tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9838186769027740352024-03-13T02:58:50.466-07:00Rise of Empires: Border WarsHobbyHammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18012845108034212184noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-15590244251958104772017-06-28T13:48:00.000-07:002017-06-28T13:48:01.846-07:00Gore Gruntas <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As Olrog's notoriety grows he has attracted numerous new followers. Amough the most useful are a trio of Gore Gruntas. The Horde has been without cavalry for sometime and they provide a useful tactical and strategic addition. That is until Olrog works out how to control the beasts himself. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The bloody apparition raised its arm and gestured towards the path battered trough the jungle by the Stoneboy's rampage. With a bellowed Waaagh Olrog leapt to his feet and blasted the projection to mist with a burst of Wurrgog energy. The meaning of the visitation was clear. A challenge has been made. Mention of the Chaos Trickster god meant it was also a trap but the Boyz had it seen it, making it one Olrog could not ignore. Besides there was an empty trophy thong on Olrog's Juju Hacka ready for the Wizard's skull. Grabbing the Dragon bone weapon from the side his throne Olrog powered into the path of devastation cut by the Rogue Idol and the perusing Hunters. Olrog whooped with joy he would be joining the hunt. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330669942512286583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-58443994557461113632017-05-29T12:46:00.000-07:002017-05-29T12:46:28.323-07:00The Order of the Fiery Gate - Battle Report: Treasure Hunt<i>'There's ur-gold here... I can smell it,' said the Zangrom, peering over the blades of his axe as he stared over at the crumbling ruins just outside of the Hrukvorn encampment.</i><br />
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<i>'Ruadhar wants the area mapped,' replied the Grungondi karl as he polished his magmapike. 'Nothing more, nothing less.'</i><br />
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<i>'Isn't it out duty to reclaim the fragments of Grimnir wherever we know they are? You should know that better than any of us, temple guard.'</i><br />
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<i>'My duty, grimwrath, is to obey the Runemaster of the Hrukvorn lodge,' replied the karl curtly. 'But if you will insist upon charging into unknown territory to sate you gold-lust, what choice will I have but to follow you? Grimnir help us, you are in charge of this mission.'</i><br />
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<i>'Looks like we won't have a choice in the matter,' said Ulli, smiling darkly. 'Looks like my skeletal friend has come to make good on his threat.'</i><br />
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<i>At the fire side of the ruins, the wight king could be seen pointing and shouting orders at his minions, a pitiful zombie shambling along at his side.</i><br />
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<i>'He's got more of those... creatures with him...' said one of the vulkites who had come over to look.</i><br />
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<i>'Creatures or nay, brothers, do you not feel the power of our god coursing through yours veins?' growled Ulli as he turned to address the fyreslayers under his command. 'I do. It cries out for gold! For glory! For the corpses of our foes cast down at our feet, cleaved in twain by the axes of our ancestors!'</i><br />
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<i>The fyreslayers roared and cheered as Ulli paced back and forth before them, thick cords of muscle around his neck tightening as adrenaline and ur-gold intermingled in his blood.</i><br />
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<i>'Who can stand before the cleansing power of fire? We are the anger of earth made manifest! We are Grimnir!</i><br />
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<i>'KHAZUK!'</i><br />
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For the second part of our Skirmish series, Josh and myself would be playing Treasure Hunt from the newly published Age of Sigmar supplement. Playing again on a 4' x 4' table, we each deployed our entire force in a 12" x 12" corner of the board diagonally opposite one another. Five tokens were set up in the centre of the board as shown on page 23. Having finished deploying first, Josh decided to go first.<br />
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<i>Note - As mentioned in my previous post, I realised upon writing that my own band was overpointed and will endeavour in future to ensure this doesn't happen again. I hope you still enjoy this post as a demonstration of the battleplan and Skirmish as a game mode.</i><br />
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Wasting no time at all, Josh's dire wolves immediately rush towards the centre and top-centre artefacts, whilst the rest of his army slowly advanced behind them.<br />
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Josh now had the opportunity to search through two of the hoard piles for an artefact, but was unable to recover anything.<br />
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I opted to rush forward with all of my fyreslayers towards the bottom-centre hoard pile, pushing my grimwrath and hearthguard to the fore to allow me to advance on the centre if needed.<br />
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I managed to get one hearthguard within 3" of this hoard, allowing me to search for an artefact. I also was unable to find anything this turn!<br />
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Josh (Death) won the priority roll for this turn and naturally chose to take the first turn in the next battle round.<br />
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Josh continued his push to the centre ground, this time having some of his wolves circle around to the centre-right hoard. Unfortunately, one of his wolves started the turn a bit too close to a realmgate and was zapped for 1 wound.<br />
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Josh was able to search 3 hoards this turn, and managed to find 1 artefact in the dead centre of the board!<br />
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<i>The rotting canids raked frantically at the ground, scrambling over one another in their desperation to get at whatever it was lay beneath the rancid ground. Running at the head of the fyrd, Ulli gritted his teeth and his knuckles turned white as he envisioned his axe bisecting the creatures before him. His grip slackened and his eyes widened as one of the beasts hauled from below the ground a circlet of gold, the morning sun flashing brilliantly off of its shining surface.</i><br />
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<i>The Zangrom cackled wildly, his eyes ablaze with the power of the duardin warrior god.</i><br />
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<i>'They bring us treasure from Grimnir, warriors of the Hrukvorn!' roared Ulli. 'Let us thank them!'</i><br />
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My fyreslayers continued rushing towards the centre. With the newly revealed artefact, and the choke point between the two ruins either side, I decided to commit my warriors to a full-blown clash in the centre of the battlefield.<br />
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I was unable again to find an artefact in the bottom-centre horde, and meanwhile had my auric hearthguard (who I had decided would remain near the bottom-centre horde) pepper the dire wolves with molten rock bolts.<br />
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I managed to win the roll-off this time, and took priority.<br />
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The grimwrath charged into the dire wolves at the centre, alongside his trusty hearthguard and a few of the vulkites. The grimwrath himself was wholly underwhelming here, failing to kill a single wolf. It is worth noting, however, that the dire wolves were doing phenomenally well with their saves, too.<br />
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However, the combined charge of the vulkites and the hearthguard proves too much for the dire wolves to withstand, and they slay the dogs to claim the centre artefact.<br />
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Still no artefact found at the bottom-centre hoard.<br />
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Josh runs one of his dire wolves over to the centre-left hoard in this turn in a bid to maximise his chances of finding another artefact, taking care to make sure the wolf remains outwith the 3" of the Cursed ruin (which has a chance to inflict mortal wounds on him). Despite having models within range of 3 of the remaining 4 hoards, nothing turns up.<br />
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<i>Just as Ulli bent down to retrieve the circlet laying in the earth, the hearthguard readied their poleaxes, whirling the braziers and shifting their stances in anticipation. Up ahead, the wight king strode forward, dark energy coalescing about him wherever he went. His hounds ran before him, howling and barking with all the savagery of living hunting hounds. The undead king drew his dark blade with a his and struck it against his shield in challenge.</i><br />
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<i>The wight broke into a charge, rushing straight for Ulli and his fyrd, and Ulli answered in turn.</i><br />
