Hi Guys
Here is my wrap up of the Nicon event in Auckland. Again I apologise if the details are off, I am going totally off memory here. In future events i will be taking photos and notes.
So yeah good fun tourney, well run. Except for the guy who turned up with BOTTLES as Ogres, all armies were pretty nice.
My list was pretty much the same, just dropped the 4+ ward on the Sorceror for a 2+ reroll. Also took Metal magic instead of Hashut, as it is a lot more versatile.
Ok so onto the games.
G1 - Reid Pittams - VC - Dawn attack
Reid emailed me and asked for a grudge, so i thought may as well. He is a nice guy and really knows his stuff, so was looking forward to starting off the tourney with a really good game. Reid was running a knight bus army with a unit of 14 Black Knights with 4 Vamps in, some zombies, skellies, bats, and some wolves.
Running Metal on my lvl 4, I was instantly liking the choice. I was scared shitless of this unit...but I had a plan. Key for me was that his vamp lvl 4 had vamp magic, but only one other lvl1 had vamps to, so my plan was to searing doom the bus, kill as many knights as i could, hopefully gettting the unit below or at 5 models, then drob some bombs on the vamp lords head. So first magic phase was a big one for me, and i got big searing doom and Final Transmutation off on the bus...around 8 dead knights and a GOLDEN BSB!!! Then i dropped dreadquake and deathshrieker on general but he passed both 4+ wards.
His turn all I wanted to stop was the lvl4 casting Invok, so i scrolled it. Then in my turn i killed lvl 4 general with mortar. CRUMBLE CRUMBLE CRUMBLE.
Funny moment of game, the 2 remaing vamps and about 7 BK charge 20 Hobs, tries to cast with lvl 1, miscast kills both Vamps and all BK!!! Hobgoblins sit there shitting themselves...
So yeah, big 20 nil to me. Think I lost 1 Hob unit.
G2 - Mike King - Liz - Battle for the pass
Really enjoy playing Mike, nice guy. I think he was up against it with the scenario. So plan was to get the destroyer into the saurus, shoot off chaff early, the concentrate on the Slann from around turn 3.
Ok so Mike gets first turn, pushes everything foreward. He 6 dices bubble timewarp, cant let that go so use scroll first turn again. My first I charge Hobs into chameleons, and shoot off all the skinky chaff , Oh, and in the Magic phase i cast final transmutation onto the Slaan bobbing about by himself...GOLD SLAAN BABY!!!! Destroyer kills 1 unit of saurus with a scar vet in, and another unit down to 1 guy, but he gets away. Shoot off Steg. So i am lookin at another 20 nil...... last turn my daemonsmith in combat with 1 salamander, so i don't want him to die, so 3 dice glittering robes on him....double 6 miscast...roll a 4, its Ok earthing rod...4.....3....dead level 4, who also kills BSB. FUCK!!!! Last turn 20 nil to a 12 - 8 win.
G3 - Michael Fenner - WOC - Watchtower
So WOC really don't like Metal magic. I won roll off but didn't put anything in the tower. I made a big mistake in deployment and placed my Centaurs outside of LD of general. First turn shoots them with Hellcannon, and panic off the board. My turn I charge dogs with destroyer, and just shoot things. Kill Hellcannon with mortar. He gets destroyer with a unit of 18 or so tz warriors with lvl 4 shadow, bsb and killy lord in there. Target lvl 4 and kill it. Destroyer dies. Target unit with everything, leave it with 1 CW left. Turned the chaos lord and BSB to GOLD!! He tries to hide the last CW behind a building, but i turn him to gold to.
He got watchtower, but i killed everything else for a 15 -5 win. Should have been more if i had of deployed proper. Good game against a really nice guy.
At end of Day 1 I am on 47/60 points and in first place. So just like Horned gobbo I am leading the field after day 1. Do I learn from my mistakes.
