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After an incredibly swingy battle in Game 1, that ended up in a draw, it was onto Game 2. This time I was drawn against a stalwart of the Ninth Age, Ed, the Scottish Knight @Scottish Knight himself! It’s a Team Scotland off, Captain versus the lowly grunt. Ed has decided to abandon his faithful Knights of Equitaine and had instead jumped onto the filthy Greenskins. He had a very close battle in Game 1 in an Orc & Goblin civil war that ended up with plenty dead but Ed came out on top thanks to the objective.

Here’s my list (you can read about my reasons for taking the list in my Game 1 write up if you haven’t read it already)

For round 2 the Deployment is going to be refused flank and the objective is Secure Target. Not one of my favourite objectives but certainly not one of the worst for me.

705 - Minotaur Warlord, General, Light Armour (Destiny's Call), Paired Weapons (Blessed

Inscriptions), Obsidian Rock, Crown of Horns

570 - Soothsayer, Wizard Master, Shamanism, Light Armour (Trickster's Cunning), Hand

Weapon (Ancestral Carvings), Seed of the Dark Forest

475 - Minotaur Chieftain, Greater Totem Bearer, Battle Standard Bearer, Light Armour

(Aaghor's Affliction), Great Weapon

325 - 3 Raiding Chariots

303 - 29 Wildhorn Herd, Shield, Standard Bearer (Legion Standard), Musician, Champion

(Totem Bearer (Gnarled Hide))

273 - 18 Wildhorn Herd, Paired Weapons and Throwing Weapons , Ambush, Musician

642 - 6 Minotaurs, Shield, Standard Bearer (Banner of Speed), Musician, Champion (Totem

Bearer (Black Wing))

240 - Razortusk Chariot

170 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd, Musician

160 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd

150 - 5 Gargoyles, Scout

140 - 5 Gargoyles

115 - Raiding Chariots

115 - Raiding Chariots

115 - Raiding Chariots

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Here’s the list that Ed is using:

610 - Goblin King, Forest Goblin King, Gargantula, Paired Weapons (Shield Breaker), Light

Armour

500 - Orc Shaman, Feral Orc Shaman, Wizard Master, Shamanism, Skull Fetish , Obsidian

Rock

405 - Orc Shaman, General, Feral Orc Shaman, Wizard Master, Pyromancy

120 - Goblin Chief, Forest Goblin Chief, Scuttler Spider, Lance

120 - Goblin Chief, Forest Goblin Chief, Scuttler Spider, Lance

820 - 31 Orc 'Eadbashers, Feral Orcs, Spear, Standard Bearer (Green Tide), Musician,

Champion

315 - 21 Orcs, Feral Orcs, Spear, Musician, Champion

370 - 10 Mounted 'Eadbashers, Feral Orcs, Paired Weapons, Standard Bearer (Stalker's

Standard), Musician, Champion

330 - 3 Goblin Wolf Chariot

210 - 5 Mounted 'Eadbashers, Common Orcs, Shield, Lance, Musician

130 - 5 Goblin Raiders, Common Goblin, Shield

120 - 5 Goblin Raiders, Forest Goblin, Shield

450 - Great Green Idol, Battle Standard Bearer

4500

So Ed has a particularly nasty list I think. The big block of Feral Ord Eadbashers could prove to be difficult for me to shift, especially with the Spear meaning that if I charge him we are going to be striking at the same time, that could just end up in a bloodbath. I need to whittle that block down a bit before I tackle it. Maybe I will have to try the old frenzy baiting and Break the Spirit trick, but I’m fairly sure Ed will see that one coming a mile off.

Double Shaman Master is an interesting choice and gives him lots of choice for spells, Pyro always proves frustrating for me, Scorching Salvo has the potential to wipe out big chunks of my army. Also the new version of Cascading Fire will have a time to shine in this game against the Minos, it will take them down to Agility 1 and make the Orcs either strike first or at the same time, very annoying. That Pyro Shaman master is his general and is also very vulnerable so he will be the target for my ambushers. The Skull Fetish with double Master means that he's going to be generating a load of Veil Tokens each turn so i best be prepared for some horrific magic phases.