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<i>With a bestial roar, the Zangrom leaped into the air, his axe whirling about him and leaving fiery contrails in the air wherever it went. The wight drew close, and the axe came down. He brought up his shield to block, but underestimated the force of the blow, which knocked the shield down and crashed into the king's shoulder and brought him to his knees. Ulli landed ungracefully on his knees and the wight king stood back to his full height, his armour rent, his shield battered, and his bones broken. With a bass growl, Ulli leapt at the wight king once more with renewed fury, swinging his axe wildly at his foe. With dexterity that belied his appearance, the dead monarch, deftly blocked and parried the Zangrom's blows.</i><br />
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<i>Ulli's breath came in heavy rasps as he sought to recover from the flurry of blows he had delivered. As he heaved his axe up into an attacking stance once more, the wight king brought his black blade down upon the fyreslayer, he quickly blocked the blow with the haft of his weapon. The wight swung his shield around and clattered it off of the Zangrom's body, leaving little more than a bruise where the blow had landed.</i><br />
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<i>The two combatants staggered back to their feet and began circling one another again - the wight king cold and expressionless, the grimwrath grinning maniacally.</i><br />
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The wight king grossly under-performed here and whiffed all of his attacks, much to Josh's dismay (understandable considering how much of a powerhouse he was in the last game). My general managed to inflict a mighty 4 damage upon him, even with his 4+ save after rend and his 6+ death save. Despite managing to do so much damage, and weather so much myself, Josh was firmly in control of the centre ground at this stage with his superior numbers.<br />
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Once again, I won the priority roll and seized upon the opportunity to take the first turn of the round.<br />
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Here I had the remaining hearthguard and vulkites charge into the centre. The combined shooting of the fyresteel throwing axes and the magmapikes did little damage, but I did manage to pick off at least 1 or 2 wolves. The slingshields managed to pick up a wound here and there too. But it was the combined killing power of the grimwrath and the hearthguard that slew the wight king and the remainder of his minions in the centre.<br />
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Having lost their general, the remaining members of the undead warband were reduced to Bravery 5 and were at the mercy of battleshock. 4 models in total were lost to battleshock, leaving 2 models in total in Josh's warband.<br />
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In a last ditch effort, Josh had each of his remaining models search a hoard, but to no avail.<br />
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<b><u>Result: Order Major Victory</u></b><br />
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<i>Ulli spat upon the smoking ruins of the wight king's skull, having sent his soul howling back to Shyish. He returned his attention to the circlet the hounds had dug up, which the hearthguard were admiring amongst themselves, and greedily snatched it from the hands of the karl.</i><br />
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<i>He held it up to the light, giddly watching the rays of the dim sun playing along its contours.</i><br />
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<i>The Zangrom smirked.</i><br />
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<i>'Ur-gold,' he said.</i><br />
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I felt that I was truly able to take advantage of my warband's synergies in this game where I hadn't in Clash at Dawn due to the random deployment. This is one of the single most enjoyable battleplans I've played in Age of Sigmar let alone Skirmish. I really liked the risk-reward dichotomy - not knowing where and when an artefact could appear makes for an interesting game. I was quite fortunate that nothing appeared in Josh's half of the board, and this again underpins to me that I could perhaps use a few cavalry or flying units to extend my reach as and when needed. Treasure Hunt is an excellent battleplan to play if you like having to alter your strategy on the fly. Josh and I have even discussed the possibility of altering it for use in the mega battles we like to organise every so often.<br />
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On another note, it was nice to finally see the grimwrath come into his own. I've used him in a few games of varying sizes now and I was always a bit underwhelmed by him. He definitely seems very well suited to skirmish.Oberaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08738780927086759117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-66369703637950374052017-05-29T11:10:00.000-07:002017-05-29T11:10:31.020-07:00The Order of the Fiery Gate - Battle Report: Clash at Dawn<i>Though darkness concealed much of the horrors of Mount Dextrous from sight, the stink of the Questing Reek still assailed the senses. Ulli Zangrom - grimwrath of the Hrukvorn lodge - grimaced as he peered into the darkness and could only make out but a handful of the scouting party he had been given command of.</i><br />
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<i>'We're spread too thin...' whispered one of the hearthguard at the Zangrom's side. 'If we were to be ambushed here...'</i><br />
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<i>'Words are wind, flameling,' said Ulli in response. 'Keep those sorts of helpful observation to yourself.'</i><br />
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<i>The Zangrom cursed as he peered into the distance and could vaguely make out the glowing brazier from the vulkite karl's warpick disappear amongst a copse of dead trees. Just as he turned to speak to the fyreslayers following at his heels, a baleful, rasping howl filled the dead, pre-dawn air and was quickly followed by a chorus of hoarse barking. From within the ruins up ahead, a dim and unnatural light began to glow.</i><br />
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<i>'The dead are waking,' said the grimwrath, tightening his grip around the haft of his fyrestorm axe. 'Make for the woods. Those idiots are as good as dead if we don't get there in time.'</i><br />
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Having recently procured a copy of the new Skirmish book for Age of Sigmar, my friend Josh agreed to play a couple of games both to help me out as part of the campaign, and also out of personal interest as a long time fan of Mordheim and other similar systems. As the objective states that two linked games of Skirmish are required, it seemed fairly sensible to give the Shadespire campaign a whirl. With Josh playing Death and myself playing the Fyreslayers, we set about playing Clash of Dawn.<br />
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<i>Note - At the time of writing I realised that I had miscalculated my points and had a few more models on the field than I should have. This is something I will address for future games, of course! In the mean time, I hope you all still find these reports beneficial in some capacity - even if it is just as a demonstration of how Skirmish works!</i><br />
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For those who have not yet played, this scenario requires that the table (a 4' x 4' is recommended) be split into four quarters, numbered 1-4. During deployment, a dice is rolled for each individual model. The result determines which quarter they must be deployed in, with results of a 5 or 6 allowing the player to choose placement. The usual restriction of remaining 9" away from the enemy applies.<br />
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Fortunately, I was lucky enough to keep my Vulkites together, and the ended up in the forest deployed thusly:<br />
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I was not so fortunate with the majority of my hearthguard and my general, who ended up scattered throughout the various corners of the board.<br />
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Josh's grave guard and wight king ended up staring them down on the other side like this (you can just about make out the woods in the bottom left of the picture):<br />
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Josh's warband included a number of dire wolves which ended up scattered throughout the board, in addition to a few more grave guard he deployed inside buildings. It became immediately apparent where the bulk of the action would take place, however!<br />
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Josh finished deploying first, and so took priority for the first turn.<br />
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The wight king activated his Merciless Killer trait, adding +1 to wound to himself and friendly units within 6". Elsewhere on the board, the dire wolves and remaining grave guard began converging upon the berzerkers within the forest.<br />
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As expected, the Wight King and his band of undead miscreants immediately began slaying the defiant duardin:<br />
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As I recall, 2 fyreslayers were downed in this confrontation, meaning Josh only needed to kill 8 more to win. The vulkites performed rather underwhelmingly here, but did manage to remove a dire wolf and a grave guard or two:<br />
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Nevertheless, the held their ground in the battleshock phase.<br />
