June Games

 Oof! June was a BUSY month!!!

Sunday, 2 June 2024

The first Sunday in June Nic and Orion were back for some Warhammer Underworlds! We'd missed a few weeks, so it felt like it had been quite a while! 

Nic brought out Cyreni's Razors, Amanda decided to try Khagara's Ravagers, Orion tried out Grinkrak's Looncourt and I played with Zondara's Gravebreakers. 

Orion and I were playing with the warband's Rivals Deck, Nick had a Nemesis deck build with Rimewyrm's Bite, and Amanda had a Relic deck I'd made up ages ago and was still in Khagara's deck box. 

Despite playing with a Rivals deck and never having played them before, Orion defeated us all, scoring 18 Glory!? Amanda had spent nearly HALF of all her activations trying to kill Pointy Burke... and missed... Every... Single... Time...!? 

Friday, 7 June 2024

Despite the CrAzY wind the following Friday, I rode all the way out to the Warhammer Store to play some MORE Warhammer Underworlds. Sean and Nic and Orion were there and I suggested a four-player game. Sean, who'd never played a four-player game, quickly looked up the rules and we discovered WE'VE BEEN PLAYING MULTI-PLAYER GAMES WRONG!? With a four-player game you play only TWO rounds (instead of three)!? 

We ignored this and just kept on playing the way we have - a full game of three rounds and four activations per round.

Apparently in a three-player game you play three rounds, but with less activations..?!

I'm guessing these rules are to make the game go quicker...? 

Sean played Mollog's Mob with Hungering Parasite. Orion played the Sepulchral Guard with Rime-Locked Rellics. Nic played Cyreni's Razors with Rimewyrm's Bite and I played Grinkrak's Looncourt with just their Rivals deck... I did... poorly. 

Sean ended the game with 21 Glory, Nic had 19, Orion has 18 and me... I was trailing waaaaaay behind with 11 Glory... yikes... 

Saturday, 8 June 2024

Saturday Finnegan cancelled his D&D game and he and Keiran went out to see a series of short plays - one of which one of the D&D players was in! 

So Amanda and I set up a game of Warhammer Underworlds. Because we were both thinking of participating in the event at the end of the month we figured we should pick a warband and get some practice at it... One of the ones I was considering was Zondara's Gravebreakers. It'd fairly consistently scored 12-13 points and either won or was very close in most games I'd played. Amanda wanted to try some new things and settled on Da Kunnin Krew?! 

(if you can't read the text on her toque, it says "I will meditate and then I will DESTROY YOU!")

I'm not sure when she snuck in the meditation, but destroy me she did!? 

Despite never having even looked at the cards, or even remembering playing against them... (she has played against them, twice, I think...) she managed to get 11 Glory in the end... and I scored six... Just about everything that could go wrong for me did... Every single time I had any sort of plan, it just came apart... Uggghhhh...

So Amanda was thinking Da Kunnin Krew was a contender and would have to play it again... 

There is a brief report and a few more pictures, here: 

Warhammer Underworlds - Da Kunnin Krew versus Zondara's Gravebreakers

Sunday, 9 June 2024

Sunday, Orion and Nic stopped by to try out the Chaos Gargant scenario (with my then newly painted Stand-In Chaos Gargant! 

It's a completely different 

Warhammer Underworlds - The Chaos Gargant Hunt!

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Amanda's friend Kin was travelling through on her way from Yellowknife to her summer home in Cape Breton. We played Wingspan. Amanda won

Friday, 14 June 2024

Friday I rode out to the Warhammer Store and played some Warhammer Underworlds with John, the manager. 

I loaned him my Zondara's Gravebreakers to try out and I played Skabbik's Plaguepack. When I drew my first hand I realized I was playing with a Nemesis deck I'd quickly put together a few weeks back, but then never used!? 

It did pretty okay... Mind you I was playing with a Nemesis deck against someone using a Rivals deck... that they had never even looked at, nevermind PLAYED... so.. not sure if it's actually working out... 

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Thursday evening Amanda and I again tried playing in Rivals Format - trying out nore warbands and Rivals decks for upcoming tournament.

