Ard Boyz DAWGS Sweep

Super congrats to the 3 winners of the Ard boyz Saturday.

1st Eric Smelley with Dwarfs
2nd David Caldwell with Empire
3rd Greg Harris with Dwarfs

I ended up a lowly 4th place.

Game 1: My Skaven faced a rather soft Dwarf army with a ton of hand
gunners and crossbowmen, but they really never stood a chance. He
didn't have the anvil. So it was me shooting his big units to crap
while my blocks of slaves and clanrats raced across and wiped out his
shooters.

He did hit my bell with a cannon shot, on turn 5 (last turn) and
destroyed it. But then I hit his general and broke him and ran him down.

When we added it up, I was up by right at 2000. Needed 2100 for a
massacre. So major victory. that 100 points would haunt me later.

20-4

game 2 vs Eric and Thorek. God how I hate that guy.
Eric's army wasn't designed for hand to hand. It is a shooting army.
So we lined up and shot at each other. Felt a lot like 40K.
His miners came on, then used the anvil to charge some jezzails who
fled off the table. This left the miners flank open for a clanrat
charge, bad for the miners.

the Bell gets the 9-10 twice and all 7-8 warmachines are destroyed.
But not before he took out one of my warp cannons. Another cannon
blew itself up.

One tunnel team popped up to tie up some of the gun crews and the 2nd
team never showed, misfire. The one to tie up thorek. Ugghhh!! I
was well ahead, but decided to go for more points and push some units,
but I didn't send enough and then Thorek gets hot in the last 2 turns
with master wrath and rune, hitting 3 units each turn, doing no less
than 9 wounds. Panicked several units or took some below half and
dropped me by 700-800 points in the last two turns.

this brought it back to a draw barely. Ughhh!!

Draw 12-11.

so the standings are:
Me: 32
Eric: 30
Greg: 29

Since I couldn't play Eric again, I fight Greg.

Another Dwarf army with thorek. :( 3 games, 3 dwarfs, man that gets old.

Gregs army was a non-shooting army. With only a unit of hand gunners
and 2 warmachines, I knew I had my work cut out for me.

Things went well early on as I took out the cannon turn 1. Turn 2
though my tunnel teams neither show up to get to thorek. His miners
show up, but instead of going for my general's unit, he goes for a
unit of globadiers and jezzails. wipes both of them out, but is just
short of a cannon on the overrun.

finally the tunnel team shows up, charges the anvil and kills the guy
that allows him to re-roll misfires. This hurts him, but in the end,
did very little. My runners broke after losing 2 guys and he never
missed a ring. My 2nd team deviated off the table, barely.

Greg played a great game and forced my hand into a bad charge. But I
felt the other option was just as bad. Then not sure if it was the
heat or just tired from the long day and no supper. We got a bit
snippy with each other. Our passion for the game sure comes through.
I'm glad neither of us holds a grudge. In the future Greg, I promise
to be more careful with my movements, and tape measure.

I was up early on, but a flank charge into my bell unit spelled
instant doom as the bell was destroyed, and the general and grey seer
and BSB all fled. I screwed up here badly. I had just a few guys go
off the board after jumping over the slaves, but I forgot to roll for
casualties. when the bell was destroyed I suffer d6 str4 hits with no
saves on the unit. 3-4 die there and I may have saved the unit and
900-1000 vp that jumped off the table right there. UGGHHH!! Oh well.

I was sure Greg had the minor victory at least. But in the end, I was
actually up by 200 vp. But still a draw. And the bonus points were
all tied to the objective which was kill the enemy general. Since he
killed me (or rather I ran off the board), he got all 4 bonus points
and I got none.

so draw 10-14

So a major victory and 2 winning draws, gives me 42 points.
Greg ends up with 43. But Eric and David both pull off massacres in
the final games and leapfrog both of us giving them 1st and 2nd.

Congrats to all of you, Good luck and kick butt in Chicago.

As for me, I probably wasn't going to Chicago for the Finals anyway, and that now clinches it. I'm glad, this hero hammer was more than I could take. 6 games, 5 vs dwarfs 4 with Thorek. The non-Dwarf game had the OK special character as well.

Next for me is the Hillbilly in July. Need to get my Skaven Blood Bowl team painted and ready to go. I'll be taking my Ratspawn Beast list as the Daemons will be allowed, and I'll take my Furies for the final time.

Until next time...