Battlefield Bangkok

Concept : 2 vs 2 mixed Warmachine and hordes battle groups, 500 points per faction, 7:30 minutes turn for each player. Scenario victory conditions only. No caster kill win. Once per game each player may declare a 5 minute extension to a turn.

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Victory : Each side secretly chose a faction that was attempting to penetrate enemy lines, one VP was awarded for each model from the chosen faction that exited the opposite side the table. No VPs for kills or Caster elimination.

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Team Selection : As Kris plays no Hordes faction so he needed to be a WarMachine player, Each other player prepared in advance a 500 Point Hordes and WarMachine list, in secret. The draw was then done. Kris was Mercs, Chris was drawn next and was the Hordes faction to side with the Mercs, and he revealed Legion. Wuffy was drawn next and was the WarMachine faction for Team 2, he revealed Menoth which left Kobby as the Hordes player for Team 2, and he revealed Circle

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So set up was.

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Team One

• • Kris : Mercs
• • Chris : Legion

Team Two

• • Wuffy : Menoth
• • Kobby : Circle

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Deployment : Wuffy won deployment and elected to go first this was followed by Kris, Kobby and then Chris. Once deployed it tuned out that Circle was opposite Legion and Pirates opposite Menoth. No mixing of deployment locations with Team 1 due to the Abomination issues from many of Legion forces. Advanced deployment was a couple of wracks and lots of pirates.

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The game progress at a frantic pace, so many things to consider and with our new decision to use time limits, the turns really flashed by, mistakes made, models overlooked, much more “war like” than previous games of “all the time in the world to think”

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Combat didn’t take long to initiate , turn one the pirates hit the wracks and took them both out along with the attacking pirates. Turn 2 the Menoth fire bombers crisped a mass of pirates and Menoth and the Pirates went to war in fine style. Legion and Circle were a little slower but Kruegar popped his feat early and tried to nail the Blight Ogrun and War Mongers. No deaths though they were mauled. Next turn Gorton popped his feat, Landsided Kruegar and some Circle models as well as the Menoth Jacks. Killing off Kruegars feat and leaving Circle exposed as the Legion crashed in. Meanwhile Pirates vs Menoth was going badly for the Pirates and the Harbringer also waded into combat for good measure. Legion (Team 2s yet to be declare running team) got into a slug fest with Circle and proceed to decimate the entire army. Sadly the Carnie that took out two Circle heavies without a scratch got Tornadoed into a crevice and died! Next turn Kreugar met the sharp end of the last Blighted Ogruns spear and died. However the crushing of the Circle force was all for nothing as the Pirates folded up on the flank and the Menites rushed through the break in the line. There was little that the remaining mercs and Legion could do other than take grim satisfaction in moping up the remaining Menites and Legion forces as Wuffy lead his strike force through the shattered line of Pirates and off the table, including the Harbringer!

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Winner : The battle lasted just 90 minutes and 5 turns , with victory going to the Menoth / Circle army, though Circle celebrated with just 3 standing stones left. Menoth exited 6 models to win the game, even though there was one turn left, the Team 1 runner faction (Legion) had only 5 models on then board and could not surpass the 6 of Team 1. Victory Menoth / Circle.

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Summary : Great game, everyone enjoyed the fast pace, constant confusion and the time to relax between those turns to watch the other players go through their turns at pace, pondering on what the other players might forget. The Scenario based victory conditions also made the game fun than straight up caster kills.

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Game Highlights
• Menoth burning Pirates to a crisp, certainly showed that Menoth have the right weapons to halt the Pirate charge
• Carnie eats Tree and wolf. Turn 3 The Legion carnie charged and devoured a Legion Tree, and then Frenzied next turn (Shepherd assisted) and charged over and ate a wolk on the next turn
• Tornado. Total shock and horror of watching an unwounded Carnie get thrown into a Crevice by Tornado!
• Merc Driller, takes down Menoth Guardian with a drill kill.
• Chain lightening. Was scary but thankfully the Legion army was mainly high armour with hit points and survived the multiple shocks without too much harm

