Warhammer Fantasy: Tale of Gamers

The Warhammer Fantasy: Tale of Gamers escalation league at my FLGS has finally come to an end. After 3 months I've managed to build a fully painted, 3000+ point army for about a 1/4th of the cost of what it would normally retail for. That's a major score right there. As an added bonus I learned I really like Warhammer Fantasy and got to meet some cool new people. I only wish our store had more players interested Fantasy. Going into the last game, Ogre Kingdoms were leading the pack with my Daemons of Chaos just behind. If I won the game, we would tie for the league and split the $100 prize. The real prize however, was getting our units for 1/2 price or free if we were the MVP of the week during the coarse of the league. Needless to say, I was already happy wether I had won or lost the last game. Here's the list I used in the last game:

Lords
Daemon Prince of Nurgle

• Daemon of Nurgle
• Level 3 Wizard 
• Chaos Armour
• Daemonic Flight
• Exalted Gift 

Heroes 

Herald of Tzeentch

• Level 2 Wizard (Lore of Metal) 

Herald of Nurgle

• Greater Locus of Fecundity  
• BSB - Razor Standard 

Epidemius

Karanak

Core
14x Pink Horrors of Tzeentch

• Iridescent Horror
• Standard Bearer 
• Musician

38x Plague Bearers

• Plagueridden 
• Musician
• Magic Standard Bearer – Banner of Discipline 

Special
3x Beast of Nurgle

3x Beast of Nurgle

9x Flesh Hounds of Khorne

Rare
Skull Cannon of Khorne

Soul Grinder

• Mark of Nurgle 

In the end the Daemons would defeat the Ogre Kingdom to tie for 1st. I was very happy with this league and it was a nice little break from 40k. But now I have the itch again and I'm ready to jump back into 40k headlong. The next few weeks are open play at the store for 40k. I'll be practicing with my new Eldar/Tau list which was featured in the last battle report between Makers and I. This weekend is also a Rogue Trader tournament at the store. I'm looking to possibly mix it up and bring a list that I think will win the Painting category and just have a bit fun with a few units I wouldn't normally run. 

Warhammer Fantasy: Tale of Gamers Battle Summary

Last night was my Warhammer Fantasy: Tale of Gamers escalation league.

Point Total: 1750

Mission: The game last night was an odd one. One army deployed in the center of the table while 2 others deployed on table edges of their choice. There were 3 objectives. Armies closest to the objective at the end of 3 rounds (Was supposed to be 6 but we only had time for 3), gets a victory point. Killing another army's general, and finishing the game with your general alive, also awarded a victory points. Objectives are Circled in the above pic. The turn sequence happened for everyone at the same time as opposed to having individual turns. So we all charged and moved in sequence, then we all did Magic, then we all shot, then all CCs were resolved.

Armies:
Ogres
Daemons of Chaos (Me)
High Elves
This is also the order for who went first in each phase.

First we all placed one objective on the board. We then rolled off to see who would deploy in the center. Ogres lost the roll so they deployed fully. Then I deployed fully on a long table edge, and High Elves deployed fully on the opposing long table edge. Then it was game on.

Over the course of the game the only thing the Ogres lost were 2 Sabertusks, which he used to tie up the High Elves bolt thrower for 2 turns and my Soul Grinder for 1, a unit of Leadbelchers to my Beast of Nurgle, and his Ironblaster to another unit of my Beasts of Nurgle. The majority of the Ogres wrath was unleashed on the High Elves killing a unit of Dragon Princes with his Mournfang Cavalry and a unit of spearman with his regular ogres, as well as really putting a hurting on his casters by stripping his level 4 to a level 1. He may or may not have also killed a unit of Silver Helms.

It was a tight game and we ran out of time after only getting in 3 turns. In the end the Ogres had 2, High Elves had 1, and Daemons had 0. Sad times. I'm confident however that had we gone the full 6 rounds. That I would have won the game. I had 4 more ogres to clear off of one objective and a Phoenix to clear off another. All seemed totally doable with what was going on in the last round we played.

Even though I lost and Ogres are pretty OP, I still had a great time. Im really enjoying this league and look forward to next weeks game.