Hello
and welcome back to another post here on Schrödinger's
paintbrush.
Today
I'm going to touch on my recent game against my long time friend and
opponent Trevor (who also runs quite the blog over on The TripleHelix Project.)
Trev
and I went halves in the WoK kickstarter purchasing the Goritsi and
Nasier respectively. And while we have played a few games we are
still very much learning all the tricks and combos that WoK has so
effectively brought into the game. The other night we decided to give
the tournament time restrictions a go and see if we could play an
intro size game in the 30min specified.
I
chose to run an all swords list (ignore the two Pelagarth in the
back, ashmen under construction) using Alyana Heska as my leader and
the Blind Hakar for support.
This
faced of against a combined force of wolves and vampires backed up by
the monstrous blood engine and led by Korrad.
After
picking motivations that relied on scoring kills it was a matter of
lining up and bringing the pain. The faster Gortisi quickly took the
central hill while the ashmen tried to line up several charges.
Alyana
and most of the swordsmen attempted to curtail the blood engines
rampage but were soon shown the error of their ways as it quite
callously ate its way through them.
Meanwhile
the Blind Hakar charges into the Zeti Dancers who merely vaulted away
leaving the poor cripple to Korrads mercy. Leaving the morale scores
at 5-0 in Trevor's favour.
The
game was highly enjoyable and we learnt several important things.
Firstly that we simply don't have the speed yet for competitive play
as we ran 15 minutes over, secondly, after seeing the Blood Engine in
use for the first time I learnt that feeding it infantry is a very
bad idea in deed. Of course this just makes me more determined than
ever to beat those puppies and claim a rare victory against a long
time opponent.
