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Mollog's mob - initial thoughts

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This article will focus on Mollog’s Mob which I am really keen to try out in a game as soon as possible. They look like great fun and are really different to any other warbands out there. There has already been a fair bit of discussion on the relative “power level” of the warband so I am going to try and avoid that and focus on what I think the fighters can and can’t be expected to achieve, leaving you to make up your own minds about how strong they are. Mollog The big man himself. Mollog has a whopping seven wounds and powerful attacks before inspiration which only get better when he takes three wounds and inspires. He also has the unique ability to charge with a move token or even with a charge token when inspired! This is one of the main reasons I think this warband needs to be played with to fully appreciate what they can do due to how many options this creates. Cards like faneway crystal, hidden paths and shadow step can be used in entirely new ways with Mollog.

Vault 14 Tournament 13.01.19

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Another weekend and another tournament! Last Sunday I went up to Doncaster to a Vault 14 tournament with 18 players and got to see a nice variety of warbands. I took my Cursebreakers again with my mates Nick and Josh taking Steelheart’s and Thorn’s respectively. This was a really smooth event with four games in the day using glory differential as the sorter after number of wins (unfortunately for me as my games were pretty swingy!). Well worth a visit especially if you are into your card and board games Round one I was up against Josh and his classically painted Chosen Axes. This is a warband I have played a few games with and am keen to get to work for me so I was looking forward to seeing them from the other side of the table. The first game of the day and my dice absolutely deserted me. I got a single hit in the entire game which was successfully blocked. For a deck like mine which relies on kills for score immediately objectives in order to upgrade a