Battle of Westidge 2013

This years BOW was hosted in the heart of Västerås, Swedens fifth city. 30 people met up to push miniatures and roll dice on tables.

The steamroller torunament was 6 rounds, 50 pts and deathclock was used. I chose to go with Jarl and eMadrak.

Jarl Skuld
Mulg, Bomber, Impaler, Runebearer
Fell Caller
Max kriels+ua+2 cabers, max fenns+ua
Min kriel stone+ua

eMadrak
Slag troll, pyre troll, impaler, runebearer
Fell caller, stone scribe chronicler
Max champs, max kriels+ua+3cabers
Max pyg burrowers, max krielstone+ua

Game 1
The first game paired me with a menoth player, fielding Fiora and a Judicator along with some shield and spear guys.
I went with Jarl. The game was over quite fast. Thinking i was safe, i did not use the kriel stone my round one. So his turn two was a fantastic show in judicator efficiency. The stone in the kriel stone unit was the only part of that unit left on my turn two.

I went for broke and tried for an assassination. Needing a crit 14 on three dice with the impaler. Didnt get it. That was that.

Game 2
Irusk faced me with a death star, black dragon ifp, great bears, uhlans and a spriggan. Jarl met the challange. We played the into the breach scenario, and i deployed my kriels to my right, against the circle, and my fenns to my left, to face the uhlans. The rest went in the middle.

We ran everything up and he got my fenns to flee hid round two, six died and i got no toughs. I found out after the game that i can no quarter while fleeing and activate them normaly, good to know.

He had positioned things i wanted dead (joe) out of reach from jarl, so i cleared out the circle to start scoring points. Tje uhlans had charged my fenns through fog and did not hit them on def 14 with -2 to hit. I killed most of his ifp with the bomber, jarl and kriels. Mulg smashed uhlans.

His turn, and he has his deathstar, spriggan and greatbears left. The spriggan goes for mulg. Misses the charge attack, but probably wouldnt have killed him anyway. I realize that if I kill the spriggan, I win. My turn, Mulg kills spriggan. He has nothing left to kill Mulg, and tries to dominate the flag within charge range of mulg. Irusk ate rune club.

Game 3
Vs eGrim, slag, ww, blitzer, warders, burrowers. He starts and moves up to toe in both chemical reaction zones. I move up and feat to negate his burrowers. He does almost nu damage his round 2 due to clouds. I unjam my fenns with jarl move up to jam him and get a tough roll on one of the warders. I feel good and tactical supremacy with jarl into the forrest by my objective.

Egrim shows what he can do. The war wagon knocks me down by shooting the objective. EGrim mage sights and mortalities jarl. He died to the shooting.

Game 4
Fiora again. This time with a judicator, double reckoner, double templar and some support. I chose jarl. Because this time, Jarl was out for revenge. I moved up the field and activatef the krielstone. He did not kill tomuch of my things and i jammed him and started scoring points on the scenario by killing his objective and dominating the circle. He cleared the judicator and toes in the zone. I almost kill the judicator but a double one from the caber leaves him at two boxes.

He runs in to jam my bomber and hit him with a templar. The bomber lives and takes help from a caber to destroy the knocked down templar. Jarl gets to plink in the last damages to the judicator, and i win on scenario.

Game 5
I face of jarl against eHexeris with a bronzeback, gladiator, shaman, double drakes and slingers. Plus support of course. We play outflank, i get second and after we both move up and jarl misses the gladiator i feat to get me a round of stillness. He gets of black spot on my fenns, and kill three with double spray. One kriel falls.

My turn, i clear the left circle and walk in to dominate. I clear the left c... No. Hyper agressive. Damn. I have left a packman trail of kriel warriors, but got rid of borh drakes. And not enough blocking the BB way to Mulg. He clears out much of my things. And kills Mulg.

What to do? I try to clear my left circle but just dont have the punch. I realize i am losing. Fortunately for me he times out when i have an impaler and jarl left.

Game 6
pCaine fields a stormwall and a lot of gynmages, on foot and on horse. I let eMadrak see the field once, and with minimum arm 17 under the stone, not counting the burrowers, his shooting was not very painfull. I get charges of with the blood furied pygs round 2, the put down some damage on the storm wall. I shoot with what i have and feat with madrak to try and finish the storm wall of. He lives with only a few boxes. Madrak and the slag troll really does damage. I dominate my flag.

He then moves up and feats, getting avout two thrids of my army. Caine kills only a few things, I realize he cannot win on attrition, and i start grinding.

He gets a decent go at madrak, but misses the last shot at dice minus seven, needing four damage an no tough. Eventually, i win when he times out.

Summary
Going 4-2 was ok, but i really could have made it more interesting by using the kriel stone round one. Lesson learned. I also learned that the war wafon likes casters next to objectives. Those two mistakes cost me the games i lost. Of course I could have lost them anyway, but given it a fair chance.

It was a really nice tournament with beautiful terrain. I really liked that many of the boards were themed. Also, the last game was the second game ever I played eMadrak. He was fun!