I tried the recently painted Thundrik's Profiteers with Rimelocked Relics Rivals deck, Amanda was playing Zondara's Gravebreakers. 

Amanda crit-defending FOUR TIMES - once with a DOUBLE CRIT when I rolled a crit and a success!?

She rolled a second double crit on an attack roll... which I defended with a double-crit?! It was nuuuuuuuts....

Despite all that, I won 18-11!?!?

I was thinking Thundrik and Rimelocked Relics might be a contender for the tournament... Amanda and Zondara... not-so-much!

You can read the brief report and see more pictures here:

Warhammer Underworlds - Zondara Versus Thundrik

Sunday, 23 June 2024

Orion and Nic weren't available this week, so Amanda worked all day... 

But in the evening we played another quick game to try out options for the Warhammer Underworlds event just ONE WEEK AWAY!!

I brought out Wurmspat again, but tried playing them with Rimewyrm's Bite - which everyone was telling me was a great deck for them to play with! Amanda wanted to try Da Kunnin Krew again. 

The final score was only 9-5 and I think both of us were feeling pretty underwhelmed by these warbands... 

You can read a bit more about it, and see some pictures of the action, here:

Warhammer Underworlds - Da Kunnin Krew versus Wurmspat

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Ideally I would have liked to play EVERY day this week... but Monday was Kierans High School Graduation... so... 

Tuesday we were back at it, and Amanda was thinking she needed to return to her roots in this game with Morgwaeth's Blade-Coven... but paired with a different Rivals deck! Tuesday she tried out Paths of Prophecy. She was SOMEWHAT familiar with this deck, as we'd built her a Nemesis deck with it... but never used the complete deck in Rivals Format. 

I played Skabbik's Plaguepack wth their faction rivals deck... 

You can read (and see) about how it all went down here:

Warhammer Underworlds - Morgwaeth's Blade-Coven versus Skabbik's Plague Pack

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Wednesday Amanda was back with Morgwaeth, but trying out a different Rivals Deck: Rime-Locked Relics. She really struggled with this one... largely because she had not even LOOKED at the cards before trying to PLAY with them... despite doing poorly and being quitre frustrated... she did feel like there was something there and it may be a contender... 

I played The Dread Pageant with their faction rivals deck... and probably played my best game EVER with the Dread Pageant!? Probably worked out because Amanda rolled crits for (marginally) less than half of her defence rolls! 

You can read all about it here: 

Warhammer Underworlds - Morgwaeth's Blade-Coven versus The Dread Pageant

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Thursday Night we got in TWO games!

The first game Amanda played Morgwaeth's Blade-Coven and I played Grinkrak's Looncourt. 

In the second game Amanda decided to try out the Storm of Celestus and I played Thundrik's Profiteers! 

More about these games here:

Warhammer Underworlds: Two Games on Thursday Night!

Friday, 28 June 2024

If two games on Thursday weren't enough, I played FOUR on Friday!?

First, I rode out to the Warhammer Store for Skirmish Fridays... 

Sean was there with Ironsoul's Condemnors. So I tried Skabbik's Plague Pack against them... The game was very close. 

Next I dug out the Looncourt to fight the Stormcast. This was less close, but not an overwhelming defeat.... 

Later When I got home I convinced Amanda to give Ironsoul's Condemnors a try... 

First against Skabbik's Plaguepack... which she lost... but not by as much as the last few games! 

Then against Thundrik's Profiteers which she soundly defeated!? 

I'll probably post a game report of this in the next few days... 

Saturday, 29 June 2024

Saturday evening while Finnegan was running his D&D game in the game room, Amada and I tried a few more games of Warhammer Underworlds on the dining room table. 

Again she tried Ironsoul's condemnors against Thundrik's Profiteers... and they were just crushed... the Profiteers, that is... like, so badly, I was wondering why I ever even thought it would be funny to show up with them!?

She wanted to try out the Dread Pageant and I decided to try Skabbik's Plaguepack against them. It went very poorly, very fast for the Dread Pageant. 

In my first two activations I killed Hadzu and Slakeslash (the warbands big-monster-beat-stick!) and suggested we could just re-set... 

