Pick and Ban – round 2

For my second week I get to play into Skorne, with the following lists: Makeda3 DoA / Jalaam1 WoD / Zaal2 TE. I chat a bit with my opponent and he tells me he doesn't know Cryx very well. After looking at his lists, I really hope that means he won't ban Scaverous. I'm quite certain that I will want to ban Zaal2, and feel like Scavourous will have the best game into the remaining lists, easily outhreatening Makeda while being able to dismantle her bunker, and leveraging Carapace against Jalaam.

Pick & Ban – Round 1

Turns out that my opponent for the first round had dropped, so I was lucky enough that the organizer stepped in to make sure we had an even number of participants. As he was filling in for the drop, it defaulting to him being my opponent in the first round instead. I was up against Thyra EI / Feora4 CM / Reznik2 TFM.

Quarantine Machine 1

So, while we're all confined to our homes and we, as war gamers, have itches that need scratching, I figured I might as well have a game on Vassal. Now that Asphyxious 4 is finally out, and I don't have him yet, seemed like the perfect opportunity to actually try him out anyway.

Belgian Masters XXXL

The Belgian Masters XXX had transformed to an XXXL edition this year. There were multiple events per day with most of them offering 1 or more spots to compete in the invitational on Sunday. I had a bought a bunch of casters to the event, of which I was planning of maining my Skarre 1 in DH, paired with whatever tickled my fancy.

Total sell-out

I really needed to rack up some wins if I wanted to get into a WTC team, so this time I approached the tournament in a different way. I took 1 safe list, that I knew was powerful and for which I had a good idea of its good matchups, and take 1 list that I was interested in trying out. The theory being that I could drop the latter when I felt comfortable to do so, or I was already losing too much anyway. In practice however, this just meant that I played the former all day...

4 rounds of jank

I've had another tournament, a 2-day event. Unfortunately, due to a conflict in scheduling, I couldn't attend the final round on the second day. No biggy, I'll just take whichever lists I feel like and grind out some games. As I've now played Denny 3 a bunch of times, I did want to explore Asphyxious 3 a bit more, so needed a new pair for him.

Paris Masters

The Paris Masters were last weekend and I jumped at the opportunity to pump out a bunch of games (6) over the weekend. The event required fully painted lists, so I took my WTC lists for one last spin before they will retire, at least for a while.

WTC 2019

So the event of the year has come and gone. I'm honestly quite pleased with how I did this year, getting an adequate 4-2 personal record and delivering my team to the best result our country has ever achieved!

Deadweight

Today I just wanted to share with you how not to play a Kraken when facing a caster with Deadweight. I happend to face two of them with my Skarre 3 list and failed to properly account for it.

Cryx Theme Apocapalooza! (updated)

We finally got some juicy spoilers for the post-Oblivion Cryx themes, so I thought now might be a good time to write a post about it. For those that don't know, basically Privateer Press is revamping the way themes work. Instead of gaining 1 free of slot for taking X points of Y, you will get 1 Requisition point per 25 points of game size, which can then be spent on taking free options. This means that, when playing a 75-point game, you will get 3 of these Requisition points, which would be like most people are building lists now. The difference is that we're no longer limited to taking X of Y, but can freely mix and match whatever we feel works best in any given list and still get some free stuff out of it.