Mersey Meltdown Review

Mersey Meltdown is a 2 day 5 game event held at the Adelphi hotel in Liverpool about 2 mins from the station. It is run by TNG (Terra Nova Gryphons) and this year hosted 72 players which I think is the maximum they can host.

So before I talk about my list and games I will say that the tournament was run exceptionally well, not a single cock up all weekend, games were finished on time, the results for each round were up quickly and any disputes were settled confidently and quickly. Warriors were uncomped but to be honest I wouldn't have expected TNG to come up with any comp for them in such short notice. There was a curry available on Saturday night which I hadn't paid for so didn't attend, I have had bad experiences eating tournament food resulting in the coveted Sheen Gill "tournament bum". The venue is so conveniently located that there are a million places to go for food and drink nearby.

The trophies and prizes for all the winners were pretty impressive and the winners (copy and pasted from the Mersey thread) can be seen here:

Results
1st Place overall - Fat Craig
2nd Place - Kevin Weaver
3rd Place - Joe McGough

Most Sporting - Steve 'the nicest man in warhammer' Wren
Players Choice Best Army - David Parker
Judges Choice Best Army - 'Dangerous' Dave Pyle
Wooden Spoon - Jodi Chapman
The Michael Biggs Memorial 'Captain Ahab' Award - Luke Rooney

Best in Race
Beastmen - Mark Borland
Bretonnians - Rob Sedgeman
Chaos Dwarfs - Tom Mawdsley
Daemons - Fat Craig
Dark Elves - Ben Curry
Dwarfs - Andy Russell
Empire - Mo Ashraf
High Elves - Pash Korniyenko
Lizardmen - David Parker
Orcs & Goblins - Andy Robinson
Ogres - Joe McGough
Skaven - Ben Johnson
Tomb Kings - Steve Davie
Vampire Counts - Walt Simpson
Warriors - Kev Weaver
Wood Elves - Jay 'Who the f**k are you' Hopkinson....

Now if you look at that last one...bit harsh! bastards, ill definitely be grudging one of those fuckers next time.

Kev Weaver got the most tournament points all weekend with his WoC so they must be completely broken. Dave Pyle and I joined Weaver and his minions for a meal out on the Saturday night and he was confident his BSB with a 3+ ward rerolling 1's would never be killed and also pointed out that if he took the dragonbane gem or helm on him he would be IMMUNE to flaming attacks..2+ ward rerolling 1's...COMP THAT SHIT! No tzeentch model should be able to take the reroll 1 Item. Fair play to Kev though and he came second. BAN KEV WEAVER! Craig Johnson won the tourney which to be honest must mean he has been cheating, I can't think of any other way he could have won and perhaps his dice need checking or something.

All in all I have to say the event was honestly the most fun I've had at a tournament. I had a great night out on the Saturday and everyone was just happy all weekend. Meltdown has given Slaughter a run for its money in my eyes and I reckon mersey just takes the title of best tourney so far.

WELL DONE TNG AND THANKS A LOT.

Ok so the rest of the post is about my army, feelings on comp and my games.

 Armies were selected up to 2400pts and there were bonus tournament points available for taking units that are not normally taken, I'm not too sure about the other armies but for Wood Elves they were Glade Riders, Eternal Guard, Warhawk Riders and a lord on a stag. You could get 2pts for the first one taken 4pts for the second, 7 for the 3rd and 10pts if you took all 4. Now although I do think this is a great idea I have to say some armies seemed to get of fairly lightly, dark elves in particular as they could fit all 4 in for less than 500pts I think, whereas for the wood elves you would need to spend around 700pts to get it all in. I think this should be changed particularly for WE since every unit except for glade guard are bad they could have made it a bit easier for us to get the 10 bonus points. And what is the big deal about not letting us keep a bow on our BSB?

