Hello! Today I will review a championship Bo3 tournament I attended on the 19th of February. It was at Warhammer Gasometer, and I brought my Skittershank’s Clawpack deck (which I will review in a later article)!
For now, here is a decklist:
Game 1: Jean-Marc and Drepur’s Wraithcreepers
My first opponent was Jean-Marc, who used Drepur’s Wraithcreepers with Fearsome Fortress. In Game 1, the first round was very weird. For some reason, I had the 500 IQ idea of charging my leader into his, which ended badly with my leader missing and then dying. I did manage to score a couple glory, and Jean-Marc scored even less than me.
In round 2, I was turning Padpaw into Skittershank Lite. He had a BUNCH of upgrades on him, and I managed to kill both 3-wound Ghosts. There was not much development except Skulck dying on my side.
In round 3, Padpaw was slain by Drepur, and my last surviving fighter was (surprisingly) Kreep Kinwhisper. I had either Weighty Blessing or Supernatural Agility in my hand, which I gave to him, making him 3 Dodge. Kreep was on a cover hex in the Wraithcreeper’s territory. However, the ghosts needed to be in MY territory. This led to a very anticlimactic ending to the game, with both of us just sitting there. Somehow the game ended in a true tie, the score being 11-11, no warbands being fully killed, and no one was on an objective (if only I had delved with Kreep!).
In Game 2, I got to position the boards and set them up to charge his leader once again. Since Drepur was at the VERY back of his board, I had to somehow bait him out. I knew just the way: Krowch’t. He dodged one attack but died to the second one, and by then, Drepur was already closer to me by one hex. I charged Padpaw to try to finish off a Ghost. However, he missed. At that point, all the ghosts were in one nice straight line, it seemed like they were lining up to attack Padpaw. For my last activation, I played Misplaced Optimism to push Drepur within my leader’s attack range, then charged him with a +1 Dice ploy to delete Drepur. I managed to roll a crit, proc’ing Grievous.
In Round 2, I was finding and picking off the rest of the ghosts with my inspired fighters. Either Padpaw or Skittershank was being very effective. However, I forgot who it was, as I am writing this a week after the tournament happened.
Round 3 was mainly just positing around the board and trying to score what remained. The final score for this game was 20-8 for the Skaven. We should have played another game, but there was only 15 minutes left, and we would have to break several world records to achieve a game in that time, so we agreed that I would win 1-0.
Game 2: Sebastian and Drepur’s Wraithcreepers
Game 2 was against Sebastian (who I played in Game 2 of my last championship tournament). He was also using Fearsome Fortress Drepur’s Wraithcreepers.
I won the roll-off in Game 1. I placed the boards in the classic no-offset way, which was so I could reach his leader.
In round 1, I didn’t get any of my get-to-the-leader cards, and Drepur was at the back, so I tried moving closer to him. I didn’t want to mulligan as I had 2 +1 dice cards and Weighty Blessing. Moving closer went wrong when Krowch’t tried to get me glory through Toyed With, missed, inspired 2 enemy fighters, and then died. Padpaw attempted to do the same and ended up inspiring the guy who still wasn’t inspired while missing as well. However, unlike Krowch’t, he managed to stay alive. Good Padpaw. I knew charging his leader was too risky, so I charged Sire Haqfel with my leader and killed him with 2 crits, scoring me Killer Supreme. I also scored Focal Point and Unsurprising Fate.
In Round 2, I desperately tried to gain more glory to get upgrades and kill his leader. It did not work. Toyed With was toying with me instead of Sebastian, the attacks which would score it kept missing, and once I proc’ed Grievous and killed Grodrig.
Round 3 was my best round. Drepur died, joining the 2 ghosts and 4 mice already out of action. I then proceeded to try and kill the last ghost (unsuccessfully). Sebastian kept suspecting I had Pure Carnage and was very surprised when I did not score it in the end phase (partially cause I didn’t use it). The final score was 13-17 for Sebastian, which I thought was decent.
Game 2 was possibly my worst-ever game against Drepur in history. The main person I play with in casual games uses Drepur 70% of the time, so I have plenty of games to choose from for being my worst.
