I am curious to hear who turns out to be the hardest boys today!........

That name is so stupid!

Good luck everyone!

Reece

Good luck guys! It would be nice to see some results/battle reports.

Bah. I can't go, due to a long story involving my wife's job, babysitters falling through, and the VA.

I second the motion for lots and lots of battle reports!

Phoenix Games-Minneapolis, MN

1. Dark Eldar
2. Space Wolves (me)
3. Blood Angels

Dark Eldar army was pretty varied but definitely meched up with some bikes. I ran Logan Wolfguard list w/28 Missiles and the BA player ran Mephi and pretty standard mech BA.

Ravenstone Games, Columbus OH

Tyranids 1st
Dark Angels Deathwing/Ravenwing 2nd
Grey Knights 3rd

Game Room Washington IL

1.Grey Knights

2. Dark Eldar

3. Orks

Lost Legion Games and Comics Charleston WV

1st IG -6 griffons, vet spam with melta and autocannon,6 vendettas, pycher battle squad
2nd - DE (Me mixed DE)
3rd - Battlewagon orcs

The IG list was perfectly designed to fight my style of DE and my loss of the day.

Dream Wizards - Rockville Maryland

1st: IG - Mech
2nd: BA - (me) Razorspam+meph
3rd: GK - Pallies/Interceptors ect

Bookery Fantasy in dayton ohio

1st-dark eldar
2nd-loganwing
3rd-fatecrusher

Atlantis Comics-Norfolk Va.

1st-Dark Eldar (me)
2nd-Grey Knights
3rd-Chaos Daemons


Vects unit got 17 pain tokens today.....FEED THE HATE!

Got a Stormraven for 6 bucks!

Appleton, Wisconsin

1st Tau...alot of suits
2nd Gunline Space Marine featuring 20 termies
3rd Deathwing with a hint of Ravenwing. (me)

1st and 2nd place got to play and massacre Dark Eldar. I beat the 2nd place guy round 1.

Tally:

1st Orks
2nd Grey Knights
3rd: Tau

Gatekeeper in Topeka, Kansas:

1st: Tri-Battlewagon Orks (me)
2nd: Vulkan Marines without TH/SS Termies (my buddy Ian who I rode with)
3rd: Blood Angels - 2 Stormraven, Dante w/ Sang. Guard, Sangunior (I massacred in round 3)

Overall, my Orks kicked butt and took names. 59 battle points, rounds 2 and 3 were board wipes.

Hobby Town - Knoxville TN

1st: Codex Marines (me)
2nd: Hoard Orks
3rd: Drop Pod Blood Angels

My marines couldn't fail. 3 strait massacres... 72 battles points

Warzone - Cleveland, OH

1. Grey Knights (Polonius' paladins)
2. Space Wolves (me)
3. Space Wolves

Cyto wrote:Dream Wizards - Rockville Maryland

1st: IG - Mech
2nd: BA - (me) Razorspam+meph
3rd: GK - Pallies/Interceptors ect

3rd was me. Was fun to play a more varied/fun GK lists then I usually take to "fer serious" events.

Grand Adventures - Murfreesboro TN

1st: Dark Eldar (me)
2nd: Black Templar
3rd: Orks

Last Square Madison, WI (Host to one of the winners last year)

1. Eldar
2. Grey Knights
3. Eldar

18 players majority were wolves, knights, and blood angels. Really surprising results.

Lost Legion Games and Comics - Beckley WV

1.) DE - 8x Venom spam, 3x beast squads
2.) Blood Angels
3.) DE - Kabalite Warriors/hellions


I came in 4th (of four players) with a measly 19 battle points for the day using tyranids. Both dark eldar players made meat puppets out of my monstrous creatures, leaving me no synapse. The BA game was closer, one failed assault move flipped it from what would have been a minor victory to what ended up as a minor loss in round 1.

Good luck in the semi's everyone who advanced! me? I'm going to practice with my tau and spend more time at the painting table while I reformulate strategies and tactics.

