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Adkainen
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 | | 05/02/2006 9:09 AM |
| This is my Tournament report of the European 2006 DDM championship in Birmingham.
Thanks to David from fan boy 3 and Peter Scott for the organisation of this event and Brian for judging and the presentation “making of Rikka”.
Before telling something about my games, I´d like to say a few remarkable things:
Cesare “Orion” from Italy, the 2006 European DDM champion played the following warband:
2x Inspiring marshall
2x Frenzied berseker
2x Graycloak ranger
2x Wolf minion
1x Timber wolf
1x Xeph warrior
map: Dragon shrine
CONGRATULATION !
There was a total of 53 player. Only 5 player used chaotic good warbands. There were 4 Inspiring Marshall (=IM) warbands and one Ryld-archmage warband. 3 of the 4 IM warbands made it to the top 8! All the discussion: “chaotic good is dead” seems not to be true.
There were a few ommanderless warbands which did not go for the top 8 but went quiete well, exspecially the combination of a marut and 7 sacred watcher (I really like this warband).
Playing at your own map is one of the most important things!
I forget the paper with my notes in Birmingham, so this report is made from my memory and I am sorry for forgetting a few of my opponent´s names. If you post comments here, please let me know your names, then I can fix it.
Now I´ll tell you my games.
I played:
Inspiring marshall
2x Goliath barbarian
Rikka
Elf pyromancer
3x Graycloak ranger
2x timber wolf (minion)
1x Wolf (minion)
199 pts
map: keep of the fallen kings I
This concept of activation control in combination with grant move action is really strong. I had a few testmatches against the usual l/e beater bands, marut bands and hill giant barbarian warbands and went not bad at all (I never lost against tripple HH because of Rikka´s DR and the goliath´s fire immunity/resistance). The only thig I knew I had to fear for real were monk warbands and quad hitter warbands of l/e alignment.
First round… from England
My opponent played: Inspired lieutnant, chraal, 3x duergar champion, large duergar, kobold miner, timber wolf, map: Mithral mines.
I lost map initiative, so we played on the mithral mines. When I saw his warband and considered that I lost map initiative I did not see a lot of chances. I won initiative and let him go first. He choose start area (=SA) A. I placed Rikka on Victory area (=VA) A in the center next to his kobold miner. My opponent was a very young player, so he played quiete defensively. He feared the fireball too much. In the first round I shoot his large duergar so it had to route out of the map. I placed my warband with a LOS on the southern corridor. I got VP with a timber wolf on the northern VA B. In the second round I outactivated my opponent who just stayed with his commander and the three duergar champs in his SA and in the southern VA B. After that I used fireball (all duergar and the commander inside), grant move and based his commander with Rikka and the two goliaths. Then I killed the commander and by that the chraal. After that I had an easy game with only 3 duergar champs. I only lost Rikka (routing) and one goliath (killed).
1-0
Second round: Michael from Scottland
Michael played: Dark naga, beholder, 2x duergar champion, 2x skeletal warrior, kobold miner.
Michael was a really fair player and the game was quiete a lot of fun. I choose my own map, keep of the fallen kings. I forget to place Rikka and Michael allowed me to place here after I mentioned this mistake. He went first and started on SA B. Rikka started at VA A in the corner. In the first round I shoot against the approaching duergar with my graycloaks and used a fireball while I did not see the beholder and both duergar saved. The beholder killed one timber wolf. In round two the duergar based two graycloaks. At the end of round two (the beholder killed two more wolfs) I based with Rikka and the two goliaths his beholder. I did 60 pts of damage but the beholder saved (morale). Next round I was lucky and one initiative. I tried to kill the beholder with both goliaths, I rolled: 3,3(rerolled 1st attack),4 15,2,3(reroll) they did alltogether only one hit (with flanking and reroll!). The Michael used the beholder and rolled 18. Rikka was changed into stone… Next beholder activation he rolled 20. He tried to disintegrate one goliath and I believed oh, oh, oh, S***. The DC was 19 because of the Naga, but my goliath saved with an 18. Next round I won initiative again and killed first the beholder and then the dark naga had to route. The pyromancer killed one duergar with a scorching ray and the game was over.
2-0
Thrid round. … from Italy
My opponent was playing a very interesting band: drow cleric of lolth, eye of gruumsh, orc champion, umber hulk, orc wardrummer, troglodyte thug, hyena, cursed spirit, map: Mithral mines.
He won map and set initiative, so he started on the mithral mines SA A. Rikka started in the central VA A. I won initiative and let him go first. After outactivating him I placed a fireball against the cursed spirit, eye and umber hulk Which were standing in the center. I killed nothing in round one, while he routed my VP scoring timber wolf in the northern VA B with the cleric slashing darkness. Round two was one of the most interesting rounds. First Rikka based the drow cleric in the northern difficult terrain area dealing 20 pts of damage, but she saved (5 coomander + level + 4 wardrummer). The my marshall killed the cursed spirit. My graycloaks did a fews points of damage against the eye of gruumsh, his orc champ based Rikka. He changed to intimidating drumbeat. His umber hulk confused one of my goliaths. I rolled a 4 and then my own goliath killed my elf pyromancer (bad!). I thought now I lost the game. Next round he won initiative. The orc champ hit Rikka twice, but she exactly made the morale save with a 15 (level 5 +4 commander -4 drumbeat=20). His eye killed one graycloak. Then I used my confused goliath and rolled a 19. I attacked his damaged eye which did not save with a 10 because he did not see the cleric and there was intimidating drumbeat. Then I used grant move and based with the other goliath his orc champ and attacked twice for 40 damage. The orc champ routed. His drow cleric went away and with an AoO Rikka killed her. Because I allways got VP I just moved the rest of my warband to his SA, killed on the way the routing eye and won the game by reahing 200 pts.
