Rotterhorn League Finale

The Rotterhorn League was my first leage as a PG, and I must say, it was fantastic!  I had 17 players, and while not all of them could see the entire thing through (life, ya know?) we still had several duking it out to the last.

The Finale Event was two weekends ago, and it was meant to be a fun, laid-back endcap to the competitive league.  We played two alternate formats:  Portals and Thunderdome.

Both formats were a huge success and everyone had a blast!  I was able to take a few pictures, so here's a taste of the awesomeness from the Finale.

Portals deployments - 8 players on a 4' x 4' table was crowded!

Everyone's running away from Kevin's Butcher force...  Why?

Three players rolled portal 3 in a row.  It was awesome!

Portals ended after two hours with no one scoring higher than 1 pt...  I think having negative points for a death really put a stopper on the scoreboard.  Next time, positive points only!

Thunderdome was a riot.  Two Garryths on the board completely shut down the table for two rounds - feats may have to be changed to CMD rather than CTRL for Tunderdome.  Ah, you live you learn!

Overall, the alternate formats were a lot of fun!  There are a few things I'd change for the next time, but that's just a part of the process.

UP NEXT

I'm going to use Hexeris as a vehicle for a tutorial on painting faces.  Get a model assembled and primed so you can follow along!  That should go up sometime this weekend (hopefully Friday night).

If you have any questions on faces that you want me to address during the tutorial, post them below and I'll be sure to include them in the write-up!

League Night

I was astounded at the response I got from players wanting to play the league.  When I sent out an interest check e-mail a few weeks ago, I only got a handful of responses.  Enough to order the basic 8-man kit.

I was not expecting to get 15 players, with a few more that haven't completely made up their minds yet.

Wow!  I guess that's a product of having lots of new faces at the store - not many of them are in our Google group and a part of the e-mail list.  I fixed that though, I took down e-mail addresses and sent out a link to the Google group to all of them last night.  They should be in the loop now.

Lost of players!

Down at the far end of the room, two guys were playing a non-league game, trying to learn their battle engines.  Dave (Khador) vs Caleb (Cryx).  Dave's had his Wagon for about 2 weeks now (maybe longer) but Caleb's Wraith Engine had arrived just before he got to the store.  Both of them seemed pretty happy with the learning process, and I was very excited to take a picture of the store's first game with battle engines on both sides of the table!

I got a game in against the only other Hordes and Skorne player in the league, Hawk.  The game was fun, my pMorgs versus Hexeris.  I lost by scenario.  Pulling a refused flank type maneuver on a scenario where there are two control points was a bad idea.  It was nice to put some painted models on the field and get a game in!

His converted Titan Gladiator was pretty awesome: