Next Steps – Davis Doubles – 1250 points per player

At the end of the month I will be attending a doubles event. I’ll be pairing with Sean Smaker (round 3 from Bay Area Open). Sean and I have paired up once before, at a 1600 per player event. We will also be pairing up for the Adepticon doubles event. We have created a list for this event, but may just end up running our Adepticon list. This system has no restrictions, while the Adepticon event is 1200 points a player but doesn’t allow Lords. So here is our Davis Doubles List:

Supreme Sorceress, Dark Pegasus, Lore of Death, Pendant of Khaeleth
Slann Mage-Priest, Lore of Death, Focused Rumination, BSB

Skink Priest, Dispel Scroll

Assassin, additional hand weapon, rending stars, manbane

6 Dark Riders, repeater crossbows, banner, musician
6 Dark Riders, repeater crossbows, banner, musician
6 Dark Riders, repeater crossbows, banner, musician
10 Skink Skirmishers
10 Skink Skirmishers
10 Skink Skirmishers
10 Skink Skirmishers
10 Skink Skirmishers

9 Shades, additional hand weapon
6 Chameleon Skinks
6 Chameleon Skinks
6 Chameleon Skinks

Hydra
2 Salamander Hunting Pack, extra handler
2 Salamander Hunting Pack

This is a fairly hard list, with layered waves of BS shooting. It also compensates for the required splitting of magic dice by having two casters that are able to generate additional power dice. The strong weakness of the list is in its ability to dispel, specifically the required splitting of dice and its inability for one player to defend the other with those dice. I also have some concerns about the amount of space this army takes up, limiting actual places to go.

The event itself is a 3 round, 1 day event. Each mission will be out of the book, rolled randomly for the round, and then also each side chooses secret objectives for bonus points. For the watchtower mission it has been revised to utilize the optional building destruction rules, making the buildings T8 with 7 wounds and requiring at least strength 5 to attempt to wound. For the battle for the pass, the last 6” of the deployment zone can only see (and be seen) into (from) the deployment zone, presumably to prevent warmachines camping at the board edge, or blocking the only edge ambushers can come on. For Blood and Glory, each army has its own breaking point; this mission will be our most challenging as Sean’s contingent will be prone to running away.

For Composition the event will be using a cumulative player judge system. Each team will rank their opponents 1-3. Getting 2 3’s grants your battle score a -2 modifier, while getting all three 3’s gives a -8 modifier. On the other side, getting 2 1’s or 3’s provides an equal bonus to battle score. The event also has a few hard changes:

No Special Characters
Banned Book of Hoeth
Slann cannot take both Mystery and Rumination
Only the Ogre’s BSB can carry the dragon hide banner
No more than 6 dice may be used when casting Mindrazor
Unit caps of 35 for infantry and 18 for monstrous infantry

We’ll see how it goes.


Later Note: we decided to go with our adepticon list, which will follow in a later post.