Saturday, March 30, 2013

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

Friday, March 29, 2013

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

Thursday, March 28, 2013

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