Natcon: End of day 2

Day 2 and I had almost no sleep. Insane insomnia. Coffee and toast and ready to go.

Round 4
Mark Stilton (VC) 10-10 Meeting Engagement. Mark was a very polite and confident player. For the whole game I threw chaff under his Giant Nightmare Collossus and ended up purple sunning his BSB and black knights, churning through his Ghouls with my 'letters.

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Round 5

The Amicable Simon. Photo by Me.

Photo By Me

Simon Schwitzer (Dwarfs) 16-4 Blood Glory. All fun and games and lots of laughter for first 3 turns and then we got down and dirty and it got intense for 3 turns. It ended in a Massive combat in the centre of the field with lots of flanking and chargers. Dwarf hordes with great weapons hit very bloody hard. You got to kill a lot of them before they can hit back. Simon hates my dice but it was one of my most fun games of the weekend. Highlight of the game was purple sunning my own mage after getting a flank shot on Simon's neatly lined up army.

The Dorf Gunline before my charge. Note the casualties in my second unit of Bloodletters Photo by Mike King

Charge! Photo by Mike King

Getting down and dirty. Lots and lots of flank Charges. Photo by Mike King

...and not so many Dwarfs now. Photo by Mike King

Round 6
Jeff Kent (Lizardmen) 16-4 Battle for the Pass. Oh Shit, lizard on a long table edge. It turned out to a massive bonus for me. My Bloodcrusher brought home the bacon andcapitlisaed on Jeff confusing himself on flee reactions and me actually making some of the chargers. His 2nd Slann dimensional cascaded himself on first turn and his other Slaan tried to purple sun me a couple of times. I got tied up a bit with one unit With all of his shooting and fleeing and movement so we only got 4 turns in and I probably would have gone close to tabling if we got to the end of 6th.

Photo by Me.

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher on 1 wound dealing to some skinks. Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher 1 and 2 charging in. Photo by Mike King

Bloodcrusher Single handedly taking on all of Jeff's Skinks. Photo by Mike King

Round 7
Table
1	Sam Whitt	Hamish Gordon
2	Neil Williamson	Bo Paterson
3	Simon Switzer	Aaron Hodson
4	James Millington	Mark Skilton
5	Darren Smucar	Fern Campbell
6	Charlie Lloyd	Joel McNelly
7	Mal Patel	Samuel Campbell
8	Nicholas Jebson	Brendon Johnston
9	Jeff Kent	Stuart Robinson

Below are the current standings

Player Name	Total
Mal Patel	81
Samuel Campbell	81
Sam Whitt	80
Jeff Kent	74
Hamish Gordon	73
Stuart Robinson	73
Simon Switzer	72
Mark Skilton	68
Aaron Hodson	63
James Millington	59
Nicholas Jebson	57
Neil Williamson	55
Bo Paterson	51
Brendon Johnston	50
Charlie Lloyd	42
Darren Smucar	41
Joel McNelly	28
Fern Campbell	12

Natcon: End of day one

Dawn Day 1 - Guess what - Dawn Attack!

End of day one and it's been a hoot. Played versus Jeff McNelly's Chaos Warriors, Hamish's Skaven (again) and Sam' Dark Elves. Mike King has sent  out the games for next round along with standings. I've come out pretty good against the 2 hardest lists (39/60).

Night Gobbos and Daemons ready for the Tournament.

Round 1

20-0 vs Jeff (dawn attack), Joel had a themed chaos warrior army based on greek mythology, made a change from all the GW miniatures you see. I managed to outmanouvre him and get off some great charges and he had terrible luck with eye of gods, rolling triple 1's on eye of the gods and turning his general into a Spawn. I don't think Joel would ever have a worse game and I possibly would ever have a better game.

 3 out of 6 of Joel's Chaos Chariots of Greek Mythology. Photo by Mike King

Daemons are ready to have Greek for breakfast.Photo by Mike King

Very nice looking army. Photo by Mike King

Round 2
13-7 versus Hamish(watchtower). Somebody help me. Freekin' Skaven. At least I was going up against Hamish in my favourite scenario against him. I ended up bunkering in the watchtower and minimising losses where Hamish could never beat me in the tower.
 