Learning from her mistakes... Amanda just CRUSHED the Plaguepack in the next game... Oooof! 

I'll probably post a game report of this as well, in the next few days... 

Sunday, 30 June 2024

The BIG DAY!!

I ended up taking Skabbik's Plaguepack and Amanda took The Dread Pageant!?

We ended up arriving a bit late, but everyone waited for us!?

When I was last looking at who was saying they would go or were interested - between the local Warhammer Underworlds discord and facebook group, I though we might end up with eight or nine. In the end there were seven, not including John, who opted out of playing and just ran the event (and the store). 

With seven, that meant someone got a bye each round.

In the first round I played against Sean and this time he had Hedkrakka's Madmob!?

He just could not keep rolling crits and I could not roll ANY crits and the Plaguepack was throughally defeated 20-4?!

Also in the First Round Nic played against Dray, and Orion played against Jared. 

Nic and Dray's game went a little longer than the others so we all watched the end of it. 

In Round Two I got the bye... so I hung out for an hour and watched the other games. 

Orion was playing Dray and Nic played Jared. 

Amanda got to play against Sean. 

Originally, I thought we'd planned for a four-round event, but just as pairings were being announced for Round Three, I discovered this was the final round?! 

In that final round I played against Orion and her freshly painted Headsman's Curse. 

Amanda played against Jared for the Championship... because the Bye at the beginning counted as a "win"...? I guess...? 

Jared won that game and with it the event. 

I'll will definitely post a game report of this event in the next week.... 

That's... a LOT of games!!! 

That's TWENTY games of Warhammer Underworlds... and ONE game of Wingspan!? 

Ulfenkarn: City at the Edge of Death

 Saturday afternoon I went out for a bike ride and did some errands while I was out. I popped into the Dragon's Den to pick up some cards sleeves (and forgot to get CLEAR ONES - because I got distracted!?)

they had a copy of Ulfenkarn: City on the Edge of Death!? On the shelf!? Not behind the counter with my name on it?! (Which WAS a little disapointing... but, whatevs...) 

The book is a Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulboung (The Age of Sigmar Role-Playing Game) setting book for Ulfenkarn, which is a the setting of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. Which I'm looking forward to playing later in teh fall and then, hopefully, afterwards continue in the setting with the role-playing game! 

And then, because I was thinking about vampires...

I saw they still had the Dawnbringers box: Fangs of the Blood Queen.. which are limited release boxes that tied in with the Dawnbringers Crusade narrative over the last year or so... and I happened to need the Fell Bats for Night Wars... and the Wolves would be cool... and the box cost less than buying those two units on their own AND included a vampire character.... so... 

Back in the red, I guess... 

Warhammer Underworlds - FOUR on Friday!?

Wow... i played FOUR games of Warhammer Underworlds on Friday!?

First I make the 22km round trip (by bicycle) out to the Warhammer Store and played a couple of games with Sean with his Ironsoul's Condemnors warband... 

GAME ONE

For our first game I played Skabbik's Plaguepack.

In the first activation, Gwynne Ironsoul killed Poxlix... which, I mean... that's to be expected... 

It was a target rich environment... I tried to set up far enough back that they couldn't charge too many of my fighters... 

In his second activation, Brodus Blightbane charged Skabbik Plagueseeker, my leader, and killed HIM with one shot... 

Ouch... that... that hurt, losing a leader in the second activation... it rendered half the cards in my hand useless.. 

But, y'know, I kept at it... the rats got a LOT of tricks up their grimy sleeves... 

Itchitt, the back-stabbing little git,  even took one out neat the end of the game! 

I was tabled by the end of the game, but despite that, it was a VERY CLOSE GAME! I lost by one Glory Point - 11-10. For a brief moment I was ahead and thought I might win... but then Sean scored an objective or two in the final end phase and just squeaked past!

So.... I can lose a leader in the opponents second activation with Skabbik's Plaguepack and STILL do not-too-bad... 

GAME TWO

For game two, I decided to switch it up and play Grinkrak's Looncourt. 

Once again, Gwynne Ironsoul started things off by charging and just destroying one of my goblins. 

