CCG 2500 pt Tourny

Okay, so here is my take on yesterdays 2500 pt tourny. 

The list:
Slaughtermaster - lvl 4, Lore of Maw, Sword of swift slaying, Dispel Scroll, Talisman of Preservation, and Ironcurse Icon
Bruiser - BSB, Armour of Silvered Steel, Luckstone

8 Ironguts - Standard of Discipline
8 Ogres
7 Ogres
Stonehorn
Giant
Sabertusk
Sabertusk
4 Leadbelchers
Gorger
Gorger
Scraplauncher

Game 1!

For my first game I was up against "The" Paul Vinton and his Dark Elves in a battleline scenerio.

He had a Cauldron bsb, Dreadlord on Peg, lvl 3 Shadow Mage, and lvl 2 Metal Mage.  His main unit was a horde of 30 Witchelves, but also had a RXB, Chariot, 30 Warriors, 11 Dark Riders, Hydra, and 6 Shades.

Paul and I have been playing against each other for many years now, and we generally go back and forth on wins and loses.  Paul is very experienced and well knowledged at this game and in my opinion one of the tougher players in this area, so any time I can do well against him, I consider it a hard fought victory.  This game was very weird though dice wise for me.  He pretty much deployed all of his things on his board edge and made me come to him.  His metal wizard was of no use at all this game.  His two spells were not worth casting towards me and so he never even really tried. When it came to charging, my dice were horrible.  I only got off one charge the entire game, and it was one that he stuck his shades infront of my stuff to redirect them.  That being said, he got to decide when and what charged where.  Once he got into combat though, his dice urned on him, and mine caught fire.  My hitting and wounding were about normal, but I was making armor saves left and right.  In the end, the final result was a draw.  1554 for him, and 1504 for me.  Great game, and great opponent.

 

Game 2!
For game 2 I got John W and his Lizardmen

 

He had a Shadow Slann, Heaven Priest, 2 Chiefs on Terradons, and Scar Vet on Cold One. Troops he had 20 Sauras, 25 Saurus, 16 Skinks, 16 Skinks, 5 Cav, 2 Sally's, Ancient Steg, 5 Cam Skinks, and 5 Cam Skinks.

This game was dawn attack, and we both got screwed by the random deployment.  His stuff was very spread out along the flanks, and very little in the center.  I did ok, except that my BSB ended up on my right flank with no unit to join.  Turn one his priest irresistibly cast a comet that on my turn killed more points worth of his stuff than mine.  Things were working well for me until turn two, when his ancient steg charged my Ironguts containing the Slaughtermaster and they failed their leadership 9 terror check and fled from the steg.  The Steg ended up rolling higher than me, and wiped out the entire unit without a single attack being made.  900 points gone right there.  After that, his Slann had magic dominace, and was able to use shadow effectively to reduce my stats and make sure his troops won combat.  I still managed to get quite a few victory points, but not nearly enough.  John won a major victory 1907 - 996.  Again, a great opponent and a great game.

Game 3!
For the final game I faced off against Chip E and his Warriors of Chaos!

He had a lvl 3 Nurgle Wizard, and Khorne Lord, and Khorne bsb.  Also 2 20 man Khorne Warrior blocks, 10 Khorn Knights, 15 Khorne Mauraders, and Hellcannon

Chip is a good friend of mine, and we regularly play against one another in my basement.  I knew right away I was in for a fun but tough game.  This was the meeting engagement scenerio, and his hellcannon had to start in reserves.  I started out taking the stonehorn into a unit of warriors, and did pretty good damage to them, but not enough to take away their steadfast.  Turn 2 his hellcannon dropped a direct hit on my ogres and caused that unit to fail 2 LD 8 tests (BSB was in the unit) and flee.  That turn my stonehorn also failed a LD 9 stubborn break test and ran away also.  At one point, all of my block units were running, but he could not run any of them down.  The Giant slowed down the kinghts, and even managed to kill 3 of them.  This bought me enought time to rally everything, and hit his knights in the front and both flanks.  He still held on and won combat that round, but steadfast kept both of the flanking units in combat.  The knights finally broke the next turn, and that sealed the deal for me.  I had a victory 1500ish points to 714.  Once again, Chip did not let me down and we had a great game even though I was getting a bit tired and probably was not as fun of an opponent as usual.

Overall take-away?

Overall, I learned quite a bit.  Scraplaunchers suck!  I did not kill a single thing with it, so I spent most games just using it as a chariot.  I knew that the Giant would not be the best choice, but I was hoping it would draw some fire power away from the Stonehorn, which it did.  Neither the Giant nor Stonehorn lived till the end of any game, but that was more my fault with the Stonehorn.  It was the first time I got to play with it, and kept putting it in bad situations, just to get it in combat.

I was not that impressed with the Gorgers either.  I like them, and think they are fun, but they didn't really do that much.  Best case scenerio, they can not even get into combat till turn 3.  I think I will prolly try other things in place of these and see what happens.

