Another awesome CC RTT, what can I say? Three awesome battles with three
great guys.

Game 1: Johnny Salinas' Brets

The Boyz hauled a new batch of Black Orc Bock Lite up to Bretonnia, looking
to try the oomie market again. Annoyed by haughty way in which the Brets
informed him that beer was for peasants, Facebeater TA TEACH 'EM SUM MANNERZ!

A jackknifed 18 wheeler on I-10 meant I couldn't play my round 1 challenge
with Dave T, so I hooked up with Johnny. Johnny won worst dice at the end,
and it started in this game. Mork favored my chukkas early, and Johnny
seemed to roll a 9 when he needed an 8 and a 10 when he needed a 9 on Ld
check after Ld check. The uppity oomies having been shown wot's wot, the
Brewery train headed back to the badlands for game 2...

Win 18 points.

Game 2: Luke Schnell's O&G

It seems that this sneakin git named Grishnak felt like 'e didn't need ta
pay fer 'is brew. Time fer a collekshun visit, Ladz! Facebeater and the
boyz set out to convince Grishnak that he needed to pay his bills in a more
timely manner.

Wow, what a game. Luke had just beat Jim, so it was time to defend the
good name of Bailey. First magic phase, first cast, I called on Gork to
grant me an irresistable, and lo, my prayer was granted! And in grand
fashion, the resulting Warpath stomped about five units. Weakening his
left flank just enough that a combination of chariots, wolf units and
chukkas loaded on it were able to roll it. But, favors of Gork do not come
without a price. I miscast the next three turns in a row. Fortunately the
results were mild, just costing me a few magic levels and spells. I just
had to hold off a late thrust by Luke to preserve the win.

Having collected wots due from Girshnak, the Brewery Boyz cast their eyes
on the untapped markets of the Chaos Wastes...

Win 16 points

Game 3: Brian Lee's beastmen

Having finally given up hope of coming up with a formula weak enough for
pansy human's to consume, Shiznit decided to try the beastman tribes. The
drinking capacity of the centigors was legendary. With Facebeater to
ensure that the sales pitch was received proper, Shiznit had confidence da
teef would start pouring in once more. They had better, as Facebeater was
startin' to make noise about wanting to "renegotiate" his contract....

Wow what a game. Brian and I were on table 2, and Ogre Daddy and Mike G
were on table 1. A draw by those two would open the door for either Brian
or I to steal overall. It was the scenario where you get points for
getting your own units off the opposite table edge. Because his beast
units would have to go off the board on the opposite edge from the one they
came on, Brian elected not to ambush. I didn't even bother worrying about
getting units off, I knew to win I would have to beat his beastmen to a
pulp. Brian has a hard but very compy list- some khorne minotaurs, a unit
of khorne gors, a giant, a couple spawn, and 3-4 herds with wargors. 8
dispel dice, but no scrolls or spells. I managed to bait Brian into
deploying his minos and khorne gors where they couldn't be used to full
effect, but Brian quickly overcame that. My chukkas were dead on, riddling
his Giant until it had only 2 wound left. Then I got overconfident, and
charged his giant with my fully healthy one so i could turn my chukkas on
his minos. My giant charged, swung with club, and Brian made his I test!
Yikes! Then he headbutts Fat Bastard and scores a wound, robbing fat
bastard of attacks for the next round! Aaahhh! Following round his giant
swings with club and of course, I fail my I test and get squished.
NOOOOOO!!! A valuable lesson learned- don't send your giant against
another Giant, you never know what may happen.

Things were going very well for me, and I managed to set up his generals
herd for a crushing flank charge and ran him down. My snotlings actually
ran down another herd. Things were going well enough that I got very
careless. We finished turn 4 and 15 minutes was called. We decided to try
to squeeze one more turn. I was so busy setting up final charges and
getting to final spells and chukka shots that I forgot to move one unit
forward to claim an open quarter. Brian had a quarter and took a standard,
which resulted in a final score differential of 263 points- a draw by 37
freaking points! AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

So instead of 17 points, I got 11.

Sigh.

But unlike bad dice, I have only myself to blame for getting careless.

When I looked at the final score, it appeared that that draw cost me a
share of overall, but after further review I still would have come up a
point short, but here's the kicker:

Brian got Best General over me by one freakin' point!!!!! You bastard!

I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU LEE!!!! :)

A grudge match with a capital G is coming on that one, my friend!!!

An awesome day, and great games. Can't wait for Schulenberg!

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john