Recently, Grathel made a rather boastful claim in a thread that he was the greatest Orc player ever. WhiteLancer made a similar claim in the same thread, calling himself the greatest Necropolis Sect player in the world. Both of the players talk to eachother regularly on AIM, and live in California, but live far enough away from eachother to make a real life game difficult to bring about. So, these two rivals have agreed to an online skirmish to decide, once and for all, who shall hold the title of The Golden State's Greatest Mage Knight Warlord.

The game will be played on a 36x36 Hex Game Area, and both players have agreed to the following terms:

1. All 90 degree arcs are reduced to 60 degrees, and all 370 degree arcs are increased to 300.

2. 2.0 Tournament Standard rules will be used.

3. Once a player's turn is posted, his opponent will have 2 days to post his.

4. All rolls will be made using Irony Games' Dice Server.

5. Armies will be pure Faction, with Mage Spawn used as filler only if they appear to fit in with units of the player's chosen faction.

6. Both players may use 2.0 figures as if they owned them, but only figures that have complete stats posted on the MK Realms website.

7. The Game will consist of 24 turns.

Let The Battle of the Egos begin!

Armies and Domains for both players are due at 12 Midnight on October 30th.

Deployment Zones are as seen on the Game's official page, here.

Terrain selected by both players is as follows:

WhiteLancer - 1 Rectangle Hindering, 1 Keep Blocking, 1 Rectangle Raised, 1 Rectangle Water.

Grathel - 2 Peanut Blocking, 2 Peanut Concealing.

Here is my army for the battle:

1x** Ubkhan- 53pts
1x*** Ubkhan – 59

Boronx – 54pts
2x*** Ironclads – 70pts
1x* Clurch Piper – 15pts
Hot Tongs – 13pts

1x*** Barber Surgeon – 19pts
1x* Goblin volunteer – 5pts
2x** Goblin volunteer – 6 pts

300pts

Domain: Storm Gale

Whisper 84 pts
Fell Reaper 43 pts
Sargoth 57 pts
Astrus lvl 3 31 pts
Werewolf ** x3 84 pts

299 pts.

Domain: Heat Wave

WhiteLancer... how do Werewolves fit in with Necro? Lycanthropes and Werewolves, in most literature/fiction and so on, hate each other with a passion. Just wondering from an impartial observer. Actually, I hope you crush Grath. ;)

Well, in the Necropolis Sect fiction, it says they use Dark Magic to enslave horrific Mage Spawn. Werewolves and Vampires are rivals in evil, so it would make sense that the Sect Mages would enslave the rivals of their masters in service of the Sect as an ultimate cruelty towards them.

Page updated, now contains armies and stats for each unit. Terrain placement begins tommorow.

http://www.angelfire.com/journal/shadowlands/game.html

Well sure, but by that argument, you could use any MS and say they fit in with the NS. Would that be true? No. I mean, how would... Slag Trolls... fit in with NS? They really don't, but the NS could always be enslaving them... Your rules state:

5. Armies will be pure Faction, with Mage Spawn used as filler only if they appear to fit in with units of the player's chosen faction.

How does having a group of MS that specifically hate your faction make them 'fit in'? ;)

Thats just it, and note I said: Horrific Mage Spawn, not just regular Mage Spawn. Werewolves are pretty horrific in my book, and, as I said, Werewolves and Vampires are specific rivals, so the Sect would have a direct interest in enslaving them, to demoralize the enemy, so to speak. They have no real reason to go about specifically targetting other Mage Spawn, except perhaps the Kruggs, since their lands border the Sect lands, and of course the Skeletals and Ghosts.

*Shrug* If you say so... good luck.

And, anyway, if I were to change my army now, i'd have an unfair advantage, since i've seen my opponent's army.

LOL... change your army from having 3 of the best 1.0 figures in 2.0? ;)

If I were to change my army now, and take those 3 figures out, I guarantee you i'll have an advantage, because, if my opponent suddenly agrees with you, I plan to make him regret it with my figure choice.

this aught to be an interesting battle things are shaping up nicely good luck to both of you will be watching the battle from my griffon.

Eh, i'll go ahead and place my first peice of terrain now:

Gatehouse Blocking, Points at (X18,Y13), (X14,Y15), (X14,Y18), (X18,Y20), (X22,Y18) and (X22,Y15).

Map updated with new Terrain.

Go Grathel! Loot and Burn!

BOO GRATH! Go NS MAN!