Tavian of Sarnasus followed on killing Skolko and Pronk... 

Grib, da Wonky Lance, charged gored Brodus Blightbane with his squig's horn - on a charge it's +1 damage - dealing three - then I played Stick in the Boot which allows a fighter, after their activation, to deal one damage to an adjacent fighter that is Vulnerable (i.e. one wound left!) to finish him off! Yay! 

I think this was the end of Round One... mostly me running away, trying to score objective that don't require being neat the big scary Stormcast! 

They cought up with me eventually, because I can't move EVERYONE... 

Grinkrak was the last one standing of the Looncourt... I can't remember if he survived... 

Again, a super fun and fairly close game - 16-14!!

GAME THREE

When I got home from the Warhammer Store Amanda suggested a game and I suggested trying out Ironsoul's Condemnors. Sean spoke very highly of them as a fairly easy warband to understand and play - and obviously did pretty good with them against me earlier. 

Amanda, not entirely convinced this was going to work out - especially after she'd played a Stormcast Eternals warband last night... and that one had three PLUS a pretty mean Gryph-hound! 

I took Skabbik's Plaguepack against them, to see how different it worked out in the same match-up, but with Amanda playing! 

Itchitt moved up... Rabidius got pushed back, they all ended up in a line. 

Stormcast charged and murdered rats. 

Rats ran around trying to avoid them and score objectives and BEFOUL territories! 

I did score a few objectives... including one worth three for having three areas corrupted in the first (or second?) round?

They did, at some point, gang up on Tavian of Sarnassus and took him down! 

In the end I won this one... 12-4... So Amanda wasn't totally happy, but I DID point out that she did better than either of the games the previous evening... and that despite me suggesting she READ THE CARDS BEFORE WE PLAYED while I was making supper, she decided to do some work emails and only looked at the cards as they were drawn in her first game!? So, of COURSE she wasn't going to do well... 

GAME FOUR

She decided to give them another chance... 

I decided to switch things up again and brought out Thundrik's Profiteers... Which I'm probably taking to the tournament on Sunday... even though it would be way more sensible to take something like Skabbik's Plaguepack... 

Because all but one of my fighters start with only two or three wounds... and one defence... and all of Amanda's fighters start with a 2-Smash attack dealing either two or three damage... I was pretty sure it was going to go like the other games where they just start killing things on their first activation!

So I set up as far back as I could, with as many as possible out of charge range... 

So, on the first round, Gwynne Ironsoul charged and killed Enrik Ironhail... (I swear, that dude is the first to die EVERY GAME!)

Then Brodus Blightbane charged Thundrik and dealt him 3 damage! OUCH! 

Drakkskewer charged into enemy territory and stabbed Tavian of Sarnassus. 

Drakkskewer got in on the action and poked Blightbane, but then Amanda healed him!?

At some point I took out Tavian... and Amanda took out most of my warband. 

At the end of the game, we each had two left - both thundrik and Gwynne Ironsoul had increased their wounds score to five and had both taken damage that left them vulnerable... but neither were taken out of action!

Rather than taking one more swing at Thundrik (which would have scored 2 Glory, if successful), Ironsoul moved on to an Objective to ensure she'd score one. 

It briefly looked like I might squeak by with another victory... but then Amanda scored FOUR Glory Points in the final End Phase and beat me 10-7... 

My biggest mistake here was forgetting that SO MANY of my objective cards REQUIRE that the fighters have to be in ENEMY TERRITORY... and, for fear of the Hard-Hitting ability ot one-shot most of my warriors, I set up as far back as I could, out of range of their charging... but ultimately was too far back for anyone to get TO Enemy Territory?! 

Lesson learned. Accept that warriors will die. Get them moving forward to score all those IN ENEMY TERRITORY Objectives... 

Hopefully we'll get in a few more games on Saturday. I'm not sure Amanda is fully convinced that Ironsoul's is for them and was suggesting trying Magore's fiends with Tooth and Claw - or The Dread Pageant!?

I'm fairly certain I'm bringing Thundrik's... "for the memes" as the cool kids apparently say...!?