On the path to the title he defeated the reigning Everchosen champion Tlaxtlan Soothsayer. He was joined in the final by HjalleNalle a new player invited to the tournament who took it by storm, getting to the final without dropping a single game. It’s fantastic to see new players coming to the tournament and doing well. It’s also good for the game to see new Everchosen champions.
In the first battle of the competitive final HjalleNalle played Greenskins into Felkon’s Norsca, he brought a mass of Orc Arrer boyz and used them to great success as he spread them wide and picked apart the slower Norscan advance after eliminating their skirmish units.
In the second map, Hjallenalle took Lizardmen into the Wood Elves of Felkon. Hjallenalle had done his homework on Felkon and how he likes to play Wood Elves with use of Wild Riders and Forest Dragons, and picked a strong counter to that style of play focusing on aerial units. Unfortunately, Felkon completely flipped the script and brought a vast army of mostly tier 1 archers. These archers wiped out most of Hjallenalle’s vanguard deployed air force almost immediately. Having removed that value from the map, Felkon could focus fire down the remaining expensive units. Despite some excellent engages from Hjallenalle to try and bring it back there was just too much volume of fire to deal with.
Felkon took the lead 2-1 by convincingly winning the third map. He played Lizardmen versus Hjallenalle’s Beastmen. Felkon brought a Slann mage priest of light with Temple Guard and some long range artillery to focus down the beastmen single model units. Use of Birona’s Timewarp buffed up the front line Lizardmen units to be almost unkillable. The Beastmen giants did manage to pick the stegadon and do some damage but the massive units of infantry remaining managed to clean up the fight with Felkon’s army only losing 188 models.
The final map was Felkon’s Dark Elves versus Hjallenalle’s Chaos. Felkon brought his favourite unit The Chill of Sontar and used his elite infantry to screen while his repeater crossbow cavalry were able to pick apart Hjallenalle’s army. Whenever Malekith was getting focused he would send him into combat supported by that core of infantry that was never far away.
Creative Assembly hosts these invitational tournaments after major content drops, and this Fall Invitational comes weeks after the Hunter and the Beast DLC pack.
The regular on screen talent of Turin, Italian Spartacus and Loremaster of Sotek were joined by newcomer PartyElite, who hit the ground running maintaining the high quality commentary and analysis that Total War fans have come to expect from Everchosen streams. The broadcast was as entertaining and insightful as ever.
Total War: Warhammer 2 provides a unique esports experience with fast paced yet incredibly tactical battles, varied races and a plethora of talented casters and players. It’s great to see Creative Assembly putting on these events and investing time into the competitive side of their product.
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