Game 3 against Alexander “Bharion” with W’adruhn
=== The Last Argument of Kings ===
Mist-List but fully painted [1990/2000]
The W'adrhun
== Warlord Thunder Chieftain [180]: War, The Horn of Ronan
* Thunder Riders 3 [220]:
== Winglord Predator [220]: War
* Raptor Riders 3 [180]:
* Raptor Riders 3 [180]:
* Quatl 1 [180]:
* Hunting Pack 3 [120]:
== Chieftain [105]: War, History
* Veterans 3 [170]:
* Blooded 3 [130]:
* Braves 3 [125]:
* Warbred 3 [180]:Ok, I knew his list well. We played with each other a bunch. Those are his fully painted models which he freshly painted up for the tournament (Where he also won best painted, fully deserved!)
Alex’s playstyle is very aggressive and in your face, so I knew what I had to do: stay back, have patience and breathe. My Jötnars would roll over his tribes, when they hit the table. I just cannot lose too much before they come on!
Szenario: Breakout
On Breakout you only have to have a play, how to deal with the marker in the middle without opening yourself up too much, otherwise you can’t score and your opponent has an opening. With his Raptors/Quatls/Winglord/Thunder Riders and my Seidr we had good marker killers. He also had the advantage of fast scoring on turn 2 with his flyers and I knew he likes to do so!
Turn 1:
He got all three lights in vs my only Raider-regiment. Ouch, this is going to hurt fast!
Standard opening, I delayed my Raiders to know where his Hunting Pack is going to try and pepper it with spells and keep my backline safe.
His Raptors went for the marker in the middle and the right side to put on early pressure against me, classic W’adruhn.
Turn 2:
I rolled only one regiment in, he got only his picked Winglord in.
I went with both my Trolls and one Ugr.
More positioning only this turn: Raptors in the middle scoot forward, damage the marker, scoot backward. My Shaman is hunting the Hunting Pack, shooting out one Stand and the Pack is trying to escape on the left side.
Trolls come in straight on the zones, little trolls left and big trolls right as well as Ugr also on the right side to reinforce my Trolls and set up a countercharge.. His last card is his Winglord coming in front the right side and scoring the zone giving him the lead this turn.
Turn 3:
Actions begins!
Reinforcement brings my Seidr on, as well as another Ugr leaving out all my other Jötnars. He got his Thunder Riders, Quatl, Warbred on.
From left to right:
Shaman was still hunting the Pack which snuck past the Troll, shooting out another stand.Trolls went onto the left zone, positioning them nicely in the water as everybody knows Trolls love water!
His Warbred came on straight in the forest to later reinforce the side which was in need.
In the middle his Raptors tried to take down the Marker but only did one damage in the clash, so he also put his Quatl there to shoot it and also failed to do the last wound! Ouch. His Thunder Riders are right behind them.
My Seidr went straight as planned towards the marker.
On the right side, the Winglord Volleyed+Charge+Clashed into my Trolls to try to keep them off the zone but doing not much damage thanks to Figuredhead and Dread. Trolls regenerated and thrashed a bit onto the Winglord.
Raptor Riders positioned them to also pile into the Trolls and I counter deployed some Ugr to counter charge the Raptors and positioned them well enough his Raptors couldn’t wheel into the if he won the supremacy for a maybe cheeky kill on them!
My other Ugr went forward and positioned them for a charge on the Veterans which he also brought on from the side to still score the right zone, which kept him further ahead! I’m feeling the pressure right now, but I tried to keep my calm playing on my 12’ deployment zone (which is rather unusual as Nords I have to say, haha!)
Turn 4:
Everything came on this turn and we were both fully deployed.
I put my Ugr first this turn, because either I win the supremacy and get a good charge off into either his Raptors or Veterans or he goes first and kills one of the big bois.
And he won the Supremacy and did as I predicted: Veterans go first, auto-charge my Ugr on the right side and easily kill them. I then had my other Ugr activate and auto-charge into the Raptor Riders and beat them into a pulp, true Unga-Bunga style! Blooded came in from the right side to step on the zone.
