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Hey Dakkamates,

Just got back from the Grand Tournament 2009 and had a good time. I managed to take some pictures and take notes, so here's a Tournamentreport of sorts.

I came to Tilburg with 5 good friends from Groningen. Four of us were new to the hobby (played less than 6 months), we didn’t go to the GT to compete in the strictest sense. The main goal was to have fun, some thrilling games against different and painted armies and to hang out together. This as a warning to folks here expecting a write-up about the competitive metagame in the Netherlands. This wont be one. To those interested in competitive tournament playing: iirc a SW Thunderwolf army managed to get the most command points. I managed to get 60/100 command points and a good score on army presentation (painting/converting). Most important I had a blast in 4/5 games. Here's the report:

The Dutch GT uses 1700 point lists. My list of choice was Black Legion Chaos Space Marines. I took the following:

155 Daemon Prince, Wings, MoS, LoS
175 Daemon Prince, Wings, MoN, Warptime
100 Greater Daemon
120 Dreadnought, additional DCCW, Extra Armour, Heavy Flamer
185 10 CSM, 2xMeltagun, Aspiring Champion
35 Rhino
185 10 CSM, 2xMeltagun, Aspiring Champion
35 Rhino
221 7 Plague Marines, 2xMeltagun, Aspiring Champion, Power Fist
35 Rhino
150 Defiler
150 Defiler
150 2 Obliterators


Early Saturday morning the first game was called. With the eager anticipation of a child on Christmas morning I shook hands with my first opponent: Sebas. A very nice guy with whom I’ve had a great game and with whom I chatted some more over the weekend. On of the two most enjoyable opponents of the entire tournament. The only game I didn’t get to finish because of the chatting in between turns, but that didn’t stop it from being a close and tense game.

Sebas had a Black Templar army with the following:

- Marshall with Command Squad (all in Terminator armour with assorted bits of weaponry).
- Emperors Champion
- 10 Crusaders, Meltagun, Powerfist
- Rhino
- 9 Crusaders, Meltagun, Powerfist (ECh was attached here)
- Rhino
- 5 Crusaders, Las/Plas
- 5 Crusaders, Las/Plas
- 9 Assault Marines, 2 Flamers, Powerfist
- 9 Assault Marines, 2 Flamers, Powerfist

The mission was Capture and Control/Spearhead. The two objectives were dead centre in both our deployment zones.


1.
Sebas had the first turn and moved forward with his Rhino’s, Assault Marines behind them and the Terminators footslogging up the field. His shooting was ineffective.

My first turn my Rhino’s move up and pop smoke. One CSM squad gets out and fires on Assault Marines. The Dreadnought and Daemon Princes advance as well. I use Lash to whip the Terminators into the backfield, delaying their involvement for a turn or two. The Defilers shooting kills some Assault Marines.

2.
Sebas’ turn two the Melee combat ensues. First he moves one Rhino towards my quarter in an attempt to get to my objective. He then shoots and kills 3 CSM and puts one wound on my Slaanesh Daemon Prince. He then engages my CSM with his Assault Marines and my Dreadnought with the EmpChamp and Crusaders. I kill 3 Crusaders and 2 Assault Marines. He causes the Dreadnought to Explode (killing two more Crusaders) and kill 4 CSM’s.

In my second turn I move with my Plague Marines to intercept the Rhino heading into my Quarter, towards my objective. I shoot and kill some Crusaders with the Obliterators and a Defiler. The second Defiler doesn’t stop the Rhino trying to sneak into my flank. I counter his assault by charging into the Assault Marines with my Nurgle Daemon Prince and with the Greater Daemon that was summoned this turn. My Slaanesh Prince charges his Crusaders with EmpChamp. I kill the EmpChamp and 3 Assault Marines. He kills one CSM in return.

