On August 12th we held the latest edition in the Runewars organized play at Fantasy Flight up in Roseville.
Thanks to Dave at Fantasy Flight Game Center for making it possible! We really appreciate having the opportunity to game there, have great support and an awesome facility.
Given the release of the FAQ and the Tournament Rules, we put both into use. We had but 4 show with lots and lots of regrets due to summer activities so when things roll around this fall I’m expecting the tournament size will expand as we did have a good dozen for the very first opening day evening a few months back. Oddly there were a few times where the number watching was larger than the number playing and from those watching several had armies.
The aspect of “yes, you can play with your force even if it’s not painted”, needs to be pointed out. As you’ll see in the pictures most are still working on their army.
With tournament rules, we made use of Cryodex as the tournament software. I had modified it the day before with the new MoV and tournament point numbers.
We followed the method of having the TO draw the deployment and mission and then the players using points to determine player one and then choosing their terrain from the 4 cards each had brought. We had a new mission and new deployment for each of the two rounds we played.
Round 1
We used Bounty as the mission and Unprepaired for the deployment.
I faced off against Joe who was playing a very interesting Waiqar list with both Maro and Ardus as stand alone heros, flanked by archers with some undead in the middle.
Given the terrain the deployment my force was strongly channelled. Hawthorne is awesome, but having to select how your Cav is going to be organized before you deploy and then get presented with terrain like this makes him kinda hard to use.
I managed to kill Ardus and my Cav on the left flank also took out a unit of his archers. Meanwhile on the right flank my other unit of Cav took the effects of Death Caller and arrows and well .. yeah yuck.
Joe pulled out the victory with a 4 point MoV with a 82-78 score.
On the other side for round 1, Nate and Alex were facing off, both playing Daqan. Nate won 147 to 130.
Round 2
We used Break Their Defenses and Careful Approach for the deployment.
Alex and Joe played for “Championship” and Nate and I squared off.
Joe managed to win 200-64. Sounded like he made more use of Maro starting on turn 1 and thus had a pretty good sized force for Alex to contend with.
In our game, terrain once again loomed large channeling where and how our forces were going to connect. I put on set of my Cav to dash to my right flank with the idea of keeping one of Nate’s sides busy. In the end it’s goal wasn’t to engage but to get over into the zone to pick up a victory token.
My main force aspired to cork the bottle as Nate’s forces emerged out of his deployment zone. That sorta worked and sorta didn’t. My spearmen attack column managed to catch Nate’s leading Cav unit in the flank and take them out. My cav on the other hand missed their turn and basically didn’t get into the contest until way late, having to take a turn to reform and then come onto the flank of Nate’s infantry. By then his infantry and done some serious damage to mine, nearly taking my guys out.
We had Hawthorne on Hawthorne who were each exactly kitted out the same. Nate did much better than I in his attack strategy so that nearly cost me my hero.
In the end a victory for me 145 – 118.
Results
- Joe – 15pts – 140 MoV
- Tom – 11 pts – 27 MoV
- Nate – 10 pts – 0 MoV
- Alex – 8 pts – 17 MoV
Armies
Joe – Waiqar – 200 pts
Ardus – 45
- Ancient Technique
- Shield of Margoth
Reanimates (6 trays) – 56
- Death Caller
- Support Carrion Lancer
- Sim Orders
- Aggressive Drummer
- Bull Pennons
Reanimate Archers – (2 trays) – 22
- Rank Discipline
Reanimate Archers – (2 trays) – 22
- Rank Discipline
Ankaur Maro – 55 points
- Regen Magic
- Heartseeker
Tom– Daqan – 198 pts
Hawthorn – 44 pts
- Shield of Margoth
- Might of Daqan
Spearmen – (9 trays) – 79 pts
- Frontline Golem
- Citadel Weapons Master
- Shield Wall
Cav – (4 trays) – 38 pts
- Rank Discipline
Cav – (4 trays) – 38 pts
- Rank Discipline
Nate – Daqan – 192 pts
Hawthorn – 44 pts
- Shield of Margoth
- Might of Daqan
Rune Golem – (1 tray) – 17 pts
Spearmen – (9 trays) – 76 pts
- Frontline Golem
- Aggressive Cornicen
- Shield Wall
Cav – (6 trays) – 55 pts
- Moment of Inspiration
- Master Crafted Weapons
Alex – Daqan – 199 pts
Rune Golem – (2 trays) – 34 pts
- Wind Rune
Rune Golem – (2 trays) – 34 pts
- Wind Rune
Spearmen – (4 trays) – 30 points
Cav – ( 9 trays) – 101 points
- Hawthorne
- Windrune
- Moment of Inspiration