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Our first game in the Team Tournament at Adepticon was against the top team in the field... "They Shall Know Fear". Two-time repeat champion of the team tourney and our match included the gentleman (Nick Nanavati) that had just won the championships the day before. Nick and Aaron Aleong were playing an inquisitional army with 4 land raiders and 2-4 inquisitors (not sure about the number... at least 2) with 4 henchmen death-squads.

Never having faced an inquisitional army, wyomingfox and I set out as normal with his Tau in the back (but not all the way back) to provide supporting fire and my wraith-wing up front running interference. Hammer and Anvil deployment, objectives... maybe kill points too.

I moved my wraiths forward to crunch-n-munch me a LR, failed my charge, then got wiped by ONE of the henchmen units.... dear God. The rest of the battle went pretty much the same (bad for us). However... given that we were completely outmatched, I thought we did pretty well for ourselves & made them work for it a bit. By the end we'd effectively killed off one of their armies and significantly damaged the other. Wyfox and I both made mistakes in the last turn that probably cost us points... but considering the competition... I thought we did all-right. The guys were FANTASTIC to play by-the-way. I'd play them again any day! We had an absolute blast and were goofing off and joking around the whole time.

Turn 1 I think... because I still have figures alive on the board... Staring into the face of 4 land raiders when you have nothing better than S7 is a bit daunting.


The cavalry arrives. I discovered that as hard-as-nails as the henchmen are in assault... they do go down pretty easy to gunfire. You can see my wraiths dying horribly in the top center there...


My moment of glory. 5 Warriors walk on after having their transport gunned down by a land raider, see another land raider through the boulders and land 3 glances on it *in spite* of the 4+ cover saves... wrecking it. Moral victory... Gitsplitta!


Very enjoyable game though we really did get our a$$es handed to us. Wyfox was really sick the first day so I'm sure we would have benefited if he'd been 100%. (He's the thinker, I'm just eye-candy.)

Nice little batrep - and good to see you heretical, xenos scum faring so well against the ultimate truth!

Game 2:

Vs a great group of guys out of Ohio. "The Bolter Brothers", Alan & Larry. They were playing a marine army that just had fire-power up the wazoo.

It was with these gentlemen that Yellowbeard and I shared our moment of zen. Sharing drinks and leaning back withour eyes closed, savoring the flavor of good libation and companionship. They were fantastic! Would love to play them again in future years! Sorry for the quality of the next two pics... they're rubbish!



I'm showing the next pic, even though it's blurry... because it helps to illustrate a funny story. Here are the guy's armies... a white armored chapter, and it's opposite.


The mission was "marked for death" in which you only get kill points for ONE of your opponent's armies (you get to pick which opponent). Yellowbeard had forgotten which army we were going after, and I blurted out (rather loudly)... "Kill the white guys!", at which point the gentleman on the left burst out laughing. Then the irony of what I said hit all of us and we had a good laugh. Of course the ultimate irony is that the humor of the situation was based on the sad history of race relations in this country... but in context, the combination of my comment, the color of the figures and the color of the gamers was just something we all found funny. And that I believe, is a good thing.

They did a really good job early. Their massed fire-power put the hurt on my wraith squad and killed one of Yellowbeard's wraith knights. I'm not ashamed to say I was a bit worried, especially when their loaded storm raven with talon escort hit the table. When my flyers came in 1/2 turn later, one of my night scythes made the shot heard 'round the world. Tessla destuctor shot broadside into the zooming storm raven. 6 to pen. SR failed it's jink. 6 on the damage roll. *boom!* SR blows up, killing the named character and elite squad inside and also blowing up the dreadnought it was carrying. The tessla shot then arcs into the escort fighter, rolls a 6 to pen, then a 6 damage... blowing it up as well. One shot killed about 800 points worth of their army.

While they fought bravely... they just couldn't recover from that. We found out later from another opponent (when I was trying to arc into my own plane) that tessla's can't arc into flyers (something about auto-hits not being allowed, through arcing is hardly an auto-hit, you still need to roll a 6). I'd been tesslaing my own flyers for the last 6 months and I know I put a glance on one of my own flyers during this game by arcing so I don't feel that we took unfair advantage of the rules. Just didn't know I was doing it wrong.

