NJ Warmaster tourney

        Saturday we have a new Warmaster circuit kicking off. A dude Tim, never meet him before popped up looking for players and to establish a community. He has been busting balls to build and kit out tables. I am all about developing new players/player base. Dudes are always falling out, life and shit. As CPO White would say "Don't fuck this up."
        Sadly the first tourney is scheduled the same weekend as NJCon and 2 weeks before the NorthEast Epic tourney. I was going to run Epic at NJCon. Then work started to mess with me. I got those clowns sorted too late for NJCon scheduling. Then Tim popped up.
        I know most the Boston group buried their heads complaining scheduling and family and summer and whatever. None of which effects me, but it must be crushing other dudes. My wife is sweet as tea and cool as a MoFo. Hopefully the PA dudes muster.

I am playing Tomb Kings. My list;
4 bows
4 spear
3 cav
2 chariot
2 bone giant
2 bolt throw
2 skull chucker
2 birds
4 priest
1 dragon
1 ring of magic
1 tomb king


         I play Frank in the first game. He had big fat dudes, but not giants, can't remember the name. No picture of his list. Nor do I know what any of the unit are called. We play the "Burn the Town" scenario. Poor Frank had too many order failures. Plus I was able to spoon feed him a unit at a time to slow his advance on my town. My fliers got to the town and got the VPs. Tomb Kings 12 - 0

         The second game I rotated out. Eric's girlfriend was a tag along. I talked her into a demo for warmaster. We kept it simple. No fliers, no monsters. No seal clubbing. Only INF, CAV, ART.
       
        After the 3 turn, we scrapped the order results. This was done to get as many combats in as possible. It is where the meat of the game is. Counting attacks + bonus, pursuits, advances, flank/rear charges. It went well enough in the 3rd game she was answering rules questions and she is interested in playing at home. Or practicing on Eric. WIN WIN



         My 3rd game was with Jon. Grudge match. Tomb Kings  Vs   Beast men. The scenario was take the bridge. The game would last 6 turns, brake didn't count, only who held the bridge on the end of 6 would win the day.
         It went as planned. I did a stuttered line change to the right. Jon didn't bite and open the center when he mirrored the action. I completed the line shift and the CAV swept up the right flank. The left was covered by Bone giants hinged on the birds. With both flanks challenged and his chariots taking the day off, the focused shift off the bridge. Poor Jon's dice revolted, multiple blunders followed by order failures. The attention drained on turn 5 I went for the bridge with my bone giants. New terrain rules monster do not benefit from defended. That misunderstanding caused me to piss them away. In turn six I poured everything into combat. The bull dudes picked their teeth with my bone dudes. Jon's bulls slammed home for the win.

NetEpic Armageddon Tau Vior'La VS Blood Angels. 3000points

        Jon was out Friday testing the Tau Vior'La developmental list prior to the Warmaster event. The test was for Drop Angels and the indirect fire replacing 3BP on the Supremacy Suit. It never got a shot off with marker lights. The firepower was not smashing detachments more like harassing BMs.

       My BAs have not seen sunshine in years. It showed. I was looking for stats and rules and I feed him my scout units like they were free. The drop went as planned. The whole thing well executed. There was no real plan for those units on the ground from the start. They did little and I pissed them away. One would think after playing Tau for so long I could abuse them. I got rinsed.
       Jon took me 3 - 1. BTS, Blitz, T&H   Vs   BTS

His list; (sort of, I had to recreate it from memory)

My List;

Epic Minigeddon rules

EPIC MINIGEDDON

          A fun, fast and furious way to play and learn Epic Armageddon by fighting scaled down battles 1000 points

          Battlefield: 80cm x 120cm (Deployment on the short board edge) 

          Scenario: Grand Tournament with the following restrictions:

Objectives:

     1 blitz and 1 Take and Hold objective which must be placed at least 20cm from each other. To control an objective a unit must be within 10cm of it’s centre instead of 15cm
Goal changes:
     Defend the flag (control the 2 objectives on your side instead of 3) Take and Hold (control the enemy objective - not the blitz)
     All others the same

Rule changes:

Only 1 garrison formation may be placed on overwatch instead of 2 Rally tests: -1 to rally if enemy within 20cm instead of 30cm

400 points maximum for a formation

Max of 4 pieces of terrain

Forbidden formations:

Flyers
Space units (including free planetfall and drop pods) Avatar 

Selling my Epic Steel Legion

       I have never played with them. Nor do I ever think I will play with them. I have no interest in IG. The majority of the army came in a collection from a dude in Atlanta. I painted some of it. There is only one special character. The commissar dude from the Armageddon Wars. I would like 400.

3 Tank Companies

6 Bassies

3 Hydras

3 Manticores

3 Demolishers

3 Heavy morters

3 hell hounds

3 shadow swords

1 Plasma baneblade

2 baneblades

4 heavy weapon positions

8 sentinels

1 SC stand

2 orgyn stands

1 ratling

3 commissar

1 commissar hero

39 steel legion stands

Palm Trees and wall sections.

All multiple purpose terrain. Everything can be used from 10mm to 20mm.

        Trying to finish up the endless repairs and side projects. This past weekend saw the old European walls get the love. They were poorly storage and packed. I don't think they were out for more than 3 games total. Most looked pretty bad, paint chip, and sections damaged. Normally I will just fix what is worked and move on. These were stripped, a complete redo.

        The palm trees tacked back down. Then only reflocked and highlighted.

Storage

        I have stuff. Not unpainted lead tuff, completed stuff all over the place. Everything is in boxes to travel to Cons or in the boxes from storage. The item traveling do wear. As I have been repairing them, tossing them back into a crap box doesn't seem right. While I have been looking for something proper to keep them in, they are stacked in-between packing material.
        It has been a good week for securing wargaming storage. My wife picked these from the trash. Surprise, surprise they were clean and undamaged. Not exactly stackable, but liquid nail fixes that.

         Then there is this crazy couple that buy collections. Mostly stuffed animals from big game hunters. No tiger skin rug yet. In the last collection came with steel part drawers. The short ones new are like 2k. I got mine for 300.

        Over time I will unpack and store the massive amount of terrain still boxed up. 

Adeptus Titanicus Commission appears

        Last year I handed off my killer robots to be painted. There is a disabled Vet who paints for extra coin. It is not that she took too long. Our schedules never matched up. They had been done since AdeptiCon.
        She charged me next to nothing. The paint job is not showcase. But then I don't really care. No way I would ever finish them or paint them.

I have not played yet and don't know if I will. There are so many other games that have my attention and free time is not unlimited.