Great White, Prince George

1) Death wing (I am having stern words with my Darklance gunners over this)
2) Dark Eldar (Yours truly)
3) Blood Angels

The Hobbit - Fayetteville NC

1. Necrons - triple Monolith, Deceiver build (yes, really)
2. Eldar - (me), Mech. Tied final game vs. Necrons
3. Grey Knights

Only 12 players this year and had the following breakdown
4 x Grey Knights
1 x Necron
1 x Chaos
1 x Eldar
2 x Imperial Guard
1 x Space Wolves
1 x Tyranid
1 x Space Marine

big easy comics mandeville/covington la

1. grey knights
2. mech dar (i think)
3. ork kan wall (me)

NERDVANA-Jackson TN

1st- Tyranids(mixed bag Swarmlord list)

2nd- Vanilla Marines(me-2 massacres and a minor win)

3rd- Space Wolves(Ragnar- lost to nids)

Stratford CT-
1st- Space marines w vulkan (Sean Nayden I believe)
2nd- Chaos Daemons (me)
3rd- Space Marines + Shrike+Librarian w nullzone and 15 terminators (james from BFS)

The Gamers Realm- West Windsor, NJ

1. Blood Angels
2. Space Marines (Salamanders)
3. Space Marines (Pedro, Tigurius)

12 players with following breakdown
1 x Chaos
1 x Space Wolves
2 x Dark Angels
2 x Space Marine
2 x Blood Angels
1 x Black Templar
1 x Orks
2 x Imperial Guard

This was an odd showing considering the last tournaments we have held had very few Space Marine armies being played.

The Realm games and comics (Brea, CA)

1. Eldar (Wraithzilla army with some mech) (me)
2. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a bunch of lootas)
3. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a lot of trucks/wartracks)

4. Nids (2 tyrants, 3 tervigon, 2 Trygon, 3X3 Hiveguard)
5. Necrons (3X monolith, lotsa warriors and immortals)
6. SW (lotsa AC razorbacks, LR and ML spam)
7. DE (3 bombers were all I remember him having)
8. BA (pretty balanced list with librarian/chaplain, 3X assault squads, LRC, 1 Tac, 3 Dev squads and 2 Furioso dreads in pods).

Huzzah for the Eldar, glad to see other locations have them place!

I had to face both Ork players, yeesh!

GameStars - Langley, British Columbia

1) Grey Knights, 62 points
2) Tau Empire, 49 points
3) Blood Angels, 48 points

Borderlands - Greenville, SC

1) Black Templars (Me, 4th edition codex baby!)
2) Gray Knights (played 3rd round)
3) Space Wolves

80% of armies were Imperial.

Wargames - Nashville, TN

First: Ultramarines
Second: Vanilla Marines (Shrike/Khan/Termies)
Third: Grey Knights (Me)

Had a disastrous day,

1st Space Wolves

2nd Chimera Trailer Park Guard

3rd Drop Pod Spam BA

4th Tau with lots of upgrades

5th Eldar with a unique build, lots of wave serpents and CC ability

6th BW Orks

7th? Don't remember

8th Me, with my IG list that proceeded to utterly crap the bed

9th BA with 3 Stormravens packed with extra killy Death company & furiosos

10th guy that left, Don't remember here

11th guy that left, Don't remember here either.

I had to be matched up with the leaf blower round one, who reserves his entire force after I get to go first. By the time it rolled in on bottom of 2, I had no chance. I got 4 KP, he got 14, plus the traitor. I managed to kill 3 chimeras and a Vendetta. That's all.

2nd round I got a buy, but it really didn't help.

3rd Round I was matched up with the Tau, who reserved his force too on DOW. I had no way to even use my Manticore and it was killed the next turn. It was a minor loss, but it sure felt a lot worse.
Wound up with 27 points total.

God I need a drink.

Armoured Ogre Games Inver Grove Heights, MN

1st-DE (my 1st round draft pick)
2nd-BA
3rd-Nids (me)

Your Hobby Place Martinsburg, WV
1st-I.G. (Me) 65
2nd- Orks
3rd- Nids

Running two Manticores and a squadron of LRBT w/ HB and HB Sponsons in addition to some Platoon Bubblewrap around a core of Vendettas and Chimeltas worked out amazingly well.
Tried a SW squad with 3 Demo Charges, Round 1 they killed 9 BT Termies, and ID'd a Marshall. Round 2 they ate about 5 Gargoyles, they wiffed hard here. Round 3 they took out 9 Genestealers after doing 23 wounds.

Pittsburgh

Dark Eldar
Eldar
Tyranids

Everything went very smoothly with my slightly errata'd rules. Dark eldar managed to pull out a win by focusing on victory points and not getting too distraught when he lost units. Kill expensive stuff, thats alll that mattered

Thou Shalt Game - Temecula, California

1st: Dark Eldar
2nd: Tyranids
3rd: Angels of Vengeance-Deathwing (ME)

Nicely done, Mags!