The Giant and scraplauncher will also be replaced for tournament games.  I have 4 mounfang and 1 ironblaster boxes, and just got to get them put together and painted.  I also picked up my 3rd Maneater yesterday, so I look forward to testing them also. 

Overall, I had a great time and managed to win best sportsman out of 16 people.  I am very proud of that because sportsmanship is something that I have been working on.  I do not think I am a bad player to play against, but I don't hide disappointment or frustration well on my face, and when things go badly it shows.  I try very hard to make sure my opponent has a good time as well, no matter what the final score.

Thanks to everyone that showed up and made it a great tourny.

Cheers,
Ryan G

 

RyanG: BSB Progress

     Well, it does not look like I am gonna make this month's goal as well, but I have made some progress.  I got all 6 of my Ironguts done, and got my BSB started.  I am using a Hunter model for my BSB basically because I already had one, and I didn't really see myself ever taking an actual Hunter.

     Not the best picture, but he is coming right along.  I am trying to keep him simple, but make sure he stands out.  I am terrible with green stuff, so my goal with the big green glob in the middle is to file it down, then put something over it.  Should work right?  Anyway, just wanted to throw up some of my progress to show that I have not completely failed this month. 

Cheers,
Ryan G

To4G: Dec Recap

      Good evening to all you Waaaghladites out there. Just wanted to throw up my December report to the blog real quick. December was an appauling month for me, as it had the holidays, and then I went on a vacation at the begining of January. I did manage to get 4 things painted though. I finished my Butcher, Gorger, and 2 Ironguts.

      First we got the Butcher which I will also be using as my Slaughtermaster in 2000 point list. I tried to do a few things to make him stand out a bit like making his Iron Gob and chains gold instead of silver. I also went over the blood on his apron with gloss varnish to give it a wet look. I'm still up in the air about the blood and how it looks, but not sure how hard it will be to correct it now that it has varnish on it. I also cut off his top knot hairdo as I hate that type of styling. Even with my 40k Orks, I cut all them off, or found different heads.

Next is the Gorger!

      I wasn't sure how I was going to paint my Gorger's at first since I am doing an African theme to the Ogres themselves. After thinking it over, I figured that they would still wind up pale even in Africa, based on their fluff, so that is what I did. I added the red into the mix to try and add some definition to them and figured they might get a bit sunburnt in the process. I haven't heard much good praise going towards the Gorger's in this edition, but I still like them. I like the ambush and the unbreakable, but turn 3 at the earliest to get them into combat is a bit rough. I plan on taking 2 at 2000 points and we'll see how they do.



Finally, we got the 2 Ironguts.

      I quite like how the light grey is contrasting with the dark skin on my Ogres. The pictures don't really do it justice, but it really makes them pop. Ironguts are probably the easiest models I have painted so far, as so much of them is just metal. Overall, I like how things are coming along quite nicely.

      I also recieved a Stonehorn/Thundertusk for christmas this year, and was just wondering if any of you had play tested them and which one you liked better. I have not tested either one, but I am leaning more towards the Stonehorn because it is a better fit for my play style. Run it straight at my opponent and hope for the best. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

      For my 2000 point army, I will be upgrading the butcher to a level 4 Slaughtermaster, adding another Gorger, and converting a Hunter model into a Bruiser BSB. I also got 6 more Ironguts left over from last month that I have to finish painting.

The above will put my 2000 point list as follows:

• Slaughtermaster - level 4. I did not give him any armor as that is against the spirit of the rules, and did not want to be a wonky power gamer. *cough*Chuck*cough*
• Bruiser BSB
• 2 units of 7 Ogres w/ full command
• Unit of 4 Leadbelchers
• Scraplauncher
• 2 individual Sabertusks
• Unit of 8 Ironguts w/ full command
• 2 individual Gorgers

This puts me a 2000 point exactly.

     Also, to Wallshammer who suggested I try out purple wash on my Ogres I wanted to let you know that I did try it, but I like the way the black wash looks better. Thank you for the suggestion, and I look forward to any others that you or anyone else has.

Cheers,

RyanG

Ryan G: 1000pt vs Daves Beastmen

     Okay, here we go again.  Month two, we are at 1000 points, and I am battling Dave and his Beastmen.

     We played a normal battle line scenario, and my list contained:

Brusier - General
7 Ogres
8 Ogres
3 Leadbelchers
Scraplauncher
Sabertusk
Sabertusk

    

     I don't remember exactly what Dave had, but it pretty similar to the one he battled Joe with except he swapped out a Bray Shaman for a Wargor.  It started off with me getting first turn, and marching straight ahead at him.  Did some shooting, missed with Scraplauncher, and minimal wounds from LB's.  His turn was moving forward, most things straight forward, but did put Harpies to the side of the Scraplauncher, and hid one of his casters in the tower.  In Magic, he casted the buffed Amber Spear at Scraplauncher and did 3 wounds. 

