplayed me, he’s a damn
good player, I can’t wait to face him again in a future event. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So now things we’re close at the top and I was playing
George. I knew I had to win for a chance at the top spot, and George is a great
player so I had to be careful. The absolute priority was to take out the War
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After deployment, my Pathfinder Chimera was facing a hedge
with Trolls behind it, which seemed less than ideal so I bugged out, and flew
to the centre, into a wood, offering George’s Phantoms a flank. I figured if I could
withstand it, then my Fallen would take out the Phantoms, which they did. <o:p></o:p><br />
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WAR TROMBONES!!! :p (note all my units were just out of 17” of them, so they could
not possibly shoot me) My Conclaves couldn’t see them, so they shot the Giant
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George’s turn saw little movement, bar the Goblin Rabble
which started heading forward. (clearing my view to the Trombones for the Conclaves!
Hehehe) George had planned to block my charge to a War Trombone from the Haste
Chimera but then moved the blocking unit giving me an easy charge. (oops)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Trombone, the Pathfinder Chimera despite losing flight was still speed 10 so
ate another. The Conclaves wavered the 3<sup>rd!</sup> Excellent I love it
when a plan comes together. ;-)<br />
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On my right the Fallen crashed into the Trolls and bounced
with a waver. They bounced back and forward for a few turns but eventually I broke
through. The remaining Phantoms did do a fly over and charge into the rear, but
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excellent, he really took advantage of the obstacle, it pretty much took the
Fallen the entire game to get through, and if dice had been nicer could well
have seen George’s units winning instead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back in the centre my Chimera were feeling smug, they finished
off the final Trombone then eventually joined together to take out the Giant
before sadly one was killed. The Horse raiders played with the Mincer, using
Nimble to get to its flank and wavering it twice on the row! Before my surviving
Chimera eventually took it from behind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the mist cleared, I jumped onto several objectives and
glared at the Rabble Legion that I just didn’t have time to kill... (I’d pretty
much run out of time at this point, so had to pretty much skip fighting in my turn
6) We did get a turn 7 and with just seconds left I used my Chimera to breath attack the final Wiz and rout it.<br />
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George's final turn saw his Flagger run up to a horde
of heavily damaged Wolves needing 6 to hit and rout them! :D Epic end to the
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That left me with 1<sup>st</sup> overall, Paul Fox in 2<sup>nd</sup>
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An excellent event, run well by Matt. It was very laid back
and I would highly recommend people attend any of his tournies in the future. The venue was
also good if somewhat hot! (better once they got the big fans going) My
opponents we’re all great and I had some excellent tactical games, cheers
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were both really top, it was super cool having Matt hang out with us Friday,
and having Chris Morris stay Sat was great too, really nice to catch up with him
and admire his Smurf army. ;-)<o:p></o:p><br />
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Hehe more than ever after being beaten by Matt’s Orcs it
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of mini’s and painting involved, however I have come up with cunning plan
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Ah Altibash, the jewel in the UK KoW tournie scene! This tournament
is run by my local club Altrincham gamers. So it has that friendly local club
vibe but on steroids as it’s packed with people! This time we had a whopping 22
players, not to shabby for a 1 day tournie and honestly I’m not sure we’d fit
many more people in there! I was the raining Altibash champion so fighting to
retain my title as the “King of War”. ;-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was 1800 points for the first two games then 2200 for the
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which made things challenging and meant my list at least wasn’t as finely
tweaked as usual, that’s cool though and if made for great variety. The scenario’s
had been kept under wraps. Oh and lastly it had two charity rerolls, one good
reroll that allowed you to reroll up to dice from one roll of our own, and one
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Ok here’s my lists, I decided to drop the Mounted sons with
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He told me pre game he’d come up with a plan to kill my
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he would likely want to shoot them is possible so quite careful to restrict
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flank. I went first and was facing some powerful shooting and the Slave chaff
units too, so I cagily advanced my Fallen just out of their charge range. (In
retrospect I wondered if that was a mistake, perhaps I should have advanced
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On my right I ran the Haste Chimera and the Wolves a lovely
little tag team. These took out the Hackpaws then tangled with the Blight, it took
a chunk of the game but they we’re eventually victorious, the Wolves then just
sitting on the lesser occupy token. The Chimera returned to the centre and helped
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Horde. I checked the angles and found if I charged it none of his other units
would be able to charge the Chimera’s flank so would just have to hold to the
countercharge so in I went, with the Fallen trailing behind, ready for charges
turn 2. (I also grabbed a loot token ojn one of the Fallen hordes) This worked
absolutely as planned and over the next few turns I took out everything on the
left and then the centre too. If Mike had just positioned his Order of the Forsaken
so they could support the Villein Initiates Horde it would have hugely changed
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On the right I had a single 22” charge Chimera with some Wolves
and this danced about and took a chunk of damage but it did keep the right
busy, then we it looked it would finally die it did a single pivot and moved
away out of trouble. (even if it loses flight it's still speed 11, so pretty nippy) By then
the rest of my forces were able to come in and mop up the remainder. Giving me
another big win.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Game 3 – Darren “The
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running special relationship which involves Darren losing every game we’ve ever
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This would be the first 2200 game so extra units, also it
was a special variant on Dominate with a Ghost Troll in the centre who you took
turns controlling but must charge if it could. Anyone who routed it would get
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Ok so I cagily hid two hordes of Fallen in a wood in the
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Daz went first and advanced to get some shots off,
thankfully the cover reduced this and he only wavered a Magus Conclave. On my
turn I flew both Chimera’s round on to the left and right flanks each one
hugging terrain giving me cover vs Ratkin shooting. Herja ran up behind a wall.
Darren had left a Warlock just poking out so I took the charge with my Wolves,
(if I’d routed it, I would have got an overrun into a Death Engine too) this
would also lure the Ghost troll into charging them as opposed to my Fallen
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Daz shot things up some more, but fortunately nothing too
serious occurred. By now I had some nice options with the Chimera and spotted a
double overrun possibility, he’d put two Warlocks in the wood with the flank of
the Shock Troops Horde just beyond, they would all be 1” overruns! I couldn’t resist
this and the Pathfinder Chimera went in. Now 20 attacks in the flank probably wouldn’t
rout the Shock Troops alone so I also put the other Chimera into the front of
the Shock Troops horde. I was aware this was somewhat risky bit if it payed off
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Ok first Warlock 10 hits, 10 damage, and rout!!! On the
second Warlock however it went bad and I only did 5 damage (bother…) I rolled
to rout and failed… HOWEVER! I had my good lucky reroll and realised if I just rerolled
the 1 on the rout test a 3 or more would get it. Obviously it had to be done, I
rerolled and got a 2… SIGH… The next turn both Chimera’s were routed… Ok this
was bad and gave Daz a real chance to get back into things, fortunately the
Fallen, Magus Conclaves and Herja were all going strong. But over the next few
turns shooting would take out 2 hordes of Fallen. Darren also nearly got the
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In the very last turn I routed his remaining solid units and
then his last Warlock tabling him with just 1 Fallen Horde, Herja and the two
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elsewhere, however it was awesomely entertaining and Daz’s face was a picture!
