Army looks striking as ever. Forgot about your weird Cloverfield-y Fiends!
Three Butcher hordes and four titans seems tasty 
Good luck!
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So the planar is there to heal and RoL the butcher’s. 3 of the 4 titans have regen so hopefully that’ll keep them going.
It’s probably not the greatest list ever but I’m the co-TO for the event so didn’t want to take something as nasty as possible.
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So the tournament has been and gone.
Day 1 went okay.
Game 1 Vs Max - won 4-3
Game 2 Vs Gavin - won 5-2
Game 3 Vs Justin - lost 3-0 (would have been 3-2 if I Shakira could hit some phantoms and not roll 1 under break, only 15 kill pts between us).
Timed out on all 3 games which either lost me scenario pts, or units. The last game it arguably cost me the win ultimately.
Day 2 was a mixed bag.
Game 4 Vs Stephen - won 5-2
Game 5 Vs Chris - lost 5-2
I didn’t time out on either game which was a massive improvement. Game 5 I should have really been replaying Vs Gavin and Chris should have been replaying Vs Justin (they played game 1). However, by me playing Chris it meant no repeated match-ups which was impressive considering we had 14 players and 5 games. Playing Chris you do learn a lot (former UK Master). He did have some big advantages over me when he won table sides as my side was horrendous. Didn’t do anything too stupid to the game, didn’t get tabled, and actually got a couple of scenario pts. I’ll take it. 
Chris came 1st
Justin came 2nd
Max came 3rd
So I had the best strength of schedule by a mile. Ended up 5th out of 14. That was enough to put me in 2nd place now for best in faction with Nightstalkers.
Full results:
The next tournament I’m helping to organise is the London Grand Tournament (LGT). Hopefully we can get some good numbers to attend.
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Soulflayers regiments 5 through to 8 completed:
Here’s what the look like next to the original 4:
That’s another 660pts painted.
With that I’m done with my Nightstalkers for the time being. I may paint some more scarecrows or another legion (or 2) of bloodworms in the future.
With 16,310pts of painted Nightstalkers (not including upgrades, or artifacts); I’m essentially able to field pretty much every 2k pts tournament viable NS list (or something very close to it).
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Congrats on your eight regiments 
Impressively consistent and orderly, with great basing per usual!
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Very nice work!
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Cheers.
I’m in the middle of making 2 more legions of bloodworms and 3 Shadowscreeches…
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So it’s been a little while.
Had a tournament to attend this past Saturday. For which I had to paint two regiments of Impalers…
Managed to get them finished the morning of the event. When I go to paint the others I now have I’ll add some extra detail.
The tournament was ROTB3 held at Dark Sphere in London Shepards Bush. It was a unique format. Game 1 was 745pts ambush, Game 2 was 2255pts KoW, and Game 3 you fielded both lists at the same time for 3k pts KoW.
These are the lists I took.
Game 1 (Push) Vs Matt G (FoN)
Matt’s armies are always great painted. This was no different. He managed to win best 745pts army. Surprisingly I got runner up for this award.
The game itself was a bit weird. I’ve not played Ambush Level pts before and the scenario was slightly altered. You got 1 scenario point if you destroyed an opponent token and 1 scenario point for each token in opponents half. Also, there was no real cover to hide behind in the middle of the board so Matt could shoot me with little I could do to stop it. Matt killed my two units carrying tokens, but didn’t manage to get any of his tokens across the middle of the board.
Result: 0-1 scenario loss (7-19 tournament pts)
Game 2 (Dominate) Vs John R (Ogres)
John’s army was a good mix of elements. He had 2 hordes of shooters and a regiment of boomers amongst combat elements such as a regiment of chariots and hero on chariot.
Thankfully due to the hill in the middle of the board and stealthy, his shooting was dampened. That plus regen and RoL and Heal meant I was healing back damage caused.