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Having pinned the wight king and his bodyguard in combat, I sought to bring Josh's army down the my auric hearthguard's respectable shooting. The other nearby pike-wielding fyreslayers advanced as far as they could to ensure they were well within the required 12" as shooting was curtailed in this turn by the pre-dawn darkness. Elsewhere, my stranded hearthguard and general began the slow trudge to the fray:<br />
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The auric hearthguard loosed their molten rockbolts into the undead, only slaying the grave guard standard bearer after he soaked up 4 of the 6 shots hurled at him.<br />
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Another vicious round of combat sees the forest once again grow emptier:<br />
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The wight king - who already has a phenomenal 3+ save - was utterly immovable in the forest which granted him a 2+ save. Though most of his warriors - excluding one surprisingly agile zombie! - were vanquished, he fought defiantly on, cleaving into the fyreslayers with ease.<br />
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I won the priority roll and so took the first turn in the next round.<br />
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Here I attempted to charge my general and accompanying hearthguard at the dire wolves making their way into the vulkite flank. The grimwrath failed his charge, but his two hearthguard rushed headlong at the undead hounds:<br />
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I managed to kill the last of Josh's grave guard in this turn, and I did shave off a wound here and there on his dire wolves, but they were proving a menace to deal with in this game being 2 wounds a piece and surprisingly numerous for something so tough and agile. My vulkites failed to wound the wight king once again.<br />
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The remainder of Josh's dire wolves charged into the fight to set about my vulkites. My hearthguard karl killed the wounded dire wolf in the centre of the field meaning that I had vanquished a sufficient number of Josh's warband to claim victory!<br />
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But another dire wolf killed him back!<br />
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<i>'Fall back, you idiots!' barked Ulli at his warriors as the dragged their wounded brethren from the field.</i><br />
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<i>The wight king - protected by his rotting pack of dogs - also appeared to be quitting the field. The creature glared across the ruins at the Zangrom and pointed his dark blade directly at him before defiantly drawing it across where his throat would once have been. He even seemed to throw back his head and cackle silently at the gesture.</i><br />
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<i>Ulli glowered back at the undead warrior, cracking his knuckles one by one as he did so.</i><br />
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<u><b>Summary</b></u><br />
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Having played The Lord of the Rings: Strategy Battle Game a few times, I felt that this was very similar - especially as Age of Sigmar also uses the similar Priority system. Skirmish also has me excited at the prospect of using some units and characters that ordinarily I perhaps would not have an application or use for in larger games and I will most certainly be looking into perhaps adding some faster units like Skywardens or Wild Riders for grabbing objectives and such.<br />
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This particular battleplan makes for a very short game. I also felt at quite a disadvantage as a Fyreslayer player here - I am quite reliant on synergies to make my army work, and the mediocre movement stats of my pure infantry warband meant that recovering from the random deployment was quite difficult.<br />
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On the other hand, Josh's very mobile army was able to recover very easily in this scenario and has me considering adding some sort of equivalent unit to my own warband. He very easily circumvented the random deployment issue and was able to quickly converge on the area where the bulk of the combat took place. At 2 renown per model, dire wolves are an absolute steal for what they can do in Skirmish games.<br />
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Clash at Dawn definitely underpins the need for versatility in a Skirmish warband, and it is definitely something I will have to consider going forward - particularly as I am in the habit of wanting to field as many fyreslayers as possible!<br />
<br />Oberaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08738780927086759117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-51904236414351027612017-05-29T04:19:00.000-07:002017-05-29T04:19:53.688-07:00Update for Judicator Squad KeystoneI realize that it's not a new model, but it's what I've been working on in May. I figured out how I was going to base my Stormcast and have been in the tedious process of removing them from the bases and then building the bases. Since these three squads were already finished paint-wise, I figured I'd start with their bases.<br />
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It's a pretty simple basing scheme. I bought a little roller from GreenStuffWorld and some air dry clay. Rolled out the clay onto each base and trimmed the excess, then left it to dry for a few days. After priming I just dry brushed celestra grey onto the brick parts and put gold on all the parts I wanted to be gold. Quick varnish to protect and blam, you have a finished base that looks like they're walking down the streets of Azyr.Praetorian452http://www.blogger.com/profile/12345358928936218138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-22261900258729124902017-05-16T09:24:00.001-07:002017-05-16T09:29:02.790-07:00Leviathan, Olrog Reveals his plan <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">"Yer right Bolg, but I can't have my best Boyz keep getting eaten by big flying lizards all da time when dey should be stomping oomies an stunties". Olrog realised he'd used too many words Bolg's eyes had glazed over and he'd taken to hitting a nearby tree with his Boss choppa. Olrog smirked to himself no danger of that one getting too ambitious or ambitious at all for that matter. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330669942512286583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-47565499938396006182017-05-16T00:29:00.001-07:002017-05-16T00:46:53.304-07:00May Monthly objectiveHi Guys sorry its a late monthly objective, but its a nice easy one this month anyway! So everyone should have a small little warband painted up now and now is the time to start your games and campaign in the Mortal Realms!<br />
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This month your objective is to play 2 linked games of Hinterlands or AoS Skirmish (should it drop in time), by linked games I mean, just continue the story or campaign over into the second game.<br />
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Good luck everyone. Loving the progress so farHobbyHammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18012845108034212184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-57745753887465792522017-05-12T10:44:00.002-07:002017-05-12T10:46:34.907-07:00The Order of the Fiery Gate - The Putrid Bog<div style="text-align: justify;">
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'The skyborne duardin based at Castle Neonatus appear to have been quiet for some time, though my men and I have made no attempt to communicate with them as of yet,' explained the Prosecutor Prime currently addressing the room.</div>
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'My men report having spotted a great horde amassing to the east bearing the mark of the Blood God, but they are yet some distance from where we are. Most troubling are the reports of Skaven activity within Mycelia.'</div>
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A great pillar of warpstone stood in the centre of the clearing, the land all about the unclean structure sick and deadened. Many of the skaven shrieked in fear as the fyreslayers charged into the clearing but were quickly goaded into ranks by the vicious creatures surrounding the green obelisk.</div>
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Once the creatures at the centre were satisfied that the orders they had barked would be seen to, they once again turned to the great shard at the centre of the verminous horde, raising their hands above their heads and gnashing their teeth in what appeared to be supplication to their god.</div>
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'The stone!' roared Ruadhar, who had been following up the rear of Folkvar's detachment. 'They're trying to charge the stone! Stop the bastards before it's too late!'</div>
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'You heard him, duardin! Into them!' roared Folkvar.</div>
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'What devilry is this?' spat Skjor as he lowered his standard, the berzerkers having rushed out of his reach.</div>
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'There's no sorcery at work here, flameling,' grumbled Ruadhar, desperately looking for the ideal spot to open the earth up from underneath the skaven. 'Tis but the nature of this world. Look.'</div>
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At that very moment, a vulkite was skewered upon a rusty spear. The assailant drew his weapon out from the guts of his victim and turned to rejoin the battle, only to have his skull caved in with a warpick. The unfortunate vulkite slumped to his knees, his slingshield and warpick hanging loosely in his hands. As he began to topple back, a shimmer of light shot up from the earth and up through the duardin's body. With a shake of his head that sent his crest flapping to and fro, the young fyreslayer leapt back to his feat and charged back into the fray.</div>
