Broadside Bash Musings

As my wife can tell you, I pine over my army relentlessly when trying to select a list.  With the Broadside being two weeks after West Coast, this added several complications to my normally manic list selection process.  These factors are:

 

1) The effective end of 8th-  Broadside is one of the last events before the end of 8th Edition, in all likelihood, so I want to go out playing one of my preferred armies.  This is especially true if it is one that I have not touched in a while.

 

2) Filth Factor-  The Broadside has been, of late, arguably the dirtiest tournament for list design in the area and by all accounts this year is not an exception.  I might go with a soft army, but it needs to have the tools to at least put up a fight with some of the filth out there.

 

3) Dragon-  Wife painted this for me for WCGT and it is criminal not to use it.

4) Scenarios-  Broadside boasts some of the most off the wall scenarios in existence.  This year has some real doozies and mobility/ranged threat is going to be key in most of them.

 

So, I debated Ogres, Daemons, and even Bretts, but I ultimately caved and settled in on using the Dragon again.  But in the interest of executing the scenario objectives as best I can, I knew I needed to make some changes from WCGT, which had different scenario demands.  Both events use Swedish Comp in all its arbitrary glory, but the spread was a bit narrower this time, so I settled in on this list:

Glade Lord, Dragon, Armor of Destiny, Obsidian Blade, Shield, Starfire Arrows
Spell Weaver, L4 high Mage, Talisman of Preservation, Dispel Scroll

Glade Captain, BSB, Great Stag, Enchanted Shield, Talisman of Endurance, Shield, Spear, Starfire Arrows
Waystalker

19 Gladeguard, Banner, Musician, Trueflight
20 Gladeguard, Banner, Musician, Trueflight

6 Wild Riders, Banner
6 Wild Riders, Banner

5 Waywatchers
Treeman, Strangleroots

So, no unit champ which costs me a point from the cheater scenario (unless there is a provision for if the enemy does not have a champ), but I get the scout threat of a small group of Waywatchers who also help in the scenarios requiring getting a unit in certain places.  Again, the BSB is a little under protected, but the wood elf book lacks defensive items and the other big models are more important.  The treeman is a bit of a concession, but I have been finding out that its not too shabby in the current elf meta, plus the Ultraforge Tree Woman model I will use for this is the entire reason I started the wood elf army in the first place.

I am probably going to get curb stomped all weekend, but if I can pull some wins I should place well.  And with the Broadside being what it is, I would rather lose playing the army I want than stinking up the joint with some filth.  In the end, the paint job on my dragon the wife did for me and the Tree Woman sold me on taking the army.  Hopefully, I get the ugly draw in the cheater scenario, so I can eat the entire poop sandwich in one sitting.  With the added shooting, the more elves I face the better off I will actually be.

For now, I need to focus on the WCGT, however.  Once I get trounced at that next weekend, I will put up some batreps and hopefully a couple pictures.
~Q