Battle of the Titans: 9th Age Tournament

    A few weeks ago I took the time to participate in a 9th age tournament.  It was a great group of guys, most of which I have played with before.  The tournament was held in the studio for Titan Terrain Studio (which as I understand it, does more than terrain now).  Click here for Titan Terrain Studio's Facebook page. Website is here.

    The tournament was fun, and it helped me get a better grasp of some of the rules changes, especially for my High Elv...errr....Highborn Elves (still not sure why they changed this, High Elves, Dark Elves, Wood Elves all cannot be trademarked or copyrighted. That's why GW did away with them in Age of Sigmar, But oh well). Like the the fact that you have to pay for the upgrade to have a Repeating Bolt Thrower (now called the Sea Guard Reaper).  In my 2nd game I was informed that I could not shoot 6 shots with my Reaper because I didn't buy the upgrade.  Totally didn't see that I had to upgrade to something that had been standard for my army since at least 5th edition (when I started playing).

     Tournament was 1600 points, 5 games with 6 players.  A true Round Robin.  I din't fare very well in two of my first three games, getting destroyed in round one and three by Ogre Khans and Kingdom of Equitaine.  I did pull off a good win against Saurian Ancients in round 2 though.  Round four was a fun game for me, though maybe a little frustrating for my opponent.  My good Friend KingG did a battle report on this game and I'll post it here.

   KingG does a lot of great battle reports on his YouTube Channel.  You can find that here. You should check it out.

     Too bad I had to give up the objective in that game, but I didn't think that I could take out those Knights without getting the charge, so I played it safe.  But that Bolt Thrower shot was probably the best single bolt shot I've ever had in my 18 years of gaming.  And as KingG points out in the comments on his video, the imagery is awesome as well.

     Game 5 I won in convincing fashion against a Daemon army.  I knew the game was going to go my way when a Soulgrinder ( I don't know the new name for this) charged my citizen spears in the flank round 2, fluffed all of it's attacks, didn't do a single wound, lost combat and poofed because of the Daemonic Instability rule.  Yup, skillz.

     I ended up in 3rd place, which isn't too shabby for how I started out.  I had a lot of fun, got to play a bunch of 9th Age (5 games is a lot for one day, but it was fun) and hang out with some great guys.  All-in-all a great time.