Monster Rain wrote:Nicely done, Mags!

Thanks. I was 6 points behind first...so it was a hard fought tournament.
After a first round lose, I thought I was out of it.
But managed to pull it out in rounds two and three.

Wish you could have made it!

Magilla Gurilla wrote:Wish you could have made it!

Me too brother.

Between the babysitting and the VA I got both barrels of bad luck this weekend.

Miami Florida , Sunshine adventure gaming

1. Dark Eldar
2. Dark Eldar
3. Blood angels ( me)

So what should I expect in the next level?

Don't expect any easy games! Everyone there will have qualified, so bear that in mind.

Hobbytown - Petaluma, CA

12 players

1) Leave Blower List - 61 points
2) Dark Eldar, wych list - 59 points
3) Black Templar, LRC list - 50 points
3) IG, foot list (me) - 50 points

So, after 3 games I'm in a dead tie for third. We have decided to play a fourth game Monday night as a tie breacker to see who goes to round 2.
Spearhead, Kill Points for all the marbles.
I'll let you know how I do.

Doc

doc dragon wrote:
So, after 3 games I'm in a dead tie for third. We have decided to play a fourth game Monday night as a tie breacker to see who goes to round 2.
Spearhead, Kill Points for all the marbles.
I'll let you know how I do.

Doc

Nice, glad to see the ladies doing so well...
...wish you luck Monday

Dose anyone know anything about the Washington results?

Paladin Games - Orlando

1) Grey Knights (me)
2) Deathwing
3) Orks

Gamer's Sanctuary, Flint MI

1) BA (me yay!) Stormraven spam
2) Grey Knights
3) IG

Magilla Gurilla wrote:

doc dragon wrote:
So, after 3 games I'm in a dead tie for third. We have decided to play a fourth game Monday night as a tie breacker to see who goes to round 2.
Spearhead, Kill Points for all the marbles.
I'll let you know how I do.

Doc

Nice, glad to see the ladies doing so well...
...wish you luck Monday

Thanks, I'm going to need some luck.
My strongest gun is strength 6 and I'm facing 3 LRC in a BT list.
I do have 18 models with Melti bombs so I'm looking for some HTH combat with tanks.

Doc

Legends Cupertino, CA

1) Eldar (me)
2) Dark Angels - Death Wing
3) Imperial Guard

The Wizard's Wall, Melbourne Florida

1 - Dark Eldar (me)
2 - Chaos Space Marines
3 - Tau

Game Empire Pasadena:
1. Space Wolves (TWC, 3 maxed out squads of GH, meltacide WG in pod, plasmacide WG in pod, 1 squad of Long Fangs, 10 Wolf Scouts with Melta, PP, and MB) This was PythNutD on Capture and Control
2. Grey Knights (Crowe, Libby, 3x Purifiers in Rhino, 1x Purifiers in SR, 1 SR for Crowe, 2 Ven Psyflemen dreads. This was Sand on Capture and Control.
3. Space Wolves (Njal, RP, 3x GH in Rhino, 2xGH in RB, 3x LF, 2x Dreads with PC, 3x Speeders) This was me.
4. Orks (Battlewagons, Ghaz, 9 Deffcoptas) this was Darrian13, I listed him because Sand may not make Sept due to College etc.

A full run down of my day will be up on C&C tomorrow night if you want to check it out, a list very close to what I took can be found in the List Forum in a thread by me. Again, if you're interested.



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Shadowvast wrote:Ravenstone Games, Columbus OH

Tyranids 1st
Dark Angels Deathwing/Ravenwing 2nd
Grey Knights 3rd

Quoted for awesome.

Happygrunt wrote:Dose anyone know anything about the Washington results?

The game matrix Tacoma WA

First dark eldar
Second lash csm (me ill be playing my next round in the Midwest though)
Third 9 vendetta ig list

Happygrunt wrote:Dose anyone know anything about the Washington results?

Seattle Wargaming Center

1. CSM : Single Lash, Oblits and Berserkers
2. IG : Mech
3. Dark Angels : Deathwing foot slogging

OverwatchCNC wrote:

Shadowvast wrote:Ravenstone Games, Columbus OH

Tyranids 1st
Dark Angels Deathwing/Ravenwing 2nd
Grey Knights 3rd

Quoted for awesome.

WHAT THE HECK?

And thanks for the Washington info. I knew a guy who was going. He ran Spacewolves mixed. Hope he did well.

