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Got back from the Throne of Skulls: Rotwater Blight event at GW HQ late last night, and have penned a few words about my time there. This is quite a long one with lots of piccies, but you can get the full scoop here!

https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/throne-of-skulls-rotwater-blight/

Awesome, making me want to go to one even more now.

Congrats on the win

Congratulations dude!

Omg you won the Throne of Skulls!?!? Amazing, Matt! Well from all the great content you add here, I am in no doubt you would be a great opponent (and I hope to travel to Swindon one day to play you!)

Thanks for the report. I aim to be at the next Throne of Skulls, and hopefully at another event before that :-)

I love your write ups, man. Never stop.

Nice read, thanks for sharing. Great pics as well.

Bugman's did a nice breakfast bap... I do miss it. Great read and I'm glad the AoS Throne of Skull events are fun. I was worried they'd stop doing them.

Very nice!,grats on the win!


Curious,was there any sort of composition for the armies?

Model number limit,wounds?

The armies were all looking fairly well balanced size wise.

Well, I like the above pic. I would be happy to attend a tourney at Warhammer World in the future. Looks pretty decent. We had a similar location in Düsseldorf, the German GW head quarter.

Minijack wrote:

Curious,was there any sort of composition for the armies?

Model number limit,wounds?

Not really - we were to bring 60-odd models, and work out what to take or not to take with our opponent. In practice, if you did not bring anything too nasty, you would probably be using your whole force.

Congratulations for the win, Matt;

I like what they've done in this event. The way to reward players with a good behaviour and not just the ones who win at all cost is, IMHO, the right thing to do in the spirit of the game (at least, as AoS was designed).

I really hope they will keep it for the next to come. I believe they're on the right tracks here.

Maybe I should try to come to play one day...hmmm, how much does it cost to come to Nottingham from Belgium?

 Sarouan wrote:


Maybe I should try to come to play one day...hmmm, how much does it cost to come to Nottingham from Belgium?

Drive

I have done the trip myself (actually, went all the way to Essen) and it is not as long as you might think. In fact, our US cousins might scoff at the distance

Top write up.

I'd love to attend one in the future but don't drive which pretty much rules me out.

Great report Matt, and huge props on winning the thing, particularly with an army that looks like an army and not just a collection of big things

- Salvage

Hold up there mate, you attended a GW run event using AoS rules and scenarios and seemed to have a really enjoyable time?
Delete your account and burn those models, no one here believes you.....

Very nice write up btw and pics.

 Ratius wrote:
Hold up there mate, you attended a GW run event using AoS rules and scenarios and seemed to have a really enjoyable time?
Delete your account and burn those models, no one here believes you.....

This isn't Warseer...

I was being sarky.....

 Ratius wrote:
I was being sarky.....

So was I

Group hug so!!

Did they use any sort of force balacing mechanisms at all? Or did you just bring what you wanted?

 Thunderfrog wrote:

Did they use any sort of force balacing mechanisms at all? Or did you just bring what you wanted?

No, they just suggested 60 models, everything else down to the players...

Skulker's Surprise was there as well (he was the Orcs), and is working through batreps for his games: http://skulkers-surprise.blogspot.com/

- Salvage

I never did get to Congratulate you on you win, well done dude. I gave you my vote, you deserved it.

Huge congrats Matt, very much enjoy reading your posts and you come across as a top bloke!

Malduran wrote:
I never did get to Congratulate you on you win, well done dude. I gave you my vote, you deserved it.

I'm enjoying reading your report, Malduran. Hope to see the other battles posted soon :-)

Malduran wrote:
I never did get to Congratulate you on you win, well done dude. I gave you my vote, you deserved it.

Cheers for that! If you did not see my event report, you are welcome at our gaming table any time you are in the Swindon area

It looks like it was well organised and a lot of fun. GW have got their act together with these game weekends.

Two quick questions:
1. How did they handle summoning at the event?
2. How did they handle piling in?

1. No restrictions (none needed). You'll see summoning happened in the games I played.

2. How do you mean? Move up to 3" towards closest enemy.