Yeah, inquiring minds want to know!

Yep, any news/decklist?

I think 25+ people showed up.

That is all I know.

25+ people? That could have lead to anything! A massacre, an orgy, a committee ... now the tension is unbearable. We need details.

If Legends and Signs in the Stars were allowed I'll bet High Elves made some unexpected advances.

The newest pack was not allowed. They scheduled the Joust portion of the Game of Thrones championship at the same time, so we only had a 20 person tournament. Basically everything made a showing (Orc Blitz, Skaven, Reanimator, Dark Elf control, dwarf aggro, unitless indirect damage, normal indirect damage, Kairos, and Verena). If I remember correctly, final match was between last year's champ playing Dark Elf, and a Dwarf aggro deck. No idea who won. Correct me if I am wrong.

timothy won with DE control, grats

This was my list:

3 Walking Sacrifice

3 Swarm of Bats

3 Shades

3 Thief of Essence

2 Vile Sorceress

3 Beastlord Rakarth

3 Sorcerer of Tzneetch

3 Wight Lord

3 Seasoned Corsair

3 Sacrifice to Khaine

3 Burn it Down

3 Offering to Hekarti

3 Warpstone Excavation

3 Contested Village

3 Slave Pens

3 Har Ganeth

3 Withering Hex

I was going to make a last minute change and take out the Vile Sorceress for Black Horror. I think this would have been the right move as swarm of bats were a big card. The event was great and all of my opponents were terrific. It was nice to see a pretty good variety of decks this year. The top four had my DE deck, an orc rush deck, the dwarf control/sacrifice deck that I faced in the finals and another dwarf control deck that used the grudge thrower/peasant militia/high elf quest combo.

I thought that there would be a lot of rush this year with the addition of swarm of bats and warpstone experiments and that seemed to be true. Dwarves were more popular that I expected while chaos and empire while both present were less common that I had expected.

The huge popularity increase that AGOT has seen since the HBO show and the new book coming out combined with the fact that the events overlapped definitely effected the attendance, but we still had a decent turn out (I think W:I event had more than the Cthulu event, but I'm not sure). We did have a pretty good turn out for the sunday event.

TL

Very nice deck, congratulations!

Chtulhu was 16 attendances.

First, congratulations Tim. It can never be said that a game of W:I comes down to luck.

Second, if I play two of FFG's LCGs, it's lame to make me have to choose which event I'd like to attend. I know event planning is probably a nightmare but come on. I'm sure the events were organized very well so kudos to the staff and all involved. It's just that I think the scheduling should be looked at better.

Congratulations, Timothy!

I hope we'll get a thorough report and more deck lists soon.

mkultra said:

The right orc hand can come down to luck. Things like 2 warpstones...

mkultra said:

I totally agree. I really wanted to play in the AGOT Championship myself, but there was no way I could miss this event.

I definitely had one game in which I did get very lucky against an orc deck. I was just barely able to exactly out rush him with my Swarm of Bats hitting just enough to burn his zones. He was quite unlucky with his Sneaky Git missing twice (Flipping the Other Two Sneaky Gits) and his Bats missing my zones by one twice! Who knows how game 3 would have gone, but I was definitely lucky to win that one!

TL

jogo said:

Oh without a doubt. I was just trying to be general while recognizing TL's skills at the same time. I'm sure he would make short work of me even if I got a god draw.

Is there any chance to post 2nd and 3rd places decklists?

For sure FFG will present them sooner or later (as they did a year ago). Just let them recover after Gencon I'm really curious of both dwarf decks Vitamin T mentioned before.

By the way, congratulations Tim.

Nice job to Vitamin T!

I like the deck a lot, am planning on giving it a try tomorrow. The DE list that I had was similar but was too slow to win vs. control decks. I agree that Black Horror seems good right now - there's a lot of good targets, Bats being the best one.

The previous best list we had was chaos rush, but I expect your DE list probably beats it. The DE control deck was the only one that had a >50% win rate against the chaos rush - but it had horrible matchups against almost everything else.

Here is the second place deck list:

Support - 14

3x Contested Village

2x Grudge Thrower

3x Great Book of Grudges

3x Mining Tunnels

3x Mountain Barracks

Tactic - 12

3x My Life for the Hold!

3x Stand Your Ground

3x Demolition!

