Ok - a very late report on the Kalm tourney earlier this month.
Friday - took off 1/2 the day and drove down early with my friends CorwinDal and Gimli. Grabbed a steak at O'charleys and met up with Micah and about 10 other guys for a Battle Fleet Gothic tourney. First time I've played that in years. 3 games - against Space Marines, and 2 Imperial Fleets. No idea where I placed but was most likely middle of the pack. Lots of beer and good guys to play against. Good fun and great job by Micah, who was a cool guy despite my unprovoked gas assault.
Saturday is here. Start the day with some grub in the hotel. These guys run a class act. Around 8:45 - two limo's show up to give us a lift to the Jazz Factory - a bar somewhere down town Huntsville where the tourney is at. Tables are all set up - and things are ready to go. By 9:30 I've started on my second beer of the day.
I ran a pretty fluffy Space Wolf Army - just to have fun and finally use my forgeworld
SW termies. My army list:
HQ: Wolf Lord (6#, 445 Pts)
1 Wolf Lord Aldonis @ 445 Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Frost Blade (x1); Storm Bolter; Wolf Guard Bodyguard
1 Runic Charm @ [10] Pts
1 Terminator Armor @ [15] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Bodyguard @ [307] Pts
True Grit; Wolf Guard Brother Gimli; 1 Elite Elite
1 Wolf Guard Brother Dung @ [83] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Power Fist (x1); Assault Cannon
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Terminator Armor @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Travis @ [58] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Power Weapon (x1); Storm Bolter
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Terminator Armor @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Cody @ [80] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Power Fist (x1); Assault Cannon
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Terminator Armor @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Gimli @ [61] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Power Weapon (x1); Storm Bolter
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Terminator Armor @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
HQ: Wolf Guard Battle Leader (6#, 385 Pts)
1 Battle Leader Matthew @ 385 Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Bolt Pistol (x1); Frost Blade (x1); Wolf Guard Bodyguard
1 Belt of Russ @ [0] Pts
1 Runic Charm @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Tooth Necklace @ [10] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Mikey @ [256] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Frag Grenades; Power Fist (x1); Bolter; Razorback
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Brian @ [45] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Frag Grenades; Power Weapon (x1); Bolter
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Kris @ [42] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Frag Grenades; Power Weapon (x1); Bolter
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Guard Brother Folken @ [44] Pts
True Grit; Runic Charm; Wolf Pelt; Power Weapon (x1); Bolter
1 Runic Charm @ [5] Pts
1 Wolf Pelt @ [3] Pts
1 Razorback @ [75] Pts
Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Lascannon and
TL Plasmagun; Lascannon; Twin-Linked Plasmagun
HQ: Venerable Dreadnought (1#, 160 Pts)
1 Venerable Brother Dug-Less @ 160 Pts
Assault Cannon; Dreadnought
CCW; Storm Bolter; Extra Armor
Troops: Grey Hunter Pack (8#, 220 Pts)
7 Grey Hunter Pack @ 220 Pts
Close Combat Weapon (x5); True Grit; Frag Grenades; Bolter (x4); Plasma Pistol (x2); Power Fist (x1); Power Weapon (x1); Meltagun; Rhino
1 Rhino @ [35] Pts
Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Storm Bolter
Troops: Grey Hunter Pack (8#, 220 Pts)
7 Grey Hunter Pack @ 220 Pts
Close Combat Weapon (x5); True Grit; Frag Grenades; Bolter (x4); Plasma Pistol (x2); Power Fist (x1); Power Weapon (x1); Meltagun; Rhino
1 Rhino @ [35] Pts
Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Storm Bolter
Troops: Grey Hunter Pack (6#, 155 Pts)
6 Grey Hunter Pack @ 155 Pts
Close Combat Weapon (x4); True Grit; Bolter (x3); Plasma Pistol (x2); Power Weapon (x2); Meltagun
Heavy Support: Land Raider (1#, 265 Pts)
1 Land Raider @ 265 Pts
Power of the Machine Spirit; Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Twin Linked Heavy Bolter; Twin Linked Lascannon (x2); Extra Armor
Total Roster Cost: 1850
Game 1 - against a Tau player - nice guy - his first game of 5th edition. Fortune smiled on me due to turn 1 night fight and some aggressive deployment of stealth suits. My
LR get's immobilized on turn 1 and turns into a pillbox - with great firearcs to shoot my enemy. I drop his big nasty gun tank and start working on his broadsides - the biggest threat to my army. I basically win the battle of attrition against him. Highlight is my Battle leader and retinue charging into one of his leaders in a suit and squad of firewarriors. I'm thinking everyone dies and we have Tau cutlets for supper. Instead I do only a single wound on the commander with my Battleleader - he hits and wounds me twice back - I fail both
ST and he dies. Fortunately the retinue smacks around 7 or 8 firewarriors without a loss. He fails and breaks with both units. One of the objects was to kill an enemy
HQ - which we both fulfilled in a comedy of errors
HTH. I score around 15 points.
Lunch - catered BBQ...Dewers and 7 sounded good with it - so had a few of those.
Game 2 - Space Marines. Played a guy from New Orleans who had a nicely painted
SM army featured here on the Kalm website
http://thekalmbefore.blogspot.com/ (Dale Oser's amy about 1/2 way down). Dale gave me one of the better arse kickings in a
40K game I've taken in awhile. He had termies with
TH/
SS with a termy librarian with gate. The main objective was to get a counter into a piece of terrain (
hq). Secondary was to keep the enemy out of the terrain (
hq), and tertiary was
KP. One turn 1 Vulkan and a tact squad drop pod right in front of my
Hq that I'm holding with the small
GH squad. 1 rhino is dropped I bring the other squad over to get rid of this. If a fit of pathetic
HTH we tie first round - he wins second my guys break and he escorts them off the board. Took the battle leader and retinue to get rid of them later on. My Ven dread, termies, and
LR focus on the big termie squad to try and get rid of them. Hurt them some but they managed to get the counter and gate it back to their
hq. Rest of the game involved his guys killing the rest of my guys off. I did manage to keep him out of my
hq at the end of the game for 4 points - but gave up the max of 20. Well played Dale - we need a rematch! Smile
After Game 2 - all hope was lost - but Makers and coke is a great cure for depression - especially a whole bunch of them.
Game 3 was against a guy (Matthew?) from Huntsville who'd I'd played in
BFG the night before. The
BFG game was very tactical and a lot of fun. Figured this to be the same. He ran a
LR heavy Khorne army (4
LR's). This game also turned into a great tactical matchup (despite my high alcohol level impairment). I believe missions were around getting units into enemy deployment, killing highest point cost unit and holding objectives. I was fortunate to hurt his
LR's early and get in close. Had a brutal
HTH with Kharn, my wolf lord and retinue, and some berzerkers. Amazingly I won at the end. Still he wound up getting the primary, we tied on the secondary on highest point cost unit and I got the tertiary. A 16 to 14 minor loss - basically a draw. Again a well fought game and a great opponent - my favorite out of three great opponents.
All the games were fun and all my opponents high end guys. I'd play any of them again.
The Kalm is a GREAT tourney - highly recommend it. The folks from HAAWGS do a fine job. Warboss and Micah are stand up folks - what the game is all about!
