Check out how a companion and I gained the largest Warhammer: The Previous World occasion in North America – the Adepticon 2026 Doubles.
The opposite weekend noticed the 2026 Adepticon Doubles happen. Held in Milwaukee, within the US, Adepticon is likely one of the largest occasions on this planet. For the Doubles there have been a complete of 46 groups enjoying, for 92 gamers. That makes this the biggest by particular person Previous World occasion we’ve had in North America. (I’ve already coated the singles occasion right here.) It had some vital comp you will discover them right here (solely 2 Grand Cathay Lanterns, limits on flyers and monsters being the largest) and didn’t use the Renegades pack. I used to be fortunate sufficient to get to play on this occasion with my outdated companion Brandon and when the mud had settled, we took Greatest Total, successful the occasion. So lets check out the checklist we ran and the way it went.
Our Doubles Checklist
Trip Out With Me
Bretonnian Exiles -999 pts
Characters -494 pts
Baron -232 pts
– Protect
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– Normal
– Barded Pegasus
– Frontier Axe
– Advantage of Knightly Mood
Paladin -186 pts
– Lance
– Protect
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– Battle Customary Bearer [War Banner]
– Barded Pegasus
– Gromril Nice Helm
– Advantage of Obligation
Damsel -76 pts
– Wizard [Level 1 Wizard]
– Bretonnian Warhorse
– Phantasm
Core Items -300 pts
10 Peasant Bowmen -50 pts
– Skirmishers
9 Mounted Knights of the Realm -250 pts
– The Exile’s Vow (replaces the Knight’s Vow)
– First Knight (champion)
– Customary bearer [Banner of Châlons]
Uncommon Items -205 pts
Border Princes Bombard -100 pts
10 Border Princes Brigands -105 pts
– 4x Extra hand weapon
– 10x Blunderbusses
– Formation [Skirmishers]
– Scouts
– Desperado (champion)
Excessive Elves
Characters -383 pts
Noble -154 pts
(Hand weapon, Lance, Full plate armour, Protect, Normal, Barded Elven Steed, Ring of Fury, Seed of Rebirth, Blood of Caledor)
Noble -229 pts
(Hand weapon, Lance, Full plate armour, Protect, Battle Customary Bearer [Totem of Wrath], Barded Elven Steed, Ring of Fury, Seed of Rebirth, Blood of Caledor)
Core Items -251 pts
6 Silver Helms -156 pts
(Hand weapons, Lances, Hand weapons (Hooves), Heavy armour, Barding, Shields, Customary bearer, Musician)
5 Ellyrian Reavers -95 pts
(Hand weapons, Cavalry spears, Gentle armour, Shortbows, Skirmishers)
Particular Items -231 pts
5 Dragon Princes -231 pts
(Hand weapons, Lances, Full plate armour, Shields, Barding, Drakemaster [Ring of Fury], Customary bearer, Musician)
Uncommon Items -135 pts
9 Sisters of Avelorn -135 pts
(Hand weapons, Bows of Avelorn, Gentle armour)
How The Doubles Checklist Performs
Brandon and I picked a fairly aggressive checklist with some robust hitting energy, and a few ranged assist. With solely 250 pts to spend on any character or unit you face some actual limitations. The Bret Baron on a Barded Peg is nearly hitting that time cap and one the most effective fight characters you possibly can take at these factors. My half the of the checklist was primarily based round him and the BSB rocking in with a static 3 comabt res to fly round and do some harm. I had a little bit of capturing and a pleasant block of knights to hit issues.
Brandon’s Elves adopted the same arduous hitting method. He introduced a really harmful unit within the Dragon Princes. The 2 nobles rode with them for additional assaults. The unit additionally rocked in with 3 castings of Hammerhand, letting it put out an actual ton of assaults. He additionally introduced some chaff and light-weight capturing. For magic we simply had a single lvl 1, largely there to solid glittering robes and perhaps dispel one thing. Total it was constructed to be versatile and hit arduous.
Spherical 1 VS Grant
Spherical one discovered us going through Group Grant. This blended Brettonian/Wooden Elf military was beautiful, certainly it gained greatest painted. I imply simply examine this out.
