Chris Tomlin

@Donal - see above.

Morning, Went up for the Masters this weekend and played a practice game with @ChippyRick on the Friday. Then there was a last minute drop out on Saturday morning, so as the number 17th ranked player I was drafted in...meaning I played a further 6 games. That puts me on 11 games for 2017 so far...none of which I've reported on so far. Arghhh! Not the start I wanted for the blog Chris

Cool. That's a couple of sweet bros. Talking of which I know @The Lost Lighthouse (Gary) and @Total Fanboy have also grudged. Will get all that kind of stuff updated later. If anyone else has any grudges, let me know.

@Marc Wilson That's funny, I actually started to sketch out some odds of my own the other day with mind to running a book on it! I'd definitely be up for chucking a couple of quid at it. I presume max 50p bets at each of the entrants?

My round one winners (subject to change based on the battleplan) are; Rob Tony Darran Martin Dan Jack Russ Sedge

Ok, So @Cowboy Boots Matt has won the Melon-off. Therefore my +1's are; Adam Petford Matt Lyons If you can add Tom Hutchings to the reserve list as well that'd be great thanks. Congrats on selling out so fast ?? Thanks

Thanks Tommy, they are smaller than the Brutes (The Black Orc Blocker isn't a mile away from them tbh) so work perfectly for Ardboys. They are on 32mm bases.

Urgh, @DeadlySarcasm as my +1....what a depressing turn of events. My second +1 is either going to be @Cowboy Boots Matt Lyons or Tom Hutchings. They are currently fighting it out on Whatsapp.

Morning, So yeh, you will have seen by now, Tomorrow Burns is now a 56 player event!! All original reserves are now in the main entrants list and we have a couple of new reserves. Need to get payment from you both please @Portz and Carl (is he on here? @Sangfroid), follow payment details from original post. I will now also close the reserve list, though if someone is super keen, then drop me a message. As I said the full PDF will be out when I return from the US. I have extended the date for refunds until 10/02/17 - please note that after this time, drop outs will not be refunded I'm afraid. I know this may be relevant to @Lhw Thanks to @Paul Buckler for visiting the hall with me last night. I think 56 players will fit in there very comfortably. It's great to be able to accommodate everyone, although it is not without some reservation due to the great atmosphere at my previous events. However, it's a top crowd of players we have and I have no doubt everyone will attend in the right spirits and have an awesome time. Anyway, thanks for all your support and watch this space! Chris

Great, I'll get it on the Calendar. @John Harrison - Stick me and Paul on the list please mate. Let me know where you want payment sending. I'm sure by the time I get out of work there will be 120 whatsapp messages in our group on this, so I expect it'll be more than the two of us!!

Well boys and girls, tonight is the big night!! I'm finally able to get into the venue to measure up and work out just how many of you eager beavers I am going to be able to accommodate. With 20(!!) of you on the reserve list, including Big Dogger Diese, I'm keen to expand capacity and get plenty of you in. I am a little concerned that increased numbers may compromise the atmosphere at my previous events, but lets see what happens. I'd still be very keen to keep people together on the Saturday evening as much as possible. But yeh, I won't know until I try and to be honest the reserve list is full of sweet people. I do apologise that it has taken so long to finalise this which has resulted in people not being able to arrange travel and accommodation in a timely fashion. I expected the event to be popular, but never did I imagine this! I did want to clarify that this is NOT a SCGT warm up event. It's never been billed as one, but due to its proximity to the big one and the fact New Dawn last year was a practice event, I thought that was worth noting. There will be a full pack available early February and if anyone doesn't like it they will be entitled to a refund (shortly afterwards, paid refunds will be closed - except for reserve list ofc) - Spoiler; If you do want a SCGT warm up, both the Warchiefs and the London lads are putting something on so check them out. It's a busy time in the calendar, but that's only a good thing. Seems to be plenty of players going around for them all as well. But, yeh, check back tomorrow...let's see if I can't burn that reserve list! (geddit?! ) Chris

@Paul Buckler - How do you feel about the drive for a one dayer? We had fun at their place last time! Also potentially up for driving... @Andy Talbot@Cowboy Boots Matt@ChippyRick@DeadlySarcasm (week before Tomorrow Burns FYI).

Looks interesting man. Will keep an eye on this for sure.

