UK Games Expo Part 2: Lords of War tourney time!

As promised here is my account of Sunday's exploits at the expo!

After about 4hrs sleep Captain Winter and Sherwin had to be up for the WMH Masters tourney which was kicking off about 8am! We had all been in the bar till nearly 2am so it wasn't the best prep for an event haha, luckily my Lords of War tourney wasn't until 1pm so I had plenty of time to relax and come back to the land of the living.

So I rock up to the Marquee with my game-face on and this is the scene that awaits me:

 

 

 

 

 

Oasis Academy School in da house!!!!!!! A few of the teachers played the game and got the kids involved so they organized a coach trip down for the day haha. I spotted a few customized decks being run and was informed that the kids had plenty of experience so I had a fight on my hands!

 

Lords of War Gary displays the Champion's Sword to the crowd with his best Conan pose!



The Lords of War facebook page has a lot of great photos from the event so head over there for a browse of the action and find out about upcoming events.

 



So after 3 rounds of intense action I find myself in the final vs the Mighty Kenzie, he had smashed his way to the top with some decisive victories and had plenty trash talk along the way hehe. One of his teachers asked how much practice he had put in during half term and he said 10 matches a day... boy got decication and the skills!

 

 

 

After a very close game I was just able to get ahead on points for the win!

 

 

My thanks to the guys for running a cracking event, well organized and loads of fun which was the main thing. Also to Joe, Megan, Gabbie and Kenzie for some great games during the tourney and a big shout out to Oasis Academy!

 



 

Future Warmasters right there!



  



Bushido: Bunkermitzu 2014!

Yesterday was the second annual Bunkermitzu Bushido tournament, this year held at 4TK Gaming in Colchester. Numbers were down a few on last year with inflexible work shifts and sudden child related sickness defeating a number of sign ups at the end but we still managed a decent number of eight players to fight it out over three rounds to decide the Champion. I ended up having to play rather than just run the event so brought along the most silly list I could think of with a horde of kairai zombies and the Puppet Master... he was only included and I didn't own 50 rice of super cheap zombies haha

 

Round 1

The opening game was the Seiygo scenario where combatants had to fight for control of three idols across the centre. I was paired off with Mr Stu, a relatively new player sporting a decent looking temple force. he secured the first vp before my guys had got half way towards them! Stu had a commanding position before the bloodlust set in and Master Akari charged a Kairai farmer who after some dice of destiny proceeded to murder the offending raccoon in one hit haha. More epic dice followed over the next turn or so as my zombies were able to force the monks back and take control of the objectives, gradually killing off Stu's fighters until only Tsutemi remained to play his mandolin thing as his doom approached...

 

Round 2 

 

 

This game was played using the Ryodo scenario where there are three small zones to control diagonally across the board. I was paired off with my good friend Darren Lysenko, fellow painter and owner of Flare Miniature Painting and his amazing Ito force. I plonked Araka squarely in my home zone stopping any enemy from contesting it and set the rest of my forces to go for the other two... 3 kairai headed for Darren's zone held by Kaihime and Naoko, and the rest of my force went force the neutral zone to face off against Itsunagi, Kenzo and Sakura! Darren scored the first vp as my slow slow zombies couldn't get to his zone in time but we fought on to cancel each other out in turn 4 and me scoring the vp in turn 6 having killed off a few Ito... just not enough!

 

 

 

 Round 3

 

 

Round three was the Ichi no Riten scenario with its two large zones and VIM to create an interesting mission to test people out. I faced of against my perpetual nemesis Sherwin and his dastardly Silvermoon Trade Syndicate. The STS are a difficult faction to initially master but Sherwin has done an awesome job with them and was also last years Champion so my legion of shambling turds had an up hill struggle... luckily with nearly the entire force being dead, frightening and not going to be using kii feats, the worst of the STS Bull**** was avoided haha. Both forces came out of the gate strongly with Sherwin sending the majority of his warband at the left zone that I had most of my guys in to create a grind that my Cults resilience eventually started to take its toll on the two Buto Warriors. The right zone was all silvermoon tho as Manu defended like a boss against 3 kairai for pretty much the whole game, keeping me well out of scoring in that zone. Turn 4 saw a comedy highlight as Kato engaged Wasapu, the STS VIM and turned him into a zombie, only for Tadao (My VIM) to be taken out in the next combat after I got the bloodlust going for a kill on the stricken Fitimurua... Thems the breaks, and Sherwin was the deserved winner and retained the Bunkermitzu crown!


