The Leicester Squiggle

I attended this 3-game 30 player torunament today - a 1999 points event with pre-submitted lists.

I was grudged by daemons for the first game - and lost although there were some fun moments (trapper unit taking a wound off a khorne herald on a jugger - in combat - for half points in turn 6).  I lost the deathstar to a failed beak test (-2 ld banner) on the last turn as well having held up fine for 4 combat rounds...grrr...

I was massacred


I got VC in game 2 and returned the favour - got his general on turn 4/5 and crushing most of the rest of the army.  A trapper unit and a bull unit's sacrafice tied up most of his hard hitting stuff for the whole game - trappers then dropped a large black knight unit below half strength too for more points.  They were real stars here.

I got Woodies in the last game and could only enter combat on their turns.  The 4 units of glade guard, 5 units of dryads and 2 units of wardancers meant that it was like trying to punch fog.  My opponent got into both flanks of the deathstar (dryads and wardancers) and found out that it was a real bad idea and they got themselves crushed and the wardancers were run down.  I still had a solid loss against me though.

On the rest of the positive there were 5 ogre armies in the event and fantasyfreak from these forums placed highest of us.  I came in 22nd in the end, but I did take best painted (my second award!) beating Joe Sturge (an excellent painter of high and deserved reputation) in doing so.

great event, I'll be looking forward to the next one!

Wildcard.

Nice work WC & FF by the sounds of things.

Ye Daemons are one of our worst nightmares, very tough for us to defeat unless there is a balancing system in place like the ETC.

The daemons seem to have lots of nasty Toys to play with, Skull-taker, Changeling etc... to name a few.

BTW taking the grudge match vs. Daemons may not have been the best option 

Well done all ogre generals Well done!

Where did FF finish?

JJ

he came in 15th, I think.

Well done on the best painted Joel.

Our grudge match was hilarious. 

The deathstar was getting worn down quickly although you were holding out well (BSB had one wound left, Tyrant got killed) - Taking 3 wounds off it per turn on average meant that if it went on, I reckon I still would of won as the Herald would of then challenged the BSB and the Beasts would of been able to attack - with only 1 maneater in btb, it was never going to end well for the ogres

Your hunter = epic fail! Lost 3 wounds to furies!

My herald = epic fail! Lost that wound to the trapper - go 1 followed by a 1 FTL!

Don't worry fella, I went onto the dizzy hights of table 1 to get spanked by a near mirror list, then spanked again by a dwarves (have never beaten a dwarf list regardless of what I take). lol. Ending in a respectable 19th place. Not brilliant, but not totally awful considering who I got game 2!

Cheers for the grudge gift exchange.....I have put your gift on the mantle = my prize for the day!

Yep I finished 15th 
Highest Ogre player out the lot of us, and highest member of our club!
I was quite pleased and suprised 


First game I got VC's, a pretty hard one with most of the toys and 3 Vamps.
Deciding moment were on one flank, I set up a unit to take a charge from the Wrath's with 2 units and Bruiser to counter charge (numbers, Warbanner, flank, tenderiser), he wiped out the unit and everything panicked, the WB unit got run down in the aftermath too 

The other flank was held by Yhettes, looking menacingly at a sprit host and threatening to come through a wood to flank his blocks, he charged with a vamp that had Lynci's, I fled thinking it was a good idea to leave to the Vamp on his own in view of my charges but the now unthreatened Sprit host was free to move into a good postion to help.
Silly really.

I was outplayed by a better player with a better army and got massacred.

Next up I faced Ogres!

This was a funny old game, I worked my ass off,  fleeing and countercharging, because combats where effectively decided on who made the best dice rolls, I bombed a bit.
Worst moments where;

Bruiser with Tenderiser and a unit of 3 Guts charging a unit of 4 Guts with a banner;
I scored 3 wounds  when I was imagining wiping at out a couple of Ogres (Big T tends to help a bit usually), he wiped out an Ogre and scored another wound, in return and my unit fled 3" 
and got ran down.

A unit of Bulls charge a unit of guts in the flank, 9 attacks later they fail to wipe out 1 Ogre, only scoring 1 wound, in return they get battered a bit and ran down.

Despite all this I managed to get most of his big boys, all his characters too, making it a minor win, 40 points from a major.
Really had to work for it though.


Next up was Vamps again, this time was a massive horde with 3 Vamps, 2 corpse carts, a big unit of Wraths with Banshee, and the Crown.
I made a mess, stars of the show were probably maneaters with their 15 attacks 
I charged most units front and side
I put the bruiser with Big T in the Wraths, with a unit of Bulls for outnumber when I killed a few, wiped them in 2 rounds.
Major win.


I really enjoyed this tourney, had 3 great games against 3 great people, which is the main thing.
Finishing as high as I did was a bonus.

Well done to WC for taking best painted!

Congrats guys! Always good to see Ogres doing well in these type of events.

Well done! Sure, it is uphill, but it is soo important to show up with ogres. After all, we want a new book and thus have to make people talk about us.

I also attended this tournament.  It was my first tournament (and it showed finishing last) having a disaster of a final game. 

My Hunter died every game. Being my most expensive unit, it was like hemorrhaging points every game. I like the model, just need to learn how better to play better with this miniature.

Highlight was playing Fantasyfreak Ogres in game two.  Thanks for the great game Fantasyfreak!!  Congratulations on finishing highest Ogre,

Also to congratulations Wildcard for best painted your army puts mine to shame.  It has inspired me to try and improve my painting.