Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller Report – part 2

So in the first part of my tournament battle reports I managed a couple of quick wins due to the always impertinent Titan Gladiator and some poor positioning on the part of my opponents.  This put me ahead of the curve in the swiss pairing system – my next opponent had also won his first two matches.  His two lists, he explained to me, were exactly the same with the exception of the caster.  As he spent a few moments refreshing my memory as to how bad epic Sorscha’s feat was going to hurt me, I figured (correctly, it would turn out) that this would be his caster of choice.  I considered my options.  I thought that the Cetrati brick would be quickly shattered under eSorscha’s feat, so I went with my titan herd, hoping the three heavies would weather the icy assault and that Morghoul’s higher defense would give me a chance to do some damage.
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Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report – part 1

I’d like to start off this post by re-iterating what a good time I had at the Trumpeter Salute WarmaHordesMachine event.  I had such a good time that the finer details of what happened in some of my games may have escaped my recollection and subsequent documentation.  So, if any of my opponents would like to speak up and correct me I will edit this post to contain the correct information I will have been right all along. Nothing to see here.  Move along.

From the conversations I had with the various other upstanding citizens who participated in the tournament there was one idea that was unanimously expressed:  Mark II makes everything move along more smoothly.  Obviously paying attention to the online conversations surrounding the new rules for Warmachine and Hordes, recently reading Warmachine Prime and obsessively poring over the Hordes field test cards will have helped my comprehension of the rules, but still…  It seemed to me that a lot of the messiness, for lack of a better term, from the previous incarnation of the rules had been cleaned up.  I could quickly understand interactions of abilities I had not previously seen in relation to others, particularly with respect to timing.  So, thumbs up from the Vanmachine crowd.
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Subhedgehog’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report – Army Lists

Hello.  My name is Paul and I play Skorne. *whew*  Now that I’ve got that admission off my chest, I feel better already. :)  I go by the name Subhedgehog on most of the public forums I frequent, including the Privateer Press forum and Vancouver Gamers , so I’ll be posting under than moniker to keep it clear in everyone’s mind who I am.  Until they meet me in person and forget whom I am online.

I participated in the Trumpeter Salute 2010 tournament run by PG Geist.  This was my second time at this particular con, last year being my first Warmachine / Hordes tourney ever.  At twenty players, this was the largest event I have participated in and it was a blast.  I was also pleasantly surprised by my performance in the standings.  That’s me in 4th, or as I like to put it, first place in the no-trophy-competition.
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Zac’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report part 2

This is a follow-up to part 1 of my report from the Trumpeter Salute 2010 Steamroller tournament.

Game 4

As fate would have it, the Whipping Boy trophy would be decided in the fourth round of the tournament as Ben Wafer (20th overall) and I were picked to play against one another. This fit quite well into the narrative that Ben and I had spun around the event and both of us were quite excited about the game.
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Zac’s Salute 2010 Steamroller report part 1

Well it was an almost 12 hour event (if you count me getting there early) but after five games of Steamroller I can honestly say that it was one of the better tournaments I was in and a heck of a lot of fun.

The event was organized by local Press Ganger Lucas Smith with the help of Darren and Lucas D. It was held as part of the Trumpeter Salute 2010 gaming event at the Bonsor Rec. Centre in Burnaby. There were twenty players there making it one of, if not the, largest Warmachine events in the region.
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Salute Steamroller event results

The Trumpeter Salute Steamroller event is over and while we are all working on our reports PG Geist sent along the results and I thought that I would post them ASAP. Derek won the event with a perfect record and, not noted here, he also scored 95 points worth of Warjacks/Warbeasts in the event as well. More than the next two highest totals combined. I think it goes without saying that he also won the Khador Best in Faction award :-)

Despite the scenarios being awards on Control Points it appears that only Ian was paying attention to that. His seven CPs was the highest in the event.

Player Name	Player Faction	Score	SoS	CP Tot
Derek	Khador	5	14	5
Angus	Khador	4	17	2
Chris G	Cryx	4	10	3
Paul	Skorne	3	15	0
Ian	Cygnar	3	14	7
Roland	Cryx	3	14	4
Chad	Cygnar	3	13	4
Jason Sharples	Mercenaries	3	12	2
Jason Cripps	Cryx	3	11	5
Andrew	Protectorate of Menoth	3	9	1
Joe	Protectorate of Menoth	2	15	0
David J	Skorne	2	14	4
Ryan S	Mercenaries	2	13	0
Dylan	Retribution of Scyrah	2	10	5
Trent M	Mercenaries	2	10	2
Zac	Cryx	2	9	1
Dan	Cygnar	2	9	1
Alex	Retribution of Scyrah	1	14	2
Duncan	Retribution of Scyrah	1	14	1
Ben	Cygnar	0	13	1

Getting ready for Salute

The Trumpeter Salute event is tomorrow and as part of that local Press Ganger PG Geist is running a 20 person Steamroller event. I will be coming back into the game in a big way by using this event to return to Warmachine gaming after a sizeable hiatus. Playing five games against some of the best players in Vancouver should give me a crash-course in playing Warmachine :-)
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