 It was late in the day when we finished up so I didn't get a chance to get awards photos done but below are shots taken of the winners trophy sword and the Best Painted Bokken:

 

 

 

 

The guys all said they had had a great time at the event and are eager for a third one this sort of time next year. This will be going ahead as will a number of other Bushido events over the next 12 months ;-D

 

 

Final standings for Bunkermitzu 2014 were as follows:

 

1st Sherwin STS

 

2nd Undead_Ich Cult

 

3rd Darren Lysenko (Best Painted) Ito

 

4th Shearov Temple

 

5th Rid (Me!) Cult

 

6th MrMccook Temple

 

7th MrStu Temple

 

8th Tom Wall (Spoon of Enlightenment) Ito

South East UK Masters 2014 Report

The dust has settled, sleep is caught up and the toys are safely packed away... also, the missus has gone out and im working evenings so I have a fair bit of time to get this all down haha.

My 3 lists were: Dr Arkadius Ark list T4, Midas T4 and Lord Carver T4

 

Game 1 vs Brett Wilkie (Circle)

Last years winner, Team England player and one of the top players in the country hahaha, not fancying my chances in this one! I went with Arkadius as I figured those free boosted frenzies and access to both primal and forced evo would help hit the high def circle minis. Bret rocked a cracking pmorv list with tough zombie druids, blood trackers and a selection of beasties.

Circle jam the lines with the clouds, I can kill a few druids but not enough to break through quickly.

Near the end now, after some epic dice the circle get the advantage as my beasts wittle away. I have a last go at assassination but it fails with counter magic, ghetorix is about 9 from Dr A so I concede.

A top game and a great learning experience against a true master, Brett was a great opponent and I look forward to playing him again in the future.

 

Game 2 vs Dave Downs (Cryx)

 

 

Dave is a mate from the Bunker, ive only played him a couple of times though and he really knows his stuff (Dave has also just been nominated for the WTC so congrats mate!). I went with Midas, figuring cryx would advance quick and kill my stuff... just what midas wants with a ranged heavy battle group to swarm in range of his reasonably fragile casters. Dave went with pSkarre, loads of dudez and a couple of jacks. 

 

 

Our lines close, I had my slaughter housers to murder his satyris, brigands poping bane knights all over the shop... Dave held back and went for the scenario win, camping like a boss as I was jammed in! At one point he had 6 knights charge or engage a road hog and did about 10 damage to it, he only killed 2 rabos so my plan went out the window and I struggled  to grind through quick enough.

 

 

One point of hilarity was Midas cursing the bane knights.... in your face Cryx hahaha!

 

Game 3 vs Xavier Lindsey (Convergence)

 

 

Xavier was rocking the cogs and admitted he was struggling to get to grips with them having not long picked them up... I had run them for a 6 months myself and regularly play against Sherwins robots so had a good idea what to expect. Xavier went for Lucant to armour up and I went with Carver for the extra damage and armour.

 

 

I only took the one pick in this as I was knackered and forgot, but it came right down to the wire with Xavier clocking whilst I had about 15 left on it. high lights for me we brigands with quagmire being pains and jamming his lines, and one super star charging the prime axiom on lucants feat turn at dice-14 and laying a point on him hahahaha.

 

He managed to get a tow cable on carver who transferred the damaged and then ran away in my turn to escape for the win.

