'Ard Boyz...Warhammer Fantasy style!

All right, last Saturday was the first fantasy Ard Boyz tourney for 8th Edition. I really love warhammer fantasy and I am totally in love with 8th edition. The changes are awesome, and make it much more of the infantry game it use to be (in 6th.)


The event was ran at East Side Games and Cards, and a very big thanks goes to those guys for hosting it. Thanks to Clint for hosting, and Carl for running it. 


First game I played against Joseph and his Dwarfs. it was a very close game but in the end, after a very rough fifth turn, I was able to pull out a Minor Victory, and grabbed a large amount of Battle points. 

Second game was against William and his Dwarfs. YES! another dwarf player...playing an almost identical list. After swallowing the fact that I will not have a magic phase...again...I was pretty happy about this paring. I knew what to expect and was ready for it. It was a "normal" set up and I had my plan. It was a closer game than the score would have you believe, but I ended up with maximum points and a massacre in my favor. 

Third game was against Clint and his beastmen, running the Minotaur Deathstar unit. The Deathstar unit ended up in reserve due to mission scenario whatever, so I had the game in the back from turn one. As soon as I dropped the two wizards, it was open game on beastmen. Again, massacre with all battle points. Or at least that is what I was told when I was there. I guess later on I was told I didn't get one of the battle points or something. 

Anyway, I believe I ended up killing something like 7800ish total victory points, with dead generals and battle standard bearers and units everywhere. I had a blast in all my games, and I hope my opponents felt the same. Poor William and his dice man. They left him high and dry about two rolls into the third round of our game. 

My list: 

Grey Seer on bell with Feedback scroll, general
Warlord on Rat Ogre with 4+ ward, weeping blade, shield, tail weapon, rat hound
35 Stormvermin w/ full command + warp fire thrower (for Grey Seer's bell)
32 Stormvermin w/ full command + warp fire thrower (for Warlord)
2 units of 36 clan rats w/ full command + ratling gun
Plague Priest, level 2, dispell scroll, Plague Furnace, Flail
35 plague monks w/ full command (to push the furnace)
2 doom wheels
Plague Claw Catapult
10 Poisoned Wind Globadiers w/ the unit champ. 

I am not 100% sure on everything in the list, as I don't have it exactly in front of me, but I think that's it. 

Honestly, it's a semi-soft list, comparatively speaking. There will be some changes made for the next round. I have some weaknesses, like getting to warmachines (made painfully obviously against two dwarf players) and character killing. Nothing like having a unit of Stormvermin pushing a Bell not being able to drop a single Dwarf Lord on shield bearers. 

And I don't care what everyone else things/says/whatever. I love my Plague Claw Catapult. It's awesome. 

Anyway, I had a blast. I guess now it's time to start training for Regionals...or whatever the heck the next round is.