Another Four Foot Snake Thing - 2019

So up towards the nosebleeds a little group of lads pulled together to bring us a two day tournament.

They slowly dripped the news in on of the event to get the juices flowing, casting their little worms far and wide to see who would nibble.

They teased us with prizes

They teased us with Unique Characters

They teased us with beer and Karaoke

The event was held at Element Games in Stockport, big shop with an even bigger gaming area with its own bar!

40 Players rock up for this 5 round tournament, one from Norway and another from the USA!

60 min on the clock including deploying terrain, interesting concept that means every table is always different.

Challenge laid down by David Musgrave to meet the giants for round 1
"I find your overuse of mantic giants simply a way to get them photographed and appear in social media posts ;-) - plus you haven't tried hard enough to get 7 into the list(!).

Oh, and they smell! (OK, not as bad as my trolls, or the direfang ... actually the reavers probably haven't bathed much and the skald does have bad breath ;-) )

Challenge you in game 1 (which will probably end up a holding objective one so we're both screwed!)?"

My Challenge acceptance speech
"David
Your trolls are especially smelly, that the sworn and warbands avoid them.

And the fangs have been groomed for a while on giant juice (its why they are slow sticky and salty).

But the core weakness is the failure to fully embrace and anarchistic nature of Korgaan and cling on to the notion that we need inspirational speeches.

Death or dishonor
Those that fail are whipped (ok Diddy Paul did not fully understand that instruction).

A crash is coming a crash of giants being shepherded by the worthy."

My List

Varangur with Orc Allies

The Delivery system

Warband Reg

Warband Reg with Staying stone

Warband (swap sheilds for two handed weapons) Reg with Blade of Slashing

Warband (swap sheilds for two handed weapons) Reg with Mace of Crushing

Direfang Horde with Lifeleech (1) and Ageos of Thingy (Iron Resolve)

Orc Axe Reg

The Giant Crash

x2 Cavern Dwellers

x2 Frost Giants (one with Blizzard)

Collosal Giant

Little Big Paul (Special Event height 5 giant)

Round 1: Plunder

Dave Musgrave - Varangur

The "Grudge" match, a full Varangur off, with lots of strider and almost zero shooting, terrain was not going to be an issue.

This was a full slug fest, with double ones saving one of Daves fang hordes and Paul only farting on it. High kills on both sides, well more on Daves as the dice gods failed the chaos randomness of giants and the act of attrition went to Dave with him wiping the giants out.

Loss for me

Round 2: Push

Richard Miles - The Herd

So we meet again!

Similar armies, but more points this time so some new bits on both sides.

Cracking laugh of a game, with both of us in fits of laughter at the epic crapness of both our dice.

Multiple rear attacks (due to bouncing off units that should have died), from both of us.

Both of us fluffing the attacks soooo bad is was stupid fun.

Most epic die roll

Giant finally rolled a 6, so 16 attacks, all hit Crushing 4, so one dead unit comming up....

15 ones rolled and not vicious against that unit type.

You gotta laugh.

Loss for me

I see you

 Lunch break

A nice northern pie n mash laid on by FFS and good chin wag with players.

Round 3: Kill

Ian Davies - Forces of the Abyss
Another brutal game, full blood letting that at the end we still could not see who won. Kills totaled up and compared and wow a draw

The Night

Grabbed some grub with Andrew Marshall, Jon Guns, Richard Massie, Dave Musgrave and Matt James, then on to Karaoke kinda hosted by Dominic Staveacre and Johnathan Faulkes, a good chunk of drinks were consumed by all, and a good chunk of us took to the microphone.

Matt James being and embodying Beyonce was, erm was.. memorable.

Tom Robinson being spiderman was surreal.

Round 4: Raze

George Holt - Kingdoms of Men

New day, same dice, same luck?

Started well as i forgot to move my fangs!

But then as they were delayed in movement (so were further back than I had originally planned) they managed to grab a flank on a horde of bezerkers.

Nope the Anarchy rolls started to come in and giants started to do their thing, systematically reducing the men to blood and bone, there was a few units that tried to stay about, but the attrition on them ended them ground into the dirt.

The men did manage to raze one of their objectives, but against the giants starting to get on form, the rest were lost.

Giants Win

 Lunch break

A nice northern pie n mash laid on by FFS more gossip and chin wagging.

Round 5: Control

Mikey Dewsnap - Twilight Kin
I done tactics, well sort of, maybe
Held some of the warband back to control/choose control over my side zones.
Blizzard one shotted the temptress at top of turn 1.
Fangs and giants (with some delviery system support) then advanced in three sets.
Direfangs took the withering storm of shots, got wavered and then got very dead.
While the giants advanced, killing all in the sway.
Some of the dice rolls were on fire, roll a 5, 15 attacks, 15 hits, 15 wounds, ouch sorry goodby unit.
Only a Emo Dragon left trying to claim the 2pt section, but was contested out of it.

Giants Win

Lone Emo survivor

Summary

Giant armies with no inspiring are stupid fun, stupidly anarchistic in performance, they either destroy or get destroyed there is no middle.

Awards and backslaps

1st - Chris Cowburn
2nd - Adam Padley
3rd - Nick Williams

Best Paul - Tom Robinson

Best Nick - ‎Rusty Shackleford

Best Jon - Fred Oslow

Best Dan - Janice Stother (also got Sportsmanship and Wooden Spoon)

 Best Army - Nick M Williams
Holy fuck balls, display board is not a board but a set of floating mountains and self cleaning sewage system (ok its a waterfall)

So where did I come?

Sweet 16. Well impressed with the the event and how much fun it was.

 Congrats to Four Foot Snake for putting on a terrific tournament.