Ratcliff
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Good stuff Aiden, looking good. I've gone off footslogging Priests altogether without wither. The mortal wound potential just isn't worth it for me, and they are no longer any help to Monks.
In a one-day tournament myself this weekend, can't wait to try my new look Pestilens out in a competitive setting, have won both my games so far with the new tome
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I am a Pestilens Supremacist. Keep rat bloodlines pure
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Warp Gale is some spell imo
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Just now, MrZakalwe said:
You are correct, just checked. sorry.
I think 20 monk blobs are still v good though
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14 minutes ago, MrZakalwe said:
Looks like the minimum may be 20 now.
I believe it's still 10
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Was pessimistic at first, a lot of good stuff taken away, especially Wither. But as you say, Furnaces are effing nonsense now and Monks got better. Will still be running 10 man blobs for screening and board control, but will up my 40 blobs up to 3 or 4 depending on the rest of the list
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On 2/8/2019 at 2:12 AM, AIdenNicol444 said:
You'll find they'll be toned down to compensate for the buff they get for having large numbers, so my previously favored and pioneered tactic of MSU plague monk units roaming the table charging flanks may no longer be as viable.
Feckin hell man, Plague Monks just got buffed, though a bit of a hit to the MSU tactic
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Monks rend and contagion banner will become a natural 6 imo. But I think overall rules will remain. What do these new rules offer a 40 man Monk unit? What couldn't it kill already without this rule?
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Just now, AIdenNicol444 said:
the only self improvement I need is a battletome, it drops a week before a charity tournament event so I'll be getting some early practise in. I plan to heavily cover the Pestilens section and at least feature the rest
I won 2/3 in my last event, and this tome drops just in time for a 1 dayer later this month. I genuinely think I can bring home the gold. I spoke to you briefly in the Whatsapp group (I'm your fan) so will hopefully see more of you there too
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Just now, AIdenNicol444 said:
Family, work, bettering myself, firing enormous lasers at the moon, it takes a lot of time my friend.
I hope you are cutting out all that needless family, work and self improvement next week when the tome drops. I will need blogs telling me how to play good
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Where have you been @AIdenNicol444 Ffs?
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Very unusual list Aiden, fair play. Looking forward to seeing how you get on. Trying to add gutter runners to my own list now too. Best of luck!!
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12 minutes ago, AIdenNicol444 said:
First of all, love the color scheme my friend and would love to see more if it.
Seraphon are indeed tricky, the way to beat them is to shamelessly string allied clanrats around your army to catch what they thrw, then slam a counter punch with plague monks similar to what you did with the Ironjawz player. If they instead wall up and sit back to get ready to summon, that's your cue to push up hard (burn command points for 6 inch runs if you have them) and spread your army out so he has nowhere he can summon or teleport his units. Spam your prayers as much as possible and kill the slann with them from behind enemy lines.
I would recommend the same strategy against Order Draconis, but the trick there is targetting down the big dragons one after another.
Most importantly, never be afraid to retreat. You don't lose the game if you lose more troops than the enemy, and sometimes retreating onto an objective to contest it before being wiped out is a more valuable spend of skaven than sending them to die in combat.
I'd very much like to hear how you get on in the future as well
Thanks for the advice! I'm investing in 40 more clanrats anyway, might throw them in at the expense of a Furnace. Was also thinking of giving my Verminlord or a Plague Priest the Liber Bubonicus instead of trying to equip my Verminlord for combat. I have found my best games so far have been keeping him behind and using him as a buff. A Verminlord sprinting out and fighting something is the hallmark of a game that has taken a turn for the worst.
Killed all his dragons apart from one, which had an artefact that meant I couldn't attack him until he attacked me. That was all sorts of grief that I wasn't ready for. Also, there was a special rule for the entire game where rend didn't count, so his stuff dropped far slower than normal. I also didn't realise you held objectives even if they are abandoned. So I didn't know that he was clocking up points for the objectives he vacated. I really have to get rid of the residual 40k in my head, some of my calculations and moves are still heavily affected by it! Will definitely start retreating more, I don't think I did it once in any of my games.
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On 10/27/2018 at 3:52 AM, AIdenNicol444 said:
Please let me know how you do, I would enjoy to hear your experiences. We can both learn from one another
Hi Aiden, wanted to let you know how I did. Overall, I got one win and two losses.
First game against Seraphon, lost by two points. I deployed terribly (more on that later), and almost clawed it back at the end, but it wasn't to be. He was a very good player and had these things that could deep strike within 3" that wrecked my backline. I hadn't played against Seraphon before, so possibly should have done more homework. My opponent went on to win the tournament.
Beat Ironjaws in the second round, and it was a hammering. He charged everything into my clan rats first turn and killed them all. Then my Plague Monks proceeded to charge into his units and practically wipe his entire army. He conceded.
Third game was against Order Draconis. Not a bad matchup, but the mission wasn't ideal. 3 objectives each in our territories and we had to hold them for as long as possible. He penned me in first turn (everything could just move over 20"!) and I had no opportunity to get up the board to threaten his objectives (I found this to be a general issue with my list). I killed far more points of his stuff, but struggled to play the mission.
I'm not too downbeat, as they were only my 4th, 5th and 6th games of Age of Sigmar. Learned a lot and hoping to win at least 2/3 in the next one in January.
One of my most enduring enemies of the day was a giant pyramid terrain piece on the table where both my losses took place. My seasoned opponents knew what a pain this would be for me and plonked me in the territory with it, often walling off up to a quarter of my hordes. I completely made a mess of this first game, deploying my clanrats in a way that they couldn't get out of the thing. My opponents, with all of their flying units, took full advantage and it ended up being a deciding factor both games.
Really enjoyed myself though and can't wait for the next one! Attached my list and a picture (with that effing pyramid making a cameo ?)
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1 hour ago, AIdenNicol444 said:
Great to hear my friend! I'll be running my Clan Pestilens at the NZ Masters tournament on the 1st of December, and I'm hoping I'll be the forst Pestilens player ever to podium in the world
I have all the faith in you to crush the normies. Will be keeping an eye out on the blog during the run-up to it.
I'm taking part in my first AoS tournament myself next weekend. Your blog has been my bible these past few weeks, so hoping to do well
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Big fan of your blog Aiden all the way from Ireland. When is your next big event?
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Speak Prrrrriest: A Tournament List
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It would be my first time running Horticulous too, literally only want him for the tree. I used to run 160+ monks regularly, which was good, but had issues with mobility. I'm hoping the threat of running and charging Monks will make my opponent play a little differently too.
Have definitely been considering a Screaming Bell, just have to build one first. Will be nice to be able to create two battleshock immunity bubbles, maybe split one of the 40s into smaller units and take an endless spell