Happygrunt wrote:

OverwatchCNC wrote:

Shadowvast wrote:Ravenstone Games, Columbus OH

Tyranids 1st
Dark Angels Deathwing/Ravenwing 2nd
Grey Knights 3rd

Quoted for awesome.

WHAT THE HECK?

And thanks for the Washington info. I knew a guy who was going. He ran Spacewolves mixed. Hope he did well.

Nids took 1st, that's the "HECK".

Endzone Games, UT

Space Wolf MSU 69 bp
Space Wolf Mixed 56 bp
Lysander Marines 47 bp

Tyranid player for almost 10 years. He had a variation on the old 'Nidzilla list. I dont have the specific list in front of me, but it was something like this:

3 Trygon, 3 Tervs (as troops), 3 maxed out hive guard units, 3 big gaunt units, tyrant with maxed guard.

He was one of those left field, nobody saw it coming lists. (that and he knows the list inside and out).

Nids have never shown poorly in Ard Boyz. They won a bunch of events last year in the prelims.

Mayhem Comics in Des Moines, Iowa

1st [61] Blood Angels (boasting some ~87 jump packs)
2nd [30] Chaos
3rd [26] Necrons (me)
4th [24] Necrons
All we had.

Arkham Games - Cumberland, MD

1. Grey Knights - Dakka's own GKWH40K
2. Space Wolves - Me
3. Space Wolves

Showcase Comics - Bryn Mawr, PA.

1. Mech IG
2. Chaos Daemons
3. Deathwing

If I remember correctly. Ended up in 4th w/ a massacre full, minor loss, and massacre full (53 pts, 3rd was 59?)...it was a great day of gaming.

Parallax Games, Bismarck ND

1st Dark Eldar (Massacre-Full, Draw-3pt, Massacre-Full)
2nd Vanilla Marines (me) (Minor-Full, Draw-3pt, Massacre-Full)
3rd Space Wolves (Massacre-Loss-1pt, Massacre-Full, Massacre-Full)

Bozeman MT

1) BA (razor back spam)
2) Orks (5 BW) <---me
3)Space Marines (Lysander I believe)

Don't have the official builds of the contenders, but about 34 people played in the legions tourny.

1st Dark Eldar (me) - Hybrid Wyche Cult/ Kabalite warrior
2nd Eldar - of the shooty variety.
3rd 'Nids - 3 tervies and plenty o' MC.

Edit - Kirasu already got this.

Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA.

1. Tyranids (myself)
2. Grey Knights (jy2)
3. Tau (Gus Indo)

Surprisingly light turnout; we only had 10 players, where last year we had 24 or so. Another local store ran the prelims this year, too, and I think that drew off a number of people. Didn't make my games any easier!

4 Grey Knights
2 Blood Angels
1 Space Wolves
1 Eldar
1 Tau
1 Tyranids

Santa Maria, CA
1st black templars (me)
2nd grey knights (ChristianA)
3rd blood angels (stave stiff)

Team zero comp swept it, with all three of us present going on to the next round.

I had planned on taking footdar and then my forward scouts told me to expect at least two triple manticore leaf blower lists with hellhouns support and that just didn't sound fun, so I took the boys in black.




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Well done, janthkin! Winning with bugs and going through grey knights to do it!


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And Gus going through with tau! Nice!

ABX Augusta GA:

1st:: Grey Knights
2nd: Orks
3rd: Chaos Space Marines (ME)

BKG Conifer, CO

1st: Mech Eldar
2nd: Mech Blood Angels
3rd: Hybrid Mech/Foot Eldar

Evolution Gaming, Eugene Oregon

1st : Sisters of Battle switcheroo
2nd : Foot Eldar (Me) YAY go me!
3rd : Dark Eldar

Shinkaze wrote:Nids have never shown poorly in Ard Boyz. They won a bunch of events last year in the prelims.

emmm, no.

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

1st- Drop/Stormraven BA
2nd- Space Marines (Me)
3rd- Space Wolves

Janthkin wrote:Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA.

1. Tyranids (myself)
2. Grey Knights (jy2)
3. Tau (Gus Indo)

Surprisingly light turnout; we only had 10 players, where last year we had 24 or so. Another local store ran the prelims this year, too, and I think that drew off a number of people. Didn't make my games any easier!

4 Grey Knights
2 Blood Angels
1 Space Wolves
1 Eldar
1 Tau
1 Tyranids

Too bad we didn't get to play. I was really looking forwards to a rematch with your nids.