Next up where his Raptors killing the marker in the middle and positioning themselves for an intercept of either Seidr or my incoming Jötnars!
On the left side my Shaman took care of the last straggling Hunting Pack and reformed themselves to face towards the middle.
I also brought in my MJ on the left side to help reinforce, because he brought his braves from the Side to deny my scoring where I bravely charged with my Trolls who took care of a stand of Braves and enabled me to score (I would score anyways, because of Nords special rule 🙂 )
Warbred positioned for a counter charge in the now open flank of my Trolls.
The last activations were split up: his TR and Winglord in the middle went before my Seidr so I actually had an opening to just march charge the marker, killing it with impacts easily and opening up the middle and even positioning my Seids in the middle zone!
Scoring two zones for me (middle+left) and the right side for W’adruhn!
Turn 5:
It was a rather interesting situation right now: The middle was a hot topic, my Seidr open to a charge from his Winglord or Raptors or TR, the right side Veterans were open to a Troll Charge+Clash and my Sea and Mountain Jötnar in the middle positioned to intercept the Raptor riders.
I thought not much about it, the Seidr was my most valuable asset. If I am able to go first I can tie his Winglord up, making the Charge from his TR unable and put my MJ second to either countercharge his TR or go straight for the Raptors to block in the TR.
Supremacy went to me (I also had the advantage) and I went with my Seidr directly into the Winglord. What I didn’t anticipate was that I oneshotted that bastard, leaving my Seidr directly open for a TR charge+clash!
But Alex also hadn’t thought that I would one-turn the Winglord and put his Raptor Riders directly beneath it. He thought about where to go with them and decided to fluid and charge directly into my Raiders! He wanted to go for the Warlord kill-points. However my Raiders proved sturdy enough and survived with one stand left!
This opened the path for my MJ and he marched directly into the Thunder Riders to bind them and stop them from going onto a rampage in the middle zone. His impact hit so hard I even managed to kill a stand, which is massive against this shock cavalry. TR clashed back, but it wasn’t enough to kill the 18 wounds of my MJ.
On the right side his Veterans charged into my Trolls dealing a bunch of damage, but didn’t threaten them enough, regen kicked back in and I would win the exchange, my Ugr even going for reform charge into the side to support the clash. he dared a Charge with his blooded on 6 onto my Ugr but failed, which I was happy about I didn’t anticipate this move from Alex and that would have definitely crippled my Ugr there.
On the left side my Trolls got charged by the Warbred and lost two stands exactly which broke them. My MJ killed the Braves and walked onto the zone which again gave me the zone thanks to the Nords special rule (+1 seizing yay).
My Sea Jötnar and Raiders cleaned up the Raptor Riders.
Scoring went against two zones to Nords and one to W’Adruhn.
Turn 6:
No picture here because it was rather fast.
Alex won Surpremacy, went with his TR first, killed my MJ and charged into my Seidr but not killing him. Seidr clapped back and killed the TR.
Veterans hit Trolls, doing not much and died to Ugr, Trolls march charged onto Blooded.
Troll could regenerate one stand after unbreaking last turn, Warbred cleaned them up and MJ + Sea jötnar + Raiders went into the Warbred.
We packed the game up, because Alex had only one Regiment, Blooded left and there were enough turns left for me to score through.
It was a close and bloody match as always. I hate being on the backfoot with my Nords and I think it was due to my experience against Alex that I actually had the patience to just wait a bit more. His list is so aggressive and I like it and it always is such a close match against him!
So, with that victory I was up 3:0 and we were waiting for the result of the other table. The OD player also went 3:0 and we had to wait for the SoS score to see who got first place.
And I had the SoS on my side and got first place!! My first tournament win, even though it was just a smaller tourney, it was such a blast coming here, meeting the community in Salzburg (which is awesome and I highly recommend everyone checking them out!)
Conquest is an awesome game, with awesome people at the table. Everytime I am at tourneys I have such a great time with everyone. And a win is just the cherry on top!
Thanks for the tournament and organization, especially thanks to Tom, his friends and all the lovely people who helped organize everything!
Daniel aka “Extune”
Bonus: Here are some action shots!
