Here are the headline results:
Warhammer Fantasy
1. Tom Dunn (Daemons of Chaos)
2. Peter Williamson (High Elves)
3. Pete Dunn (Skaven)
It was a closely fought event with every participant experiencing at least one loss. Tom played each of the 2nd to 7th placegetters so really had to work for his win. Peter Williamson earned a staggering 54 points on Day Two of the event.
2012 Fantasy Masters Champion - Tom Dunn
2012 Runner Up - Peter Williamson
Warhammer 40k
1. Charlie St. Clair (Necrons)
2. Daniel Hayden (Tyranids)
3. Haydn Korach (Chaos Daemons)
This was Charlie's third Masters win (out of the five held so far) and he finished well ahead of the field. Both Daniel and Hayden brought armies well suited to the current 6th Ed meta and were rewarded accordingly.
2012 Warhammer 40k Masters Placegetters (Daniel, Charlie & Haydn)
Neither the 40k nor the Fantasy event saw anybody suffer a Sports hit - Thumbs Up!!!!
Flames of War
1. Steven Hill (German SS Panzergrenadier)
2. Nick Garden (Romanian Vanatori Motorizata
3. Craig Courtis (Hungarian Motorised Infantry)
Steven was the clear winner even though he did lose to Nick in a close encounter in Round 5
Must be some serious respect from the field for Peter Williamson right now...
ReplyDeletelol Dave... good on Peter :) And well done Tom!
DeleteCertainly Dave. Peter did really really well with his list and the points haul on Day 2 was amazing. Context is important though - he did lose reasonably big to the two guys in the Top 4 he played and didn't play the 3rd place getter.
DeleteAs a proud Dad I think Tom's effort to win playing the next 6th placegetters was deserving of the overall win.
All that aside, that Peter could direct what I still contend was the weakest list in the event to 2nd shows what a good player he is.
DeleteHe scored 3 points vs. Tom and 4 points vs. Tim and 74 points in his other 4 games (20-0 vs. Neil, 17-3 vs. Rory, 20-0 vs. Joel and 17-3 vs. Locky
Congratulations Tom, both on the win and on the fact you had to beat the other contenders to get there. Not a submarine in sight.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read Peter W's battle reports, given how few of us could see how the army worked. Also an excellent result.
Good to see you on the podium too Pete, though I'm glad it wasn't first; I couldn't bring myself to back a Skaven list, I'd never wash the stain away.
Hey Tane, Dwarves never understand Elven might until they get three bolt throwers in za face :)
DeleteElven might? I never seen any. Nobody (including Peter) understands how the list works still.
DeleteIn all respect well done Peter for out preforming his list. I'm happy with being tied for 3rd since I convincingly bet both 1st and second place despite Tom turning my Prince to stone and getting the scenario win condition on turn 2
Batreps or it didn't happen Tim. Your list was superb against T3 for sure.
DeleteI love post tournament spin :-)
DeleteDouble bolt throwers and the Seafarer bow might be nice, but I raise them double cannons, a Grudge Thrower and an Organ Gun. My mountain of dispel dice should be enough to make sure Curse of Arrow Attraction isn't cast often if at all.
DeleteBut against Skullcrushers, Demigryphs, Chaos Knights and Necro Knights they might be quite nice.
Hey Tane, just a friendly reminder to not forget the Ro of Shielding for the 2+ WS versus shooting attacks and magic missiles for 25pts. Plus, a study dwarven crossbow will always beat a flimsy petal-covered high elf long bow.
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Wow!! Those are some amazing results, congrats to the winners, and especially for Peter Williamson, good on ya mate (now Phil Wu and I can tell people: "I told you so").
ReplyDeleteAlso just want to congratulate Anthony, its good to see you are still teaching people to respect the Brets on the battlefield.
Joel; what happened there? Did the rest of the pack find out the eleven secret herbs and spices in the Colonels secret fried chicken recipe and have a go at your chocoboos?
- Adam Richards
Brilliant of Pascal to photobomb.
ReplyDeleteBut Congratulations to everyone that went as getting there is an achievement in and of itself.
Congrats to Peter W, that's friggen fantastic... Who needs list structure eh! Congrats to Tom as well, It's the age age of the youngins'
ReplyDeleteExcellent work Tom and Charlie for taking out another edition of the NZ Masters. Was very cool to follow it blow by blow over the weekend, thanks to commentator James for that.
ReplyDeleteYour welcome, Phil. I actually quite enjoyed being able to wander around and watch the crazy results and happenings rather than hear about it later.
ReplyDeleteApologies to the 40kers that my coverage was a bit Fantasy biased. A function of being a fantasy player first and foremost...
James, you, Ryan and Hagen did a great job with the umpiring. And when I got home I saw how much you tweeted. Awesome.
DeleteI really enjoyed how Ant got a strop on every time time you approached his table - I gather you were acting as a bit of a luck vampire!
James is my cooler. Unfortunately he seemed to has a special interest in Brets, and every time he showed up, my dice just went cold.
DeleteThanks to the organisers, particulary James and Pete. I had six really fun (and cool) games.
Ant
Haha, It was my pleasure, Ant, can't make things too easy for the Master!
DeleteThey are an army I love, and I enjoy seeing how others play them. I also spent a fair bit of time harrassing Peter's tables to glean some High Elf knowledge that I'm clearly lacking :-P
I like that I can walk up to Sam Whitts table, say "hahaha look at all those 1's" while he's getting ready to roll a bunch of troll wounds, and then proceeds to roll a Yahtzee of 1's. my proudest moment as a professional luck vampire. Dissapointed Locky didn't make more of my talents in that game.
ReplyDeleteyou would like that charlie, you horrible creature. although it is always awkwardly hilarious when that happens. but why werent you doing that to pete instead?
ReplyDeleteBecause Pete doesn't wrestle me in public toilets, unlike Sam.
Delete(true story)
Just out of curiosity what lore did Pete W use for his HE
ReplyDeleteHigh Magic
DeleteBecause he wasn't being a big enough fluff bunny already...
DeleteNot sure if you're serious, Dave, but many players I know rate High Magic very erm... highly. It has answers for most situations, and ridiculously cheap casting values for 8th Ed. Sure theres no Dwellers/Mindwazzor but really, how many good players cast those too often anyway?
DeleteThat was definitely not percieved as the fluffy part of Pete's army, by me at least...
Good choice, I'd have to agree with Meals, may not have the BIG spell most curent lores have BUT. It's got a lot of other things that are good and it's cheap to casr.
DeleteGreatly enjoyed hearing a quick wrap up of the NZ masters results by Ben Curry on the bad dice daily pod cast.
ReplyDeleteHe commented that he very intrigued by Peter W's list and how he played it.
The results show that it is definitely the general guiding the army rather than the army list that makes the biggest impact on results, as I doubt most other players would do half as well with the list.
@ Hugh: Could you please leave/post a link to the Ben Curry podcast with the NZ WHFB Masters wrap up? Chur,
Delete- Adam Richards