I managed to hold back certain units from charging and got off some favourable charges. My frankly hot dice combined with John’s poor dice resulted in me tabling his army in 4 turns whilst only losing 2 units of phantoms. I think John is going to want a rematch to get some vengeance. I spent two turns just moving my whole army into the dominate zone…
Result: 5-0 scenario win (23-5 tournament points)
Game 3 (Salt the Earth) Vs Eddie B (Ratkin + Halflings)
Eddie deployed his Halflings on my right flank that had a house channeling them through. Both lists had aura’s to boost everything so went from decent to lethal.
His Ratkin list was going to be tough to deal with as he had 2 tunnel runners one with sharpness and the other with strider. Also he had an elite aura hero that could boost them and the tangle for fury aura and loads of rules. His shooting was just lightning bolt and his army was combat heavy, so my stealth advantage was negated.
I actually had a good plan and managed to execute it well. I deployed two objectives in back corners, one on each side. This meant that whichever side I got the portal could just sit on one and be extremely difficult to get too for Eddie as he only had one flying unit (Scud). This also meant that unless he sacrificed a unit to babysit the other one it was going to go unclaimed or I could fly phantoms to it.
I jammed up the Halflings pinning them between the house and the board edge. The other side of the house I kept at bay with a similar tactic of putting a unit to block and get in the way for a turn or two. This allowed me to get some charges off without having to worry about being counter charged.
It was a cagey and close game. A lot of units got killed. I burnt two of the 7 objectives that I knew I couldn’t defend. Of the 5 left, I claimed 4 with the 1 in the back corner going unclaimed.
Result: 4-0 scenario win (22-7 tournament points)
That result put me on 52pts total which was enough for 5th place out of 18. This should mean I grab the top Nightstalker spot on Masters for the first time ever.
Some pictures of the army:
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Results uploaded and I’m back in the top 40 and top Nightstalker player!
It probably won’t last but I’m happy for the achievement 
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Congrats!
I think I say this every time, but the army looks great all together. Really dig the TK ambush party, especially how teethy you’ve gone with the Impalers! Really ties them in with their monstrous NS cousins.
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Thanks.
I’ll go back and add more details to the impalers when I paint the other 6 I’ve got. Just need to do more armour details in purple and gold knee pads like Mikayel.
Next up on the painting desk are the 2 extra bloodworm legions. I’m tempted to paint the 3 titan mindscreech at the same time, just don’t want to burn myself out which has happened when I tried to paint loads of stuff at the same time.
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So the bloodworms are nearly done.
Just need to do the basing and varnish.
This is going to take a little while as I’ve got to paint the scenery bits for the basing first:
Aim to get these done quickly then can base everything in one go.
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So I’ve finished the bloodworms:
Here is what they look like with the other units of bloodworms:
Smallest unit sizes for the new models are 1 legion, 1 horde, and 1 regiment. That comes to 690pts.
Puts me at 2,180 pts painted this year. Since we are about 2/3 through the year I think 3k pts painted by the end of the year would be a good target.
Next up would be the final 3 models for my NS army. 3 titan sized mindscreech which will act as Shadowhulks since the official model is far too tall for my liking.
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So the 3 Shadowscreeches are done:
That clocks in at 675pts. That makes 2855pts painted this year.
Put my painted Nightstalkers to 17,595pts with no upgrades/spells/artifacts.
With that I think I’m done with the Nightstalker army unless:
- Someone gifts me 180 scarecrows
- I ended up getting a new model for Shakira
- They port over the NS models from FF to KoW
Now what to tackle next… probably some Twilight Kin Impalers. I’ve got a few options but think that is a good choice.
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Those toothy brains are extremely gross! Awesome looking army
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Just lovely!
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They look so good HUGE 
Great call and well painted 
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Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Yeah, as soon as the file came out in the vault knew I had to have a titan sized one. I’m not a fan of the Shadowhulk model (it’s just too freaking tall) or the models I was using for Shadowhulks (Chroneas). I do like the Scyla model that I’ve been using but that only works if I don’t take more than one in a list, and if I wanted 3 fielding 2 different models wouldn’t really go.