Sadly they didn’t submit their lists on-line so I don’t have an actual copy of what they ran. The Brets had a lance of Grail Knight, two small Knights of the Realm, a unit of Grail Pilgrims, a Baron on Peg, and a small unit if Males-At-Arms. The Wooden Elves had some Sisters of the Throne, archers, an eagle and an enormous block of Rangers. I can’t recall what they’d for characters. Each Grant and Cody had been actually nice guys and a ton of enjoyable to play, however didn’t have a ton of expertise with the sport.
The sport went fairly fast. On the left my block of knights fled from the Grail Knights, who then ended up getting shot to demise. On the correct, however Brigands began off by killing the Nice Eagle, after which managed to panic the Knights of the Realm off the Desk. The enemy Sisters of the Throne the place in a position to run off most of that flank in the long run. Within the middle my two Pegs destroyed the ultimate Bret Lance, whereas the DPs annihilated the Pilgrims. We managed to climate the capturing properly and ended up coming collectively to destroy the Rangers.
Sliver Helms and Knights of the Realm In Entrance, Baron and BSB within the rear and even some brigands within the flank for enjoyable. Ouch! This recreation led to a blow out with max 17 factors for us. A very enjoyable recreation vs some nice guys.
Spherical 2 VS Elevating Havok
Spherical 2 noticed us paired into Dylan and Tyler with their Beastmen/Wolves of The Sea military, they’d the next checklist:
Beastmen Brayherds -999 pts
Characters -220 pts
Nice Bray-Shaman -220 pts
– Wizard [Level 3 Wizard]
– Normal
– Hagtree Fetish
– Flying Carpet
– Daemonology
Core Items -311 pts
15 Gor Herd -127 pts
– Extra hand weapons
– Ambushers
– True-horn (champion)
15 Ungor Herd -80 pts
– Shortbows
– Musician
1 Razorgor Herd -52 pts
1 Razorgor Herd -52 pts-
Particular Items -298 pts
3 Dragon Ogres -198 pts
– Nice weapons
– Heavy armour
Herdstone -100 pts-
Uncommon Items –170 pts
Gigantic Spawn of Chaos -170 pts
– Gigantic Spawn of Nurgle
Wolves of the Sea -1000 pts
Characters -268 pts
Exalted Champion -152 pts
– Lance
– Heavy armour
– Protect
– Mark of Chaos [Mark of Chaos Undivided]
– Normal
– Chaos Steed
– Favour of the Gods
Aspiring Champion -116 pts
– Hand weapon
– Nice weapon
– Heavy armour
– Protect
– Mark of Chaos [Mark of Chaos Undivided]
– On foot
– Favour of the Gods
– Ruby Ring of Damage
Core Items -250 pts
26 Chaos Marauders -250 pts
– Hand weapons
– Flails
– Gentle armour
– Shields
– Chaotic Cult [None]
– Formation [Close Order]
– Marauder Headman (champion)
– Customary bearer [War Banner]
– Musician
Particular Items -312 pts
3 Pores and skin Wolves -135 pts
6 Marauder Tribe Huscarls -177 pts
– Hand weapons
– Flails
– Heavy armour
– Shields
– Mark of Chaos [Mark of Slaanesh]
– First Sword (champion) [Sword of Might + Charmed Shield]
– Customary bearer
Uncommon Items -170 pts
Gigantic Spawn of Chaos -170 pts
– Gigantic Spawn of Nurgle
How The Recreation Went
This was by far the toughest recreation we fought, however man was it a blast. Dylan and Tyler had been wonderful guys and this was a tense and actually enjoyable recreation. Luck nonetheless was very a lot on our aspect this recreation. We began out with the Dragon Prince champion besting the Huscarl champ within the duel to allow us to steal first flip. Between the Brgiands and another capturing we took out the remainder of the Huscarls. The Exalted Champ with them ended up combating a number of rounds of fight with Brigands and different chaf on our flank, and rolled one thing like 4 1s on eye of the gods making him very very silly, however as he was in fight a lot it by no means mattered.
Our mid recreation plans additionally bumped into some loopy luck. We had planed to cost each their Big Spawn, one with the BSB and DPs and the opposite with the my Knights and Baron. Nevertheless each my characters failed worry checks on re-rollable 9s. This compelled us to ship each models of Knights into the identical spawn, which they simply barely managed to kill. This in flip let my Knights get into the Dragon Ogres and the DPs into the Marauders. On the similar time our left collapsed (regardless of a miscast that blew up loads of Ungors), with my cannon doing nothing. Some ambushing Gors additionally run into Silver Helms who one way or the other managed to win that fight.
