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SPORE Con Pictures

Games Master — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:59:50 +0000

Lots of great pics from SPORE Con here on Flickr. That first one of me is me already looking worried at the start of my second match..not even rolled any dice at that point.

SPORE Con : Battle Two – Everblight vs Khador

Games Master — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:36:05 +0000

Battle two was the closest I got to a win. Facing Vlad and an interesting selection of Behemoth, Widow Makers, Yuri, 2 Man Hunters, Eyriss, Drakon (no dismount) and Grey Lords. It started very badly on the left with the Behomth sprinting 16″ across the board and engaging my advancing archers. The Grey Lords, Widow Makers and Vlad advanced on my left, the rest came down my right. I had no choice but to throw one of my beasts at the Behemot to slow it down, the archers were a mess, but my right flank moved forward and swiftly cleaned up.

Then things went wrong, rather than killing my beast, the behemoth picked it up and threw it at my other beast…missed… deviated one inch…hit. Both beasts on the floor they then suffered ranged attacks galore and died together. Leaving me light on beasts. However the Harriers were doing okay and we’d killed everything on the right execpt for Yuri and he was in a bad way.

Turn 4 for me I poped my feat and moved my caster, yes really I did, battle three I forgot again. Rhyas swept through the Khador forces, killing all but the last Widowmaker and all the Greylords and ending the turn invisible, Def 20 in the middle of what was left of the Kador army (not much at all) . Harriers advanced but didn’t manage to kill Yuri, it was looking good!

Then Yuri moved (ran) , avoided two free strikes and ended next to the Behometh, and here a slight rules error from both of us (mixing up stealth and invisibility for ranged attacks) meant the Behometh then picked up Yuri threw him at Rhyas, missed and deviated on to her. (Rules error being that she can’t be targeted and therefore the Behometh has to throw at half strength distance). Anyway she was hit, knocked down and then Vlad stepped over and finished her off.

So close, and yet so far!

SPORE Con : Battle One – Everblight vs Pirates

Games Master — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:42:31 +0000

My first battle at SPORE Con was against the pirates and I was quietly confident, I’ve played Shae enough times to know all the tricks and was even prepared for the rifle men to shoot into my deployment zone on turn 1. I was prepared for the Pirate charge, the mini feat, which my archers were spread out to take the brunt of, but what I wasn’t ready for, was how fast Everblight beasts die when hit hard.

And I was really dissapointed that after getting my Totem hunter all the way across the board, and engaging the commodore that he was then vaporized due to the Shae 3″ feat that left him facing a POW 20 spray attack, ouch! Not much left after that.

The central battle was a general collapse especially after I popped my feat and then forgot to move Rhyas so none of my beasts could advance far enough and as usual the odd pirate or two just constantly got in the way, that said I cleared up a lot of the solos and felt all the better for it.

Late game Hawk charged Rhyas, missed and got killed by the Riposte, yea I had to chuckle over that, then I found I had Rhyas and the Gobber Smoke team left on the table, Ryhas charged into combat and killed off a bunch of pirates. Next turn she was surrounded but my opponent was willing to risk missing and being killed by a riposte. Shae had moved up cast a spell and missed leaving him within killing range… but before that could happen my Gobbers got nailed handing me a loss by “Army Destruction”

And you’d think I’d always remember to move my warlock when she popped her feat after that

SPORE Con : “Pop Feat and Attack Idiot!”

Games Master — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:49:28 +0000

First the key fact, played 3 lost 3, 1 on caster kill (Vlad A) , 2 on army kill (Shae / Vlad B). Two of the games were close, the third was a massacre, in games one and three I popped Rhyas Feat…and then moved on to the next model, forgetting to advance her, never mind attack with her, which in Hordes is devestating as all my beasts ended up horribly over extended and then dead. In the one game I did get it right I cleaned up quiet merrily and ended Invisble. Worked great. Battle group wise, Archers just sucked , I needed melee fighters with Rhyas not archers, Harriers did okay both as solo killers and getting in the way. Seraph rarely did well and was nailed fast, and as I didn’t face a Hordes faction the Forsaken was just a side show model that did nothing apart from die, okay first game he killed a couple of pirates.

As I’ve never used or fought against Vlad before it was a shock to face him and the never changing “Blood of Kings” , “Signs and Portents” and assign one focus offensive. Makes the eVlad “hand of fate” spell look pretty weak in comparison… oh and seeing the Behemoth run 16 inches across the board and then fire was bloody scarey!!! Note to self : Buy Vlad before going home!

Tournament winners were Skorne (Zaal) beating Cryx (Deneghra) in the final. I came a solid last! No regrets though it was great fun and well over 200 people showed up at the Con playing all kinds of games as well as DnD 4e that just launched on the 7th. Next tournie is tentaively planned for November.

SPORE Con “The day before the war”

Games Master — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:07:51 +0000

Having lived in the gaming shop Black hole that is Bangkok for way too many years it is something close to nirvana to step into the Paradigm Infinitum gaming shop. So many games, expansions and miniatures that I could easily spend all day there. Last time I was there it was pretty quite, but today it was packed with people getting ready for SPORE Con tomorrow, apparently the next Con will be in November.

The format for the Warmachine/Hordes tournie tomorrow is a points based system spread over 3 games per player, 5 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss, with Victory being via caster kill. If both casters are alive after turn 6 then it’s a draw. 2 Khador players, 1 Skorne, 1 Cryx, 1 Cygnar and me with Everblight. We also all have nice “Play with Me” T-Shirts so that we can get visitors to come and try out some Demo games in between matches. Should be fun! No news on how serious the other players are, but there are prizes to be won so I’m not expecting too many “gimmes” on those 2mm short charges!

4e Books for DnD arrived in Singapore today too, pretty much sold out on pre-bookings.

SPORE Con

Games Master — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:29:36 +0000

So there I was thinking that the event in Singapore was just a WarMachine tournament.. wrong.. it’s actually a full on gaming conference, the guys from the PI gaming shop (best gaming shop I’ve seen in South East Asia so far ) are organizing the event at Chua Chu Kang CC. The games and sessions being run are as follows

Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures
Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures
Settlers of Catan
Warhammer 40K
Warhammer Fantasy
Warmachine/Hordes
Yu Gi Oh
And some demo games

So it looks like I’ll still have plenty to do if I get my butt kicked early on in the Warmachine tournament