My tournament year

After a slow start to the year i managed to turn it round and have had the best year in gaming since i started.

I played Dark Elves all year and it really showed.  After bad results at the first 1 day event in Jan, The Sheffield Slaughter, 6th at the Masters then an unimpressive 38th at the GT final i really got into the swing of things by the time The Merseyside Meltdown hit.  I took 2nd place in a strong field and another 2nd place a month later at the South Coast GT.

The summer was fairly quiet with other than the ETC  and a few practice events but i was soon back into it with the Warlords GT in september, i went into this event in 1st place of the UK rankings and lost my first game to Tom Mawdsley who was in 2nd.  After 4 back to back wins i found myself in 3rd overall, i also took best Dark Elf, and helped The Bad Dice All Stars take best team!.

Going into the GW GT Heats i was defending a big points score which dropped off when i didn’t attend heat 1.  At heat 2 i knew if i wanted to take back 1ts place in the rankings i would have to play well and get at least top 10.  I ended up going 6-0-0 and winning my first Thron of Skulls trophy!

Since the GT in october i have bee playing a few practice weekends and run the Destruction Derby, the Next event is the UK Masters in Jan.

All in all its been a very good year, the Warhammer tournament scene is better than ever and i am looking forwards to next year

How to ruin a sweepstake

Last weekend was the sheffield slaughter. For some reason over half the players had bet money on me doing well in the eveny by including me in their sweepstake. Well that didn’t go too well, i finished 32nd! I Drew with Doc in game 1, Beat them in game 2 and lost to again DoC in game 3. Sunday saw me lose to tomb kings and beat high elves.

Crash and Burn

At the weekend i attended the Winter Warm-up tournament at Warhammer World. 

It was a 46 player event with a strong field of players.  I had a nightmare and limped home in 20th.  A new comp system was in use and my low scoring Dark Elf army ended up giving away 1200 points head start to my 3 opponents.  I won my first game Vs Garm Moore, lost my 2nd Vs Jack Armstrong and Won my 3rd vs Andrew Parker.  My wins were reduced in size due to the comp score and my loss increased.

I liked the system in theory but i think it needs some fine tuning to make it run better in future.

I am now working on a new Dark Elf army, its something i’ve not seen done before so will keep it underwraps until i have had a few practice games with it and figured out if it actually works or not.  I hope that not only will it be quite competitive it will also score very well in any comp system.