End of the League Escalation Tournament! We had decided as a group to try out the SR2012 Beta rules, and they were interesting.
4 League players ultimately showed up (6 folks were there during the day, Dan the shop owner who also played didn't have anyone to watch the shop for him, and Kyle the Troll player had to work so stopped in to say hi)
First mission: Supply and Demand (Objective Scenario), 15pts, 3 min turns, 1 min extension. The idea of the scenario, keep your objective 'alive' and its control zone clear while trying to destroy your opponents objective and contest his zone.
I ran pMorghoul with this, I wanted to run both of my lists (Naaresh being my other caster, and both lists are in my previous post). Plus I decided that pMorghoul would be easier to run at 3min turns. My opponent had eKruger, and pretty new to the game. The game went pretty quickly, as we only had 3min per turn, and a 30min round. I ended up getting a quick control point by sacrificing my savage holding his beasts up (woldworden and a warpwolf) and then slamming my gladiator into the warpwolf, contesting his zone while keeping mine clear. Game goes to time before I can run pMorghoul in and plink eKruger to death.
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| Megalith is on the other side of the table trying to find some daises to run through |
Second mission: A Flag Too Far (Flank Scenario), 25pts, 5pt reinforcements, 7min turns, 3min extension. This was against Ryan, who was the other experienced Warmahordes player in the League.
The idea was to control the scoring flag closest to you (in the picture, my scoring flags have the green chip on them) while having the scoring flag furthest from you contested. You got bonus points for controlling both flags.
Our TO Dustin decided to bump up the time restrictions because of the new players, so we went to 7min turns instead of 5min.
Ryan brought his Circle forces with Baulder and Runs Through Daisies a.k.a. Megalith. I brought Naaresh, and his Gators. I am really enjoying Naaresh and his shenanigans. This was also a reinforcement scenario, so I had Thrullg and a Croak Hunter available to come in on the right flank of the board, 20-some-odd inches from the back of my side of the table, and 3 inches in. This is where I ultimately won the game, my reinforcements were solos and able to act independently and Ryan's reinforcement was a beast, a Woldwyrd. I was able to run my reinforcements to my furthest scoring flag, and get a quick control point, while Ryan though it was better to have his beast closer to do major damage to my Iron Fleshed Gators. There was much back and forth in the game, unfortunately my Gladiator died early, but luck was on my side as I did major damage with multiple free strikes from Gators on Megalith as he tried to charge my caster with ARM 20 from his whippings. He rolled poorly, as his mind was taken out, did I mention my lucky rolls? All the free strikes hit, and I rolled way above average for all of them, each hit doing 7-10 damage. Megalith was unbuffed since Naaresh had Lamentation on, and Baulder was worried about upkeeps and casting spells with his 6 fury. After Megalith, I used Cyclone to get away, and charged Baulder who was engaged with my Cyclops Shaman, only to come 1/8th of an inch away from melee. But again my luck prevails as time is called, and I was sitting on one control point to nil and win.
Third Mission: Demolition (Distant Scenario): 35 pts, 10min turns, 5min extension. Without looking at the scenario packet, and working from memory, there was one objective in the middle, which, if controlled, allowed a warcaster/warlock within 4" of the objective place a 5" template on the table (within 4" of the caster) and do a magic POW 14 unboostable damage on everything under the template. You got points for controlling the zone furthest away from you (2 zones, diagonal to the center). Bonus points were awarded for using the blast on your opponents side of the table.
I played against the final possible opponent JJ. Now JJ is new to miniatures in general, and is about 10 years old, and is hard to keep focused on the game because there is so much going on in the store by this time. He plays Cygnar and eHaley and lots of Jacks, which is fine. But he allocates all of his focus out, and has his Sentinels and Chargers do most of the heavy lifting. At some point when he gets older he will be a terror to play. He understand how his Jacks work, and can do damage with them, but he doesn't focus fire on targets to take them out, and he doesn't understand how to use his solos in combination yet. I did teach him you can charge your own guys, as I train wrecked my Bronzeback into a Gator and made room so i could train wreck off his Sentinels so I could get to Haley. Train Wreck is a crazy animus. He did put me off a turn by popping eHaley's feat and throwing my plan off, but i was able to at least maneuver things around to set up the train wreck next turn.
So two games go to time, and I win by grabbing 1 quick control point and the games going to time, while the last was a caster kill.
Ultimately I win the League Tournament, I came in 3rd place overall for the League, and won Best Painted Army! So this League was pretty successful for me I would say, and I have a least 75% of my Skorne + many Minions all painted.
Mad props for Dustin the Press Ganger and TO out of
Olde World Gaming in Elk Grove, CA for hosting the Slow Grow League.
