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Yep, the primary reason I go to tourneys is to get to play against players/armies/models I don't normally have access to, it's great fun and there's a real joy to be found in finding an effective list that can deal with multiple opponents. I'm also a massive fan of the whole-weekend tournaments, the first night evening shenanigans are always a good laugh and worth the cost of a B&B!
I'm gutted I won't be able to stay Saturday afternoon! But next year when I'm into the swing of it, will do a few stay overs at the tournaments down south and beyond! More one day tournaments would suit me, being self employed, taking a whole weekend off is tough tough tough! But I can see a mixture of the two would be good.
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There's one player who generally turns up with pure named Ringwraiths on Fell Beasts (6 @ 1000 points, 4 @750 points and as Marsbar says, 2/3 at 500 points). and they're absolutely horrific. It's quite easy to build an effective list that would have a good chance against them but that's a list that wouldn't do well against other 'standard' armies, thus, in tournaments the Fell Beasts find themselves up against a selection of standard armies that simply can't cope with their power. They were good before the Hobbit rules but they're nigh on unstoppable now thanks to the new monster rules. The fact that these are doubled up with the rules for monstrous cavalry (which is now just an extra set of special rules for Fell Beasts!) makes the situation even worse. It's an incredibly tough army to beat and, in my experience, not much fun as there's so little you can do.
Get the wraiths off their Fell Beasts though and the game's yours...
Does sound nasty, not the best opponent for an all cavalry Rohan force... all those thrown riders, no magic etc but we will see. Must look pretty cool on the table though?
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I wouldn't necessarily look out for metagamers so much as meta-armies, the vast majority of competitive players at the top of the league are really nice chaps who play a good, fun game.
The meta-armies you need to look out for are (broadly):
Wood elves led by Thranduil, Leggy, and Stormcallers
Moria hordes with Gundabad front line, spears behind, Shade, Groblog, Shamans
Nasty Harad builds with lots of archers/Watchers of Karna, Reavers and the Shadow Lord
Anything with Saruman the White/Saruman and Grima
They're the ones I would personally not want to face, very tough lists.
Nasty harad build is something I've looked into for the future I must say, but for now, first force nearly finished with the painting is Rohan, so will give it my best bash! Who else takes Rohan to the tourneys and how do they get on?
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Special mention to Marsbar on this actually, he's turned up to a couple of tourneys this year with cool, fun monster lists that are actually very competitive. I've played him twice with my ferals and had disproportionately good results against them as I think I had a good army to beat them. I must say though, his monster list and another one at the last tourney (Charles' Marsbar) are actually quite intimidating to face with the new monster rules. It's fairly easy to bring one or two big gribblies down but when there's about 8 of them (@750 points) charging at you supported by the damn Dwimmerlaik (the bane of monster killers!) it's quite tough!
Knighty brought something similar against me and Hashut once... a bunch of trolls and shadow lord/dwimmerlaik... was very much an anti-me list! So we just focused on taking out his ally, Ste with his Isengard... I'm glad he never managed to get to grips with us in the game!
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Magic can be a game-winner in the right hands, the common mistake new gamers make it to always try and kill with magic (Sorcerous Blast, Black Dart etc.) when in fact the real game changing spells are the ones that allow you to gain a better position/advantage over the enemy (Immobilise/Tremor/Nature's Wrath/Command etc.)
Good tips... thinking of including a mounted wizard when I bump up to 750pts plus with the rohan... eagle too.
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I think most of the Northerners are primarily Last Alliance users and only pop up on here from time to time, post a message on the Facebook Group if you're curious, they're all on there and they'll let you know who're nearby in Stockport.
I keep trying, not much luck yet!
Great tips on the heroic combat, will note them down and try find some situations to get it practiced!
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