Ulthuan

I have sporadic online contact with a few of the T9A ETC team members.

Norway's ETC result this year wasn't great but they took home best sportsmanship

Hello Ulthuan! It's been a while :) I just thought I'd stop by to check up on y'all and give you a little update on my own endeavours. The last year has been pretty crazy. I've played around a dozen tournaments of Warmahordes and done very well in a number of them, 5 first place finishes (including ...

Heya :) Unfortunately for your tournament, what you heard is correct. Warmachine & Hordes is by far the biggest in Oslo now with an exploding community. Some people play KoW as well (and personally I hope this game grows as well and becomes the de facto fantasy wargame) but I haven't heard of an...

I'm just moving to a bigger apartment in Oslo. I bought my first apartment with my girlfriend last year. Now we want more space, seeing as the first one was rather tiny. Fragmented gaming groups are a problem without a doubt. In my experience it takes someone with a missionary approach almost to get...

I have this thread monitored, i.e. if someone replies here I get an email and check in ;) To be honest John, if you want to become a better player in any miniature game you have to be willing to suck it up and accept some hard truths. Some certainties exist in every game. In good ol' ETC Warhammer f...

Hey everyone, how are you doing? I'm just dropping by to do a little shameless self-advertising. While attending the ETC this year I had a discussion with a fellow player about the state of "internet discussing gaming". He said that he found my blogs to one of the few with the deep tactica...

@gaz - You're welcome :) Warmahordes is going great by the way! Will take me a year or two to get back to the same level I was in Warhammer but it's a matter of time ^^. @Browncastle - My list was designed around having all the tools available in the books to create reliable magic phases. Power ston...

Really enjoying these, especially the game vs Dennis. It definitely confirms my fears about our matchup. One question: Why did you choose to have the L4 in the bus intead of with the PG to provide a 3++? Did you want to 5-dice and feared dead PG from a miscast? Given your spell selection I guess you...

Ah, a perfect example of GW being completely unable to write clear rules. I do indeed agree that the "other" part of it implies that it is a shooting attack. However this issue has been up many times and the books aren't exactly new so I expect most players to know this. It was double-chec...

I'm part of Norway's biggest, active Warhammer club. Well, we were a Warhammer club. Now we don't know what we are any longer (this will take some time to figure out). The entire competitive scene in Norway died overnight. There are hardly any events and I don't know anyone playing either 8th or AoS...

@SpellArcher - Lion Cloaks specifically work vs Shooting Attacks. Shooting Attacks are, as per ETC FAQ, attacks that either happen in the shooting phase or are specifically noted as being Shooting Attacks. Bombs are neither, they happen in the movement phase and are not classified as Shooting Attack...

Thanks boys, good luck with your Elves

With all the ETC reports up, the time has come for me to pack away my models and put Warhammer to rest. In closing, I would like to present the reports I've documented on our Norwegian forum. I will not copy-paste and translate them all because it's way too much work, but if you want to try and read...

Ulthuan is currently in a pickle because this is a forum dedicated to a fictional entity which is no longer supported by a company. Members and activity seem to be dropping by the day, understandably, as fewer and fewer play WHFB. Making a decision too soon means you might end up betting on the wron...

The thing with Elves of all flavours is that they are glass cannons. Even PG die in droves to sustained shooting. All Elf armies are completely incapable of absorbing fire in the way that DoC or EMP often can. This means that whenever there's an Elf matchup, it will be bloody. I cannot remember havi...

I think I've literally spent over a thousand hours specifically preparing for the ETC myself. I know I'm not the only one dedicated in the team so the combined effort was pretty huge, yeah. It doesn't feel like work though, it was a journey we all enjoyed. It just puts things in perspective ;) The s...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 6 - Poland Tomb Kings :: Table for the game: 3 Our dreaded matchup comes at last. Poland is without doubt one of the most consistent and skilled countries in ETC. Year after year they feature among the very best in this tournament. The skill-level in our opinion ...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 5 - Agreed 10:10 vs Australia Tomb Kings :: Table for the game: 6 For the last day we drew Australia in our first game. Australia nearly capped Norway last year and we knew very well that despite being on table 6, they had some excellent players. They also had th...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 4 - Russia Wood Elves :: Table for the game: 2 Russia was our first truly top tier opponent. Their performance has been consistently strong over several years and they were among the teams we had prepared extra against. What made Russia a decent matchup however w...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 3 - Austria Dwarfs :: Table for the game: 4 Traditionally day 2 has been hard for Norway: First round draws frequently feature one of the weaker teams and so many teams perform well in round 1 that round 2 also has a high chance of providing another matchup below...

Hey Ferny, I'm glad you enjoy this :) I was discussing what exactly it is about Warhammer that I like so much with one of our most dedicated players on the metro back from the venue on the last day in Prague. I think it basically boils down to the learning part of the game: For every game I play I'm...

Thanks for the find, interesting data :) I rest my case as to HE being overcomped. As far as TK and BM are concerned, they are very hard to get right. They play in a unique way and take a lot of skill to master. TK performed worse than I had anticipated but I am not surprised about BM average being ...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 2 - Agreed 10:10 vs Singapore (pk-ng) High Elves :: Table for the game: 2 For our 2nd game we drew Singapore, who like us had won their game convincingly beyond the 100-60 cap. I was eager to face this team because they are among the very few who take the trip fr...

The physical conditions were terrible. I have never played at a worse venue, stuffing 1000 people together in a hall like that with terrible accoustics (the place being so loud was the worst in my opinion, the heat you get used to) meant that you never got to mentally take a break. The AC was only c...

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Game 1 - Northern Ireland Daemons of Chaos :: Table for the game: N/A The first game of a tournament is always interesting. You can draw a terribly hard opponent or a very soft one. Northern Ireland are known for their heavy drinking habits and casual approach to the ...

sparkytrypod wrote:Will you blog your warmachacine exploits?i

Already have started to do that, although it's on a Norwegian forum. Not sure if I'll go to an English one. I haven't found one that appeals to me yet.

:: Olannon's ETC 2015 Reports: Prologue :: This is the first post in a series of ETC reports, musings and thoughts dedicated to the readers of this blog as my journey as a Warhammer player has come to an end. I hope you appreciate it :) In the fall of 2013 I got a call from the captain of Norway's ...

Blood bowl is a niche game. WHFB was, to my knowledge, by far the most popular fantasy miniature wargame worldwide. Anyway, if 9th age or Kings of War turns out to be a big hit I can easily make the switch back - after all I have all the models I need

This saddens me curu, at least you will jave gone out in style at an ETC. Will you switch to war machine so? Look at it this way: If Kings of War or 9th age is a big success I already have an army so the switch won't be hard to make ;) I've already started warmahordes (wrote a bit about it on my bl...

Lord Anathir wrote:Which is this other game the people at your club are playing?

Warmachine & Hordes. Some have picked up KoW but they are a minority.