Hey lads!

Me and some friends decided to throw a small friendly tournament. We agreed on 1,5 point and no named characters. 8 players, 2 groups plus finals. One list for the entire event, no scenarios, plain PB, with 0-10 points per battle, two players out of each group gets to finals, were the winner gets to the final match.

I was the first to play, against O&G player.

Since it's a friendly game, I decided to make some experimants. I fielded:

RS, stone, spellbreaking, furnance and pres. GW and [warhammertag116]SH[/warhammertag116].
BSB, gromril, pres, furnance, cleaving.

10 Warriors, sh,GW
10 warriors, sh,GW (these two would be my experiment )
10 x-bows, sh
21 Lonbeards, FC, sticism
15 hammerers, FC, courage
BT, eng, penetration, burning
GT, accuracy burning
OG

I wanted to test the 10 warriors distraction theory... right now, I'm pretty sure they are useless at this points...

O&G fielded

BO general on boar /w some magic toys
Orc shaman w/power stone, maybe something more
Goblin shaman w/ring (bound, headbutt?) and maybe some mushrooms

5 wolfraiders w/spears and bows and [warhammertag96]MUS[/warhammertag96]
5 spiders w/spears and bows and [warhammertag96]MUS[/warhammertag96]
29 NG w/ 2 fantics, netters, FC
15 squig heards
10 savage orc bows
2 spear chukka w/bully
1 catapult w/bully
10 manfyers w/manfred (I'm not sure it's his real name...)

I was hoping for some more fighting blocks, he surprised me with those manflyers.

Ok, initial deployment:

As you can see, I made some serious errors on deployment, but as I sayd I did not expect those manflyers here. My deployment was from the left. Warriors, OG, Warriors, Hammerers, GT, LB (with [warhammertag13]BSB[/warhammertag13]), X-bows, BT (with [warhammertag114]RS[/warhammertag114]). His from the left: Wolves, Squigs, Chukka, Savage w/bows, chukka, spiders and NG w/general bahind, catapult, both shamans and manflyers.

If I had known, that he was going to field scouts, I would deploy mu [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99] near the forest... oh well, too late now.

I won the first turn.
I move my left warriors towrds the hill, the next warriors rush towards the orcs in an attempt to cross the field and crush those green b'astards, hammerers sligtly turn left (I moved them too late during the battle, they did nothing... :/), I turn the longbeards towards the forest in a futile attemt to reach the manflyears before they kill all my flank (second mistake...). The [warhammertag50]GT[/warhammertag50] shoots the spiders, land 1" too short, hits 2, and kills only one. BT has no better taget, so it shoots the orcs, and kills 3, but since they are savage orcs, they don't care, x-bows shoots spiders doing nothing. [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99] is obviosly out of range.

His turn. He moves wolves to screen the quigs from the [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99], squigs advance, spiders advance, both shamans approach the forest, and Manflyers still in the forest assume a shooting position. Catapult shoots at my [warhammertag50]GT[/warhammertag50], and lands abount 12" too far (nice flying stone thou... ), both chukkas fail to hit anything (they both produced only 2 hits during the entire game). Manflyers kill 3 x-bows, luckyly I pass panic test. Magic did nothing, as he was out of range with almost everything... his big foot, or whatever the name is, was dispelled.

Second turn:

Both Warriors advance. So do the longbeards, towards the forest, they are joined by the [warhammertag114]RS[/warhammertag114], who fled from [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15] and manflyers (another error, I should have moved both him and the [warhammertag13]BSB[/warhammertag13] into hammerers, and not approach the shamans...). GT shoots the catapult, perfect guess, lands on top... and fails to wound the machine. I got one crewman. X-bows shoots spiders, 2 dead, they run in havoc. BT missed the main NG block. OG produced 8 shoots and obitherated the wolves. I needed to risk this one, to have an open shoot in the next round.

His:
squiggs charge my warriors, who flee, It was what I wanted, now I have two clean [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99] shoots at them. Shamans advance, spiders rally. Magic is still eseless, luckyly I mangaed to dispell everything. Catapult guess is good, buut scatters long away from my Davi. One chukka hits my longbards, but kills only one. Spiders and savage orcs does nothing. Manflyers shoots my [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15], killing one cre. I thing the hit the [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15] itself like 9 times, 4-5 poison... obviosly, a wasted shoot.

third round:

I advance my x-bows, I wanted to screen my [warhammertag50]GT[/warhammertag50] from his catapult, and shoot his NG instead... but M3 was not enough to achieve this. My warriors rally, and the centre ones advance at max speed. So doeas the [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75]. GT shoots the general in NG, perfect guess, but he passes look out sir test, and I kill 8 NG instead. BT attempts the impossible, shooting the shaman in the forest... and misses. OG shoots the squigs, as planned... and thing starts to go very bad for me... missfire, two turns with no shooting. At this point, my left flank is gone

His.
He advance with the NG and squigs. Magis is better this time, the foot of mork/gork (whatever) is cast, I attemt to dispell it with 4 dices (I need 12), ... 4 2's. Dam'n! He hits the [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99], luckyly taking only one wound from the machine. Then he hits the [warhammertag50]GT[/warhammertag50], killing one crew (lucky once more), and then it wanishes. uff... But magic keeps gonig. Mork wants ya spell is casted against my [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15], destroing it. As the O&G player is a good friend, he blows up his catapult this turn, so he is a good guy! The maflyers shoots the [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75], killing about 3. chukkus hit nothing again. Spiders and savages put a wound on approching warriors.