So I’d do it again. :p I ended up on max 20 points vs Daz on I think 8 pts. Daz
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Final game and it was two Altrincham clubmates at the top of
the table! Whichever of us won this game would win the event, keeping the title
in club. (Every single Altibash so far has been won by a club member!) The
funny thing is Andy was the ringer player, but he’d been storming along!<o:p></o:p></div>
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My deployment was slightly different this time, the Wolves
hid behind the Fallen with the Loot tokens on the left leaving the Chimera by
itself on the right flank, Magus Conclaves and Horse Raiders in the centre as
usual. Andy’s deployment made it tricky for me to get into where I wanted and
his Wiz’s ran off and hid from threats too! (how dare they! :p ) This caused
huge issues on the left, I’d bashed through a chunk but a single Wiz got
through the net and started picking on my Wolves with the tokens and threatening
to cost me the game! This meant a Fallen Horde had to hit full reverse to deal
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Another Fallen horde routed to an 11 roll… (my Chimera had
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Andy’s tokens, he manoeuvred them very carefully. I was also lucky to avoid
charges from them needing a 2 on a reverse after killing his Goblin Shooters,
and another 2 reverse after killing the Troll Bruiser later!<o:p></o:p></div>
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had a minute left which I just used to get my units out of danger. Andy’s final
turn saw the death of the central Chimera who’d been holding a token however
Herja survived! (just) and this left me with 4 scenario points to Andy’s 2. (Both
his Trolls and my Fallen were on his table
side, doubling the value of mine) This left me with a big win and Andy with a
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This left me with 1<sup>st</sup> place and a gorgeous
trophy! Props to Paul Welsh who hand painted the disc, super cool! Save J came
2<sup>nd</sup> with KoM and Sam came 3<sup>rd</sup> with Dwarves, well done
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The venue was great, and local for me which is a nice
change. Kev and his son, Andy, Paul and everyone had done a great job, the To’ing
and prep was fantastic. The terrain was good, (love them mats) Especially the
tables Paul Welsh had worked on. (my fave being the Desert board)<o:p></o:p></div>
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freshly baked scones with jam and cream later on! Honestly I think Altibash is my
favourite tournie in the UK, they really go the extra mile. We even got amazing
goody bags, cheers guys!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok so obviously the army did well but that doesn’t necessarily
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me big in at least one game bar the Evil reroll… I deffo missed that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Herja? Well I’ve been wanting her in the army for ages, was
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did she do enough that it made me think wow I’m glad I have her. Honestly I
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being able to pop one on either flank worked great, though I do wonder if I am
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I was very happy with my Varangrr army after Lonewolf so
decided to leave it as is. It was unusual in that it was 1250 points for the
first two games and 2000 points for the final two. This mixed things up nicely,
I’d happily play this style of event again in future. My 1250 list wasn’t quite
perfect but won all 4 practice games so I was happy enough with it. This event had a once per game reroll of up to two dice.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The mighty host of Bobthrakki-Khanox-Lupanious the 3rd, His majesty the King of the Varangrr and savior of the known world....<b style="font-size: 14pt;"> (Bob for short)</b></div>
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<b>Game 1 – Andy Ransome
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Andy had been talking about his perfect record of wins vs
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the right the King took out the Honour Guard, but I lost the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Horse Raiders and the King on Chimera took a chunk of damage in return, leaving
me reticent to let him be charged again. So I instead charged him past the
Miltia into the Halfling Sorcerer who he failed to kill…<o:p></o:p></div>
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My Turn 5, this left Ross with the Militia Horde, the Honor
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good from where I was standing, however here is where I got cocky… I decided to
send both Fallen after the Honour Guard, they were easily routed. The King was
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Ok it’s now my turn 6, erm I have one objective worth 3 and
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the Sparkstone struck again and I can’t get to another objective… The Fallen
move back and grab the Chimera’s objective and the Chimera limps forward, I
need a turn 7 to take another. Game end turn 6 for a draw… Bother! On the
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In retrospect the Fallen should have grabbed objectives
leaving the Honor Guard in the forest doing nothing, but my urge to kill all
before me was too much to resist… (of course if I hadn’t lost fly 4 turns on
the row due to the Sparkstone or we’d had a turn 7 it wouldn’t have mattered) I
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Ah the beautiful Nick! He should have been a table below me,
but got pulled up to prevent Ross and I playing again. Nick and I are both RC,
FFS members and have been friends for many years so I was looking forward to
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Nick’s list is very good, subtlety so. (bar Basususususussu,
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the UK at the time but about to go up to 4<sup>th</sup> I believe. He’d also
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I got first turn, and I got my King on Chimera onto his
flank where it couldn’t be charged, this was huge and I concentrated all my
shooting on the Dragon, over two turns and wavered it. Nick announced it was
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In the centre I advanced my Mounted Sons and a horde of
Fallen, this turned out to be a TERRIBLE decision, Basususususu charged in did
a chunk of damage to the Mounted Sons, worse Nick had set things up so if I counter
charged I would then be hit by the Grotesques, so I backed them up and set the
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worth of dogs, did 10 damage to them and routed them in one go… (needing 8
twice to rout) Worse still Basusuu charged the Mounted, and rolls 9+ twice and
routs them as well! This was unexpected and saw a huge gaping hole in my army…
Also that was the first of my Bounty units eliminated in Melee giving Nick 2
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Ok now things aren’t looking good I need to swing things
back and I have a chance, I need to kill both Hordes in melee and take the
objective, it’s hard but doable. Ok first ok I shoot the Grotesques hoping to
weaken them, instead I accidently rout them losing another Bounty! DAMN… (in
retrospect I should have used my special event free reroll here to reroll the rout test hoping to get a steady or waver
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On the left I have a chance to take out the Blacksouls
horde, I see that Nick has left his characters on the hill and I can charge and
kill both with my last surviving Horde of Fallen and then also get a flank
charge into the Black Souls. And here is where it unravelled. Nick and I hadn’t
discussed the Hill, I assumed that the entire terrain piece was a hill, Nick
was assuming the flat part of it’s rim wasn’t a hill, both we’re possible
assumptions. Here I let Nick off as it seemed
the sporting thing to do. However it had repercussions! That meant I would not
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The second individual, the Dragon' Fire-Team I could easily charge,
but we we’re unsure if my unit would be on the front or the flank, we diced for
it, and it went in Nicks favour. They killed the Individual but then there wasn’t
enough room for the Fallen to align to the front due to the Slave driver which
I’d let Nick off with. Now if I’d known I wouldn’t be able to charge the
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I could charge the Slave Driver, and perhaps asked for a judges decision on front/flank
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Very fun game and Nick played well here, he protected his
units, where as I was far too gung ho, I need to learn that sometimes it’s
better to accept you won’t get a big win and instead play for smaller wins
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This game got off to a great start when I advanced my King on
Chimera right in front of Alan’s army, but behind Height 3 impassible terrain,
make him unchargable but able to charge almost everything himself. Alan cannily
advanced using his Gargoyles to block all my Fallen charges. I thought quickly thorugh
the next few turns in my mind and realised Alan would likely come off better so
my units all backed away, bar the King on Chimera who got a flank into the Abyssal
Berserkers, I routed them in one, turned and he was now behind Alan’s army.
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The results were in and Tom had won overall, Nick came 2<sup>nd</sup>
and I limped in at 3<sup>rd</sup> place just pipping my friend Jez by a point
who came 4th! Paul my padawan learner also did really well with both 5<sup>th</sup>
place and Best painted. (I can claim to have helped his battle skill, but the
paint is nothing to do with me. :p ) Michael got best sports. Well done guys!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m really starting to think I am hindering myself by not bringing Herja or
something similar I shall be having a tinker with my lists, and she may be coming
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all and all, play the scenario. Interesting despite coming just 3<sup>rd</sup> I
got the highest Kill total of the entire event! I did enjoy playing all the new CoK scenarios, makes a fun change to just playing Kill and such, even if I do win less. :p<o:p></o:p></div>
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Timed games may seem daunting initially, but I’ve been
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First up, playing fast doesn’t mean you can’t have a laugh
with your opponent, makes sure you do! Rather it’s all about having a plan in
advance. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ll be standing at the table
and my opponent will say, “hmm I’ve not really thought about where I’m putting
which units” This is bound to end badly… When I build an army, I will design
not only the combat groups but also a general battlefield deployment. This is
super important as that way when you arrive at the table you’ll know what goes
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So the central section is fast and shooty, it can redeploy
during the battle as needed, the flank force can go on either flank with an
intention of pure annihilation. I will decide before I deploy any units which
flank I’m going for, however by deploying the central section first it keeps my
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they are, start the clock and drop that unit. This should only take a few
seconds, then while your opponent is deploying their unit, pick up the next one
and have it ready. As soon as they are done, drop yours, press the button. Keep
doing this until complete. My entire deployment usually takes less than 1
minute. My opponents usually take 3-5 mins, it doesn’t sound like a lot, but it
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I don’t pay a huge amount of attention to my opponents
deployment, I don’t ignore it completely but it’s more important to keep to
your design otherwise the army won’t work correctly, stick with your strategy! That
being said I will sometimes save a floating unit till last such as a Dragon, and
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precise with your movements, check you aren’t giving away flanks etc but don’t over
analyse. If you spend too long thinking about possibilities you will time out. The
key thing here, is to use your opponents turn to think about what you want to
do in yours! As they move a unit, consider ok on my turn I will move my unit
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If your opponent needs a toilet break or wants to buy you a
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typically they will do the same for you. Somewhat off topic here but if my
opponent forgets to shoot a unit and it’s now melee etc, I am always happy to
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Ok we’ve done all these things and time is getting low, what
do I do? Don’t panic! Use what time you have wisely. If you have 1 minute left
do not charge a Zombie legion into the rear of an enemy unit! Again you should
be using your opponents turn for thinking about strategy and dice prep etc.