So, a round two victory and another great game. So far the tournament was going wonderfully!

Alan and Larry of The Boltgun Brothers. Great game! And they gave us collapsible shot glasses! Very cool. They were playing Ravenguard and Star Phantoms. Beautiful armies that matched serendipitously. (They said they hadn't planned for them to match.). They were chosen for the army showcase!

Great guys and a great game. They really got the short end of the stick, though. I thought it was bad when my WK wiped out one of the Star Phantom squads, but Gits' Tesla shot to take out the 'Raven was painful.

Hope we get to play these guys next year!

Thanks ayah, fixed the post! Lots of fun to be sure.

Andrew here - I was on the other table playing against your teammates in round 1. Great meeting you - you guys were a blast to play! Also, your buddy that home brews beer should just go ahead and go pro, his brown ale and saison were frickin awesome!

We played Bolter's Boyz on the first game on Sunday and had a good time too. It was the earliest drink I have had in a couple years. I rarely say no to a drink, but I had to stop after two. Whale and I had a close game, but after I sacrificed every troop I had, he was able to yoink the relic with his "useless" henchman squad. It was a good, close game. One of those games you are happy to win, but wouldn't feel at all bad if you had lost.

Target wrote:
Andrew here - I was on the other table playing against your teammates in round 1. Great meeting you - you guys were a blast to play! Also, your buddy that home brews beer should just go ahead and go pro, his brown ale and saison were frickin awesome!

Thanks, Andrew! Glad you liked the beer. We had a great time in that game!

Sorry I haven't been painting all. There are some things in life that are more important than painting miniatures.

....

Like watching Samurai I, II & III with the wife... which are subtitled so it precludes my usual tactic of painting while the TV or a movie is playing in the background.

Kind of nice to just sit in the evenings and watch a really good series of movies with my sweetie. Usually the youngest has some Disney pre-teen crap on that I can't stand which drives me upstairs into my studio (where I have my own TV).

Target wrote:
Andrew here - I was on the other table playing against your teammates in round 1. Great meeting you - you guys were a blast to play! Also, your buddy that home brews beer should just go ahead and go pro, his brown ale and saison were frickin awesome!

Wait, as in Andrew Gonyo?. That's cool. My 1000 points of Tau was selected/inspired from your ETC list LOL. Small world.

Finally got a chance to fool around with my models today. Did some painting on the current ork project and did some building on the next Mantis Warrior project (finally). Picked up a Hyperios launcher... just to fool around as well as to use it as a whirlwind option for my rhino chassis. Finally got it built as both a stand-alone and with the converted rhino top hatch so it'll go on one of my old-school rhinos.

Painting should commence soon.

 wyomingfox wrote:

Target wrote:
Andrew here - I was on the other table playing against your teammates in round 1. Great meeting you - you guys were a blast to play! Also, your buddy that home brews beer should just go ahead and go pro, his brown ale and saison were frickin awesome!

Wait, as in Andrew Gonyo?. That's cool. My 1000 points of Tau was selected/inspired from your ETC list LOL. Small world.

Yup! Glad to hear, that list was fun to make and even more fun to play last year

lovin' that missile launcher Gits! although it doesn't look quite green enough yet :-)

Good to see you're getting your love for the mean green MWs again!

Saw this and couldn't resist...

Love live tennis love it

Most excellent. You win the internets for today Den!

@graven: Yep... the fire is back.

So....you going to paint up a stormtalon like a hummingbird and have a MW trying to take it down with it's chainswords?

I watched at least 8 more of those videos.

OK, slight change in painting order. Having play-tested it a bit, I'll think I'll wait until I can secure the full compliment of them before painting them. BUT... never fear... have another project on the docket that I think you'll enjoy.

I use two and they are quite good but a third would be quite useful I think.

Yeah... I like them because they aren't over-the-top powerful, but they aren't crap either. I just ordered the official IA book that has the rules for them (not sure what "heat seeking" does), but as is... they seem to be a good investment for the points

Neat looking little model too, which is always a bonus with me.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Yeah... I like them because they aren't over-the-top powerful, but they aren't crap either. I just ordered the official IA book that has the rules for them (not sure what "heat seeking" does), but as is... they seem to be a good investment for the points

Neat looking little model too, which is always a bonus with me.

