Thursday, September 25, 2008

Mighty Empires IV - Round 4


STANDING AFTER ROUND 3

Vampire Counts- 10 capital
Ogres- 6
Night Goblins- 6
Vampire Counts- 5
Dark Elves- 5
Empire- 4
Dwarfs-4
Skaven- 3
High Elves- 3
Warriors of Chaos - 3
High Elves- 3



STRATEGIC EVENTS

Skaven- Land Grab
High Elves (Purple)- War Tax
Warriors of Chaos- Survey the Battlefield
Vampire Counts (Red)- No Guts, No Glory
Empire- Sabotage
Night Goblins- Praise be to the Oracle
Tomb Kings- Building Boom
Dark Elves- Building Boom (via praise)
High Elves (Black)- Scouts
Dwarfs- All or Nothing
Vampire Counts (Pink)- Headhunter
Ogres- Diplomacy @ VC (pink)


CAMPAIGN EVENTS

Skaven- Infamy
High Elves (Purple)-Fame
Warriors of Chaos- Thy Lord Returns
Vampire Counts (Red)- Thy Lord Returns
Empire- Fame
Night Goblins- Harvest Moon
Tomb Kings- All is Well
Dark Elves- Corruption
High Elves (Black)- Thy Lord Returns
Dwarfs- All is Well
Vampire Counts (Pink)- Corruption
Ogres- Corruption



REVENUE

Skaven- 75
High Elves (Purple)- 175
Warriors of Chaos- 125 (mine exhausted)
Vampire Counts (Red)-225
Empire- 100
Night Goblins-0 (250 -point carried over)
Tomb Kings- 200
Dark Elves- 100
High Elves (Black)- 175
Dwarfs- 175
Vampire Counts (Pink)- 175
Ogres- 125

CHALLENGES
All Players are default 2000 points before reinforcement purchases

OPEN CHALLENGES

VAMPIRE COUNTS (PINK) VS EMPIRE
VAMPIRE COUNTS -MASSACRE- 5EP!!!

DWARFS VS OGRES
DWARFS- MASSACRE -5EP!!!

INVASIONS

HIGH ELVES (purple) vs NIGHT GOBLINS E4-E5
NIGHT GOBLIN-MASSACRE- 5EP

EMPIRE VS NIGHT GOBLINS E6-F6 (NG defend)
NIGHT GOBLINS- MINOR VICTORY- 3EP!

SKAVEN VS VAMPIRE COUNTS (Red) -Skirmish
VAMPIRE COUNTS- MASSACRE- 5EP!!

HIGH ELVES (Black) VS DARK ELVES I5-H5
DARK ELVES- MINOR VICTORY- 3EP

TOMB KINGS VS OGRES I3-J4
DRAW!!- 2EP

OGRES VS HIGH ELVES (black) J6-K6
OGRE - MASSACRE concession-5EP!

WARRIORS OF CHAOS VS VAMPIRE COUNTS (Red)- Skirmish
CHAOS- MASSACRE - 5EP



Special Characters

Special Characters will join their respective armies via special events and your Empire's accomplishments.

Joined in round 1

TOMB KINGS- KHALIDA via campaign event
HIGH ELVES (Black)- TECLIS via campaign event
CHAOS- ARCHAON via campaign event

Joined in round 2-

HIGH ELVES (Black) takes 100 gold
VAMPIRE COUNTS (red) - MANNFRED VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)- VLAD VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
DWARFS- THOREK IRONBROW via campaign event

Joined in round 3

VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)- CONRAD VON CARSTEIN - 1st City
ISABELLA VON CARSTEIN- Capital

Joined in Round 4

HIGH ELVES (Purple) - KORHIL - 1st City
HIGH ELVES (Black) CARADRYAN- 1st City
DARK ELVES- SHADOWBLADE- 1st City
EMPIRE- LUTHOR HUSS- 1st- City
SKAVEN-??? 1st City
NIGHT GOBLINS- 1st City

Friday, September 19, 2008

To War!...Core Comp 2008

Tomorrow I head out to the Chicago Battle Bunker for the Core Competency tourney brought to you by the guys at IWFB.org. You need 40% Core army, an Objective Markers and Painted Dwarf Slayer Pirate as an entry fee. I log alot of hours this week getting my Greatswords painted so I could meet the core requirement with my Knights. I took these pics tonight as I set every thing up to make sure I had it all. Most of this Army is done, I have some base touch ups to do and some detailing on rank and file units but that's about it, I can easily field 3000 points painted now, and, I'll have left to paint are my Flagellants, I want to do a couple Swordsmen detachment and the Empire is put to bed, I am moving on to the next army. Anyways depending on how this list plays will dictate what I run in the Chicago GT in the next few weeks.

