Hawaii's Summer WFB League

[walkstheweb]

Okay! So last night officially kicked off the WFB league for the end of the summer. Its a relatively small league but none the less there is some good players. This is what I brought. Starting at 1K and going up 250 each week with a few catches.

This is a resource league so after every battle roll for every model you lost to see if you get it back. Core is 2+, Special is 3+ and Rare is 4+. Characters always come back but you can change Kits on them. I like mine so I won't be doing that. If you dont recover the model then you have to buy it back with next weeks points. Also a chance to earn bonus points from matches depending on the scenario.

1 Warboss
Axe of Stunty Bashing
Armor of Destiny

1 Orc Shaman
Lucky Shrunken Head (Goes in the Savage O unit for bunker and bonus ward)

20 Savage Orcs
AHW
Big Stabba

15 Black Orcs (Warboss Goes here)

1 Chariot

1 Goblin Doom Diver

Of corse for my first match up was against dwarves and with his hatred and my Axe it was going to be ugly. He had a Cannon, Thane with oath stone, BSB, Block of Warrior with great weapons, Longbeards with Sword and Shield and a unit of 12 Slayers with no command.

First turn I smushed 10 of the slayers with the foot of Gork then moved to the Warriors with little to no effect. Gork wandered off after that. Moved forward after taking out a few long beards with the Doom Diver and that was it. Next he blew straight down a line of my savage orcs with his cannon, killing my Shaman. So with magic out of the way we basically just moved up and commenced a war of attrition. His Thane dropped oath-stone, challenged and was subsequently demolished by my war boss and his Axe. 6 Str 8 Attacks in the first round was just too much. All in all we had to go to victory points and after breaking and running down the warriors with the chariot, my war boss killing the last two slayers and my Savage orcs finally breaking and not getting caught it was over. Crushing victory of the Orcs.

So now I am stuck with 200 points and no idea where to spend them. I need to fill out my Core choices for the 25% at 1200 so It needs to be from there. My thoughts are leaning towards a unit of 10 Spider Riders to help flanking with the Savage Orcs or a unit of 40 NG, FC, Nets and no fanatics to do the same job. I know that I dont have a BSB yet but its gonna be hard to get one with having to spend money in core points. I also can't get rid of units unless they are totally killed of. Which is a point sink.

Any Advice?

[Tom McClure]

For upcoming tournies with my savage orcs, I'm taking forest goblin units as night goblins with nets. If you can get them in the flank of someone fighting your savages, you can reduce their strength by 1, which is a pretty big deal. I also find that fanatics hinder more than they help. So I agree with the night goblins.

[walkstheweb]

Okay, so this is what I am upgrading too with my points for next week.

1 Warboss
Axe of Stunty Bashing
Armor of Destiny

1 Orc Shaman
Lucky Shrunken Head (Goes in the Savage O unit for bunker and bonus ward)

20 Savage Orcs Big Uns'
AHW, FC, Big Stabba

40 Night Goblins
Spears, Shields, FC, Nets

15 Black Orcs (Warboss Goes here)
Banner of Eternal Flame(Lots of VC and Regen in the league)

1 Chariot
(Added one extra Rider)

1 Goblin Doom Diver

Took some little stuff here and there to maximize the points I have now. Next round will be the BSB, expanding the Black Orcs to 20 and we will see after that.

[walkstheweb]

Game 2 vrs. High Elves

Me as listed above

Him:
1 Caster General
12 Swordmasters
20 Spearmen
1 Repeater
20 Archers
1 Lion Chariot
1 Great Birdy

Deployment was a but weird as the table was split from the far corners and you couldn't set up 6 in from the table edge. We had to roll for each unit to see if they had "crossed the flooded river" yet. I got everyone across except for my chariot, he managed everyone but his spearmen and his chariot. Extra league points went to killing the general.

Turn one he managed to debuff me some, fail shooting his repeater and moved about. I moved up my lines, managed to cause a wound on his caster with Brainbursta and scattered my doomdiver off the rapidly closing Warhawk that was coming at it. Not much after that.

Turn Two he managed to get one Savage Orc with the repeater, two black orcs with the pit of shades and one more with shooting from the arches. He didn't quite make it to the doom diver yet but he sure would next round. His reinforcements took the field set up to flank the black orcs. My turn I declared charges with the savage orcs on the swordmasters much to his laughing, Managed to get off my reroll to hit spell on the Savages(no more lagging) and closed the archers with the Goblins and Black Orcs. Combat against the swordmasters went very fast for his two wounds to my 8. I ran them down and that was that.

Turn Three he contacted the flank of my black Orcs with his Char riot and Spearmen, won that and ran them down. Managed only one wound on the doomdiver who in good faith returned it. Unfortunately it broke and of coarse he ran it down. I reformed and charged the repeater with my Savage orcs and subsequently won the run down to bring me into the Archers. My Shaman departed the Savage Orc unit and managed to get the last wound in on the Caster Lord to kill him with brainbursta. The eagle that killed the doomdiver chose to flee from my chariot that came on the board last turn but wasn't fast enough and was caught in the backfield.

With my goblins and Savage Orcs looking to eat the archers this turn. My chariot lining up to move in for support and both of our specials gone we decided to call it a Draw for the sake of not having to spend so many resource points to rebuy lost models. All in all it was a great game. I'm sure if it had been a regular game I would have rolled up his line and taken down his last units with no problem but i wanted to be sportsman and he was already reeling after losing a lot of points last week.

None the less the SO Big Uns are lining up to be the most devastating unit on my list which makes sense to me. D3 St6 Impact followed by 21 Str 5 attacks. That's pretty ferocious.

[walkstheweb]

Next point increase after resource rolls (yay I did get the doom diver back without paying for it!) is 230. I went ahead and filled out the rest of the unit of Black Orcs with the flaming banner to 20 because I am pretty sure from here on out its going to be Hydras and Undead for me. There is a chance I get the Brets, the guy running the all skink army, ogres(not worried) or anything new comeing in.

Now I'm just pondering a Goblin Boss BSB to go into the unit of NG or a Naked BlOrc with the possibility of a magical standard later on to go in the BLOrc unit and move the general to the SO unit with the shaman. Thats a lot of eggs in one basket with the SO but if I use the Gobling BSB I can give him the standard that gives the NG Poision Attacks... hmm...

Alright so I decided this was the best route to go and maximize my point totals...

(*mean changes)

1 Warboss
Axe of Stunty Bashing
Armor of Destiny

1 Savage Orc Shaman
Lucky Shrunken Head

*1 Night Goblin Big Boss BSB
Bad Moon Standard(Stubborn/Dangerous Terrain/SoftCover. Should work really nice aginst that skink army in the league.)
HW/Shield/Light Armor

19 Savage Orcs Big Uns'
AHW, FC, Big Stabba

*49 Night Goblins
Spears, Shields, FC, Nets

*19 Black Orcs
Banner of Eternal Flame

1 Chariot

*1 Mangler Squig (It may die, I may have to buy another but its so good for 65 Pts. Besides, a lot of guys just line up 1in apart and I can just smash into the side of them and roll through that nice line for 2d6 each)

1 Goblin Doom Diver

Next 250 I am going to round out the Savage Orcs to 40 and go from there. Absolutley want that unit bigger though and its motivation for me to get the rest of them painted. Beyond that I guess I'll just have to see. Maybe a Rock Lobba or some Trolls...