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'The air is thick with the essence of life,' said Ruadhar. 'And it seems this place is indiscriminate with its gifts...'</div>
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Raising his grandaxe high in the air, Folkvar kicked his heels into Brim's flanks and the two entered into a charge. Duardin and mount hurtled forward into the heart of the skaven ranks, straight for the stormvermin protecting the cabal at the centre of the army. Just as he drew back his weapon to take his first swing at the creatures scrambling towards them, Folkvar felt Brim lurch to one side and was almost thrown from the magmadroth's back.</div>
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He glanced down at the earth below them. The corrupting influence of the skaven's warpshard was beginning to tell and was turning the land beneath them to a poisonous bog. Brim roared in frustration as he fought to free his legs from the greenish soup he had become mired in. The stormvermin scrambled over the magmadorth's body, stabbing at the beast with their vicious halberds. Folkvar fumed at the skaven, swinging his grandaxe in great arcs but failing to land a single blow as the frenzied creatures leapt clear of the runefather's weapon.</div>
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Brim's roars of frustration turned to roars of agony as his volcanic blood seeped out into the earth. With his foes pressed so close about him, Folkvar could not swing his axe and so was pushed from the saddle. Bleeding from a hundred cuts, the runefather continued to roar his defiance, pushing his foes back with the haft of his axe as he fought his way back to protect his steed and friend. His hands slick with sweat and blood, his grandaxe slipped from his grip and he resorted to fighting off blows with his arms. Were it not for the essence of his god flowing through his veins, his limbs would have been cut to ribbons. As it was, Folkvar fought back with all he could as he also was sucked into the bog. And as quickly as he had been set upon by them, the stormvermin ran off to join some other fray - white spittle frothing and their filthy mouths, halberds slick with the blood of both duardin and magmadroth.</div>
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Folkvar saw his axe glisten a few feet in front of him and shambled through the bog to rescue it from oblivion. Using the weapon as a walking stick, he trudged through the filth covered in mud and blood towards where Brim lay. The creature's fire had cooled to a dim blue and his breaths were short and shallow. He lay his free hand upon the creature's side and pressed his forehead to the scales, savouring the dwindling heat emanating from the noble beast.</div>
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Ruadhar scowled as the obelisk at the centre began to give off energy in wild green arcs, the skaven cackling gleefully as the land around them slipped into a still greater state of ruin. The Runemaster slammed his staff angrily into the earth, just as Hakon arrived with Folkvar's hearthguard in tow.</div>
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<i>Always to be found in the thickest of the fighting, the mob known as "Gut Rippa's Maniaks" are the embodiment of GorkaMorka's "Brutal, but Kunnin'" nature. Long ago having dispensed with such things as "taktiks", the Maniaks charge headlong into the foe, hacking and slashing with wild abandon. </i><br />
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<i>Seen as insane by the other members Fire Skullz tribe (which is saying something for Orruks) the Maniaks often bite off more than they can chew which has resulted in the mob shrinking from dozens of members, to only the handful observed since Groin Kikka's return to the mortal realms.</i><br />
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Just made it this month! Real life (and Elder Scrolls Online) have cut deeply into my hobby time, but I was able to pump these guys out. I really love this kit and they were really fun to paint, though I wish the kits were better for conversions and kit bashes.<br />
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<i>The Grongundi - the Anvil Keepers - gave a triumphant roar as they rushed out of the tunnel that the Runesmiter had bored into the earth. The air was filled with streaks of molten rock as they set their magmapikes to action, and it was not long before the bodies of the undead invaders were set ablaze and sent leaping from the gatehouse to their final resting places.</i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330669942512286583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-74472855095765810812017-04-24T03:30:00.002-07:002017-04-27T16:38:53.965-07:00Judicator Squad Keystone<span style="color: white;"><i>When the Stormcast are in battle you need not look farther than at the center of the line to find Judicator squad Keystone. Since even before the Aelves went their separate way, Keystone has always been the strong anchor for the rest of the line, silently putting Skybolt arrows where the enemy are pushing the hardest. Lead by Judicator Prime Mazeon Keystone, they have been the constant that has saved more of their brothers from reforging than any other factor.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">For April's bonus objective I decided to paint up my Judicator squad. I followed Duncan's how to paint stormcast video because I really like that paint scheme. Also Duncan does many steps in there that I haven't done before, lost of shading and highlighting. I wanted to up my painting game so I tried to follow his example very closely. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">These are all done save for the bases. I am planning on rebasing my whole army, and the bases need to be made separately. It's gonna be my next job, but it will take me a while.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed spaced his Brutes across the board and put his Warchanter in the middle. I put the shield Liberators on the left, Azyros in the center, and the Relictor and Grandblade on the right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed took first turn as he finished deploying first. He moved up as far as he could managing to grab an objective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed got initiative and moved his Brute with the objective back towards his board edge. He moved the Brute on the outside up toward the objective in front of him. The Warchanter and other brute moved to the base of the rock formation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I used my turn to try to push hard. I moved the Azyros up to the top of the rocks in front of the Warchanter. The Lord-Relictor and Grandblade Liberator moved toward the lone brute. The other two Liberators took the two objectives on the opposite side from the lone Brute.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Azyros made a bold move then and charged the Warchanter. He only managed to deal one wound to the Chanter. The Chanter fought back but also only managed to output one wound, and the Brute got pulled into the combat with the Azyros. The Brute was able to finish off the Azyros, leaving the two scroll pieces he was carrying right next to the Orruks. The Relictor and Grandblade charged the lone Brute. The Brute hit the Relictor hard and brought him down to one wound. The Relictor and Grandblade struck back and the Liberator was able to finish the Brute off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed got the initiative and took the opportunity to grab the two objectives that my Azyros dropped. While the Warchanter was doing that the Brute with him started to head toward the two Liberators.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was able to move my Relictor and Grandblade up to charge distance from the Warchanter, while the other two Liberators moved back to stay away from the angry looking Brute coming for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed pulled off the initiative and started moving his brutes back up to engage the Relictor and Liberators. They charged the Relictor and managed to kill him. The Grandblade got pulled into combat and killed one of the Brutes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the death of the Brutes I held all of the pieces of the scroll. I rolled to find the artifact but did not find it, so I get +1 to my artifact roll next time we play the scenario. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed chose to restart his warband. He figured that having only 4 models was not the most efficient size.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Liberator Oses looked around. His brother liberators had gathered the last of the scroll fragments and were searching the Greenskin bodies for any valuable information. With the deaths of the Lord-Relictor and Knight-Azyros it was up to him to get the rest of the band back to Azyr.