3x Master Rune of Spite

Unit - 24

3x Defender of the Hold

3x Mountain Legion

3x Grudgebearer

3x Stonebearer

3x Dwarf Cannon Crew

3x Slayers of Karak Kadrin

3x Dwarf Ranger

3x Grombrindal's Elite

Notes

Tim's DE deck was a natural counter to mine. My low HP units had no real chance against the DE HP reduction effects. Offering of Hekarti was the bane of my deck. Stonebearer proved to be much less useful than I had originally thought and ended up being developed 99% of the time. The deck's MVC ended up being Mountain Barracks, with My Life for the Hold! right behind it. Turned several would-be losses into wins. I really enjoyed the event despite the following paragraph.

Rant

The only thing that upset me about the tournament was the prize support. It was both better AND worse than last year's prizes. The first place prize was really nice. A trophy, a custom chest/deck box and an uncut sheet of one of the battle packs. The second place prize, in my opinion, was an insult. I received an uncut sheet of the Lord of the Rings LCG. When I enter a Warhammer tournament, I expect the prizes to be Warhammer related. I proceeded to walk over to the LotR folks and asked them to give me a number between 1-10. I handed over my sheet to the winner and went back to my hotel after the 9h 15m tournament.

Yeah I totally agree with you. The prize support after the first place stuff was pretty poor. They usually have had play mats or something at least. It was great playing you and you really pushed me during our finals match!

TL

Clamatius said:

We had also found chaos rush to be very strong right now. The strength of chaos and orc rush was a large part of why I wanted to play something with both Sorcerer and Hekarti in it. The Empire and Orc Reanimator match ups are both very close for this deck in my experience and it has a terrible match up against mill effects (deck out). With the strength of the Bats and the new DE tactic in the 6th Battle Pack that might be the strongest deck, but I havent used the new cards in it.

FWIW, I found that while Har Ganeth is good, I didn't want 3 because drawing multiples early sucked really hard. I ended up going with 2 and running a Chaos/DE alliance in that slot.

I would think that while a mill deck may be a bad matchup for the DE deck you posted since the bats are almost all your real offense, most other decks are going to crush a mill deck. Maybe I'm underrating the power level there though.

I'll agree that the prize support left a bit to be desired. I think FFG has basically passed on trying to make a semi-competitive tournament scene for the game. Up to them, of course. I was expecting a bit more than the 20 people we got... something in the 30-40 range. But, there was good variety in decks and everybody was a great sport! Thanks to everybody who played!

Game Three vs. Chaos Rush. This was super-fast without much in the way of unit removal that I saw. Bats, Gors, Marauders, Warpstone Experiments, Offering of Blood, etc. First game, Beleaguered Scout gunned down most of his offence despite 2x Desecrated Temple being out. Second game I had no Thrower and had to attack for the win with random unpumped weenies (Spellsinger x2 + Light!) and Iron Discipline/Disdain/Disdain a set of Seduced to keep it from going another turn.

Top Four vs. Mono-Dwarf Aggro/Weenie (see above). All of the games were slow and relatively brain-burning. One key turn saw a Valaya/Spite (to trigger Ranger several times)/My Life for the Hold/second Spite/Disdain stack, or something about that silly. First game was tight and looooong, but I was finally able to Disdain a fog for the win. Game two, I was down two Mining Tunnels to none fairly early and his second Ranger showed up early-to-mid-game-ish and made it pretty hopeless. Game three, we both got pretty good starts, but I had 2x Pilgrimage for an early Ranger and a Crew with Book of Grudges to gain a slight edge. I kept my Kingdom small, though, as I felt like I needed to dig for fogs. This limited my offense, especially with every zone having a Mountain Barracks! On Rich's penultimate turn, he played out all his cards and spent all his barrels to burn the first of my zones and also pinged by Scout in Kingdom. I then needed to do four to his quest with three barrels on my turn. He has Mountain Barracks, Ranger, and Mountain Legion in Quest, which were soaking six. That left me two short, and to even force the Ranger off the table I needed to spend two, which meant I couldn't play Valaya the next turn. I decided to play Mining Tunnels and hope for a My Life for the Hold, but this wouldn't have worked anyway, as he almost certainly would've had enough guys to Ranger me out on my next turn pre-combat. My only hope on the last turn would've been to "represent" a Pilgrimage and attack with all my barrels unused to see if he puts the Ranger in combat. Bigger mistake probably came a bit earlier when I played a Legion to Quest instead of Kingdom. Oh well! It's hard to play perfectly.

Whew! Probably more than you wanted to know about that game. I promise it was even more painful to watch in person! Lukas earned his paycheck in that round alone!

Cyberfunk, I thought you deck looked very cool. It definitely would have been an interesting match! I will certainly be building a version of this myself to try out!

TL