Fucking Peter.
Oh wait, I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back to the beginning.
On July 27, a group of five Black Sheep made the journey to
Seattle to partake in the Sparkle Party Deathmatch, a 2999 point Warhammer
Fantasy Battle tourney hosted by the Dimensional Cascade podcast. I have been burned out on Warhammer for
the past couple of months, but as I had purchased the ticket prior to my
doldrums, I found myself travelling with the rest of the Black Sheep that
morning.
For the event, I threw a quick list together, the centerpiece
being an Exalted Great Unclean One, which was represented by Taylor’s
Forgeworld Great Unclean One model, which he was kind enough to trust me
with. I also ran
a regular Big Poppa with a full kit, as my goal was to take double poppas. The rest of my army consisted of
a stone throwing Soul Grinder, a BSB on palanquin, three beasts of Nurgle, two
units of plaguebearers, and unit of nurglings. As the
paintjob on my army was merely adequate, I knew that I needed to overachieve
with Generalship in order to score well in the overall rankings.
I started out strong, winning my first game against an
Empire army. My opponent was a
really nice guy and took his bad luck and my totally bent poppa super squad in
stride. I wish I remember
his name, but I forgot to write it down.
I believe his name was Jonathan or Michael, unfortunately I don't remember, and he was a Seattle local. The game saw a steam tank get
carved up by Exalted Poppa and his Balesword. Then his Hurricanum was smashed to bits by a Soul Grinder
hit, and his forces slowly started dwindling. He had some bad luck with his demigryffs not being
able to handle the unit of beasts and his knights getting eaten by the Little
Big Poppa. Through it all,
he was cheerful and was a really awesome opponent. My score after this onslaught was 25-0.
My next opponent was Anthony, another Seattle local, and his
great looking Daemons of Khorne army. Anthony started out apprehensive about his chances,
but I figured his two cannons could help even the odds. It quickly looked like his prediction
was the more valid, as I was able to steal the initiative from him and gain the
first turn. I was able to
move into some strong positions and then passed turn. He whiffed with his two cannons, which became a theme
of the game as he constantly rolled 1’s when rolling to wound with those bad
boys. The Exalted Great
Unclean One handled a unit of Bloodcrushers and Bloodletters together and
Little Poppa brought down billy the bloodthirster and then helped finish the
job on the Bloodletters.
When we finally called the game, I was only missing 5 models from my
army, and Anthony had a cannon left and a few units of Hounds which forgot to
ambush my forces. I felt bad for him as he
didn’t have a very enjoyable game.
His army couldn’t focus enough damage to weaken my forces and he
couldn’t get really any rolls to go his way. I could tell he was frustrated, but he was a great
opponent and took the loss well. By end of the second round, I was sitting at 50 general
points and ready to play for Best General.
Originally in the third round I was set up to play the
eventual Overall Champion and his dwarf army. Then the event organizers threw us a curveball and
redid the match ups and I found my self playing Peter Davis, a member of the
Canadian team Chop!, and his skink cloud Lizardmen. A little background on Peter’s and my
history; two years ago, we matched
up at the Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge, him with his lizards, and me with the
Nurgle boys. During that
game he feathered my great unclean one with 20+ poison shots and took poppa
down. It was an awesome game
and he was just as awesome an opponent.
Back to the present. I was looking for some vengeance and this time I brought not one, but
two Great Unclean Ones, and they wanted some skink blood. We began the game with some
posturing, mother insults, and the usual trash talk. Both of us were looking forward to a fun game and it
didn’t disappoint. He was
ahead of me on points leading into the end of the final turn, but not enough to
make a difference in the best general race as the difference was almost at a
draw level. Pete then went
all in shoving two units into my Exalted Great Unclean one, praying for his
destruction as it would send it over the top. At that point in the game, Super Big Poppa only had
six wounds left and it looked like I would be able to survive the combat, but
then Pete managed to drop 8 wounds on him, and I made 2 saves. Game over. With a yell of “CHOOOPP!!!” Peter
won the game, and Best General.
He also earned my Favorite Opponent vote.
I was knocked down to 5th in the Best General Rankings and took
16th overall. I had a great time at the Sparkle Party Deathmatch and will definitely make the trip again in the future. Why would I not with all the great opponents that were there?
But until
then,
Fucking Peter.
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