Morgantown WV
(WOW... WV had at least 5 of these? No wonder numbers were low)

I was supposed to be the judge, but when we had an odd number of people show up I was forced to play. I ended up playing a CSM using a ton of peoples stuff.

1st Ork Vehicle/Hoard Mix
2nd Duel Lash Prince CSM (Me it was the only way I could be competitive.)
3rd Grey Knights

I gave my prize away and if someone below me wants to go to semis I will drop my spot since I was supposed to judge.

Morning Star Games -Savannah, GA

1. IG Mech
2. DE Venom Spam (me)
3. GK Henchman/Dread Spam

Had a full house of 16 Players

Emerald Knights, Burbank, Ca.

Bugs - 3 trygons & gamut of other units
Horde orks
Deathwing

Only 5 players, and the TO made the buy count as a Draw. I didn't participate, but checked in on the beginning and end of the day. Horde Orks slow played (novice player) so will probably be a stepping stone for someone next month.

Maplewood Hobby
Maplewood, NJ

1. Imperial Guard (me)
2. Salamanders
3. Grey Knights


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Shinkaze wrote:Nids have never shown poorly in Ard Boyz. They won a bunch of events last year in the prelims.

The Tyranids' unusually good performance last year in the preliminaries last year had a lot to do with the wacky KP mission that was almost an auto-win for horde armies. They didn't fare well in the semi-finals.

Game Portal Mountain Home, AR

1st Grey Knights

2d Chaos Demons

3d Chaos Demons

Dual Raven knights list, and MC heavy Demon lists.

Of course, I had the misfortune of playing both demon players as it is the type of list I have the most trouble with

mortetvie wrote:The Realm games and comics (Brea, CA)

1. Eldar (Wraithzilla army with some mech) (me)
2. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a bunch of lootas)
3. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a lot of trucks/wartracks)

4. Nids (2 tyrants, 3 tervigon, 2 Trygon, 3X3 Hiveguard)
5. Necrons (3X monolith, lotsa warriors and immortals)
6. SW (lotsa AC razorbacks, LR and ML spam)
7. DE (3 bombers were all I remember him having)
8. BA (pretty balanced list with librarian/chaplain, 3X assault squads, LRC, 1 Tac, 3 Dev squads and 2 Furioso dreads in pods).

I was the Ork player that took second (minor with 3, major with full, Major with full). Beat the eldar player round one but he came back with two massacers.

Way to go, Grimgob!

Black Sun Games, Chicago IL

1. Mech IG
2. Mech SW
3. Mech IG or GK henchman spam(didn't stay to find out who won)

5. DA deathwing (me lost to the two IG lists, very close games)
6. SW foot lists (this guy got tabled every game)

Sarge's Comics, New London, CT

1. Eldar (me)
2. Space Wolves
3. Grey Knights

Turnout was light compared to last year. Almost everyone had some kind of Marine,except for me and one Tau player. The scenarios were okay, if kind of stupid at times. They seemed poorly thought out to me, especially the second one with the varying costs for the objectives.

My army was: Shining Spears with Autarch, Farseer, Howling Banshees, Fire Dragons, 2 squads of Dire Avengers (all Aspect warriors in Wave Serpents), Harlequins in a Falcon, Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Fire Prisms. It was a list built with the cunning strategy of taking every model I own.

I played the Grey Knights round 1, on a city table, and concentrated my forces on one flank. His army was a largely static and shooting-oriented, so once I killed his two Storm Ravens I was able to roll of the flank and kill his army piecemeal, using the terrain to block LOS to my army. I only lost a few things and almost wiped him out.

Round 2 was a mechanized Space Wolf army. His opening salvo of shots (from 1 Landraider, 1 Long Fang Squad, and 1 Dreadnought) killed 3 of my tanks and some 15 of my infantry. It was bad. Luckily my two bike squads were in reserve and came on from the corner of the long table edge, outflanking his army, and proceeded to kick butt. The Shining Spears, supported by the Fire Dragons, killed some 35 Space Wolves + vehicles, while my dismounted Harlequins and Dire Avengers managed to tie up and eventually defeat Logan Grimnar and some terminators (Fortune with an Invulnerable save is really good). At the end of the game my army was shattered, but there were only 2 damaged Rhinos left for the Space Wolves.

