IRONGOUNDERSON'S BREWERS MODELING DIARY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11-SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12: KAZAD GUMBI!

Over the weekend of the 11th-12th of November, I was the assistant tournament organizer at AxeReMastered (The tournament hurriedly cobbled together to replace Axemaster). I was also the officially designated Gumby. SO I decided to kill two birds with one stone (intricately carved with numerous grudges of course!) and learn how to play Dwarves at the same time.
Of course, I have not finished my army yet. In fact, I entered the tournament the proud owner of 13 models. Fortunately, both Greg who was running the Tournament, and Aaron, for whom I built Kazad Grunks could supply almost everything I needed. The only thing we could not come up with was a lord on shield, despite a frantic search of the local games shops on Friday afternoon.
Because it was a Gumby Army, Kazad Gumbi was not designed to be very hard. It lived up to the brief admirably.

On the first day, no Gumby action was needed, but I played a friendly against Greg on a spare table, because we where both getting pretty bored. Both my war machines blew up in turn two, having failed to do anything in turn one. Some very large, and very bloody combats took place, including Adzric the unfeasibly angry, my Dragon slayer wading through a whole unit of Dogs of War knights until the DOW general killed him, over ran into thunderers, and was beaten in combat by them! On the other flank, Voland's Venators spent about 6 turns trying to kill the other thudnerer unit.

On the second day, I was needed. IN the first round, I ran up against Ben 'Arrogant Vampire' Morrison and his arrogant Vampires. Not unexpectedly, he romped all over me, but it was a great game. Those Dwarves certainly went down fighting.
Next game was against Dene and his Empire. This game went much better for me, with a bunch of thunderes and the organ gun converting an Empire detachment from a proud bunch of guys with sticks into a sort of red mist in a single shooting phase. His pikemen put up a stiff resistance, but the other units where not up to the inevitable Dwarf combat phases.

I didn't play the last round, Greg took control of the Gumbi Hordes and was mightily trounced by Noakes and his Gobbos. Since Noakes had borrowed a lot of my army, I had units on both sides of this one, so it was hard to decide who to barrack for...

Well, now I know how Dwarves work on the table. They may be slow, but by god, they stick around!