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The other two Liberators looked up from their work and nodded, showing Oses a deferencial attitude that they had not had before the battle. He would get them back to the rest of their brothers, they deserved that much from him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The only reason he had agreed to this march was because Lord Veritant Neel had said he could sense a powerful wizard with the Ironjaws force. In his former life he had been a very effective witch hunter, so his word was more valuable to Harduoin than an Elf’s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed and I met up for a game night and decided to get a 2000 point game in. Ed brought his freshly painted Maw Krusha to take on my Stormcast which has some new additions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I started my turn with Lord of the Host to give the anti-battle shock bubble. I then attempted to use the Relictor’s Blessed weapons on the 10 man hammers, it didn’t go off. I then started moving forward. With nothing to contend with on my right flank I ran the 5 man Liberators and Lord-Veritant up to try to get the objective on that side. I moved the Judicators on the same flank fully into cover and to hopefully start putting fire into Orruks. I used the Hammerstrike ability to bring the Retributors, putting them in a good position to charge the Brutes in the middle of the board. I put the shots front he Judicators into the Brutes, causing no wounds. I then tried to use the Celestant’s stormbreath on the brutes as well, again causing no damage. I also tried using the Azyros’ Star Fated Arrow ability on the Warboss on Maw Krusha, missing fantastically and also forgetting to use the Star Eagle’s ranged attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was time to risk everything. Calling out to Knight Vexillor Darthos, “Call up a storm, brother! We need to get Venator Seamus out of combat and behind their lines.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed won initiative and used it to his full advantage. He moved the Maw Krusha up to to get a good position to charge the Retributors. He also moved the ‘Ard Boys up to charge the Sword Liberators and moved the regular Warboss up to take the objective on the left flank. He then moved onto the charge phase where he charged the Sword Liberators with the ‘Ard Boys and the Retributors with the Maw Krusha. Upon completing the charge into the Retributors, his Maw Krusha’s crushing weight took down 3 of remaining Retributors and finished him off with the remaining attacks from the Warboss riding the Krusha. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed activated the Brutes next and wiped out the Hammer Liberators. I activated the Sword Liberators and managed to kill two ‘Ard Boys. The ‘Ard Boys fought back and killed one Liberator and wounded another. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I started my turn I decided to take some gambles. I used the Knight-Vexillor’s Pennant of the Stormbringer to catapult the Knight-Venator out of combat and behind the ‘Ard Boys and 9” away from the Warboss on foot. I then used the Lord-Relictor’s Blessed Weapons to Bless the Lord-Celestant’s Tempestuous Hammer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During my movement phase I moved the Lords Celestant and Relictor up to get a charge off on the Brutes. I moved the 5 man Liberators, Prosecutors and Lord-Veritant up to try to get a charge on the Maw Krusha. I also brought the Protectors in from the Celestial realm, 6” from the Prosecutors and 9” from the Krusha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In my shooting phase I was as aggressive as I could be. I attempted to use my stormbreath from the Celestant on the Krusha and the Brutes, but it failed to hit either of them. I then fired the Judicators bows into the Krusha, hitting with all the bows, but only securing one unsaved wound. The Prosecutors threw their hammers at the Krusha as well, again with little success. The Knight-Venator attempted to shoot it’s regular shooting attacks at the Warboss on foot and was unable to produce a wound to even be saved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Ed’s movement, he moved thus: the Warboss moved to 3” away from the Knight-Venator and the Maw Krusha jumped over my lines to be 3” away from the back of the Lord-Celestant. He then charged the Celestant, made the charge, and with his Crushing Weight thingy did enough mortal wounds to the Celestant to finish him off. Having killed him he was then able to use the special ability which allows him to charge again if he killed all the units within 3” of his combat, so he charged the Lord-Relictor. Upon the charge he caused 5 mortal wounds, killing the Relictor instantly. This left him able to do the recharge again, this time into the Knight-Vexillor. The crushing weight claimed another hero dealing enough mortal wounds to kill him. He then used the ability one last time and charged the 5 man Liberator squad that was nearby. He only managed to kill two of the Liberators with the Crushing Weight thing though which ended the rampage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the rampage over we moved on to the rest of the Combat phase. The Warboss on foot got into combat with the Venator and (having taken a sip of his battle brew earlier) Killed him right off. The Hammer Liberators managed to take another wound off the Maw Krusha before he pounded them into lightning. The last two Sword Liberators managed to kill one more ‘Ard Boy before losing one to the Boys weapons and later the other to Battleshock. The only other unit that fought was the Judicators. During its charge into the Liberators the Maw Krusha came within 3” of the Judicators, so they piled in and attacked it. They did no damage but they did do one important thing, they locked it down in combat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the beginning of this turn neither of us was holding an objective. As it stood the score was Ed-1 and myself-2. I only had one hero left and most of an army to contend with. After discussing it we decided that if I could get the initiative on this turn we’d call it a draw. I would be able to get my Lord-Veritant back onto the objective and set up the rest of my army to screen him and keep him safe. Ed would have taken the other two objectives and it would have ended up being 3 each. If I didn’t get the initiative then he’d just sweep in and kill my hero and secure the win.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Praetorian452: Minor Loss</span></span>Praetorian452http://www.blogger.com/profile/12345358928936218138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-39736387567658943822017-04-10T13:17:00.001-07:002017-04-11T05:45:33.936-07:00Skaven Tourney Report (Game three vs. Jason Vargas' Bloodbound)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello Everyone,<br />
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I was able to make it to a 2000 point tourney up in the Twin Cities this last Saturday and had three great games with three great opponents. I will try to recount my adventures below. I would love to hear any thoughts or questions you might have so leave a comment below!<br />
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My list:<br />
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Verminlord Warbringer - General, Chaos Talisman, Cunning Deceiver<br />
Deathmaster Snikch<br />
Skaven Warlord (counts as Queek!)<br />
Plague Priest w Censer<br />
Warlock Engineer<br />
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40 Clan rats<br />
30 Clan rats<br />
10 Clan rats<br />
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10 Stormvermin<br />
6 Giant rats<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
ratling gun<br />
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Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
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Verminus Clawpack<br />
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The idea is to force my opponents to come to me with the Cannons then get in a big scrap in the middle with buffed up big blocks of clanrats. While everything is locked together I can rain short range death on them with the warpfire throwers, plague priest, ratling gun, etc. One buffed up clanrat unit with death frenzy, a warlord buff, and a warbringer command ability buff is no joke!<br />
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Jason has a bloodbound list with a formation that buffs his 3x10 blood reavers. He has 2 korgoraths, 2 bloosecrators, a stoker, a Chaos Lord on mount, 10 blood warriors, 10 chaos knights, a slaughterpriest, and 10 wrathmongers.<br />
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The scenario has each player placing two objective markers in his opponents deployment area. If at the end of your turn you control an objective in the opponents deployment area (the ones you placed) you get two points, if you control the ones in your zone you get one point. You win a major if you have three more points than your opponent. Secondary objectives include killing more enemy heroes and controlling both far objectives at once.<br />
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I have heard that Bloodbound do not like being split up so I put my two objectives (yellow poker chips) on the very far edges of the table. He placed his more or less centrally in my area. He deployed centrally and I overloaded my right side to try to reach that far objective. The central objective he placed was right by a ruin so I placed 30 clanrats inside which was very defensible.<br />
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On his turn one he advances across the table at a steady rate.<br />
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On my turn I buff up my 40 clanrats and charge headlong into the 10 chaos knights. Between spells, some shooting and a TON of rusty blade attacks I wipe out the unit through battle shock! I was rolling out of the box and pulled them down through sheer volume of attacks. Again Death Frenzy was a great boon as it pulled down a few knights after they attacked back. Jason was definitely caught off guard by this and diverted the rest of his force to take out these blood crazed little rats!<br />
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Before the charge...<br />
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And after!<br />
