Devastation Event - GMI Games - Circle Orbors

Our store is holding the Devastation Event over 3 weeks so we can get more participants and I had my first 3 games with Circle and the Effigy of the Devourer tonight.

Game 1: The first game was pKromac vs. eMakeda. I went first and we both placed our objectives on opposite ends. I deployed my Stalker, Ghetorix, and Feral Warpwolf to run as fast as possible to his objective. He did the same with eMakeda, Molik Karn and a Gladiator. He saw how fast I was at getting to his objective and decided to swing all his guys over to defend his objective. On the next turn I was able to trample though his tar pit unit and get to the objective with the Stalker and Ghetorix followed up with a charge allowing me to win on Scenario on turn 3.

Game 2: I decided to try the same thing again for my second game. This time it was pKromac vs. Legion's pVayl. I won the roll and decided to go first again and we placed our objectives on opposite sides. I tried the same tactic with having the Stalker, Ghetorix, and Feral Warpwolf run up as fast as they could towards the objective. My opponent deployed his Carinvean, Ravagore, and 3 shredders and tried to run as fast as possible to my objective. I had 2 sets of stones and figured they weren't going to make much difference to my Warbeasts' advancing in an open field so I decided to place them near my objective and use them as tar pit units.

On his turn he used a spell martyr to Ravager my Feral Warpwolf and had him advance backwards and attack my Stalker. On turn 2 he was able to un-jam all of his Warbeasts that were being blocked by Stones and sent a charging Carnivean at my objective. He fell 12 hp short. On my third turn I was able to easily kill his objective for a scenario victory.

Game 3: In this match up I played eKreuger vs. Trollblood's pGrim. This was a much more interesting game because he was able to screen his objective with Warders and he was able to basically negate one of my turns with pGrim's -3 speed feat. We went back and forth. I was able to kill a couple Warders and Kriel Stone Bearers and put about 7 points of damage on pGrim. He took out a crucial Stone, some Druids, my Gallows Grove, and my Stalker. It was looking bad but I had better positioning and I also got his Mountain King down to 1 hp. I thought about trying to kill the Trollblood objective with a primaled Ghetorix, Stone Keeper, Blackclad Wayfarer, and 4 Druids but my opponent told me that his Krielstone also gave the +2 ARM bonus to his objective which quickly threw the math way off. I decided to go for the assassination instead. I am able to land the first ranged attack with eKreuger and with Sustained Attack I was able to remove all his fury and get him down to 6 health. My Ghetorix was able to get into range and hit pGrim once to kill him.

Some things I learned: Our objective doesn't come into play very often unless to plan to play really defensively which is probably a bad idea. I leaned that it takes 2 Warbeasts to kill the objective reliably. It's also much more beneficial to go 2nd so you can counter their deployment and get the extra 3". I also learned that it's very hard to get to the enemy objective on Turn 2 and you should plan to get there and finish it on Turn 3.

I will most likely get 3 more games in next week. If anyone has any experiences with the Circle and the Devastation Event please share

DIY Terrain: Gnarly Tree - Circle of Orboros Devastation Objective - Effigy of the Devourer

Hey guys! Here is a quick DIY terrain tutorial on how I made a giant gnarly tree out paper, aluminum foil, and tons of glue.

Circle Orboros Objective for the Devastation Event

I tried a couple other ways to make a gnarly tree using real tree branches but it never seemed to look right. I tried using foam as well but it didn't give me the texture I wanted.

I was looking through the kitchen for something I could use and I stumbled upon some Aluminum Foil.

Tree shaping with Aluminum Foil

STEP 1: Create the Base & Trunk - For the base, I used an old CD and coated it with Tacky Glue and covered it with sand. I used crunched up paper for the bulk of the tree and then wrapped aluminum foil around it to make the trunk.

STEP 2: Make Branches and Roots - For the branches I just rolled out long and short pieces of aluminum foil and glued them where they would look cool. I then used a hot glue gun to seal all the edges so it wouldn't fall apart.

Coating the tree with glue

STEP 3: Coating it with Glue - The tree needed something because the foil had too many sharp edges so I decided to coat the entire thing in Tacky Glue in hopes it would blend everything together. This was a really messy process and took about 10 hours to dry completely.

  Tree primed black

STEP 4: Prime & Painting - I had some left over spray paint and primed the tree black. After that dried I did some dry brushing of grays and browns to give it color.

Here's a picture with the finished tree. I didn't have any Circle Orboros units at the office so I just took a picture with Ruin.
 

Here's another picture of the completed tree. It was quite fun to make and hopefully will help me win another coin at the Devastation Event!

Effigy of the Devourer 

Inspire Devastation: Friendly faction models gain an additional die on magic damage rolls targeting enemy models within 10" of this model.

Incite Bloodlust: An enemy model that begins its activation within 8" of this model must run or charge during its activation. An enemy model that cannot run or charge during its activation ignores this effect.

Stats: 5 Defense, 20 Armor, 40 Life.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!