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about clocks and pressure and such. Don’t worry, just take things easy. It’s
all a game we are playing for a laugh! If you do run low on time, as above just
do the important stuff. You should never actually time out providing you stick
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A friend of mine was asking for tips on how to use Herja to the
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publish them on my blog in case anyone else was interested! Now while these are
Herja specific they will apply to a greater or lesser extent for a variety of
other characters such as Basusu, Pharaoh with Wings, Vampires etc. So could be
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<b>Tank</b> – She can
keep a normal unit of Infantry/Cav with CS busy all day long, between Def 6,
Iron Resolve and Lifeleech she isn’t going to die… Now this isn’t something you
are necessarily going to want to do with her all game long, but it can be just
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– She is perfect for taking out War Engines, especially those without Individual!
She will likely rout them in one turn. She will easily disorder characters so
is ideal vs Flyers/Wizards as she will do at least one damage. (likely 3 or 4+) That being said a Dragon will
do some damage in return and may win the overall fight. So set up a trap In
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<b>Anything but?</b> – She
is very fast and can charge in any direction this allows you to add her in
almost anywhere. Have a vague idea of what damage your units will do, doesn’t need
to be perfect. If you see a combat and it’s not going to be a crushing win for
you, consider sending Herja in too, the extra damage may be enough to swing the
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<b>Survivable</b> – She
just won’t die unless? Generally don’t move her into a position where she can
be charged by anything that can kill her! (CS2+ or the Hammer of Measured Force
especially) Or at least ensure that anything that can do so will be hindered
when it charges. (place her on the edge of a forest for example) If she does
take a pounding, despite Iron Resolve run away! Losing flight isn’t generally a big deal for
her. (assuming CoK) And of course the best way to run away is actually to
charge and kill something else, (Lifeleech!) this even allows you to go within
1” of other enemy units handy for escaping traps. She is ideal points denial.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Objectives?</b> – Now
the CoK pack limits this but certain tournaments (such as the recent Lonewolf)
actually still allow individuals to score, this is huge! If she’s near the
centre of the board at the end of the game she can fly nearly anywhere and
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CoK tweaks she has a Heal 5 she can use anywhere on the table, now you will
mostly want to be charging with her, so I would probably use this turn 1 or two
if anything you care about has taken at least 2 damage. If you save it, it
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Alternatively if you’re playing her per the book then you
just pick an infantry unit and hope to get lucky. It’s incredibly annoying on
Thralls, chaff that just won’t die… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well honestly she doesn’t really have that many, she is
relatively expensive, but it’s points well spent. Her one downside really is
she does only have 7 attacks where as a horde of Fallen for similar points has
18. Course she’s so flexible and hard to kill that she really is well worth her
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an incredibly flexible unit that as you’ve probably seen almost every Varangrr
player takes! Now oddly despite all that I don’t actually use her myself! Why?
Well as much as I can see her utility I wanted another main hammer, and now I’ve
felt the power of three hordes of Fallen I am loath to drop one! :p<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ah Lonewolf, the jewel in the Texas crown of tournaments! I
attended last year and had a blast, and was oh so close to winning Best
General. Winning 5 out of 6 games losing only my final game vs Marc Taylor. Sadly
my paint wasn’t great so I sunk down to 12<sup>th</sup>. This year I hoped that maybe the Best
General trophy could be mine! I had also spent the last year working on my
paint, and other hobby aspects, pushing myself to improve. Hopefully I thought
this would give me a vague chance of a decent overall placing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now the fantastic thing this year is, I did not attend alone from the UK,
my friends Waltz, Nick, Jon and Ed also attended and this just ramped things up
to AWESOME+. We stayed with Jeff and Mark and they gave us the real VIP
treatment, such nice people. Thanks guys! I could waffle on about Texas for a
while as it’s amazing but I guess most of you want to hear about my army and
the tournie itself, so onwards my friends! <o:p></o:p><br />
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This is the year of the Varangrr, I try to mix things up and
make a new army most years, this just keeps things interesting, and allows me to
push my hobby too. As I really wanted to go all out this time, I added flickering green LED’s to
every Regiment and Horde and also the Monsters/War Engines. This required me to
learn a lot of new skills but I think was worth it.<br />
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If you'd like to see a video of it, with the LED's flashing you can check it out on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Daniel.Darklord.King/videos/1881900328692694/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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I originally tried a different list at Fools
of War, but it wasn’t really my style, being just a little too shooting
centric. This new list focused on the hammers, 4 of which have Pathfinder, (3
Fallen and the Mounted Sons) this as you’d guess is rather handy. I also have
chaff and even some nice shooting, not to mention the King on Chimera. It’s a good all round list in my opinion as it allows
me to take out some ranged threats and throw a little damage around as desired
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The day dawned and LONEWOLF was here! I, perhaps foolishly, stayed up late the night before, so I was a little hungover, but hey that’s part
of the fun! Robby King rocked up to me and gave me a large can of some crazy high
alcohol concoction, I actually rather enjoyed it, thanks Robby! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GAME 1 – Kris Kapsner – Herd - Bullseye</b><o:p></o:p><br />
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I’d challenged Kris as he was someone I really wanted to
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it was! The scenario, Bullseye was a variant on Dominate, which was cleverly
done, it consisted of 3 circles, and you scored more for being closer to the
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This was a nail biter of a game! Kris and I both deployed
heavily on one flank, I mostly tried to delay the Stampedes, while pushing through
on the far flank with my Chimera and the Mounted Sons. Things were very close
in the centre, an early turning point was the Guardian Brutes routing my King on Chimera in one go. (I’d been forced to charge them in the front to protect the
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By the end of turn 6 I’d killed everything bar the 2
Stampedes and the Shamans, but likewise I’d lost most of my army. If the game
ended now Kris would win, if I got a turn 7 I would likely rout both Stampedes
for a big win. The game ended! Giving Kris an 11-9 win. Amazing close game,
Kris is a great opponent; I really hope we get to play again some day. :-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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fun game, it was actually really close and one of the key highlights was Steven’s
Mawbeasts hindered charging my Magus Conclave, routing it, then hitting the
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horde removing their flight and penalising all shooting in that area. I sped straight up the flank placing all my Fallen into a wood, Jesse double
charged the Dragons into one of the Fallen, if he’d routed it, he may have been ok. (still needed a decent overrun) But luck was not with him and just wavered it, giving me a
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stuff on the other flank, but then rolled poorly on the rout test against Palace Guard with
Stormwind Cav facing its rear! Thankfully the Lonewolf reroll saved the day,
allowing me to turn to face and eventually kill the knights. (I was behind an obstacle)
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So at the end of the day I’d done quite well despite my loss
against Kris, I was now top of battle which was a pleasant surprise. A lovely
evening followed going for a meal with Kris and the other guys. Again I was the last
Brit standing as all the others got an early night again! :-P<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok now I was even more tired and hungover but hey it’s all good, time for a beer and more KoW! ;-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GAME 5 - Michael Pearcy – Basileans - Poison Wells</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d been really looking forward to this and so had Michael,
in fact he’d been thinking about it instead of sleeping, I suspect he was even more tired than me! ;-) This was a another
great and very tough game. As Michael had the speed advantage I knew I would
have to set up some bait, so I quickly got a Fallen horde up the flank
threatening his units but out of LoS of everything bar some panther lancers, I
dealt with them and held giving myself a nice nimble charge angle on his other
units. My other units were set up to charge anything that charged the Fallen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Michael went for it, but got overconfident and went in with
just the Elohi (Gneuss could have combo charged with them) and they failed to
waver my Fallen, this was a terrible result for Michael as I was then able to rout
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To give Michael credit he kept going
despite that, played very well and took out several more of my units, I just couldn’t
catch his individuals. In the end I held two of the wells and his Paladins were backing
away on my right, just holding the third. But my Magus conclaves concentrated fire and finally routed
them last turn for a 16-4 win to me. Cheers Michael, what a great game, really
hope we get to play again at a future event!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GAME 6 – Marc Taylor – Trident Realms of Neritica – Six Flags of
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Again! Just like last year it was down to Marc and myself battling
for Best General! I knew I was top on battle coming into the game so
theoretically even a draw would give me the Best General trophy, but honestly I
don’t play that way, I always go all in and try to win big, more fun that way. I
was pleased to see Trident Realms doing so well, despite the nay sayers saying
they still weren’t that good. The army was obviously working out well for Marc!
