Saturday Showdown Results.

So I attended the event and ..... Wow it was awesome. Man it is great to play in a tourney that has so many people on the same system (18 players)

The results were:

Placed	Name / Faction	W	CP
1	Ronald Grobler | Legion of Everblight	4	8
2	Kelvin Jones | Cygnar	3	6
3	Marco Van Zyl | Skorne	3	4
4	PJ Jacobs | Circle Orboros	3	4
5	Chad Parsons | Legion of Everblight	3	3
6	Jonathan Kenyon | Legion of Everblight	3	0
7	JP Du Toit | Circle Orboros	2	5
8	Eli Golovey | Cryx	2	5
9	Hannes Wiese | Khador	2	4
10	Sean Martens | Protectorate of Menoth	2	3
11	Fabio Costa | Cygnar	2	1
12	Robert Martens | Khador	2	1
13	Evan Hurwitz | Legion of Everblight	1	4
14	Stephen MacLennan | Retribution of Scyrah	1	3
15	Mike Gao | Trollbloods	1	2
16	Warren Kristiansen | Legion of Everblight	1	1
17	Jason Rothman | Protectorate of Menoth	1	0
18	Roscoe Sprong | Trollbloods	0	1

As you can see there were more Hordes players than WM. Really weird as I thought there were more WM players in the area. I was a bit sad to see that no members of a club in the West of Johannesburg decided to come, seen as though there are 10+ players in their group.

I was talking to some of the new players and they are really enjoying the game but seem to believe that Legion of Everblight is the "WHFB Daemons" of Warmahordes. I don't really find them to be that over powered as what everyone says but I suppose with 1/2 the hordes players being LoE players and 4/5 lists having a Angelius, Carnie, Typhon and Seraph that sould say something about those 4 warbeasts. Sad seen as thought there were two Cygnar players, playing Kraye, we still had completely different builds.

Other than the 5 LoE players there was a nice mix of factions and all except the merc's were present. I had a fun time playing Kraye, I took a pNemo list as well, and really like his hit and run style of play.

I will post in the week about my games, hopefully tomorrow before I forget to much :P .

Until next time...

Pendrake....

A friend of mine wants to use Pendrake in his Troll lists for this Saturday and Icon, so he asked if he could use mine. I said no problem but he will have to paint him up as I don't have the time to do it myself.

Lucky Varsity students have stacks of time on their hands so he finished him in a day.

As for Saturday...Man am I excited we will have 18+ players, This is the biggest event since WM started in South Africa. I would like to say a special thanks to GW for driving their loyal fans away.

The PDF's today confirmed that they really don't give a damn about balance....If only someone would buy my Tomb Kings from me.

Nemo and the local pet.

Thought I would put up a picture of pNemo and the Squire. Finished them a while ago but never got around to taking photo's.

We will be playing our last bit of games tonight before Saturday Show Down (A local event). There will be 14+ players which is the biggest event since Warmahordes has taken off in South Africa and it will count towards National Rankings. I am really looking forward to it. I just hope that I don't make silly mistakes like I did at Warcon. (Forgot to assign focus with Nemo on a critical turn)

I will be taking Kraye and pNemo. I have been working on a Kraye list for a while now and I want to play as much as I can before ICON.

I will make sure the camera is charged and get some photo's for the blog.

I smell bacon!

OMW have you seen this!

He is one mean pig. Story goes he hacked and sliced his way up the food chain and is now one bad ass Farrow warcaster.

This guy looks like someone had his mother for breakfast and he is out to find them.

I have already decide to get Rorsh and Brine for my Cygnar. Gives me a bit of Hordes flavour in my Warmachine list. So when Lord Carver over here is release I will have some Farrow already and not feel too bad.

So i promised some feedback from Warcon.

Well my lists were:
pNemo
Stormclad
Thunderhead
Lancer
Squire
Stormblades (6)
Arlan Strangeways
Journeyman
Stormsmith

and

a pHaley list that I cant remember for the life of me.

Game 1: Ricky (eStryker) Mission: Convergence

This was a very fun 1st game I wiped his trenchers off the board with pulse while I walk within 6" of old rowdy, How i here you ask, I voltic snared the hunter next to him and so he was helpless. I maintained the snare for 3 rounds before the hunter got the arcnode off the Lancer.

