Game 5 was against Jack Render and his Malbeth, Arathorn Arnor army playing Supply Run, a modified Seize The Price with 3 objectives. I managed to get the jump on all 3 objectives and picked 1 of them up straight away. However, it took 3 or 4 turns to pick up the other 2 objectives. This lead to a huge shield wall battle between Warriors of Arnor and Knights and Men-at-arms of Dol Amroth. Eventually, Arathorn killed one Knight with an objective and a few Warriors of Arnor ran away with it but I managed to get the other 2 off my own board edge and won 10-5. Next up was.........Goblin Town.
Josh Triffitt was waiting on table 2 with 1 game to go and his Goblin Town, including a Shaman and a Dweller which made his list less flithy from my point of view and cool cause.....it's a Dweller. The game was Total Domination, with dead models coming back on with a 4+. The game was very tactial from the start and neither wanting to engage due to the charge of the Dol Amroth or the mass number of the Goblins. But 4 plucky Knights on foot fought the Dweller and this carried on all game until 1 was left alive but not close enough to charge so the Dweller could kill a Blackroot Vale Archer in the last turn. Nevertheless, as time was running out the lines clashed. Imrahil and his banner affect was winning combats and the fight was even........until Imrahil charged the Goblin King. Heroic Strikes were called by both and Imrahil got to Fight 10 with the Goblin King only getting to Fight 9!!! BUT.....BUT.....BUT.....Imrahil choked!!! He rolled a 3 highest and lost even with a support. Gradual fighting and tactical with the final score being 10-6 to Josh as he had more kills than me plus the 1 contested objective.
With a sorry heart, I had to play my last game of the tournament. And Game 7 was against the Chieftain of the Hobbits, Mr Ian Spiller. To put this into some perspective, for those who don't know, my army had 26 models in it.......his had 67!!! We were playing Cut of the Head custom scenario where points were scored for each hero killed, breaking and extra points for leader wounds and kill. I knew from the start it would a tough game and a small chance of winning once he starting running heroes to the back of the board and lying them down. This just left the small issue of 60 Hobbits in the way of my objective, and once I got close Ian launched 2 massive volleys of stones killing 3 Knights on foot, a couple of Men-at-arms and Imrahil's horse. From this point, I was just trying to break him so that it would finish 1-1 but this meant throwing Imrahil into lots of Hobbits and on the last turn he managed to get a cheeky wound on him as he eventually lost a combat. This left the final score 4-0.
I finished the tournament on 4 wins and 3 losses, which I think isn't too bad for a first tournament, giving me an eventual finish on 11th out of 24 participants. Also, in the closing ceremony I won Most Sporting with 4 votes from my 7 games which made me feel that people really enjoyed how I played and all my games were very enjoyable and tense. The 2 weeks before frantically painting earned me Best Army Runner-Up too, just amazing to see people's enjoyment at the sight of my army and made me feel like all the work was worth it.
Thanks to all the folks I played and I loved my weekend thoroughly, and most definitely will go to another one as soon as possible. Look at my prizes!!!
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