Ha, I there was me thinking that I was slow off the mark! I'd love to claim I'm a trendsetter and that the BB Ardboys are purely my creation, however I'm sure every single Ironjawz player looked at those models and had the same thoughts as you and I did haha!! Glad you like them, really need to get them on my painting table but realistically it probably won't be until February. Just so so busy at the moment. Hey man, no worries. Yeh the drummer seems to be the most popular one I think. Rightly so, he's awesome. Works so well. No thread like this for my Stormcast unfortunately. They were a speed painted job back in April 2016 which I ran at a couple of events and then sold. I do love the models and how they play so may paint an army properly one day. Not seen Arbaal's work. I don't tend to look at many pic heavy threads due to being at work and being a closet gamer haha! I'll have to check it out on my phone though. Cheers dude, yeh tbh out of all the trophies in my collection, 2016 did yield some of the coolest. Unfortunately I don't think magnetising would be an option. It's really really cool to see so many 40kers flocking to AoS (I'm sure we'll be doing the reverse once that game gets the AoS treatment - I have an Ork army waiting to be painted). Be sure to post a link in this thread to your Ironjawz once you get some paint on them. Colour scheme sounds cool. With Ardboys, I don't think you can go too far wrong with equipping them as you like, there's not too much in it either way. I think the common consensus is shifting towards 2 choppas, but meh, I wouldn't worry about it. I think most people have a variety, especially as the box doesn't give you enough of any one thing. If you are running 2 units of 5 Brutes then yeh, definitely go choppas. As you say 1 in each unit with a Gore-choppa and the Boss will want his Klaw and Smasha. Thanks man

Morning all, Thanks for the reads and replies so far, glad to see the topic is still generating some interest Good news; I've already been able to get 4 games in with the Ironjawz this year (2x 2,000 and 2x doubles) and I'm up at Warhammer World this weekend to hang out for the Masters and hopefully get a few casual games in. Good start! Bad news; I've got a manic week at work and don't think I'll be able to get any reports done until next week. I had hoped to not fall behind, but I'm really loathe to spend my free time in the evenings (not that I have much of that either at present) doing this. So unfortunately, you'll just have to wait!

Is that sarcasm?

Yeh they really do. James Hewitt confirmed to me at the recent Warhammer World Open Day that the Human and Orc teams will be getting individual teams boxes (same sprues as boxed game) soon, so I expect to see plenty of Ardboys as per the above!

Morning Megabosses! Well I got my first game of 2017 in last night vs @Forestreveries and will be doing a full report on that (going back to how I was doing them before) next week. Unfortunately I am at my Uncle's Funeral tomorrow so will not be able to do it then, and want to post about something else today. If you can't wait to find out what happened, go scroll through my Twitter feed (@the_black_sun) and have a gander there, some pics as well. Please don't post spoilers here though in case anyone cares enough to await the report haha. It was a great game for sure, I look forward to talking about it as it means I can start discussing my new list plans etc as well. So, thought I do a super quick overview of the Tournaments I attended last year. FYI these are all 2 day (5 or 6 game) events; South Coast GT - 28th (126) - Stormcast Eternals Call to War - 31st (36) !!! - Stormcast Eternals (don't ask!) Brothers of Sigmar - 4th (16) - Ironjawz - Best Painted Army The Warlords - 35th (99) - Ironjawz Facehammer GT - 9th (66) - Ironjawz - Best Painted Army, Best Opponent, Best Painted Unit (Doomfire Warlocks) Cheltenham Warchiefs GT - 15th (26) - Ironjawz - Best Painted Army Clash of Swords - 22nd (48) - Ironjawz - 3rd Best Painted Army, Best Painted Destruction Army Realms at War - Narrative event, placing unknown - Flesh-eater Courts - 2nd Best Painted Army The placings that are emboldened denote the four Tournaments that make up my rankings score for 2016. Overall I would say it was a fantastic year for me. If we take results/painting