My List

LvL 4 Spellweaver, Wand of wych Elm, 305 - pts (Lore of Life)
lvl 1 Spellsinger, Dispel Scroll, Dragonbane Gem - 120pts
Branchwraith, Cluster of radiants - 90pts
Noble BSB, Hail of Doom Arrow Asyendi's Bane. - 130pts
Lords/Heroes - 645 pts
13 Glade Guard + Musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + Musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + Musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + Musician - 162pts

8 Dryads - 96pts
8 Dryads - 96pts
5 Glade Riders + musician - 129pts
Core - 969pts

14 Etermal Guard + musician, Standard of Discipline - 201pts
3 Tree kin + elder - 216pts
Special - 417pts

Great Eagle - 50pts
Great Eagle - 50pts
5 Waywatchers - 120pts
6 Waywatchers - 144pts
Rare - 364pts
TOTAL - 2395

A few problems with my list starting with no flaming banner as I took standard of discipline instead, this was a bit of an oversight but luckily it didn't cost me over the course of the tournament. I don't have anything to deal with all the armour around in WFB now, so so many 1+ armour saves that I think this will be the last time I take lore of life and in the future I suspect I will be running the Arcane Bodkins lord. The Eternal guard I usually take anyway and they proved a good choice once again, the Tree Kin were also good, the Glade Riders were ok. Everything was fine really it's just unfortunate that all the other armies are so much more powerful. On the plus side nobody managed to get very much magic off against me all weekend and I was dispelling on 1 dice a lot of the time with a re-roll.

Game 1 vs Dark Elves (Ben Curry)

I found out I was playing Ben on the Thursday and I actually really fancied my chances. Dark Elves are a good match up for me and I haven't lost to them yet. Ben is a decent player and I fancied a 12-8 to me really. What actually happened was Ben had double hydra and 3 Peg riders with ridiculous armour saves and I could not get through that armour, I deployed one unit of waywatchers too far away from his pegs and this meant I only had 6 to deal with his pegs (mistake 1) I also let his dreadlord charge my bunker (mistake 2) those mistakes cost me the game as his dreadlord took off about 900pts all on his own. Now although I made mistakes I was also unlucky... I killing blowed his dreadlord and he rolled a 1 to save it with pendant, I failed 5 panic tests in 1 turn, losing 2 units of 13 glade guard and another small unit of glade guard that had lost the combat then failed their steadfast roll. I charged a Branchwraith into the flank of the dreadlord that was in combat with my bunker, then throne of vines, flesh to stone on the Branchwraith giving it toughness 8, issued a challenge so my static res was 5 all the branchwraith had to do was hold on...but no...2 wounds on her and she died, I should have put the whole unit in really but I didn't think the dryads could fit through the gap. On the whole I would say the 20-0 to Ben was a harsh for me in that game however I did learn a lot from it and the answer is more waywatchers that don’t get deployed on the flanks. Ben was nice and a pleasure to play and I ended the game in a good mood, he even offered to let me keep the tape measure he lent me, but I declined as I didn't want a permanent reminder of that game :P I would like to play that list again against Ben and see if I could have done better.

Game 2 vs Dark Elves (Hristo)

I was up against Hristo in game 2 which I was pretty happy about, another Dark Elf player straight away to rectify my mistakes. He had a big block of executioners and double hydra. For some strange reason I thought double hydra wasn't allowed at Mersey and that's why I left out the flaming banner, then I got drawn vs 2 double hydra. Anyway I fancied this game even more. Basically I shot off one of the hydras early on, then a unit of crossbowmen, the crossbowmen panicked the other hydra and it was well out of position, Hristo had a lvl 4 on death riding a manticore which I shot off in turn 3, the lord dropped to his feet and joined a unit of executioners....which apparently isn't allowed and we only found out after the game, Hristo offered me the 20-0 win but I didn't take it as I feel it was an honest mistake. I shot off the Executioners and his lvl 4 anyway so it’s likely that it wouldn't have made a difference. Once again I lost units to panic! I literally passed only 2 panic tests in game 1 and 2 combined. Hristo did get a peg into my bunker but with challenges and flesh to stone he didn't manage to break it. in the end I won the game 15-5. Good Game, one of the best I've had and the most sporting vote went to Hristo from me.