Ready to take on the Skaven. Photo by Me.

Round 3
6-14 versus Sam(battleline). Cold one Death Star is annoying, it went from a draw to a loss in the last turn when he finally charged his cold ones into my beaten down bloodletter unit. other than that it was dancing around the board for the rest.

Sam's Night Elves. Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

Photo by Mike King

The missus is having tonnes of fun rounding up the bottom half. She's had some terrible luck. She is now officially the top female warhammer player in New Zealand.

Round 4
Table
1	Mal Patel	Bo Paterson
2	Sam Whitt	Jeff Kent
3	Brendon Johnston	Fern Campbell
4	Samuel Campbell	Mark Skilton
5	James Millington	Aaron Hodson
6	Darren Smucar	Nicholas Jebson
7	Simon Switzer	Joel McNelly
8	Stuart Robinson	Hamish Gordon
9	Neil Williamson	Charlie Lloyd

Player Name	Total
Sam Whitt	48
Jeff Kent	46
James Millington	42
Aaron Hodson	39
Samuel Campbell	39
Mark Skilton	38
Stuart Robinson	34
Hamish Gordon	33
Mal Patel	33
Bo Paterson	31
Simon Switzer	28
Joel McNelly	25
Neil Williamson	24
Charlie Lloyd	22
Darren Smucar	20
Nicholas Jebson	18
Brendon Johnston	16
Fern Campbell	4

Preview of Form - Rankings for Natcon

A little bit of a preview of the last year's form going into the tournament. I scored 65/120 and so did Hamish in NZTC, but those results don't count. I'm looking forward to putting my name on the rankings. But we'll let the numbers speak for themselves at the moment in lead up to the tournament.

Ranking	Name	total 3 best games	played in last year	avg 3 best games
8	Mal Patel	225.51	4	75.2
9	Sam Whitt	223.82	7	74.61
26	Hamish Gordon	153.91	3	51.3
30	James Millington	141.45	3	47.15
38	Bo Patterson	130.59	4	43.53
39	Stuart Robinson	130.5	3 43.5
45	Simon Switzer	121.55	4	40.52
67	Neil Williamson	75.36	3	25.12
90	Aaron Hodson	46	2	23
114	Nicholas Jebson	24.68	3	8.23
Unranked
Brendon Johnson
Charlei Llyod
Sam Campbll
Fern Campbell
Darren Smucar
Jeffrey Kent
Joel McNelly
Mark Skilton

Reaper Bones Kickstarter only days away from Shipping

Not long now.

Seriously can't wait.

The kids will be very happy.

Chtluhu is looking great

NATCON preview, round 1

Just received this from Mike King for first round. 

I've got 8 chaos chariots to chew through. 

Interesting. 

In our club Fern's night gobbo horde going agains Mal's lizard horde, Hamish is up against Beasts and Nick's got Tomb Kings. Sam's going up agains Dwarfs.

Hi All

Below is the first round draw, a reminder of time table for weekend.

Table
1	Joel McNelly	Samuel Campbell
2	Nicholas Jebson	Charlie Lloyd
3	Darren Smucar	James Millington
4	Mal Patel	Fern Campbell
5	Hamish Gordon	Brendon Johnston
6	Stuart Robinson	Bo Paterson
7	Aaron Hodson	Jeff Kent
8	Neil Williamson	Mark Skilton
9	Simon Switzer	Sam Whitt

Time Table

Friday:

          08:30 – 11:00 Game 1 – Dawn attack

          12:00 – 14:30 Game 2 – Watch tower

          15:00 – 17:30 Game 3 – Battleline

Saturday:

          08:30 – 11:00 Game 4 – Meeting engagement

          12:00 – 14:30 Game 5 – Blood and Glory

          15:00 – 17:30 Game 6 – Battle for the Pass

(If table layout in venue makes this impractical, will revert to Battleline)                             

Sunday

          09:00 – 11:30 Game 7 – Battle for the Marbles

          12:30 – 15:00 Game 8 – Battleline