Tournament Report Ducosim XVII (pictures heavy)

Last Saturday me and a buddy went to the local steamroller. 16 people showed up for 4 rounds of caster kills. I took two lists, one with Morghoul and one with Zaal. The Morghoul list was made to fight against Hordes, Zaal for fighting Warmachine.

My Morghoul army; Front row: Void spirit, Canonneer, Snapjaw, Agonizer, Wrong eye, Smoke Gobbers, Brine, Rorsh and Orin Midwinter. Back row: Soulwarden and Morghoul. (click on the picture to get a bigger version)

My Zaal list; Front to back: Full unit of Ferox, Void spirit, Ancestral Guardian, min Karax, min Immortals, Zaal, Soulwarden and Canonneer. (click on the picture to get a bigger version)

My first battle I ended against one of the stronger players with his Circle of Orgoreos (Goreish Circle) with his Krueger list.


In short, his list was brutal (and a classic), he played brutal and he brutalized Morghoul. Well done! This nice chap ended up 3th of the tournament and also got the he most VPs award.


The next battle was against a nice guy who brought. Amon, 4 jacks and some solo's.


We closed in, danced around a little bit, he feated, destroyed most of my infantry with his sandstorms and Jacks. The turn after I feated, had a lot of counters and the remaining solo's and cavalry charged in and slaughtered everything except Amon and half his choir. The turns after my army mobbed up the rest and killed Amon.


Next battle was against a person I already know a little better Ahknas. He played his Caine list against my Zaal list. I did get a resonanced charge in on his knights, but mostly he just shot the hell out of me. Another of my better points was shooting a ghostsighted cannonball through a rock and into Aiyana and Holt. The game ended with Zaal death and him not having more then Caine and a few solo's.


My last battle was versus Legion, was getting tired, so forgot to take pictures.
He had Vayl, two Carnies, Seraph and full Knights. He was basically kicking my ass, killing most of my stuff, but luckily I managed to pull of the enraged-pigheaded-diversiontactics-Brine trick and killed Vayl because his Carnies could not be transferred to because of Morgs feat.

So I ended with two wins, two loses and a lot of VPs which put me at the 6th or 7th place, but best of all, I won the best painted award (hurray for me!) Close-ups will follow later, but here is a picture of my tray (click for a bigger picture):

Hexeris vs Baldur, 500pts assassination

Went to the LGS today to play against one of my regular opponents, sadly the store closed an hour earlier then we thought. Still had fun, although the game still was very undecided.
He had: Baldur, 2 Woldwardens, Woldwierd, Druids with UA and Gundrun
I had: Hexeris, Gladiator, Cannoneer, Full Swordsmen with UA, Agonizer, Catapult and Midwinter.
Highlights:
Midwinter keeping him from spellstriking and keeping baldur away.
Outcome:
Undecided, ran out of time, because we had an hour less then we thought.
Lessons learned:
I do kind of like my the badass-ness of Hexeris.
Diminish combined with Gnawing Pain is just evil.
Still nothing from the pult, maybe it just hates me.
Titans are though! Roar ;). Elephant family power!
Pictures:
His almost fully painted army ready to battle.
My full painted army ready ro tock!

Enemy at the horizon!

Battle

Hexeris vs Kaya, 500pts assassination

Last week I played against my regular circle opponent and now I finaly have the time to post this.
He had: Kaya, Warpwolf, Gorax, Argus, druids with UA, his full complement of stones, gobbers
I had: Hexeris, Gladiator, Cyclopse, 6 Karax, 5 Arcuari, min paingivers and the catapult.
Highlights:
Deathbringering the argus and killing a lot of stuff. Also put the must make treshhold spell on the Argus that turn (which it sadly did not fail).
Outcome:
I over extended myself and got Kaya assassinated
Lessons learned:
Do not overextend yourself (and now write it down 100 times ;))
Pictures:
The Circle ready to fight!
Halfway

Hexeris getting the crap beaten out of him.

Epic Morghoul vs Mohsar, 750pts Assassination

My second 750 pts battles. This time I played against one of the two local Circle players, he used Mohsar proxied by the druids solo. I was really tired and did not play sharp (again...)
He had: Mohsar, Woldwarden, Woldwierd, Woldwatcher, Warpwolf, full gators, min bogtrogs, two sets of stones, gobbers, min grinders.
I had: Epic Morghoul, 2x Cyclopse, 2x Krea, 2x Drake, full Ferox, 6x Karax, Soulwarden (proxied with Zaal), Guardian and full paingivers.
Highlights:
Getting paralatic field over the gatormen and spirit lock on the woldwarden, in turn one, with one krea.
Not losing anything to the side-charging bogtrogs and killing them shortly after.
Finally using morgs feat and killing the warpwolf and locking most down except...
Outcome:
.. Mohsar which first zapps morgs and then kills him with his ranged attack (needing 13+ to hit, I think I lost my lucky streak there ;))
Lessons learned:
Even mister awsomesauce morghoul should not be placed out in the open.
Do not give away stuff to early in the game only to dent something of him (e.g. the Ferox).
The Karax did well again in minimum format, I might use them more like this.
Pictures:
The armies line up for battle

Fighting starts at the left flank

All out engagement

Auch!

