On November 30th I ran a Thursday night special tournament at Fantasy Flight games, our “Uthuk Welcoming” tournament. Since the Uthuk were out the week prior I thought that perhaps some would want to play with their new toys.
Ermm as fate would have it, from those of us that attended (6), 2 of us just happened to have bought our Uthuk that very day and more or less decided to play with our existing armies instead of the Uthuk.
I happened to arrive at FFGC pretty early and assembled my Uthuk before the tournament. There are a few upgrade cards that really give some of the core units some flavor that just happened to be in the expansion boxes that aren’t out yet. So while with my two core boxes and command box I’d be able to field a 200 point list, it just seemed like it would be missing Uthuk charm so … next time!
Dave at FFGC let us all play for a Q4 tournament kit (least I think it’s q4, I always lose track of this stuff) Inspiration tokens, alt art Hawthorne and some current and new objectives and deployment cards. Some really great stuff to be playing for! Thanks again to Dave not only for kit but also for holding aside some space on a pretty busy day.
As I mentioned we had 6 in attendance. Eight has signed up and quite a number of regrets so all in all was pretty happy with our turnout. What was everyone playing? As the TO I had everyone fill out sheets so you can see the lists. Errors in transcription are mine.
Marc (200pts) Daqan
- Rune Golems (2×1)
- Heavy Crossbows (3×1)
- Tempered Steel
- Rank Discipline
- Spearmen (3×2)
- Cit Weapons Master
- Eagle Banner
- Heavy Crossbows (3×1)
- Tempered Steel
- Rank Discipline
- Spearmen (3×2)
- Cit Weapons Master
- Eagle Banner
Dion (199pts) Waiqar
- Reanimate Archers (2×1)
- Combat Ingenuity
- Carrion Lancers (2×2)
- Master Crafted Weapons
- Combat Ingenuity
- Ankaur Maro
- Fortuna’s Dice
- Violent Forces
- Death Knights (2×3)
- Reaping Blade
- Deathmist Banners
- Column tactics
Brian (199pts) Daqan
- Oathsworn Cav (2×2)
- Tempered Steel
- Raven Tabards
- Rank Discipline
- Rune Golem (1×1)
- Rune Golem (1×1)
- Rune Golem (1×1)
- Deepwood Archers (2×2)
- Tempered Steel
- Hawthorne
- Kari Wraithstalker
- Fortuna’s Dice
Alex (200pts) Latari
- Aymhelin Scions (1×1)
- Fertile Soil
- Aymhelin Scions (1×1)
- Fertile Soil
- Maegan
- Malcorn
- Arcane
- Leonx Riders (1×3)
- Column Tactics
- Deepwood Archers (2×2)
- Simult Orders
- Wind Rune
- Storm Sorceress
- Verdant Sorceress
- Deepwood Archers (2×2)
- Simult Orders
- Wind Rune
- Storm Sorceress
- Verdant Sorceress
Curt (200 pts) Waiqar
- Ardus
- Ancient Tech
- Reanimates (3×3)
- Maro
- Front Line Carrion Lancer
- Marching Drummer
- Raven Standard Banner
- Lingering Dead
- Carrion Lancer
- Carrion Lancer
- Archers (3×2?)
- Fire Rune
- Combat Ingen
- Raven Standard
Tom (197pts) Daqan
- Hawthorne
- Shield of Margath
- Might of Daqan
- Crossbows (3×1)
- Tempered Steel
- Rank Discipline
- Rune Golems (2×2)
- Visored Helms
- Oathsworn Cav (3×2)
- Dispatch Runner
- Tempered Steel
- Raven Tabards
- Rank Discipline
Getting under way. It was a busy evening at FFGC. With the back room setup and saved for a company event we were out in the main room with all the other games. We had a number of “what game is that” as people would walk up and wonder what was going on. Sure helps to grow the game to be playing it so others can see it in action.
We had Escort for the objective and “Place the Explosives” for the deployment.
Dion and I matched up for the first found. We played escort. Hawthorn needed to get over approx to where the reanimate Archers were. My plan was to hopefully have Hawthorn get in behind the Golems and then run up the side, presuming of course that the death knights would cooperate.
You’ll notice I’m using some of the new Uthuk terrain, burning woods.
As fate would have it the Death Knights would press forward and take a panic since they charged not hitting any targets. On my left flank I decided to inspiration up presuming I’d have to be dealing with blight tokens.
The Deathknights and the Golems would dosey-do and even more fun the death knights would move into contact for my crossbowmen, taking another panic. Hawthorn would charge in into the flank, and get 2 more panic and with the 4 panic tokens get the morale result to turn them around and march backward 2.
I tried to charge with my Cav and Hawthorne was in the way to in some ways that helped save the cav from a charge from the Carrion Lancers.
I had the golems march out of the woods, just in time to take 4 blight tokens.
The Carrion march into my cav and at about that point I gave up on the idea that Hawthorn was going to make it across the table. The Death Knights would turn around and I’d charge Hawthorne into the flank of the Carrion Lancers.
Pretty much the end of the game. The Carrion Lances would be gone. The death knights nearly whipped out the crossbowmen but you can see they’d eliminated about 1/2 the unit. My golems didn’t really get anything accomplished. Poor rolls just didn’t take off enough archers that Maro couldn’t replace. A 7-4 (88 / 44) result
Round 1
- Dion vs Tom (44 – 88) 4-7
- Curt vs Brian (15 – 164) 2-9
- Alex vs Marc (140-161) 5-6
Round 2
Brian and I matched up. We had an Hammer and Anvil deployment with the new “Place the Explosives” Objective. It’s a really fun one where the two pieces of defensive terrain are placed such that they are touching the players deployment area. A player needed to touch the defensive terrain with 1 of 2 nominated units, if they were able to do so, you gain a victory token which is worth 75 points.
Brian and I placed our terrain furthest from each other. With Hammer and Anvil I was able to place Brian’s goal off to the side of my deployment area, since I was in the 5 box while Brian was in the 3 so he didn’t have any ability to tuck too far back.
We had some interesting choices to make as far as how to split our forces. I put my cav and Hawthorne on my right flank to go after the objective and my other two units to defend.
I decided to go big in the first turn, thinking I could get way way in, if not touching the defensive terrain and thus score the objective token right away. Brian kicked out one of his golems and yeah, bumper cars ensued. With Brian’s cav on my flank things looked immediately dire. I pushed up my Crossbows in hopes that I could either put some bolts into the cav or take out Kari.
Rolling forward Brian made an error and forgot to do a charge, just running into my Cav. Hawthorne and my Cav finished off the one golem but the other Rammed into the flank of Hawthorne. Brian started to send over his Hawthorne which was one of the two nominated units to get to the goal. The other was a Golem that was directly across the way. Kari’s started to land her ranged attacks on the crossbowmen and with her Fortuna’s dice she was doing some pretty impressive damage.
Last picture of the game. With my initial gambit failing miserably the disaster was pretty complete with Brian fetching the victory token. My golems were able to catch his Hawthorne but poor rolls again didn’t land much in the way of damage.
Final Results:
- Brian 19 pts
- Dion 14 pts
- Alex 14 pts
- Tom 8 pts
- Marc 7 pts
- Curt 4 pts
Thanks to everyone for coming out. It was a great time. Will put something together in January.