TGR Game Night

Another Game night is in the books and I'm starting to become obsessed with Warlord. Spending way to much of my time thinking about it. I didn't play tonight but this gave me a chance to watch several games and get some ideas for where I want to take my army. I'm still fascinated by the Gaan-Hor Warrior but I was hearing rumors that it might be considered broken and need to be nerfed. Still like to have several of them and I'm thinking of how to pair the with raptors. Both move 9 inch and I think that the first strike can be used to set up bloodlust in the same turn.

I also got to watch spike shells take a licking and keep on ticking. I really want to get a unit of them along with the Dragon turtle for my Army. That should get me close to 1000 pts.

So I think the list I want looks like:

Reptus - 996 points

Troop 1
Khong-To
Pakpao, Clutchling Caster
Reptus Warrior x 2
Reptus Skullbreaker x 2
Clutchling Archer x 3
T'Kay, Reptus Cleric

Troop 2
Gam-Nan, Gaan-Hor Elder
Raptor x 2
Gaan-Hor Warrior x 4

Troop 3
Chhaya
Spikeshell Warrior x 6

Troop 4
Dragon Turtle

Troop 5
Luck Stone

That gives me a want list of:
Dragon Turtle
Spikeshell Warrior x 6
Gaan-Hor Warrior x 2
Raptor
Reptus Skullbreaker x 1
Clutchling Archer x 3

That's still a lot of models.

Catch Up Post

So I've had a busy hobby week and need to get updates made to the blog.

On the painting side I finished the Clutchling Javeliner, and a Gaan-Hor Warrior. I'm still playing around with making a magnetized carry case and need to finish up the ork shootas.

Thursday night was the third warlord game at TGR. I ended up walking a new player through a game and they used the same demo army as the previous week.

I also made a trip back to the store on Saturday night to play a game with the boy. He beat me pretty soundly but we later figured out he used a 600 pt list and I thought he was going to use a 500 so he started with 100 pt advantage. Still a fun game and I did kill the griffin so not a complete loss.

Ok all caught up.

Warlord Game Night at TGR week 2

Wed. night was spent trying to get all the figures base coated and ready for game night. I was lucky to make it in time.

Thursday finally got here and I headed down to TGR for a game of warlord with my brand new army.

The list I brought was the following:

Reptus - 499 points
Troop 1
Khong-To
Pakpao, Clutchling Caster
Reptus Longstriker x 2
Reptus Skullbreaker
Reptus Warrior x 2

Troop 2
Gam-Nan, Gaan-Hor Elder
Clutchling Javeliner x 2
Gaan-Hor Warrior
Raptor

I was facing a reven army of a single troop made up of :
Reven - 497 points
Varaug the Great, Bull Orc
Gaaguk, Bull Orc Berserker
Bull Orc Berserker x 4
Bull Orc Archer x 2
Bull Orc Hunter x 2
Luck Stone

I had a 3 to 2 advantage on the draw because of the extra troop and both sides having tactician.

Turn One I rushed the speed units to the middle of the board and hid behind a rock. then moved every one else to the middle of the board. The orks moved down the board and split off the hunters and archers to harass my units.

Second turn I charged the archers with the the Gaan Hor and Raptor, the raptor was soon taken out by the hunters. (This proves the fact that painted mini's die faster). The Javeliners got of some ranged attacks and wounded a breaker. (Bad news is berserkers get meaner as they are wounded. I also made a mistake and let a berserkers charge in on my caster. I also charge my warriors, warlord, and skull breaker and surround the Reven Warlord and get some hits in.

Turn 3 I go first and the caster sets the orc on fire and runs away 2 berserkers quickly charge him and he is off the table without spending a single spell point. (note to self: fireball early to make sure you get value from the caster. He is quite squishy). The warriors kill the Reven Warlord but he makes his tough check, mean while the other 2 berzerkers kill the javliners, and the long strikers team up on a breaker wound him but he kills one of them. On the other side of the board the Gaan-Hor Warrior falls to the hunter and archers.

Turn 4 the turning point
I use first strike to take out the warlord. (cool learning point no tough checks when first strike is used) a skull breaker, and one of the berserkers goes down while on the other side of the board the Gan hoar elder and an archer went down. freeing up those forces to move across the board and join the scrum. wounds passed around both armies.

Turn 5 first strike used to take out one berserkers and massive wounds put on elite berserker and he is removed from game but the other long striker is lost. hunters charge in and kill Kong but are killed in return. Leaving a single archer of the reven force on the board. It takes 2 turns to chase him down and only my 2 warriors are left on the field. Score this as a win for the Reptus.

Having said all that I think Arron let me win as it was only my second game and he spent a ton of time helping me make good choices but I still had a really good time and it was nice to see that I could have fun with a casual army. Still curious to see what happens when I run up against a tuned competitive list. I have a feeling it will not be pretty.

Raptor

I used the raptor as a test for the Reptus skin tones and armor plates. I think it came out pretty good. Now to do the warrior so I can add in the 3rd color set for the Armor. Hopefully it will still look pretty good.

Reptus Army List

Here is the army list I'm thinking of building

Reptus - 496 points
Troop 1
Khong-To
Pakpao, Clutchling Caster
Reptus Longstriker x 2
Reptus Skullbreaker x 2
Reptus Warrior

Troop 2
Gam-Nan, Gaan-Hor Elder
Raptor x 2
Gaan-Hor Warrior x 2