So this was the solution. Also personally think it’s one of the best models in the Nightstalker range.
Now trying to write a list with 3 Shadowhulks and 3 mindscreech so I can field the little ones and the large ones at the same time
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So I’m helping to run the weekend KoW tournament at the LGT this year.
As part of that my co-TO Mark wanted me to help tart up some scenery that he’d got.
So I airbrushed some of the big blocking terrain…
Before:
After:
We also flocked some medium hills and reflocked some small hills:
All in all it was about 7hrs work for me, over 10hrs work spent in total (as Mark helped me for half of the time).
Still the terrain came up really well and I (and hopefully Mark) was happy with the finished product. So it is all ready for Friday when the Ambush event is happening.
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So LGT has been and gone. Was feeling a bit disillusioned and down after the weekend.
My army looked like this:
Not a terrible list. Not the strongest list by far.
Game 1 Vs Flo (Sylvan Kin)
Flo had just come off coming 2nd at Clash 2 weeks prior with a very similar list.
I was very unlucky not to beat Flo. 3 double 1s in a turn, on the same flank meant that it took 2 turns extra to clear it. Another double 1 a turn later in another vital combat; and then rolling 1 under kill value on last roll to clear 2pt objective (needed a 7 once) meant the somewhat epic battle had finished 3-4 loss.
Game 2 Vs Andy (NA)
Andy had such a strong army in stone law spam. I felt I played really well and didn’t do anything wrong. Andy was rolling incredible too. But he’s also a very good player. At no point was I in the lead. But I didn’t show myself up which was good. Again 3-4 loss.
Game 3 Vs Gavin (NS)
I’ve played Gavin’s Nightstalkers 3 or 4 times with various armies. His army is pretty good in a NS Vs NS game. Some great moments in the deployment phase when we both did the same deployment with the Portal… although I was very surprised when he said he had RoL on his and he didn’t keep it with the main force. I kept burning tokens that I didn’t think I could keep hold of. That ended 3-0 win…
Game 4 Vs Marco (Elves)
Marco’s elves were almost a better version of Andy’s list with drakons, gladestalkers, and lightning bolt mages that would not stop hitting with lightning bolts. Regiment of dragon riders took bait and charged the void lerker. 9 attacks, 8 damage, double 6 x 2 to take it off turn 1… seriously annoying. Had to take some risks to stay in the game. Ultimately it was too much of an ask. Fun Ended 3-4 loss.
Game 5 Vs Mathis (TK)
Last game Vs Mathis was hard work. Twilight Kin are just so strong for a combat focused army. So glad that pierce damage on spells is going away, it was a stupid rule to have. Ended in a 2-2 draw after the last turn he got butchers up to 10 damage from 7 with spell damage (?!) and managed to roll over 8 twice. Although it was a bit harsh, the draw did feel kinda fair.
End Result: 16th out of 20 players.
Thoughts…
4 out of the 5 lists that I faced felt so much stronger than mine. Don’t know what’s missing, or if it’s the style that doesn’t fit; or if I just got unlucky…they just all seemed to do combat focused lists much better than NS.
After talking with the London players, I know that a combination of me not settling on a list archetype and not getting in anywhere near enough games is a big contributing factor to my dip in performance. I’ve not been able to find a list that I’m comfortable with and that I don’t think is nearly auto lose to some of the more prominent lists.
Need to write a list and get those games in to build up my experience with it. Only that way will I get comfortable with what it can do in different cases.
With the new Clash book coming out, it has basically weakened my Ogre army to the point of having to go back to the drawing board. The portal has gone up in pts so need to re-write some lists to accommodate. I’ve heard the NS formation is going up in pts?? That doesn’t make sense to me, so need to see what is happening with it as I was considering basing the list around it.
Hopefully everyone that attended LGT had a good time at the KoW event and we get a good turnout for Shroud in December.
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