Pod Tournament Report Game 1: Beast Master Xekaar vs. Tyrant Xerxis (75pts)

This past Thursday, I played the first game of the multi-week pod tournament that spans the Twin Cities meta.  Since I put myself down as being able to play at any store, I was used to make up the numbers at Fantasy Flight Game Center.  It's not my closest FLGS, but it's a great place, and the local meta includes a bunch of people I've seen around in various places.

I was running Beast Master Xekaar, Master Ascetic Naaresh, and Void Seer Mordikaar.  My opponent, Jeff, was also running Skorne, with Tyrant Xerxis, Supreme Archdomina Makeda, and one other (I forget who).  I picked Xekaar because the Xerxis list looked melee focused enough that I'd be able to grind it down with shooting, and out-attrition it, and I wanted Mortality in the game to stop Stay Death shenanigans from Mak2.  Jeff went with Xerxis because that list had the armor cracking to deal with my bricks, and plenty of its own armor to shrug off Mordikaar.

Skorne Skorne Skorne :D (part 1)

This is going to be long and a little rambly.  My goal is to put up some lists I'm eager to try, and go through my thinking with everything that's changed for the models I'm using.  I also have a tournament coming up.  The games will be spread out over a couple of weeks, which is nice because I'm busy most Saturdays.  So in addition to talking about out most improved stuff I'd like to try, I'll go into my lists for the tournament, and how I'm planning to run them.  If you're in the Twin Cities meta, and you're playing in this tournament, you probably don't need to read about my lists, right?  I mean, who worries about Skorne?

Lists and such after the break!

Building from the Battlegroup: Journeyman League with Skorne from 50pts to 75pts

This is going to be the last Journeyman League post I make this week.  The first post discussing the battlegroup itself is HERE, and the second post on expanding the list to 50pts is HERE.  In this post, I want to talk about taking your Journeyman force from 50pts to 75pts.  Up until now, I've recommended choice that let you build up a working core army list.  The last 25pts are going to give you some space to branch out a little more, and really decide what kind of list you want to run.  I won't talk about any of the Warlocks you might have switched to at the 50pt level, though I'd be happy to chat about them in the comments, or do a followup post at some point if there's enough interest.  I also won't make recommendations for specific point levels.  Your core list should have pretty much everything you need to get by, so I've organized my suggestions based on themes or strategies you might want to build on as you expand your list.

Building from the Battlegroup: Journeyman League with Skorne from 0pts to 50pts

My last Journeyman League post talked about the Skorne Battlegroup, and my thoughts on how to play it.  In this post, I'll talk about the options I feel make the most sense to add at each point level.  I won't recommend just one thing - making your own lists and experimenting with various combinations to see what works is essential to learning the game, after all.  My recommendations will either have some kind of direct synergy with the list, or will fill a common job that a lot of successful lists have.  I'm stopping this post at the 50pt level for now, because I want to give a fair amount of detail to the 50pt level, since a lot of options open up then.  My next post will talk a little more about filling out the last 25pts of your list, and how to approach larger games.

Tactica: Skorne Battlegroup and the Start of a Journeyman League

MkIII is still a new edition, so I'll give my take on how to run the Skorne Battlegroup, and how to expand your list.  This post will just cover the Battlegroup, and will include a rundown on the models and abilities we start off with, as well as some tips for using them effectively.  In my next two installments, which I hope to have finished by Monday, I'll talk about expanding your forces through a journeyman league and getting started as a Tyrant of the Skorne Empire.