The Hochland Border Regiment on the march!!


Playing around with a hand held light gave of this great slightly overexposed effect

Here's my objective marker ( The Empire Treasury and its Monkey!) and Pirate for the Tourney entry requirement.


My Greatswords with a new Warrior Priest...some of the back rank guys are not done as much as I'd like but they pass the table top standard, I normally spend a month on this unit I did it in about 9 days


Oh Helblaster, don't let me down!, Wish me luck guys!

RESULTS 9/21-

Well it couldn't have went that much better for me at Core Comp. The final head count was 32 players. . I had 50 overall battle points and 62 points on Comp/ Sports/ Painting/ Theme for 112 points overall and 5th place .

I also won best appearance award- winning a cool unit of very nicely painted "Braganzas Besiegers" a nicely painted Dogs of War unit. It was nice vindication of my recent slave painting on the army, I now have the motivation I really need to tune it all up for the Chicago GT. Guess well see how it goes.

Here is a brief rundown on the games.

Game 1- Vs. Tomb Kings- Win

I won first turn and got insanely lucky nailing the screaming skull catapult on turn 1, taking out the game and out of my hair. My opponent was new player and super nice guy..he made a few mistakes that definitely helped me. He deployed his tomb scorpion in his backfield instead of having it burrow up into my backfield and I shredded it with the Helblaster. He also didn't know how detachments worked and charged all my infantry (Swords and Greatswords) with his General in unit of Chariots. Despite a messy 13 impact hits. My troops held strong controlling the left side of table wiping out the chariots and hitting the heavy duty tomb guard. He lost the battle of attrition. On the other side of the table my cavalry didn't do too well they all fled or died. I did kill a bunch of stuff over there. When the smoke cleared I was up by about 500 points more than enough for the win. There was a post game issue where my opponent didn't apply the scenario rules correctly to his chosen unit (which was "stubborn" and Undead had different rules than I did), There was no saying how that would have impacted the game as I had plenty of units to deal the rule change..I could have rear-charged the unit in question..etc. Obviously we had to keep the game as it was played. All in all -a great game.

Game 2 VS Chaos Dwarfs- Win

I had never player the wacky chaos dwarfs before but heard horror stories So I didn't know what to expect. Again I got lucky won first turn and blew up the Earthshaker cannon that had me worried. My greatswords on the left flank took care some Centaur looking dwarf guys, while my knights on the right killed over his Lord on Taurus. My Swordsmen went up the middle and got absolutely cruxified by the Dwarven Blunderbuss unit., it was unreal. I made a risky move charging my General out of the rapidly dying swordsmen into one of the blunderbuss units and join my detachment that was in charge range..it paid off and I took the whole unit down, My other detachment grabbed the scenario objective and ran off the table. The rest of his army marched down of my shooters took some heavy losses before killing off my shooters and artillery. In the end. 1 surviving swordsmen and my other characters saved me alot of points without the "look out sir, rule" I would have lost this game. Additional victory points pushed it way over the top for me. I had a standard, 3 tables quarters and killed his general, that extra 500 points gave me an 800+ point victory. Super well played and tight game.

Game 3 VS Dark Elves- Loss

My opponent Alex, was also 2-0 at this point, he told me he'd been playing Warhammer since 1986 and it showed. His army was very unassuming No shooting, No Magic. Witch Elves, Cauldron of Blood, Dark Riders, Black Guard, Spearmen, 5 furies, Corsairs with General in unit of DE Knights on Cold Ones. I knew how brutal the WE were and tried to deal with it best I could putting my Greatswords and 10 block of knights on that side of table. even with all my muscle on that side of the table, I stupidly took my knights away because I saw a window to get my knights at the cauldron. This was a tactical move by my opponent who bait and switched me to then chase his dark riders while the cauldron moved into the woods. Needless to say the witch elves shredded me, even thou I killed the DE BSB in the process, I got wiped out...one cannon blew up the rest of my artillery and shooters got run down inflicting minimal losses....while my swordsmen played games with his other unit of dark knights and his cold ones. My knights, swordsmen and 3 characters survived, but I only killed his BSB, a unit of Dark Riders, and had the blackguard at 50% all my other kills where negilable. With table quarters and my Greatswords banner he was easily up by +500 or so for the win. My opponent won the Best Sportsman award and came in second place...great guy, great game...and I got schooled.

