Tournament Report - Saga Battle of 5 Bridges

 Hello Folks,

This past weekend was time for the second? Running of Ottawas Saga tournament the battle for 5 bridges. This time the period was ancients using age of Hannibal, Alexander, or Ceasar. Since Ceasar is new i tried out the Germans from this book.

Game 1: Desecration ve Macedonians 

Here's the set up, the stone pillars are the objectives, smash your opponents to increase you mac massacre score.

Macedonians move up, I charge the cav on the hill but they use a strong defensive ability, I end up loosing 6 guys and killing none.

The cav rides down my warlord, can no longer use the terror ability to boost my abilities.

Get more or less cleaned off the board over the next few turns, I get a few kills in but still a big loss for the Germans.

Game 2: River Crossing vs Romans

Time to face the romans. Just have to cross a bridge should be easy.

Block of legion and an elephant coming accross.

German units getting crushed by legion, meanwhile cav gets shot up on the other side.

Manage to kill 1 unit!

But the elephant stomps in some revenge.

Ceasar just barely fails to kill my warlord.

Accross the bridge i go.

A bit better this time but still a loss.

Game 3: Control vs Cataphracts?

I really liked this scenario, control the pillars and murder the enemy, best of both worlds!

I go first and move close, can't score the pillars so reason ti be crazy.

The enemy groups up on 2 pillars, they have some annoying support abilities when mixed in like this.

Get to killing real fast. I am getting good damage but loosing more guys then I can kill. The archers are doing goid at least chopping away cataphracts.

I am annoyingly leaving enough guys in the enemy units for them to still score and get saga dice. With their support abilities wether I attack the infantry or cav it always feels like the wrong choice.

Getting low on murderous savages.

Last stand of the warlord.

Last saga dint get the die to shoot so I charge instead! This goes as well as you might expect!

Another loss for the Germans, but a very fun game.

In the end I was last place score wise but was named the Paragon fir best total of painting and sports. There were a few really well painted armies to.

Fancy!

In the end the Germans are OK I guess but never really clicked with me. Not as fun as the vikings or muttawawi which is more what I had I  my. But never fear always another Saga army to paint, I have multiple ideas! Aparently next event might be age of vikings so ill have to think about what armies seem fun!

Few shots of other games:

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Slave Raid

 Hello Folks,

Had another 40k game this weekend, Nic wanted a rematch against the Dark Eldar so he cooked up a slave raid scenario based on Rescue.

Basically murder plus capture some guys.

Turn 1 troops coming on as the targets scatter from the tower.

Assault Marines and devistators coming in.

Lots more dark eldar, using the woods to hide from the marines fire power.

Raider gets boomed, it happens. The noble defenders of humanity blow a slave apart with bolters.

Bikes shoot up and assault the scouts.

My second does drugs to fight sone bikes and save the witches, but he does to mant drugs and dies. 😵‍💫

Dread stomping in.

Bikes killing witches, dread killing Bikes, nit going super hit is it.

The assault Marines got slaughtered, except chaplain who charged my boss and got cut down. Thats all 6 turns so time for thd math phase!

Marines up a couple hundred points on killing, im up on capturing slaves. The score is within 10 pts so we call it a draw!

Thanks;

Mike

3rd Ed 40k Tournament

 Hello Folks,

This past weekend there was another 3rd edition Warhammer 40k tournament! Of course I had to attend and decided to take my newly painted Dark Eldar army themed as Iyanden Corsairs.

Furst Game: Cleanse vs Tyranids

Capture table quarters and don't get eaten by nuts should be easy right. I deployed first and put my talos's front and center to push them back. Other stuff on various edges so they can advance to the other quarters.

Turn put a couple wounds on the tyrant, kilked some genestealers amd moved around a bit.

Tyranids advance and shoot back nothing crazy.

Failed to kill the tyrant sadly, bad Dark Lance luck.

Kids getting some assaults in which is not what you want. Have good speed but lots of short range weapons. Maybe should have kept my stuff closer together blast 1 unit good instead of spreading out.

End up nearly tabled, solid nid victory.

Game 2: Recon vs Orks

This mission has deep deployment zones, but you still can't deploy within 24" of enemies. But no deep strike or infiltrating which is a bit lame.

Orks get the first go but dont accomplish to much.

I am able to take out their fast stuff like bikes and trucks quickly which makes life very difficult for them.

Big mob of nobs advancing on the left.

Everything else gets ripped apart by shooting.

Witches fighting the nobs.

In the end all the orks got killed and I have a few units in their zone. Solid won for me.

Game 3: Facebook Kicking vs Space Marines

Marines set up for a last stand in their building with bikes and assault Marines flanking.

Marines advance and pepper me with shots no major losses. Apart from a transport vehicle.

Shoot em back pretty good, kill a few terminators with a disintegration cannon. 

Marines press forward on the right, assault a talos with assault Marines, snipers take out the other.

Prince Yeriel does some drugs and with the witches the Marines get butchered and the talos is saved. Mamdrakes assault some devistators, but they suck and get their teeth kicked in.

Dreadnought walks in the open flaming the mandrakes.

Yeriel and his little buddy do more drugs and kill the devistators and eventually terminators and firce commander.

Tons dead on both sides, but with only like 1 marine alive its a win for me again!

Did quite well overall with 2 wins and was chosen as the coolest army! Very nice.

Did not expect the dark eldar to do this well but very fun event either way! Look forward to the next.

Thanks;

Mike