Round 3 was more Space Wolves, an especially obnoxious army with a bunch of Thuderwolf cavalry, a bunch of Long Fangs, a bunch of Razorbacks, and a bunch of small Grey Hunter units. The game started well as getting the first turn and the Dawn of War set up allowed me to get the jump on his largely static army. Again I shifted my forces to concentrate on one flank and some serious firepower saw about a third of his army killed on turn 2. But some utterly incompentent close combat against three Thunderwolves gutted the center of my army and stalled my momentum, so his Razorbacks and Longfangs showered me with love for several turns. Luckily his shooting was almost as bad as my assault so I was able to out-shoot his Longfangs with my tanks and eke out a victory.

3 good games, and the last 2 were real knife fights. I can't wait for round 2.

Even though you do not see so many Space Wolves around this days as you did a year ago, the army is still a power house.

The other thing that leaps out is how well the Tyranids did. I wonder if it could be a couple of factors. The long time limit so that they can finish their games, and what I think is the biggest factor is the point limit. With the extra points they get to fill out their often neglected heavy support slots, or just fill up with an overwhelming amount of troops.

Also a lot of people are commenting on how low the turn out was. They had about 25 players in my store last year and they had about 14 this year. Here is the kicker though, at the same time as the 'Ard Boyz, they ran a Warmachine wrath book release tournament that had 20 people attending. I know that it is just one event and you can't make much of it, but that might be an ominous sign of GWs health at least in the Phoenix area. It seems like Warmachine is taking off, and GW games are declining.

Or perhaps a dissatisfaction with the 'ard boyz events in general. Every year the prize support gets stricter, the event rules dont improve or get more sloppy (like this year they didnt even bother to use the 'ard boyz stationary), no cool swag like 2009 'ard boyz and in general the staticness of 5th ed isn't helping

I know there are people who don't play Mech but after playing in a lot of tournaments and now running a lot of events its like I see the same list played on 90% of the boards.. Yes some may be called "space wolves", "Imperial guard", "dark eldar" or "grey knights" but for the most part its just a bunch of transports running around with random units inside

In either case, the turnout for Pittsburgh wasn't noticeably lower.. Maybe a little lower than last year. WFB is doing awful tho

Here the results for 'Ard Boyz Prelims at The Sage's Shoppe
West Lafayette, Indiana:

1. Space Wolves (Tony Malave)
2. Imperial Guard (Derek Call)
3. Grey Knights (Matt Hutchinson)


I saw Tau, Blood Angels, a 5 Land Raider Black Templar army, Salamanders, and more Marines! No Eldar, Orks, 'Nids, or DE! See you guys in round two!

Tony Malave
http://chicagokamikazes.blogspot.com//

In central Texas it was

1.Black templars (me)
2.Grey knights (goat boy)
3.Dark elder

Gardiner Maine

1 - Logan Wing with 3 x longfangs and no vehicles
2 Grey Knights Paladin star.
3 Dark Angels Deathwing with Landraiders (Me)

kestral wrote:Gardiner Maine

1 - Logan Wing with 3 x longfangs and no vehicles
2 Grey Knights Paladin star.
3 Dark Angels Deathwing with Landraiders (Me)

Ahhhh, Greenhouse, where it all started for me. When IG ruled the world in 2nd ed.

Collector's Corner, baltimore MD

1. Space Wolves ( 3 longfangs, 2 TWL, mech GH)
2. Eldar ( Elvatar)
3. Draigowing.

5 whole players showed from the 12 who signed up. Bye system was implemented that gave the bye player a major win.


Draigowing player had 1 wipeout loss, 1 minor loss and 1 massacre.

Grr I had 2 minor wins and a minor loss and got knocked out. Any scoring system that allows someone with a lesser win loss record place needs to be reworked.

I got shafted because I should have had the third bye, giving me 17 points instead of 3. A guy who already had a bye and had been massacred dropped out instead of playing. I believe they also gave him the bye points, so he actually placed over me, only playing 1 game. Lol I'm done whining about it.....at least I had 2 wins over 2 really good players.

Kenosha, WI-Rockheads

1. Space Wolves(me)
2. Grey Knights(Draigowing)
3. Dark Eldar(Raider Spam)

I played

Wolf Lord on Mount
Rune Priest
Wolf Guard unit leaders in lasplasback(empty)
Scouts
4x Rhino GH units
2x Razorback GH units
Speeder
Puppies for the Lord to join
3x Long Fang units in LasPlasbacks (mix of Plasma and ML due to me expecting Paladin spam, which was a correct assumption)

Played Necrons(got lucky, yea), Draigowing, and CSM Lesser Demon spam.

