List your state, race, and what place you came in.



North Carolina - Tyranids - 1st

Utah, Tau, 2nd place

1st was Eldad (Jetbike council)
3rd was IG

North Carolina (The Hobbit)

1st: Mech Orks 60+ points
2nd: Mech Orks 52 points
2nd/3rd: Mech Space Wolves 52 points
4th: Mech Orks 51 points

I placed 4th. Mech Space Wolf player can't make next round. TO awarded ticket to me as a result. Similar to last year, except I was tied for 3rd place. I couldn't make it to the 2nd round last year, so I deferred my ticket to the other guy. Karma, I suppose.

Ontario (Canada)
Swarm guardsmen
4th, maybe I'll get to the next round

(twas my first Ard Boyz and second tournament)

I didn't play as it is not really my kind of thing but here's the finishes at my store:

Missouri

1st Mech Eldar
2nd Mech Eldar
3rd Mech Eldar

yep Mech Eldar sweep

The rest of the pack was mostly Orks, Guard, and CSM

Almost no space marines
No tau
No dark eldar
No tyranids

Philadelphia (Redcap's Corner), Space Marines, 3rd. Other results from here :

1 Adam, vehicle heavy Orks, 62 pts (Redcap's)
2 Joe F, mech Chaos Marines, 55 pts (PAGE)
3 Joe K, drop pod Space Marines, 46 pts (PAGE)
4 Colin, footy Chaos Marines, 43 pts (PAGE)

Awesome gaming!

The rest of my store stacked up as such:

1st Tyranid
2nd Space Marines
3rd Tau

4th Necron/5th Orks - there was only a 1 or 2 point difference b/t 3rd, 4th, and 5th - which made for some very interesting games.

Nanaimo BC

1st Demons - Myself
2nd vulkan space marines
3ed Mech eldar

good games all in all though a fairly low number of players 12 maby ?

In one store in omaha.

1st: IG Modified Gunline (Me) 69points
2nd: Vulkan Marines 59 points
3rd: Mech Marines 55 points

Our other store

1st: Duel Lash Chaos 59 points
2nd: Destroyer heavy Necrons 54 points
3rd: ??? Sorry forgot this one 53 points

Showcase Comics, Media PA ( just south of philly )

1st place, Me, Mech Vet IG 67 pts
2nd place, Salamander, 3x Raider/Assault Termies 56pts
3d Place , Salamander, Drop pods and DeathStar Termie Squad 53 pts
4th Place, Raider Spam Marines
5th Place, Mech Vet IG

GA (Hobby Hangout), Orks -- Green Tide, 1st place

2nd place was Orks -- Speed Freaks

3rd place was Tyranids -- blast template spam

Oregon

1st- Mega horde orks (220+ boyz)
2nd- Combined arms IG - me
3rd- either CSM or Deathwing can't recall, sorry

Portland, Oregon

1st - Daemons (me) / 65pts
2nd - Vanilla Marines / 42 pts
3rd - Salamanders / 42 pts
4th - Tau / 41 pts

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

1st - Me with Double Seer Council Eldar 66 pts
2nd - Chaos Daemons 50 pts
3rd - Chaos Space Marines with Abbadon 46 pts
4th - Chaos Daemons (Khorne)

other stores I know of....

Weyauwega, Wisconsin

1st foot Eldar
2nd Mech IG
3rd Stompy Tyranids

Green Bay, Wisconsin

1st Space Wolves
2nd Blood Angels Dante/Corbulo
3rd Mech Orks

Appleton, Wisconsin

1st Mech IG
2nd Space Marines 20 termies
3rd Space Marines???

Redmond WA

Genesis Games & Gizmos

1st: Salamander Space Marines (me)
2nd: Jetbike Eldar with 4 wave serparnts & Eldrad
3rd: Orks

Of the 12 players (the store caped it at 12) there were a total of 1 chaos deamons, 1 chaos space marines, 2 Salamanders, 1 Pedro list, 1 Shrike ravenguard, 1 Eldar, 2 Imperial Guard, 2 orks, 1 black templar.

