11 people showed up, so someone always had a bye each round. The scoring was W/L/D, with wins being worth 3, draws worth 1, and loss 0. Byes counted as automatic wins. Ties were broken by game progress (who completed the most rounds/phases in their game).
The tournament was 2500 points, with 2 hours per round
. Needless to say, most people never finished more than 4 turns per round. When time was called, all play stopped immediately and the results were calculated.So my first game was blood and glory, which I had not planned on seeing at a tournament. My list was character heavy (3 Pegasus characters, cauldron and SS), so I barely had enough banners not to auto lose. Fortunately, I got a Skaven opponent in the same boat, so after four rounds of glaring at each other through a storm banner it finally dropped and I was able to combo charge his death star with my Pegasus characters and assasinate his general and BSB to secure the win.
Second round is Dawn battle (or whatever it is called, scenario number 1), I'm up against ogres. There's a huge messy combat between my witch elves and cauldron and his gutstar, maneaters, and wizard who had managed to turn into a dragon, and he manages to wipe out the whole unit (my SS was in it) for a huge number of victory points. The next turn, I rear charged his gutstar with all three Pegasus characters, and wipe out nearly the entire unit, (cloak of twilight lord killed 4 ogres on his own, the other two managed to get three, so 21 wounds + rear charge and BSB to nothing for combat resolution). Just as he's getting ready to take a break test, time is called and we're told to stop immediately. This combat would have resulted in a draw, if not tipped the scales to a win for me. Very frustrating.
Final round, I get a bye somehow and ended up in 4th. The top three players all ended up with 2 wins and a draw each. The one who got first had a bye the first round, and somehow was placed over a wood elf player who had tabled 2 of his opponents by round 3. Somehow the player getting the bye was credited with finishing 6 rounds to break the tie, while tabling your opponent was penalized. Has anyone ever seen something like this? Either way, I don't think I'll be returning if this particular TO is running the next one.