At this level the Chaos aspect was trying fairly skinny, however we had been beat up. Figuring we had been forward on factors we pulled again and tried to keep away from any extra danger. Nevertheless Elevating Havok wasn’t having any of it. They threw all the pieces at us in a single final ditch effort. The managed to vile tide my BSB and we had an enormous difficult combat int he middle with loads of what was left of either side there. The turning level was me making 5 out of 6 6+ Woman’s Blessing saves with my knights, after which doing 4 wounds in return with the Knights (not charging) to the Pores and skin Wolves. This was the ultimate straw and allow us to mop up. In the long run although our models had taken an actual beating we pulled off a 14 level win.
Spherical 3 VS Double Dragons
Our third and closing recreation was towards one other Chaos/Beastmen staff. Brandon and Jim had been operating the next:
Beastmen Brayherds
65 – Bray-Shaman, Wizard Stage 1, Daemonology
250 – Doombull, Normal, Mangelder
35 – 5 Gor Herds, Extra Hand Weapon
244 – 5 Minotaur Herds
• 1x Minotaur, Extra Hand Weapon, Bloodkine
Customary Bearer
• 4x Minotaur, Extra Hand Weapon
202 – 3 Dragon Ogres, Heavy Armour, Halberd, Shartak
202 – 3 Dragon Ogres, Heavy Armour, Halberd, Shartak
Warriors of Chaos
213 – Aspiring Champion, Mark of Khorne, Halberd, Chaos Chariot
136 – Chaos Knights, lances, commonplace bearer, champion
136 – Chaos Knights, lances, commonplace bearer, champion
137 – Dragon Ogres, 1 Shartak, halberds
137 – Dragon Ogres, 1 Shartak, halberds
240 – Dragon Ogre Shaggoth
How The Recreation Went
This was one other enjoyable recreation and Brandon and Jim had been nice guys. It was additionally fairly intimidating establishing throughout from a stable wall of 10 Dragon Ogres. This was additionally a fairly straight ahead recreation, they went first and got here proper as us. On the flanks we had been in a position to kite their frenzied models. This saved the chariot lord from doing something, and allow us to shoot up the Knights, although they did ultimately get the Brigands and Cannon (after it Misfired 3 turns in a row).
Within the middle we determined to additionally go all in, avoiding the Shaggoth we charged the all 10 of the Dragon Ogres. On the correct my Baron and the DPs destroyed 5 of them. Nevertheless on the left the weaker punch of my Knights and BSB solely managed to harm them and make each models Fall Again in Good Order. However that was simply flip 1.
Regardless of failing some assessments to reform, not one of the Dragon Ogres, nor the Shaggoth made it by flip 3 alive. At this level we had the majority of of placing powers nonetheless alive. In the meantime the opposite staff had some beat up models, so it was largely clear up from right here.
In the long run this was one other 17 pt victory for us. Whereas my knights as soon as once more bought beat up, we nonetheless most of our actual killing energy round. This was a very enjoyable recreation vs some nice guys.
Closing Ideas
Adepticon Doubles was an enormous blast. On the finish of the day we went 3-0 and scored 48 factors, 3 factors shy of an ideal rating. 4 different groups did go 3-0 on the occasion, nonetheless we had been 9 factors above the following staff, placing us comfortably in first place for greatest total. A little bit of discloser right here, I used to be judging the opposite occasions, nonetheless I purposefully had nothing to do with doubles and didn’t see the missions or lists earlier than hand. We had 3 actually enjoyable video games towards some nice gamers. Doubles permits some enjoyable staff ups and combos. I feel our checklist managed to make the most of this. We did have first rate match ups and a few luck, however thats the sport. I do know I’m trying ahead to subsequent 12 months!
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Abe is that uncommon factor, an Austin native born and raised right here. Although he retains on shifting round, DC, Japan, ETC., he at all times appears to seek out his means again ultimately. Abe has a long time of expertise with a variety of tabletop and RPG video games, from historicals, to Star Wars to D&D and 40K. He has been contributing to BOLS since virtually the beginning, again when he labored at after which owned an area gaming retailer. He was large into the aggressive Warhammer event scene however age has mellowed him and he now appreciates an excellent informal match. He presently covers Warhammer: The Previous World, in addition to all issues Star Wars, with occasional dabbling in different matters. Abe mourned over lack of WFB for its total hiatus, however has been reborn like a gaming phoenix with Warhammer: The Previous World.
