Warhammer Underworlds Sunday

This past Sunday Nic and Orion stopped by to play some Warhammer Underworlds for the first time in a month?! 

It's been almost a week... I didn't take a lot of notes... so it will be mostly pictures with limited commentary... 

Both games were played in Shadespire. Orion played Zondara's Gravebreakers with their Faction Rivals Deck. Amanda played Elathain's Soulraid with their Faction Rivals Deck. Nick played the Skinnerkin with a Hungering Parasite Nemesis deck. I played a freshly painted Garreck's Reavers with a Tooth and Claw Nemesis deck I quickly threw together that morning. 

I don't have a post with pictures of the newly painted Garrek's Reavers because the battery on the camera I use for taking good (well... okay...) pictures of miniatures died and I cannot for the life of me find the recharger!?

The undersea Aelves and Ghouls went at it right away. 

ABC - Always Be Charging - was my policy for the game! 

There got to be a bit of a brawl in the center of the battlefield! 

Sneaky ghoul stabbing Tammael in the back! 

Targor and Armulf were killed off pretty quickly... but that kind of worked out for me as I had an objective card that required all fighters have a charge token and if Arnulf hadn't been killed in the first turn without ever activating, I never would have pulled that off... 

Ferlain attacked Garrek... and missed. I charged Blooded Saek in and took out Ferlain... so Zondara went a bit savage!

it was noted how similar Zondara and Gristla look and it was decided that they must be sisters... Sisters that HATE each other... but sisters, none-the-less! 

Someone killed Saek, so it was only Garrek and Karsus (who had only one wound left!) 

Karsus was killed with a ping and Garrek made a last ditch effort to deal some damage! I had a card that dealt one damage to everyone adjacent to me, and there was this nice group of three... If Garrek hit ONE of them they would have died... but he missed and was taken out before he got another swing. 

It was pretty brutal, both mine and Amanda's warbands were utterly wiped out... Still I won - which is a very rare thing when Orion is at the table!!

For our second game we played the Chaos Gargant Scenario from the December 2018 White Dwarf... 

In this one I played Magore's Fiends (sticking with the Khorne theme!) but this time with their Faction Rivals Deck... Amanda played the Dread Pageant with their Faction Rivals Deck. Orion played Hexbane's Hunters with Break Neck Slaughter. Nick played Cyreni's Razors with...? some kind of Nemesis Deck...? 

I just could not hit that Gargant to save my life... 

Aemos killed Ghartok... and I'm not sure why... it gained her one Glory Point, which could have been four if Aemos had hit the Gargant...? (which would have made it a MUCH closer game..!) Not sure if she thought I was some kind of threat...? (I for sure was NOT!?)

I'm not sure the Gargant Scneario holds up with a lot of the more recent rules and things that can be done... I think it COULD still be a fun scenario with some updates... like.. the Gargant cannot be staggered! Cyreni just stood and pinged the Gargant with Hammertide for an entire round, meaning it did NOTHING but go on guard for it's action... 

While everyone else kept beating on it.. well.. Amanda and Orion's warbands kept beating on it... 

Eventually I just said fuck it and went after Hexbane's Hunters... 

Had tried to kill the second dog.. but missed and Slakeslash finished it off... 

Missed a swing at Aemos... 

But dammit they took down Hexbane.. it only took ALL THREE of them?! 

Amanda won this by lots because of the totally broken Sadistic Goad upgrade - an attack upgrade that deals 1 + the target's current wound counters... so she hit it when it was at 12 damage and dealt 13 damage!? 

I'd noticed this sometime back and realized how OP it would be in the scenario. Me mentioning it was the reason Amanda took the Dread Pageant - just to see if it would work out... and it DID!! 

Warhammer Underworlds: Rivals Event

Whoops! It's been a week since the Warhammer Underworlds Rivals Event at the Warhammer Store in Saskatoon! (weirdly, it FEELS like it was even longer ago!?) 

We kind of slept in Sunday morning and had less than an hour to get ready and out the door... and I STILL hadn't even decided what Warband to take!? I'm not sure Amanda was entirely settled... but was probably leaning towards the Dread Pageant, if I didn't take them. I had started thinking I should start playing them more (as I've picked up a Hedonites of Slaanesh Vanguard box and will be playing them in Age of Sigmar, to start, at least). But in the end I gave up on the idea of playing the Kharadron of Thundrik's Profiteers and went with Skabbik's Plaguepack! 

We did NOT get out the door within the hour and were running quite late. I sent a note to let them know we were both on our way and if they wanted to start without us, Amanda and I could play in the first round against each other. 

In the end they WAITED for us. Only seven showed up, and John decided not to play and that one person would get a bye each round. In that first round it was Amanda!?

Initially it was discussed that we would start at 1pm. There would be two rounds from 1-2 and 2-3pm, lunch break from 3-3:30, and two more rounds from 3:30 until 5:30... it wasn't until we were starting the third round after the break that I found out the plan had been changed to just THREE rounds!? 

Ah well... 

ROUND ONE

In the first round I played Sean. He hadn't really decided what to play either and had brought a few options!?

As we were setting up he decided to play Headkrakka's Madmob. I've not played them, nor seen them play before, but I'd heard they are pretty nasty. 

Indeed, they were pretty nasty! They just killed all the rats... 

Well, ALMOST all the rats - at the end of the game Itchitt was still alive!

