This write up is late - once posted I'm gonna update the date back to an appropriate time frame. The story behind this tournament is Grant and I decided we would both play Lizardmen this year to see who could win a tournament first - read on!
CCKO is the first tournament of the year - hosted in Ottawa.
Here is a link to the NAF forum thread.
My build was pretty standard for Lizardmen at 1.1m - Kroxigor, 6 Saurus, 5 Skinks, 3 Rerolls. The skill pack gave us 5 normal skills and then in the middle there was a skill draft. I have waited too long to write this up - I do not remember much of the games.
To start I took the following;
2 Block Saurus
2 Guard Saurus
Tackle Saurus
DAY 1
Game 1 vs. Mark H 0-2 loss
First game ever with Lizardmen bar a few rounds against the PC in cyanide. Mark is a skilled Chaos Dwarf coach and as usual his Bull Centaurs do most of the heavy lifting. I don't think he even had a Minotaur. Mark won the casualty count too 2-0.
Game 2 vs. Mark D 2-1 win
I've played against Mark as Norse once before and came out on the losing side. It was nice to reverse that. I seem to recall his Yeti going wild animal a lot. We both got 2 casualties, I think I got a few KOs as well.
Game 3 vs. Graham 1-0 win
Graham was a new player - so this was his third game ever. He very quickly had picked up the defensive aspect but struggled with moving his cage forward and thus had trouble trying to score. If I remember right it took me most of the game with the ball to actually score the one touchdown of the game. He won casualties 2-1.
Then we had the skills draft.
I picked somewhere in the middle, I ended up with; Break Tackle, Side Step?, Wrestle
Game 4 vs. Leathan 2-0 win
Somehow I seem to have Leathan's number at this tournament. We've played 3 times in the 4 CCKO tournaments I've attended and now I've won all three (he destroys me everywhere else!) - winning this game put me at 3 wins 1 loss and up against Grant (who was 4 and 0 after his game four)
DAY 2
Game 5 vs. Grant 0-1 loss
Heartbreak! Grant and I spent all night saturday trash talking. Then he turned around and just started killing off all my Skinks after blitzing his way up the sidelines with his Side-Step Skink. I still scared the crap out of him even down 3 players (4 casualties) freeing up the ball but failing the pick up to tie the game. By winning this game Grant secured the tournament.
Game 6 vs. Alex W 0-0 draw
I should have won this game! I had two chances to score touchdowns and both times - first time I tried to stall and Alex pulled some craziness to knock down my ball carrier, second time my dodge skill failed. Alex never came close to scoring - although he was running Chaos Pact and his big guys failed lots of nega-trait rolls. Frustrating because if I had scored I would have taken 3rd place from Alex.
Instead I had to settle for 4th and Best Defence (given to me because max of 1 award to each participant - I think Grant should have won it).
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| My Best Defence award |
So congrats to Grant for winning CCKO 2015 and our challenge as well!
And some after tournament photoshop fun. Apparently Grant makes this pose a LOT!