Houston, Texas

1. 3 Monolith Necrons (me)
2. Horde Orks
3. Horde Orks

Gamers Haven, CO

1 - Chaos Demons (59)
2 - Eldar (58)
3 - Chaos (57)

4 - Me - Deathwing/Ravenwing (52)

20 total players.

Brothers Grim - Selden NY

1) Imp Guard (My Renegades)
2) Orks
3) Demons

22 Players

Crossroad Games, Standish Maine.

1st- Ghazzie w/ Horde Orks 70 points
2nd- Suit spam Tau (Me) 54 points
3rd- IG
4th- Mechdar
5th- Mech Marines/Kantor
6th- Double Lash mech Chaos

GMI Games-Riverside CA

1) Mech Guard (me) 62 points
2) ??? around 53
3) Mech Orks 52 points

18 players

3 players just packed up and left after the second game....

Rhubarb Games - Winter Park, FL

1st: Mech Eldar

2nd: Tyranids <-- Me

3rd: Tyranids

Oklahoma
1st My big nidz
2nd Chaos space marines
3rd Mech Eldar
but there was only three of us depressing

Adventurer's Guild of Riverside (California)

1st Zilla Nids
2nd mech tau
3rd Mechdar (me)

Game Keep - Hermitage TN

1st - Khorne CSM (Nurgleboy77)
2nd - Iron Hands SM (LR Spam)
3rd - Space Wolves (LR Spam)
4th - Vulkan SM

I wonder if someone will compile stats on who the big winners and losers are. I'd say the following lists did better than most others:

Orks
CSM
Salamanders

IG will probably do better than they really should have because they now have a lot more people playing them and will probably be disproportionately represented. There were like six guard lists out of about 20 people at my 'Ard Boyz. I've never seen that much guard, percentage wise, at tournament before.

Aldonis wrote:Game Keep - Hermitage TN

1st - Khorne CSM (Nurgleboy77)
2nd - Iron Hands SM (LR Spam)
3rd - Space Wolves (LR Spam)
4th - Vulkan SM

WOOT!

Little Wars, Louisiana

1st Mech IG (Me)

2nd Demon Hunters with Inducted Guard

3rd KFF Orcs

For my own curiosity, I decided to tally up our reports thus far. Might as well share.

The count of top 3 finishes thus far from this thread, in no particular order:
Blood Angels -- 1
Necrons -- 2
Chaos Daemons -- 6
Tau -- 3
Eldar -- 11
Tyranids -- 8
Space Wolves -- 3
Space Marines -- 14
Chaos Marines -- 8
Orks - 14
Demon Hunters -- 1
Imperial Guard -- 10

Should put that Orks are 3rd tier poop to shame. Though I'm sure some people will say that the people those ork players played didn't know how to deal with orks. Vulkan marines, Eldar, and then Guard. Pretty much the expected. 'Nids suprise me a bit with such a strong finish so far.

Rockheads, Kenosha Wisconsin

1. 9 Valk/Vendetta IG
2. Space Marines
3. Chaos Space Marines

Isn't there another thread that basically did this? Whatever, I'm a sucker for a thread that lets me brag withotu looking like I'm doing so.

Phoenix games, Atlanta

1. Tri-lith + Deceiver Necrons, me
2. Kan Wall Orks, Primarch
3. Space Marines, non-dakka-ite

Giga Bytes cafe, Atlanta

1. generic Chaos Space Marines, non-dakka-ite
2. Land Raider heavy Space Marines, not sure of his SN
3. Twin lash CSM, Player A

Fedral wrote:Rhubarb Games - Winter Park, FL

1st: Mech Eldar

2nd: Tyranids <-- Me

3rd: Tyranids

Mech Eldar was me

Sci-Fi City Orlando, FL

1st Orks
2nd Chaos Space Marines
3rd Black Templars (me)

Capt K

Oklahoma

Tyranids - 1st

Krystal Keep, Dayton, OH area:

CSM swept the top 3.

I was spectating, so no place for me.

Las Vegas, Nevada (Dark Tower)

1st Mech Guard (Me)
2nd Mech Tau
3rd Demons

All Star Cards and Comics Louisiana

1st place

1st Mech orks
2nd Eldar
3rd TAU

Malecus wrote:For my own curiosity, I decided to tally up our reports thus far. Might as well share.