Very interesting results, I loved seeing those two daemons place 2nd and 3rd. Means I wont be alone at semi finals with daemons
Hey Saber,
Do you happen to be Mike, who plays doubles with another Mike, at the battle standards tournaments. If you are, hey, this is the daemon player from the battle standard who played you in the third round of doubles and your friend in the first round of the nova practice tournament.
If not..good job in your games!

Tower of Games, Chesapeake VA

1. Orks (Me)
2. IG Leafblower
3. Space Wolves
4. Space Wolves
5. Space Wolves
6. IG Leafblower
7+ various marines and 1 Tau

Yeah...it was a repetitive day.

The use of night fight in all three rounds really encouraged the amount of SW and DE imho.

Battle Bunker Games.

1st- Grey Kniights
2nd- Horde Orks
3rd-Deathwing

Judged for Time Warp Comics and Games (Cedar Grove,NJ) , we held the event off-site due to conflicts with MTG/YuGiOh events that were pre-scheduled. Only had 6 people play, 3 Ork players, a Blood Angel Player, a Dark Eldar player and a Nid player.

1. Blood Angels (Death Company, Death Company Dreadnaught, bunch of Rhinos/Razorbacks/Predators, some termies, and a drop pod for good measure).
2. Dark Eldar (3 units of trueborn in venoms, wyches/warriors in raiders, some bikes, 3x ravagers)
3. Orks (not sure which Ork player won (wasn't paying attention), but I think it was an infantry horde with some 150 boyz, 45 kommandos, some big guns and grots and other assorted stuff)

NJ is going to be seeing a lot of people advancing to the semi's, the North Jersey area alone had approx. 7 stores hosting the tourney (hence only 6 people this year vs. 16-18 last year).

Visions Cards and Games, Montgomery, AL:

1st - Blood Angels (me)
2nd - Space Wolves
3rd - Daemons

Avalon Comics and Games, Silverdale, WA

1. Space Wolves (LF and Wolfguard)
2. Vanilla Marines (Calgar, enough said)
3. Blood Angels (DoA)

The lowley Guardsman, me, came in last. Don't get me started...

New World Comics and Games, Oklahoma City OK


20 Participants


1st: Grey Knights - My list was a GKGM, Corteaz, 2x Purifier squads, 2x Strike Squads, 2x Psyker Squads, 3x Psyrifles, 1x Vindicare
2nd: Space Marines
3rd: Space Marines

someone should accumulate these and post the totals of how many of each race made and maybe even which race won the most. I think Dark Eldar take the prize this year followed by grey knights!

The first results are from me, the second, from my brother

The Whiz, Westborough MA

1) Tyranids (me, with swarmlord and Tyrant death stars, and a whole bunch of other T6 models)
2) Tyranids (swarmlord death star, plus dakka flyrrant)
3) Chaos Space Marines (Dual lash)

round 1: massacre
round 2: major loss
round 3: massacre

Battle Grounds, Plainville MA

1) IG (my brother, relatively standard mech vets with plasma russ)
2) Tyranids (dual death stars)
3) Sisters of Battle (This guy is really good, the other times i have played him he has wiped me off the table)

round 1: minor win
round 2: massacre
round 3: win be default (sisters guy had to leave, and he still came in third)

Great weekend, and I got a hammer head for my new tau army

canadianone wrote:I actually managed to play twice, once on sat, and again on sunday

The Whiz, Westborough MA (Suaturday)

1) Tyranids (me, with swarmlord and Tyrant death stars, and a whole bunch of other T6 models)
2) Tyranids (swarmlord death star, plus dakka flyrrant)
3) Chaos Space Marines (Dual lash)

round 1: massacre
round 2: major loss
round 3: massacre

Battle Grounds, Plainville MA (sunday)

1) IG (my brother, relatively standard mech vets with plasma russ)
2) Tyranids (me again)
3) Sisters of Battle (RIDICULOUS MECH SISTERS, this was a combo guard platoon+mech sisters that beat me round two and gave me zero points, he was an AMAZING player, my brother only beat him because he had to run out at the beginning of the game)

round 1: massacre
round 2: massacred, 0 points
round 3: massacre

Great weekend, and I got a hammer head and a broadside suit for my burgeoning tau army

ide avoid posting such things as you might find you and your brother dqed for the next round. I hope you at least passed off the qualification for the next round to the 4th place person at either one of those tournaments.

