NZTC 2015 Photos and Winners

Warhammer Fantasy Battles New Zealand Team Championships 2014

The Kapiti Wargames Club fielded 2 teams: Legion of Doom and Pants Off!

Day 1: Gloves off, or was it shirts of and pants off?
After a brief kerfuffle to find a replacement player at no 99 when Rex took ill, Team Legion of Doom (LoD) arrived to take on the big guns of the NZ Warhammer world.

Roundly tipped to take the wooden spoon, as we had come close to in the preceding years, we proceeded to do battle.

Many thanks to Lockie Reid who stood in for the incapacitated Rex, ably fielding his Wood Elf army!
Hope you're feeling better, Rex! You missed a great tournament!

Not much time to do a write-up of my experience or the event (I will do it next week)
I am now hurriedly packing to go off on a school camp at the crack of sparrows tomorrow...

So, this is really not much more than a photo-dump.

May thanks to Pete and Tim for a fantastic event!

And no, we (LoD) did not take the wooden spoon either!

For full results check The Fields of Blood.

Pete and Tim, feel free to right-click and use my photos for your blogs
(It would be nice if you linked back to my blog or acknowledged some way)

Apologies for poor quality of Day 1 photos- taken with my phone

And the gaming is on!

The Field:

Artful Dodgers

DILF

Grumpy Old Men

Legion of Doom

Nice Team

Not Afraid to use Comp

Pants Off

Petes Pot Luck

Shirts Off

Stonesfall Massive

Team Bucketheads

Weekend Warriors

Heroic stand of my Corsair Master in my first game - Team DILF

Druchii Civil War.

Kapiti Teams Comparing notes after the first clash

And then we're off again

Some lovelies that caught the eye...

The Nice Team. Tane and Luc doing battle

Ironblaster in hard cover

Team Pants Off (Also from Kapiti) going hammer and tongs...

Day 2: Artful Dodgers fist up: 

Then Weekend Warriors

And Grumpy Old Men...

Ladies and Gentlemen: Tim announcing the winners:

Aesthetic awards:: 

Best Sports:

Not Afraid to Use Comp

The Inaugural Van Trapp Invitational Trophy 

(Sorry Pete, you've got yer eyes closed: but it's the only shot I got)

Third place

Second Place

And Overall Winners: Team DILF (with a Phoarrr)

Very relieved that the Wooden Spoon passed Team Legion of Doom by (again)!

You will notice that it is a slotted wooden spoon...

 To represent all those attacks allowed to come through!

NZTC Time again: Legion of Doom flexing it's muscle (Yeah, right)

NZTC Time again: Legion of Doom flexing it's muscle 

(Yeah, right)

So here we go again. The premier event on the New Zealand Wargames Caledar. The 2015 NZ Team Championship. The Legion of Doom are ready to defend their title. As undisputed holders of the Wooden Spoon, we sally forth to meet the challengers. Shelving the Dwarfs this time, we have opted for 2 shooty armies and 2 Power-fist armies. Dark Elves, Wood Elves (expected to be more competitive this year, with a new book, and better models and stats); Ogre Kingdoms and Daemons of Chaos. 

So, underdogs of underdogs again, we are ready to rumble!

 

You only step on us ONCE !

Warhammer NZTC 2014 Coming up: Dark Elves Rising to the Challenge

New Zealand Team Competition looming: Dark Elves at the Ready

So with NZTC a week away, the sabres have started rattling, champions and heroes are strutting and posturing. Or is that the generals?
The crowd is not as vociferous as last year, but I suspect more scrutiny of lists and strategic planning is taking place. Last year a lot of matching-up took place on the day.

 This year a lot more of the heavyweights of the NZ Warhammer Fantasy Tournament are taking part.
The lists also reflect that. There seems to be a lot less "fun" lists around, with quite a lot of deathstars, filthy lists in abundance. Looks like it will be tough battle.

Kapiti Wargames Club is fielding two teams: Beauty and the Beasts and 1/250 of the Legion of Doom

I am playing in the latter with Rex Foote, David Oemcke and my son Luc. Compared to the other team we are the newbies and comparatively green. We tend to play more for fun than competitively, but that is just the reason we are going! I'm taking the Hydra Bitch Bus and Luc his Ogre Death Star, Dave Dwarfs, and Rex Wood Elfs.

So this is how the field shapes up in terms of armies chosen for the event:

Armies
Beauty & Beasts: Empire Warriors Of Chaos Daemons of Chaos Dark Elves
Ham: High Elves Dwarfs Daemons of Chaos Lizardmen
Nerdymen: High Elves Brettonnia Vampire Counts Empire
250th's of the Legion of Doom: Wood Elves Dark Elves Ogre Kingdoms Dwarfs
Grumpy Old Men: High Elves Dark Elves Ogre Kingdoms Lizardmen
Basiliers: Empire Warriors Of Chaos Vampire Counts Orcs and Goblins
Team with the Guy: Dark Elves High Elves Daemons of Chaos Empire
Nice Team: Lizardmen Warriors Of Chaos Dwarfs Skaven
Shirts Off: High Elves Warriors Of Chaos Orc and Goblins Lizardmen
Stonesfall Massive: Empire Warriors Of Chaos Daemons of Chaos Ogre Kingdoms
Buckethead: Beastmen Dwarfs Empire Ogre Kingdoms
DILF: Brettonnia Warriors Of Chaos Vampire Counts Lizardmen
Panel Comp FTW:  Dark Elves Warriors Of Chaos Empire Skaven
KrakTeam: Dark Elves Dwarfs Vampire Counts Lizardmen
WolfPack: Empire Warriors Of Chaos Daemons of Chaos Skaven
Von Trapp: Dark Elves Warriors Of Chaos Daemons of Chaos Skaven
 

Army Distribution:
Warriors Of Chaos 9
Empire 8
Dark Elves 7
Daemons of Chaos 6
Lizardmen 6
High Elves 5
Dwarfs 5
Ogre Kingdoms 4
Vampire Counts 4
Skaven 4
Brettonnia 2
Orcs and Goblins 2
Wood Elves 1
Beastmen 1
Tomb Kings 0
Chaos Dwarfs 0

Info from Pete Dunn's Fields of Blood

The Fantasy images are from Helmutt: http://helmutt.cghub.com/images/page:1/ 
check them out for some great fantasy art work

Ps. Noticed that the Skullcannon numbers have just been nerfed in FOB-Lite. 
About time.