The count of top 3 finishes thus far from this thread, in no particular order:
Blood Angels -- 1
Necrons -- 2
Chaos Daemons -- 6
Tau -- 3
Eldar -- 11
Tyranids -- 8
Space Wolves -- 3
Space Marines -- 14
Chaos Marines -- 8
Orks - 14
Demon Hunters -- 1
Imperial Guard -- 10

Couple of surprises here.

a. Demon Hunters. Wow. I wonder if the player utelized the ally rules.
b. No Dark Eldar? I figured with all the mech lists anticipated, a good old fashioned 30+ Dark Lance army would have been spotted.
c. Good to see Space Marines finally getting some top spots. Marines and Orks: the classic match up in 40K.

Fort Mill, SC

1st - Blood Angels ----- D Pod/Term Hvy , was my first time encountering Death Co.
2nd - Mech Space Wolves (Me) ------ Only had 2 Raiders, and two rhinos. I did have a kitted WG Term Unit.
3rd - Tank Spam IG ------ Like 13 tanks overall, cant remember exact mix. Had DH allies LR and a Psychic Hood.
4th - Nidzillas ------ Never really got to check the army out fully. Maxxed out on Big Bugs, and Warriors. No Genestealers!!?!?!?


All in all a good tourny. I think there needs to be some way to regulate who uses the most of the 2.5 hrs you are allowed for play time. The only game I didnt win/massacre was the first game and we had to call it @ turn three because my opponent took like 30+ minutes to take each of his turns. I am all for some friendly chatter during games or even local tournies, but when there is a strict 2.5 hr limit on a 6 turn game it's gotta be less chatter more splatter. I had some friends go to Borderlands in Greenville. I will see if I can get the winners from there and post um up.

Stillwater, OK

Chaos Space Marines - 2nd place


1st was vulcan marines
3rd was Daemons

Hobbytown USA, Dallas

1st - Nurgle Demons
2nd - Mixed Demons
3rd - Dark Eldar

adam_gipson wrote:Hobbytown USA, Dallas

3rd - Dark Eldar

THEY DO EXIST!

nevermind, 40Kenthusiast beat me to it.


Clay

Malecus wrote:For my own curiosity, I decided to tally up our reports thus far. Might as well share.

The count of top 3 finishes thus far from this thread, in no particular order:
Blood Angels -- 1
Necrons -- 2
Chaos Daemons -- 6
Tau -- 3
Eldar -- 11
Tyranids -- 8
Space Wolves -- 3
Space Marines -- 14
Chaos Marines -- 8
Orks - 14
Demon Hunters -- 1
Imperial Guard -- 10

Yeah, thats pretty much what I would have expected. Orks and Vulkan Marines both scale up very very well. IG and Eldar just a bit behind them then Chaos and Nids. Interesting that demons did not show up more. I did not see a single Demon player in my area and they seem to be very lightly represented overall. With the power of some of the better demon builds, that suprises me a bit. Nids did better than I would have expected as well with all the Mech out there.

I think Orks may be the army to beat once again just with a different build than last year. I agree that it pretty much proves all the nay sayers about the ork codex badly wrong. That is a powerful book with numersous very strong builds. I think a lot of players dismissed orks coming into this and paid the price.

Game Empire, San Diego

1. mechanized Orks
2. foot Orks
3. Space Marines

Game Empire, Pasadena CA

1) Tyrannids
2) Tau
3) Vulkan Marines (I think)

bigtmac68 wrote:I think Orks may be the army to beat once again just with a different build than last year. I agree that it pretty much proves all the nay sayers about the ork codex badly wrong. That is a powerful book with numersous very strong builds. I think a lot of players dismissed orks coming into this and paid the price.

You, sir, just made my day. Now I just need a few dozen Ork codex haters to come to that same conclusion.

Sarigar wrote:Demon Hunters. Wow. I wonder if the player utelized the ally rules.

Yes. I started to mark that down on the original list, but I thought there might have been a purist or two as well. Maybe there will be yet. Suppose you could mark it as .75 and give another .25 to IG, but I'll give 'em the benefit of doubt.



EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

California:

1st Eldar (don't know what kind)
2nd Green Tide Ork
3rd Vulkan and his marines.

Just under 1/2 way down: Tau - Me.

