Well, here is a general overview of the games, the lists and
such at the event! Check my other post for pictures of the event!
My list:
Sorcerer: Mark of Tzeench, Level 2, aura of Dark Glory
10 Chaos Marines: 2 plasma guns, extra ccw
10 Chaos Marines: 2 plasma guns, extra ccw
10 Chaos Marines: 2 plasma guns, extra ccw
10 Chaos Marines: 2 plasma guns, extra ccw
Cultists x10 with pistols/ccw
Cultists x20 with 14 rifles, 2 heavy stubbers, pistols/ccw x4
Heldrake
Lord of Change
Flamers of Tzeench x3
Plaguebearers x6
Plaguebearers x6
Screamers of Tzeench x6
Game 1 vs. Rich with Space Wolves and Grey Knights
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil
Primary: capture objectives scattered about the table.
Secondary: Destroy Heavy and Troop choices, worth one VP each.
Tertiary: Table Quarters, each quarter earns you 1 VP.
Bonuses: Slay Warlord, First blood and Linebreaker
His list was Wolf Priest with saga of the Hunter, 3 squads
with meltas/plasmas, Wolf Lord with Wolf Mount with Runic Armor, 3+ storm
shield and power fist. 2 Long Fangs with mixed weapons of Missiles and heavy
bolters, unit of Grey Knights (troop choice), Dreadknight, Techmarine, Cotaez
with retinue with the psykers to throw the large blast and crusaders and
jokeroo to add defense and shooting.
Amusing points:
- First turn my Helldrake entered he burned down 8
out of 10 Space Wolves with a baleflamer shot.
- First Turn the screamers arrived the turbo
boosted over one of the Long Fangs killing 4 out of 6 the first turn. They
also tied up the Wolf Lord that assaulted them for a few rounds keeping
him out of the game.
I won Primary, Secondary and Slay the Warlord and First
Blood. Rich got the Tertiary
Game 2 vs. Charles with Chaos Marines (Slaanesh)
Deployment: Dawn of War
Primary: 6 objectives scattered about 12 inches apart.
Secondary: Each fast and troop choice was worth 1 VP.
Tertiary: Destroy the most expensive unit.
He had 3 Rhinos, 2 Demolishers, 3 squads of 5 Noise Marines
with the leader with the sonic flamer upgrade with a Lord with the Mark of
Slaanesh, had a lighting claw and power fist I think, Aegis line with Quad gun,
10 men with two Sonic Blasters, 2 Hellbrutes, 1 with plasma and 1 with
multi-melta, 1 Mauler and Helldrake (painted an amazing color of pink).
I took all 20 this game as the clock was ticking down and we
was on turn 5 I had Screamers about to munch his last Vindicator, two Noise
Marines was fighting 4 Plague Bearers, one Dread was in action too far away to
do much. He gave the game to me as I had the objectives, the most expensive
unit and more fast and troops than he had.
Great moments in the game:
- Mauler runs through a building towards my unit
and charges. Krak grenades fly from my squad and I get 3 or 4 6’s on Krak
Grenades to Pen, sure all glances, he rolls his saves….*THUMP* something
like from Starship Troopers when they tossed the grenades into the big
bugs mouth!
Game 3 vs. Michael’s Tyranids
He had the heavy monster bug list with a flying Tyrant, two
big bugs that spit out more gaunts, some token gaunts for troop choices also,
the Doom in a Pod with the psychic power that mimics the Doom power (so thus
double Dooming!), a Tyrant with guard, some Venomthorpes (for shield coverage)
and some other odd and end shooters.
Deployment was: Vanguard on a nice city fight table. I took
cover in a building and he spread out on his side.
Primary: Supply drop, deep strike objective tokens for a
total of 6 starting on turn 2.
Secondary: Destroy the enemy. 1 VP per unit dead.
Tertiary: Control the Field of Battle (most terrain
objectives)
This was again a brutal game, despite the heavy handed
aspect of the list the worst part was the Doom that always seemed to have 10
wounds with the ability to double doom units. I really think this should
be FAQ’ed as while it is legal is really just bending the rules in a way that
just makes this unit very broken for the points cost. This was a minor loss for
me with a 9 to 11 score against Michael. He is a great guy to play against
despite the heavy handed army build.
