Howdy folks, Me and a Gothenburger went to a tag team tournament in Västerås during the weekend, the same one that Cavetroll attended. This is a brief report, because it would otherwise have been one of constant, utterly constant dice misfortunes. Never have we seen such abysmally poor dice rolls for crucial tests through 4 games in a row! For our fifth and last match, we got a table with a couple of sacrificial temples. So my teammate got the brilliant idea to rank our three most underperforming units in our armies, and march them straight unto the altar, and sacrifice them for free magic dice! These were, in order of their lousiness (with different names in T9A, but I'll name them by WHFB standards since that is most people's common ground regardless of what system they now play): 1. An Ironblaster Cannon 2. A K'daai Destroyer 3. A Stonehorn So we killed at least 1/3 of our own army in exchange for fireballs, and though the blood sacrifice was ultimately found unworthy (bloody right!) since we didn't win the game, we still performed much better without these terrible wastrels, than we did with them. It was our best game in terms of victory and battle point results, and in terms of sheer fun. So next time the dice gods hate you, throw the losers on the altar!
I’m surprised the Ironblaster is seen as bad (at least in the Ninth Age) because in 8th it’s a Cannon so has the potential of breaking the game. I’ve also just noticed that one of the Ogres is carrying a couple of balloons...
It's a game-breaking cannon as well in 9th age, but only when you hit with the bloody thing! Nothing but misses and misfires. Stats on paper and proper gameplay is no help when the dice hates you. Haha, oh yeah! That's from our opponent's army, the Ogre half owned by miss Åkerblom. They're a couple of fantastic painters, and her Ogres have a circus theme, including Ronald Macdonald and Houdini in that unit.
Ladies and gentlemen! Saurii and skinks! Come closer for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Laugh, fright and thrill in buckets will be handed out, and you will have something to tell the grandchildren about. A round of applause for Circus Åkerblom! Painted by the great painter Kristin Åkerblom, married to the likewise great painter Benny:
That is such a great army, I love all of it, so much character, Pennywise is brilliant as is Houdini, it's all brilliant. The painting style just adds to the models, very comic book.