3.
Sebas’ turn three he moves up with his sneaky Rhino and with his Terminators who are setting up to charge into combat with the Nurgle Prince and the Greater Daemon. His shooting kills one of my Defilers. In the Assault phase my Slaanesh Prince kills 3 Crusaders for no damage in return. My Nurgle Prince gets charged in the rear by 5 Terminators. The Marshall causes three wounds with Lightning Claws upon which - in true Nurgle style - the Daemon shrugs of the wounds in a casual style by throwing three 6’s to save. I kill three more Assault Marines and a Terminator.

In my turn three I move onto my objective with the Plague Marines. The Death Guard shoot at his Rhino without effect. My Obliterators finish of one of his 5-man Crusader squads that was on his objective. My second CSM squad charges into combat with the Terminators. My Slaanesh Prince kills of the last remaining Crusaders and consolidates towards his objective. My Nurgle Prince kills his Marshall and the CSM kill some Terminators. The last of the Assault Marines is killed as well by the remaining CSM squad and the Greater Daemon.

4.
We knew the next round would be the last because we had less then 20 minutes remaining before starting it.

Sebas moves a 5-man Crusader squad onto his objective and disembarks with his Crusaders in front of my Plague Marines (before moving the Rhino). His Crusaders charge my Plague Marines and thereby contest my objective. In combat two more Terminators die.

In my turn four I move up with my Slaanesh Prince and use Lash to whip his Crusaders of his objective. In the massive assault near the centre of the table I kill everything except for one Terminator.

Result:
The end of this game has my objective claimed but contested and his objective has no scoring units nearby. This means the game is a Draw, but Victory Points are used to shift the tables in favour of either contestant. Since I killed over 1100 points of his and he managed to kill 550 points of mine, the difference in Victory Points is enough for the result to be shifted in my favour. I win this game 12-8. As I said, a really great opponent and a fun game.

My second opponent was a guy named Sander in a Take and Hold/Pitched battle mission. Sander was a cool guy with a Mechanised Khorne list. He was yelling stuff like ‘Blood for the Blood God’ in a characteristic voice throughout the battle and even though that may sound ‘Nerdy’ the guy was good fun to play against.

Sander had the following list:

- Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour with 4 Terminators all in dedicated Land Raider with Daemonic Possession
- 8 Chaos Space Marines, Champion with Powerfist, Icon of Khorne
- Rhino
- 8 Chaos Space Marines, Champion with Powerfist, Icon of Khorne
- 8 Khorne Berzekers, Champion with Powerfist
- Rhino
- 5 Havocs, 2 Meltagun, 2 Plasmagun, Champion with Plasmapistol
- Rhino
- 10 Lesser Daemons
- 2 Obliterators


The table had two large LoS-blocking terrain pieces on both sides of the centre objective. So there was in fact a funnel-like effect that drew both armies into a slaughter fest on top of and around the objective. I managed to capitalise on this and draw him into the funnel one unit at the time where he faced the whole of my army at once.


1.
Sander got the first turn and moved up with his Rhino’s. Shooting with the Land Raider is ineffective, but he shoots and kills a Rhino with his Obliterators.

My first turn I move up with my army in a semicircle around the objective – shielded by the two large pieces of terrain. My Slaanesh Prince uses Lash on the one footslogging Khorne CSM squad. I pull him towards the funnel and fire two Defilers. Through good cover saves he looses 3 CSM’s.

2.
In Sander’s second turn he moves up with his Havoc Rhino, disembarking them in front of my Dreadnought. His shooting is good with 2 Obliterators managing LoS through slopping placing of mine (I misjudged the LoS). He kills 5 CSM’s with Plasma Cannons. His Havocs don’t kill the Dreadnought however.

In my second turn I moved up with the second Rhino and disembarked the CSM squad. The Plague Marines still stay behind a bit. My Defilers shoot and finish off the Khorne Squad. My Obliterators cause a ‘Stunned’ result on his Daemonically Possessed Land Raider. The CSM shoot and blow up a Rhino forcing the second Khorne CSM squad out. My Dreadnought kills the Havocs with Heavy Flamer and subsequent charge.