The Mounted Feral Orc Eadbashers are not be sniffed at. Ed and I had a practice game before the Masters and that unit was the difference in a key combat, so I can’t ignore them. They are a bit of a glass cannon though with just a 5+ Armour Save and 6++ aegis. If I can get the charge on these guys with anything I should wreck them.

The 2 big monsters in the list are a little scary. The Spider King has what it takes to kill my Soothsayer in one go with all those poison attacks and there isn’t much out there that can do that. I have to make sure my Soothsayer is safe from that charge. The Great Green Idol can be a real pain at time, in our previous game I charged it with my BSB, did 3 wounds, then it killed me in one with a Crush attack. I won’t make that mistake again (although I probably will do it again because it was a solid plan, he just got lucky with the crush attack!).

The Goblin Chariots could be an issue if I allow them to get the charge off. With an advance of 9 they outrange me so I need to be careful of them.

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Jack is joined this time by Matt Perris to go over the first round of the Masters Open, as well as predict what will be going down round 2!

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Hello and welcome to my Battle Report for Game 1 of the UK Masters (I know, I don’t know how I made it either).
So the tournament is the standard 4500 points format and all 6 deployments and all 6 secondary objectives will be used for each round. Interestingly round 4 will be an army swap round where you swap armies with your opponent, I’m dreading that one, fingers crossed for some ID filth that round!
So for this event there was only one army I was going to take, the Beast Herds! I was tempted to take my Warriors as I think they’re a better army but I’ve only made it to the Masters because of my Beast Herds so I owe them this one. The Minotaur Warlord would never forgive me if I didn’t take him.

So here’s my List:
705 - Minotaur Warlord, General, Light Armour (Destiny's Call), Paired Weapons (Blessed
Inscriptions), Obsidian Rock, Crown of Horns
570 - Soothsayer, Wizard Master, Shamanism, Light Armour (Trickster's Cunning), Hand
Weapon (Ancestral Carvings), Seed of the Dark Forest
475 - Minotaur Chieftain, Greater Totem Bearer, Battle Standard Bearer, Light Armour
(Aaghor's Affliction), Great Weapon
325 - 3 Raiding Chariots
303 - 29 Wildhorn Herd, Shield, Standard Bearer (Legion Standard), Musician, Champion
(Totem Bearer (Gnarled Hide))
273 - 18 Wildhorn Herd, Paired Weapons and Throwing Weapons , Ambush, Musician
642 - 6 Minotaurs, Shield, Standard Bearer (Banner of Speed), Musician, Champion (Totem
Bearer (Black Wing))
240 - Razortusk Chariot
170 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd, Musician
160 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd
150 - 5 Gargoyles, Scout
140 - 5 Gargoyles
115 - Raiding Chariots
115 - Raiding Chariots
115 - Raiding Chariots
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Fairly standard to what I’ve been using most of the year except the Minotaur Warlord bought himself some new armour for the occasion and is strutting around in his shiny new Destiny’s Call which means I’ve saved points and can take the Obsidian Rock too for that extra magic protection. The Minotaur Chieftain is now rocking the Aaghor’s Affliction, because who doesn’t love being Res 6 with a 4++ Fortitude save?

The Soothsayer with the Trickster’s Cunning and on Shamanism should make him pretty hard to kill, especially in combat. He’s also carrying around the Ancestral Carvings so he can dish out some damage too. He will mostly be sitting in the unit of 29 Wildhorn with Shields, Legion Standard and the Gnarled Hide Totem. They can be a pretty hard unit to shift and with so much static combat res they can hold their own against most things. I’d like more Wildhorn in the unit but I ran out of points.
I’ve got 3 ambushing units, 2 Longhorn with Halberds and 18 Wildhorn with Paired Weapons and Throwing Weapons. I do think the Paired Weapons on the Wildhorn are a little expensive but if you can get them in the right match up (ambush helps with this) they can really surprise people.

