My experience at the
Shiloh Slaughter.
I will keep it pretty
well quick and dirty. Anyone I've talked to has heard the more interesting
parts, or was there. So here, I will just focus on the games.
Game 1 Vs. Dwarfs.
This army was a standard
dwarf magic eating gunline. Huge amounts of anti-magic. And lots of accurate
high powered shooting. And 3 giant blocks of tough infantry. This one was
basically my anti-army.
This went exactly how
you would think it would. I lost 1/3 of my big unit of Horrors on turn 1. And
that was pretty much the highlight of the game. This was the game I feared
most. I had no chance of beating this guy. In the end I got a few points off of
him from him misfiring his war machines off. But I don't recall ever getting
any kills of my own. I tried to pick up a few objectives on the table to sway
the points a little bit. And did. But couldn't get enough
to dissipate the fact he blew my army off the table.
This is how I expected
this game to go. And wasn't upset about it at all. I know that some armies were
gonna do this to me, and it was just as good sooner as later.
Game 2, Warriors of
chaos.
I felt good about this
game. He had a few scary blocks of warriors. But a lot of rather squishy fast
cav. I had hopes there. A shaggoth, and a unit of 5 bloodcrushers with a bsb.
This unit was going to be trouble.
The game was a decent
one. We had some back and forth. I took off a good few of his units. And he was
on the back foot by a bit.
And then it happened.
He cast a comet that powered
up to strength 8 and pretty much landed right at my feet. Destroying quite a
few of my tougher guys. I tried to eat his bloodcrushers with my horrors. But
in the end the armor shut me down. He miscast 3 or 4 times but it didn't hurt
him at all thanks to his puppet altering the miscast rolls. And the one time I
miscast, he puppeted it down to dimensional cascade. And really hurt me.
In the end we both ended
with bloody noses and missing guys. But his comet swayed the battle, I couldn't
bring back enough guys to make the difference and his armor did its job.
Another major loss for me, as I was unable to hurt any of his tougher
units.
Again it was down to
list design. I brought a list that suffered against armor. And knew it. And
paid for it. Totally my fault. He did what he need to do and picked apart my
units enough to spread the points, good win to him.
Game 3, Empire.
This one was a shame. I
was playing a newer player named Justin. And he had a really giant unit of
knights for core. Like 20 or 25. Armor again.
The thing is. He was
new, and really unfamiliar with vamps. But the real kicker, which I found out
after the game is he had another nit of knights, like 15 of them, that he left
home. Had I known this we could have worked something out and I absolutely
would have let him proxy them or whatever. But he didn't mention it until after
the game was over. So it was too late. This scenario was fun, we had a pig in
the army that kept getting stronger and stronger and was really wrecking face
when it was turn 6 and he was strength 6. Well, mine did. His hit my spirit
host and stayed there all game. Bad times for him. I felt really bad, and right
after the game I found someone who had some spare knights so he could go full
strength in the next games.
Game 4, Orc and Goblins.
This game was the first
game I have ever played feeling totally shit. I went out Saturday and drank a
ton. And was feeling like a keg of crap. And I played accordingly. Very
literally I sat in the chair for the first 3 turns. And if I couldn’t reach to
the spot on the table I wouldn’t move there. Really limited me, but kept me
from vomiting on the table. Unlike the guy who sat at the table next to me who
had to get up twice to do just that. But in the bathroom, not on the table.
We both kinda stayed
away from each other and just poked around to see what we could kill. And that
was how it went. I killed some of his and he killed some of mine. He was
scared, and I was drunk. So we took each others stuff off, little by little. In
the end we had a 5 point split. 5 points. It was an awesome game, and wads a
draw… or is it. Turns out it wasn’t. He had a battlefield objective that I did
not, that was worth 250 points. Giving him a win.. balls.
Game 5, Empire
This game was against a
complete empire army, with another block of knights. This went about like the
last one. He had a ton of small units and a few mages out on their own. I was
able to just pick up his units here and there and get points. He didn’t have
enough punch in any one area to really threaten me. His best units were his
tank and knights. And they both smashed my crypt horrors. But stuck, all game.
My magic was superior to his and I could bring back a ton every turn. So a good
game for me. And even though I was “THAT” army for him. He said he had a really
good game too. So win win.
That was about it for
me. 2 and 3. About what I expected. I really feel I should have went 3 and 2. But
you know, stupid and drunk. Won’t do that again.
As always had a friggin
awesome time at Shiloh. We will go back next year. The hotel was great and the
people all show up to play, not win. And it’s awesome. I hope rockwars will be
as cool.