3.
Sander moves up with his Land Raider in his third turn. The Terminators disembark and charge the CSM squad that just blew up the Rhino and the Nurgle Daemon Prince. His Lesser Daemons showed up and charged my Slaanesh Prince. My Nurgle Prince manages to kill the Khornate Chaos Lord because of Warptime. He kills a good deal of my CSM squad with his Terminators. The Slaanesh Prince kills a bunch of Lesser Daemons on Initiative 6. The Daemons hitting back don’t accomplish anything.

My turn three begins festively with the Greater Daemon possessing a CSM Aspiring Champion. This turn I move up a bit with my Plague Marines and finish more Daemons and Terminators in Combat.

4.
Sander moves up his Khorne CSM who charge into combat as well. A massive meatgrinder combat continues and in short: he doesn’t have a sufficient response to my four big guys in his ranks. The Powerfist Terminators get killed before they strike and the Powerfist Champions cause maybe one or two wounds to Princes/Greater Daemon, but nothing more really.

My fourth turn I move up with the Plague Marines and disembark them in cover (the crater of an exploded Rhino) to shoot and kill and the Land Raider. I fire my Obliterators and Defilers at his Khorne Berzekers Rhino. The Rhino is destroyed and the Berzekers get out. I place the pie plate on top of them and revel in to possible carnage. The shot scatters and lands dead smack on top of? Indeed, the Plague Marines. Four Plague Marines die (after cover saves). With him killing off all my CSM this was looking grim because I need a scoring unit to claim the objective after the dust settles… Anyway. The Plague Marines do destroy the Land Raider with meltaguns. In melee I kill all that remains on his side in that combat.

5.
His fifth turn has his full squad of Khorne Berzekers charge my Plague Marines in cover. If they manage to kill all, this game will most likely become a draw… Nurgle Marines have Blight Grenades however, which helps. He causes 15 wounds. I save 12 and FNP the other three! His Powerfist Champ kills one Nurgle Marine, my Nurgle Champ kills two Berzekers. I have 2 standing!

In turn that follows my Slaanesh Prince and Greater Daemon charge into the Berzekers killing all. My Nurgle Prince finishes off one Rhino iirc.

6.
His Obliterators elude me in turn 6 and we call it a game.

Result:
I have twice the amount of scoring models on the objective at the end of the game and I’ve lost only my CSM squads, two Rhino’s and half a Plague Marines squad to him Victory Points wise. I’ve killed his entire army except for one Obliterator. Those factors combined mean this is a Massacre (20-0) result in my favour. Nothing like the smell of Napalm in the morning…

Third and final game of the day was the only game I played this tournament that was not much fun. My opponent was Bart. There was a lot of discussion over millimetres. My movements disputed, LoS disputed, charge range disputed, amount of models under pie plates disputed, cover saves claimed where I couldn’t see why etc… All those discussion ended with me conceding the argument to him. I really don’t rate arguing over miniature models and rules as part of this hobby very highly. Even competitive gaming should be about giving and taking and about having fun first imho. That was not how my opponent seemed to feel. I started doubting whether it had to do with me making that many mistakes or something until someone from his own gaming club came over to me after the game and sad he felt sorry for me that I had to play him. The guy didn’t have a good rep even in his own community. Anyway, sorry for this rant. On to the game.

Bart brought a really great looking Khornate Chaos Daemons list:

- Skulltaker on Chariot
- 6 Bloodcrushers with goodies
- 6 Bloodcrushers with goodies
- 10 Bloodletters
- 10 Bloodletters
- 10 Bloodletters
- 10 Bloodletters
- Daemon Prince with Wings, Iron Hide and goodies
- Daemon Prince with Wings, Iron Hide and goodies


The mission is Annihilation/Dawn of War

I keep my entire army in reserves.

Bart gets first turn and deploys in my half of the table but spread out over the entire length of the table. This was my intention because I wanted to concentrate my army on one flank and be able to shoot half of his army while engaging the other half in combat. (I guessed I couldn’t deal with his list if I had to deal with everything in combat at once).

Anyway, turn two he gets his entire list except for one unit of Crushers and the Skulltaker. He continues to deploy in a broad line over the length of the table.

