Munich gaming!

My brother and Nighy with me on a beer break

A weekend or two ago, I was in Munich to watch my uncle run the marathon and to do some tourism. I took the opportunity to check out if there was any chance of testing the local warmachine/hordes meta. And there was. I got good response on page5.de and therefore packed a 50pts calandra army:

Calandra
Bomber, mauler, pyre troll, slag troll, runebearer
Full champs, min kriel stone+ua, max burrowers
Fell caller

We headed over to FUNtainment for Thursday night gaming and were greeted by Nighty and the other guys there. The atmosphere and gaming room was really nice in such a central part of the town. We also had time to take some beer breaks. 

 

Keeping it together in the centre is key. Everything
under stars crossed. 

All in all i managed to almost squeeze in three games on that Thursday afternoon. First one quick warm up vs my brother and eMakeda. I lost, as calandra dies when you look at her. And also molik karn.

The second game was also against a skorne player. He fielded Mordikar, along with a Mammoth, Nihilators, Ferox, Cetrati and a Snipe-bot. The game looked to go in my favour, although my Burrowers fled to aoes from the mammoth. As we played incursion, I managed to head forward with my champs screening calandra. The game was looking to go in my direction when he got of a good assassination attempt from the cetrati as I couldn't get rid of the last one. Calandra died clinging to the central tree/flag. 

The protectorate set up.
The judicator tried its flame thrower a bit

Mosh pit madness. Grinding is everything

The third game of the thursday night was against a Protectorate player with a really striking army. He played a fun list for the evening, fielding eSeverius with a Judicator, Reckoner, some support, Aiana and Holt, daughters of the flame and a Revenger. It turned ot to be a lot of grinding. Not having an impaler in my army really hurt, as my 8" bombardment meant eSeverious could feat to remove my blocking Burrowers and let the Judicator end my Bomber and severly hurt my Mauler. But I bit back and killed the judicator. We didn't actually play the game through, but it felt like I had the upper hand in the end, with his only threat, the reckoner, standing in the wreckage of the judicator and not being able to reach anything, while my pyre, slag and three champs were still alive. A really nice opponent and a very fun game!

Grinding, again

But the gaming in Munich did not end there. We were invited to Nighty for a Saturday evening brawl and gladly accepted. I got to see how a real German lives, drank home brewed Mead and a good time was had by all. I also got another game against a skorne player. This time, it was against Voldo. Or I mean, pMorghul. The grinding began. I really used stars crossed and befuddle to my advantage and was looking to come out on top when he got of a run with the bronze back towards calandra. Due to stars crossed, she lived his attacks. But the willbreaker ended it all, by puppet mastering a kriel stone scribe who ended Calandra. 

It was really nice to get to meet some new players and trying out my style of play versus other metas. It felt okay, especially since I played a list I'm not really comfortable with. I still find Calandra very tricky but really like her abilities and the challenge to be as far up the field as possible, while still staying alive. I feel I managed ok, and will continue to build on her list for coming tournaments. Thanks again to all the nice people we met down there, and especially to Nighy for the warm welcome and hospitality!