Wednesday 29 May 2013

Prep for Panzerschrek...the fine art of balancing Swedish comp

Hi All,

I thought I would take a quick break from painting Reavers and work on a super soft Empire list for the Swedish Comp event in July.



Now I've posted about Swedish Comp before where I applied it to the lists I was running at the time. This time around I have to write a list for the comp which is "score between 7 and 13" + I want to try something completely different with my Empire.

20 minutes of jumping back and forward through the comp, my armybook, and my vague idea of what I want the list to do I have ALMOST come to a list.

My proposed list:

lvl4: Death, scroll 225 -7-18-10-8
Alector: GW, HA, Dhelm, 4++ 164 -10

Engineer: pigeon bombs 85 1WM-2
Engineer: Pigeon bombs 85 1WM-5
Engineer: Pigeon bombs 85 1WM-10
WarriorPriest: HA, 2HW 69 -5
Witchhunter: Brace of Pistols 55 -2
Witchhunter: Brace of Pistols 55 -2
BSB: FPA, ench sh 96 -3-10

40 Halberds: FC 270 -12
2x5 Archers detach 70 -2-1-1
10 Archers 70 -2
5 Knights: M 120 -5
5 Knights: M 120 -5

28 GreatSwords: FC 338 -13
4 Demigryphs: M 242 -25

Stank 250 4WM
2399                                                 total 7 WM = -7

Swedish score = 13.5

So list of lolz. Pigeon bombs ftw + stank + infantry + demis + character sniping and NO ARTILLERY.

Will it work? possibly. Will it fail? depends on how the Swedish comp affects everyone else's list design....HOWEVER THIS LIST IS NOT COMPLIANT because I have made it "too soft" gaaaarrrrrrr! More tinkering to come as I try to find another -5 to bring it into line...
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5 comments:

  1. Meals29 May 2013 at 05:25

    Love it! Just add some more Demigryphs. Thats the Empire way to filth, isnt it?

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  2. Anonymous29 May 2013 at 13:36

    remember you over 13 just = 13. I asked at Runefang because i was having your problem.

    Peter

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  3. Neil29 May 2013 at 16:16

    I found the same too. It can be difficult to get it down to 13. I had to take the Green Knight in my draft Bret list otherwise I ended up with 16 or 17. But apparently that is OK now, just the victory point calculations are capped at 13. (Jeff verbal to Peter)

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  4. Jeff Kent29 May 2013 at 17:30

    Neil and Pete are correct, you can take a softer list, but you're capped at 6. I feel anything else risks taking a very soft army and playing very negatively, which is not something I think we want to see.

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    1. Jeff Kent29 May 2013 at 17:34

      and by 6 I mean how many bonus points you'd get against a 7 army.

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