My turn two gets me everything except for the Daemon Princes and Plague Marines. My CSM Rhinos move up, the CSM disembark and concentrate fire on one Daemon Prince. 36 Boltershots and 4 Meltashots later the Prince has suffered no wounds. Obliterators fire at the second Daemon doing nothing. The Defilers kills some Bloodletters and the Dreadnought uses his Heavy Flamer to toast four more Letters.

The rest of the battle I’ll throw onto a big heap because it’s all combat and I can’t tell the turns apart that well in spite of my notes.

My CSM get killed early by Bloodletters but CSM in cover manage to take a good deal of the Letters with them. My Daemon Princes kill his Daemon Princes on the turn they arrive without losses in return! My Slaanesh Prince continues to combat a unit of Crushers that was weakened by some shooting. Over the course of 3 turns the Slaanesh Prince wins this combat! My Nurgle Prince gets killed by the other squad of Crushers, but not before killing 8 Letters himself. One of my Defilers and the Obliterators clean up leftovers from the Bloodletter squads with Flamers and melee.

Result:
At the end of turn 6 all that is left is one Defiler, the Skulltaker (who did nothing the entire fight) and 5 Bloodcrusher wounds on 4 models. My list has 13 kill points to give away (damn Rhino’s ) and his list has 9 kill points. He wins on kill points, but because we are very close on Victory Points (150 points standing vs. ~300 points standing) the game is but a 14-6 victory for him.

This concludes day one. More after this break...

Day two I return to the tournament hall with rejuvenated spirit. My friends and I (two couples and an old roommate of mine from university) had great fun drinking and chatting in one of our Hotel rooms till late. The friends who had been playing for only half a year or so had great fun in their games on day one, so that bodes well for them staying in this hobby .

The fourth game was against Ruben. A good sport and great guy to game with. He brought a great looking Orks list. Considering it had ~120 models he had spent an impressive amount of time detailing them all to a really nice standard.

His list was like this:

- Warboss with squig
- Big Mek with KFF
- Battlewagon with 20 Boys (one Nob with Powerclaw)
- Battlewagon with 20 Boys (one Nob with Powerclaw)
- Battlewagon with Cannon and 12 Ard Boys (one Nob with Powerclaw) (Boss and Mek attached)
- 20 Shoota Boys, 2 Big Shoota’s
- 20 Shoota Boys, 2 Big Shoota’s
- 20 Stormboys (one Nob with Powerclaw)


The mission was as follows: both contestants nominate their three most expensive models (max of 1 vehicle) which are the opponents objectives. His objectives are the Princes and a Defiler mine are the Boss, the Mek and a Battlewagon. Deployment is Spearhead.

I deploy with a speed bump in mind. My Defilers, Obliterators and Princes in the far corner. My Rhinos a bit before that and my Dreadnought in front. He deploys three Wagons behind cover with the Stormboys behind and the Shootaboys spread out in cover.


1.
I get first turn. I advance with my lone Dreadnought marching bravely towards his ranks. My shooting is ineffective.

Rubens turn one he advances with the Wagons and Shootaboys. His shooting is ineffective.

2.
My second turn has my Dreadnought shooting his Flamer at my Rhino’s doing nothing. My defilers kill 4 boys after cover saves.

His second turn he advances. 20 Boys get out of a Wagon and charge my Dreadnought (Yay!). 20 more Boys get out of a second Wagon and charge two of my Rhino’s killing both. My CSM disembark (I loose 2 CSM to dangerous terrain). The Dreadnought kills 4 Boys and is not harmed in return.

3.
My third turn my Greater Daemon arrives and I move my CSM a bit, but that’s all. I shoot at boys with one of the CSM squads; the other CSM unit charges afterwards. I kill 13 boys this turn.

Ruben tries to ram the Plague Marines Rhino with the Wagon that just delivered the Boys to my Rhino’s, but is ineffective. He moves up with his other Battlewagon, Storm- and Shootaboys. His shooting is ineffective. The combat with the CSM and the Boys ends with me the winner (I run him down after he fails leadership).

