Attended my first ever 'competitive' KoW tournament at Total Wargamer near Evesham. Learnt a few important lessons:
1) KoW players are much too nice to be really competitive, which is lucky because..
2) I'm not that great at KoW.
3) Dwarves are alright, Brock riders and berserkers great fun, but a bit too cannony for my tastes. I'm going green again.
4) Sod's law dictates if you bring dwarves you play dwarves.. And then again. Like a dwarfish circle of hell.
5) beware cats. Just when you think it is safe to go out without your benedryl, dozens of the feckers appear where you least expect them.
6) if you are going to play dwarves - bring a Brock riding berserker lord with wings of honey maze or sommit, those little guys eat canons (as I found in both games).
7) steal yourself for sudden anxiety if not used to being away from the baba on the weekend, especially as Evesham seems to exist in a mobile signal black hole.
8) if you equip your units with clever stuff, stick a little label on them, or you'll forget to use them. Or eat more fish, making your brain somewhere closer to functional.
9) avoid randomly buying big boxes of mantic zombies, dooming yourself to starting yet another army when you haven't even finished one yet.
10) my painting is shabby. This bloke from Lincoln had an awesome dwarf army, then this young fellow had an even more amazing dwarf army. I may have been less embarrassed had I not painted mine at all, just shrugged a devil may care 'too busy'.