I learnt that only the base armor is halved and I had Arcane shield on him so it was -7 to his damage rolls.

It was all going so well, i had Nemo at the back casting spells and filling up the jacks but then eStryker hit the turbo button on his suit and moved out of combat with the T-Head missed my Free strike and he charged off into Nemo with +8str for 4 damage...It only took 1 swing and the old man was down.

Good game had a blast. Got 1 CP.

Game 2: Hannes (pIrusk) Mission: Kill Box

This was one of those games that you just had to smile. Hannes games at our LGC so we know each other well and I knew his list was as hard as nails.

He deployed first so I knew he would be in the box waiting for me. To my surprise he didn't move Irusk on the 1st turn but he was still only 4" out side the box. I moved up trying to get some cover and block LOS.

His 2nd turn he moves Irusk to the side of the board and I just look at the TO and shake my head...it didn't matter what he did next because when he said i could go I just looked at him and shook his hand. He was not impressed with himself but I did tell him twice what the mission was so no excuses.

We carried on playing just for the heck of it and he proceeded to wipe me off the board. I felt really bad for him.

Game 3: Charles (Harbi) Mission: Capture the Flag

This was the first time I had face a proper Menoth player and Harbi at that and all I can say is MAN WHAT A PAIN IN THE AR$E!!!

I took Hayley for this game and it went well besides me shooting my entire 12man long gunner squad into her force 2 shots a turn a 3 feat turn he still got into combat and started beating on my stormblades. It was a close game as "dice down" was called just as I had my hunter run to capture his flag.

Game ended with a win to me with 1 CP.

Game 4: Nuno (Bart) Mission: Outflank, Outfight, Outlast

I must just say that Nuno had been to our LGC for three practice games before taking part in Warcon.

This game really disappointed me. I pulled a Hannes on myself. I moved my units into position so that I could capture the points in the next turn but did not see the Buccaneer charge with dirty meg that locked up my units while his Freebooter sat on the control point. Tick at the end of his turn and I did my best to get my units/jacks across to the point but alas...tick, he won. He did not even notice I just looked at him at the end of his turn and said well done.

So this was my 2nd loss but I did manage 1 CP.

So at the end of day 1 I had 2\0\2 and 3 CP. Not too bad as there was only one player who had won all his games so far and he was my 1st game on the Sunday.

To be continued.........

I did a write up on the 2nd day but it was wiped with my hard drive, I doubt i will get back to it as I now cant remember what happened exactly.

Is this thing on?

Sorry that its been dead, been a bit busy with RL stuff like WoW and Paintball and Warmachine.

So in March I had my Steamroller event. We had a decent turnout and played our 4 rounds.

The winner was Ryan Keyser with his RoS list.
He used Rahn and a nice Mittens list. Worked very well and he got CC in each round.

2ND was Charles with a Menoth Harby list. It was awful to call dice down on the game between 2ND and 3rd but I had to. otherwise Harby could have sat there for days, man is that lil girl insane if you can get her in cover.

3rd was Mark with a Siege list from hell. He executed it very well.

Everyone had fun and i have got the models to mount on the trophies I just need to get it all painted up in gold, silver and bronze.

April was a quiet month we had UPCON in Pretoria (1hrs drive from us) I did not attend and the results have not been posted on our local forums so I can't say who won.

In April we did close the doors to our club. It was cost R1000 a month to rent the spot and the guy paying the rent was not doing anything to get income, so I told him to rather pack up and move into my garage.

Lets just say its worked out well for the both of us. My wife doesn't complain about me having to go out on Game night and the ex-payee now has to travel 20km less a week to play games also he has his weekends free to do as he likes.

This month we had Warcon in Kensington at Warfair. The Warzon club members ran the event and it was great seeing all three major systems at one well run event. There were less participants because the die-hards played their favourite GW system so we only had 8 players. I would just like to mention that this was 2 less than the WHFB players which is a huge shock. You normally have between 12-20 WHFB players at these events.

I will right up about my games in another post forcing me to at least make another post in the next week.

So what is planned for June/July:

Well My wife has told me that she will try WM so I will most likely buy her a starter box of one of the factions.

With that starter box I want to apply for Press Ganger membership so that I can get some prize support for my tourneys that I run.

We will also be playtesting our lists for ICON (The largest convention in RSA).