There is a lot of Chariots because they are just so good for their points, 115 points each and they have huge spike potential and zoning threat. I think they’re incredibly gamey and I don’t like taking them but if you can’t bring bent filth to the Masters when can you? I also have a unit of 3 Raiding Chariots because 3 are even better than 1 and a Razor Tusk Chariot to give me even more threat range.

Then its 6 Minotaurs with Shields to baby sit the characters when they need to, and they also hit like a ton of bricks. Thanks to the change to command group they got even cheaper for me, yippee!

Lastly it’s Gargoyles chaff because there ain’t no chaff like flying chaff. Only one with Scout though because I always have one unit hiding behind the Minotaurs to protect them from counter charges and failed charges so there’s little point taking scout on them.

So, enough talk about my list, round 1 was Marching Columns and Hold The Ground, not a bad objective for me but there are better ones. My opponent was randomly drawn and I was drawn against a colossal of the UK Ninth Age scene, Adam “Tanka” Jones, @Tanka. I’ve played Tanka a couple of times before and he’s 20’d me both times but I like to think I learnt from them (I learnt nothing!), so I was ready. This tournie though Tanka decided to randomly determine what army he was going to be bringing by rolling a D16 and going through the armies alphabetically, he rolled an 8 and it was KoE. An army I know very well and have little success with but an army that Tanka hasn’t used in the best part of a decade. After I’m sure much scouring of the KoE book Tanka settled on this list:
560 - Duke, General, Barded Warhorse, Shield, Bastard Sword (Blessed Inscriptions),
Crusader's Salvation, Dragon Staff, Renown, Questing Oath and Bastard Sword
540 - Duke, Barded Warhorse, Shield (Fortress of Faith), Lance (Supernatural Dexterity),
Bastard Sword, Basalt Infusion, Might, Questing Oath and Bastard Sword
385 - Damsel, Barded Warhorse, Wizard Master, Druidism
305 - Paladin, Barded Warhorse, Shield, Battle Standard Bearer (Aether Icon, Aether Icon),
Lance (… [Read More]

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Welcome back to Part 2 of my 2020 review and I shall crack straight on with the next event I attended, House War. This event was very different to previous ones in that everyone was split into 4 groups of 12, the top 2 from each group would progress into the next round which was then a knockout event. I decided to mix my list up a bit and took the following:

710 - Minotaur Warlord, General, Light Armour (Aaghor's Affliction), Paired Weapons (Blessed Inscriptions), Crown of Horns
575 - Soothsayer, Wizard Master, Druidism, Light Armour ( Essence of Mithril), Paired Weapons, Dark Rain, Talisman of the Void
485 - Minotaur Chieftain, Greater Totem Bearer, Battle Standard Bearer, Heavy Armour (Death Cheater), Great Weapon
342 - 24 Wildhorn Herd, Shield, Standard Bearer (Banner of the Wild Herd), Musician, Champion
320 - 3 Raiding Chariots
104 - 8 Feral Hounds
104 - 8 Feral Hounds
95 - 10 Mongrel Raiders
660 - 6 Minotaurs, Shield, Standard Bearer (Banner of Speed), Musician, Champion (Totem Bearer (Black Wing))
405 - 6 Razortusk Herd
230 - Razortusk Chariot
160 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd
160 - 10 Longhorn Herd, Ambush, Halberd
150 - 5 Gargoyles, Scout
4500

Now, I really hate Druidism as Lore, I find it too static and defensive and it just makes for a dull Magic Phase for everyone involved. I took it because I really wanted to take the big unit of Razortusk Herd and I loved the thought of making them Resistance 8!