Forth.

Both warriors advance. So does the hammerers (too late!) One close up with squigs, to take the heat off the [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99], and the other towards it's target, the savage boyz. OG moves towards the NG, since it cannot shoot. LB continue to move. and [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15] crew moves toward the shamans. GT fires at NG, but I guess wrong and miss horribly. X-bows take out two.

His.
Squigs charge my left warriors, since I wounld have to fly out of th board, I take this charge. Shamans change position to have better [warhammertag79]LOS[/warhammertag79]. NG close up towards my x-bows, fanatics appear, one goes throu my x-bows, killing no one, and the second land too short from my [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75]'s. Magic plus manflyers reduce my [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75] block to 11 plus chars, spiders+savage+chukkus produce 3 wounds on the closing warriors... who fail their panic test! And I was in range for the charge.. :/ Squigs kill 4, I kill none, I pass [warhammertag76]Ld[/warhammertag76] test on 5

No picture... the situation was too embarassing!

Fifth.

My:
Hammrers advance. Warriors stop running (they will still have to take theoir slayer oath!), LB's charge the manflyers, who opt to flee. BT crew closes [warhammertag79]LOS[/warhammertag79] for shamans. The begging of this desatrous turn beggins with my [warhammertag50]GT[/warhammertag50] missfiring killing one crew mamber.. no more shooting for me tin thes game! X-bows shoots the NG, killing only 2. Oh, and my warriors kill 1, for 4 kills by the quigs... they fail the [warhammertag76]Ld[/warhammertag76] tst and flee off board.

His:
The begging of the end... The NG charge my x-bows (the fanatic moved in the perfect direction to screen me, but he rolled a 10, and passed in front of the NG's noses), I take the charge (keep them untill the hammerers arrive is my last option now...). Shamans try to reach a safe spot from my [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15] crew. Manflyers stop running away. Magic in this turn really hurts... The ring is cast on my [warhammertag114]RS[/warhammertag114], since I need the [warhammertag26]DD[/warhammertag26] for the rest, I let it through, and I get one wound on the general. Then, with 2 dices, he produce a IF on my [warhammertag13]BSB[/warhammertag13] with mork wants ya killing him. Then he casts the gorks foot on the [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99], I dispell with 4 dices... I I get 2 1's! No [warhammertag99]OG[/warhammertag99]. Luckyly, he then rolls a 1, I change the target into his orc shaman and kill the guy. Revenge is sweet! In the chagrge against the x-bows, he puts nets on me, he wounds me only twice, wich I save on two 6 rolls for ASv, I kill no one, and I pass My break on a 5. Maybe they will stand to see the hammerers approach.

Last turn:
My warriors advance to contest the table quarter. Hammarers charge the fanatic, I was hoping to make an overrun move into NG's (I'm not sure it's legal), but I landed short an 1". BT cre charge the gobo shaman (he positioned it badly, so he had to take the charge, or flee off table). Since I have nothing else to do, we do the fights. Shaman is killed with 3 wounds on him. X-bows loose by 4, and are run down, he has to pursue, and lands on a fanatic, but he only produces 3 wounds.

His:
The NG block stays were it is, more or less, the squigs taka a table quarter, the manflyer move to shooting position, the fanatic moves trhow my hammerers, killing 3 (they been hit previosly by one [warhammertag15]BT[/warhammertag15], losing 3). Magic doesn't exist anymore, shooting takes out a couple of [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75]'s.

THE END.

Due to bad deployment, bad manouvers, and extremely bad ASv rolls (those 6 to save the x-bows and maybe 2-3 more on the [warhammertag75]LB[/warhammertag75]'s, were the only ASv I passed...), bad rolls for dispelling (I kept trhowing 1 and 2's...) I lost. 405 points for O&G, which gives him 3 tournament points and a good positioning in my grundge book.

It was a fun game. Undecided till turn 5. I will have to win both other matches in my group to keep playing, wich will not be easy, as I have Brets and [warhammertag128]VC[/warhammertag128] before me...

Feel free to comment my bad general skills!

cheers!

BTW, Sorry for all the TYPO's. ;]