Holy Havoc Team Tournament – Age Of Sigmar Live Blog

Steve Herner, the Holy Havoc coordinator, and master of terrain and conversions has brought back his fantastic Rats In Hats army- complete with their new round bases. This tournament awards an extra point for presentation if you use the round bases.

The teams are deploying their armies on Table 1. This game features the first of our 2 teams that we will follow over the next 2 days, Eric Oakland & Davy Calkins. We'll have a chat with them after their first game to hear about who they've brought for their armies and more about their warlord- who they have very ambitious plans for upgrading after game!

Table 5 has our second team that we're following, which includes Mike Butcher and Andrew Simmons. This game looks like one to watch as it's LOADED with big beasties- which seems fitting with that nasty big spider in the middle of the terrain!

The teams are having a great time in their first games. There's even a husband & wife team in the tournament. Yvonne is excited to be playing and it's her first tournament. We'll make sure we talk to her later.

Mike & Andrew have brought Chaos Demons together for their army. Their Warlord is Tallomin Bubonicus.

You can tell a lot of love goes into all these armies by how fantastic they look. At the end of the day all the armies will be displayed for final judging for yhe painting competition, so i'll get pics of each of them.

Teams are strategizing for Game 2 and deploying their forces. Knowing they need to get their Warstone shards all the way across the table should make for interesting choices in set up.

The more I look, the more cool things I see. There's so much painting talent in this room! Check out all the details in The Quick and the Undead army.

For the most part, players have distributed their warpstones among their units- except for one. There's one model with all 10 warpstones- which could be glorious or an epic fail, should the opposing team take it out all together.

I think my 2 favorite things about this tournament is the narrative involved in each scenario and the freedom in the build for the armies. There is something truly epic about the big beasties battling it out on the tables. And we're totally enjoying the conversations going on through game play as the story elements unfold.

It's become apparent that making an effort to hold the line is key to preventing your opponent to scoring on the objective with their warpstones. An early victory was claimed with a team getting all their warpstones across the table courtesy of teleporting! Loophole! And another game ended early voluntarily as the line was held and sufficiently blocked passage.

Perhaps the best moments in these AoS games is when units are locked in battle and it becomes a matter of who will be the last one standing. There's been a lot of back and forth on dice rolls will saves.

Chris Broeska and Andrew Niekamp have come together with their Kroaknado Army. Their army combines the Seraphon and Stormcast Eternals as a Forces Of Order. They've put it together in a fantastic display with a stunning gate and portals, that ties it all together beautifully.

David Bierhaus & Tim Schmidt have combined the forces of Khorne & Nurgle for the Order of Chaos. My favorite model in this army is the Toad Dragon- he just looks epic with Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord riding on his back.

Players are already up close and personal with the enemies in game 4. There's some tense game faces, but also victorious cheers happening, which means players are enjoying their games.

Tom McClure & Domus have combined forces to pull together a fantastic Chaos army. They have 2 of the coolest big creatures in their forces with the War Mammoth and Glottkin- both very hard to deal with on the battlefield.

Dan Clements & Dominic Reitman have brought together Khorne, Bloodbound and Skaven as the Blood Alliance- and it looks pretty sweet! Even the board it's displayed on suits the overall feel of unity. This army features the only team that took the path of the Slayer for their warlord too.

Joe Krier and Marvin Sims created an interesting mashup of Khorne and Tzeentch. What really made it interesting was going with blue as the primary color scheme. Their army included one of my favorite models, the Archaon the Everchosen.

Eric Oakland and Davy Calkins from the Mortal Realms Podcast have joined forces to deliver one of the coolest armies in the tournament. Endless Destrukshon is an amazing army of Orcs & Ogres where you see Tyranid conversions used in a brilliant way. Their display set us was extra awesome with its Egyptian flair.

Alex Gonzalez (our resident Adepticon Fantasy coordinator) and John Wenger have brought together Elves and Stormcast in The Exorcism Of Ulgu. I love the hydras they've brought to the table!

Pat Brynildson and Walter Duncan have brought Ogres and Stormcast to the table for The Saga of Bloodfist and Dragonborn. This is an example of an army that came together beautifully on their display board with their coherent basing- plus the big creatures and machines look fantastic!

With permission to go crazy with your armies in a narative event like this, it's interesting that only one army showed up with Nagash. Not only does this army look fantastic, but it's been an absolute BEAST to play against and it's controlled by the husband and wife team of Matthew and Yvonne Carter.

Lou Massignani and Nick Fenske have out together an fabulous Undead display. Their board really ties their forces together with a unified look- and those wings- wow!

We have been following Eric & Davy through their tournament experience, and i just had to show off where they ended up with their Warlord. The narrative of Holy Havoc had the Warlords evolving each game, becoming even more powerful, and the guys took it to the next level by literally changing their Warlord each round. He is magnetized so his base became more and more elaborate and his weapons changed, giving him a truly epic feel and really embracing the spirit of the event. Well done, guys!

Tom Lyons and Vincent Venturella pulled together an amazing Chaos army. Though one was based in snow and not the other, they really pulled it all together with their display board that incorporated snow throughout. Super smart and it really worked. They get extra enthusiasm points for bringing the crazy assortment of fantasy themed beverages too!