Game 1 I was drawn against Warriors, so I was off to a bad start. The advantage I had was that my opponent had nothing that could tackle the Minotaur Warlord except for Silver Spike. So I ran the Warlord off solo turn 1, I then reformed my Minotaur unit so that they could contest the centre which was the objective. I did it badly though and didn’t realise I had left my opponent a charge on my Minos with his unit of 3 Barbarian Chiefs on Chariots. He only needed a 9 on the dice and was rerolling from a hill. The Chariots went crashing in and broke them, running them down, because I also forgot that a unit of chariot characters counts as a rank. My Mino Lord was then promptly hit with a 5 diced Silver Spike which did 3 wounds and it was down hill after that. 1 – 19

Game 2 and I was against ID, another bad match up but this time it went extremely well. My opponents dice were horrible and my army just went to town. The Minotaur unit killed an Infernal Engine, a Giant and 22 Disciples. The real stars of the show were my unit of Wildhorn which were charged by a Giant who fluffed his attacks, lost combat and broke. In my previous turn my ambushers had come on behind the gun line, my opponent had turned his Citadel Guard around to face them and shoot it off. This meant that after my Wildhorn and beat the Giant they were now facing the back of the Citadel Guard and they smashed through the enemy lines. Big 19 -1 to me.

Game 3 was against the loathsome VS with the obligatory 3 x 14 of Plague Disciples, Plague Pendulum and 20 Plague Brotherhood, Vermin Daemon and Plague Catapults. I started off very aggressively, too aggressively it seemed as I had left a flank charge on my Minos with a unit of Disciples. Luckily they failed it but I had to flee with my Razortusk Herd and they never rallied again. The Pendulum went into my Minotaur unit and I wasn’t that bothered, I’ve done this fight many a time and the Minotaurs always do the job. Alas, it wasn’t to be this time and I lost combat by 3, I failed my Discipline 6 rerollable break check and got run down. It was all over after that, 0 -20. I played this one really badly and was needlessly aggressive.

Game 4 and I was bottom of the pile with no way of progressing so it was a formality of a game. I was drawn against Ogre Khans, a list that contained a nasty block of 6 Merc Vets, 3 Kin Eaters, Frost Mammoth, Pyro Master, Big block of Bruisers, Bombardiers and some trappers for chaff. I made a long bomb charge with the Minos into the Merc Vets and I thought I was going to smash them off easily, however what I forgot was the aura of the Frost Mammoth, I thought it was 6”, turns out it is 9” and I was within that aura. SO he was striking first and the Merc Vets destroyed the Minotaurs, broke the Lord and BSB and ran them down. Meanwhile the Wildhorn were busy fighting one Kin Eater for about 6 rounds of combat before they broke and got run down, so disappointing. The Razortusk Herd panicked off when they were charged by the Frost Mammoth and it was all over after that. I somehow managed to scrape 3 points from this game at least so 3 -17.

Awful tournament for me, played really badly, I was unprepared and took a list I didn’t particularly like and just reaffirmed my opinion of Druidism. I did like the format of the event, it certainly puts a lot more pressure on those early games. Anyway, onto the next Tournament.



Autumn Assault

So for this tournament it was bespoke maps made by the tournie organiser and they were really good with lots of terrain on the… [Read More]

T9A in Bayern: How does chaffing work? Oder wie lenke ich den Gegner um?
To chaff or not to chaff? Aber vor allem wie funktioniert das mit dem Umlenken überhaupt? Alle diese Fragen werden in diesem Video beantwortet.
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T9A in Bayern: Fading Flames Elimination Rounds (Spiel 1 von LastKnight)
Was sind die ausgehenden Flamen nochmal? Was hat es mit der Eliminierungsrunde auf sich? Wie wird LastKnight in seinem ersten Spiel in dieser Abschneiden?
All dies erfahrt ihr in unsere, ersten Bericht von den Fading Flames. Mehr Berichte von Carsten und anderen Spielern werden folgen.
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We discuss the new points update, Casimir's new Dwarves Holds list and give a sneak peak of the Hobgoblin Supplement! [Read More]