We had 5 Deamons, 4 guard and 10 Space Marines in 24 players. (almost all with Vulkan)

Bonnie Brae, CO

1st Vulkan Mech (me)
2nd Eldar Mech
3rd Dark Eldar Raider Spam

So no dark angels or witchhunters yet.

EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

Hmmm,

Seems all the "OMFG the IG are so Broken, run away ..." talk has shown not to be the case, just as the " Orks can compete, they are tier 3" talk was bunk.

I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack while Chaos, IG, Demons, Nids and Eldar are all running about equal in their shadow. To me this seems to show a pretty balanced field with most of the major codexes having the ability to compete. As Orks and Marines are more forgiving armies with more variations on solid builds they have more representation in the top but I personally do not think any of the top 6 races lack the ability to go all the way or compete at the highest level with multiple solid builds.

I still think JetCouncil Eldar is the army to beat because so few people see it and can prepare against or practice against it. The very rarity of the army is one of its greatest advantages.

bigtmac68 wrote:

EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

Hmmm,

Seems all the "OMFG the IG are so Broken, run away ..." talk has shown not to be the case, just as the " Orks can compete, they are tier 3" talk was bunk.

I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack while Chaos, IG, Demons, Nids and Eldar are all running about equal in their shadow. To me this seems to show a pretty balanced field with most of the major codexes having the ability to compete. As Orks and Marines are more forgiving armies with more variations on solid builds they have more representation in the top but I personally do not think any of the top 6 races lack the ability to go all the way or compete at the highest level with multiple solid builds.

I still think JetCouncil Eldar is the army to beat because so few people see it and can prepare against or practice against it. The very rarity of the army is one of its greatest advantages.

QFT. I dread facing Eldar council with my Tau. I think I might get lucky in the semis since no one around here knows of anyone playing them... of course, with only two semis in the Northeast, we'll probably get a couple of people from "away" as we say up here in Maine...

Lindstrom, MN

1st place: Necrons, 56pts (me!)
2nd place: Black Templar, 38pts
3rd place: Nob Trukks Orks, 37pts

I have to say, I know a good ork player, and I was well aware of how dangerous orks were. Around where I live, they are the top of the heap by far.

And just for jollies:
UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 22
Orks -- 21
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 14
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 4
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 2
Dark Eldar -- 2

bigtmac68 wrote:I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack...

That they're the two easiest armies to acquire cheaply has to be a big factor, though.

Boise, Idaho

All About Games

1. Space Marines.... 32 bikers, 2 Land Raiders, & 3 Vindicators 58 pts
2. My nasty Orks (Nob Bikers & 2 battlewagons, 2 trukks, kommandos, stormboyz, 2x30 boyz, 1 x 18 boyz with Ghaz) One Stupid Weirdboy who ruined my chances of 1st. 56 pts. Don't ask me why i brought him.
3. Tied between two chaos players. Both had 54 points each

Hobby Town USA

1. Killa Kan Mob Orks
2. Nid Zilla
3. Nid Zilla & Genestealer happy

Charlotte, North Carolina

Hobby town USA

1st: salamanders force 52
2nd: raider rush templar 48
3rd Mech orks (me) 46

but i cant go due to assorted circumstances so i gave my ticket and best wishes to next guy with Mech nurgle

was fun except for our 2nd place winner guy was raging all over store about people not playing the way he thought best

UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 24
Orks -- 24
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 15
Eldar -- 14
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 12
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 4
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 3
Dark Eldar -- 2

Still no witchhunters or dark angels.
(edited didn't include above post in tally)

templar raider rush manimal. 3 templars now

CatPeeler wrote:

bigtmac68 wrote:I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack...

That they're the two easiest armies to acquire cheaply has to be a big factor, though.

Cheap? If you mean the AoBR boxset. Sure the boxset is cheap, but my army was able to utelize 11 Orks and 1 Deff Kopta and 2 Nobz out of that boxset. 151 points out of a 2500 point list. If you mean cheap as in lots of plastic, yes. Except for 3 Killa Kanz, 1 Deff Dread, 1 Big Mek and Ghaz, my army was plastic. Quite the bargain priced Ard Boyz army

Chattanooga TN
Dicehead games

1st Me- Nurgle Demons
2nd - Eldrad/council
3rd - Tau

Charlottesville, VA
The End Gamecenter

1st - Dark Eldar Raider Spam
2nd - Fatecrusher Daemons (Draw in the third round )
3rd - Mech Tau

Congrats, Clay! See you in August!