3-0
Fourth round … from England
My opponent played: Cleric of Order, Couatl, Marut, Bodyguard, standardbearer, Mialee, hill dwarf warrior, timber wolf, map: Drow outpost.
He won map initiative and choose drow outpost. He won initiative and choose SA B. I used Rikka in the centeron the northeastern edge. (When moving the IM 7 sq. she will be in command!). He won initiative and went first (I did not know why). O gave one goliath sonic immunity. When he had moved every mini I moved 7 sq. with the IM and used grant move. Rikka moved 8 sq in direction of my opponent´s SA. The sonic immun goliath crossed the centeral VA. One graycloak stayed on this VA. The I used Rikka again and moved into his backline behind the couatl and marut and based CoO, Mialee and standardbearer. I attacked his commander for 20 damage who routed. Next round I won initiative and started with Rikka. She killed the standarbearer. Both goliaths (the other one got sonic resistance first) based the couatl. His Marut and the bodyguard attacked Rikka which routed (rolled a 5). The goliaths rolled pretty bad and just hit twice (with AoO from the couatl which gave snake sw. to the marut) The bodyguard took this damage. Next round I first killed the bodyguard and the Mialee with a timber wolf. I had scorred enough VP and he only killed two graycloak and Rikka (who did not save again) so I was just hiding my elf pyromancer, so I won by time after round 6.
4-0
Fifth round: Cesare “Orion” from Italy
I played at Cesare´s map, the dragon shrine. He played the tourney´s winning warband, posted above. I can say with a bit proud that I am the only one who beat Cesare. It was quiete a though match and we had a lot of fun. Cesare let me place Rikka because I forgot that again, thanks for that! I won the game basically because I used a fireball which gave me activation control. This game is too difficult to post for real because he had two grant moves and I had one. I knew Cesare is a skilled player because I faced him last year in the semifinale, so I really were a bit scarred by a doubble grant move action, but he also feared the fireball.
5-0
Sixth round: Benjamin from Germany
I had allready reached the quarterfinale, because in my group I was the only one who went 5-0.
Benjamin played: Marut, Couatl, arcane balistra, Jozan, Cleric of order, timber wolf, man at arms map: king´s road.
Benjamin won initiative so we played on his map. I lost this game by 14 pts basically because I really did not know how to handle an arcane balistra. I killed at the end all of hois warband except the Couatl and Marut but he killed my three hitter. I should have broght all my graycloaks in the backline because I let him base one graycloak with his marut. I should have put him back because then I would have saved 15 pts and won the game by one pt.
5-1
Quarterfinale:
I played against David Scott, the 13 year old son of Peter Scott, the tourney´s organiser.
David played: Cleric of Nerull, 5x duergar champion !!!, kobold miner, duergar warrior, map: Hellspike.
When he won map initiative I allready believed: How can I win against 5 hitter with conceal, with no possibility to lower their damage output and high AC, when there is no LOS because of the fog. I did not see a chance at all. The fireball had to work! He would allways hit my hitter and could easily cleave.
I started one side B with my pyro, commander and two goliaths in the southern starting area. Rikka started in the northern VA A next to his miner. David is quiete a skilled player. He realized my possibility for a first round fireball with grant move which would have included his whole warband (excluding the kobold miner). He won initiative in round one and put his duergar warrior in the front avoiding a first round fireball. All his duergar were hiding in the fog in the center at the end of round one.
Next round I won initiative and used first grant move, based with Rikka and two goliaths his commander and one duergar which was next to him. Then I used my pyromancer and cast fireball. I had 4 duergar champs inside and his commander. 3 duergar saved. The cleric failed and failed his morale save as well, so Rikka killed the cleric when he routed with an AoO. At this time of the match I thought that I´ll win the game. David made a minor mistake when he attacked my Pyro (which had allready activated), dealed 15 damage but the pyro stayed (whih was my last good roll during this game). Then he used a second duergar champ to attack the pyro instead of attacking my hitter. In the next two rounds my rolls went pretty bad. I never won initiative in the following four rounds. I just managed to kill one duergar and route another one (which was alltogether 4 hits with 14 attacks including reroll, s*** conceal). David killed in this time one goliath and the other one routed. I scored VP while he did not but in the end he killed first the IM and then Rikka. When I had only one wolf and one graycloak left David had won the game. Congratulation.
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superman75
Skirmisher
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| | 05/02/2006 10:13 AM |
| Hi martin.....
my photos here...
http://spaces.msn.com/superman75/
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alepulp
Underboss
1538 Posts
Manchester, England
| | 05/10/2006 8:58 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Adkainen
Fifth round: Cesare “Orion” from Italy
I played at Cesare´s map, the dragon shrine. He played the tourney´s winning warband, posted above. I can say with a bit proud that I am the only one who beat Cesare. It was quiete a though match and we had a lot of fun. Cesare let me place Rikka because I forgot that again, thanks for that! I won the game basically because I used a fireball which gave me activation control. This game is too difficult to post for real because he had two grant moves and I had one. I knew Cesare is a skilled player because I faced him last year in the semifinale, so I really were a bit scarred by a doubble grant move action, but he also feared the fireball.
5-0
Until the Atlantic Cup, where I think Cesare must have been very tired - even I beat him. (I then progressed to be trounced by Marco and Pawel - I'll blame it on their skill...) | |
One of these days WoTC will update their tournament page when I'm in the top 5... they never seem to do when I'm in that bracket :(
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