4.
My turn four starts with the Nurgle Prince casting Warptime because he wants to get into the fray. I roll double one and the Prince looses a wound…
I kill the ramming Battlewagon with the CSM squads Meltas and kill half a Stormboys squad thought combined shooting from the Defilers and Obliterators. The combat between the Dread and the Boys still continues! I fly the Nurgle Prince up but don’t get a charge of.

Ruben’s turn four has him move up with his Battlewagon with Ardboys and Shootaboys. He charges the Dreadnought with his Stormboys and finally kills it and consolidates some (in front of all my big guns).

5.
In my fifth turn the Nurgle Prince looses a Second Wound to an Attack from the Warp though my throwing a double 6! He flees behind a Defiler hoping he doesn’t get hit by a random Big Shoota and thus giving up an objective. I move up the Slaanesh Princes this turn and set the CSM and Greater Daemon up for a charge. The Plague Rhino moves towards the Stormboys and the Plague Marines disembark. I shoot at the Stormboys and remaining boys with Defilers, CSM and Obliterators. The Plague Marines shoot a Wagon which explodes (it is this explosion that actually kills a lot of Boys). The Stormboys fall back with 4 boys remaining. The Boys are killed and all that is left is a lone Nob.
My Slaanesh Prince Lashes out to Shootaboys and whips them 10” back so they don’t clog up my ranks too soon. I charge the final Wagon with CSM and Greater Daemon destroying it (and claiming an Objective).


His fifth turn the Warboss charges my Slaanesh Prince. The trade one wound each.

Result:
He rolls to see if we get another turn. Result: a ‘1’. The game ends with me having scored one objective and having killed 955 points of his with him killing 404 points of mine. This difference is big enough (>450 points difference) for me to get a 16-4 win out of this. I felt good about my Battle plan this game, it felt like all worked well. I had also sobered-up in the course of the game, which was nice as well

The last game of the Tournament was the best one as well. I played against Markus who had come over from Switzerland to compete in the GT. Markus won the Sportsmanship award at the end of the day and I must say, it was well deserved. The game was exciting, pleasant, fast, tactically challenging and just plain fun. The chatting with him before and after cool and relaxed, and his army was amazing as well! He painted a Chaos Daemon list to great standard with especially nice Blue Scribes and Changeling conversions.

His list was as follows:

- Bloodthirster
- Blue Scribes
- 8 Bloodcrushers with goodies
- 7 Bloodcrushers with goodies
- 8 Bloodletters
- 10 Horrors with Changeling (Blue Scribes attached)
- 5 Horrors with Bolt
- 5 Plague Bearers
- Soulgrinder with Tongue


The mission was Seize ground. We had 3 objectives spread evenly in the centre of the board. Deployment was with Pitched Battle rules.

1.
Markus lets me begin. I start with my army in reserves again.

Markus deploys over his first two turns and confronts me with a layered cake of sorts. I have to battle the Crushers first with the Thirster and Grinders as back up, when I’ve succeeded in that, I can move onto the troops that are on the objectives.


2.
In my turn two I get only the Plague Marines and one Defiler. I deploy them far left and mean to use them as a decoy since almost nothing arrives this turn. Shooting the Defiler causes one wound to the 8 Crusher squad.

My distraction works in that Markus moves his 7 Bloodcrushers into my left flank in his turn two.

3.
In my turn three I get everything but one CSM squad. All deploys far right. My Greater Daemon Possesses the Plague Champion on the far left since that was the only Champ on the board beginning of the turn. My Plague Rhino moves 12” to the right to join the rest of the army. I set up so that my Dreadnought, CSM and Princes can charge the Crushers next turn after shooting them up first.
This turn my Slaanesh Prince lashes the squad of 8 Crushers a bit back - to deny him a charge – and into a pile to treat the Crushers to some pie plates. After cover saves I have caused 3 wounds.

Markus’ turn three: His Grinder shoots my Dreadnought and immobilises it (bah!). His Blue Scribes kills the Defiler on my Left Flank.