I knew this would be a tough game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marc won table sides and unfortunately was able to put both
his bolt throwers on a hill. All his units were on that one table half, canny
deployment and difficult for me to get around due to a large building.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Last year Marc got a double 6 waver on my Stampede this
proved critical, so this year what does he do? First turn both Bolt throwers shoot
one of my Fallen Hordes, both hit, 9 damage and wavered… Damn! Not an
auspicious start. But it’s ok, I moved up on the flanks as much as I could,
while staying well away from the Placoderm Horde… Marc moves closer and here he
makes a mistake, he positions his Naiad Wyrmriders behind other units but
within 16” of my Fallen, and he gives me a flank. (via a long run behind the building)
This proved critical as I took them out in one go and was now behind his line.
I was also able to rout a unit of his Crabs, though the other took a little
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On the right the Knuckers were being a menace, they are
amazing units, and Marc played them really well. He easily took the flight away
from my King on Chimera, however I still had LoS and angle to do a single pivot charge
into his River Guard escaping the dead zone he had set up. (Knuckers on the flank
etc) He tried again but once more I snuck out with a single pivot charge into a
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At this point all Marc’s remaining units ran away! He
sensibly tried to kill anything he could then fled the remainder to hold a
table area, I finally caught one Knucker then the game ended with me in control
of the other 5 areas, for a 19-1 win.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This put me in the lead for battle, however during the award
ceremony my name was not called out for a Best General trophy! This had me
excited, as that meant I’d done well enough for an overall trophy. My name was finally
called out, and I walked up to the front. Jeff Swann was 3rd overall, Aaron
Chapman was called out as 2<sup>nd</sup> overall, giving me… 1<sup>st</sup>
overall! The chant of UK, UK, UK from my teammates, rolled out across the room. To say I was
pleased is an understatement. ;-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Congrats to everyone who placed, and Ryan especially for his
beautiful army and board, a true work of art. Special congrats to Team BOJF, with Ed winning 2<sup>nd</sup> best Sports,
and Nick for the best mounted Lone Ranger! (really nice conversion)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wow what a weekend, Mark had done an excellent job
of running the event as always, I had an amazing time, and was really pleased
to have this year not only got the highest battle score but indeed to surpass
that and win overall! I was really pleased with my paint score, which was 62
out of 80, big improvement on last year. I’m glad I went all out with LED’s and
working on my paint to improve my skills, hopefully I can continue to improve
as time goes by.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks to everyone I played, all my friends for coming
along, all the guys I hung out with and drunk beers with, Jeff and Mark for
hosting and their wives Jen and Lyndsay for putting up with us! Also thanks to my wife Cathy for letting me go at all! ;-) Lonewolf and in
fact Texas in general is amazing I would love to come back next year to defend my
title! Course before then we have the US invasion of the UK Clash of Kings to look forward to, Hell yeah! :-D</div>
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FFS and CC with Waltz looking especially handsome</div>
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My army worked as desired all tournie long, I felt I had
answers in general for all my opponents lists. The only thing I did feel was missing
from my army was a combat Individual, I really struggled to get to grips with Michael’s
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Varangrr of course have Herja, who is very versatile, but
I didn’t really want to spend so many pts on her, it would mean dropping
something like a Horde of Fallen which I’d be reticent to do, and besides I
liked being one of the only Varangrr armies without her. (she’s good, but you
can do without her) A cheaper option would be the Cursed Son with Wings of
Honeymaze, not nearly as survivable of course. Hmm I’m undecided, I do love the
army as is. Now if I was play at a higher pts value she would certainly be
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Jeff looking GORGEOUS with his UK cap on! Mike is Jealous! ;-)</div>
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Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-55867110437061219842017-01-31T04:43:00.001-08:002017-01-31T04:43:18.047-08:00A Stampede on your houses! (Heavy hitter comparison)<div class="MsoNormal">
Following on from Nick’s article’s revealing what goes on behind the curtain, and linking to the
article in the upcoming Clash of Kings book on unit design, I thought I would
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First up let’s look at where the unit came from, all units originally
stem from Kingdoms of Men, they are our baseline units. Then after that we have
the core armies, every army that is in main book. Now Stampedes being in
Uncharted Empires we’re balanced vs both the baseline units and through ours
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Stampede’s were based around Ogre Warrior Chariots, combined with
Berserker Brock riders. They hit hard, have a great nerve but also low defence,
and unlike Berserker Brocks they have a large waver value. (representing
animals panicking) Being a Herd unit of large animals they also have Strider
and Pathfinder. (nothing is getting in their way!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok now let’s delve into some damage comparisons. Initially
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Stampedes hit like a truck, but so do all the similarly
designed units, Stampedes are very consistent however and with the TC do the
same across the board. Ogre Warrior chariots do more against everything bar Def
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Fight Wagons are amazing vs Def 3 or 4, and still solid vs
Def 5, Def 6 being their weaker point. Direfangs excel against Def 3 or 4
matching a Stampede but tail off slightly against Def 5, and more against Def
6. Soul Reavers are a good all rounder, they will mince anything pretty well,
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<o:p> </o:p>Here clearly the Stampede/Direfangs have the advantage,
Fihgt Wagons however are still excellent very Def 3 and 4, and the others still
put out some reasonable damage, Def 6 is the main difference here Stampede
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Ok now let’s see what happens when they lose TC due to being
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Interestingly now Stampedes become one of the worst damaging
units, Only Soul Reavers drop more. Fight Wagons and Direriders don’t care at
all, being all CS, they remain very high damaging. The chariots drop in damage
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Direfang Riders are the most consistent they will always do
the same damage, they are excellent against Def 3,4,5 and still do a decent
amount vs Def 6. Fight Wagons are also one of the most consistent, and will
chop Def 3 or 4 up in basically any condition. Soul Reavers are high damage
dealers but really feel the loss of their TC, (like many Cav) Macc wars potion
is popular choice on this unit! Ogre Warrior chariots do immense damage and
with Brutal are very likely to rout enemies. Stampede do amazing damage unless
Disordered so unfortunately they tend to spend a lot of the time this way!
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Course damage isn’t the only factor. Stampedes have a low
Defense of 4 this means they will consistently take a lot of damage, 18/22 however
means your opponent needs to focus on them, if they do, they will rout, even
basic arrows and similar are a danger. Soul Reavers on the other hand have an
amazing Defence 6, if you are unable to get a flank or very high CS/Piercing
they are a menace, and then they have Lifeleech 2 as well! Played well they
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The other 3 are Def 5 which is significantly better at
stopping incidental damage, of course they also have lower nerves, the Fight
Wagons especially being the lowest(it was a tad too low, Fury helps balance
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The differing Nerves/Defense are a good counterplay, and
means they can effectively take similar amounts of damage before routing. Lets
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Elf Bowmen do the Stampede takes 3 times as much damage as
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So Soul Reavers can laugh off basic shooting all day long,
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Ogre Warrior Chariots are middle of the road, Stampedes are
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Here Soul Reavers are the clear winners speed 8, Direfang
being the worst at a solid speed 6. Speed is of course huge and increasing the
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Stampede excel in difficult terrain but Disorder them and
the damage drops down, suddenly high defence units become a huge problem for
them. This is why I will give mine Elite/Vicious and follow them with a Shaman,
they need the extra damage, and BC/Heal to keep them running and ensure they
rout enemies in one go. (Kill/disorder the Shaman) Note this unit is Irregular
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Soul Reavers are the fastest of this style of unit and can
take the most damage and heal it back, they are amazing all rounders, difficult
terrain hurts them so expect Maccwars potion. They are the only Height 2 unit of the lot, this is both good and bad in different ways. This unit cost the most,
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Ogre Warrior Chariots do the most overall damage and with
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Fight Wagons, ah these beauties are a joy to behold, they
will chop up Def 3/4 better than anything else, and remain consistent when Disordered.
