Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! (or The King is dead. Long live the King!)

You may have noticed that quite a few Warhammer Fantasy players are scurrying around getting all excited about an announcement Games Workshop have made this week - Warhammer 8th edition is coming out in July. Nothing else has really surfaced apart from that but the rumour mill has been cranking up. You can have a look over on Warseer in the WFB rumour section for more details. Some of the rumours sound quite interesting but again with all rumours you need to take a pinch of salt when reading them.

Above is the new logo for Warhammer which most people have dubbed the Jump Pack Hammer, due to the position of the Twin Tailed Comet. It looks alright but I'm waiting to see the whole book before I make my mind up.

In other Gaz news, I have been quite busy. I've been sent away to do some work at a Power Station and took part in a tournament. Power Station was fun as it's nice to get out of the office and see different things, although I would have prefered to stay at home with all my creature comforts. The tournament was fun as well. Tim Fisher of the Dragon Slayers, had organised a one day event at Maelstrom Games. Tim's cunning plan is to hold a one day event a few weeks before a big event, so players can come and practise and generally have fun. This one was using the South Coast GT rules. I went to the event with Chris and Luke. Chris had brought his Dwarfs and Luke had brought his High Elves as he got in as a last minute entry. He couldn't bring his usual choice of Lizardmen as he had loaned them to me.

The Lizardmen list was quite a cheeky one considering the rules and I took...

Slann with Knows all spells, wipe sixes from a enemy wizard, bane head cupped hands, and a dispel scroll
Priest on EOTG with extra spell and Wardrums
Saurus BSB on cold one with Burning Blade and Mirror Shield
Skink chief on Steg with Steg Warspear
3 units of 10 skirmishing skinks
1 unit of 10 skink cohorts.
1 unit of 11 saurus warriors with Standard and Musician.
1 unit of 6 cold one cav with Standard and Muscian
2 units of 3 terradons

Now I had a rough idea how to use the list which was to use the skinks as shields and then bunker the Saurus, Slann and Stegs together. I played zero games before going to the event and only had a brief look through the lizardman book and I wasn't expecting to do well at all. Here's a quick summary as all this happened before I went away for work.

Game 1 - Dean and Warriors of Chaos
Dean took a 'soft' Warriors list and he wasn't expecting to win this game. I believed that I deployed okay for this game but not really knowing what can do what I was a bit hesitant to commit. This gave Dean the chance he needed and he punished me. Plus my dice decided to punish me for not using them recently and I rolled quite badly all game. This lead to me popping downstairs to the Maelstrom shop and buying some more. Ulitmately, Dean outplayed me as I didn't have a clue what I was doing and I got 20 nilled.

Game 2 - Merlin and Wood Elves
Merlin brought his Wood Elves which for some reason included a Treeman Ancient. Back in the day these were quite hard but thanks to everybody having flaming attacks or access to such things as well as being able to bash him with other big character things (Bloodthirsters), they are generally seen as not very good.  I had learnt my mistakes from my first game and this was a lot closer and really came down to the wire ending in a 12-8 win to Merlin. It was a fun game and I made a mistake with some of my moves as things ended up in a traffic jam which meant I had problems smashing things up (this cost me my EOTG in a combat with Wardancers as I had to charge in my Skinks to allow my Cold Ones chance to get in).

Game 3 - Rupert and Daemons of Chaos
Another fun game and Rupert had brought a tough DoC list but it wasn't that flexible which is why I think he ended up on the lower tables with me. This game was ruled by luck with me having loads at the start due to being able to bounce a miscast onto his GUO (which miscast a few times on it's own) and blast things using the EOTG. All this luck was paid back as my army seemed incapable of holding against a unit of Flesh Hounds which then smashed my Cold Ones in one round, followed by the Slaan/Saurus unit. Game ended with my remaining units scurrying off to contest/capture quarters. Another fun game but ended with a 15-5 win to Rupert.

This meant that I was the lowest placed out of me, Chris, and Luke but I really enjoyed using the army. So much that I'm now collecting Lizardmen which hopefully will be ready for the next couple of events I go to. 40K wise things are quiet due to whispers of the Dark Eldar being the next book and I really like the concept of the army and can't wait to see what happens to them.