Heat Seeker lets you re-roll failed to hit roll's against flyers, fast skimmers and super heavy flyers. Which is great as they are twin linked already.

Imperial Armour V2 Second Edition War Machines of the blah blah blah has the most up to date rules for them.

But you can't re-roll a re-roll, so I'm assuming the heat seeking does nothing, correct?

Not sure to be honest, ever since I've used them I've never played against an army that has flyers so not had to argue the rule lol

Wow Gits, loved the Batreps !

It's those incredible, against-the-odds moments that I like in battles, like when the NWarriors glanced the LR to wreck or the crash of the StormRaven...

That's awesome !

(Also, please be kind to Star Phantoms... They're a great, if shrouded in mystery, chapter... )

Ah, well then Yggs... I have one epic tale left to tell. I never did relate the yarn of our last battle. Necrons and Tau vs Eldar and Dark Eldar. It was pretty cool... and the wraith-wing earned it's kibble for the whole tournament in one game!

I'll put that together later on for ya! Even have a picture or two.

Ok, you do that !

Just for you Yggsie...


My tale starts the way all epic tales should.

"No sh*t, there we were... three against a thousand! (and those were the toughest three guys any of us had ever seen!)"


Game 5 we were below .500 so I was hoping for a nice, fun, low-key game to finish off the tournament. wyomingfox and I were once again teamed up and were greeted by a couple of French Canadian gentlemen sporting a combined Light/Dark Eldar army with THREE death stars! A jetseer council and two beast stars... not to mention The Baron, two wave serpents and a number of other nasty surprises. Given that... we did what any self-respecting generals would do... castled up and hid in the corner behind cover of course!



Our opponents surged forward in hopes of completely overwhelming us by force of numbers and superior assault capabilities. As you can see from the photo above... my wraith wing... the ONLY thing between their massive army and wyfox's vulnerable shooting troops sallied forth without fear. (literally... they're fearless)

In their last turn, the seer council and moved their way up into the beast squad & about 3 or 4 jetbikes were actually just ahead of the beasts. On our turn, I charged the seers. I knew from an earlier game that they were deadly shooting, but *could* be beaten in assault if a few dice went my way. Because he'd placed a few bikes out in front of the beast star, I was able to assault the bikes without engaging the beasts.



Luckily for us, the wraith star did it's job and between the mindshackle scarabs and the whip coils... I managed to take out about half the bikes with no losses of my own. The bikes didn't break, so we were locked in combat.

During the Eldar turn, the beasts nearest to the combat swung around so they could go after wyfox's Tau, while the second (huge) beast star charged into combat with the wraiths. Luckily, the second beast star was so large and strung out that only a few were able to join in the combat and with the aid of the MSS and whip coils, I wiped the bikes... causing the beasts to take (and fail) a morale test. The beasts fled... and we were able to keep pressure on them with other elements of our armies until they ran off the table.

My wraiths then turned 180 degrees and charged into the melee with the other beast star which was chewing on the Tau. wyfox's Tau were actually accounting for themselves quite well, but without help the end would be a foregone conclusion. I hit the beasts and slowly the odds began to swing in our favor. A pivotal moment occurred when the character my Necron Lord was in a challenge with switched out with "The Baron" (apparently he can do that). I believe The Baron failed his MSS test, hit himself once, then failed his 2+ save... killing himself with his super-weapon.

At this point, I (the gamer) left that battle because my flyers came in and went to work on the craftworld eldar in their right rear (sitting on objectives in wave serpents). The wraith star eventually got wiped out, but not until they'd help weaken the beast star to the point of inefficacy. My planes with troops & bikes came in on the right and chewed on the Eldar, eventually destroying, contesting or claiming their objectives (thanks to some very determined urging from wyfox, trying to prevent me from making the same mistake that cost us the secondary in game 1).

While I didn't emphasize it... wyfox's Tau were really involved at every step along the way. Assaults, critical shooting, you name it. A very good bit of teamwork in a very challenging situation. So... solid victory for us. Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

that seemed like some solid, against-all-odds moments !!!

Thanks Gits, you just made my day !