 

Game 4 vs Kelvin Jones (Cygnar)

 

Kelvin is a top bloke who I played last year with cogs getting a cheeky aurora assassination on ehaley. This time he went with eCaine and me with Dr A, I figured hyper aggressive would help against shooting and Dr A could camp transfers and sit with the gorax.

 

 



 

 

His list had the ubiquitous boomies with arcane shield on one flank which toughed like magic all game, Kelvin even swapped his dice over after about 10 consecutive passes but they stilled kept on haha. I struggled to break out away from the tempest blazers and caines feat cleared the warhog and road hog who was about 2mm short on his spray to get caine.

 

 

Kelvin cleared me out of his zone again to dominate for the win, another top game that I look forward to a rematch for!

Game 5 vs Rob Ridley (Legion)

 

 

Last game of the event and I get to fight legion for some flags, Rob goes with pAbby T4 and me with Carver again. Rob and his mates had missioned up from Southampton and I was worn out from 4hrs disturbed kip (that's to gwennie getting up throughout the night!!) so were both glad this was the final match up. 

Quite late on, I had feated , Brine had smashed a raek and a carnivean to paste but whiffed his last one on abby... sad times for Brine who died next turn and again wiffed his kill strike. That metal ring around the angel closed to the flag really did me in, it was a blight storm that properly stopped me in my tracks... the hogs couldn't hit def 15+ legion with no boosts!

 

 

I was going to lose on scenario and time so I figured sod it, and carver went for the assassination... didn't go well and abby got the crit for no transfers of tough and a couple of hits later it was bacon sarnies all round.

 

 

 

Well 1 win by clocking and 5 defeats is not a great performance but I had a lot of fun and hopefully gave all my opponents a decent game too! My thanks to Pressganger Kev for running a cracking event and to wayland games for hosting, cheers chaps.

 

Sadly I managed to delete the pic of me celebrating my best in faction result so I cant post that up :-(

 

Next year Sherwin is planning to take his minions so I will have some competition... looks like I may need some gators of my own next time ;-D

 



 

Updates

Been away from the paint station for a bit, ive had lots of stuff to do with the kids and i attended the RIOTBOWL on the 18/19th with the Devastation.... came 5th! 2/1/2 were my results, cracking event hosted by the RIOTS club in romford. Its gonna be a bigger field next year but hopefully i can repeat the performance.

In other news, 6th ed 40k is out.... i'll pass on that thank you!

Work on the Daikinee will be starting up this week as what free hobby time ive had has been playing warmachine, 2 wins out of 3 with Lord Carver and the pigz are on a roll hahahaha

Crunched!

Bit of a delay, been very busy with work this week since coming back from the crunch... stupid managers and their stupid faces!

First outings with chaos was less than succesful, 2 wins and 4 defeats... mostly crushing defeats against flair teams :-(

Not to be disheartened tho its a cracking tourney run by my mate rodders of the NAF and sudbury wargamers (www.sadwc.co.uk), will be continuing to attend with the Bunker crew for the forceable future!

Got 2 more tournies and the league to do... its gonna be a long league hehe

Its Crunch Time!

The Carrot Crunch is upon us, this time tomorrow the first 3 games will be done and hopefully Lashor Devastation will have been victorious... but i doubt it!

I will be keeping a diary of results and will post up my progress (or lack of) in the evening.

The Devastation to hit the road!

Its the season of Slaanesh for my blood bowl calender, a year of using my new Chaos team; Lashor Devastation. Ive negotiated with the missus to go to 3 tournaments over the coming months, the RIOT Bowl in Woodford Green, the Carrot Crunch in Sudbury and our very own Bunker Bowl in Chelmsford.

I'll be publishing reviews and progree reports as to how well/badly i get on... hopefully some casualty awards are in the offing!



Before these away days, its nearly time for the CBBBL V to start, our 5th league, running for 10 games with the possibility of continuing, 1 game a week over 4 months, culminating a week or two before the Bunker Bowl at the end of september/october