Glogg's Megamob vs Legion of Blood | Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Battle Report 

Its just the game, sometimes you are the underdog. :) Makes wins feel sweeter when you manage to pull it off.

​@@ryancooper3629*agrees in Bonesplitterz*

Yeah as a gloomspite player this battle hurt the feelings

KO doesn't see a lot of attention in Battle Reports on YT; as a Duardin Skyfarer, that really does bug me. XD

@@Stryder467 it's because they're boring. They don't need to charge and play in only one phase of the game.

@@JackCawood Guessing you got tabled by them once upon a time. :P

​@@Stryder467 Not tabled, just the most boring game of warhammer I've ever played. He stayed at 18" and shot and I made saves and stood on circles because I was playing Nurgle. I lost by 3 points. I was able to get into one combat in 5 turns. There were 6 objectives so I couldn't even force fights. There is definitely a fun fighty KO list using Frigates and balloon boys, but no one plays it because Thunderers are ridiculous.

This!

Good catch, I totally forgot about it tbh!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Pesky destruction players always ignoring the rules 🤦‍♂️

I sprayed them a neutral grey and then drybrushed white to pick out details. I then airbrushed with Doomfire magenta (contrast). Thats it, pretty easy to do. :) Though it can be a challenge getting all of them to match in tone. (You may notice some are a bit more vibrant than others as it really depends on how thick you spray the magenta) (I would add that the video has a bit of color grade on it, IRL they are more magenta than what it looks like in this video. My goal with them was vibrant pink trolls :) )

@@ryancooper3629 Oh that's really cool though. I like them! I do have all those paints. Is the spider the same thing? They really do look red, but I am a big fan. My squig army is purple so I really enjoy when people go hard with an unorthodox and vibrant color scheme, especially when contrasted with the standard colors that they paint the models in.

@@krampusthestoryteller1416 The spiders are a bit more complex. Vallejo Grey Primer Airbrush Vallejo Game Air bloody Red Airbrush Highlight with White Airbrush Glaze Vallejo Game Air Orange over highlights Airbrush Claw tips with Vallejo Game Air Gory Red Airbrush Claw tips deeper with black Airbrush Glaze Vallejo Game Air Bloody Red over all, 2 thin coats

typo in the video.

This is quoted from the core rules: "The target of a shooting attack must be within a number of inches of the attacking model equal to the Range characteristic of the weapon being used to make the attack. The range must be measured to the closest visible model in the target unit (if you are unsure whether a model is visible, stoop down and take a look from behind the shooting model). Models can see through other models in their unit."

haha, if you go back in the season of war archives there is one game I played with a Tzeentch Flamer build vs Slaanesh a year or so ago that was even worse luck, this one had a lot of rough moments but I feel there were opportunities for decision making to influence the game. In the aforementioned Tzeentch game it was so bad that I don't think there was any amount of skill that could have helped, I managed to do almost 0 damage with 1000pts of flamers two turns in a row. ;) Alas, its just the reality of the game we play. I have just as many games where the dice are hot. Can't blame the dice, just gotta learn what I can and go next. :)

Lol, I think I remember that one! The dice are a fickle mistress! Love that you guys demonstrate good sportsmanship throughout. When I was first starting as a young teen (20+ years ago) my twin and I would argue nonstop through our games of 40k. When I started watching you and other prolific reporters on youtube it blew my mind how everyone almost without exception was able to just laughed along and cheer on their opponents. I have only recently started playing tabletop wargames again but I vowed to behave and encourage my opponents to behave the way you guys do. Thanks for the games!

@@AK_J81 The dark side of sportsmanship always can bite any of us. I'd be lying if I said I have never let it sink its fangs into me. One of the biggest factors that I found which improved my outlook on wargaming, as a whole, was just playing a lot more often. I find that if you play fairly often it is much easier to just set yourself into the mentality of: "oh well, its just a game, the next one will be different". When I was younger, particularly in my teens, games of Warhammer were few and far between. I'd spend months pouring over books, painting, etc but only really get to play one, maybe two games per year. Because of that, the emotional stake and excitement of the game was so built up in my mind that if that one game I had been looking forward to for months was just a complete write-off because the dice screwed one player over or there was a huge list balance disparity It was such a disappointment that I sometimes let the pain of that pollute my sportsmanship. By reaching a point in my life where I am playing frequently, (At least once per week, often more) no individual game has any powerful emotional tether to it, so its easy to just smile, learn from mistakes, and look forward to the next game only a few days away.