     Turn two was again uneventful for me.  Just repositioned my troops, scraplauncher again missed, and LB's killed 2-3 bestigors.  His turn 2 he charged both the Bestigors and Harpies into the LB's, and move the rest of his stuff forward.  Again a buffed Amber Spear hit the Scraplauncher, but only did 1 wound leaving it with one left.  Bestigors and Harpies destroyed the LB's and chased them down.

     Turn 3 I charged my 7 Ogres w/ Bruiser into his Minotaurs and my 8 Ogres into his Bestigors.  Shooting did much better for me as I hit a pile of scrap on top of his wizard in the tower and killing blowed him.  Both units of Ogres were successful and broke both his Mino's and Bestigors.  The Bestigor breaking caused the Harpies to panic, but my Ogres by the Mino's only managed to roll a 3 for pursuit and were left out to dry for a flank charge my Dave's Gors.  He then charged my Ogres in the flank on his turn with his Gors.  He caused my unit to break, but failed to run them down.  He also failed to rally with both the 1 remaining Mino, and his Harpies, and the Harpies ran off the table edge.

     Turn 4 I had no charges so I just rallied and repositioned my remaing units.  Scraplauncher killed 3-4 Gors and then on his turn he charged the Gors back into my Ogres.  This time he rolled snake eyes for his primal fury and became frenzy as well.  Again he broke my Ogres and this time managed to run them down.

     Turn 5 I took my 2 Sabertusks into his last Mino to try and gather the rest of those points.  I managed to do 2 wounds, but then he killed one of my Sabers.  His turn he repositioned his troops and then got off a Wyssan's on his Mino making him toughness 5.  He then killed off the remaing Sabertusk and his Mino survived the battle. 

     Turn 6 was really uneventful, as we were both out of range to get back in combat with each other so the game ended.  Overall it was a draw with him getting 703 vitory point, and myself getting 606.  Very good game, and could have easily went either way.  Had he just gotten that extra wound on the Scraplauncher, or had I got the final wound on his Minotaur it would have been a win. 

Great game, great time.

Cheers,
Ryan G

Ryang19: 1000 pts

     Month two is here, and we have now increased to 1000 points.  My army did extremely well at 500 just because of the brute force of it.  Nothing that Joe and Dave had could stop my main block of Ogres if it got into combat with them.  So for this month, I kept the same strategy, and we'll see if it will pay off.

My 1000 points are as follows:
Brusier - General
7 Ogres w/ full command
8 Ogres w/ full command
3 Leadbelcher w/ Bellower
Scraplauncher
2 Sabertusks in 1 man units

     I chose to still only have one hero, because I think the troops are going to be more important at low points.  I really do miss magic and a BSB though, and think they will be coming out to play rather soon. The Ogre blocks will again try to close the gap quickly and get into combat asap.  Leadbelchers are just amazing, and in my opinion so far, should be in every Ogre Kingdoms army.  I really like the Scraplauncher model, but have not really had a chance to use it, so that will be interesting considering I have a lot of toughness three targets in both Joe and Dave's amries.  As you can see in the pictue, I am not using the normal GW Sabertusk models, and have decided to use some lion models I found through Crocodile Games as substitutes.  They fit very nicely into my African theme, and I severely dislike the GW models.  The lions are a bit smaller than I had hoped for, but when comparing them to GW horses, then are to scale to what a lion should be to a horse so I am happy.
    I am almost done with the launcher already, then I will get started on the sabers.  I am still enjoying painting this army, and I hope I continue to enjoy playing it.  I have over doubled the model count this month which was to be expected.  For these first few months, I am trying to include units that I feel I will use in the army 99% of the time so it might not make for the best build right now, but it should pay off in the end.

Thanks,
Ryang19
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Ryang19 To4G End of Month

     The other night Joe, Dave and myself played a three player game for the wrap up of the 500 point month.  I won't go through an entire battle report since Joe already has, but I will more or less just give my opinion on my army at the 500 points.  Also, now that baseball season is over, I will be able to get more painting done.  I have fallend behind a bit, but Congratulation Cardinals!

     Leadbelchers at 500 points are awesome.  They always got their points worth, and really helped me win this final battle.  They are great at shooting the smaller things, and can still hit just as hard as normal Ogres in combat as well.  These guys are going in every Ogres army that I build.

     Then there was the Ogre Bulls, or just Ogres now I guess, but they were also amazing at low points.  It just seemed that both Joe and Dave could do nothing about them in combat.  It is just too many attacks, and too many wounds.

     Overall, I am still happy with my choice for Ogres, and can't wait to get the 2500 points done so
I can take them to a tournament.

Thanks,
Ryang19

Ryan G. 500 Pts Down, 2000 to Go.

     Ok, here we are on the 16th of October, and I just finished basing my first 500 pts.  Figured I would throw up some pictures to show off my progress.  Again, I am going for a African Plains theme.  Let me know what you think and any suggestions you might have.

First up is my Bruiser.

Next is my unit of 6 Ogres with full command.

Finally, we have the LeadBelchers.

I have enjoyed painting them so far, and hopefully I can continue my interest in them.

Thanks,
Ryan G