Sean won the game 20-4

Also in the second round Dray was playing Nic and Orion was playing Jared. 

Amanda started with a bye and kind of just had to hang around and watch the games for the first bit. 

Nic won their first game (11-4) and Orion lost her first game (16-14)!!

ROUND TWO

For the second round the other two tables swapped...

Orion's Headsman's Curse played Dray's Thorns of the Briar Queen. 

Nic's Cyreni's Razors face Jared's Draper's Wraithcreepers. 

Idoneth and Creepers. 

Amanda played Sean, and I had the bye in the second round. 

Teh Dread Pageant fighting Headkrakka's Madmob. 

Somehow Hadzu not only survived to the end... but was the ONLY one of the Dread Pageant that survived to the end... AND they WON!? (12-11?! SO CLOSE!?) 

Orion won her second game and Nic lost theirs... 

Amanda and I wandered down the way to try out a Burrito place we'd never been to before... and it was pretty okay! 

ROUND THREE

With one loss and one win each (because a Bye apparently counted as a win for me!? I face Orion next and her Headsman's Curse 

Somehow I took a lot more pictures of this game... 

But it's been a week now, so I don't really remember what happened in each round... 

Rats got murdered... 

Some of the undead got smashed apart... 

Only to return in the next round!?

Once again Itchitt was the last rat standing. 

I totally lost again... but not by quite as much as my first game!? only 14-8 - wasn't even doubled, let along quintupled!? 

In the final round Amanda faced Jared for the trophy, but lost.... 

Jared, winner of Saskatoon's first Warhammer Underworlds tournament, with his "Shadeglass" trophy.

Everyone went home with a BUNCH of swag!? 

I got a bit more becuase I had the best painted warband... 

Now ALMOST have a full set of acrylic tokens. 

Prizes for best painted! Yay! 

It was a pretty fun day. I was a little bit disappointed I only got to play two games (instead of the four I was initially expecting to play...). But I got in a bike ride on a nice day and got to spend the afternoon hanging out with Amanda and played a couple games against some fabulous humans... so I can't complain too much!?

Warhammer Underworlds: STILL MORE on Satuday

On Saturday, 29 June, for the FIFTH day in a row, Amanda and i played a few games of Warhammer Underworlds in preparation for the Tournament on Sunday! 

Saturday evening, while Finnegan was running his role-playing game in the Game Room downstairs, we set up on the kitchen table (like fucking PEASANTS!?) and played a few games of Warhammer Worlds.

I'd played Sean the day before and he was using Ironsoul's Condemnors and did pretty okay with them and suggested they were probably the easiest, most straightforward warband to play in Rivals, so I'd suggested it to Amanda for the tournament. She'd tried them out the night before and done better with them than she'd done with Morgwaeth's...

So she wanted to practice with Ironsoul's Condemnors a bit more... and I wanted to have another go at playing Thudrik's Profiteers. 

Poor Enrik Ironhail... I don't think I've activated him ONCE in four games. Always killed in the first round before he even gets to do something!? 

Having learned a little bit from the night before, I set up quite a bit closer... but forgot about getting OBJECTIVE TOKENS in No One's Territory within two hexes of my most forward starting hexes... doh!? 

Setting up that close did put me in "pew-pew range"...

But it also put me in charge range... 

The Condemnors just took the Profiteers apart, one-by-one... 

Despite setting up closer to No-One's and Enemy territory... I STILL couldn't score Objectives... 

Because EVERYONE DIED too quickly... 

I did WORSE than the previous game with this match up... previous game had been a loss at 10-7... this game I lost 14-4!?

WTF!? I was feeling pretty discouraged about Thundrik's Profiteers... if you can get lucky and score a few objectives early on... and inspire the fighters, they can do okay... but it requires excellent card draws and some really good dice rolls all through the first round... otherwise, they are kind of fucked... 

We played a second game, but Amanda wanted to so something different and wanted try out The Dread Pageant. I probably should have played Thundrik's against these - just to try them against something different... but I was feeling pretty down at this point.... So I played Skabbik's Plaguepack... 

All ready to go, Amanda let me have the first turn. 

In the first activation, Poxlix charged up the board, hit Hadzu, dealing one damage and pushing him back into the lethal hex and killing him... BOOM!!!

In the Power Step, Amanda pushed Slakeslash through a lethal hex, purposely injuring them (a normal tactic for the Dread Pageant as they inspire when there are 6 wound tokens on fighter cards - any fighter cards - and Slakeslash has 5 wounds so he can usually be counted on to take a few for the team - and he does have a method of healing after the warband inspires. 

On her first activation, Slakeslash attacked Rikkit, and MISSED!?

On my second activation Rabidius charged up behind Rikkit and attacked Slakeslash, HIT them, dealing three wounds and pushing them back into a lethal hex for a fifth wound taking them out of action... 

On my second activation...

Amanda was not pleased.... 

I suggested we just reset. 

So we reset with the same board and all the same objective tokens... but Amanda didn't put Hadzu between a lethal hex and an Objective token. 

This game went less well for me... 

I forgot to continue taking pictures... but the Dread Pageant murdered all but one of my little rats... 

At this point I was really conflicted about what warband I should even take to the tournament... Stick with the ORIGINAL PLAN and take Thundrik's Profiteers...?! Take something completely different..?! Skabbik's..? Dread Pageant!? 

Stay tuned for the Tournament Report, in the next day or two... after a few post about some miniatures I finished over the last few days!