Call to Arms Thursday, week one

Proof that I need to paint more

First game of the new Warmachine season (yes we are a week behind) and I have officially experienced the most embarrassing defeat ever. The night started off innocent enough, a simple 500 point game, my Kreoss led Protectorate of Menoth versus Chris’ Mortenebra led Cryx. The first two turns were all about maneuvering for position (in fact the only casualty occurred when my Exemplars Errant squad shot up a pistol-wraith). Then on turn three both High Paladin Vilmon and the Avatar of Menoth charged and beat down the Deathjack. In response Chris came up with a great plan that would have won him the game if it had succeeded. Unfortunately for him it failed but he did end up killing off my Exemplars. On turn four I would finish of the Deathjack and destroyed his Seether, it was looking bad for Chris. Soon I had killed everything but Mortenebra. I decided to go for the major victory condition so I basically passed up a chance to kill Mortenebra. Chris made me pay! I was not aware that she had pathfinder so imagine my surprise as she charged Kreoss through rough terrain and killed him. What an embarrassing sight…Mortenebra alone on the table and completely surrounded by Protectorate of Menoth pieces. My wife puke it best when she said, “Honey, if you can go for the kill, do it!”

How do you defeat Epic Vlad? With a sledgehammer ... A real one!

The other game of the night was John’s Cryx against Josh’s Khador. They played a 750 point game that turned into an absolute slugfest. In nothing else their game looked much cooler than ours when you compared their fully painted armies to our table full of naked metal and primer colored models (What’s that? The Avatar…without arms). To be honest, I did not pay to much attention to this game but I do know that John won on victory points and that the warcasters were Epic Vlad and Mortenebra. It is looking like we may have to only play 500 point games on Thursday night due to time restraints (especially when you consider how slow I play). I was going to start updating the league standings tonight but I think I’ll wait until next week when everyone has had a chance to get some more games in.

The Killing fields