Warmachine

Tournament Play.
Having played several games of WM at the RGMB club i decided to jump in at the deep end and enter myself into the WPS Warmachine tournament. This also happened to be my first taste of Competition gaming and an eye opener it was.
The list i took with me and consistantly played was the following:-
Major Victoria Haley (oh why did i use the epic variant)
Thorn
Black 13thStone
Gun Mage Unit with UA
Aiyana and Holt
Hunters X 2
Ironclad
Precursor Knights with UA
Squire
Well the first game saw me facing off against a player from Portsmouth using menoth and he was using the Caster which makes your battlegroup fall over in his control area. Game Over first Loss.
Second game was against Trolls, damn i hate these buggers with the stonebearer, champions and tough rolls. ARRRRRGGGGG the dice also happened to be against me whatever i needed this game.
Third Game was against a Dicenot player from Altrincham and faced off against the menoth again. can anything kill these buggers - Not a hope in hell - another Loss.
fourth Game - Against Ritchie Padgett(who was extremely hungover) using Legion - One of the nicest blokes to play against and was yet again an almost game (damn those dice) and was much closer than the outcome would suggest.
game 5 against Circle and at last a Draw. This game basically ran out of time and was grinding to a war of attrition where Victory conditions were on equal parts.

My Second taste of competition play was in altrincham at the Gamers Crypt being the sole representive of RGMB and coming a respectable 12th.(if it was on VP's only i would have ended the day in 3rd place)
This was a one day event with 3 X 750 point games.
The first game was Mosh Pit and i faced off against a Cryx force.
My opponent from memory was using the following list:
Witches Coven
Bone jack x 3 (arc nodes)
Death Jack(i thnk thats right)
Pistol Wraiths
Black banes raiders
Bile Thralls.
I used
Capt Victoria Haley
Thorn
Iron Clad
Hunter x 2
Black 13th
Sword Knights
Aiyana & Holt
Squire
Gun Mage Unit with UA

I lost Haley early on Turn 3 but i already had control of the Mosh Pit by this Point, All of his ARC nodes were out of commision by Turn 2 and then the Black 13th hammered the Witches Coven in Turn 4 - game over and a win. Max VP's achieved.

Game 2 was v's Khador Epic Irusk List with an Infantry Spam list.
Bloody hell this was a hard battle mainly due to the fact he had so much on the table and it was a control scenario, I was overwhelmed with infantry and lost on the control sections in turn 5 due to the fact i could not get into the section due to the weight of Infantry but still a loss is a loss.

Game 3 - V's a circle list with Baldur, constructs and some unknown infantry units.
I managed an Early caster kill and went for the all out max on VP's forgetting that the game was objective based. the game ended with 19VP's - 5 VP's but still managed to lose this game. bloody blinkered gaming.

Overall was an enjoyable day and at least the Dice Gods did not abandon me (especially after buying pink dice to counter the curse of the previous tournament)

Now onto the next Competition I can attend whenever that maybe.....