Home of the Horselord's GT
It has been awhile and I am so sorry for that but life has gotten crazy, This is a report from a little while ago where we had a GT. I decided i wanted to bring spam dwarf rangers. I also saw on some forums people bashing my beloved iron guards so I decided to take 8 of them as well. I ended up with 3 captains, a king, 2 khazad guards, 1 banner, 7ish shield men, 4 rangers with throwing axes, 13 rangers with longbows, and 2 with twohanded weapons. It was a nice 42 models with 14 throwing weapons and 13 bows.
Game 1: White Council-Lords of Battle
This matchup genuinely scared me. I have no strike against all heroes in the kill points mission. He had Elrond, Gandalf, Sauruman, Radagast on sleigh and Thrain. I set up all spread out and decided to not fight at all. The game ended and their had been 2 combats all game. I just shot early, chipped off a found of the chariot and a fate of Thrain in the first turn. He also had blinding light up every single turn but 2.... his Gandalf rolls were crazy. I ended the game with 23 total "wounds through" 7 of which were on his chariot which he kept renewing. i also took out Gandalf's fate, Saruman's fate and one wound, and 1 fate off Elrond. I lost 9 models and got a major victory round one by just maneuvering my army so they were always just barely to far away to blast. The funniest part was it was so weird... i didn't spend a single might point the entire game.
Game 2: Reclamation of Osgiliath-Command the battlefield.
I lost priority and got sent on first. I immediately covered all the quarters but one and had 1 warband off the board. he went on all all came in on one spot. I immediately set up and shot out a couple rangers. somehow his luck went crazy and he started outshooting me when he wounded me on 6s to my 5s on him even when he had 4 less bows to begin with. I ran in and my iron guards and captains literally quartered him in 4 turns of combat. he ended the game with 5 models of his 39 alive and i won by holding 2 completely 1 with more then double and the other keeping square 0. I also broke him without being broken for a massive win.
Game 3: Fog of War-Ride out
This game was another one that was super interesting as soon as i saw the list and scenario. He had Aragorn and Theoden and 24 models 2 banners and all but 4 royal guard or something ridiculous. In fog of war having to kill Aragorn with no strike against a cavalry army... interesting... in the one turn of shooting i got I chipped off 1 fate and 2 might from Aragorn simply because he didnt want to lose his horse and spending more fate in fog of war to him seemed not worth it compared to 2 might. I set my line up in this pure web formation so his initial cavalry charge didnt get much guys almost at all. Crucially it allowed my king and captains to run in where they wanted. I was able to set it up and run a warband around the back forcing 4 of his riders to charge back across the table 10 inches to charge them then the 12 ran around wrapped and killed them. That captain and 2 guys ran off and grabbed my terrain piece while I simply ran the others back into the backside of the Ride out force. It went interestingly as we chopped each other up both broke but then it got very interesting i finally set it up and used the last might i had on the table on my king to combat and trap Theoden with 2 normal rangers... with the trap they ended up chopping Theoden's head off in one go giving me even more VP's thankfully his target of mine survived and my other captain survived spending no fate giving me a nice win but under a major as he scored his terrain to keep the points from doubling. This was such a cool matchup as my opponant and I have been at the top of the league but somehow had dodged each other in every event previous while we were consistently taking 1s and 2nd in a back and forth fashion. So we got our game in and his ride out eventually did fall.
Game 4: Dragons of the North-Retrieval
This game... broke me. we traded shots he killed 4 or 5 guys the first turn with fire breathe i chipped off 2 fate... he then ran in and then... every single combat except 2... rolled a 6 and lost one combat all game. that combat was the last fight of the game when it was a captain and 2 dude versus his leader and they did 3 wounds and he had already used 2 fate from shooting so he took courage checks and failed on eof them and fled. The owrst part was i had 5 models in range of his objective and a captain... ALL failed their courage checks and were outside of the harbingers range. If the captain had passed (with his will as well) then they all would have stayed and it would have been 8-8 draw worst case scenario or if i could get it back i could have won... but it was not to be and with all 6 courage checks on that side failing (i also failed 7 dwarves that were protecting mine) i ended up losing the game for a minor loss to the dragons of the north.
Game 5: Rivendell-Breakthrough
This game was high stakes. There was the potential for first as a combination of draws and other things had left only one player (dragons of the north) undefeated and several on 3 wins 1 loss, So if he took a big hit and me or my opponent got a big win we would be able to overtake him by differential given he took a major loss and one of us a major win. regardless it was for second place. Going into this game I was chill, I thought second was the highest i could do and was like ok lets have fun. I set up a warband to protect mine he started setting up at the middle line scared of all the stories he had hear do of the 13 elven dwarf bows and the 14 throwing axes that had dismantled a blinding light hero list in the kill point mission. I set it up so i could shoot his main block of troops and the only way to shoot my archers was through a lane in the walls from the side objective so he placed Arwen and her 11 archers there so they could threaten my archers. thankfully this plan i made worked perfectly as i had one more captain and his 8 warriors that dropped right in the face of Arwens isolated warband of all archers. yes i was outnumbers yes they were elves... but they were separated by at least 2 turns from the rest of her army and i would have free range to shoot the elves as they ran to support Arwens warband. I ran in first turn all my throwing weapons failed so i new the wrath could mess this up. Thankfully i had 2 might and a will so i knew as long as i rolled a 4 on my resist i would be fine for a turn. She dropped the channeled wrath and somehow i rolled the natural 6. i followed that up with my 2 iron guards each getting kills, losing 1 dwarf and killed 2 other elves. I also beat back Arwen. The following turn i ran in again and this time did even more damage getting 2 throwing weapon kills and pinned the rest up. I ran in another warband to support the following turn as Elrond and his elves were now a turn away from the fight. This allowed my king and his warband to clear out the 4 elves on the other side objective and have a free run at his back objective supported by 6 elves. I pretty much just walked through all of them and shot 4 or 5 of Elronds elves out with my bows and then when combat hit i mitigated damage from Elrond finished off Arwens warband and then munched up a lot of Elrond's troops and killed arwen. With that i had the majority on that side objective, completely had the other side objective, my own and a sneaky elf had survived 3 turns against a king a iron guard and a khazad guard to keep his objective contested I still ended up with a massive win keeping my banner alive.
Meanwhile on the top table next to me I noticed... the dragons had had it lucky so far with their scenarios being, lords of battle, hold ground, Fog of War, Retrieval and now breakthrough... their luck however had run out with matchups... they were facing the balrog... Who simply went and grabbed all 4 objectives then killed the 3 dragons 1 at a time... leaving that table with a 20-1 major victory to the balrog. At this moment i thought he balrog player had the event... turns out he had 1 minor loss, 3 major wins same as me... but one draw instead of a minor win. This meant I was tied in TP's with the dragons but had a MUCH higher VP differential giving me the chip and another GT win this year.
I will be attending Nova open in just 2 short weeks and hope to provide just as much fun and wacky games and maybe have a decent showing. Still not quite sure what to expect but we will find out. I am bringing a fun little list showcasing the Lake-Town Militia as my core units... the unit that everyone says is horrible now... which is why i chose them...
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