Warclouds: Craig Parker FTW!

Hey Folks, 

So 2016. I wont bore you with a "New Years Post" as I am notoriously bad at posting anyway...but plan to keep up a bit this year anyway. 

This year starts with Craig Parker...

As I have this WIP for Warclouds (on Waitangi Weekend) 

A whole heap of OOP Metal Lord of the Rings Elveses square based for Warhammer/ 9th Age/ KoW/ whatever system lets me throw down dice and drink beers. 

Updates at some point 

Cheers,
Jason

Warhammer: Warclouds Random Snapshots and Comments

Hey Folks, 

I'd planned to write this earlier but you know. Life and stuff. 

Warclouds was the 7th and 8th of Feburary and it was a 2800pt team based tourney. I entered my Ogre Mercenaries (posted earlier and finished the day before lol) while my little bro Nathan bought his Wood Elves 

Our team name was Beautey and the Beast. Nate's army looked boss, he has put a lot of effort into it and it came up really well. 

Instead of posting a game by game blow here are some random Action Shots :) 

First game we faced a horde of Skaven and Night Goblins and were outnumbered like 5 to 1...here my Ogres smash into about 160 Skaven Slaves. A timely spell cast by Nates Treeman Ancient killed the Skaven General and BSB which allowed my Ogres to smash through the slaves and crush the flank. Minor win to us! 

Nates Treeman Ancient, Chunk the Giant and his Hero on Great Eagle combine to destroy the Skaven Abomination...after the Skaven had killed off most of my Ogres. We slot this one sadley. 

Here the Maneaters have ripped apart a huge unit of 12 ogres and characters and pretty much single handedly won us the game. The Maneaters kicked butt when they weren't wiped out by magic and tended to smash pretty much anyone and anything they came up against. I loved them! 

Our last game - the Skaven (there were three Skaven armies and we fought all of them) and Nurgle Chaos have refused our flank so my Ogres are storming forward. This one ended in a very tactical draw. 

After the dust had settled we ended up placing Fourth - the same as last year! Nate and I really enjoy this weekend and would like to thank all our opponents as well as Basil for hosting. 

Also I was pretty surprised to pick up Best Painted! Which was awesome :) 

Cheers

Jason 

Warhamner: Warclouds Tournament Report - The Plan

Hey Folks, 

It was a busy weekend on the social Calender and after six "dinner  engagements" Lady Elizabeth Bennett relaxes in her coffin, well pleased with how the proceedings went. 

Surely not all were a resounding success (Lord Darcy's manners have been known to be lacking on occasion, and he is short of temper alas) but she is well fed and enjoyed her "conversationals" held with a range of prey. 

Elizabeth (on the right) showing her displeasure that anothe lady wore the same dress to the dance

A great weekend was had at a Warclouds with the Vampire Counts double team my little bro Nathan and I took doing pretty well - this will be a long post and I will break it into three parts, 

The Plan

The Plan goes Wobbly (Day 1)

Stick to the Plan! (Day 2) :)

The Plan; VC Double Team "Pride and Predation" :) 

 

Nathan and I decided to take double VCs, mainly as this is what we had but also for all the synergies we could take advantage of with the magic lore, like raising each other troops and healing out Heros/ Griblies with the lore attribute. We also went for less combos, a reasonable number of troops and enough magic to get us through. All up we only had four magic items...in 2400pts total. 

Nathan took a Necrach (IE Magic Heavy) list;

Lazareth - Master Necromancer, lvl 3, 4+ Ward and Dispel Scroll, Master of the Dead (Raise skellies abive starting sizes)

The Vampire with no Name - Vampire, lvl 1, Beguile (entrances enemies) Extra hand Weapon, Heavy Armour

Elvis - Wight King, Heavy Armour, Shield, Barded Skeleton Stead 

39 Sword and Board Skeletons - Horde with Vampire

19 Spear Skellies - Necro Bunker

9 Black Knights - fully armoured up and with Elvis

2 Bat Swarms 

While I took the list I have been play testing. 

Lord Darcy - Strigoi Ghoul King, Dreadknight (+2 Weapon Skill taking it to 8!, but has to challenge) 

Lady Elizabeth - Vampire, Dreadknight, Lvl 2, Heavy Armour, Enchanted Shield 

39 Spear Skellies - Elizabeth's Guard

27 Ghouls - Darcy's Manservants 

2 single Spirit Hosts

Black Coach

Plan was to soak damage on the two skellie hordes and coach and use the Ghouls and Black Knights as the hammers, plus the coach if it lives. Spirit Hosts tarpit while the bats support the knights by giving always strikes last to the enemy, so the knights strike first. Vampires give combat support to the hordes and a bit of magic, Master Necro buffs/ raises the hordes and slings the odd offensive spell. As long as our magic phase didn't let us down we should win wars of attrition...

Overall this worked. Mostly. Except for when things started to go to hell in the hand basket...

Coming soon - Part 2 - Warclouds first Day

Cheers for reading the wall of text :)

Cheers

Jason