The Waaaghcast! Cup - End Week 2

So ends week 2 in the first Waaaghcast! Cup on-line league.  This week ended with a HUGE list of casualties inflicted on players, but still only a single death.  Amazing!  A big congratulations goes out to all the players!

This round I had to play the other 1/2 of Garagehammer Chris Barnette.  It was a great game ending ina  2-0 loss to me.  I just couldn't catch the elves no matter how hard I tried and feel that I was pretty much outplayed all the way.  Chris is a great player.

That said, here is the 2nd weeks newsletter.

Week 2 Newsletter

Joe ToFG: End Game

I've finished! Well, that is I've finished my initial goal for my Skaven army. They are, for all intents and purposes done for our Tale of Four Gamers articles. I completed my Plague Furnace tonight thus finishing up my 2500 points of Skaven.

 

 I've also completed my Plague Priest (who actually was done a while ago, but now I have a good
picture).

There it is. Of course I have plenty of other stuff I could paint and will eventually, but now my goal is to get the movement trays completed as well as building my display board. Its unfortunate that the others couldn't stick with it, but I know that Ryan is still working and Chuck's army was complete some time ago honestly, so 2 and 1/2 out of 4 isn't bad right? Thanks for following the articles. There is a tournament at the end of February at 2,500 points (talk about timing) which Ryan, Chuck and I will be participating in. We'll throw some battle reports of how the armies we built performed at it and other than future posts about the display boards this nearly wraps up the ToFG. I appreciate all those of you who stuck around to read 'em. Thanks!

Chuck ToFG: 2,500 pts. Ogre List

Well I may as well post my February Tournament list.  2500 pts.  I plan on taking this to the CCGS Springfield Tournament at the end of the month.  We should have several players there including Dark Elves x2, Ogres x2, Vampire counts x2, beastmen, and potentially another lizardmen.  If Joe shows up he will bring his full skaven horde.  So there will be several competitive builds to play against.  With the list it is a sit back for a couple turns and shoot and sweep with the flank.  The Sabretusks act as chaff and there should be enough offensive magic and augments to help out during the entire game.

2500 Pts - Ogre Kingdoms Roster

Total Roster Cost: 2496

Slaughtermaster
   1 Slaughtermaster, Level 4 Upgrade 35 + Ironfist 3)
      1 Biting Blade
      1 Talisman of Endurance

Firebelly
   1 Firebelly, 1Level 2 Upgrade 35 + Great Weapon 9)

Bruiser (1#, 148 pts)
   1 Bruiser (Battle Standard Bearer),Ironfist 4 + Heavy Armour 4 + Battle Standard Bearer
      1 Banner of Eternal Flame, 10 pts

Ogres
   11 Ogres ironfist Bellower Mus 10 + Standard Bearer Std 10 + Lookout Gnoblar x1 5
      1 Crusher,

Leadbelchers
   8 Leadbelchers,  Bellower Mus 10

3 Sabretusks

Ironblaster
   1 Ironblaster

Maneaters
   3 Maneaters, Bellower Mus 10 + Standard Bearer Std 10 + Brace of Ogre Pistols

Mournfang Cavalry
   3 Ogre Mournfang Cavalry
      1 Banner of Swiftness

Ironguts
   7 Ironguts,  Bellower Mus Standard Bearer, 1 Gutlord,

Gnoblars
   10 Gnoblar,

Composition Report:
Points of Lords: 328 (0 - 625)
Points of Heroes: 312 (0 - 625)
Points of Core: 818 (625 - Unlimited)
Points of Special: 868 (0 - 1250)
Points of Rare: 170 (0 - 625)

Created with Army Builder® - Try it for free at http://www.wolflair.com

The Waaaghcast! Cup - End Week 1

So week 1 in the first Waaaghcast! Cup on-line league has ended with some fantastic matches.  Even mroe astounding is all of the games were completed on time and without hardly any encouragement from myself to do so.  A big congratulations goes out to all the players!

Dave Witek (from Garagehammer) and I were matched up for the first round and we tried to record the game as if we were doing play by play announcement for a football game over the radio.  The recording turned out pretty bad though because we were chit chatting too much.  I will try to get a recording like that done at some point for people to listen to.  Hopefully you'll see that next game perhaps.

As an aside I plan on putting out a newsletter every week chronicling a bit of our Blood Bowl campagin.  The newsletter will be mailed out to all the participants as well as available for download on the webpage when I publish it.

All that said, here is the first newsletter.  Read it and I hope you enjoy.

Week 1 Newsletter

Joe F. ToFG: Feb. 2,500 Points (Home Stretch)

So we're in the home stretch now for our Tale of Four Gamers set of articles.  Unfortunately Dave and Ryan have both re-started their college coursework and due to the load have both fallen behind to the point of knowing they will not finish their goals.

That however doesn't mean Chuck and I are down.  We're still pounding away at it all just getting in the time when we can.  In fact, since February is the last month of work on our 2,500 point armies and I saved all of my big toys until the very end of this shindig I don't have a lot left to paint.  For February I only have to paint 2 things.  Mind you one is huge and a multi-part model (the Plague Furnace).

Its going to be a long rough plod through this piece as intricate as it is, but luckily it can be painted before assembly which with these large fancy models is a must.  I did the same thing with my Warp Lightning Cannon's so that even though you don't see much of the underside I know in my own head that it is as nice as the rest of the model.

All this said, here is my list for the month of February and the concluding 2,500 points of my Skaven army that I've been working on for the last 5 months.

Greysser
Chieftan - BSB
Warlock Engineer
Warlock Engineer
Plague Priest - Plague Furnace
Assassin

40 Slaves - Shields, Musician
35 Clanrats - Shields, FC
30 Stormvermin - Shields, FC, Doomflayer
3x6 Giant Rats

30 Plague Monks - FC
2x5 Gutter Runners - Poison, Slings

2 Warp Lightning Cannons
Hellpit Abomination

This of course isn't 2,500 points on its own.  I've left all the magical equipment/banners, etc... off of the list to fill in as that leaves me a lot of options on how to run things but you get the point.  I've achieved a lot of stuff throughout the building of this army and am proud of myself for not only sticking to my goals but knowing that I will complete them.

March will see posts on the construction of my Display Board and painting of my movement trays and I'll have the whole shebang with me at Adepticon (even though I'm only using the Skaven in a 1k tournament).  So that's it.  Thanks for reading and keep your eyes on the blog as I'll still be putting things up.  Starting in May I'll probably be working on my long awaited Empire army.

Hooray!