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Inepticon '16


James McPherson

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Hot on the heels on Guardcon was Inepticon, a narrative event run by the excellent Nicholas Jebson of the Kapiti Wargamers club. This was a whole weekend event, with the Saturday games @1k and the Sunday games @2k.

We had 8 on Saturday and 6 on Sunday, and played at a local college. I made both days, Saturday taking a fluffier list to the 1k games and Sunday playing a more competitive one.

I wont best painted both days and also won the 2k tournament on the Sunday with 2 majors and a minor in the final battle which played out with Shaun Bates aka @Primez. @Primez had won the 1k tournament the previous day so it was important to not let him clean up!

I placed 2nd to last on the Saturday 1k event and didn't have such a great day but still had a lot of fun and enjoyed the narrative content and cool scenarios.

This particular tournament had a house rule to say if more than 50% of a unit is covered then there is no line of sight, so I used this to great advantage by making my plague furnace into a giant wall/shield for the weekend which helped a bit. There was also no duplicate Allegiance Artifacts so I couldn't spam Crown of Conquest which hampered my battleshock tests a lot and meant it was harder to play my list, so the two house rules evened each other out a bit.

 

Next up is NZ's first exclusively AOS only event with approx 20 players coming from all over NZ to my home, Wellington. That is on the 11th Nov and is a 2.5k, 4 game, 2 day event, which everyone is looking really forward to!

 

My Sunday list was

1990pts

Corruptor, General, Dark Avenger, Crown of Conquest

Plague Furnace , Chaos Talisman

Skrolk

Plague Priest,

30 P.Monks

30 P.Monks

30 P.Monks

Plagueclaw

Plagueclaw

Plagueclaw

Foulrain Congregation

Pestilent Clawpack

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Awesome review! Really wish I could have made it down.

"The tournaments here in NZ have a house rule to say if more than 50% of a unit is covered then there is no line of sight"

Probably just an Inepticon thing TBH, but curious to hear how you an others found it? 

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ah yeah good point will edit that out. I thought I'd read the same in the Warhost pack but I'm wrong.

Yeah it would've been good to see you there man, my buddy from the UK who's at Weta too came to spectate and ended up buying an entire death army at the bring and buy tables so he'd be very interested to meet you and get advice! 

I found I could exploit it by using bigger models to block LOS for my weaker characters, so behemoths suddenly became duel purpose and super valuable pieces of LOS blocking/moving terrain, which was nice for my plague furnaces as they don't have much combat potential and are best served just sat around not doing much casting prayers or blocking off charges.

In the final game against Shaun I used my furnace to advance a unit of no save Plague Monks up close enough to his general (whilst also blocking LOS to my general as well) so that they got close enough to get a final turn charge off and win the game on a minor. Kind of like a trojan horse thing.

You can also exploit the facing direction and just sit a behemoth sideways on, on its oval base, so in the case of my plague furnace it's base has a bigger footprint/cover benefit, cheesey but totally legal. I have two plague furnaces, and with these rules they suddenly become worth their points whereas before they were pretty useless.

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The tournaments here in NZ have a house rule to say if more than 50% of a unit is covered then there is no line of sight

the rule was actually if it is 50% covered it gains a cover save even if it was in the open, so people could still target them but you would get +1 to your save

a good right up and congratulations on the win. im taking some of the things i learnt and implementing them into my Dark elves for Warhosts :D

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Looks like good fun, certainly a few more events happening up North than in the South Island. Maybe someone should do something about that...

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On 25/10/2016 at 3:06 PM, Nick Jebson said:

the rule was actually if it is 50% covered it gains a cover save even if it was in the open, so people could still target them but you would get +1 to your save

a good right up and congratulations on the win. im taking some of the things i learnt and implementing them into my Dark elves for Warhosts :D

ah ok damn, think we might have been playing that wrong then not sure. If we did at least it was consistently wrong all the way through and for both opponents and not just in one game, but still wrong nonetheless!

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After reading your warlords coverage and seeing your army (Which looks great by the way!) I am mighty tempted to make that a project for next year. How well does the verminlord corruptor do in your games?

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