JonathanC's Battle Report thread

[DaemonReign]

Jesus JonathanC.. I Think you just stole the title of 'King o' Textwalling' away from me.
I'll be cracking a beer (or two) later tonight and digest it all, so far I've only had time to read the first parts about that doubles tournment.
Oh, and just this one thing, you mentioned scoring a Killing Blow on a Pendant wearing PegLord and he would certainly have died from that since [as per the FAQ] if a model would have been infantry when not mounted he can get KB'd.

[JonathanC]

I look forward to reading your comments DaemonReign.

I tried to break up the textwalling a bit, but I didn't get many photos as you can see so it ended up quite word-heavy.

Just looked up the killing blow thing and you're completely right - p8 of the FAQ. Since that Dreadlord held up my Bloodletters for the entire game it made a big difference! I'll have to let Dave my team-mate know next time I see him.

[DaemonReign]

Finally done Reading through it all. Never got room to do it last night as it turned out.
It appears to have been a great event all-in-all. Those Special missions and every team bringing a terrain-piece of their own was a truly nice touch - although that Skaven-team bringing a friggin' Wyrding Well is a bit on the South side of cheese if you ask me.. *haha*
Forgetting to Stomp in that last game might have lost you guys the game, but I'm actually glad you allowed over-runs 'cause that FAQ is something I wish people would just ignore en masse.

Damn it. Just a great read. Thanks for letting us (or at any rate me!) get this sneak-peak into it. If I wasn't so tremendously anti-social I'd really like to attend something like this [yeah the 'crowdiness' on some of those pics kind of scares me tbh..] - but then here in Sweden I'm guessing there'd be like 20 teams instead of over 100 and it'd be all comped etcetera..

Just one final question.. Are you running your Screamers on 50mm bases? Or is it just the Picture that makes it look that way?

Either way, many cheers for posting all this man!

[JonathanC]

Its probably just the picture making their bases look bigger, they are definitely on 40mm ones. Probably because I haven't green-edged them yet like the Herald and Fiends and they blendinto the black movement tray a bit (in fact, a large part of the army was painted in the 3 days before the event, which is why I didn't take any close-ups of my models!).

The special missions I liked, but I would have preferred something a little bit simpler just to make picking the missions quicker and easier. Having a special terrain piece was quite nice (ours definitely helped in a few games) but led to some cheesy combos as you saw. From what I could tell Wyrding Wells, Wizards Towers and Anvil's of Vaul were all pretty popular. Without them though, all the terrain would have been basic apart from the mysterious forests, and I rather like the terrain rules (mainly because hardcore competitive players don't ). According to the rulespack for next year both the special missions and themed terrain aren't in it anymore. I can take or leave the terrain but I'll miss the missions as I think they add an extra dimension to the game.

Anyway, thanks for your comments and glad you enjoyed it. It was pretty packed, but it was only really a problem in games 2 and 3 where our table was at the end of the row up against the 'castle' wall (as you should be able to see in the photos). The tables were set up in rows of 3 so it was a lot easier to get around than it has been in the past when they were set up in much longer rows. Also you end up a bit dehydrated if you aren't careful as with 4 people involved in every game you end up talking near-constantly. To make up for that, Bugman's adjoins the gaming hall and one of the staff comes round to take drink orders from you mid-game so you don't have to stop gaming, which is nice. By the end of the weekend you do end up pretty exhausted but I'd still recommend it to anyone who likes some friendly competition against new opponents.