Turn 3 Campaign

Well I gave it a red hot go fighting the daemons. Ended up losing quite large as the eleven daemons still on the table were worth more than 1000 points to my tiny 240 of my cannon and doomwheel. Was a really good game and I enjoyed it as it was looking pretty good for team skitterpaw for awhile. I think once the bloodletters ran down my stormvermin off the table that was the end of it for me as I was set up to 13th them but the next turn they suddenly weren't on the table. It was an enjoyable game none the less.

There was a bit of an upset with Wood Elves taking out the Dark Elves for a massacre, Orcs stomped Brettonia for a massacre as well. High Elves prevailed over Lizardmen and Ogres massacred Vampire Counts. So I got all my predictions wrong except the one where I lost. Which was the only one I wanted to get wrong.

Turn four should be interesting as real estate to expand is running out for a few players so we should see some aggressive challenges in the hopes of claiming other players tiles. I shall do more predictions once the challenges have been made.

Meanwhile at the Fortress of Solitary Painting

So I have been painting a warhammer fortress for my friend when I'm not doing other stuff. I've got most of it drybrushed now so I thought I would post a photo of it so he could see how it's coming along.

So I have to do two more sections, then do the details like the doors and things. I also want to do some moss effect type thing on it to give it a bit of colour and make it look older. My first attempt at it turned out to be not visible to the human eye so I will have to be a bit bolder on my next attempt, I need to put it all together first to put it places where moss would actually grow so that will have to wait.

In other news I forgot to make predictions for turn three of the campaign, there is three games left to be played, so I will have a stab at them.

Lizards vs High Elves. - I think I will give this to Lizards as I think they might shut down the Elves magic like they did against me in turn 1, but I think it will only be a marginal victory.

Vampire Counts vs Ogre Kingdoms. - I think Vampires will take this one out as it is about time Lee unleashed the full power of the new vampire book.

Daemons of Chaos vs Skaven. - Well I'd like to back myself in this obviously, but I have only played daemons once before at a much smaller size and I lost. I'd like to think the daemons will tire of killing skaven and fall into a peaceful slumber so whatever is left of my skaven can snatch victory. But Daemons will probably win.

Turn 2 Campaign Predictions

So turn 2 of the campaign is under way so I have decided to post some predictions of the various match ups, see if I can get some smack talk going.

Vampire Counts vs Orcs & Goblins - I've seen Lee's VC list and I think it will cause Tim some problems. But I think Tim is due for a big win. I think his Orcs are going to chop Lee's zombies and skellies into little bits and Lee won't be able to bring them back quick enough.

Ogre Kingdoms vs High Elves - I'm giving this one to Sam by quite a high margin. Justin doesn't have the experience to take out Sam's Elves, I fear for his bunker unit as I am sure Sam will pit of shades it at the first opportunity. 

Lizardmen vs Brettonia - I like Gareth's Lizards chances in this match up. I think with cold blooded and magic buffs, (I think Gareth will take lore of light) Danny is going to have a very hard time breaking any of the lizards with his lances.

Daemons vs Dark Elves - This is a tricky one. Maybe their hax cheaty rules will cancel each other out? I don't know but I think I will give this to Matt's Daemons just because I don't think Jason has had much experience against them.

Skaven vs Wood Elves - Probably the most anticipated grudge match of February, I am totally backing myself in this game. Skaven is a bad match up for Wood Elves and I have zero desire to let Trav beat me. I am not looking forward to having to fight his forest spirits, losing however is not an option.

Winning Streak Over

So yesterday I battled Lizardmen for the first time. It was also my first game in the campaign we are doing down here. I don't think I have ever seen so many misfires on artillery dice in a game before, I got 4 or 5 and my opponent got 3. Gareth the Lizard player had a big block of Temple Guard with a Slaan with all kinds of abilities it was a 900 point deathstar taht I spent the whole game trying to kill. He also had 2 blocks of 20 or so Saurus and a Stegadon with a Skink Priest and  2 Salamanders. I had 90 Clanrats, 40 Slaves, 30 Monks and 30 Stormvermin, a couple Warpfire throwers, a Doomwheel and a Warplightning Cannon, BSB a fighty Cheiftan a Warlock Engineer and Skeetz Skitterpaw Grey Seer to the stars.

First off I had the scouts event so Gareth had to deploy everything first. I got the first turn and started whitling away at the Templeguard Bunker with my shooting Doomrocket took out 11 TG. Cannon misfired. I had to discard Sixes so my magic phases were non existent which is why you wont hear me talking about it much. I don't think I got a single spell off the whole game. Basically what happened after that was a lot of comets falling from the sky, my Monks broke 20 Saurus and ran them down Doomwheel took out a Stegadon then a skink priest which was good, My Grey Seer ran away after being Repeatedly Cometed on. I got the Templeguard down to about 6 guys on the last turn but lost combat by 1 or 2 after being debuffed twiced so the game ended in a Draw I was ahead by about 20 points so my winning streak is over. I made an Error with my Doomwheel thinking my clanrats needed help with the Saurus rather than sending it into the temple guard but I wanted another turn of shooting with my cannon and remaining warpfire thrower on the Temple Guard as they are pretty tough customers. Then a comet fell from the sky that I had forgotten about in my eagerness to kill cold things and I lost my Doomwheel AND my Seer ran away for the second time this time off the board and my warpfire thrower was killed as well.

It was a fun close game, Gareth played well and I think we were both deserving of our 2 empire points.