Jumping on the bandwagon

Alright, Everyone else has. So will I... Don't worry.. won't be as long since I'm not going to cover stuff already done by others.

Wednesday : I'm up and on the road WAY early. Rob with his moaning about 5:00am has nothing on me. By the time Rob is up, I've already had coffee and was sitting in the drive waiting...

Getting the WoW CCG stuff was cool, especially with Rob giving me his warlock deck. He's such a nice guy.

Thursday:
The FoW set up wasn't bad. One big game, of Germans+Italians vs Brit's. It was set-up for about 20 players but I think it only got up to maybe 14 or so. It was on a pretty plain desert board so overall wasn't interesting to look at.

The smaller board for teaching new players was not really a good demo set-up. German Tank company vs Soviet Tank company. But the guys teaching weren't very good. I think I know the rules at a basic enough level to start throwing down the Soviets.

So I got the Horde:Evo book and started reading. By the time the evening games rolled around I had finished most of the fluff.

I had a good time with the 750 game. It was 4 army lists, random list each game but can't repeat until the 5th game which you pick. It was very disorganized like everything else that day it seems.

#1 Epic Lich vs Doomshaper
Best game because it was a good game and fun. Amazingly, Skillt (PPforums), was having a hard time cracking the 3 DT's Shell that I had around Doomshaper. But after messing up and leaving one opening on the last turn, he was able to pop the lich's feat and (though I learned he made a mistake), the rez'ed guys got the drop on Doomshaper and it was over.

Key points of the game :

• Killing unit leaders is becoming my new hobby.
• Reanimating a Trollkin Champion and having it kill most of his unit is just wrong!!
• Champions concert ability doesn't apply just to the same target...

#2 Baulder (and wardens) vs Madrake
Slow, drawn out game. Game wasn't bad, but slow. The way he set up and the terrain on the board meant I didn't have any charge lanes, except the ones that fell callers gave the champions. But between that and Baulders feat, it meant my melee heavy army only got into melee on the very last turn.. so... The way the game ended I would have won on VP's but it seemed a little cheap so I just said we would take a draw.

Key points of the game:

• Madrakes Axe with Impalers animus is Awesome
• Baulder and the big wardens.. not a great mix I think
• One more turn and the Trolls would have crushed them into stone.

#3 rLich vs Grissel
This seemed more like playing a brand new player instead of one that had played a few years as he said. Older guy so I settled back for just a very friendly game. Even helping point out some things he can do with the cryx he didn't seem to know.
Overall the Trolls got in fast and just started to steamroll his stuff. He had two bloat thralls which I was having fun slamming around then exploding in his ranks. He did not play aggressive at all so it was one sided.

Key points of the game:

• Bloat thralls exploding and killing your opponents guys are just funny.
  
• Iron Lich with a lot of small bases equals big target.

I could have stayed for a 4th but since me and my opponent in the 3rd didn't even hear them call last turn, I decided not to bother.

Went back to the hotel, dropped off my stuff and hit the Ram. Give them credit. They have some cute waitresses there.

Friday and Saturday highlights:

I went to some painting classes over these two days. One was a NMM class that was pretty good about understanding light sources on shapes but not very good on how it translates to figures. I got some tips that I will be trying out soon, but when he said he might spend 15 hours or so on the dwarf plate armor on this one figure.. I'm thinking.. Yea.. Not going to happen. But I'll give it a shot since it can look good.

The class with the hot chick in low cut was worth the early wake up. (I heard a rumor someone had tried kicking me to get me up but it didn't seem to work). I found some of the basic tips she talked about to be more applicable to the type of painting I mostly do (the getting it on the table sort of painting).

The last class was an "advanced" painting one. And it was from that class that I figured out... you know, I'm equal to all these guys when I actually sit down and do it. I might not have the speed but I got the skill. So overall, I didn't come away with anything really "new" from the painting classes.

And that was about the summary of my Con exp. Bought stuff but not nearly as much as I thought. Still in the mood to game and paint. And Shoggoth on the Roof is a nice little soundtrack.