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On the opposite side of the board I had my 6 giant rats and 10 clanrats facing off against 2 korgoraths. Not exactly a fair fight!! I did succeed in pulling these beasties off of their own objective. The strategic value of a hidden Snikch was seen here as Jason thought that he was in one of those units so was wary to engage them too early.<br />
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Back on the other side of the table Jason had swung his force to meet my big unit. He whips and sends in the Blood Warriors but I surprise him and reveal Deathmaster Snikch who chops one of them in half! He also sends in 10 reavers.<br />
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This battle is one of the longest and funniest you can have in Age of Sigmar as both sides get to swing at each other when they die so we would have these ridiculous chains of death attacks that needed to be resolved after every basic attack. What a bunch of death crazed maniacs! Also the poor reavers are outmatched by the lowly clanrats and go down without swinging. It is hard to believe they dont have a save at all!<br />
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And after. There are a lot less bodies out there.<br />
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In the remaining turns I am able to get my remaining clanrats out of combat and over to take one of the far objectives which gives me the major win since I kept him from scoring his own objectives in the first few turns. My Verminlord Warbringer makes it in against the Wrathmongers but punches himself in the face and gets taken down as does Snikch. On the far side of the table the korgoraths continue to beat up on the poor lowly clanrats who flee off the board. <br />
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Take that!<br />
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Uh oh! I was just kidding!<br />
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This Warbringer got warbrought!<br />
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Not a lot happened in the center of the board except his Chaos Lord charging across and almost killing a warp lightning cannon only to be taken down by Stormvermin in the next round<br />
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Between my crazy great rolling in the initial turns and the need of the Bloodbound to direct their efforts in multiple directions I was able to pull off a big win. I managed to kill 3 of Jason's heroes and he killed 2 of mine back so I got my secondary objective as well although I did not get the tertiary of hold both of my opponents at once (not getting past mount korgorath).<br />
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With this realtively big win I was leapfrogged past the other top tables to receive second place overall! Afterwards, we went out for some awesome food and got to hang out for a bit before heading home. I had a great time and Patrick Brynildson at the Source was a great TO. Awesome to see everybody! If you have any thoughts or questions please let me know! </div>
Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-38983346596942491332017-04-10T12:45:00.001-07:002017-04-11T05:44:39.993-07:00Skaven Tourney Report (Game two vs. Ironjawz)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello Everyone,<br />
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I was able to make it to a 2000 point tourney up in the Twin Cities this last Saturday and had three great games with three great opponents. I will try to recount my adventures below. I would love to hear any thoughts or questions you might have so leave a comment below!<br />
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My list:<br />
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Verminlord Warbringer - General, Chaos Talisman, Cunning Deceiver<br />
Deathmaster Snikch<br />
Skaven Warlord (counts as Queek!)<br />
Plague Priest w Censer<br />
Warlock Engineer<br />
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40 Clan rats<br />
30 Clan rats<br />
10 Clan rats<br />
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10 Stormvermin<br />
6 Giant rats<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
ratling gun<br />
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Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
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Verminus Clawpack<br />
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The idea is to force my opponents to come to me with the Cannons then get in a big scrap in the middle with buffed up big blocks of clanrats. While everything is locked together I can rain short range death on them with the warpfire throwers, plague priest, ratling gun, etc. One buffed up clanrat unit with death frenzy, a warlord buff, and a warbringer command ability buff is no joke!<br />
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My opponent for this game brought a pretty standard Ironjawz force with an Ironfist battalion. He has a 10, 5, and 5 of brutes, 10 ardboys, 2x3 gruntas, a mawcrusha, chanter, wizard, and foot boss.<br />
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The scenario is to kill more of the opponent than they kill of you with a twist. All battleline units can re-enter the board after being killed! Secondary objectives are to collectively kill over 2000 points of stuff throughout the game and to hold three objectives along the center line with heroes. This board is interesting as it has a huge piece of deadly scenery in the middle of the board. This is the shifting sands table that Herner brought from his Holy Wars collection and is the signature table of this tourney!<br />
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I deploy centrally and my opponent goes for a strong push on my right flank. He is wary of taking on the Warp Lightning Cannons head on and starts making has way around my flank.<br />
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He spots my 10 stormvermin holding down my extreme right flank and gets off a foot of Gork that passes the 4+ to keep going over and over again killing all 10! (Foot kill count: 10 Stormvermin)<br />
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Over the next two turns he crashes into my 40 strong and fully buffed clanrat unit with gruntas and brutes with each side wiping the other out only to come back on the table the following turn (and in our case they return to the exact same spots to do it all over again)!<br />
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At one point I have a really safe wall of 30 clanrats up to hold the line but that Weirdnob comes up and drops another Foot of Gork down. He rolls so many 4+ that my head is spinning. By the time it is all over he does 20 mortal wounds to the unit!!! (Foot kill count: 10 Stormvermin, 20 clanrats)<br />
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In the closing turns he gets off another Foot of Gork, this time targeting my Verminlord Warbringer. He again rolls a series of 4+ rolls and I fail all my chaos talisman rolls which equals a very big but very squished rat demon.(Foot kill count: 10 Stormvermin, 20 clanrats, 1 Verminlord)<br />
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In the end I am able to hold back the green tide just long enough to secure a minor victory and I also get both of the minor objectives. In the end I think I killed something like 35 brutes and he killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 clanrats, what a bloodbath! That weirdnob shaman was incredible! In three castings he killed 660 points doing over 42 mortal wounds! I am lucky my clanrats are so cheap as this allowed me to absorb a lot of his punch and let my support units hit back against the brutes.<br />
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Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-24791767472534170822017-04-10T12:08:00.000-07:002017-04-11T05:44:14.766-07:00Skaven Tourney Report (Game One vs Steve Herner's Skaven)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello Everyone,<br />
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I was able to make it to a 2000 point tourney up in the Twin Cities this last Saturday and had three great games with three great opponents. I will try to recount my adventures below. I would love to hear any thoughts or questions you might have so leave a comment below!<br />
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My list:<br />
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Verminlord Warbringer - General, Chaos Talisman, Cunning Deceiver<br />
Deathmaster Snikch<br />
Skaven Warlord (counts as Queek!)<br />
Plague Priest w Censer<br />
Warlock Engineer<br />
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40 Clan rats<br />
30 Clan rats<br />
10 Clan rats<br />
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10 Stormvermin<br />
6 Giant rats<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
warpfire thrower<br />
ratling gun<br />
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Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
Warp Lightning Cannon<br />
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Verminus Clawpack<br />
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The idea is to force my opponents to come to me with the Cannons then get in a big scrap in the middle with buffed up big blocks of clanrats. While everything is locked together I can rain short range death on them with the warpfire throwers, plague priest, ratling gun, etc. One buffed up clanrat unit with death frenzy, a warlord buff, and a warbringer command ability buff is no joke!<br />
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Game One: My Skaven vs. Stephen Herner's Skaven<br />
