#GWfor52 - weeks 1&2

First hobby blog for a little while.

Along with some other stores in the UK my local Games Workshop is participating in the motivational challenge titled #GWfor52.  Basically each week you set yourself a hobby challenge and get it done and post it on your local stores Facebook page.

I am blogging about it here as well with in time a bit more detail.

Week one

My first week task was to complete the Khorne Herald conversion I had started a week or do before.

The model is a head swap with the body of the new Slaughterpriest and the head from the Khorne Herald from the Skull cannon/Blood Throne kit.   Simple but effective.

Start

Finish

Week two

For week two I wanted to make a start on the base for the Herald from the previous week and build a 5-man Death Company squad as an aim for the year is to make a dent in my Blood Angel 30k force and Flesh Tearer 40k force

Pretty much done.

Week 3 will see an attempt to get some paint on to the DC

Tavern Brawl: Return of Mechazod

Welcome to an old brawl with a slight tweak.

A while ago Blizzard released the first multiplayer Tavern Brawl, a priest and a paladin vs Mechzod.

This was a lot of fun with some good synergies in the two decks.   It was fantastic with a friend rather than a random player especially if you were together to quickly strategise as you went.

This time round the classes are different it is Mage and Druid, there are some synergis between the two but I feel not with as much as the previous version.

Everything else is the same.

Enjoy!

Tavern Brawl: Battle of the Builds

Welcome to the first brawl of the new year.

A quick note, Blizzard have changed the launch time of the brawls, they now go live at 10pm every Wednesday this change (from 4pm in Wednesday) means the brawl blogs will tend to be on a Thursday/Friday from now on.

We have a new brawl for the new year

The rules are not very clear here so a quick heads up, given the above information you then pick a class and build your deck, build it to one of the three archetypes above.

When the brawl starts you are given an option of 4 abilities, what you pick works just for you and will boost your deck depending on your build.

It is a good brawl to really try what you want and have fun with it, Brann Bronzebeard for battlecry decks, Baron Rivendare for deathrattles, big spell turns with tempo Mage style or Archmage Antonidas or epic murk of pally decks with everyfin is awesome etcetera. Or lots of buffs on the free minions for some big burst turns.

Quite a fun brawl this week enjoy!

New year new posts

After a lull at the end of 2015 it is time to fire up for the new year.

Expect more hearthstone posts, mostly tavern brawl but it should get mixed in with tactics articles and some interesting arena runs.

My local Games Workshop is running a 52 week hobby challenge which I am taking part in so there will be some more hobby articles as well.

All this on top of anything else that takes my fancy.

Hope you enjoy!

A fortnight of Tavern Brawls

Apologies for the lack of a post last week, a busy week personally combined with a repeatedBrawl meant a week was missed.

So on to the missed brawl, Show down at Blackrock Mountain.

This was actually the first brawl ever.  And features a prebuilt Ragnaros deck vs. prebuilt Nefarian deck.

I have issues with this brawl, and from what I gather I am not the only one.   The brawl seems more favoured towards Nefarian.   His hero power (which is free!) seems more useful, especially as Rags power doesn't get a buff until at least 5 turns in once his weapon is gone.

Factor in Nefarian's minions seem to have better synergy you are getting more for your mana ans speaking of mana even though he has a free hero power Nefarian appears to start with 4 mana.

All in all not a fan of is one, got my pack and wasn't too fussed after that.

Now this weeks brawl is a different kettle of fish!

This one was touted for a few weeks ago but didn't happen and we were given Webspinners again.

This is Catain Blackhearts Treasure

Pick your class.

The decks appear to be made entirely of 2/3 2 mana pirates.

Each turn instead if drawing a card you are given the option of three random cards, a bit like an arena draft but with out the rarity limitations.

My suggestions for this brawl would be a) pick a class you are familiar with b) pick your cards with an eye on curve, situation and power.   If you get a powerful legendary early one then grab it, a turn 1 or 2 Dr Boom, Alexstraza, Antonidas, Rhonin etc is worth it later, you can form game plan around it.

 There is not a great lot more than can be said, ride the random and have fun!

Hearthstone Tavern Brawl: Unite Against Mechazod

Love it!!

Sorry had to jump straight in with that!

This week, especially with last weeks problems, Blizzard have out done themselves!

A Team Tavern Brawl!

Yes you and another player go up against the might of Mechazod!

 

The run down is this.

You and a player are assigned either a pre-built Priest or Paladin deck to face off against the boss.

The set up for this is quite nice as you each take a side as per a normal game and the boss is a floating entity between you both and he flits from one side to the other depending on whose turn it is.   He also has taunt so you cannot accidentally hurt your team mate.   His stats are 2/95.

 

 His attacks are random and he makes one at the end of each player turn.

They include: 

Assassinate -  same as the rogue card, destroys a minion, it has always been the highest attack minion in my games and it goes through divine shield.

Overclock - grants him +2 attack, this stacks, I have seen him up to 12 or 14 attack

His other abilities allow him to do his attack damage to either each hero or to 3 random enemies, heroes and minions alike can be hit with this.

There also seems to be some very specific attacks, there is one at least that will take out Lorewalker Cho specifically.

That is basically it, the idea is to work in tandem with your opponent and take him out, if either of you dies he wins.

There are some nice little combos in the decks including Lorewalker Cho so you can get extra spells between you both, the healing from the priest and the buffing/shielding from the Paladin are very powerful.   Play this with Millhouse Manastorm from the Priest deck and you are aces up!

The really fun part of this Brawl though is playing it with a friend, you can queue solo and get your pack, win or lose, but teaming up with a buddy and planning your moves is a lot of fun.

So I shall leave it here and just say: Well done Blizzard!

Hearthsone Tavern Brawl: Spider, spiders, everywhere

Unfortunately this post is going out a little bit later than usual and will be quite brief.

There were many issues with the tavern brawl released on Wednesday to the point that Blizzard pulled it.   this was a shame as it looked like a fun one, I shall save my thoughts on it until it sees full release.
With having the World Championship/Road to Blizzcon stuff going on as well as the freshly released Overwatch beta I guess rather than try and grind out a fix they switched to one of their old fall backs.

Spiders, Spiders everywhere.

See my previous thoughts on the event here:
http://25hrhobby.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/hearthstone-tavern-brawl-16-september.html

So pick a class and get a random deck with a few spells and no minions barring Webspinners, a 1/1 for 1 mana minion that adds a random beast to your hand as a deathrattle.

It is an ok Brawl but can be very RNG reliant.   I lost a few games as I got low cost, not very good minions and the opponent was getting strong late game minions but that's the way it rolls!

An extra little thought I had for this is using health boosting spells to increase the health of your opponents Webspinners therefore restricting their access to better beasts as they cannot pop their own spinners as efficiently.

Going to leave it here for now.

Looking forward to next week