Battle Report: pVyros (Tier) versus Midas (Tier)

Welcome, fight fans, to another episode of Battle Report.  For this match, we're pitting two Tier Four lists against each other to see which one can come out on top.

In one corner, we have Dawnlord Vyros and his Tier Four "Dawn's Talon" list from No Quarter 35.  Lined up against him we have Midas (who has no fancy titles whatsoever because Lord Carver had dibs on them all).  I've covered Midas before here in an Analysis post.

We'll be using VASSAL to display this battle.  Feel free to click on any picture to make it larger (including this one, although I'm not sure what the point would be).

Round One!  Fight!

Warmachine Hexcalation: Siege's Starter Deck

Back in late March, I talked about Warmachine Hexcalation, the "collectible" card game that I have been writing.  I gave a sneak peak of some of the cards and talked in general terms about the system.

Well, for today, I have a surprise for anyone that cares about Hexcalation: the complete spoiler for Siege's Starter Deck.

You'll notice that most cards don't have art.  That's intentional.  I'd rather get cards ready for playtesting instead of worrying about the art at this point.  Plus I already feel like I'm crossing a line using Privateer Press' copyrighted materials, but then I remind myself this is all free, all for fun, and is made to help improve interest in Warmachine/Hordes and not take anything away from Privateer Press.

So without further ado, here's the Siege Starter deck:

Analysis: Lich Lord Asphyxious

There are certain casters that are known to be "top tier", the best of the best, feared when they're set down on opposite side of the table.  Epic Haley, Epic Morvahna, Harbinger, and Epic Lylyth are the ones that come to mind for me.  And, of course, Epic Asphyxious.

But if you're newer to the game, you might be wondering why?  What makes some of these casters so good?  In this episode of Analysis, we're going to be going a deep dive into Lich Lord Asphyxious and attempt to show some of the tricks that make him such a dangerous opponent.

Star Wars: X-Wing Wave 3

Fantasy Flight Games (www.fantasyflightgames.com) has just released information about the third wave of miniatures for their outstanding starship battles game.

If you're not 100% up to speed on your Star Wars ship identifications, what we see here are (in order from left to right):

• HWK-290
• Lambda-class Shuttle
• TIE Bomber
• B-Wing

What does one of these expansion packs come with?  You get multiple ship cards, upgrades, the maneuver dial, and a bunch of tokens.

The Lambda-class shuttle pack will run $29.95, which was the same as the Falcon and Slave One.  The other three will cost $14.95.  Expected street date is third quarter of 2013.

Check out all the information here.

Better Late Than Never - Gargantuans: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Way back on March 15, James said he was going to put together a post for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Gargantuans.  He asked some of us to come up with the top model, worst model, and the underdog model (model that doesnt look great but that you think will see action in the right list).

Of course no one else got around to doing their homework.  So all my hard work (ten minutes worth) was wasted... until now.  Because COGS needs a new article, here's my take on the book when it first came out.

Warmachine Masters at Adepticon

Warmachine "Masters" is a tournament that you have to qualify for by playing in one of the other tournaments, such as the Hardcore tournament.

The rules are:

• 50 points
• 3 Lists (with character uniqueness)
• Death Clock

Warmachine Adepticon Hardcore Standings

I saw someone over at the PP forums had compiled the standings for Adepticon's Hardcore Tournament so I thought I would do some analysis of the results.  Now we play much more casual in our environment so we have to take these with a grain of salt, but it does help show the state of the game's meta in general.

For those who don't know much about Adepticon, it used to be considered mostly a Warhammer 40k/Fantasy event.  However, more recently, it's become much larger in scale.  There's Warmachine/Hordes, Malifaux, Flames of War, Battletech, and tons of other gaming going on.  It's up in Chicago and it's something I'd love to go to someday.

For Hardcore games, you can only have one list.  This is pretty major.  You also have fast turn time limits (7 minutes) and everything in your army has to be painted.  There's also variable round lengths so you don't know exactly how long the game will last (unless you win by caster kill or scenario early, of course).  You can find the PDF of the standard Hardcore! rules here.