Warhammer Escalation League Pt.3

This is makes the last installment for my mini-league as we played out the last game on Thursday. The list were bumped up to 1250 and my Elves were struggling to make the jump. All I had left to add for units, were some lame Silver Helms. The moment, I set foot in the store, I realized that my efforts were in all vain. My competitors had shown up with strong units like Hydras, Giants, Minotaurs and all sorts of stuff.

Ya, know.... stuff that helps wins games.

This will be the very last time I show up at competitive event and try to play with a fluff army.  No more of that bullshit for me! I'm showing up with a entirely painted army, comprised of the best units that I can take. The Lizardman army featured in the pictures had a Old blood, Scar-veteran, Skink Priest, and don't forget the Steggie.

I'd like to say this game was fun, but it simply wasn't...

Warhammer Escalation League Pt.2

 
These are actually pictures of my 3rd game of the league.  The brave High Elves stood against the Hordes of the Chaos. The game was only 1k, so there's no need to go into a detailed analysis of my defeat. With is only one game left in the mini-league and with last weeks loss. I'm pretty much out of the running for any of the fabulous prizes.

The league has been allot of fun and a learning experience on how to play "competitively". In all reality, I need to quite hamstringing myself with self-imposed restrictions. This time around it was trying to use my new High Elf army against every one's established collections. I was painting/making do with what I had, while my competitors were building solid lists out of their larger armies.

The league has also forced my to ponder the "why" gamers don't paint their stuff, but I'll go into that after everything is wrapped up on Thursday.

Escalation League (week 2) recap & Week 3 preview

Here's a few random thoughts: I like 8th edition*, I like the store I found, and blocks of Saurus Warriors are best ignored or evaded. You most likely won't seal the deal without devoting a -lot- of resources to the melee.





Week 2 was another good time and this time I managed a win. My opponent was a really cool father that had his kid in the league too. (He was distracted a bit but I didn't mind. I'm sure his kid was having a blast.) This game was vs. Lizardmen again in a cool Fantasy-esque mission where our forces vied for the possession of warpstone tokens, which were worth a random number of victory points at the end of the game.

For next week, I bought another unit of Glade Riders, some Waywatchers, and two of the new generic pieces of wargear (from the back of the rulebook) for my Noble.

130 Wood Elf Noble w/HoDA
Elven Steed, Light Armour, Charmed Shield, Luckstone, Spear

129 Glade Riders (x5) w/Musician

129 Glade Riders (x5) w/Musician

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician
THIS UNIT GAINED -Quick to Fire- AT THE CONCLUSION OF GAME2

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

144 Dryads (x12)

096 Dryads (X8)

120 Waywatchers (x5)

1000

* = so far

Wood Elf List for Escalation League (week 2)

Last week was fun, but I lost. Apparently comets aren't good for anyone's health... who knew? This week I get to add 250 pts to my army which is cool. Noble gets to ride a horse now and I get more trees and bows. My strat? Shoot em and stick em lol

I'm gonna try to take pictures this week. Good times are distracting and all. Here's the list. Any advice on going to 1k from my readers?

123 Wood Elf Noble w/HoDA
Elven Steed, Light Armour, Shield, Spear

129 Glade Riders (x5) w/Musician

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician
THIS UNIT GAINED -Quick to Fire- AT THE CONCLUSION OF GAME2

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

144 Dryads (x12)

096 Dryads (x8)

744

Wood Elf List for Escalation League (week 1)

I'll be playing my first game with the new edition today and it'll be for a league at our local store, so it should be a blast. Below you can see the list I'm using. It's an escalation league so it starts out small and the game size increases over the course of the following weeks. I'd post more thoughts but 500 pts doesn't allow for a lot of that.. and I don't know what I'll be playing against. Hope this does well for me.

103 Wood Elf Noble w/HoDA

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

126 Glade Guard (x10) w/Musician

144 Dryads (x12)

499