March Madness Challenger Edition: Finale (Loser's Finals and Winner's Finals)

Skarbrand 2/1!/Dead

Draigo 0!/2!/Moves on (Ahhhh! So close! Draigo rolled 4 3’s in the first round which means he missed every attack. In the second round he just barely passed his force weapon check. Poor Skarbrand, no Eternal Warrior.)

Moving on to the Grand Finals is Draigo. One can only hope that someone can last two rounds against him and kill his stupid face.

Drazhar 1/3/Moves on

Ghazghkull 2/Dead (Ghazghkull never had a chance without his Super Waaagh! Unfortunately I only let people activate powers in initiative order so he never got to it.

Typhus 0/Dead

Swarmlord 1/Moves on (No Eternal Warrior, fail harder Typhus.

Grimnar 2/3/Moves on

Asurmen 1/0/Dead (Even with the changes to Frost Axe making it just a power fist now Grimnar doesn’t seem to care and swings for the fences. In case you haven’t seen the FAQ Frost Axes go instead from S6 AP2 at init or S8 AP2 at init 1 to both at init one. Why this change was made is beyond me.)

Mephiston 0/0/1/Moves on

Asdrubael 0/2/0/Dead (Mephiston blitzed himself with a Perils but got double 1 success anyways. Vect needed to fail 1 invuln to die and voila, he’s dead. Unfortunate that he’s lived for millennia (I believe) and doesn’t have Eternal Warrior yet.)

Next round of Loser’s:

Drazhar 2/0/Dead

Swarmlord 2/3/Moves on (Drazhar has no invuln :’( too bad.)

Grimnar 2/Dead

Mephiston 2/3/Moves on (And thus fall the Space Wolves. Does anyone think it’s weird that Mephiston has no invuln? He’s 250 points!)

Now the losers from the last round of Winners get bumped down to face the last two losers finalists. This will then determine the final two and from that the last one who’ll face off against Skarbrand for the right to take on Draigo.

Swarmlord 1/Moves on

Bloodthirster 0/Dead (Instant-death is hilariously effective against every HQ. It’s pretty ridiculous. Swarmlord only hit half his attacks and just got 1 wound off but re-rolling 5++ spelled the end for our errant Bloodthirster.)

Lucius 0/Dead

Mephiston 0/1/Moves on (Ahhh the ol’ lack of Eternal Warrior. It’s really the difference between who’s left and who is dead. That and the ability to cause instant death which is very related.)

Swarmlord 2/Moves on

Mephiston 0/Dead (What’re you supposed to do without invulns or Eternal Warrior. Mephiston pretty much killed everyone who was like him in the game.)

This whole contest is coming down to Instant Death and Eternal Warrior, also bad luck in the case of Lysander. Looking like Swarmlord might be brought low by the Sultan of Smack Skarbrand.

Swarmlord 0/Dead

Skarbrand 3/Moves on (No chance, no chance whatsoever. Now we get to watch Skarbrand lose to Draigo again. It’s too bad Draigo never got to fight someone like Drazhar. Maybe next year.)

Round 2

Skarbrand 4!/Moves on!

Draigo 0/Dead! (Holy crap! 1 round of combat and Draigo failed 4/5 3++ saves. Here’s what’s unfortunate though: Draigo gets a Round 3 since everyone gets 1 loss)

Round 3

Skarbrand 2/1/Dead

Draigo 2!/2/Moves on (Damn! What a close fight. Draigo failed his Force Weapon check and perils’d himself giving Skarbrand an extra wound. On 6 wounds Draigo managed to make 5 saves though, securing his victory. If he had failed but one more the winner would be Skarbrand)

Your winner for the March Madness Challenger Edition is Draigo. Congratulations you OP bastard.