London Legends 2024: The Debrief
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Mark, Luke and I chat about the London Legends GT 2024 - an 8th edition Warhammer Fantasy tournament we held last week. We analyse some if the top lists, look through some of the armies and chat about the future of the competition.
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Thanks for the shout out for my WoC list. I also debated Khorne warriors, but I had the Slaanesh ones painted 😅. I hadn't tested the army before the tournament either, otherwise probably would have painted some Khorne fellas!
'The Wall' here, that's a fantastic recap of an even better event. Although my table top companion might not see another London legends table I will most certainly will be in attendance at any future GTs you run. Which so long as you three enjoy I think should be a given should continue. Its a nice reminder of what a great game 8th edition is and why we love the hobby in general. In relation to Old world vs 8th I think of it like this, 8th is a great game with flawed elements and Old World is a flawed game with great elements. I do think both have merits. If LL organised an old world event next id sign up for sure but id also like 8th to continue. Thank you for the amazing review of my army and it is indeed for sale, although Lukes review of the paint job has me feeling bad about it haha Meeting the people at these torneys and seeing the level of painting on show has inspired me to chase the coveted best painted and I have a few things in the works.....As well as being subjected to some really great plays throughout the matches which also has sparked a hunger to improve my gaming. Thanks again to the organisers it was awesome.
Cheers mate, thanks for coming! The wall is excellent mate. Ignore Luke’s lack of enthusiasm for it. He only likes models produced before 1995 😄
Thanks for the afterreport, especially for the armylists and pictures! It was a wonderful tournament, especially meeting all of you chaps! I am looking forward to the next one!
Also: Luke, congrats for the pronounciation! I already had a soundbite recorded to sent to you for practice.^^
In regards to my list: I do prefer a hyperaggressive style, since I don't come to the table to sit at the back and wait. I understand that I basically played a WoC list as an Empire player and it could have been stronger in many regards. I was trying to hit the local meta and orientated myself around Luke's battlereports. Looking back I was overall ok with the list and am currently trying to rebuild it with WoC to see if it works better with them.
My first game against High Elves, as Mark referred to, was won at the point where my opponent decided to put Tyrion into a small unit of Knights. I could never kill that guy, but if I win a combat by 8, I can just run him down. Which I did. After that it was just cleaning up the board. Though, as usual, my comet only came down after it had like 7 markers when it was just me on his side on the board.
My second game against Mike was promising to be a nailbiter, but the dice decided it before we could really get into it. Looking at his later games I wouldmost likely have lost anyway, as he is clearly a better player. Out of 100 games I might win 22.
The third games against Chaosdwarves actually saw my Speculum backfire in a way, as he had magic gear that exchanged all his attacks for a single one (that he landed) and was basically the basic spell from metal, i.e. killing my general with his own armour. Though his horses took revenge right away and open the path for me to kill his general right after. Also: I did not get what Iron Demons could do until I was ground in there. Still had a good 15:5, it was a good learning experience.
Fourth game saw me go up against the Nurgle Deamons, which, again, the dice decided early on. Got some points here as opposed to the second game, the Pistoliers were the clear MVPs with them taking down a skullcannon in close combat.
Fifth game against Bretons was, as you said, a boxing in of my opponent. I was actually quite tired at that point and just kinda forgot how some rules worked, but he helped us work through them. In the end I think the boxing in in addition to him making a small mistake, that spiralled into a big loss were what gave me a quick victory. The mistake was simply a flank charge of his with a dragon and paladin where, had he switched the models around, I would not have been able to counter charge with cheap infantery into the paladin and keeping his dragon from trampling. That gave me 6 Combat Resolution points and both of them ran.
Anyway, thanks again for the great time!
Great summary of your games. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the run down of the games man. We’ll have to get you on the channel at some point…
@@d6wounds Thanks for the tournament that enabled it.^^
And yes, I'd love to!
My Yellow Tzeentch DoC Army have a white base and then panted with Iyanden Yellow Contrast paint.. you paint and army over a weekend this way. Painting an entire army yellow with ordinary yellow would be true pain... Thanks again for a great weekend. You were all perfect gents. /André Miscast Table of Sweden
They looked amazing dude!!!
Man, I found the best white, yellow and orange paint you can get, and shockingly it’s the new Army Painter Fanatic line. Their 6 shade system is incredible as well. You can do some great shading and blending even if you don’t understand colour theory.
I have many enthusiast paint sets, pro Acryl, Two Thin Coats, AK, Vallejo, etc, and Fanatic is easily the equal of any of them.
Before this I hadn’t used an Army Painter paint in decades (but have used some washes and two metallics). My Yellow and Blue Dwarf paint scheme with Orange highlights (and Slayer hair/beards) is starting to look incredible. My metal miners are looking incredibly special because of those paints.
I don’t usually proselytize products, but I got their 216 colour Fanatic set, and it’s been all I use when painting yellow, orange or white. The pigment density is incredible
Would have loved to have seen the whole of the army lists. Great video guys, look forward to coming along for my free t-shirt next year 😀
Love how you UK boys are playing 8th sticking it to the man lol👻
Thankyou for doing this. Maybe one day I’ll make the trip from Australia
Sounds like your tournament was a success so well done gents. I see the Swedes and the Dwarves came up short (sorry), but hopefully they enjoyed themselves regardless.
Filmdeg Miniatures is the name of the channel you talk about with interviews with former GW types. And yes they're good but quite brief. Trish Carden (formerly Morrison) did do a longer interview with The Painting Phase that I watched quite a while back that is very good, she comes across ever so well and of course has created so many great figures. There was one on there with Bob Naismith as well that was fun.
Excellent tournament guys, I had a great time
Nice one. Keep 8th alive !
Love this boys. Thanks for sharing. I would like to make the trip up from Cornwall when I can make the time!!!
Great weekend again, chaps! Definitely missed playing 8th amidst all the Old World hubbub. I'm sure I'll get involved in Old World events as well at some point, but definitely plan to continue with 8th and would be well up for more London Legends - despite the number of Temple Guard blown up by the Slann and Skink handlers eaten by Salamanders this time.
I'm really enjoying your content. I hope to see yourself and Luke do more things together in the future. I wish I could participate in your tourneys, but alas for my sins I'm exiled in the Colonies.
Thank you! Yes indeed more to come over the summer as we both go to Old World tournaments…
Fascinating chat. I never played 8th, otherwise 1 - 7 & now TOW, interesting nonetheless. Keep it up Gents 🏆
Wow, I hope that the Dwarf players (if any) weren’t the ones who ordered the Hawaiian non-pizza.
I would love to come and play with my son if you have this tournament again next year. What groups are in that have more information on WH tournaments in general?
Try the facebook group called Champions of Destiny - all the WHFB events tend to go there.
Beautifully painted armies. And looks like a fun event. It's so interesting to me that there's this love for 8th edition. For me personally it's probably the worst one. The one that departed the most from what I knew as Warhammer. But I guess it's the one that has had the longest run, and the nuking of Warhammer 10 years ago probably made fans rally around it.
Cheers !
GW are trying to build a whole new factory at the moment. I think they are just production constrained.
Allan Merrett is honest but brutal. Or maybe brutal but honest
I loved 8th, I am enjoying old world but would prefer 8th.
The problem is, getting old world games is tough enough.
The number of 8th players is essentially 0 in practicality.
Come to London next time we do an event!