ICON 2010.

ICON is South Africa's Gencon. It is held in a hall in the north of Johannesburg in July every year. It has about 10 Vendors and 2 rooms of Magic players, a marquee and hall for Roleplayers, a hall for Fantasy Players and outside in the sunshine the 40K guys get to play. This year the Fantasy turnout was not so great so the warmachine guys got put in with them.

I know it isn't even a 10th of any overseas Cons but it is all we have.

It was a hectic weekend. 4 Games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.

The Saturday games were played with normal steam roller rules.

Game 1 (Mathew Putter, Everblight, Rhyas) Killbox

Played: Kraye

Man this was a fast. He moved everything up and started harassing my army. I got a "Feat-turn" charge off with my centurion and missed with 3 attacks....man it was unlucky. I did manage to kill the Carni with transfers. I was about to start my next turn when dice down was called and because he had more points in the box I lost...oh well.

Game 2 (Henry Haung, Skorne, Xerxis) Capture the Flag.

Played: Kraye

I can not deal with ARM 22 8 damage block models and this army was full of them this was just one game/army that I looked at and could not think of a way to defeat it...I went for the beasts to try remove all the fury but alas I failed and the way Henry played Xerxis he was very fury efficient. I called my feat with the Ceturnion and the Stormclad charging the front weapon master, multi-wound guys with shield wall and did not kill a single model, i missed most of my attack rolls. This game I lost as well.

Game 3 (Nuno Afonso, Pirates, Bart) Outflank, Outfight, Outlast.

Played: pNemo

Nuno is still trying to figure out his Pirates and has only played a hand full of games. This was a easy enough game for me. I felt bad when I pulsed and only 2 pressgangers survived.....taking Doc and The Boson down with them. I had the two points at the end of his 2nd turn. We carried on playing for fun and I pulsed once more on to Bart and sustained into him till he was dead.

Game won with Max CP.

Game 4 (Mike Geyser, Trollbloods, Grim Angus) The Gauntlet

Played: Kraye

This game is the best game I have had to date. Man is was Hard. Once again High Arm and multiple wounds. He had the stone bearer a full unit of Champs and the battle box with a mauler.
Once again I called my feat and charged the mauler with the Centurion hoping to take him out and hit the champs with the stormclad. WOW, hit the mauler twice out of 5 with 3 dice. Did some damage but was unable to kill him....the Stormclad took out 2 champions but they mad their tough rolls. My hunters were moving along the flank trying to get to Grim but had two Impalers after them.

I the end he move grim up with his force and took out everything but Kraye and the sentinel had 4 blocks left. While the Impaler's moved to hit the Hunters, he critical slammed one of them but missed the other. We both noticed at the exact same time that he had moved EVERTHING out of his box and the smile on my face said it all.

I knew the champs and the mauler would hit Kraye next turn so I moved the Sentinel up to block the path. I then had the hunter run up and moved the other hunter its 6 inches into the box scoring me a point.

He now had 3 beasts on full fury and left the Impaler's with 1 each and one failed its threshold check and frenzied into the other doing a nice bit of damage. The unfrenzied impaler moved into the box and tried to Crit slam one of the hunter out of the box but failed thanks to them being on a hill so Def 16. He also move Grim back on to the edge of the box. He charged the champs in and because of the Sentinel , which died, and only 2 got to Kraye sitting on 4 focus (Arm 21). He then Pushed the Mauler to the max and charged into Kraye. He beat him around like a rag doll but wasn't able to kill him, he even tried to headbutt me but I just smiled thanks to Steady. The axer then tried with a charge but missed with an attack leaving Kraye with 2 wounds left.

I then assigned 2 focus to each Hunter. Slammed the impaler with the 1st hunter out of the box. and walked up to Grim with the 2nd and pushed him out of the box.

Game won with Max CP.

Now because of the two excellent wins I was in the top 8 which allowed me to play in the Hardcore on the Sunday.

SO Sunday was Hardcore....5 min turns.

This was the most intense gaming I have done in a long time, I do not think this is my cup of tea but I will give it another go in future. All games were played with my pNemo list as it was
fully painted.

Game 5 (PJ, Circle of Orboros, Mohsar)

The game went very well I could have stopped the assassination run if I was paying more attention but Alas I failed on my own attempt and got beaten buy a blind old man. Lots of things went a bit wrong but I haven't faced Circle properly before. I will just need to go through their stuff for next time.

Game was lost and so I was knocked out.

Game 6 (Chad Parsons, Everblight, PThaggy)

I'n this game I realised how horrible the time limits/priorities are I charged with my Stormblades into his units and did some nice damage but ran out of time before I could move the THead up and use the 5 focus I had on him to force Thaggy to transfer. In the end something happened to Nemo and I lost.....its all a blur.

For the 7th Game the bottom 4 from the Harcore got shifted back into the Sunday Steamroller double game (Because I begged like a little girl).

Game 7 (Mathew, Everblight, Rhyas & Martin, Protectorate of Menoth, pSev) Doubles, Destruction

I played my pNemo and my team mate Thomas playe Magnus the Traitor.

This was a fun game of cat and mouse. With Nemo on 10 focus a turn it was so awesome. Thomas went for the everblight while I took on Sevy. I was lucky enough to make it into his lines and cause insane destruction with minimal casualties but alas Magnus' force got horribly beaten and our first pillar got destroyed by the Raptors. After i had taken the pillar on my sid of the board I split my for into 2 so that I could defend our pillar and hunt done thiers. He hit the pillar with the Raptors and it had 3 damage blocks left. I went after them with the THead and was able to kill them.

In the end I had my THead, Stormclad, Stormblades, Arlan and pNemo left and Mathew had a Seryph and Rhyas left. He conceded the victory.

In the end it was a awesome weekend but I think 1 day events are the way to go with Warmachine as this does not wear you out as much....I was in bed but 20:30 on Sunday night.

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.