Game 3 vs Vampire Counts (Dan Comeau)

Dan had Double Terrorgheist and 17 Crypt Horrors in this list and that was a big worry for me. It shows how things are changing in the game because I used to say VC was an easy win for WE but because VC now have to take 2 Gheists and 2 massive units of Horrors to be able to deal with all the heavy armour and monsterous infantry that in turn means WE can no longer deal with VC as well. If I got a draw out of this game I would be happy. Deployment Deployment Deployment!!! Paul Brown taught me how to deploy properly a long time ago and I played 2 players this weekend that practically gifted me games by deploying badly. All the crypt horrors were on one side of the board which meant my valuable units could go on the other side and I would just feed him one unit at a time until the game ended, I shot a Gheist down to 1 wound and it flew away, I shot off a unit of zombies, 5 units of dogs and dwelleres/shot 7 out of 8 crypt horrors, then ran away. He gaze of nagashed  2 units of glade guard and guess what? thats right...they both panicked off the board, one of them was in LD10 with a reroll range too. In a nutshell It was a bit of a run around and I won 11-9.

Day 2 Game 4 vs Vampire Counts (Dave Barker)

I arrived on Sunday morning, shaking and hung over to hell. I was in no shape to play WFB. The list was almost identical to the VC list I had played the previous day except he had 2 spirit hosts and 3 vargheists and instead of a massive skeleton bunker he had 30+ ghouls. Very similar game to the previous one, but instead of shooting the crypt horrors I put 3 tree kin into the flank of 8 on turn 3...they held out for the entire game and reduced the Crypt Horrors to only 1 wound, which was frustrating but still an over achievement for the tree kin. I also killed the ghouls down to 1 wound!!!!!! 30 shots at close range on the last turn vs the final 5 ghouls and my archers killed only 4...so unlucky there. I also managed to charge his small skeleton bunker and attack both his mages, over 2 turns I took off his lvl 2 but he passed the 4+ wards on his lvl 4 and unfortunately I couldn’t shift him. lost 3 units of glade gaurd to screams and a unit of dryads + branchwraith. In the last turn I charged my glade riders into his terrorghiest and the combat was a draw, this meant he couldn’t charge my bunker in his turn basically ending the game. Dave was a great guy to play against and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 10-10

Game 5 vs Skaven

Again I can't remember the guys name it might have been Rich Commons but then again that could well have been the VC player I forgot about. Anyway he had an Abom, Doom Wheel, Cannon, Furnace, Grey seer, Loads of chaff, Loads of slaves, Gutter Runners, massive unit of storm vermin and to be honest It's nearly impossible to beat Skaven with Wood Elves and looking at the amount of models he had I thought this would be a 20-0 to him. Worse still Steve Wren drew Mark Borland and his Beastmen, I was 12 points ahead of Steve going into the final game and he would probably beat Mark so the Top Wood Elf player award was going to be a close finish, I would need to get 8-9 points I had 4 bonus points and Steve had none so if I hadn’t taken the crap units I would need 13pts to win the trophy.

It came down to deployment again, and he basically deployed everything on one side, I deployed the other side and knowing he was frenzied on the furnace I was confident it would never reach my army and I could redirect it off the board. That's exactly what happened along with me killing his clanrat bunker and grey seer. I took the abom off in turn 2 with no flaming banner, the doom wheel in turn 3 with Tree Kin and that was it. I ran my army away knowing I had a 13-7 win. Steve Wren came over to have a look and he was completely baffled by the skaven advance, as was I.

That's it then... a poor result finishing 40th but I enjoyed it and got top wood elf, the best I could hope for really.

Jay

Serious Wood Elf comp

I thought I would type up my opinions on comp with regard to the forest dwellers at the moment. Nearly every tournament run at the moment seems to think it's acceptable to say "Wood Elves - no further restrictions"  but seriously guys that's a bit of a joke isn't it? I mean you have monsterous cav all over the place and death magic everywhere. I understand it's hard to comp the wood elves because nobody plays them and therefore to have someone on your comp comity who knows a reasonable way to comp them is a tough task but we aren't asking for a new book, just a little bit to make it worthwhile taking them 100 miles to a tournament. I would propose the following if I were writing some comp for them.