4.
In my fourth turn I get the remaining CSM squad. I move both squads up towards the Crushers. The Daemon Princes move in as well. My opponent reminds me that I wanted to use the Greater Daemon on the left to tie up his other Crushers and I move the Daemon 6” in their direction.
Lash of Submission on the Crushers… 2” ! Hmmmz, that will make it so that the CSM squads can’t charge and will thus be vulnerable in the open… It will make it so the combat with the Crushers will take longer than intended… OK, what to do? I still decide to try and kill as many of the Crushers as possible. With the Defilers/CSM and Obliterators combined shooting I manage to get 3 wounds on the Crushers. Both my Daemon Princes are still in range to charge. After the charge there are 4 wounds left on 3 Crushers. The Princes remain unscathed.
The Greater Daemon charges the other 7 Crushers. That combat will eventually prove epic. Over the course of 5 player turns of combat, the Greater Daemon manages to kills all 7 Crushers (partly through combat resolution with him being fearless) and remain standing with 1 wound left!

Markus’4th turn he counter charges my Princes with his Bloodthirster. The Soulgrinder charges a CSM squad. Nurgle Prince gets two wounds from Thirster, no damage in return. I kill some more Crushers.

5.
My turn 5 I move up towards the third objective with my remaining CSM. My Nurgle Prince dies to the Thirster after also losing a wound to Warptime failure again . My Slaanesh Prince kills the remaining Crusher. Stand off between Thrister and Slaanesh Prince…

Markus’ turn 5 he kills my CSM with his Grinder. Moves onto the third objective with his Bloodletters. He shoots some at the Rhinos with CSM and Plague Marines with the Blue Scribes and Horrors but nothing sticks. In the combat between Prince and Thirster nothing happens.

6.
My turn 6 the Plague Marines kill the Grinder and the CSM put kill two Bloodletters. Slaanesh Prince and Thirster swap one wound.

Final turn Markus shoots, charges and kills the remaining CSM with Horrors. Turn six also spells the end of the Crusher vs. Gr. Daemon combat in my favour. The Slaanesh Prince causes 3 wounds to the Thirster which has 3 wounds remaining… he saves one! After that, on initiative 5 he kills the Slaanesh Prince with 1 wnd remaining.. The Bloodletters charge the Plague Marines who are left with 2 standing. He has to pile-in off the objective. Which is now free.

Result:
Markus had more objectives than me (2 vs. 0) but the difference in Victory Points is minimal (we both had ~1000 VP’s) so not enough to cause a bigger difference. The result is a 14-6 win in his favour. He played well and the win was well deserved I think. An outstanding game to end the GT with.

All in all, my friends and I had a great weekend, saw beautiful armies and played on average really great opponents. So a bit of advice to y’all: visit a Tournament! It’s fun and exciting!

Thanks for reading, Cilithan

Thanks for the reports! I am jealous that you had some pretty laid back, relaxing games. It is a very competitive tournament environment around me right now, everyone is tuning their lists to most efficiently smash each other.

- Blackbone

Thanks for the write up Cilithan!
I'm one of the 40k newbie friends of Cilithan, I indeed had a very good time. All of my games were played in good spirit and I really enjoyed the experience. 4 of us had never played at a 40k tournament before and we all had a good time.
I was really impressed with the avarege quality of the miniatures I faced, almost all armies (120-ish) were a joy to see. I really liked the Chaos Deamons of your last opponent: Almost all models were converted and had a great and creative paint job. It deserved the price for best army IMO, but Markus was honest about the fact that one unit of Horrors was painted by a friend because he ran out of time. The sportmanship award was well deserved!

Thanks for the reports! I am jealous that you had some pretty laid back, relaxing games. It is a very competitive tournament environment around me right now, everyone is tuning their lists to most efficiently smash each other.

I think most opponents did try to bring a "hard" list, but could cope with losing a game. I certainly brought as much cheese as I could think of, I just need to become a better general :-)

Added some pictures, I hope theyre not too heavy, I dont know how to downscale them... I could upload them again if they are causing trouble, please let me know...