Epic Morghoul vs Epic Kaya, 750pts Assassination

My first 750 points battle.
He had: Epic Kaya (with her puppy), Warpwolf, Warpwolf Alpha, Gorax, Argus, Druids with UA, Gobbers, 8 wolves with UA, 2x shifting stones and 2x guarding stone.
I had: Epic Morghoul, 2x Cyclopse, 2x Krea, 2x Drake, full Ferox, 6x Karax, Soulwarden (proxied with Zaal), Guardian and full paingivers.
Highlights:
I screwed up a lot of things, almost everything. Did not really get into the game and was to tired to play, but it was just fun to see what happens at 750 and try new stuff
Outcome:
His army cleared a path, Laris ran forward, Kaya ported in, started hacking and got morgs to 1hp! Lucky me, off course old chap could finnish her off next turn
Lessons learned:
Epic Morgs is kick ass, when you know what to do.
I also liked the soulward, but is fragile. I also like his little shooting-zap-thingy.
Karax did very well, even in the min formation. They can get shield wall to be though and charge and even do some damage.
Pictures:
Ready for battle

Fight!

Fighting even more

And kaya screws up and gets beaten by epic morgs...

Morghoul vs Kromac, 500pts Assassination

500 points friendly against my regular Circle enemy and one of my old-time friends. I have played Makeda vs Kaya against him a dozen of times. But now for something completely different...
He had: Kromac, Warpwolf Alpha, Gorax, Ravagers (4) + Shaman, Whitemane, 2 Sentry stones and 2 Shifting stones
I had: Morghoul, 2 Krea's, 2 Drakes, 2 Savages and full unit of Paingivers
Highlights:
Controlling the Warpwolf one turn by putting everything from a Drake and Krea on it.
Killing a Ravager ad the Shaman with a blast from a Drake with Prescience
The paingivers doing 2 enrages and killing some stumpies on turn and doing two heals and killing two stumpies the next.
For him, damaging most warbeasts bady and killing some, a lot would have died the next turn.
Outcome:
He left Kromac to close to a Krea and Drake. Spray, Abuse, Paralatic Field and two attacks later mr Kromac was death
Lessons learned:
Morghoul can be powerful... if you meet the right enemy.
Morghoul, Drake, Krea and Savage play well together.
Pictures:
Circle ready to do battle

Be scared I have frogs!

About half way

Psycho frog eats ugly beastman!

Makeda vs Kaya 500pts, assassination

My second game in the competition, against the till now unbeaten Circle player.
He had: Kaya, Warpwolf, Gorax, Argus, Druids with UA, 2x shifting stones, 2x standing stone
I had: Makeda, Krea, Drake, Guardian, full Cetrati, full Ferox, min Paingivers, Smokers.
Highlights:
For him, the Warpwolf teleporting into my lines and slaying 2 Cetrati and 2 Ferox, with only 2 fury spend. Which both came back because of my feat.
My plan working again. Although he left an opening for me, not very smart.
Outcome:
Carnage and the Krea's animus over Kaya, only a few strikes from the guardian were enough to kill her.
Lessons learned:
I worked, play aggressive and wait for the opportunity...
Pictures:
Ready for battle
The fight tickens
And Kaya eats the dust (he already stored his warpwolf)

Zaal vs Kaya 500pts, assassination

Friendly at my place, the pictures did not end up that good this time...
He had: Kaya, Warpwolf, Gorax, Argus, Druids with UA, 2x shifting stones, 2x standing stone
I had: Zaal, Rhinodon, Krea, 8 Swordmen, 5 Paingivers, 4 Ferox and Guardian.
Highlights:
Rhinodon got killed easily by the Warpwolf, it got teleported back and the Argus then paralysed it, so it would do no harm on the frenzy it would get because of the Gorax animus on it.
The swordsmen holding one flank and most of his army and losing only half (not killing anything, but still)
Outcome:
(all using boosts from the Feat of Zaal)
The Krea put her animus on the standingstone next to Kaya, lowering her def.
Zaal did his AO spell on a druid in front of Kaya, damaging her, and clearing two Druids which were standing in the way.
The swordsmen charging on Kaya and doing a lot of damage.
One Ferox last-standing killed her, over his mates with reach and tall in the saddle.
Lessons learned:
I have played against this player against similar lists, so not much to learn about that.
It was not going that good for me, so I went all out, seeing what Zaal can do and I was surprised.
In the end all he lost was some manikins, two druids and Kaya.
Pictures:

Skorne ready to attack with the sun on their backs.

Half way through from Circle perspective

Kaya gets killed (the Ferox which did it, is already gone, Kaya is in combat with the two rear most swordsmen).

Makeda vs Baldur 500pts, assassination

And have a new camera, enjoy the picutes, I also added some pictures to older articles.
I had: Makeda, Drake, Krea, Cetrati full, Ferox full, 4 Paingivers, Guardian and Gobbers.
He had: Baldur, Warpwolf, Woldwarden, Woldfloatingthingy, Shifting Stones, Sentry Stone, Gobbers and Druids.
Highlights:
Screwing up my first attack, by not having cast carnage before attacking Baldur with some kitty, so they did the shocking number of 0 damage (lucky they were under my feat).
I got nicely through the Baldur feat turn.
His Warpwolf first getting shifting-teleported in front of the Woldwarden, which tried to throw him towards Makeda and came way short. He did not get knocked down because of the get not knocked down spell of Baldur.
Outcome:
I had Baldur in a tight corner, after killing all his beasts, he concided.
Lessons learned:
Play aggressive, always play aggressive.
Pictures:

Circle lined up

Skorne lined up

Moving closer

Attack under walking death

Warpwolf getting thrown

From another angle

The end