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This is my final game from the January Throne of skulls event, where my Orc force takes on the might of a Dwarf hold.

http://skulkers-surprise.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/rotwater-blight-game-5-orcs-vs-dwarfs.html

Hope you enjoy.

Good batrep. Would have loved to have gone to this Throne of Skulls, looked like good fun.

So thanks once again for writing these up, with photos and all. Great reads in themselves, but particularly as a recap of an early AOS event - presented by GeeDub itself, as it so happens.

I've been keeping track of the armies you faced and toting them up using SDK, mostly out of curiosity but also as counterpoint to the rather daft comp guidelines the event used (for the uninformed: 60 models, nothing else). From what I could gather, the lists you ran up against looked something like this:

0
Orc Warboss on Wyvern
Grimgor Ironhide
Orc Great Shaman
Orc Great Shaman
Savage Orc Shaman
Orc Warboss – Waaagh Banner
Orc Bully
17 Black Orcs
5 Stone Trolls
20 Orcs – shields
Giant
Doom Diver Catapult
Goblin Rock Lobber
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2101
[7 HERO, 3 WIZ, 2 MON, 2 WM]

1
Glade Lord on Forest Dragon
Durthu
Branchwraith
Branchwraith
6 Tree Kin
14 Dryads
14 Dryads
Treeman Ancient
+
Stormcast Knight Vexillor – Meteoric Standard
9 Stormcast Liberators – warhammers & shields
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2205
[5 HERO, 3 WIZ, 3 MON]
+
Treeman Ancient
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2509
[5 HERO, 4 WIZ, 4 MON]

2
Lord Celestant on Dracoth
Lord Celestant
Lord Castellant
Lord Relictor
Lord Relictor
Knight Heraldor
5 Judicators – skybolt bows, thunderbolt crossbow
5 Judicators – skybolt bows, shockbolt bow
5 Liberators – warhammers & shields
5 Liberators – warhammers & shields
3 Retributors
3 Retributors
3 Prosecutors – hammers
+
Battle Wizard
Battle Wizard
Battle Wizard
Battle Wizard
Master Engineer – pistol
3 Demigryph Knights – lances and swords
3 Demigryph Knights – lances and swords
Steam Tank
Steam Tank
Cannon
Cannon
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3164
[11 HERO, 4 WIZ, 4 WM]

3
3 Kroxigor – mauls
3 Terradons – javelins
2 Razordons
12 Skinks – javelins & bucklers
12 Skinks – javelins & bucklers
12 Skinks – javelins & bucklers
12 Skinks – javelins & bucklers
5 Chameleon Skinks
------------
1100
[0 HERO]

4
Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur
Slann Starmaster
Saurus Sunblood
Skink Priest – Cloak of Feathers
Skink Priest
Skink Priest
35 Saurus Warriors
3 Kroxigor – mauls
10 Skinks – javelins & bucklers
5 Chameleon Skinks
Bastiladon
------------
2063
[6 HERO, 4 WIZ, 2 MON]

5
Ungrim Ironfist
Josef Bugman
Engineer – steam hammer & pistol
Engineer – steam hammer & pistol
Engineer – steam hammer & pistol
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Dragon Slayer – runic axes
Runelord
Runelord
Runelord
20 Quarrellers
3 Gyrocopters
Giant
Giant
Giant
Grudge Thrower
Grudge Thrower
Grudge Thrower
------------
2853
[20 HERO, 3 MON, 3 WM]

Including champs in all possible cases, and where I wasn't sure about equipment options (from photos or whatever), I went with the most likely, due to model availability or perceived power level. In either case the points are a little rough, but close in the end. For your Sylvaneth opponent I added back in his other Ancient to see what he had intended to put down, before saving you the extra monster.

Just in passing, it seemed like your best / closest games were also those games where armies were the most similar in points. Which should be a totally obvious thing to say, though in AOS's case balance isn't a given. Also, I still feel bad for the Skink player, who just wanted to play with his Skinks & Friends, but essentially wasn't allowed to by the comp used ...

FWIW, I favor a combination of SDK + keyword caps: 1-X Heroes, 0-Y Wizards, 0-Z Monsters, 0-Z Warmachines. Possibly scaling off game size or something, as you suggested. Not particularly hard to do, gets around the vague points of pool systems with extremely specific points of SDK, and so on.

Anyway, thanks again!

- Salvage

Salvage thats awesome that you did that with all of the different armies i faced. Its good to see that the best games were the closest in SDK points.

Keyword caps could be a great idea as well.