Franticon 23rd to 24th March

https://www.facebook.com/events/245149449525248/
Sorry this took a while to write as Real life got in the way :D

Franticon was a two day event with multiple tournaments running during both days:
kings of war - doubles
Deadzone
Dreadball
Kings of war - singles
Warpath

Kings of War - Doubles

hosted by Kings of Herts team
https://www.facebook.com/events/1841774202605061/

Due to an accident I ended up running two 1k fractions as a doubles team.

My army

Huns

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nroE_ZuUod9wtjZoCvb7g_4R3ovgwxmD?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw
X4 Hunnic Cavalry Regiment, all with lassos, one with Fleet of foot and one with Parthian Shot
Attila (Dread using Fantasy not Historical rules)
Unit Strength 0

Barbarians

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nroE_ZuUod9wtjZoCvb7g_4R3ovgwxmD?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw
x3 Franatics (one with Shock Troops)
Army Standard Bearer
Musician
Carnyx Blower
Unit Strength 9

This gave a potential -3 to nerve (Attila, Carnyx Horn and Shock Troops)

Round 1: Invade

was paired against another loner orphan - Martin Radbourne
Double Nightstalkers
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nroE_ZuUod9wtjZoCvb7g_4R3ovgwxmD?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nroE_ZuUod9wtjZoCvb7g_4R3ovgwxmD?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw

A heavy game and with only 3 units with unit strength in the whole army, uphill battle.

By the 5th turn my Fanatics were all dead, but they had destroyed or wounded most of the stalkers.
Turn 6 the Huns finished off everything, leaving the table bare of all but the Huns and the Barbarian Individuals.
With no unit strength on the table it was an epic draw.

Round 2: Pillage (or might have been Plunder)

Blondes and Bones - Daniel Read (Elves) and (Louis Cox-Brusseau (Undead)
An unholy pairing.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LUzPcb9-ols-uY-vY254QYhQCK-c7Lz_?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LUzPcb9-ols-uY-vY254QYhQCK-c7Lz_?fbclid=IwAR3GFK9OOQfXLcXmayYLM5s1w_KY7-2dNjPBfSZos0aTN6765inoLZOoZSw

Brutal game, and double shanked I think it was a horde of Barrow Wights with two hordes of Fanatics, with also the Caranyx Horn and Attilla places so a - 3 nerve.
They flew, they landed they died.
The undead were taken apart peice by peice and were left with just the Individuals.
The Elves did not fair much better, Archers having to move and shoot to gain position on shots, and even halving there elven dice when they shot one of the Hun Cav in cover.

The Blondes and Bones were left with 2 units that could score.
Clever tactics held up one of the fanatic hordes so they could claim un-opposed one of the tokens.

Score - 0-1
Loss

Round 3: Control

OMG, now this I knew from the off, would be a loss, with only 3 units that can score, it was how big a loss.
Big Hairy Ogre Balls - Jason Flint - (Nightstalkers) and Sven Bayliss (Ogres)
Big Smash and Grab game, lots of death and destruction all round.
But with the game all over the 6x4, could not control enough or cancel out enough.
Score 1-6
Loss
Was really happy at managing to score a zone

Massively fun day, came in 2nd last overall, but set out and done what I wanted.

1) Pulled a Draw by tabling opponent with US0
2) reduced the loss on a token scenario, and stopped a full VP load out to opponent to only allowing them to claim 1 VP
3) managed to score a zone in Control (

Dreadball

https://www.facebook.com/events/304920970324487/?active_tab=discussion
So having only played 1 game of Dreadball ever, and that was a demo reduced rules games. I thought yer why not and feilded a team for 4 rounds of Dreadball in the evening.

I was very knackered by this point so it became a bit of blurr who I played.

Round 1: Convict off

vs Bjorn Almgren
I managed to score and kill one of my own team members in one move - cool
A lot of I wonder what would happen if.. plays made by both of us as we were both new to the game.
Result: Loss

Round 2: vs Forge Fathers

John France
Result: Draw

Round 3: vs Orcs

Matt James
Cool game, and Matt showed me more of the rules and how they interact.
Result: Loss

Round 4: Convict off

George Kirke
Result: Loss

End result 2nd to last
Out of 28 teams 6 were Convicts

Was great fun, but was very tiered by the end, but always good to play and meet new people.

Day 2 - Kings of War - singles - Erit Bellum I

https://www.facebook.com/events/1700243380097525/
Did i say I was tired, well by the morning I was positively knackered.

Round 1 and 2 were at 1500pts
Round 3 and 4 were at 2000pts

my 1500pts
x3 Warband
Direfang Horde
x2 Cavern Dweller
x2 Frost Giant
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHZMWe42NAcgPjdbj9V9eS7IQBjK3DyK?fbclid=IwAR3hyKYYGWXqJRaU1JN1y1Wf7gdWF_cthZci8VxV7ZXpCJ-kXXSdqCqRAP4

my 2000pts
x6 Warband
x3 Cavern Dweller
x3 Frost Giant
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHZMWe42NAcgPjdbj9V9eS7IQBjK3DyK?fbclid=IwAR3hyKYYGWXqJRaU1JN1y1Wf7gdWF_cthZci8VxV7ZXpCJ-kXXSdqCqRAP4

Round 1: Dominate
Opponent: Daniel Read
Race: Elves
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHZMWe42NAcgPjdbj9V9eS7IQBjK3DyK?fbclid=IwAR3hyKYYGWXqJRaU1JN1y1Wf7gdWF_cthZci8VxV7ZXpCJ-kXXSdqCqRAP4
Lost of stalling and holding tactics blocking units from the zone.
Lots of death
Lots of fun


Round 2: Occupy
Opponent: Bob Aspland
Race: Orgres
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHZMWe42NAcgPjdbj9V9eS7IQBjK3DyK?fbclid=IwAR3hyKYYGWXqJRaU1JN1y1Wf7gdWF_cthZci8VxV7ZXpCJ-kXXSdqCqRAP4

Thought i had managed to pull a draw, but the token under one of Bobs units was further way from me, and the double stike and bounce back by x2 Warbands pushed one just out of range of contesting it.
Great game, miss played my original tactic - AGAIN!
Result: Loss

Round 3: Control
Opponent: Miguel Ángel Santiago
Race: Dwarves
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHZMWe42NAcgPjdbj9V9eS7IQBjK3DyK?fbclid=IwAR3hyKYYGWXqJRaU1JN1y1Wf7gdWF_cthZci8VxV7ZXpCJ-kXXSdqCqRAP4
Faced one of the Spanish contingent who travelled over for this event.
Lovely guy with a great army.
I got utterly destroyed in this
Result: Loss

Round 4: Kill
Opponent: Alex Ulster
Race: Kingdom of Men
Alex beautifully blocked off the path a train of Giants were making behind his ranks and delayed them enough to pull a Draw
Result: Draw