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In a “lets see what we haven’t played very much or at all” battle Wuffy with Cryx and Lich Lord Terminus took on Chris with a Four Star Contract Magnus. Cryx fielded a unit light force featuring a Deathjack, Seether and Harrower as well as one pistol wraith and a Skarlock, and Chris fielded 2 * Renegade, a mangler, Eyriss, Seth, Bradigan, The Piper of Ord, 6 Kazyaki Assassins and Master Gunner..
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The battle could be best described along the following lines “Mercs attack, mercs miss, Wuffy and spectators collapse in laughter” .. repeat. And so it went for the whole game with the mercs gradually getting ripped up until finally Eyriss managed to hit something (yes Eyriss missed lots).
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Through to the final turn Cryx had lost just the pistol wraith and were running circles around the mercs, it was all too easy. So to wrap up Terminus charged Magnus, boosted the attack by way of a formality, and rolled 3 ones…. silence hit the table, Terminus missed again, and when he finally hit, he didn’t do enough to finish off Magnus. As the saying goes “He who laughs last laughs loudest”. first hit put Terminus on the floor and the rest of his focus Magnus powered into the defenceless undead warcaster.
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Update 500 Point Ladder. Khador (Karchev) challened Cryx (Denegrah) and won. Karchev cleaving Denegrah in half as the warcasters faced off in mid table after rolling up each others opposing wings. Battle was played on the new cool terrain boards!

1. Chris – Khador ( P1 – W 1 – L 0 – D 0)
2. Wuffy – Cryx ( P1 – W 0 – L 1 – D 0)
3. Kobby – Trolls ( P1 – W 1 – L 0 – D 0)
4. Wuffy – Skorne ( P2 – W 1 – L 1 – D 0)
5. Steve – Khador
6. Kris – Mercenary Pirates ( P1 – W 0 – L 1 – D 0)

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Just posting the result, Kris or Wuffy can bang up the battle report. Though I caught the end game and it came close to Shae winning a fight with a melee attack, but, as expected, he choked, and then choked on some cold Skorne steel.

So far, no challenger has won a battle in any ladder match!

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Lord Tyrant Hexeris challenged Epic Butcher to a 750 ladder match.  Packing in 5 warbeasts, 2 units of needle gunners, a squigy squealer and a unit of swords men, againts the rock hard Doom Reavers, Assault Commandos, Ashley, Holt and his GF, and 3 Heavy Jacks.

Going 5 rounds, the highlight of the battle being the turn 4 decimation of the Doom Reavers due to the Hexeris feat combined with the Skorne Sword mens Stand Ready order… the Reavers died to a man, took out Holt, almost had Ashley and left 2 swords men still standing…pretty evil combination!

Butcher had his revenge shortly after that, cutting down three beasts in a Homicidal attack that also saw him take out his Spriggans legs..oops! Okay he didn’t take all three by himself as his buddy the Berserker finished off one of the Skorne beasts with a swift one two axe attack to the back of the head.

Turn 5 Hexeris and the boys had the Butcher cold but failed to press home their advantage, leaving The Fat man in the Red suit on 5 wounds, and really upset, and then he rolled a 1 for fury! What the heck, the creature that the Fat Man can’t kill in two hits has yet to born… and that was the end of Hexeris.  Just as well as he only had one Beast left standing! Not that there was much left on the Khador side of the table for that matter.

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Update 500 Point Ladder. Skorne challened Trolls and were defeated.

1. Chris – Menoth
2. Wuffy – Cryx
3. Chris – Khador
4. Kobby – Trolls ( W 1 – L 0 – D 0)
5. Wuffy – Skorne ( W 0 – L 1 – D 0)
6. Steve – Khador
7. Kris – Mercenaries

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This battle was between Khador Chris and Skorne Wuffy. A 350 Escalation Campaign battle.

Khador :

• Karchev
• Devastator
• Devastator

Skorne :

• Lord Tyrant Hexeris
• Titan Cannoneer
• Cyclops Savage
• Cyclops Brute

The terrain, global effect and faction advantages played no real role in this battle as both sides moved to engage in hand to hand right from the get go and terrain was positioned to the sides.

The Titan took a few ranged shots at Krachev prior to melee however it failed to do much damage and that was the extent of ranged combat for the entire battle.

Three rounds of close combat reduced both sides to their casters and the advantage was with Hexeris, who though short on fury for the round 5, cut himself for the short fall and charged in to take on Karchev in hand to hand (brave soul that he is). Slicing into Karchev he cut the man of steel down to within a hairs breadth of death…and then ran out of fury and attacks. Karchev, who was down to only one functioning system, was thankful that he wasn’t 100% Jack, and also thankful that it was his open fist that had been cut off, and not his sword, swung once, cut Hexeris in half and then pondered on what to do with all the unused focus he had left.

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