out of the equation, I honestly can't recall having such consistently fun Tournament games over the course of a year. That may be down to my outlook and attitude in game, my opponents, my army or just AoS in general. I suspect it's a culmination of everything together that's just made for such an amazing time. If we talk results, it's been a bit of a mixed bag. I'm pretty happy to have got 26 Tournament games in with the Ironjawz under matched play in pretty much a 3 month period. Out of those 26, I won 14, drew 1 and lost 11. Those results don't look great on paper (I think my non tournament games would vastly increase the ratio, but meh!) but actually I think are pretty decent for Ironjawz and I can hand on heart say that there aren't many of those 11 that I didn't feel in with a shot at, which is important to me. As mentioned elsewhere, I finished the rankings year in 17th, just pipped to that final Masters spot by our very own @Sangfroid. He's much more consistent and a better player than me, so no arguments my end. I will say that one of my best scores was with Stormcast at SCGT, so I can't call the year a total success as an Ironjawz player! Next year I expect to be much much tougher and if I play with Ironjawz throughout, I will target a top 30 finish. In regards to painting, it was a phenomenal year for me. Back in WFB 7th and 8th edition I had a pretty nice Dark Elf army that was my pride and joy. I took it to loads of events over a 6 year period, constantly adding and improving to it. It did me well in terms of paint trophies and is/was my pride and joy. After that I struggled to connect with an army and never painted anything properly, just speed painting various armies for events. It was weird as I almost felt scared to better myself, I loved the Dark Elves more than any other army and wanted them to be my best work. With the release of the Ironjawz this year, I found a stunning model range that I was able to be really inspired by, it also helped that in game they seemed to perfectly suit my outlook and approach to how I wanted to play the game - fast and fun! I was able to fully immerse myself in the army both on and off the table. Creating the hype around my Megaboss Krunk etc really helped me to feel the army. This all might sound pretty weird, but it's important for me if I am going to sink my heart, soul and endless hours into painting an army. I really feel like it has been a return to form and now I would say that this is up there with my best work (if not my best). I am very keen, like my Dark Elves, to keep adding and improving this in the years to come. I want to be "the Ironjawz guy", the Megaboss if you will. I have been fortunate to pick up some painting awards again this year against some fierce competition as a result of the above and I gotta be honest, it's been an amazing feeling to get past the Dark Elves and know I can still do it, I wasn't a one hit wonder (also being able to win an award with my Flesh-eaters further built on this)! Thanks so much to any TO or player that has voted for my army at all this year. Further still thanks to anyone who has expressed their interest in the army and said anything nice. I just wish I could do photos to a standard I'm happy with and say "this is my army, enjoy" as opposed to "this is my army, it looks better in the flesh"! Anyway, in a super proud but perhaps not so humble fashion, here is a photo of the prizes I won specifically with the Ironjawz in 2016, so my trophies for the FHGT painting contest (Doomfire Warlocks - part of the aforementioned Dark Elf army) and RAW (Flesh-eater Courts) are not depicted; It was genuinely amazing to pick up every single one of those and whilst none are for gaming, I am still mighty proud of my achievements. As it is, the Best Opponent award at FHGT is one of my favourites, I was actually pretty close to tears by that point (as I had just won the sword moments beforehand!) - emotional times haha!! Just sums up what is 100% my favourite year playing Warhammer. Anyway, moving onto 2017, I posted some #wipwednesday stuff on my Twitter yesterday, but thought I'd share it here as well. The photos are black and white as the green plastic of the Blood Bowl Orcs looks weird when converted with standard plastics. Hope you enjoy them and thanks for reading! Chris x