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A Skaven off! I have been attending Steve's amazing Holy Wars tournaments for the past few years but never had the chance to play him. We get matched up round one and I see that we are running very similar lists with a few differences (3 WLCannons, 3x20 clanrats, 30 stormvermin, only warlord and warbringer for characters). His army is beautiful and won best painted for the tournament. All of his rats have been heavily converted with puffy sleeves and jaunty hats!<br />
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The scenario has us searching 3 midtable objectives with our heroes for a hat, The first token searched the hat is found on a 5+, if not there the 2nd token finds it on a 4+, if not found under token 1 or 2 it is automatically under the third. A hero within 3 inches is allowed to search during the hero phase and then carries it with them until killed. Secondary objectives include controlling table quarters and getting a unit to exit the opponent's table edge.<br />
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We set up warily eyeing each others warp lightning cannons (there are a total of 5 on the board!) so we dance around each other for a bit. He gets some good rolls to snipe out both of my cannons with his while I only snipe one in return (although I am able to charge and kill a second).<br />
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A notable battle took place between my big block of 40 clanrats and his 30 Stormvermin. His Sotrmvermin had the Warbringer buff on them but my clanrats had all the buffs up. This meant that we took great big chunks out of each others' units. Death frenzy was great for this and racked up quite a tally of kills.<br />
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The big scrum begins...<br />
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The bloodbath aftermath!<br />
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With the giant combat winding down and most of the cannons eliminated our characters start heading towards the objectives, our small units start trying to make it to the opposite table edge, and we start looking to consolidate our table quarters. A notable but short-lived battle occurs when Steve charges his doomflayer into my clanrats only to find Deathmaster Snikch waiting for him! Snikch makes short work of the rolling abattoir making us wait until another day to see what the little machine can do!<br />
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In the closing turns our characters reach the objectives. A few of the smaller battles finish playing out, and on the last turn I make the first roll to check for the hat with my Warbringer and roll the 5+! I majorly lucked out with this roll and retreat with the hat to win the game. Steve and I both accomplish the secondary objectives and if not for me rolling that 5+ Steve would have made it out with the hat and the big win instead!<br />
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Great game with lots of dead rat bodies all over the place. As you can see the board is a lot emptier than it was when we started!<br />
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Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-16797079010502178652017-04-05T11:38:00.000-07:002017-04-06T00:47:06.285-07:00Adepticon Vanguard Game 2 Skaven vs GW's Pete Foley <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After my rats took home a big win in game one I was matched up against Games Workshop Design Studio's own Pete Foley!<br />
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Here is my army list for the tournament:<br />
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Verminlord Warpseer - General with Chaos Talisman and Cunning Deceiver<br />
Deathmaster Snikch - nuff said<br />
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10 clanrats with rusty blades<br />
30 clanrats with rusty blades<br />
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1 ratling gun<br />
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3 stormfiends with warpfire projectors - yeah yeah, i know<br />
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Pete was running a very hard and tough Tzeentch demons army with 2 Lords of Change, 20 pink horrors, and a summoning pool of enough blue and brimstones to almost cover all the pink horror splitting abilities. This army was very well painted and it was great to see the new big birds on the table.<br />
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The scenario was quite unique. Each player placed two objectives anywhere on the map but not within 12 inches of each other. For deployment there were no player territories. Instead, each player deployed a unit at a time, touching bases to base with at least two other models in the unit, anywhere on the board at least 9 inches away from the opponent. The trick though is that no one can move in the movement phase of the first turn. This can lead to both armies mixed up all over the board but for our game Pete set up defensively around his two objectives and I deployed in a big net around him. You score points by having the most bodies on an objective at the end of each of your turns<br />
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Pete rolls his 9 destiny/fate dice and all I see is a sea of 6s. I think he rolled 4 or 5 6s and had several others that were 4s or 5s. This is a great start for Pete and might mean an uphill battle for my whiskered friends.<br />
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Since Pete had less units he chose to go first. His first act was to summon in his second lord of change. Between his hero phase and shooting he was able to bring my Verminlord down to something like 3 wounds left and killed about half of my big clarat block. but everything in his force stayed put.<br />
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On my turn I was completely shut down in the magic phase (which is a shame since my wizard is pretty sweet) thanks to that sweet Tzeentch magic skills. I was, however, able to chuck my orb at one of the birds and get a charge off with my clanrats into some of his horrors holding one of the objectives. This is when I reveal Deathmaster Snikch! He hops out of the clanrats and scoots over to deliver the coup de grace against the (mortally wounded) Lord of Change!<br />
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Interestingly I chose not to attack with my clanrats at all because I had a few more clanrats than he had horrors on the objective. If I had attacked he could have split them into blue horrors and taken back control. The gambit paid off due to him not killing any of my clanrats so I was able to wrestle away his objective this turn!<br />
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I believe Pete gets the next turn which leads to us saying goodbye to the Verminlord, though he did some damage before leaving the table. He is able to take back his objective by shooting up the clanrats which brings it back to each of us holding two objectives but I am a few points up. He doesnt really want to come out after my stormfiends and ratling cannon and I dont really have the strength to come after his Lord of Change. Snikch survives thanks to his cloak not allowing anyone to target him unless they are within 6 inches. He is a great character for the Skaven and I am surprised he is not in many lists.<br />
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On my turn I blow up a unit of pink horrors that turn into blue horrors with my stormfiends and plink away a few of the pinks in the first unit. Pete does a great manuever by summoning the blues off this unit in a long line to contest one of my objectives. Very well done!<br />
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I think I get the double turn and run Snikch into the other Lord of Change but he gets taken out in the end. The stnadoff ends in Pete's turn as he trieds to run out his Lord of Change in a last ditch effort to win the game. I am few poonts up on him and he needs to kill both my ratling cannon and my stormfiends. Alas, my ratling crew live charmed lives as I make two 6+ saves out of three to keep them on the table and holding the objective!<br />
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In the end I won but did not achieve my secondary objectives. Pete was a great opponent and ran a great list. I think this scenario was tough for him as I started so close and his army is better suited to stand off and delay. He did have a strong ability to hold onto his objectives with the horrors which caused me to scratch my head on how to get rid of them without just giving him more bodies! Those fate dice had me worried at first but with the early pressure from the Deathmaster I was able to draw a lot of them out for armor saves on his big birds. Rats of the match are definitely Snikch and the lucky ratling gun crew!</div>
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At the end of this gae I have two victories and end up on table 3 vs Jesse's Ironjawz. Before the game Alex Gonzalez approaches us and asks us to be on Warhammer TV! This is very exciting and I am hoping I can grab a few screen shots to post up a decent battle report here. </div>
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Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-56730587146003993502017-04-05T11:37:00.000-07:002017-04-06T00:46:58.371-07:00The Vermin March on Adepticon (and onto Warhammer TV)!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I want to share some of my ratty adventures at Adepticon through a few battle reports.<br />
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I only played in a three game vanguard tournament (1000 points) and I only really have pictures from the first two games as the third game was actually on Warhammer TV!<br />