Felix did very well too with a 1st round win then two draws. coming in 14th place,
He played, Brets, Dwarfs then the Fluffbunny winning Lizardmen "southlands" all Skink Army.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Tourney Season

It's tourney season for me, I missed Games Day for good reason (the birth of my second daughter) but I've got three tournaments planned in the next six weeks. Everything else is on "hold" right now as I need to get my Empire Army spruced up for the Chicago GT on 10/5. The 1st of the three I mention is at the Chicago Battle Bunker, next saturday. It's called Core Competency and one of the stipulations is that you need to field 900 point of core troops. I couldn't field 900 core unless I made all my Knight's core (instead of inner circle which is the Special choice, I usually run). I had to either run Flagellants or my Greatswords, which are both unpainted..after a test run of my Flaggies last week, (see sidebar) I opted for my Greatswords, as with a Warrior Priest and an item, I can make them Fearless, have Hatred and Stubborn, plus I can run detachments. I couldn't fill the list out they way wanted with Flagellants as core...so this works better. Well see how it goes next saturday as my GT list will be based on my results there. I still have alot of painting to do, I have 8 done so far, and hope to do 3 more today...leaving my weeknights after the kids go to bed to finish 9 more models and an objective marker, No doubt I will be painting late friday night. Having this an off week for our campaign will help alot.



The Chicago GT has no composition scoring like I am used with the local scene, I expect to see every special character and his dragon mount out in full force. While I am tempted to run Karl Franz even on a Warhorse, the points sink is big in a 2250 game, which makes me cautious
I will defintely run the Empire Hero, Luthor Huss...but outside of that I am leaning toward more troops over expensive characters, will see.



The third tourney is small local one, I am going to run myself in late October. Taking place in my basement It will have four tables / eight players.. four rounds, featuring two special scenarios and two pitched battles, just an excuse to get the boys from the shop over and use the grill before packing it up for the winter.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Mighty Empires IV - Round 3

9/9 @ Games Workshop, Oak Park



STANDING AFTER ROUND 2

Vampire Counts- 7
Dwarfs-4
Ogres-4
Empire -3
Tomb Kings- 3
Dark Elves-3
Night Goblins-3
Skaven-3
Vampire Counts-3
High Elves-3
Chaos Mortals-2
High Elves-2



STRATEGIC EVENTS

Skaven- Land Grab
High Elves (Purple)- War Tax
Warriors of Chaos- Building Boom
Vampire Counts (Red)- No Guts, No Glory
Empire- Survey the battlefield
Night Goblins- Scouts
Tomb Kings- Sabotage
Dark Elves- Praise be to the Oracle
High Elves (Black)- Headhunter
Dwarfs- Building Boom (via praise)
Vampire Counts (Pink)- All or Nothing
Ogres- Fortune favors the bold


CAMPAIGN EVENTS

Skaven- Harvest Moon (upgrade)
High Elves (Purple)- Corruption -100
Warriors of Chaos- Harvest Moon (upgrade)
Vampire Counts (Red)- All is Well
Empire- All is Well
Night Goblins- All is Well
Tomb Kings- Hidden Cache
Dark Elves- Disaster (passed)
High Elves (Black)- All is Well
Dwarfs- Corruption-100
Vampire Counts (Pink)- All is well
Ogres- Fame



REVENUE

Skaven- 125
High Elves (Purple)- 50
Warriors of Chaos- 125
Vampire Counts (Red)- 75
Empire- 150 (mine exhausted)
Night Goblins- 25 (point carried over)
Tomb Kings- 125
Dark Elves- 250
High Elves (Black)- 75
Dwarfs- 150
Vampire Counts (Pink)- 200
Ogres- 175

CHALLENGES
All Players are default 2000 points before reinforcement purchases

OPEN CHALLENGES

HIGH ELVES (PURPLE) VS TOMB KINGS
TOMB KINGS- SOLID VICTORY! -4EP

VAMPIRE COUNTS (RED) VS HIGH ELVES (BLACK)
VAMPIRE COUNTS- MASSACRE! 5EP

EMPIRE VS DARK ELVES
DARK ELVES- SOLID VICTORY 4 EP

INVASIONS

SKAVEN VS NIGHT GOBLINS D5-E5
NIGHT GOBLINS- SOLID VICTORY 4 EP!