Happy New Year! First a big thanks to everyone who read, replied, liked and supported this thread since it started last year. It's been great fun to do, but without the interaction with you guys it would not be what it is. That's a fact. Anyway, I'd promised an end of year wrap up and it just hasn't happened, for one reason or another. I am keen to carry on in 2017, especially as I'll be painting plenty more stuff for the army (check my twitter this evening for some #wipwednesday pics and vid - I'll add the pics here tomorrow). I also want to do a wrap of the number of games I played, results at the various tournaments etc and also perhaps a pic of the prizes the army took! #humble I also really really really really need proper pics of everything in the army (broken record much). Sorry @The Stronghold!!! Even more so as I think the earlier links are all still busted? The only tournament I haven't covered is Clash of Swords. I'm a little loathe to do so as the tournament used the old Clash pack and battleplans which tbh did not feel like current Age of Sigmar, thus making the findings and results of little interest to me. It was a big shame as I ran a list I was super excited about, with two units of 10 Brutes, backed up by the Compendium Ardnob as general, trying to make use of his command ability to good effect. It just didn't work. You can read more about my current feelings on list design in the "Competitive Ironjawz" thread, though I will port those ideas to here. You can also listen to the recently The Black Sun Weekly podcast episodes for many of my thoughts on Ironjawz (www.theblacksun.co.uk or on iTunes) Anyway, for a sake of completeness; Clash of Swords My army list was - Krunk, Ardnob, 2 Warchanters, 10 Brutes, 10 Brutes, 5 Brutes, 5 Brutes, 3 Gore-gruntas, 10 Ardboys, 2 Ironfists. I had the Maw-krusha as my sideboard just for painting, just wanted to play the above list. Game 28 - Clash of Swords - Round One vs @Neil Peckett (Stormcast Eternals) This was a game I was very confident in when the armies went down. I thought the two 10's of Brutes would make a right mess of Neil's army, but actually it went really badly for me. Neil did the right thing and targeted the unit of Brutes without the Inspiring Presence early doors, before taking down Krunk and mopping up. Think it took about 3 turns for me to kill a model. Loss Game 29 - Clash of Swords - Round Two vs Ian Gilmore (Chaos) The Dr has one of the nicest armies I have ever seen (and is now painting an Ironjawz army - check his Twitter @drakenhof), however it is absolutely useless on the table!! It's a random mix of Nurgle units with no synergy and also Ian is only there for the lolz. Bit of a mismatch and nothing really to take from it tbh other than we had an absolute blast and got pretty drunk! Krunk soloing the Glottkin was special mind! Victory Game 30 - Clash of Swords - Round Three vs @Paddy O'Sullivan (Death) Paddy is a top guy and my regular doubles partner. Was great to get drawn vs him as we'd not played AoS against one another. His list was solid was two big blocks of Skeletons, two Mortis Engines, a VLoZD and of course, a Mourngul. This was a tough, tight game and went right to the wire. I had to keep the Mourngul tied up with Gruntas and Ardboyz as I just wasn't getting any damage on it. The 30 Brutes did great work elsewhere for me though and I just sneaked the win. Victory Game 31 - Clash of Swords - Round Four vs Joe Purcell (@?) (Clan Skryre) I had the Maw-krusha as my sideboard as mentioned above and in this game it really would've been the better choice we both agreed, however I really wanted to play this list. As to be expected, it was a tough game. Joe played pretty well and made good decisions without being greedy or over extending. I do think it's winnable and with a bit of luck on charges etc it could've been closer. Good game though, would like another crack at it. Loss Game 32 - Clash of Swords - Round Five vs @Ben Johnson (Flesh-eater Courts) Bit of a non game as Ben's army was literally 5 monsters in the Menagerie (4 w/ riders, pre FAQ) that just ran over me. I should've mentioned this was a 20-0 scoring system (couldn't remember all the results) and due to his army, Ben could only get about a 13-7 max or something, which he obviously got as it all piles into a unit at a time and deletes in before moving on. I think I played alright, gambling with my entire army on mystical terrain (and indeed camping in it where possible) and dispersing to try and claim various secondary objectives, but yeh, not much to say. Highlight was definitely us drawing the roll for priority literally 5 times in a row one turn!! Oh, and I killed one of the two(!!) models he lost all tournament. Loss I ended the event in 22nd out of 48 players, pretty poor to be honest. Definitely a disappointment. As I say it was 20-0 system so just saying Victory or Loss doesn't tell the whole picture. I managed to scoop 3rd best army which I was super pleased with behind Ian Gilmore and Ian Carse. But yeh, from a gaming point of view it wasn't a great weekend and just didn't feel like Age of Sigmar IMO. Game 33 - Periscope vs Aaron Bailey @Forestreveries (Sylvaneth) This is the game we did on Periscope a short while back. I believe the videos are still available and I will find the link to them as you can check them out. Was a great game and I think the videos were fun. If Aaron wants to summarise the game in this thread that'd be cool, if not, watch the videos. Spoiler; it was a Victory to me! Games 34-40 - Ascendancy Campaign vs Various opponents These were all smaller point games and whilst were a lot of fun, do not really warrant reports as I didn't learn anything we haven't discussed before. Suffice to say the game does scale really well and actually Gore-gruntas (I was running 2 units throughout) aren't terrible with a Warchanter buff! 6 Victorys, 1 Loss Game 41 - Podcast Battle Report vs Dom Hook @Snoopdom (Chaos) I can post that battle report here, but I'd rather you listened haha . If you just want to know how I did though... I will definitely be posting the army list in here and discussing further as it is what I will be working on moving forward. But yeah, that's 2016. In total, 41 Matched Play games played with the Ironjawz since late July this year, not too shabby. Here's to many more next year. Sorry that was all a bit rushed towards the end, there will be a final 2016 year in review post where I wrap up with the various tournament results etc and how I just missed out on the Masters (finished the year ranked 17th in the UK). Anyway, 2017 starts tonight and what better way that with a game vs my BFF @Forestreveries!! Cheers guys, Chris x

Haha @DeadlySarcasm, that's twice today your posts have been mistaken for sarcasm...maybe need a name change mate! @Donal getting done for abuse! Amazing!! Haha

You lucky thing! I had all that from @Thornshield last night. As stated above, for the purpose of Tomorrow Burns (which is what this thread is about after all), the term "compendium" refers to the Compendium Matched Play Profiles on pages 146-152 of the General's Handbook (hint; it's the bit marked Compendium ).

Cheers for editing bro

Not here thanks @Donal - edit the post or I'll ask @DeadlySarcasm to delete it. Boring now.

@Terry Pike Ha!!

Cheers @Jimbo I read that as; hopefully no one will bring Chaos... They are one and same though I guess!