The Realm, Brea CA

1st - Eldar
2nd - Marines
3rd - Guard (me!)

So 13 of the armies going to the Semi's in Pasdena, CA are:

2-Guard
1-Tau (Suit Heavy)
2-Marines (1 Vulcan)
3-Ork (2 Mech)
2-Tyrannid (Both Nidzilla)
2-Eldar (1 Mechdar, 1 Iyanden)

I don't know which other stores are included in this regional but that is the 5 that are for sure there. I wouldn't be surprised if the Vegas guys were in our regional as well.

Colorado

1st Templar - Me <--- not going to semi's
2nd Ultra marines
3rd Guard
4th space wolves <--- going to semi's

Remember that you don't have to play the same army at the semi finals

Of the three stores in North Carolina that held quarter-finals, the armies advancing are:

2 Ork
1 Mechanized IG
1 Necron
1 Tyranid
1 Sisters of Battle
1 Dark Eldar
1 Ultramarine
1 other type of space marine

Dashofpepper wrote:Of the three stores in North Carolina that held quarter-finals, the armies advancing are:

2 Ork
1 Mechanized IG
1 Necron
1 Tyranid
1 Sisters of Battle
1 Dark Eldar
1 Ultramarine
1 other type of space marine

Did you count yourself twice or did you give your second ticket to another Ork player?

Dashofpepper wrote:Of the three stores in North Carolina that held quarter-finals, the armies advancing are:

2 Ork
1 Mechanized IG
1 Necron
1 Tyranid
1 Sisters of Battle
1 Dark Eldar
1 Ultramarine
1 other type of space marine

The guys from SC will most likely be there as well. Closest semis other than The Hobbit up in NC is Phoenix games outside ATL, and its an extra hour drive time. It will be BA, SW, IG coming from the fort mill top 3 and from what my friend said Greenville Borderlands was Necrons, Vulcan list, and I keep forgetting the other one for some reason.

Hulksmash wrote:So 13 of the armies going to the Semi's in Pasdena, CA are:

2-Guard
1-Tau (Suit Heavy)
2-Marines (1 Vulcan)
3-Ork (2 Mech)
2-Tyrannid (Both Nidzilla)
2-Eldar (1 Mechdar, 1 Iyanden)

I don't know which other stores are included in this regional but that is the 5 that are for sure there. I wouldn't be surprised if the Vegas guys were in our regional as well.

I probably won't end up playing eldar in the semi's.

Gaming Experience At Bakersfield California
1st Space Marines
2nd Tyranids
3rd Blood Angels (me)

I was the only one who went without a loss with three minor victories.
I will be playing at Game Empire in Pasadena for the Semis.

Knoxville TN

1st Space Marines
2nd Nids
3rd Orks

Danny Internets wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Of the three stores in North Carolina that held quarter-finals, the armies advancing are:

2 Ork
1 Mechanized IG
1 Necron
1 Tyranid
1 Sisters of Battle
1 Dark Eldar
1 Ultramarine
1 other type of space marine

Did you count yourself twice or did you give your second ticket to another Ork player?

The ticket I gave up is responsible for the Tyranid player.

I know that Asugrad I might not be playing my guard. But those were the teams that won. I forgot about bakersfield, you guys have a major haul but I look forward to seeing you guys there. I wonder where the other locations are. Game Empire can hold about 30 people so they shouldn't run out of room at least

The Inquisitive in Rio Rancho, NM

Tie for 1st Daemons (Me) and Ultramarines
2nd Hybrid Mech/Biker Marines

@kaotik

Last army from Borderlands was Tyranids.

Fullerton,California 2nd Tyranids

Predator Games, S. Houston Texas

1st - Platform Guard (Me)
2nd - Horde Orks
3rd - Chaos Space Marines (No Lash)

Great Tourny - lots of fun -looking forward to round 2.