Back these with a Wardrum and Godspeaker and they will work wonders. Again the
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Direfang Riders, ah the Swiss army knife, hard to damage/rout,
you can’t Hinder them, Disordering does nothing to them! And on top of that
they have the Gift of Korgaan making them very versatile. Brew of Haste is my
pick for these, but honestly something like Brew of Sharpness has to be a
popular choice too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m very happy with the balancing of all of these, I think the Fight
Wagons needed a slight nudge but with Fury balance really well. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-68187646958625755142017-01-19T03:53:00.001-08:002017-01-20T06:09:24.403-08:00Altibash 3 - Tournie Report<div class="MsoNormal">
Last weekend was Altibash 3, a local tournie for me, it’s
pleasant being able to get to a tournie in just 40 mins, as most involve a
fair bit more travel. I went along with Jez, he had his Goblins and I had my
Herd. Amusing mention should go to Walter a friend of mine who was supposed
to be coming along but instead slept in… :p<o:p></o:p></div>
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My list is the latest variant ready for the UK Masters, I
figured it would be an ideal chance to really give it a good practice right
before the event. (Masters is the 21<sup>st</sup>/22<sup>nd</sup> of Jan) I
haven’t changed much, just swapped out the Avatar for a Chimera and a Centaur
Chief with Blade of Slashing. This list is just a little bit more versatile vs
shooters which I quite likely expect to be common! (I’ve seen the lists now)<o:p></o:p></div>
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We arrived bright and early, as I’m being healthier I’d
eaten rice crispies, everyone else enjoyed bacon butties… Still I was pleased
to note the guys had provided a big bowl of fruit, nice one!</div>
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This event was closed lists and we had a once a game lucky
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<b>Game 1 - Hal Eccles –
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Hal had a lovely painted army, I especially liked the Naiad
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I advanced fast on the right using chaff to prevent too many
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On my left I went to the centre line keeping a distance from
the Shamblers, no way they can charge me, over to George. He reveals Brew of
Haste and gets one unit into a Stampede... And then with Surge 15 tries to get a 2<sup>nd</sup>
in, he needs 8 successes and gets 7! (phew) Thankfully my Stampede takes one
charge fine, two would have been unpleasant!<br />
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In the centre, The Green Lady prevents me
flanking the Shamblers with my Spirit Walkers but thankfully they are able to
get into the flank of Naiad Wyrmriders, and combined with a Stampede they are
routed quickly. It takes me a few turns to chew through the Green Lady of course.<br />
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<b>Game 2 – Andy Sharp –
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Last time I played Andy the game was a relatively easy win,
not so much this time! I went first and sped towards the green line! Andy
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On the left my Chimera, Centaur Chief and the Spirit Walkers
faced off vs two Goblin Rabble reg, a War Trombone and a Goblin ASB with a
surprise Diadem of Dragon-kind. I thought I would kill this easily, not so
much! Andy managed to waver my Chieftain on his first turn and then killed it
the next. The Spirit Walkers killed the War Trombone then got stuck into a
combat with Goblin Rabble that would last several turn before being losing to
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The Chimera fought the Goblin Regiment, in retrospect I
should have kept it further back instead of allowing the charge. The Chimera
was able to kill the goblins eventually however it took damage and had to flee
the ASB who was slowly breathing it to death! While the Chimera was then able
to take a Mincer in the rear, the ASB still chased it down and finally killed
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On the right flank my Lycans were getting shot up, but the
damage wasn’t sufficient on either unit so between regen and Heal they were ok.
I eventually killed all the goblins there by a tricksy Lightning Bolt 5 Wiz who
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In the Centre Andy very nearly took out my Stampede but it
just survived a combination of the Mincers and Trolls + Bruiser, mostly thanks
to fancy maneuvering and Yellow Bellied!<o:p></o:p><br />
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Right at the end I had two Loot markers to Andy’s one, he
had an amazing turn of shooting and rolled to rout the Stampede, a success
would turn the game back into a draw. He rolled 11 to rout! Inspiring! Just ok…
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This ended as a big win to me, though it was much closer
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<b>Game 3 - George Kirke - Nightstalkers + Ogres - Control</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Aha this was a game I was hoping for, George will also be at
the Masters and was using his Masters army, so this would be a great practice
game for both of us! I was keen to see if my tweaks would make beating this
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I won table sides and happily took the side with plenty of terrain
on it, this was useful. George won the first turn roll off and decided to take
it. I was very happy with this! He peppered my Lycans with his Ogre shooters,
but it didn’t do enough to worry me between Heal/Regen. The rest of his army
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Advancing into Mind-screech is unpleasant so I decided to
push forward on the flank with my Lycans and simply wait for George to advance
closer. This worked pretty well, as they were then unable to do anything until turn
3, (range 18 + speed 5”, and we were 24”+ apart. ) When they did advance they
were penalized and while they still routed my Spirit Walkers at least nothing
else was harmed as well. This gave me some needed time to advance on the flank,
and while it took me a few turns by turn 4 I’d wiped it out and was able to
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The Screeches concentrated on a Stampede but thanks to cover
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By the end of the game I’d tabled George for another win. Excellent
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against him so who knows what will happen if we face again! ;-)<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Game 4 - David Crabtree - Abyssals + Nightstalkers -
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Ah Dave had an amazing army, practically scratch built and fueled
by nightmares… Took me a little to figure out what was what but Dave was
patient with me. :p<o:p></o:p><br />
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luring his flyers, this was a little risky and he did get wavered, the sacrifice
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I was the only person to have won all 4 games on maximum points so I was crowned The King of War! (rather apt being the name of my blog) And got a lovely pint glass as below! Also rather awesome was my friend Jez came 3rd. :) Hal won Best painted and Dave won the Facebook painting award, well done guys!</div>
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<o:p>All in all a great event, I enjoyed catching up with so many friends, and had 4 great games of Kings of War! I would highly recommend the Altibash events to everyone, the fact they even provided healthy options for us also was amazing, great work guys! Looking forward to the next one.</o:p><br />
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<o:p><b>EDIT - Kev asked me to make people aware that he spent ages slaving over a hot oven baking scones, and while I resisted due to being healthy, they looked delicious!</b></o:p><br />
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Daniel Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553507381075617698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578228377476308398.post-11580691378012487682016-11-25T03:56:00.000-08:002016-11-25T04:18:15.982-08:00Aire Conflict - Hobby Tastic!I recently attended a tournament over in Leeds .(by the river Aire hence the name) This was a little different to most being 1200 points, with 5 games and Max 1 rules for Hero's, War Engines and Monsters. It also had a once a game lucky die. (reroll any one die)<br />
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The biggest difference though was you got additional points for hobby and sports, now to those over in the US this is the norm, not so for us in the UK. Personally I was happy to give it a go and have been putting more and more effort into my army to try and improve myself.<br />
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My list is below, I basically dropped a few units from my 2K army, but otherwise kept things as is, apart from adding an ASB. (max 1 prevented me taking a 2nd Shaman, or I would have preferred to take another) I did start looking into freehanding the banner design but didn't get it done, so stuck with an older model, maybe next time. (thanks for all the tips guys!)<br />
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<b>Game 1 - Chris Silkstone - Orcs, Push.</b><br />
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<b>Ax Horde with Helm of Confidence</b><br />
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Chris had only played a few times before, so he was never going to have an easy time of it, I think by the end of the game he had picked up some tips and tricks though so that's good!<br />
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He ran his chariot forward and let me charge it with my Stampede, not recommnended and an easy rout. My Lycans progressed round the right flank while chaff delayed his horde on the left flank. The Morax kept turnning to face the Lycans who happily ran around to the flank and then the rear before finally charging something else leaving the mor-ax looking at nothing.<br />
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Over the next few turns I routed everything for a big win.<br />
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<b>Game 2 - Steven Pearson - Goblins - Dominate</b><br />
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I've played against Steve several times before and they've always been great close close games, this time he had Goblins rater than his usual TK.<br />
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As you can see below, his army was huge compared to mine!<br />
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Steve maneuvered carefully on my left, but on the right allowed me to zoom forward my Lycans, he then made a fatal mistake (actually pictured doing it below!) He placed Trolls giving me a Nimble flank charge with My Lycans into them, This proved terrible and his flank collapsed.<br />
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In the centre My Stampede was held up by first Fleabags and then the King on Chariot and Giant, but with a bit f healing they held out, till everything else was dead, giving me a big win.<br />
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<b>Game 3 - Elliot Morrish - Control</b><br />
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Ah Elliot, in our last game he well and truly trounced me! Now was my chance for payback. ;)<br />
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As you can see below we both took a corner and edged towards each other slowly, his Tree herder was hidden behind the ruins at the top, and he and some Luycans and a Beast pack spent most of the game duking it out!<br />
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Meanwhile in the centre I was able to perform the clasic chaff block, using a chaff beast pack to block the charges of two units, this meant I was able to concentrate on his units one at a time with my Stampede. They did take some heavy damage from the Hunters of the Wild, but it wasn't enough and as the dust settled I'd routed pretty much everything for a 3rd big win!<br />
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<b>Game 4 - Nick Williams - Pillage</b><br />
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Ah Nick, the TO and a good friend of mine, he'd been doing really well despite taking a relatively fluffy list! He was getting worried that he would win his own event, I was happy to help knock him down. :p As you can see below he had a nice mix of units. His armies strength was the high nerve of all the hordes, trouble is my army has an extreme damage output, pretty much the counter to his army.<br />