Game 4 was against Devin with his Dark Eldar/Eldar Mix
The list he had: Eldrad, Baron Sathonyx, Fire Dragons x6
with Crack shot and Tank Hunters with Exharch, Wraithguard x10 with Warlock
(Conceal, Spirit Seer), Guardian Bike x3 (shuriken Cannon), Kalabite Warriors
x5 (blaster), Venom with Night Shields and Splinter Cannon, Kalabite Warriors
x10 with Blaster, Splinter Cannon, Raider with Night Shields and Disintegrator
Cannon, Drive Avengers x5, Warp Hunter with Shuriken Cannon (Forge
World), Heavy Falcon with scatter laser and shuriken cannon, 3 heavy walkers
with scatter lasers and shuriken cannon and Aegis line with Quad gun.
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil (bad for me)
Primary: Each unit worth 1 VP
Secondary: 2 Objectives, one in each deployment zone.
Tertiary: 1 Objective in center of table, each turn in
control gives you 1 VP
This was just an ugly game and a very hyper-competitive army
list. Devin was a great guy to play but this game was zero fun to watch him
roll hordes of dice, rerolls and other tricks just smoking my army bit by bit
as I can’t do a damm thing but sip a beer and take a beating. Oh well, by the
end of the game I was all but tabled army wise and he had a clean sweep of 20
points and leaving me a big 0. Ironic he would take overall with this list,
well you can see why.
Game 5 vs. Remey’s Necrons
Deployment: Vanguard
Primary: Objective in center, you can move it 6” max only…
Secondary: Table Quarters
Tertiary: Destroy units 1 VP each
He had:
4 Troop Transport flyers with min squads inside.
2 Large Wraith Units
with 2 Lords with destroyer bodies with mind shackle scarabs and two Canoptek
Tomb Stalkers.
This game started on a
bad foot with my opponent being about 45 minutes late to the table due to
oversleeping due to the daylight savings time change. In an attempt to not be a
dick and tell him that the game was forfeit for being late we played. My mistake,
I should have took the auto-win instead as the army was pure hyper-competitive,
in my eyes if you are this competitive you can be on time. He was all nice
about being late and wanted to buy me lunch which I didn’t want him to have
that obligation for feeling like he was beating my ass and being late. I just
hate the feeling someone feels obligated to do something.
This was a pure cluster
fuck list as his troops are never at risk, you have to kill two monstrous
creatures that are modeled the size of a ratling sniper (hrm, what part of
monstrous did you miss?) and terrain ignoring wraiths and mind shackle crap to
annoy you further. I was able to hold my own until the end, which by the time I
killed the two big things the warriors are gabbing table quarters, the flyers
are shooting the hell out of me and the wraiths are just hanging out in hand to
hand killing things every turn. Exciting game, yea…..I would put this
down as the worst game of 5 and perhaps in the top 5 of my gaming lifetime.
Again I lost 0 to
20 and in a twist of irony ended up facing the Eldar list from last turn and
his list was shredded by the Eldar list (yea, I was shocked by this one,
hehehhe). So, I was doing well until that point with what I consider a fairly
solid list.
Game 5 vs. Reinaldo’s
Tyranids
Deployment: Dawn
of War
Primary: 3
objectives down the center of the table.
Secondary: 1 VP
per psyker
Tertiary:
objective in each deployment zone.
He had a decent
list, again the Doom was there and flying Tyrant with the bio-shotguns that
lets him rolls a crapload of dice! There were two large bugs making more and a
large swarm of Gargoyles as well as some other random things.
This was just a
fun game in general as neither of us was up for any of the big awards except
maybe faction which even then both of us was in the hole slightly. We had a
good game overall with some small rules issues. I managed to buckle down and
shake the last game to take in 7 points and he got 2 in the end despite the
pounding I took. The first Blood helped in early scoring while he had
Linebreaker and neither of us could take the Primary or Tertiary, I did manage
to down my psyker Nids that sealed the win.
No major awards of any type
were won by Chris or I but I did manage to score a bag of 20 Cadians (box was
damaged and sponsor/vendor bagged the set and gave it away)! All in all, it was
a decent weekend with only two bad games (even then the players was not bad
just the type of armies they had). I think I would go back again next year, I
will have to work on a solid list for next year to avoid the hyper-competitive
lists from pounding me to muck.
*Note Not sure what happened to the code here and where this white box came from but oh well, I spent some time trying to remove it and I don't care to retype it at this time.*
