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Hi

The Sons of Shatner came in defence of our title... we fought hard... we fought well... but in the end we fell just short.

The Orkpocalypse returned in a different form. We dropped the Biker Nobz and the Warboss and filled out the horde.

Our lists
2 x List One – Nate with War and Cory with Pestilence
Big Mek – Kustom Force Field
9 Lootas
2 x 30 Shoota Boyz, 3 Big Shootas, Nob with Power Claw and Boss Pole
30 Slugga Boyz, 2 Rokkitz, Nob with Power Claw and Boss Pole
3 Kannons, 3 Ammo Runtz

Total 999 Points

2 x List Two – Greg with Death and Bill with Famine
Big Mek – Kustom Force Field
6 Lootas
2 x 30 Shoota Boyz, 2 Big Shootas, Nob with Power Claw and Boss Pole
10 Grotz with Runtherd
18 Stormboyz, Nob with Power Claw and Boss Pole
3 Kannons, 3 Ammo Runtz
Total 1000

Apologies in Advance for not remembering Team Names or exact totals for the other table.

Game One
Nate & Bill VS Khan led Marines and Double Librarian Space Wolves; Greg and Cory fought Double Blood Angels
Their lists – the Khan with assault termies outflanked, and 20ish tactical marines. 2 Runepriests, 30ish Grey Hunters, and 5 long fangs with missile launchers.

Highs: shooting down 4/5 longfangs and wounding the priest in the unit on turn one.
Lows: None really, but I lost 15 boyz when they went first with those missiles.
TSN Turning point: Wiping out their objective defending forces with two units of boyz, while Bill took the middle of the board on turn 4. They recognized inevitable defeat and tapped out.

Result: 30/30 Battle points, ¾ heads, ¾ command tokens

On the other table: things were a little rougher, but the victory was decisive.

Game Two
Nate and Cory VS A double Plague Marine Army; Greg and Bill fought double Plague Marines as well.
Their Lists: One player had a Daemon Prince, 3 terminators, 6 Plague Marines, and Two Land Raiders. The other had 2 units of 7 plague marines, a chaos lord, a dreadnought and a Plague Hulk.

Highs: Shooting down a full unit of plague marines and the chaos lord with three squads of boyz. Cory destroyed the Plague hulk in combat within three rounds...
Lows: Cory took 5 full turns to destroy the dreadnought (who had raged on turn two to reach combat)
TSN Turning Point: After shooting down or fighting off all the marines, all that was left were two land raiders... against most of our army. They managed to tank shock one my units of boyz into retreat, but the other squad took their deployment zone for the tertiary.

Result: 30/30 Battle Points, 4/4 heads, ¾ command tokens.

On the other table: things were a little closer, but the victory was fairly decisive, but fell short of max.

Game Three
Nate and Greg VS Baal’s Deep
This was a rematch of our round three battle from last year, and I had the pleasure of playing Alan and Aaron again. They were running quad Blood Angels.

Highs: Greg’s stormboyz extricated my boyz from their combat with a Furioso that had arrived via dread pod (allows it to assault when it arrives) in a single round of combat.
Lows: Nothing horribly unexpected happened – it was a tough bloody fight!
TSN Turning Point: I pushed for turn 5 hoping to score the last objective by forcing a morale test on the command countered devastators and assaulting their last priest to get there with my choppa boyz... but only managed to kill one feel no pain marine.... meanwhile, they destroyed my command countered squad and my Big Mek. It also cost us the 3 point of tactical bonuses. I should have left well enough alone.

Result: 21 Battle Points, ¾ heads, 2/4 command tokens.

On the other table: this was our draw match, with a 8-9 result slightly in our favour.

Game Four
Nate and Greg VS Quad Space Wolves. Their list a Rune Priest led 2 rhino & 1 razorback with double long fang support who included a cyclone terminator attachment. A very good list!

Highs: Shooting down 5 long fangs on turn one and another 4 on turn two with big shootas, drastically reducing the impact of their fire power.
Lows: I made a single model placement mistake, allowing for a money shot of frag missiles on turn two – the result was 37 boyz hit, but only 10 died after wounds and saves... I lost my lootas on turn one to long fang fire after they failed their morale test.
TSN Turning Point: My only real mistake of the day... I zigged when I should have zagged. The primary mission was to pick an army and get kill points from them. The other guy was entirely expendable. I pushed my slugga & choppa boyz to assault a rune priest and his lads who were expendable... instead of pushing to assault the drop pod that was worth a kill point. It was farther away and would have required a decent fleet roll, but that was the right move! Instead I wanted to remove a Jaws from the picture. That was our only opportunity the entire game to get one from them, aside from the long fang unit that ran and hid as soon as I shot a few of them. There were three other turning points: Greg’s lootas got shot, failed their morale, and ran within 1/16 of an inch from the board edge, and rallied. My Big Mek joined Greg’s kannons for the morale bump and saved them when he rolled a 7 for morale. My final boy consolidated into their deployment zone on the last combat of the game to take the secondary.

Result: 20 Battle Points 4/4 heads 2/4 command counters (none used by anyone)

On the other table: the won the primary and tertiary, while drawing out the secondary.

The end result: 2nd overall and winners of Best Team Tacticians. If I had zagged on that final mission, we would likely have tied I’m a Bear (gaining the primary, but losing the head) where our superior sportsmanship of would have won it.

Final thoughts: Next Year, we will actually playtest the army and the scenarios. A little more familiarity with the "Brothers in Arms" rules and its impact on characters would have saved my Big Mek in round three (realizing it then saved us in round four), and would have impacted the decision-making process at that critical moment in round 4. Next Year - we will be prepared!

Cheers,
Nate

I thought you guys fought the BA team that won.

Hi

Sadly no. I would have loved to have a chance at I'm a Bear!

I don't even know what they had in their lists...

Cheers,
Nate

After looking at your list I can assure you that you did not want to play us

Cool summaries, thanks! Mucho kudos on the consecutive 1/2 in the TT. That's a heck of an achievement. I played one or two of you guys in last year's Gladiator, and those were my only losses last year. You're clearly excellent players.

Hi

@ Blood Angel - that, sir, sounds like a challenge!

Mind sharing your lists or why we should have feared you? Or do you have a link to your own battle reports (on dakka or elsewhere)?

@ Mannahnin - thanks for the kind words.

Cheers,
Nate

I loved your army! Posted a pic on our team's thread for others to marvel at. As a some time ork player myself the swathe of green was truly remarkable. Good job guys!

@CtC Just giving you a hard time. You guys have proven to be competitors.

Our lists basically had a lot of BA big hammers in it while maintaining a solid core of scoring units.

Y'all actually played some friends of mine in the last round.

@CtC

Sons of Shatner is still a cool team name. Where are my manners, I forgot to say congrats on an almost repeat performance. It takes some real skill to be successful 2 years in a row.

Hey guys,

I am one of the Space Wolf players from Round 4. I played on the end table with my "balding" teammate. It was a fantastic game and it was truly refreshing to play guys who play the game well, quickly, competitively, and do so while having a blast. Without a doubt my favorite game of the tourney, even though you were our only two losses. Congrats and see you next year.

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