Just a quick update to prove I haven't forgotten about the 'lil blog here. I went down to the Chicago Battle Bunker for the Staff Hobby Triathlon and went 1-2. I won my fantasy game against Bretonnia, lost my 40k game against Ultramarines and lost my LotR game to Dwellers Below.
The tournament started well when I got matched up with a fairly inexperienced Bretonnian player. Bretonnia has always had a tough time dealing with the unbreakable nature of VC and this was no exception. He had two units of Knights of the Realm, one Grail Knight unit, a huge block of men-at-arms and a trebuchet.
I made a last minute adjustment and put three Cairn Wraiths into the list, which was a mistake. Not only were they useless against all the magic attacks of the Bretonnians, but I had never played with them before so didn't really know how to utilize them. I'll try them again but they didn't do anything in this game. The game basically was a repeat of him charging me, killing tons of ghouls and then me raising them back up and grinding him down. I did manage to get my general killed but it was late in the game and the crumble checks weren't debilitating. By the last turn he had his general and two KotR running away and I had lost a 20 man ghoul unit and some raised zombies. I would have gotten full points but the 8th ed. rule that you don't get credit for things fleeing screwed me out of getting points for his general.
I don't have time to post the about the other two games, got to get to work. To be continued...