First of all, I got long-boarded. Second, I did not draw Shadow Paw my first hand (I did draw Misplaced Optimism, though). Third, I decided not to mulligan my hand. Fourth, Drepur was at the back of the back of the back of the board, along with his 3 friends.
First, I tried to bait out a ghost to kill with Krowch’t, and it worked! I first scored Toyed With by charging Padpaw to kill the baited ghost, then finished him off with my leader. Krowch’t died. I thought I actually had a chance when Sebastian gave Grodrig Gloryseeker and another +1 Damage upgrade. My leader had 3 defense. I thought I was perfectly safe. 4 damage later, I was losing and had only Padpaw, Kreep, and Skulck left. All uninspired, by the way.
Round 2 was a miss-fest. ONE attack landed even though everyone attacked. This was the first round ever I saw someone NOT score Blood in the Deeps. My mission to assassinate Grodrig with my range 3 fighters did not work, leading us into the 3rd round.
The first thing which happened was vulnerable Grodrig choosing between who to kill, Padpaw or Kreep. He chose Kreep, which would lead to me scoring 3 glory. In the power step, I played 2 +1 dice ploys and then demolished Grodrig with Padpaw, scoring In Cold Blood and Reckless Swing (since Drepur supported Grodrig). Then Drepur killed Padpaw. Skulck made a brave attempt at damaging Drepur and hit! After scoring, the final score was 11-21. Note to self – don’t underestimate Haqfel and Grodrig.
Game 3: Skaeth’s Wild Hunt
First of all, my opponent warned me that he was playing for fun and not to win. He wasn’t even going to use his cards!
In Game 1, I lost the roll off however my opponent didn’t longboard or offset 4 me, and put his leader up front. The first thing I did was send Krowch’t to attack Skaeth. He hit and then dodged an attack. Next, I charged Padpaw into Skaeth, killing the leader and inspiring. Then the cat tried to kill Krowch’t. I knew I had to kill the cat for all it had done to mouse-kind, so I charged it with Kreep leaving it on one wound. Finally, my leader charged and killed Karthaen with a crit.
In Round 2, I finished off the cat first thing. Then, Sheoch charged Krowch’t and killed him. However, Krowch’t had already managed to set a new personal best time for staying alive that day. My leader charged to avenge Krowch’t and crit’ed to kill Sheoch. The last one left was the bow spammer, Althaen. I charged her with Kreep, and he crit’ed, proc’ing Grievous and attaching a net onto her. Then my opponent moved to kill her.
We cycled through Round 3 and the final score turned out to be 2-17 for me (however my opponent didn’t use cards at all, including objectives).
After winning the board roll-off for Game 2, I decided to use the ‘blue board’ (Hall of Sublimation). I positioned it with no offset, and after drawing cards, my opponent went first.
First activation he charged Skaeth into Padpaw. I retaliated with my leader but missed. Then, he charged Sheoch next to his leader. I then tried again to attack his leader and did crit hit him for 3 damage! After a move action from my opponent with his cat, my leader killed Skaeth. For my last activation, I charged and killed Karthaen. I also used Closing for the Kill, to move my leader into enemy territory and Padpaw near him, getting me Focal Point.
In Round 2, I was killing the rest of the fighters. First, Padpaw charged and crit killed Sheoch, after that, Kreep Kinwhisper went after the cat. I didn’t proc the Grievous, but I did do one damage, which locked the cat down thanks to the net. Finally, Skulck had an epic 1v1 versus the bow spammer Althaen however he didn’t kill her.
In the final round, I charged Althaen, killed her, and then let Skulck avenge Krowch’t from last game by shooting the cat. After that, I cycled objectives, bringing the final score to 17-2 for me.
After the games it was time to announce the results! Overall I came second out of six people. First place went to a Morgok’s Krushas player. Thanks to everyone at Gasometer for organizing this tournament! It was really fun, I hope to do it again soon!
That’s it! Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed this article! If you have any feedback please message me on Discord (VintroV2#0001) or Twitter. I hope to see you again soon!
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