#1: Spellweavers can take Shadow

Everyone has access to a lot of magic lores and wood elves just have life, beasts and athel loren. There is nothing in these lores to really deal with heavy armour and lets be realistic, if an army that had no armour were to study a magic lore it wouldn't be metal...so shadow fits into the fluff with the elves fighting from within the shadows of the woods and being generally secretive. Eternal guard are practically useless these days (I still always take them) but if they were mindrazored with two attacks each and LD 9 then people would seriously consider it. I'm an an honest person and I will admit that the thought of whithering followed by 90 shots could be a bit worrying but if that’s all you have to worry about from the Wood Elves then it's really not that bad is it, not compared to the filth around at the moment.

#2. Let my BSB keep his bow.

Enough said! Why the hell would anyone say "ooh I know I'm off out for a fight today, I'll leave my bow at home"

#3. Spellsingers to have access to beasts.

All armies have lvl 1 and 2 mages and usually these mages are given access to a couple of lores. Now I understand that Wood Elf lvl 1 mages have access to Athel Loren and 4 lvl 1's on Athel Loren could be potentially devastating...oh wait...no it couldn't. Basically Wood Elf players are either taking a scroll on their lvl 4 or taking a lvl 1 to carry a scroll, so thats a 115pt scroll caddy...not fair. let us have beasts for gods sake!

#4. 5+ ward to be unaffected by magic

Why oh why is the wood elf forest spirit ward save only against mundane attacks? Daemons get it for everything so why can't we?

#5 Steadfast in Forests/Woods

Yeah so in the rulebook you lose steadfast if you are within the presence of a wood...something I think we can all agree that Wood Elves would not be scared of is fucking trees...I mean come on... sort it out!

That’s it... am I asking for too much? Will it break the game? seriously let me know what you think because I have actually got to the point now where I think Wood Elves cannot deal with a tournament scenario...if we take 3 trees to deal with armour then the same armies can cannon those trees off the board. If we take loads of chaff and no monsters then in turn 2 you have one of your units in combat with a unit of movement 6 monsterous cavalry.

Don't even get me started on unicorns...

Jay

Sheffield Slaughter Review

January 26th brought us Sheffield Slaughter. I went last year and I absolutely loved it even though I was terribly ill and had to be sick during my first game against Annie [something that happens a lot in her games] It's a great tournament one of the best and its up there with midlands, scgt and the incursion series. Held at the Davey's sports venue in Sheffield there is a bar and loads of space to roam around. Located centrally in the country its very accessible allowing players from as far as Scotland to head down. It was a very well run weekend with games finishing on time, the food was decent and the bar was open for as long as there were people willing to buy alcohol. Some of us on who had arrived on the Friday were greeted by about 6" of snow, we had a lot of fun building a snowman and dragging team wales legend Matt Yeo through it, we pretty much bullied the poor guy but he was a good sport. Andrew Lewis had his lip split by a bin lid and then ran off like forest gump only to return about an hour later after wandering around the roundabout shouting "i'm not batman" to the rest of us below. On the Saturday morning there was a huge backlog of bacon sandwiches and they were ill prepared but that was my only gripe really. The Saturday evening was great and involved around 18 of us all playing perudo for a good few hours that saw Tom Hale lose his rag and smash a glass. On the whole everyone was in great spirits and I personally had the best time at a tournament I have had, it's just a shame Sean Gill, Chris Appleford and Rapey Dave couldn't make it.