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The face off below, Nick was determined to hold the pillage marker in the difficult terrain, He offered me some front charges with my Lycans, but I declined to take them, I swung round behind instead with my bottom Lycans. If I had he may have been able to counterattack and start getting an advantage.<br />
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Now in the distance my Chaff was dancing with the Werewolves, this delayed them just long enough that they were unable to do anything worthwhile allowing me to concentrate on the centre. After this Nick had a slight chance of routing something of mine, but decided rather more sensibly to run away!<br />
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Props to his Revenant King who ended up killing my chaff all by himself!<br />
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As the dust settled I had a decent win, but only killed around 700 pts worth or so.<br />
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<b>Game 5 - Walter Simpson - Invade</b><br />
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Ah Waltz, I've known him for years, we used to go Warhammer tournies together back in the day. (7th ed) Walter has beaten me just the once so far, but every game has been close, typically though we meet up at a tournie and I ruin his dreams of reaching the podium. He wears a Kingslayer t shirt at nearly every event. :p<br />
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We'd discussed lists at length in the run up, and we had similar armies, despite his being Undead and mine Herd. He'd been doing really well with it, and if he could get a big win in this game would win the event, so it was all to play for!<br />
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And the face off begins! I advanced somewhat giving his Dragon a charge into my Stampede or Lycans expecting if he did to be able to flank and kill it, except I made a mistake and re-angled the position of the Stampede, meaning the Vampire on Dragon could charge it and be relatively safe...<br />
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Walter spotted this and took full advantage! Charging the Dragon straight in, bother!<br />
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It was ok though, the Stampede didn't waver and my countercharge damaged the Dragon too, I then maneuvered the rest of the army hoping to kill it next time. Meanwhile the Werewolves came in to the Stampede comboing with the Dragon, but with amazing luck my Stampede still didn''t rout! This meant I was able to flank the Dragon and take it down, and also rout some annoying Wraiths, that had charged my Lycans.<br />
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Back to Walter, he finally killed the Stampede, but then I managed to kill his other Werwolves! He was now down to just a single Werewolf Horde! It bravely charged an undamaged Lycan horde and popped it!<br />
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I was down to just the units you see below, now it was really close! My Lycans tried to take it out and failed!<br />
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And that was it, I came 1st, full results below! Richard Heath won best painted with his lovely Nature army.<br />
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It had been a great day, and Nick really excelled himself, the gifts we received were amazing just look at the gift bag we all got!<br />
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The trophies were great, I got a glass pint mug and a shot glass for best general too! I even won vouchers for the shop! Crazy! The terrain espcially was amazing, all made specially by Nick himself. I particularly liked Dragon mountain!<br />
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It was a late start so I was able to saunter up about 9:30 or so, which was nice. On arrival I met a friend of min Walter who present me with a bottle of Prosecco which I happily helped him finish off. This started the day nicely! We also started supping Mead.</div>
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Jesus was a nice guy with a gorgeous looking army, I loved his water effects! I
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Sadly Alan went first
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their deployment area) I set my Avatar up for lots of flanks hidden behind some
chaff, Alan responded by throwing his fast units, Wraith, Dragon, Vampire and Lycans into my Stampedes and Spirit
Walkers, but rather than rout one unit he spread them thin one per unit.
Luckily for Alan he Wavered a Stampede with his Dragon with a high roll, but
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Now it was my turn to fight back the Avatar took on some
pesky Wraiths routing them. The Stampede went into the Vampire, wavering it.
Over the next few turns I would waver it twice more and double 1 it too,
finally killing it with a Shaman on turn 5! Failing to kill it was bad as my
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and turned away from the other Stampede with the Dragon, we’d discussed it and
I’d told him I could I could charge their rear if he turned them away, but he
chanced it anyhow, and this time the Dragon fluffed his rout roll and the
Stampede went into the rear of the Werewolves! 90 attacks later they were dead.
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The Dragon was then out of sight of anything worthwhile so
simply turned to threaten other units. Meanwhile on Alans side of the table my
Lycan had been flanked by annoying Wraiths, still they survived it, and I took
the chance to get my Avatar into his Revenant King, disordering him and
removing Surge from the equation. I also used my Lycans to take out the
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At this point I was in Alan's half and he was in mine, some
quick calculation meant that if left as is I would win, so Alan had to come
back in! Wraith troop and Dragon take on an undamaged Lycan horde, average
damage is about 8, however Alan rolls high and takes it out in one go! (damn)
All I can get into them is a Beast pack and a shaman, the shaman fails to
damage the Wraiths, but the Beast pack does exactly 1 damage to the Dragon
thanks to Vicious! As it lose fly that means it’s stuck as I’ve placed my
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Alan’s turn 6 he kills the beast pack with the Dragon. And
foolishly I’ve given his Zombie horde a flank into my Lycans through difficult
terrain so on 6’s at least. The Wraiths join the Zombies and together do 13
damage! Then they roll a double 1, on my turn I roll to regen and get 11 damage
back out of 13 on 5’s! Alan is somewhat dismayed by this. ;-) On the final turn
I fail to take out the Dragon, but do rout the Wraiths giving me a 16-4 win. (phew!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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And now it was time for even more Mead, I was starting to get more than a little drunk at this point. ;-) Walter and I headed off to our room continuing to drink Mead polishing off around 2 and half bottle in all!</div>
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Arrival at the pub saw us rather drunk and then Nick bought me 3 sambucas which I downed… Don't remember much after that... Thanks to Walter though we got an early night and I felt okish Sunday morning. ;)</div>
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Here I perhaps made a mistake, I pointed out his Butchers could charge my left Stampede, he'd gone straight to shooting so I probably should have kept quiet. :p His shooting fired again and finished off the Stampede in the open. (ouch) The other Stampede was damaged but ok.<br />
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his Phantoms (who had that token) and at least claw back a draw, (I would have to drop the token to make the charge making it 1 token each) but it wasn’t to
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The battlefield had a several obstacles spread all over the
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possible while still keep the obstacles between myself and Walter. This worked
quite well throughout the game. I also got first turn, this was handy as it
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this avoid a flank but gave a rear to my Spirit Walkers which I happily took
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a factor in the first place. If not for extremely good luck the Stampede wouldn’t even have been wavered in the 2<sup>nd</sup>
combat with the Wraiths, with average luck I would have killed that 2<sup>nd</sup> Wraith unit 2 turns earlier giving me the opportunity to charge the Zombie Trolls likely wiping them out before the double 1 ever happened! Still at least the randomness of dice evened out. ;-)<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Game 6 vs Dominic Stoveacre – Nightstalkers – Control</b><o:p></o:p><br />
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I knew from the earlier game with Paul that the Mind-Screeches HAD to die ASAP. I won the roll and let Dominic go first (so he couldn’t shoot
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shooting, but due to placement I could only get one Mind-Screech a turn, I
killed one, then the remainder obliterated a Stampede, then I killed another, I
sent my Shaman after the War Trombone, anything to dent the shooting! (it
killed it too!) Meanwhile the Fiends and Trolls were stumbling forward on my
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a Horde of Fiends, the Trolls and some Troop of Spectres, due to my retreat he
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And that was it! I knew I had no chance at winning the
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place. <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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All in all a great weekend, I remembered my scenarios
better, (shout out to Jez for his excellent Scenario cards) and my army
performed well. I don’t really feel the need to change anything about my list, although
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In retrospect I should have played at least
one game vs Nightstalkers first, I knew they we're big down south. The Mind-Screeches proved better then I’d
expected. Also in retrospect I could have won the game vs Paul if I’d simply disengaged and
left some of my units for dead, I typically like to fight on and get big wins though. In some situations I guess exceptions should be made. Still if averages had been with me I would have succeeded so I'm happy enough with the plan I chose.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Congrats to Tom Robinson for 1<sup>st</sup> place, Darren
Parkes for 2<sup>nd</sup>, and Jesus Santiago and Chris Walsh for Best Mantic
army and Best painted! This meant I was no longer the nation CoK champion,
still after winning 3 CoK’s and 1 national championships I could rest easy
knowing it would take some doing to beat at least. ;-) Also thanks to my high placing
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The turn out was great, and the venue was ideal for me, I
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I started with a white board 600mm x 400mm, I sprayed the frame black then put masking tape over it for easy removal at the end. Then I added 10mm extruded foam. (blue) First an entire sheet lightly carved around the edges then stacked up to 4 sheets high at the back of the board. I carved hills and added a couple of little caves. Then cut a river, waterfall and pond into it.</div>
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Once dried I highlighted it with a lighter shade then added the icicles, waterfall, river and pond. I combined water effects with Uhu glue and this has given it a nice frosty look. Also below you can see the drunken dwarf with his loyal dog and a cosy campfire. (it's wired up and glows, so I had to learn basic electronics too!)</div>
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Finally I added the snow, I used woodland scenics snowshaker all over, (Using Elmers clear school glue) then mixed the glue with the snow about 50/50 to make the sludgy snow which I applied to sections of the board. I've been using this technique for a few years and it retains it's whiteness really well. (the snow panthers below were painted and based three years ago. </div>
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So there we have it, I hope you enjoyed seeing my army on it's new board, I'm looking forward to giving the pussies a run out at CoK this weekend!</div>
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I recently traveled down to Black Dragon for a 2K KoW event, this
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After my poor performance at Altrincham I refocused my list
and tactics, this would basically be a 2 pronged attack pattern, the Stampede’s
with a Beast pack, the Spirit Walkers and the foot Shaman being the first group and the Lycan
Hordes with another Beast Pack and the Mounted Shaman being the 2<sup>nd</sup>.