It was a tough match for Gitz, for sure but it was far from unwinnable. Spiders are an absurd threat to an elite army like what Jordan brought. I just struggled to ever express that threat so things looked really one sided. Part of that struggle was my fault (eg getting my general tagged) and part of it was some bad luck (eg. moon never moving). This could easily have looked like a smash the other way if things had gone differently and my Spider General had popped off and 1 shotted the Zombie Dragon or half a unit of knights in a single combat but I just never had the opportunity to do that so the story was mostly trolls bashing their face against an invincible zombie dragon. ;)

I disagree that it was over at list building, obviously it didn't go very well for me, but had I managed to line up a good charge with the spider general that vampire lord could easily have been gone in a single swing and the whole game shifts. I made a big mistake getting the general tagged in a way that he couldn't fight back and then the fact that I failed almost every cast attempt and the moon refused to move until late game meant the tools I needed to dig myself out of the hole just weren't there but I certainly can see a path to victory. (That said, Soulblight def does have an advantage for sure) This is kinda the experience I have had generally with Gitz. Either you win big or lose big. Plus, are you ever losing when you have an army of pink trolls? ;)

Love your positivity Ryan and don't get me wrong I think the list has merit, just vs a player like Jordan I struggle to see how he would let that game slip with those pieces, Trolls are great fun though and always a win in my book as well!

@@woolf552 Yup, its absolutely a challenge vs Jordan! Though, if you rewind time there was a match of my spiders vs his FEC about a year ago where the spiders popped off and rolled over the noble knights so its always possible. :) I do agree with you, a 3+ Ethereal Save, 6+ ward, healing 6 wounds per combat and -1 to be hit probably shouldn't be in the game. Though, I think the biggest challenge is that he was able to also ethereal the knights so there were two big unkillable blocks. Had it just been the zombie dragon I could have torn the knights to pieces and taken board control. A joke I always make is that my Nurgle would love to be as tanky as some of what some other armies do. ;) (Armies who don't have to pay the massive mobility tax like Nurgle) my original plan was for Trugg to bait the charge, survive (statistically he should have). Then allow me to counter charge into those knights and hit them hard but a few critical aspects of that plan failed (Trugg dying, -1 to hit aura failing, moon not moving, general getting tagged, and my teleport spell to get him out of combat failing). Had the plan worked out though, Jord would have been in a situation where the knights were gutted and the zombie dragon could either spend 3 turns killing trolls or trying to recover the collapsing flank by abandoning the mid board. (Meanwhile spiders end up in his backfield and take over the board)

Thanks, I mostly agree but I did make a few crucial mistakes that I'd do differently if I played again: 1. I wouldn't let my general get tagged. 2. I wouldn't send trolls into the vampire just to die. (Though I knew I probably shouldn't when I did it, it was a desperation move hoping he would fail more saves for me) 3. It may have been better to play more defensive until the moon moved. I didn't get much value out of the moon because of this. I feel baiting with Trugg was the right move, and should have worked but maybe I didn't need to push as far forward as I did. Regardless, yeah the dice didn't help me out, but its always good to still figure out what mistakes could have been amended so that bad luck wasn't as punishing.

haha it depends on the day but I've had a few quite impressively bad ones recently. Just the nature of a dice game, sometimes they say no.

Lately its been a bit rough, but I've also had some spicy lucky games. (For example, the first time I played spiders on the channel, they popped off crazy hard) I just think its often more obvious when the dice say "no" as compared to when they say "yes". Just how things go in a dice game. ;) Especially in a really swingy army like Gitz who lack tools to recover from a string of bad luck.

Gitz can be pretty volatile I find, I've had lots of dominating wins with the spiders as well. If you roll hot with those 6s, they blow through enemies pretty hard. Unfortunately, this was just a wretched match up for this particular build and the dice didn't help make things easier. ;)

I'd argue it was quite unlikely. Roared Blood Knights 1 shotting a full HP Trugg who has a 5+ ward and is -1 to be hit was quite unlikely. A unit of 10 Blood Knights only have about a 25% chance of killing Trugg in that situation and that's assuming all lances and most horses get to attack. If you also account for the fact that a long charge is needed to get them all in like that to even get the 26% chance, the odds of Trogg dying in that situation likely are around 10-15%. I don't actually feel that move was a mistake,. I intentionally put him out there intending it to be a bait because if the knights went into him and (probably) didn't kill him, then he would promptly heal and they would be locked down in a very vulnerable position never getting a charge bonus again. When I look at the game, my biggest mistake was getting my general tagged. I didn't realize he was 2.9" away from that one little corner of the terrain. Had I had him a few mm back, he wouldn't have been tagged and then I would have been able to counter charge with the biggest threat in my army rather than it getting tied up and then killed before it could do anything at all.