The Winners:
Overall - Mark Wildman, Skaven
2nd - Jack Armstrong, Lizardmen
3rd - Will Goodwin, Empire

Painting:
1 - Graham Radden, Empire
2 - Wayne Kemp, Skaven
3 - Dave Grant, Bretonnians

My Result:
23rd and Best Wood Elf General

My List:

Lords and Heroes - 540pts

Spellweaver LvL 4 (Life) Wand of Wych Elm, dragonbane gem - 310pts

BsB, Asyendi's Bane, Hail of doom, dragonhelm - 140pts

Branchwraith, Cluster of Radiants - 90pts


Core - 862pts

8 Dryads - 96pts

8 Dryads - 96pts

13 Glade Guard + musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + musician - 162pts
13 Glade Guard + musician + Standard Bearer + Banner of Eternal Flame - 184pts

Special - 520pts4 Treekin - 260pts
4 Treekin - 260pts

Rare - 573pts

6 Waywatchers - 144
6 Waywatchers - 144

Treeman - 285

Total - 2495

A massive thank you to Tom Richards @tmrichards for lending me his army as my own is still stuck up in York and I haven't been able to go back up and get it yet. I realized with an hour to go that I hadn't put my list in and I had no army, I messaged a few people begging to borrow their armies, Mark Borland was one of them and he accepted but stated he had no eagles so I wrote a list with no eagles in it then Tom offered me his army...anyway basically I had a Treeman instead of eagles so I figured anything between 50th and 60th would be a reasonable finish. I took the banner of flame because double hydra is allowed at slaughter and I figured I would probably need it.

I have no dispel scroll as with death magic being so rife in the current game I thought more dice and re-rolls to dispel would be much more useful as I could match my opponents 2 dice casts with 2 and a re-roll and if they rolled really low on a cast I could even use less dice and rely on the re-roll. The rest of the list is pretty much the same as I always take, the Tree kin to deal with Skaven, VC and the vast amounts of 1+ and 2+ armour save flying around. Below I give a brief rundown of the games I played.

My Games:

Game 1 Chaos Dwarfs vs Alex Read

I was drawn against CD first game which I was very unhappy about. Kdai, Kdai fireborn 3 war machines and a load of 3+ armour saves on the dwarf warriors, my only saving grace was that he had a lord on a lamassu . My plan was to run around and deny as many points as possible and threaten the lord with the waywatchers aiming for a 15-5 was basically the best I thought I could manage here.

Basically Alex spent the whole game trying to shoot off my waywatchers and Treeman which he eventually did. I managed to shoot off all his hobgoblins, Dwellers went off on a war machine and I killed his kdai with the Hail of Doom by taking 3 wounds off it. The kdai had inflicted 3 wounds on itself after failing a strength test in turn 2. After a close fought game we ended up with a 10-10 draw.

Game 2 Empire vs Will Goodwin

Game two was even more worrying, after my good friend Dave Pyle had also drawn his first game with a similar victory points tally I was hoping to play him but alas I drew Will Goodwin's Empire and his 11 demigryphs 12 inner circle knights (or whatever they are) and a few bits of chaff...oh and 3 cannons. Do I even need to say anything about this game? I lost. Badly. 20-0. I didn't even do anything remotely entertaining or make any funny jokes.


Game 3 Tomb Kings vs Some ELG guy maybe called Dale but not actually the cool dale who moved to Canada?


So the third game was on the near bottom tables, as terrible as it is I have actually forgotten his name but I've met him a few times and I do love all the ELG guys. His list contained 3 war sphinx's which to be fair is yet another shite match up for me, sure TK is a decent match up but with the flaming catapults and the sphinx it was going to be pretty difficult to say the least.

 So ELG guy won the first turn and surged (I say surged I mean moved everything 4") towards me. I had deployed with the majority of my combat units on one side and the shooting on the left in the hope of creating an arc of shooting on one side to force him into the corner and whittle him down over time. I deployed the treeman out of catapult range and left him there for the entire game. He did nearly kill the treeman with those weird snakes things that pop up out of the ground and shoot based on the targets initiative (stalkers) I managed to shoot off all the sphinx and even took 3 wounds off one of them with the hail of doom. I then forced him into the corner, dwellers was used on his archer bunker and I shot off the rest. In the end he had a few bits of bad luck and I ran everything away once I realised I had the game in the bag. 19-1 win. All joking aside Dale Bennion was his name and he was a great guy :P

Game 4 Dark Elves vs Ol (og games)

Well what a strange turn of events, I spent the evening chatting, playing perudo and drinking with the Og Games guys and was drawn against Ol for the game in the morning which was set to be a lot of fun as he doesn't really care about gaming too much but we were both doing better than expected. Like most of the Dark Elf players Ol was running the double Hydra and a load of chaff along with a level 4 on a peg.

