Johnny Haliburton Hillbilly '07 Tournament Report
I didn't play any remarkable games or renowned opponents, so don't read this if you care to hear about either...On the other hand, if you want to know how in the hell I managed to come in the top 20 overall, then read on...
Round 0 vs. The Colonel - Car bomb contest
I've never been beaten in a drink off, but I think the Colonel might be the toughest opponent I've ever faced. I maintain that we had a draw, and I think the video will confirm it. In any case, I call for a rematch.
Round 1 vs. Greg Harris' Nurgle Demonic Legion:
Never played this list before, it's nasty. Basically the whole game came down to 2 combats, my Ancient vs. Papa Nurgle for 10 rounds of combat, and then his plagueriders single handedly eating the rest of my army. Loss for the Wood Elves
Round 2 vs. Lance Hatcher's Nurgle Army:
So now I've played Nurgle before. This could have been a turn one clincher for me as his exalted demon had my sheep and also had no where to hide from a first turn Hail of Doom Arrow that would have netted me 1200 VP; instead, in the first turn a unit of glade guard panicked through my BSB and he elected to roll boxcars and flee straight of the table, taking the game winning HoDA with him. It got worse from there when my Ancient once again locked into combat with Papa Nurgle and this time broke without the aid of the BSB. Loss for the Wood Elves
Round 3 vs. Mike Canna's Chaos Mortals:
This game was nothing spectacular. Mike brought hella marauders and the only threat to me was that you had to have US 10 to control the outhouse, but I didn't even have any US10 units left in my army after turn 3. The remarkable part of this game is that my Treeman Ancient failed two consecutive Ld9 break tests and got run down by a unit of marauders, yet I still somehow managed to win by driving his unit holding the outhouse off in turn 6. Win for the Wood Elves
Round 4 vs. Aaron Anderson's Empire:
Sigmar bless this guy, he had the most friendly empire list I've ever seen. No pope-mobile (no priests of any kind in fact), no stank, and only two great cannons. He had a Templar Master with the Laurels and a BSB in one massive block of Knights (15 models), he had a Lv2 wizard and a captain on a Pegasus. There wasn't much to this game, I barely took any models off the table and he was pretty apathetic about getting waxed. I had to explain to him what tree singing did, but I neglected to explain the damaging aspect. He moved stuff into the woods on turn 3 and I felt so bad about having to say "this spell can also do damage", so I never used tree singing on him all game. I had to do so much rules explanations and simultaneous ass kicking that I'm actually surprised that he didn't ding me for sportsmanship. Win for the Wood Elves
Round 5 vs. Eric Fugget's Dwarves:
This guy kind of got on my nerves on Friday night at the saucer (mainly because he was dressed flamboyantly in a dumb looking suit and he had an arrogant nature about him), but I didn't hold that against him as I prepared to wreck his shit in round 5. He admitted that he was supremely hung over and so I didn't ding him for his bleak attitude. He tried to castle up in a corner so I just skirted outside range of his organ gun and surfed my Ancient up to his battleline to take out his Lord. The organ gun blew up on turn 2 and so I closed in on him and sort of ate him up. We had a rules dispute in the challenge between his Lord and my Ancient. I had the annoyance and he had something that gave him +1 to hit. I was fine with rolling off every turn to see if he got the +1, but he wanted to make it so that if he won the roll-off, his lord hit as normal (would have been on 2+). I was not cool with that, as I felt the Annoyance would not be trumped completely, rather he would simply need 5's or 6's instead of just 6's. Anyway, I rolled him up when my Ancient finally ate his Lord. He apologized about his attitude and that he couldn't give me a better game. In the end I think he's probably a cool guy with a quirky edge and I made a rash drunken judgment on Friday because the Arkansas air creeped into my blood and I was itchin' for a fight (Shane and Scaletti and I got in about 3 very heated arguments with bitches who tried to run us over that night on our way back to the Hotel).