Fog on the Ekeren-Downs 2026 tournament report

 Back for the second edition, last sunday saw Fog on the Ekeren-Downs take place once more.

 

A very casual mindset 500 point tournament for the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, with three rounds with an ample timeschedule to allow new players to get the ropes.  Or paint your models before the event still...

 

And we had another totally new player once again, Wesley who played the Moria Balrog list after getting his initial game in just the friday before the event.

 

Unfortunatly, covid is rearing it's head this period of the year, resulting in two people falling away sick, while we also had two no-shows.  This resulted in 8 players taking to the field of the Pelennor and beyond to discover more hidden mysteries in the fog...

 

The partication list was varied once again, with no duplicate armies present.  We had Andy taking The Three Trolls, Gilles brought Reclamation of Osgiliath, Wesley Depths of Moria, Jonas the Pelennor Field list, Sam the Host of the Witch King, Mats brought Cirth Ungol, niels had Thranduil's Halls and as reserve player to have short games, I brought the Fellowship.  Next year I'll bring a full sized army, now that we have a routine in the pairings and such in place for this event.

 

Round 1: Command the Battlefield

 

Yeah, we made mistakes on both sides in this game, as unfortunatly it doesn't get played as often as I like, and I also forgot half my benefits the Fellowship carries along.  Facing off against "fake Boromir" and the Reclamation of Osgiliath, Gimli was having a field day, he is for me by FAR the most underrated figure in the Fellowship.  Sadly in the end I did get broken, but my opponent was quartered and the game ended with a 2-5 victory for the Fellowship.  Scoring big is not something my little band of 6 brave heroes will be doing...

 

The other games saw The Three Trolls be victorious over The Pelennor Fields with 14-0, Cirth Ungol beat the Witch King with 19-0, and the Balrog went down to Thranduil with 2-9

 

During the lunch break, we then went on to vote for the best painted armies (sorry, forgot to take individual pictures) before going on to the next round. 

 

Round 2: Capture and Control

 

 

In this round, I faced Thranduil and "fake Legolas".  Boromir quickly fell to a storm of arrows (how fitting), but as he had deployed his archers with Legolas pretty close, Aragorn and Gimli thundered in and wreaked havoc amongst the elves.  Legolas in the meantime managed to tie up his cavalry while sniping away at any elf trying to claim an objective, something Merry and Pippin did succeed in.  Hos army quartered, the Fellowship grabbed a 3-8 victory as a result.

 

 

In the other games, Cirth ungol kept his perfect streak, finishing The Three Trolls with 17-0.  The Reclamation of Osgiliath triumphed over the Balrog with 15-5, while the Witch King took down the Pelennor Fields with 8-7.

 

Round 3: Domination 

 

And so I suddenly found myself on table 1 in a finale against a Cirth Ungol army that hadn't even suffered a single victory point against.  The Fellowship was quickly tied down, Merry being the only one to fall though, as he needed to have his army quartered as soon as possible to claim the objectives he controlled, before I could contest them.  This worked out in the end, as Gimli fell just short to reach one before he fled the field and bring the game to a draw, as such Cirith Ungol taking the win with 9 to 8 over the Fellowship.

  

In the other games, while victorious, the Balrog was wounded for the first time today by the Pelennor Fields in a 11-9 win for the evil denizens.  Thranduil went under with 6 to 14 against the Witch King, while The Three Trolls where defeated 0-14 against the Reclamation of Osgiliath.

 

And that concluded the three games, and my loss brought me down out of the top 3 as a result due to my small amount of victory points I scored.  First tie-breaker was scored VP's, the second being the differential.

 

While Mats took best painted before Andy and Gilles, he also as a result won the tournament with three out of three games won.  As a result, he grabbed both the Rohan House as well as the Forge World Balin's Tomb that where in the price pool, while Jonas took the participation raffle price of a metal Boromir.

 

1. Mats - 9 points, + 47 victory points

 

2. Gilles - 6 points, +31 victory points

3. Sam - 6 points, +22 victory points

 

4. Tomsche - 6 points, + 21 victory points

5. Wesley - 3 points, +18 victory points

6. Niels - 3 points, +15 victory points

 

7. Andy - 3 points, +14 victory points

8. Jonas - 0 points, + 16 victory points

 

And so the day ended and everyone could return home ample on time to wife and children, while Andy and Sam took the chance to play another friendly game.  There was quickly decided on the day that there would be a third edition next year, but that we would up the points to 600 and no selection criteria bar those of the lists themselves.

 

I upped the event as such monday on T3 Tabletop Tournament, and at time of writing, being wendesday morning, already 13 spots have been claimed out of the 16 set open, including 8 people already fulfilling the prepayment requirement to be certain of their spot in 13 months.  It's always fun to have these events where people are enthousiastic about and do all the "requirements" so fast, that makes it worth the time and effort to put into it to organise it, compared to the Spearhead debacle earlier this year that really burned into my motivation.

 

When all looks dark, there is still a light in this world... 

Blood Bowl report: Only Fangs versus Transylvania Nightmares

 Welcome to probably the final game for my team of hypersexualised Beastly Women and Daemonettes, as due to circumstances, I dropped in the ranks.

 

Real life roared it's ugly head, forcing me to cancel games and as such slip down the rankings without the guaranteed 1-2 points I would pick up even when losing.

 

As a result, before tonight I still hung on in 8th place, but unless I win this game with a full streak for 6 points, at least 1 out of 2 teams will slide past me and bump me out due to sheer volume of games they played over me.  What's worse, I'm for the first time no longer in the lead for Most Beast (casualties caused), and that IS something I can rectify still in this game.

