This was the first time I could actually attend the South Africa ICON, with cosplay, boardgames, war-games and role playing. I entered the tournament and had 5 matches scheduled, a 2000, two 2500 and two 3000 point games. Being in South Africa does mean
we do not have a massive community, but there was a total of 15 entries for WH fantasy and 24 for 40k.
My first match was the most beautiful i personally ever played on. Both armies were fully painted, all the scenery was perfect and the board was done with the most intricate detail. It was the 2k match, Lizards vs Warriors of Chaos. I thought I had a solid 2k list, though I did not expect his army to have that many cannons. He fielded 2 Hellcannons and a demon prince. To put it mildly all went okay, until my regiment of temple guard and his demon prince got into combat. His demon prince slaughtered my Temple guard and eventually worked his way through to my Slann. The cannons tore my infantry and stegadons to shreds. Eventually when my Slann fell it was game over. 500 Victory points in that casualty.
The match was lost. The experience was amazing even though I lost seeing everything painted to such an level was unforgettable.
Now here are a few extra eye candy pictures that will make you understand as to why I say it was really an awesome experience.
Seeing terrain like that is not something that happens every day, seeing two fully painted armies like that is even rarer! Having it happen in Africa, well that give me hope :)
MATCH 2: The Dark Elves
After my first crushing defeat I got drawn for a match against the elves. Now they have a low toughness and strength. I knew they would end up hitting first, but I also knew i would hit that much harder.
The scenario we played made it possible to have more than 12 power dice and each wizard generated an additional power dice. So I knew this is where my Slann would shine! On a side note of much less importance when you miscast, you would have to miscast again.
Deployment was in a diagonal line in a pre-set order of march for this custom scenario. He had a few interesting units and quite a few war machines. The one reason I had a few Ripperdactyls in my list.
The first turn started great, kinda. Cast Tempest that you need a mere 8# for with my 13 dice I decide not to be too stingy with and roll 2, get double sixes when I really do not need it. The first miscast kills 11 of temple guard, the second miscast drops him 3 levels of magic and makes him pretty useless. Though he survives. The Ripperdactyls get in touch with his 1st repeater bolt throws and destroys it over ruins into the other and destroys that. Stegadon manages to charge his 30 odd elves and stars taking them out effortlessly. The entire match just goes quite well. Eventually when we finish I miss a victory against him with about 30ish points!
Fortunately I am doing better!
So in my next post I will discuss my next 3 matches, until then, keep rollin.
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