The Avatar a new addition, goes wherever I feel he’ll help most, usually
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As you can see if you look back at my Alt list, I’ve dropped
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<b>Game one - </b><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white;"><b>David
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<span style="background-color: white;">Dave is a new player, but was very
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tabled him, but we did enjoy the game nonetheless, Dave saying he'd picked up some tips and tricks, hopefully we can play again some time when he's got more experience under his belt. :)</span></div>
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He had two flanks one with the Death Engines and the 3 Warlocks and the other
with the Weapon teams and the Ogre Boomers. I went and advanced everything to
just out of 12”. Andy first turn saw him waver a Stampede in one go! And damage
my Avatar. He also got very unlucky sending a Shocktroop horde into my
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This meant on turn 2 I could get my Lycan Horde into the Shocktroop's flank and routed them, I sent the other off after the flank of the warriors on the hill. Elsewhere my Avatar took out a Weapon team, then angled
onto the rear of his army. (Their positioning prevented me charging the Ogres flank) The lucky
beastpack charged a Death Engine, didn’t do anything but at least it then took
on the Beastpack instead of shooting me. The shooting was now reduced which
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a Lycan horde, 1, 2, 3, all dead, 3 units routed by one unit in one turn is a new
record for me! Elsewhere everything was falling apart for the Ratkin and be the
end of the turn there wasn’t much left. This ended with another tabled result
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forward! On my left the Brocks all moved into charge range of my Avatar but not
the Stampede, I used a Beast pack to delay a Regiment of Brocks, Allowing my
Stampede and Avatar to move into better positions but out of range of the other
Brock Regiment. The Beast pack worked great as on the following turn the Brock
riders rolled a double 1 to rout them! I would get my comeuppance later
though… The Elementals advanced, and I
could have charged them with my Lycans, Nick had set up flanking units though
and I judged it too risky. Instead I swept a unit forward ready to flank. I sent my Spirit Walkers in the central <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Ironguard regiment which were holding a token but they did little.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Ironguard countercharged and routed the Spirit Walkers, even worse the </span><span style="background-color: white;">flying King charged past and engaged a Stampede keeping it in place and stripping their TC. In retrospect I wish I’d Banechanted them straight
away, but went for Heal instead. The Greater Elemental got in the face of my
flanking Lycans, but I nimble charged past into the flank of his Elementals
routing them in one go. Due to Surge I was forced to turn round or have him
into their rear, this was a shame as they were in an otherwise great position.
I did Banechant these guys, but still got stuck with the Greater Elemental the next
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ok, I’d bane chanted my Stampede and they smashed the King, I’d got my other
Stampede into Brocks and my Avatar into the Berserker Brock Lord, all I needed
was reasonable nerve rolls and I would rout several units. I rolled Double 1, not
once but twice and then a 3 on the King. (which wavered him at least) This was a
terrible setback and in the following Dwarf turn The Brocks routed the Stampede leaving me with just a damaged Avatar vs three units! My left flank had collapsed...The Dwarves were now solidly in
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white;">In the centre the King passed his
Headstrong roll, (grumble) and got joined by the Ironguard regiment, they
wavered the Stampede with a high roll. (noooooo!) The Dwarf shooting also
wavered my Lycan Horde in the centre… </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">The Avatar ended up flying away as fast as it could and abandoned the flank…</span><span style="background-color: white;">This meant I only had the one charge that
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continued hammering my Stampede and routed it, overrunning forward and that was
most of my centre gone too! An Ironguard Regiment (with a token) got in the
face of my flanking Lycans, and the Brocks moved a little closer to the
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with the Avatar, a Shaman and both Lycan Hordes. (one wavered) However Nick had
made a key mistake overrunning after killing the Stampede, I was able to Nimble charge my Lycan horde past the Regiment in front of them and into the Dwarf King, killed him then overrun into
the Ironguard’s flank killing them and grabbing a token! I killed off the
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Regiment and the Lycans took the final Ironguard Regiment, granting me anothr token! In the end I grabbed the tokens and killed most of Martins army giving me a big win! Phew I thought I’d lost that for game for a while. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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first turn and advanced, being Invade this made sense, but I decided against
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Brute horde quite easily, I advanced carefully and positioned my Avatar for a
flank charge. Then turn 3 Martin moved up and jammed my Stampede’s with chaff.
With one unit I was able to kill them and then back up out of charge range of
the Shock Troop Hordes, the other killed the Hackpaw chaff but still had to
deal with Warriors. My Avatar was able to charge a flank but decided against it
and went round to the rear instead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">On the left it was looking great I killed the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Brute horde Leaving a chaff unit of Hackpaws, some Vermintide and a Warchief,
here though it all went wrong. After killing the Brutes I pivoted my Lycan
horde towards the main line, Then I did the rear combat into the Hackpaws, 54
attacks, double 1. <sigh> Next turn saw the Hackpaws rear charge my
lightly damaged Lycan horde with 27 attacks! Routing them instantly…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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saw off the murderous Hackpaws… In the centre my Stampede killed the warriors horde then
eyed up the left Shock Troops horde, I sacrificed a Shaman to stop
them multi charging the right Stampede. Next turn just one horde came in, with
Bane chant though the Stampede was heavily damage and wavered. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white;">(damn they hit hard!)</span></div>
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rear charge into the right Shock Troops horde and routed them, The Lycan horde
routed a warchief that had killed my foot Shaman. The unwavered Stampede got
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combined Lightning bolts, and the other killed by a combined charge of a Shock Troops
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Lycans to finish of the Vermintide, and my Avatar to kill a Warlock, and the
game ended. I knew going into the game that if I could get a draw I would
likely win the event, and as I was ahead on points I felt reasonably confident.
