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 The Results  The Tale of Triumph Team Boldo straggled into GamesDay on a smogy Friday morning and immediately Started to trade loot for Kroot. Unfortunately this is as close as we got to enjoying Games Day. Once the doors opened we were trapped in the Rogue Trader Tournament with neary a chance to see the Golden Demon. Game One of the new season was Gain Ground which is almost unwinnable for dwarves. A simple scenario where the only victory condition is control of table quarters. I played Rob Valenti, an incredibly nice Vampire Count player who started out with a bang running over my hammerers with a huge Black knight unit. Fortunately before he could turn around I managed to shoot them dead including the general. Meanwhile my rangers kept half the board occupied and one of my units shot across the board to grap a board quarter. After some beating though I still had units in all four board quarters for a victory. Meanwhile Mark's O&G where bringing the smackdown, Eric's VC played for a safe draw, and Josh won but then misreported his game for a loss. Game two is another tough one for dwarfs called breakthrough, where players gain points for any unit they run off the board. In six turns dwarves can not get off the board while my opponet, Brian Watson, is playing VC and can easily get offf the board. So I set up to give up as little ground as I can and bring the big beatdown. My opponent again tries to bring the battle to me and my little guys crush the zombies and dogs dead. I score another big win. Meanwhile Eric uses the VC's spells to hold the opponent down and run his fast units off the board for a victory. Josh manages to pilot the Lizards to a victory, while, anomsity ruins Mark. After day one we are 6-1-1 and a very happy lot, but game 3 opens on Saturday with lots of problems. The golden Demon registration line is endless and many players, like Mark, are late to their game. I end up playing Tim Lantz's Lizardmen in a magic flux. I have many more tactical units than him and so I surround him, then flank him, then crush him. Mark loses another on some rule questions, while Josh beats down Eric. But we are way behind when we take the quiz and now we will see nothing of Games Day. Game 4 is a traitor scenario and I get to play Tony Ordona's VC army. It is one of the fairest VC armies I have ever seen and is simply beautiful. He outplays me for the first 2 turns but then I flank the black knights, and when he charges with his general I beat him down. For the rest of the game I am just playing cleanup but he has done a lot of damage. When the dust clears I have a marginal victory. Josh and Eric win quickly and Mark loses another close one. So after 4 games we are 11-4-1 which is not bad and Josh takes home best army. Meanwhile the dwarves have 3 undefeated armies and win the best overall so it is a good day for the short ones. |