Thanks for your replies. To Blackbone: I think I had such great games overall because I managed to stay out of the top 20 players (there were 120 contestants). I do think the top 20 was more hard-fought and less 'fun' per se.

Cilithan

Good god, please resize those pictures ahaha.

You can always use thumbnail versions, or most sites like imageshack or photobucket will have an automatic 'resize for web' option.

Yeah please downsize those pictures lol, I'm running a pretty high resolution and they still don't fit on the page and make the report really hard to read/follow, would hate to think what it would be like for people running 1024x768.

Great report otherwise

I like your defilers. Very nurgle-y. Also excited to see the nice terrain on the tables, and that World Eaters army you played against was nice too. I feel Chaos beckoning me to play it again...

Astounding big chaos stuff man, wow!! Epically huge models, really drunkenly cool stuff. And because I gotta, props to your dread for getting stuck in game after game (orks especially)

Thanks for the report, pics are great, and I'm happy you played so many chaos armies, 'cause than we get to see even more fantastic conversions / painting

- Salvage

Thank for the replies all. Indeed, it was a Chaosy tournament

I re-uploaded and resized the pics. Res is smaller, but they should be better to handle/view...

Cilithan

Great report, good to see that even at a GT, there are few TFG's. Agreed that the last deamon army looks stunning

Well, nice report.
Its good to see that one can have fun also at a larger tournament.

Great battle report I'm glad you had a good time. your army looks really cool can we have some closer picks please.

Thanks Muffin Man.

I don't have better photo's from the Tournament itself. I'll try to fix a camera, improvise a box and to put up some pics.

Cilithan

Hey!
It was cool, indeed, the tournament. I am one of the other noobs that went with cilithan to the tournament.
I did take a pic. Here it is (resized)

Kim

I'm also one of the newbies. Great report, cilithan, thanks

Nice report, sorry to hear about the bad sport you played. Always sucks to play those kind of people.

Oohhhh, pics. Cool to see what people's armies look like over there.

I also hope to eventually see some close-ups of your army.

- Blackbone

Pretty good!

My main critique (it actually bothered me a bit) was that it was a little hard to read the actual bat reps. I think that breaking them up into like:

Turn 1:



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Turn 2:


etc....

Might make it a little easier to read.

GJ though!

That Khornate Daemon army is gorgeous. Love Skulltaker on Chariot.

When I'm rich ill have to convert one up.

these armys look ridiculously awesome, and great reports all around!

Really cool report. Thanks for posting.

Thanks a lot guys, for your responses. EzeKK Ive editted the posts to match your suggestions. Hope they are more clear now.

Cheers, Cilithan

thanks for the report (especially the pics!). it's always good to see nicely painted armies facing each other on the tabletop. i'd rather lose to a nicely painted army than win against the great grey plastic horde.

Nice report. Every other guy had a chaos type of army it seemed lol.
Not that I'm complaining- Death to the false emprah!

I gotta ask a quick question. Do the rulebooks printed in europe use the metric or the imperial system. And I ask because I realized the absurdities it could create if I were to go play over there with a different measurement system.

We measure in inches as well. In the Netherlands we game using the standard English rules and codices. I do believe there are German translations for instance. I don't know if those systems use centimetres.

Cilithan

I didn't know anyone used anything other than inches for 40k lol (I come from england)

Yeah,
Awesome reports!

sounds like you had a great time! with the one game exception! I agree that games of 40k should be give and take, but sometimes you'll meet awkward win at all costs type people that are hard to deal with. You shouldn't just give him saves because he argues for them! I think I'd tell him 'your squad doesn't get a save unless you want to give it one it doesn't deserve?' and that kind of language?

All the armies looked really well painted. and kudos on bringing a nice balanced army to the tourney.

Panic...

Hey thats me! hehe


but great battle reports!

i think we had a small conversation about your insane defiler conversion right before the battle vs Sander.
I see you played 3 guys from my club aswell, Ruben, Bart (i feel sorry for you) and Sander, can you imagine he was in my car screaming KHORNE all the way to the GT :p

anyway hope to see you next year again

Gegroet, Develain