Wet Coast GT 2013

Just finished playing at Wet Coast this weekend and what a time it was!  I'll do a very brief overview of my games and summary of the event overall.  I will, however, first say that I won a 'medal' for best Empire General (out of 2 players YEAAAHH!!) and a $25 gift certificate to Imperial Hobbies through a raffle draw.

Game 1:  My opponent was Peter Davis from Chop with Lizardmen.  I liked his conversions he did for his army, some of which included some funny googly eyed chameleon skinks and saurus in the middle of bringing down some bretonnian knights of the realm.  His army wasn't too scary as far as Lizardmen armies go, with the worst part of it being 2 scar veteran heroes and 2 slann magepriests with one having the becalming cogitation (opponents discard 6's when casting spells) and the ability to gain a 'free' dice for casting a spell.  The game really came down to one scar vet walking through my entire artillery line at the back, and his 2 slann sitting in a building becoming virtually untouchable.  I beat up his army pretty bad, and forced him to flee with most of it, but unfortunately I just couldn't roll high enough to catch him in most situations and didn't manage to take off as many points as I would've liked.  I feel I did a lot better than the points tally showed at the end.  Loss for me game 1.

Game 2:  My opponent was Iain Edgar also from Chop with his Dwarfs.  Iain was a brilliant opponent to play against and such a good sport, he got my favorite opponent vote.  His army only had a couple warmachines, yet he had an anvil of doom which really is hard to predict.  I basically played the fleeing and setting up to shoot the piss out of his army type game and actually ended up tabling him in the end.  He did get my steam tank though with his slayers.  Win for the Empire.

Game 3: My opponent was *Ryan* McKinnon from Vancouver Island's "Greenskin Nation" gaming club.  He was one of the 9/33 players that brought Warriors of Chaos.  I felt horrible in this game because turn 1 I cannoned off his level 4 daemon prince.  however, similar to a common theme during this tournament, even when a couple tough melee units got through my guns they managed to wipe through a warmachine or two and an engineer in the process.   My opponent conceded after one of his Slaanesh Warrior units was obliterated off the table by a nice round of volleygun fire.  No harm no foul there.  Empire Win.

Game 4: My opponent was Andrew Muirhead with his Ogres.  Andrew and I actually played a practice game with our exact same lists a couple weeks prior to the event so we knew how the game played out pretty much.   It didn't go well for the Ogres but was probably better than the first time we played.  I ended up tabling him as well, only suffering the loss of a cannon to a misfire, a unit of chaff knights to a maneater unit, and a helblaster volleygun and my archers were taken off from a couple rounds of combined leadbelcher and ironblaster fire.  My steam tank managed to get into his big horde of ogre bulls and held them up until demigryphs could charge their REAR.  bad news for ogres.  Empire win. (poor Andrew, I don't think he likes playing me haha)

Game 5: My opponent was Alex Harris with his Orcs and Goblins.  This guy was a real 'joy' to play against.  Starting off by taking a march move back after going through dangerous terrain with his wolf rider chaff unit and rolling 3/5 1's for his DT tests, he decided he didn't want to move AFTER the result...  I let it go because I don't enjoy making a scene or calling people out on rules (although sometimes I should stick to my guns and call people out).  The game progressed and I cannoned off a couple stone throwers and killed some chaff wolves etc and basically the entire time he was bitching and whining about how awesome my dice were and how broken my shit was... really not fun at all.  He was complaining about every 'horrible (horribly average) ' roll he was making and every 'good' roll I was making.  He killed my steam tank, he basically walked through my entire army yet still I could not get an ounce of cheer from this man.  Really lame sauce.  After fighting a unit of his trolls with my demigryph knights, getting 9 wounds in total, and him passing 8!!!! out of 9 of his 4+ regens, I thought this would be the last time he complained about how awesome my dice were.. yet nope!!! He kept wanking off about how everything sucked and at this point I tossed him my hand to shake and say GG because I was fed up with how he was acting.  I told him I really didn't enjoy the game and all his whining (even though he was still winning).  Normally I don't mind a bit of complaining but this guy was just an asshole about it.  I have no shame in saying it was my least enjoyable moment from the weekend and I hope I don't end up drawing him as an opponent in future tournaments but you're always going to run into people like this I suppose.  Loss for me (and too bad the event had to end on that note!)

Summary:  I went 3-2 which I'm pretty happy with, coming in 15th place after everything was added up which is in the top half of the field.  The tournament itself was very well run by a fellow named Dan Miner who frequently does these kinds of events.  He's a great guy who really does us all a great service in organizing these tournaments.  There were TONS of prizes to be raffled off so it seemed everyone got something which was also great.  There was one bit of drama that happened between a couple players (someone walking away from a game angry) that I won't go into but nothing else major as far as I heard.  I'll be signing up next year and if you're in the Vancouver area and play Warmachine, Hordes, Malifaux, Flames of War, 40k, or Fantasy I suggest signing up as well as the event now hosts all those systems.