 The game went back and forth a little with me shooting off all the chaff as his Hydras ran towards me, the rest of his army was bunkered up behind a hill. I set up with my Treeman near to his Hydra and my flaming banner in the middle. The game really swung in my favour when I rolled 16 for the Hail of Doom against a Hydra with only 3 wounds left, I killed it and it panicked the other Hydra off the board (I found this a common problem with double monster lists, I often kill one and the monster next to it out of BSB range runs away) With the Hydras out of the way I pressed forward, Killing blowed his Lord (which Ol later realised he could have put in a unit vs bs fire) and controversially Dwellersed off the couldron. I say controversially because I used 5 dice killed it then realised I had 6 dice on the table (one of which was a wound marker for one of my tree kin) we added up again and weren't too sure, I offered to roll to cast the spell agian but Ol said he wasn't really that bothered and just took it off. With 2 more turns I probably would have got it anyway but either way Ol proved why everyone like to play against him and why he is a well like guy in the community, because he really doesn't give a shit about winning or losing. He did concede though so he could go and grab another £8 bottle of Shutter Home Cabernet Sauvignon. 20-0 win.

Game 5 Lizardmen vs Dan Heelan

I had the privilege of playing Dan for all my hard work. Totally gutted, I have never liked Dan really and I don't really know why, I always thought he was a bit of a warhammer snob. I didn't want to play him and I know he is a good player and I fully expect to lose the game. What happened was completely different, I thoroughly enjoyed the game. He had becalming on his Slaan, lots of temple guard and saurus, some scar vets on foot and the usual ton of chaff. I deployed my lvl 4 riiiiiiiight on the right hand side a good 40" away from his Slaan in order to push forward 10" in turn one and 6 dice skills Dwellers, I saw this as my only chance to cast it in the game due to bacalming. I won the first turn and did exactly that, killed 15 out of 30 saurus (well above average) the proceded to shoot the unit down to 6 models. The miscast saw me roll dimensional cascade but my wizard survive. the rest of the game was usual wood elf cat and mouse tactics with me feeding his temple guard units as and when I needed to. I shot off a lot of chaff but the game changing moment was when I used Hail of Doom on the unit of 3 Salamanders, along with the bow shots from the unit I reduced the unit to 1 wound. Dan used regrowth on the unit and they were back up to near full. Completely gutted. Those salamanders proceeded to get Dan the points he needed to draw the game with me, but in fairness we both played well and a draw was a fair result.

 As for Dan I couldn't have been more wrong about the guy, an absolute gent to play, a master with the rules, I learned a lot and he was good fun and a great sport complimenting me a number of times on certain decisions and I gave him my best sports vote, it turned out later he had done the same for me. I honestly can't believe I was so wrong about the guy, that's what you get for being judgemental I guess.

Game 6 Dark Elves vs Luke Rooney

I was delighted to be drawn against Dark Elves again for my final game as they aren't a bad match up for the age old defenders of Athel Loren. Luke had supplied all the scenery for the event and was a nice guy.

