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Post by wargamer on Oct 5, 2023 6:52:49 GMT -5
I guess storage eventually would become a problem. Especially when you are as enthusiastic for skulls as Khorne's boys can be. Do you index them somehow or just a pile for everything and everything in its pile?
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Post by DarrenB on Oct 5, 2023 8:43:42 GMT -5
Great game, man. Yeah that turn two was rough. Three failed charges was rough. But you played a great game and blocked my teleports really well.
Khorne was pleased with the carnage. Who'd have thought a bunch of guys with axes would do well against trees?! Hahaha.
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Post by pleaman on Oct 5, 2023 8:59:37 GMT -5
That was a great Khorne/Sylvaneth summary.
A few streets away the Idoneth Deepkin squared off with a very resilient Seraphon army.
Turn 1 saw the lizards take solid objective control across the board. The aelves were skeptical of their ability to pierce their scaley hides, and stayed off the objectives to take chip shots from afar.
With the flood tides surging forward in turn two the Deepkin made their move, stealing the pulse and doubling into a strong position. Eels and sharks were moving all over the board scoring and killing wherever they pleased until they slammed hard into a bastiladon. Killing their momentum, and most of the fish.
180 points of tanky Dinoaur took down 400 points of sea life. The game took on a panicky feeling for IDK as the Slaan was able to blizzard another 500 points off the board in back to back turns.
A desperate turn 5 hail-mary teleport and charge failed, and the Seraphon held their ground to take a 24-20 win.
A hard fought battle and a great game.
Good luck to Mike in the next round.
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Post by Yatesie on Oct 5, 2023 12:26:46 GMT -5
Great game! Lots of fun and very close at the end. Thanks for hosting!
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Post by distractedcarnifex on Oct 5, 2023 16:55:32 GMT -5
I guess storage eventually would become a problem. Especially when you are as enthusiastic for skulls as Khorne's boys can be. Do you index them somehow or just a pile for everything and everything in its pile? While Khorne does not care from where the blood flows, he is a little OCD about skulls…
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Post by Yatesie on Oct 13, 2023 7:13:06 GMT -5
And then there were 4...
Iain vs Kevin Mike vs Derek
Mission: The Ice Fields
Contact info will be sent shortly.
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Post by distractedcarnifex on Nov 2, 2023 19:21:14 GMT -5
Stonehorns faced Khorne Daemons across the icefield. Crisp air, ice hits metal. They were going to play in the big leagues.
The Blades of Khorne, wary of the threat range of the Stonehorns, sent a squad of Blood Warriors across the board to tie things up. They lost two of their squad to Noblar shenanigans before being charged to death. Various Stonehorns trampled Blood Reavers and Fleshhounds.
The Daemons were now penned up in their territory - a strange sensation. Charging Bloodletters showed what they could do taking down a Stonehorn, but a 20 strong unit failed a charge into a second rolling up a double 1 - and taking 4 MWs in the process. The Daemons thought they could then Murderlust their way into tying up the remaining Stonehorns. Not so fast. Shooting and a random charge meant that Bloodcrushers and Bloodletters were turned into red paste on the ice.
The Daemons called upon their friends and took down a Stonehorn, but in turn lost units including a Slaugterpriest. This went back and forth for two turns, fresh Daemons killing big monsters but then dying in turn.
The final turn saw the Bloodletter of Unfettered Fury and the Stonehorn leader dueling it out, both severely wounded but still alive. Their armies wiped out save two ice hounds hiding in a corner.
Khrone was pleased with the Blood Tithe, but the score showed an Ogor victory.
A great game! I was on my backfoot the whole time, but those Bloodletters kept wanting to show us what they could do. The highlight was when my Bloodthirster rolled up a double 1 (and I had already done a reroll for another squad) and took 5 MWs while failing a charge. I could just see him slipping on the ice and going down hard. Safety starts with you!
Good luck in the finals! Khorne blesses you.
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Post by Typhus on Nov 2, 2023 20:32:03 GMT -5
It was the bloodiest battle I've ever seen. I'm absolutely stoked for the inevitable rematch - maybe one where fewer daemons crash through thin ice.
It was an honour, and a privelege!
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Post by wargamer on Nov 4, 2023 11:39:45 GMT -5
That sounds like a pretty epic match
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Post by distractedcarnifex on Nov 4, 2023 19:46:48 GMT -5
That sounds like a pretty epic match It was an epic match - this was the highest level of mutual assured destruction that I have experienced in AoS!
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Post by Hi I'm Derek on Nov 5, 2023 14:05:34 GMT -5
Almost at the end! Me and Mike played the penultimate match and the Kragnogor stampede feasted on a mountain of lizard flesh All that's left is one final match, ogor versus ogor - may the best ogor win.
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Post by Typhus on Nov 6, 2023 0:30:38 GMT -5
Well, if that wasn't the most Age of Sigmar game I've ever played.
The battleplan: Towers in the Tundra. The armies: the Kragnos-worshipping Tyrants vs the atheist Stonehorns. We're not going back to Sunday school, you can't make us.
Tyrants are forced to go first. Stonehorns somehow squish more cleanly into a Battle Regiment. We'll roll with it.
Tyrants move up first, attempt a few long-bomb charges, a pair of them make it in and wreak havoc on the gnoblar screens, but get chewed up by broken glass on the way in. They get picked up with incidental shooting and charging during the Stonehorns' first turn. One of these was the Tyrant general. That'll come back to bite me. Reprisal is a Battle Tactic, watch out for it!
Turn two - a cheeky Stonehorn double. Picks up all of the Leadbelchers and most of the Tyrants. But then - the unexpected. Kragnos waddles over to the Finest Hour Frostlord on Stonehorn, ka-pow, 30 Mortal Wounds on the charge. Sorry, it does what? d6*d6 mortal wounds, you say. Huh. Piles into the Stonehorn beside him, whallops him with some nasty -3 Rend attacks following a cheeky Roar.
And then the Tyrants flip the double. All hell breaks loose. Kragnos runs up to the Thundertusk, who manages a 5" Redeploy away, but it's all for naught. That 3d6" charge is murder, I tell ya. 18 more Mortal Wounds from his charge. Kragnos would eventually fall to the last remaining Stonehorn, but by that point it was basically all over - picking up three Monsters means he paid for himself, and cutely scored revenge for the General slain on turn one (sent into the gnoblar screen, pour one out for a real hero).
Final Score: 24-21 in Derek's favour. All hail Kragnos!
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Post by Yatesie on Nov 7, 2023 14:03:10 GMT -5
And just like that, the second league has come to a conclusion - congratulations Derek!
Thanks to everyone who participated.
For the random prize draw for participants ($50 gift card to Nexus), Tyler is the winner.
Looking forward to the next event at Nexus in December and I hope to see you there!
Mike
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Nov 7, 2023 15:52:19 GMT -5
Thanks for running it, was a lot of fun!
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Post by wargamer on Nov 7, 2023 16:43:46 GMT -5
Yay!
Thanks for running the league. I enjoyed my games and got to play with a couple opponents I have not yet encountered.
Good times
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