What store in Fullerton was running it Godzilla40k? That would have been a lot closer than having to drive to Riverside since I live in Huntington.....Oh well, see ya in pasadena.

North Carolina (Hitpoint Hobbies)

I took 1st (chaos marines)
2nd Nids
3rd Ultra Marines

Charlotte, NC
Games HQ

1rst Salamanders
2nd Orks
3rd Dark Angels (me)

Murfreesboro, TN (Grand Adventures Comics)

1 Dark Eldar (me)
2 Necrons
3 Guard

UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 33
Orks -- 27
Imperial Guard -- 18
Chaos Marines -- 17
Eldar -- 16
Chaos Daemons -- 13
Tyranids -- 17
Tau -- 9
Space Wolves -- 5
Necrons -- 6
Blood Angels -- 4
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 4
Dark Eldar -- 4
Dark Angels -- 1

note: I didn't include Fullerton,California 2nd Tyranids and I did not check to see if there were duplicate postings.

Hulksmash wrote:What store in Fullerton was running it Godzilla40k? That would have been a lot closer than having to drive to Riverside since I live in Huntington.....Oh well, see ya in pasadena.

I won at Adventurer's Guild with my current flavor of Close Combat Nidzilla. Second went to mech Tau, third to double seer council Eldar. I plan on running Nids at the semis, mostly because of familiarity. I rarely play 40k anymore and my Nidzilla seems to stack up well against most competitive stuff out there, provided I manage to keep my head out of my ass and in the game. Lets see if I can keep my trend going of winning all six games and not advancing to the finals for a third year in a row!

Anyhow, my opponents were:

Space Wolves-
Nice well rounded army, but the guy did not have a solid plan for dealing with outflanking stealers and it cost him, as one unit of stealers chewed through a predator, two landspeeders, and a rhino before a bloodclaw squad finally killed the last of them off. In the end, Massacre for me (22pts) and an easy game.

Mech Orks with a side of Nob Bikers-
This, frankly, is the army mine is tailor made to stomp. It did not dissapoint. He did manage to take out my Tyrant Guard unit in hand to hand, which nearly never happens, but I completely stomped him on every other part of the table, especially with Stranglers drilling his lootas into submission. One rounding his footslogging meganob squad with a flyrant and a UberFex and explaining Implant Attack were the highlight of my day. I had 25 KP to his 12, so Massacre (21pts) again for me.

Mech Chaos-
This guy was apparently TFG of the local store. I was ill with the flu by this point and knew I was ahead of the closest person behind me (this guy) by 13 points, so when I looked at the scenario, I made a concious choice to play for the draw. He had three Term squads mounted in LRs, two Defilers, some oblits, and three fice man buck naked plague marines to fill out core, all led by a pair of warp time princes. Well, I basically rammed by carnifexes down his throat while the rest of my army divided itself between the two objectives, the idea being that if he is busy killing me stuff, he wont have time to make a run on the objectives, beyond contesting them. This guy was not fun to play and even broke a couple of my models during the game as well as pulling some LOS schenanigans, so I, being sick, was fairly merciless by my standards. I basically focused on crippling his mobility. He was so afraid of my carnifexes that he held his entire army back for most of the game. In the end, he killed a lot of my army, but I held one objective with Genestealers, so I won a Major Victory (18pts) and the tournament.

I will probably stick with Nidzilla, but if I get some playtesting in I might try a mixed inquisition force instead.

Adventurer's Guild results are already posted (but not as nicely as Phazael did). Don't include them twice in any further tallies.

Game Castle- Londonderry, NH

1st- CSM (me)
2nd- Orks
3rd- Orks

I'm not 100% on the 2nd and 3rd, as I was pretty out of it and exhausted by the end of the day. Was up too late the night before and too early that morning helping a friend move.

Wichita, Kansas
Agents of Comics

1. Mech Chaos (me) - 9x oblits, 3x CSMs in Rhinos, 2x Plague Marines in Rhinos, 3x 4 man Termicides, 2x Daemon Princes
2. Horde Khorne - Kharn, 16x Plague Marine blob, Defiler, 6x Oblits, Berzerkers all over
3. Marneus Calgar Super Best Friends - Calgar, Lysander, 12x AssTerms, 2x LRC, 2x Vindicator, 3x Tac Rhinos

I ran over a mech Ork army R1, and a Shrike Marines army R2. I played the third place player in R3 (he was 1st overall at the time) and simply shot him off the table before claiming objectives.

