Southern Assault Tournament Report: Rounds 1-3

Saturday started at 5:30 a.m. and getting up to travel down to Charlotte, NC.  The Fancy Lads were represented by myself (Beastmen), Tom (Ogres), Lance (Dwarfs), Collins (High Elves), and Ian (Vampire Counts).

My army, in short:

Doombull with 1+ armor save giving more attacks
Level 4 Shadow General
BSB
Level 1 Beasts
44 Gor
10 Gor
10 Ungor
10 Ungor
5 Ungor Raiders
5 Ungor Raiders
5 Minotaurs
24 Bestigors
Razorgor
Ghorgon

Games One vs. Tomb Kings

This was my first game versus the new Tomb Kings.  Matt was my opponent.  He had a 1,300+ point unit with his King, Hierophant, Tomb Guard, and some other characters.  My opening game went well, and I destroyed his Catapult and Snake Riders with ease, and set up for a combo charge on his main unit from the front and flanks.  Unfortunately, Matt had the mask that causes Terror, and I had terrible leadership roles, so he made my Gors and Bestigors flee in his turn. 

Sometimes, this is how the Beastman game goes.

With my army now grossly out of position and trying to rally, he cleaned things up fairly easily.  I failed SIX more terror tests over the course of the game, constantly fleeing (but getting all the bad leadership rolls out of the way for the tournament).  I did manage to save my General and Bestigors through constant running away, and salvaged a major loss instead of a massacre.  I lost 14-6.

The Fancy Lads finished 0-5 in the first round...not too great and our worst start since, well, ever.

Weekend Update: October 3rd, 2011

Whew!  So the Southern Assault Warhammer Fantasy Tournament is in the bag.  It was a ton of fun and very well organized, and I look forward to doing it again next year.  The winners: 

Best Overall: Eoin Whealen
Best General: Bobby Ash (2nd to existing winner Eoin W.)
Best Tactician: Travis Hill (2nd to existing winner Eoin W.)
Best Hobbyist: Todd Klimpel (2nd to existing winner Bobby Ash)

Best Sports: Tom Geater (2nd to existing winner Travis Hill)
Best Painted: Joel Busta (2nd to existing winner Bobby Ash)
Players Choice Paint: Robert Brandon
Top Team: Kobra Kai

I came in 5th overall, and had a 3-1-1 record.  I should have a full tournament report for my games up this week.   Thanks to Dan and Jerry, who organized the event, for a wonderful weekend. 

Weekend Update: August 1st, 2011

Okay, so last week was a bit killer.  I slept, ate, and worked.  Sorry about the lack of updates, but that's life sometimes, I suppose.

I did work on painting some Centigor this weekend, and have begun to try and figure out my list for the Southern Assault Grand Tournament in October.  I get just a bit nervous with a comp system that pretty much will take you out of the tournament if your list is judged "hard" with no opportunity for revision.  I like comp and don't dislike the system, but it does make me nervous since people have vastly different ideas of what that means.

I've got to get my hands on the new White Dwarf for all it's great content this month.  Man, I never thought I'd say that!  I want to have a look at the new changes to VC, the Power Scroll nerf, and the Sisters of Battle stuff.  

I also put some more stuff on Ebay, including current Cygnar and Scyrah rulebooks for Warmachine Mark II, and most of the Mark I books for both Warmachine and Hordes (up for 99 cents).  Here's a link to that:

http://shop.ebay.com/btuite1/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25

I'm going to try and actually have some pictures and such up this week, so that this doesn't turn into a stinky non-content having blog!