We will start this with a quick masters report.
Game 1 Empire of Dust Ed Herzig
had a fantastic game against my friend Ed Herzigs Empire of Dust, it was invade scenario and that favoured Ed. My shooting held Ed back which I think was clever on his part to limit its effect till turn 3-4, however I still scored a chariot horde before the skirmishes broke out. Ed got the run of the dice in a couple of places and I think he played the flying pharaoh well, he picked up the chariots and the drakons. However I played for turn 6 and chocked up the middle of the board with my archery, turn 6 I win with the score of an archer regiment, I think in turn 7 there is probably a 70% chance he won, but there was no turn 7 :) 14-7 I think
Game 2 Night Stalkers George Kirke
I'd never met George but found him quite pleasant, he obviously knew his stuff but I've never played night stalkers before and found his models majorly confusing which wasn't his fault. However I formed and executed a plan where shooting wasn't that important to me (a mistake i've analysed since) however it still should have been ok. George played well except one mistake where he allowed me to get a unit of phantoms with my drakons for no exchange on the right, maths wise the left was mine sown up. However on the left he first broke my drakons and then chariots needing either 9s or 10s with rerolls for both and that happened, in the centre I flanked his monster with my dragon and did 3 wounds and that was kinda the story, attrition led to the scenario win and I cant remember what that was. Fair play to the guy, you need luck as well as skill to do well and this guy had both. 2-19 I think
Game 3 Chris Cowburn Ogres
I'd never met Chris either but had the opened my mouth and said I didn't know what his list did, I think this guy may have been a laugh but he was a little poorly (I was off work 3 days in the next week so he had his revenge). Anyway we rolled up, he had a couple of red blasters or something, I did the maths and figured let on ehit the dragon and another the drakons so did, I took the flanks early with these pieces he walked into the middle getting shot, and didn't quite make it. In honesty his journey wasn't helped I was 10% over on dice and him 10% under but that only would have changed the margin in truth. 19-2 I think
Time to get pissed, we had a lovely meal with 80% of the field and then the try hards went home (only kidding you are just sharper than me really), but the vets stayed out Me, Tom Robinson, Adam Padley, Nick Williams and Paul Welsh all went drinking shots till 3 or so in the morning we will see how that worked out.
Game 4 Elves Tom Robinson
So the KOW elf master vs the Warhammer one, I didn't like his list, not for the first time I felt my chariots were dead weight and that made me deploy them terribly, Tom got a perfect table and the perfect side with the roll. I played a game of hoping Toms dice were 10% down as they had been all weekend but they weren't in fact they were better than average and mine were way down the curve, his big blocks dominated preceedings. I held on and in a normal scoring probably went down 18-19, but this scoring was skewed weird and I think I went down 17-4 in reality even in a tabling losing 1-2 units no more than an 18 was on due to the lack of scoring units elven armies have. lost 4-17
Game 5 Elves Sam Barker
So the other list I slagged off, tbh this guy was the perfect last game, friendly guy who wanted to chat, probably my game of the weekend. In truth he told me he thought deployment was his worst part of the game, and it was, he left me a free regiment of drakons and a free regiment of palace guard. Once taken he chased the game really really well, his archer were outrageous(remember no bane chant and no piercing), they shot off a drakon horde with a little help of a dragons breath, they then gave they next drakon horde a volley and then broke them in combat and finally took my dragon 3 rounds to finish them, but that won me the scenario.
I think 18-3 it may be 17-4
So the results
John Quayle let me down
but then I got the rest rightish (well George and Mtt from Bristol I got mixed up)
1). Adam Padley
2). George Kirke
3). Dan King
4). Tom Robinson
5). Rich Tomlinson
6). Me
7) Rob Phipps
8) Jon Quayle
9) Dom Staveacre
10) Matt James
11) Dave Fletcher
12) Ed Herzig
13) Sam Barker
14). Chris Cowburn
15). Martin Dinsley
16). Paul Welsh
So my conclusions
Chariot Hordes are awful without nimble, even with nimble id still go for archers or seaguard, their nerve is too low, their base is too big, they are seriously clunky and don't work for what I want them to do, I prefer regiments just to get the unlocks. My dragon still cant roll dice in combat, id be happy for 7-8 wounds but he usually does 3-4 if I'm lucky with the nerf to breath incoming I wont be playing him. The second unit of drakons needs a better plan and with the meta change incoming with disruption spells and weakness everywhere I feel MSU/MMU elves could be the future with COK19. I guess time will tell but I'm on trident realms, and sorry for the small delay I keep being ill and im blaming Chris Cowburn
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