Sorry I have been busy and haven’t checked the forums much.
It was a great tournament and I didn’t expect to do so well because it was an uncomped event and I knew there was going to be some serious filth there. I normally us this list in a comp’d environment and it performs quite well I think it’s a 10 on the Swedish comp.
I don’t run a BSB in my centaur lists because he is never where he’s needed most, which is around the bull centaur units. This is why I have a prophet on a carpet. Leadership 10 where I need it just saves me so many times. The prophet is normally safe due to his 4++ and the look out sir roll he gets for being within 3 inches on infantry models. Also he’s a little hard to snipe out with a cannon due to his small base and how quickly he can zip behind cannon stopping terrain. His T5 and 2+ armor make him immune to most magic missiles and ballistic shooting and the lore of death makes him well deadly. He works well with Hashut as well because he makes the most out of the shorter ranged spells.
Game 1 Orcs and goblins
40ish savage orc big uns
20ish night goblins with 3 fanatics
40ish Black orcs with flaming banner
18 Trolls
2x doom diver
2x mangler
2x pump wagons loaded up
Lvl 4 big waagh earthing rod Rest of the characters I don’t recall
So this game was an interesting one, I have no chaff to handle the fanatics and the manglers, and My units can’t out fight his. My plan is to snipe the Manglers and pump wagons out with My rockets and fireballs from my level 1 fire mage. Get the destroyer into the black orcs, and avoid those damn savages.
I didn’t roll a single double on my spell generation but I rolled up purple sun and soul blight. He rolled up foot of Gork which he cast every turn on 6 dice and stomped on my Centaur units.
How it all shook out? Well I cleared the manglers and the pump wagons by turn 2, thanks to rerolls for the rockets. I got the destroyer into the black orcs where he just laughed and laughed at the flaming attacks they had. I cast purple sun and misfired!!! When I had a shot down the flank of his orcs and his TROLLS. Then proceeded to pass my initiative check PHEW. I cast it again the next turn and decimated the savages so they were useless against my units.
It was a close game because he kept dancing on my units with gork. In the end I won with max tournament points. We played with objectives and scenario points etc. But all I had left was 1 single fireglaive, 2 severely depleted bull units and my caster. He had his savages, or what was left of them.
It was a good game and the player “cody” won last years GT so no slouch.
Game 2 WoC
DP slaanesh lvl 4 all the tricks
BSB unkillable on foot
20 warriors MoT board and sword
8 chariots on slaanesh
6 jugernaughts
Yup. it’s going to be one of these days. Thats how I looked at my chances against this list and the guy playing the list is my nemesis, and a former GT winner. Yay for me what a lucky draw. oh and I roll no doubles for spells again!
My first thought is I need to drop rockets on that DP and try and kill it and I need the destroyer not to get destroyed by those juggernauts. I know I am only going to get 1 or 2 chances against the DP with my rockets and he goes first so lets make that 1 turn now. I fire my rockets and they both miss, makes up for them being snipers in the first game. He then charges my bulls with his DP and I stick with steadfast 10 and somehow I do a wound to him. He’s casting random movement on my destroyer and setting up the juggers to charge him. I kamikaze my great weapon bulls into the juggers to try and save the destroyer. They do 3 wounds and get butchered back, but hold!. This was massive. The other bull unit breaks from combat with the DP and he pursues trying to get off the board so I can’t hit him with rockets. The destroyer is moving randomly all game, I hate that spell. In his turn my bull unit breaks and he has to pursue with the juggers (My bulls get away!) which brings him 3 inches close to the destroyer. I now have a possible combo charge with my fireglaives and the destroyer on the juggers with the destroyer only being in contact on the corner. I make both charges and break the Juggers. This same turn I snipe 2 chariots with my rockets and put 3 wounds on his DP with death spells (he healed one previously with soul feeder). Next turn he miscasts with the DP and takes off his final wound. I run away from the warriors with the BSB and snipe chariots with spells and rockets. In the end the game was a draw in my favor because you needed 350 victory points for a win but i picked up all the other points for objectives and scenario (mine was kill his juggers) Kadaii burned himself out else i would of had the win.
Game 3 Wood elfs
Lvl 4 shadow Acorn
LvL 4 I forget
BSB Boom arrow
16+ glade guard True flight
10 GG poison
10 GG poison
10 scouts poison
7 wildriders
10 way watchers
10 way watchers
eagle
Well, this list means my destroyer will be dead right away so I just pretend he’s a throw away unit. However this list is where my bulls should shine. Summary is like this, he shoots and shoots and shoots. I run at him. T5 and 3+ armor is a nightmare for his list. He kills a bunch of my stuff, I then touch him. Game over. it was close in points, the key things that happened was I death sniped his BSB turn 1, My bulls took the charge from the wildriders and held (love T5) I walked away with full points.
Game 4 High elfs (Dale Johnson host of Chumphammer podcast) also a former GT winner
LVL4 on moon dragon high magic 4++ and khaines ring
BSB banner of the world dragon and dragon armor (Kadaii killer)
Caradryan
10 archers
10 archers
14 silver helms
2x bolt thrower
2x frost heart
Ya triple frosty list. and the guy on the moon dragon can heal them with apotheosis and will almost always have a 3++. Frosties have magical attacks so I just assume my destroyer is fucked. This game boils down to the fact he over estimated his frost hearts vs my bulls. They never had to fight more than one at a time and he seemed shocked he wasn’t breaking my units when i was remaining steadfast. In order for a monster to break a unit of bulls reliably in needs to knock them below 3 models to break my steadfast. That is not going to happen unless you gang up on them. I think that was his biggest mistake. He had 4 flying monsters and could pick his fights and he didn’t converge on a single target. This gave me a chance. The game boiled down to 2 things, My destroyer held against the BSB and a Frostheart, giving me a flank of the frosty with my fireglaive unit. This broke both the frost heart and the BSB and allowed an over run into the flank of the silver helms (also now going to die). Game changer 2, I death snipe the mage and then the dragon. I feel like if we played this game again he would trounce me and not make the same mistake. Oh and i failed to roll a single double for spell generation yet again.
Game 5 WoC
Disk lord unkillable great weapon
BSB on jugger
disk mage metal extra spell
18 warriors MoT board and sword blasted standard
18 warriors MoK halberds frenzy banner
War shrine
5 juggers
hell cannon
Not your typical final table warriors list. This game went fast. I snipe his BSB turn 1, I kill the shrine with bulls and some doom and darkness which makes it break and i get into the hell cannon. Kadaii goes and eats some warriors, and a rocket hits the disk lord and he rolls a 2 on his ward save. Good game. Oh and for the 5th game in a row I rolled no doubles for spells.
Congrats on the win, surely well played on your part. Did you find yourself making many leadership tests with the fireglaives or centaurs? Additionally are these yours?
Congrats on the win, surely well played on your part. Did you find yourself making many leadership tests with the fireglaives or centaurs? Additionally are these yours?
http://imgur.com/gallery/PbLNJ
sam585
Yes, all the chaos dwarfs by toad painter are mine. I build and convert, sadly I can't paint, he's a friend of mine and paints my models. He's an amazing artist.
Love those bases and movement trays! How do you make them or where do you get them?
Your army is very cool and very different I like it a lot. Great work on the win, even with the bad luck spell wise!
Morgrim Bloodbeard
Bases are from a company called base x of war.
They are simple, but it allows the models to stand out after all they are the Center piece.