Martin however said, “I Win” Turns out we were playing an INVADE of course, I’d
completely forgotten. If I’d even remembered turn 6 I could have flown the
Avatar into the other half and claimed the draw… As it was Martin won the game
and the tournie!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white;">It shouldn’t need to be said, but pay
attention to the scenario! I sometimes find myself so focused on killing the
enemy that the scenario will go out the window! To help combat this I’ve
ordered myself a laser cut plaque saying “Scenario?” on it, this will sit in
front of me as I play so hopefully now and again I’ll see it and think, oh wait
a minute! :p<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it’s low defence but the speed means you don’t need to weather shooting for
long. The Avatar which I'd added in for this tournie worked great, he was targeted
by shooting a fair bit which saved my other units some damage, pairing him with
a Shaman is nice to combo with the Iron resolve too. The Very Inspiring source
also came in handy when the nearest Shaman couldn’t quite cover everything or
died. I’ll certainly use him again, I liked the large Dragon like threat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white;">Great day, Black Dragon is a really
nice looking store and Garry did a good job running the event! Also large
Domino’s pizza for £5.99 can’t say no! ;)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">1. Martin Dinsley 40 Ratkin</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">2.Garry Sharp 38 Ogres</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">3.Dan King 38 Herd<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">4.Nick Goodall 36 Dwarves</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">5.Andy Ransome 32 Undead</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">6.Kieran Lambert 31 Ogres</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">7.John Owen 31 Elves</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">8.Sam Barker 29 Dwarves</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">9.Richard Tomlinson 29 Brotherhood</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">10.Lee Fellows 29 Goblins</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">11.Andrew Hartwell 28 Ratkin</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">12.Luke Lister 27 Elves</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">13. Kieran Allison 26 Herd (Best Painted)</span></span><span style="background: white;">14. Scott Gibbens 26 Orcs<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">15.Jonathon Faulkes 25 Varangur</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">16.Sven Bayliss 24 Ogres</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">17.Sharad Vora 22 Varangur</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">18.David Hetherington 21 Dwarves</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">19.Ian Davies 21 Ratkin</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">20. Gary Angus 18 Brotherhood</span></span></div>
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I've been adding extra highlights onto my Lycan fur and Lion skin. I think the additional contrast really helps them pop. I may do a bit more edge highlighting in places but wanted to start work on my army board first. The board is a bit of an extravagance and I'm doing it for no reason other than I thought i'd be fun and hopefully look pretty cool!
When I'm done, the campfire will light up and the entire board will be snow covered like the individual bases. There will also be a frozen waterfall and pond on the right. :)
Here are some pics of them on my WIP army board.
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had a great time at the first one and came 1<sup>st</sup> so was trying to
repeat my performance here! I’ve recently tweaked my list, adding the 4<sup>th</sup>
Beast pack troop, because they are always awesome and after Jez’s suggestion
that I may have too many artefacts decided to drop a couple and give it a go.
The main artefact I’d lost was the Brew of Strength on a Werewolf Horde, I
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flank and destroy the Dragon and both Wraith Troops with a Stampede and the
Lycans over a couple of turns. It should be noted my Stampede was badly
positioned for flanking and I could only just see the Wraith troop, got to
position better than that in future. Also I was lucky to hold, next time in the
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to face some oncoming Zombie Trolls, when I said oh wait a minute your
Werewolves can nimble charge past! Walters hadn’t seen this at all, if I kept
quiet the game would have been very different… Oh well, so I faced the
Werewolves allowing the Z Trolls a chance of a rear charge, needing 5 successes
on 6 dice. Waltz rolls 4 successes, then uses the charity reroll to reroll 2
dice and get into the rear! NOOOOO!!!! This eventually saw the crumble of my
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At this point we had a flank each and we’re running out of
turns. I saw that Waltz had positional advantage and if I advanced straight
away would probably crumble my units, so I gambled on a 7<sup>th</sup> turn,
which we didn’t get. Win to Walter, 15-5! He played well, shame I helped him
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On my right Flank I set up my Beast packs to take the charge
of Martin’s Brocks, they did this and then My Lycans and Stampede took the next
turn or two routing everything. On the Left I got my Lycans around the flank
and the Stampede into the front an Ironguard regiment, I then positioned my
unit to force the Ironclad horde into difficult terrain, Martin cleverly used
an Rordin the Dwarf to keep them out of it! The stampede took 12 damage and was
Wavered. (bother) My Lycans then flanked the horde but only wavered them and
Headstrong then allowed them to countercharge! The Lycans survived and took out
the Warriors. The Banechanted Flame belcher took out my Shaman and then Rordin
the Dwarf then took out my damaged Stampede with just 4 attacks! (losing
Inspiring hurt) Rordin then kept the Lycans busy and nearly took them out too!</div>
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Now early on I had given both loot tokens to my Spirit
Walkers and hidden them in the centre behind a hill, if I’d left them there I
would have won the game, easy as that! However in a fit of insanity I decided
to bring them out to help in the centre. BANG BANG BANG, went the Banechanted Flame
belcher, and the Organ gun and routed them in one turn… <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was again right down the wire I’d lost a lot of my army
but routed nearly everything too (over 1700 pts worth if I recall) if I could just
get a turn 7 I would get the tokens back and win. Helpful Walter comes over and
rolls a 3 for us… On the bright side it wasn’t a loss as my Lycans had hovered
up the Dwarf Warriors token and we’re on Martin’s side of the table. He had two
tokens on Elementals. Another game down to the 7<sup>th</sup> turn roll! (which if
I’d played better ofc wouldn’t have mattered) This was a very close tactical
game, which ended up a Draw, 12-8 to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dave is a friend of Walters, and a really top bloke! He’s less experienced in KoW but has a beautiful army, I voted for him for best painted. He had lots of big cats in his army too, and they ended up clashing with mine with some amazing pussy on pussy action!</div>
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On the right flank I was able to use one beast pack to chaff
up 3 of his units, on the left I did something similar, but using my Alpha to
stop a unit of Wyrmriders too. (I got a lucky waver on them) This allowed me to
fight them piecemeal, and when the dust cleared on turn 3 I had routed nearly
everything, in the end I got all 2K and lost just the two Beast packs. For a
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I won the roll for first turn and decided to go first after
reading from his setup that Elliot was going to wait for me to come to him.
(nothing was further than 8” forward) Straight off the bat I made a mistake
which heavily contributed to my downfall... I threw a Beast pack forward into a
wood with my Stampede right behind, they were engaged by Thralls who did one
damage and then wavered them, as my stampede was so close it was completely
stuck! I eventually maneuvered them past but it cost me several turns.
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On the other flank I was facing a Dragon and the Mounted
Sons of Korgaan With my Alpha and my Lycans, I placed the Alpha into a wood
knowing he should easily handle their combined charges. Elliot agreed and the
Dragon flew off and hid,l the rest of his army also played non engagement and
shooting. (sensible) The next turn I got the Alpha and Lycans into the Son, and
got and got a Waver, excellent! Except they have Fury… Despite losing TC they
then proceeded to rout the undamaged Lycans in one go! My Alpha then charged
them again and did 1 damage… Next turn the undamaged Alpha was routed too! They
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Meanwhile I finally pinned the Dragon down by charging it
with a Beast pack and removing its flight, this forced it into charging my
Stampede but allowed me to Counter charge it. Losing the TC was tough but
Bane-chant helped. First round I did solid damage to the dragon but the 2<sup>nd</sup>
was a terrible roll doing very little damage. I even tried using my charity
dice but to no avail. The Nimble Sons having routed The Alpha and Lycans then
came into the Stampedes flanking routing it too! <o:p></o:p></div>
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My other Lycans eventually got past Herja. (who flew off to
pick on a Shaman instead) But they failed to rout a Thrall regiment in the
flank due to Herja’s Judgement! ARGGGHHHH!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the dust cleared, the damaged Thralls, the damaged Dragon
and damaged Sons all limped across the line with some Fallen and the grinning
Herja (Graah! :p) Leaving my remaining units alone to pick on
the Magus Conclaves… (who’d been shooting me all game) The last Conclave even
managed to rout a damaged Stampede before the end! Big win to Elliot! He outplayed
me, although if the sons hadn’t been so spectacular on the flank the whole game
would have been different. (that and getting my own Stampede stuck, rookie
mistake…)<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the main issues was I had rebuilt my army to bring
the extra chaff in, while this sounded like a good idea, I ended up getting
stuck on it more than once. Going back down to 3 units seems wiser. And don’t get
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Secondly, deployment. I'd split my Stampedes up more in this
build due to lack of inspiring for the 2nd Lycans, this didn't work very well
being unable to support each other as needed. They need to go back to linking
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Bring back the Brew of Strength of the Lycan Horde, without
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I struggled versus mobile units and shooters, I would love
something that can pick on them again, I miss the Centaur chieftain for this,
will consider bringing one back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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safe behind that hill, even if nearly everything else had died I still would
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Just because you see a tactical option, you don’t have to
tell you opponent! (telling Walter about the Nimble charge possibility was
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Well they say you learn more from a loss than a win! Having
come first at most of the events I’ve been at this year, a bottom half placing
was certainly a wake up call! I had a great day, really enjoyed every game
and Andrew and Kev did a great job with the event, and I look forward to the next one!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>1st Place - Kev Honeysett</b><br />
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<b>2nd Place - Alan Thompson</b><br />
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<b>3rd Place - George Kirke</b><br />
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