He was running death magic which I had a really hard time dealing with. He killed my lvl 4 in turn 2 and my BSB in turn 3. I thought the game was over at that point but somehow my desperation push came off, I had shot off most of his chaff and with a volley of arrow fire and  Hail of Doom I had also taken out a Hydra, I set up a counter charge for my Treeman which he fell for and I got into combat with the other Hydra using my Tree. I won that combat, the Hydra fled but I didn't catch it. Eventually I got the Tree in again with only 2 wounds left he killed the Hydra. The Tree died next turn but the opening created let me charge his bunker with 8 Dryads and the Branchwraith, between them they killed the lvl 4 and a load of spearmen. Masses of combat ensued with Dryads vs Spearmen, Tree kin vs the Pendant BSB and even Glade Guard vs Repeater Crossbowmen, the outcome was a bloody mess with very little left on the board. Great game and a great last game to have. 10-10

Roundup

So there you go that was Sheffield Slaughter 2013, I will definitely be going again. The next event for me will be the Mersey Meltdown in 3 weeks. I will be taking my wood elves again and anything above a half way finish will again be a great result for the forest dwellers.

Jay

Wood Elf Upgrade

Well here we are after a massive 6 month break. Life has finally settled down into some kind of normality again apart from the fact I am moving to London in 3 weeks...ok so it's still a little up in the air. Regardless of that I have started what I wanted to start 6 months ago, replacing all my mantic with GW models. I think what spurred me on was a doubles game at mansfield maul where on the tabletop my army next to Dave Pyles looked like a sack of crap, I plan to double up with him again so I don't really want to feel that shame again, although I think his snow looks better than mine.

 I always love winter themed armies so I have gone for a winter woody army, I will be using Eternal Guard ( as always ) as they fir the theme nicely, I would love to have no tree spirits and stick completely to the fluff but in all honesty I won't win any competitive games so basically....balls to that. I intend to add one more layer of highlights to the Glade Guard here as suggested by mental rapey Dave Sweeting. 

 The forest spirits are painted reasonably pale, to show their dwindling power as the winter sets in, I have just re-based these and have two units like this one. The plan is to get it all done in time for Sheffield Slaughter (a great tourney if you get the chance to go) which is optimistic, but my hobby has always been about turning around armies quickly, like the 2 week mantic army. I feel that one day I will do an army in 2 months and I'll have got so good at speed painting that the painting standard will be somewhat there with minimal effort.

I would just like to give a quick mention to the tale of four geeks podcast, I had a listen today and its very good, considering it has been around a very short time it is already quite flowing and full of great content, give it a listen and if you like wood elves then Jon on the show is doing his own (albeit band wagoner to the jayhop train) project.

http://taleoffourgeeks.co.uk/

Once again sorry for all the typos but I really don't give two hoots

xxx

Video Battle Report 2400pts VC vs DOC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50a5OT-UaKA&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy!

x x x

Tale of 2 Warbosses - Progress

So far I have done hardly anything on teh TOTW apart from assemble the awesome wolf riders and squigs, I spent yesterday base colouring my 30 goblins and this is what I have come up with so far.

I am pretty happy with the colour scheme as I have always wanted a yellow dominant army, I am unsure about the shields and I need to practice highlighting/washing the yellow to get it right, hopefully I will get these done by the end of the week so I can have 2 weeks to finish the rest of the army in time :P LOL aint gonna happen...think we need to come up with a forfeit...any suggestions?

x x x

Warhammer Feelings #1

Hello! I listened to the Bad dice podcast yesterday and it raised lots of questions for me with regard to WFB and what sort of player I want to be. I know I want to win games, winning is fun but at the same time I don't want my opponent to have a crap time...but its looking more increasingly like in order to win you have to play the game to the letter of the law, which is fine I guess, I think it was Gareth on Bad dice who said that if your opponent makes a mistake thats tough shit and he made his bed so he can lay in it...its interesting because I have let people get away with murder on the battlefield, going back in time "takebacks" and all that jazz, I have even let people reroll all their dice because they forgot about a buff or something, but I think the next tournament I go to I am going to play by the rules :P I just need to find a way that I can still make it enjoyable for both players without being a twat...which if you know me will probably be fairly hard for me, then again if Matt Sewell can take down a best sports and finish as top Empire then there is hope. I would like to know what people think with regard to "being gamey" or playing to the letter of the law, do you need to do that if you want to win or finish high? let me know via twitter @jayhopkinson