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My list was based on the fact that I did not have enough bases to put my rats on to get a true horde so I had to rely on some bigger models to fill out my force. Here it is:<br />
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Verminlord Warpseer - General with Chaos Talisman and Cunning Deceiver<br />
Deathmaster Snikch - nuff said<br />
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10 clanrats with rusty blades<br />
30 clanrats with rusty blades<br />
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1 ratling gun<br />
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3 stormfiends with warpfire projectors - yeah yeah, i know<br />
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In my first game I ran up against a mixed chaos demon list with 10 pink horrors, 10 plague bearers, a Great Unclean One, 10 Flesh Hounds and a soul grinder. There may have been another unit that I am forgetting but it didnt really affect anything.<br />
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The first thing I noticed is that he had demons from several Chaos gods which meant he didnt have a lot of the regular synergies you might expect normally. The mission was to claim four points on the board, two in each deployment zone. If you could hold all four at once you win. <br />
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We both deployed centrally on the board. I had a little unit of 10 clanrats holding an objective in the woods on one side (facing off against the 10 flesh hounds) and the rest of my army on the other side on a big hill (hills gave cover in this tournament) facing the rest of his army. <br />
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My opponent comes marching towards me with his soul grinder in the lead. Some shots are fired back and forth but nothing too major happens turn one.<br />
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On my turn, i readjust my lines with the stormfiends actually leaving the hill to go take care of the flesh hounds that had charged my ratling gun but failed to kill it (they only had one hound that could reach me to attack).<br />
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With two of his big hitters out of the picture he was forced to keep throwing units into the fray. On my turn I dropped the verminlords orb on the plague bearers (causes 6 mortal wounds on slow units) and hit the GUO with warpfire throwers. Also Deathmaster Snikch makes an appearance and aces the (mortally wounded) GUO! Go Deathmaster!<br />
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At this point he does not have much left. I am able to retreat out of combat with his pink horrors with the Verminlord to capture the 4th objective (my little 10 clanrat unit made it to the other one) which instantly won me the game!<br />
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Ultimately the fact that his army did not have strong synergy and that he sent his units in one by one caused me to get the big win. I like the way my army can absorb a lot of damage and has just enough ranged punch to force the opponent to come to me.<br />
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Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-1120814575498755982017-04-05T08:16:00.000-07:002017-04-06T00:46:47.250-07:00The Verminus Muster Begins!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have completed my first round of battleline units for my Verminus themed pure Skaven force. The Verminus clan grouping includes all your basic clanrats, stormvermin, and warlords so focuses on getting a lot of fighty (and not terribly fighty) bodies on the table. There is a decent amount of synergy and a few tricks within this alignment so I am hoping for some reasonable amount of success on the battlefield.<br />
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Without further delay here are my first claws (Skaven for units):<br />
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First up is Claw Skitters led by the fearsome well...Skitters I guess! This is a unit of 10 clanrats with rusty blades (cause it'll hurt more!) and clan shields (like regular shields but worse)<br />
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And just in case you thought I was being sneaky and just repositioning the same ten clanrats here is a group shot. Together they for Paw Scitter-Scab-Scratch!</div>
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Adam Trunzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02117823908341131944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-32837617148156332702017-04-05T01:15:00.001-07:002017-04-06T01:08:34.933-07:00Current Standings! and April Monthly ObjectiveCongratulations on all those who completed the monthly objective for March, you have now entered Mount Dextros region which is where the real campaign is taking place.<br />
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But let us see who is winning in what area at the moment. First of all the Overview map looks like this..<br />
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Folkvar looked down at the realmgate he had stepped through with the Black Wardens when he had first come to Aqshy. He watched as the fyreslayers changed guard with their brethren, allowing those that had stood sentinel over the portal to Shyish to take their respite for the night. The recently dismissed Auric Hearthguard eyed the foreign duardin suspiciously as the passed by with their magmapikes slung over their shoulders.<br />
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Folkvar turned to see the Runemaster trudging down the stairs towards him. Ruadhar slung his staff over his shoulder in much the same way as his Aurics did. To him, it was a symbol of office and a weapon - he still carried himself with the vigour of a much younger duardin.<br />
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'Come to proselytise to me again, gnollengrom?' replied Folkvar with a weary grin.<br />
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'You are a warrior,' said Ruadhar as he sat himself down next to the young duardin. 'You have also led before. I see much of Grimnir within you, but I am zharrgrim. I see Grimnir where others do not.'<br />
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'Your coming here was foretold. I saw it in the flames, and I believe it. That same bitter refusal to die - to give up - brought you to this world. That same fury and stubbornness of Grimnir. So, if you really think about it, it is Grimnir that sent you here after all.<br />
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'I do,' said Folkvar, his voice sounding weak and hoarse to himself.</div>
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'I am Folkvar, son of Hroki of the Hrukvorn clan, called the Daemonbane and the Lord of Ashes.'</div>
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'Approach the anvil, Folkvar Hrokisson.'</div>
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'Grimnir tests us with pain, and rewards us with fire,' boomed Ruadhar as he pressed the rune into Folkvar's back.</div>
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Folkvar hissed and gritted his teeth, clutching at the anvil.</div>
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Folkvar's world span as Ruadhar's hammer struck, the pain intensifying ten times over. He gripped the anvil tighter, suddenly becoming aware of an agonising roar. The hammer struck again and again, heat surging through his entire body with every strike until he felt the heat and the pain suffuse with his very being.</div>
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The aetheric winds had changed. Whether that was for good or ill mattered not, only that they had changed. Their change was the herald he needed to take his people out of hiding.<br />
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Sea Elf Prince Tarkin had hidden his people away from the ravages of Chaos for more years than he cared to count. At his order the storms that wracked the seas surrounding their island had been stoked into a raging tempest that none save a Sea Elf could navigate. His duty now was to lead his forces into the unknown beyond their storms and confront a changed world.<br />
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Prince Tarkin was scouting ahead of the army, riding his trusty gryphon Motyph, when he spotted a desperate battle in the distance. Flying closer he saw warriors in golden armor beset upon all sides by a seemingly endless tide of chaos worshipers. It appeared that the golden warriors had been pushing for a nearby relmgate when they were ambushed by the chaos warriors.<br />
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Praetorian452http://www.blogger.com/profile/12345358928936218138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983818676902774035.post-58961748698180560032017-03-29T09:31:00.001-07:002017-03-30T00:52:05.611-07:00Olrog Transformed<br />
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Since his transformation Olrog has set his mind on conquering the Great Green Torc as a staging post for his campaign to subjugate the Realms. The abundant life energy provides a perfect environment for apex predators to thrive which gives the Orruks plenty of sport and boosts their already awesome resilience. This is just a bonus however what Olrog really wants is the wealth of natural resources the Torc boasts. Resources he intends to plunder to fuel his Waaagh by manufacturing a mighty war machine to crush his foes. Malevolent as only a Waaagh crazed Orruk can be Olrog has not forgotten the wrongs done to him by the Amber Mage Thyios and control of the Torc's Realmgates will aid the hunt for his Nemesis.<br />
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