WARRIORS OF CHAOS VS DWARFS E2-E3
WARRIORS OF CHAOS- MINOR VICTORY 3 EP

VAMPIRE COUNTS (PINK) VS DARK ELVES (H5-H6)
VAMPIRE COUNTS- SOLID VICTORY! 4 EP

OGRES VS HIGH ELVES (BLACK) Hexs???



Special Characters

Special Characters will join their respective armies via special events and your Empire's accomplishments.

Joined in round 1

TOMB KINGS- KHALIDA via campaign event
HIGH ELVES (Black)- TECLIS via campaign event
CHAOS- ARCHAON via campaign event

Joined in round 2-

HIGH ELVES (Black) takes 100 gold
VAMPIRE COUNTS (red) - MANNFRED VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)- VLAD VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
DWARFS- THOREK IRONBROW via campaign event

Joined in round 3

VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)- CONRAD VON CARSTEIN - 1st City
ISABELLA VON CARSTEIN- Capital

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Mighty Empires IV - Round 2

Games Workshop, Oak Park 9/2



STANDING AFTER ROUND 1

Empire -3
Ogres-3
Vampire Counts- 3
Dwarfs-2
Tomb Kings- 2
Chaos Mortals-2
High Elves-1
High Elves-1
Dark Elves-1
Night Goblins-1
Skaven-1
Vampire Counts-1


STRATEGIC EVENTS

High Elves (Purple)- Land Grab
Dark Elves- Land Grab (via Praise round 1)
Night Goblins- Building Boom
High Elves (Black)- Headhunter
Vampire Counts (Red)- No Guts, No Glory
Skaven- War Tax
Tomb Kings- Sabotage
Warriors of Chaos- All or Nothing
Dwarfs- Praise be to the oracle
Ogres- Scouts
Empire- Survey the battlefield
Vampire Counts (Pink)- Fortune favors the bold


CAMPAIGN EVENTS

High Elves (Purple)- All is well
Dark Elves- All is well
Night Goblins- All is well
High Elves (Black)- Thy Lord Returns
Vampire Counts (Red)- Thy Lord Returns
Skaven- Harvest Moon
Tomb Kings- All is well
Warriors of Chaos- Corruption
Dwarfs- Thy Lord Returns
Ogres- All is well
Empire- Fame
Vampire Counts (Pink)- Thy Lord Returns


REVENUE

High Elves (Purple)- 25
Dark Elves- 25
Night Goblins- 25
High Elves (Black)- 125 (Lord)
Vampire Counts (Red)- 25
Skaven- 125 + 1 EP carried over
Tomb Kings-50
Warriors of Chaos- 25 (corruption -100)
Dwarfs- 125
Ogres- 150
Empire- 75
Vampire Counts (Pink)- 75


CHALLENGES
All Players are default 2000 points before reinforcement purchases

OPEN CHALLENGES

DARK ELVES VS HIGH ELVES (purple)
DARK ELVES- MASSACRE!! 5 ep

HIGH ELVES (black) vs VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)
VAMPIRE COUNTS- MASSACRE!! 5EP

SKAVEN VS DWARFS
DWARFS- MINOR VICTORY 3EP

VAMPIRE COUNTS (red) VS OGRES
VAMPIRE COUNTS - SOLID VICTORY 4EP

NIGHT GOBLINS VS CHAOS MORTALS
NIGHT GOBLIN- SOLID VICTORY! 4 EP

EMPIRE VS TOMB KINGS
DRAW!! 2EP each

INVASIONS

DWARFS G4 vs VAMPIRE COUNTS H4
DWARF MASSACRE!!!- 5EP

Dwarf total (2 games) - 5EP

OGRES J5 VS HIGH ELVES K6
HIGH ELVES MASSACRE!!!- 5EP
(border skirmish)

High Elves (Black) (2 games) - 4EP

Ogre total (2 games) - 2EP



Special Characters

Special Characters will join their respective armies via special events and your Empire's accomplishments.

Joined in round 1

TOMB KINGS- KHALIDA via campaign event
HIGH ELVES (Black)- TECLIS via campaign event
CHAOS- ARCHAON via campaign event

Joined in round 2-

HIGH ELVES (Black) takes 100 gold
VAMPIRE COUNTS (red) - MANNFRED VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
VAMPIRE COUNTS (pink)- VLAD VON CARSTEIN via campaign event
DWARFS- THOREK IRONBROW via campaign event

 

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