 

But of course, ladies being ladies and expensive as such, we lost 10k out of the treasury first... while he spend inducements on 3 Prayers of Nuffle, a cheerleader and a keg.

 

We had the kicking role for the start of the game, so the plan was to let him score soon, then start grinding his team down in order to equalize at least in the second half.  To that end, the ladies set-up in their FemDom pattern, out to cause as much damage early on as possible. 

  

Though an unlucky bitten thrall was the first to go to the injuries box after taking care of his liege.

  

The Vampires started piling towards my left flank, though his vargheist was kept in check, spending most of the time on the floor. 

 

But then suddenly they broke through on the other flank, the aristocracy of the night making use of their high movement and hypnotic gazes to open up that side of the pitch.

 

However, some of the ladies came over and tried to break off the push there as a result.

 

Peachgardens wasn't so lucky though, as she was carried off the pitch with a severly sprained ankle, which will result in not only missing the next game, but affecting her elegant speed in the future.

  

Sabina Sabok caused an injury on his vargheist, and as his blitzer also went down, forcing him to use his apothecary as he had failed his regeneration roll, so that took that out of the count pretty soon in the game.

  

But his runner went through, and on the fourth turn, the vampires already scored the 0-1, which actually was right down my alley, as I could start bullying now for at least two receives in short order.

  

Deploying once more rather aggresively, I got the Charge kick-off result, meaning all my pieces could slide into contact with his players that had deployed deeper in the field.

  

We picked up the ball as we started a huge slugfest in the center of the field.

  

But one of my ladies was pushed into the crowd.  Now luckily the men all love my girls, so it didn't make any problem and once she awoke from het KO she would be back to extract some female vengeance.  Vampires be warned! 

  

The big scrimmage continued around the middle line, the ball bouncing around at times as Only Fangs wasn't looking for a quick score.  Sabina Sabrok smacked over and badly hurt his Vargheist again, and this time as he failed his regeneration once again, he wouldn't be back for the rest of the game anymore.

  

One of his runners broke through again though, with the erratic scattered ball having fallen in her lap, but couldn't reach the end zone anymore and the first half came to an end, while Veronica Rose was sent off fouling on his thrower, also badly hurting him as he failed his regeneration.

 

With KO's and injuries now strife, the second half began with only 10 players a side present.  Deploying once more close to the line for some extra punching changes, it was now the half to work towards that scoring.

  

And soon his line was being knocked over at the scrimmage, as thrall after thrall was tossed around as a ragged doll. 

 

Steadily advancing into his half, the ladies of pleasure kept his players in check by mostly bowling them over, preventing his team from moving to much around that way.

  

 And slowly but surely started to bring the ball, though it changed hands quite a lot, over the middle and towards his end zone.

  

Helped by the fact that one of his vampire runners badly hurt herself dodging away (and he kept failing those regenerations), strength in numbers really began to count on the field.

  

 Sabina however managed to double skull herself over, only to do so again on the re-roll, but without any harm luckily, as she went after one of his last remaining vampires in search of that needed third caused casualty for the bonus point.

  

 Tanya Virago has placed herself behind his lines now, and all we needed to do was bring the ball to her and she would be able to run into his end zone.

  

 Which happened soon, and in the 14th turn, we drew the score to 1-1 and grabbed that needed point at least.

  

His injuries and KO box was littered, and when he failed each and every recovery roll even with a keg, it might still be possible to take home the win.

  

We once again deployed very aggressively against barely a handfull of opponents that where left, my beastly women infiltrating his half making use of their horns and helped by a vampire tripping over trying to rush to Tanya Virago.

 

The ball was handed over to her succesfully, and she ran in once again, scoring a final turn 16 winning touchdown for Only Fangs to the exstatic moans of the crowd, as she flashed her assets to them in celebration.

  

 All the few remaining vampires could do was try some very desperate plan involving a lot of chain pushes, but that went down the drain when a vampire fell over in his rush from the very first action...

 

And so ended the game with a 2-1 victory for Only Fangs, but sadly not scoring that third casualty caused, as the Chaos Dwarfs had also won.

 

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For all her dashing all over the place and hornying over a lot of players, the crowd elected Katty West as Only Fangs best performer of the match.  In addition to this award, she also learned the block skill.

 

More skills where obtained, with Sabrina Sabok getting Iron Hard Skin, while Tanya Virago also gained Block, meaning almost my whole starting line-up except the injured Peachgardens now has the block skill...

 

And so the game ended, and as said above, so would my league have been.  Enter Noshi, my darling partner.  Having seen due to circumstances just how much events I had to cancel the past months, she said I should at least try and finish the league.  As a result I planned in games against two of the three players I haven't faced yet this season (the third was unavailable), as well as a return game against the dwarfs.  Redemption perhaps for the claws that failed me in both games of armoured little tanks of either flavour?

 

Now that means, while I'm currently in 8th on tied points with today's opponent, I will always qualify on the merit of getting at least three additional points in, while the Vampires can only play one last game before reaching their maximum allowed amount of 15 games for the season, and I will always qualify for the play-offs quarter final as a result.

 

But first, next week it'll be damage control against that crazy bunch of snotlings with all their high strength big ones, and about a million in inducements to boot for star players and the likes...  my goals are to not lose to many important players, and score the three casualties by going after the snotlings themselves.

 

See you all next week for another game of erotic balls handling!