The Khorne guy just ran people over after he popped them out of transports with his Oblits.

And Calgar Superfriends Squad guy simply drove forward until he found something for his AssTerms to whomp. It worked well for him until his hammer ran into my anvil.

From Wichita, KS but had to play a late qualifier in Olathe KS.

1st place - Speed Freak Orks. From what I saw it was 2 battle wagons and a bunch of trucks with Ghaz, lots of boys and nobs.

2nd place - Me with Vulkan Marines with landspeeder spam.

3rd place - Some strange meganob ork build.

I never played the 1st or 3rd place players. Speed Freaks just ran over people and scored 71pts out of a possible 72pts.

I ran into 2 IG players, 1st round massacre'ed one, major'ed the other in the 3rd. Faced a vulkan list in the 2nd round and major'ed.

How many marine armies played with Vulkan?

interesting to find out who comes out on top...

UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 35
Orks -- 31
Imperial Guard -- 18
Chaos Marines -- 20
Eldar -- 16
Chaos Daemons -- 13
Tyranids -- 17
Tau -- 9
Space Wolves -- 5
Necrons -- 6
Blood Angels -- 4
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 4
Dark Eldar -- 4
Dark Angels -- 1

note: I didn't include Fullerton,California 2nd Tyranids

thehod wrote:How many marine armies played with Vulkan?

Of the 35 SM players listed it would be a safe bet to say 20 or so of them will be Vulcan lists. Probably should have made a seperate "Salamanders" listing.

Messing around with this data. Note if there are duplicates in the thread they were counted as I ignored context (but not quotes of course).

Army Rankings based on top 3 finishes. I gave an army 3 points for a win, 2 points for 2nd and 1 point for third place:


Orks = 65
Space Marines = 62
Chaos = 44
IG = 43
Eldar = 36
Nids = 34
Demons = 27
Tau = 16
Necrons = 13
Dark Eldar = 8
Black Templars = 8
Blood Angels = 8
Space Wolves = 7
Daemon Hunters = 2
Dark Angels = 1


Number of first place finishes:

IG = 11
Orks = 11
Space Marines = 11
Eldar = 7
Chaos = 7
Nids = 6
Demons = 6
Necrons =3
Dark Eldar = 2
Space Wolves = 1
Blood Angels = 1
Templars = 1
Tau = 0
Daemon Hunters = 0
Witch Hunters = 0
Dark Angels = 0


Interesting that IG didn't see as many top 3 placings as Orks, Chaos or Marines but still managed to come in first the most (three way tie with Orks and Marines). Tau got shutout of first place.

I think a lot of these stats really tell us what is popular over what is really good. As the competition gets better in the later rounds it will be interesting to see if the numbers change. I have a feeling Vanilla Marines and Orks won't be as plentiful.

Mr Nash, that's an interesting take on this 'data'.

It does appear that IG and several other lists have a significant (at least based on this 'sampling') advantage for doing well at the regional level over other more 'popular' lists.

It will indeed be interesting to see how it shakes down. I believe you are making a solid prediction.

Using the above several posts, I thought of a system for determining the potency of a given army by taking the points given by Kevin's calculus and dividing it by manimal's results. Here's the results, gained by dividing points from the calculus by manimal's numbers, in order from what is "revealed" to be the topmost weighted army to the least weighted. Obviously those with low showings, particularly deamonhunters and dark angels, should be taken with a grain of salt, but I must say, some of the top armies are VERY interesting.

IG 2.388888889
Eldar 2.25
Chaos Space Marines 2.2
Necrons 2.166666667
Orks 2.096774194
Demons 2.076923077
Black Templars 2
Blood Angels 2
Dark Eldar 2
Deamonhunters 2
Nids 2
Tau 1.777777778
Space Marines 1.771428571
Space Wolves 1.4
Dark Angels 1

So, I must say that I agree with everyone else. We may lose A LOT of marine players this next go around. I'll bet that no one would think that the top 5 would look anything like that.

Food for thought,
Kitzz