Nice nice guys, keep up the good posts

Game Castle, Londonderry, NH, 18 players

1st Unusual Ultras list- Calgar, Gate/Zone Libby, 20 hammernators, 10 shootynators, three ten man Tac squads in Pods, 10 Devs with 4MLs. Run by a nice guy named Travis up from Savannah, GA on vaca.
2nd. Space Wolves
3rd. Lash/Abaddon CSM.

I missed qualifying due to eating a Minor Loss in a tight game against Travis in round two (after he and I being the only two players to get Massacres in round 1), then not being able to get better than a Draw against DW in round three. This was a fairly tight and low-scoring event, with lots of Draws and Minor wins. The top six players were separated by only six points, and 2nd and 3rd were actually tied on points, which they broke using strength of schedule.

Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with a sad story about my luck or dice; I already did that for the DCMs. I'll just relax and try to adapt to the feeling of NOT going to the Finals for once. Maybe start studying that Comp sheet for Da Boyz GT...

lol 4 people, more people than that were playing warmachine pick up games

1st My GK Henchman
2nd 5 Battlewagons
3rd Foot GK (they came to repo the 11 vehicles I had borrowed)
4th Eldar

Store manager let us take full value so I got 2 boxes of Bloodletters. Woot! I think that is the closest to a sick brag in 40k terms.

Reecius wrote:Santa Maria, CA
1st black templars (me)
2nd grey knights (ChristianA)
3rd blood angels (stave stiff)

Team zero comp swept it, with all three of us present going on to the next round.

Oh snap, I was totally gonna play there. Glad I decided to stay at the beach!

Knightfall Games Beaverton, OR.

1st: 59 points Pretre. Space Wolves (Long Fang/TWC/RB)
2nd 58 points Me, Space Wolves (Drop Pod Assault)
3rd 53 points Eldar10, Vulkan Marines (4 LR and lots of TH/SS Terminators)

Overall we had 14 players.
3 Grey Knights
3 Space Wolves
3 Vanilla Marines
2 Blood Angels
1 Tyranid
1 IG
1 Dark Eldar

Sci-fi City, Orlando

1.) Grey Knights
2.) Green Tide
3.) Grey Knights

Much smaller turn out than expected. Still I think 12 players. But I know of 5 players that did not participate because of the lack in effort by GW to make the missions worth a crap or even seem to care about their own tournaments like they used to.


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thehod wrote:Paladin Games - Orlando

1) Grey Knights (me)
2) Deathwing
3) Orks

Can you really count it as 1st when there prolly was only 3 people playing at Paladin?

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thehod wrote:Paladin Games - Orlando

1) Grey Knights (me)
2) Deathwing
3) Orks

Can you really count it as 1st when there prolly was only 3 people playing at Paladin?

I'd say the $60 prize in his pocket would say it counts

The Dark Side, Sarasota, FL

1st Inquisitorial GK
2nd Dark Eldar
3rd Eldar

I took 4th with Vulkan Droppod Marines. The 3rd place Eldar player is a high schooler and said he would be unable to make it to the next round or nationals if he made it that far, so he passed the invitation down to me! I'm pretty excited as this was my first 40k Tournament and my friend was the 1st place finisher, so a road trip for the 2nd round my be in our future if we don't get a 2nd round closer to home. He also got balls lucky in the last round picking up a Massacre to jump him 4 pts ahead of me in the standings.

We had 18 players, this is the breakdown as best as I can remember
2x Grey Knights (1 Inquisitorial)
3x Space Wolves
1x Blood Angels
3x Codex SM (1 Vulkan, 1 Bikes, 1 Mess'o'Stuff)
1x CSM
1x Tyranids
1x Orks
1x Eldar
2x Dark Eldar
2x IG
1x Sisters of Battle (Footsloggers, all metal models)

I played against CSM, Space Wolves, and Sisters, with a Minor Victory, Major Victory, and Draw, with 5 bonus points. There was only a handful of massacres all day and the standings after 3rd place were tight. There were about 6-8 people in the 40-45 pt range.

Grim Foe Games, East Greenbush NY

1st Daemons
2nd Tyranids
3rd Grey Knights

others = Orks, Space Wolves, Chaos Space Marines, ect...

Pulp Fiction Comics and games Lee's Summit, MO

1st BA DOA Army (Me)
2nd DE
3rd SW Logan wing

I did
Mass, mass, major for first

im happy to see that as many tyranid players did as well as they did

Mannahnin wrote:Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with a sad story about my luck or dice; I already did that for the DCMs. I'll just relax and try to adapt to the feeling of NOT going to the Finals for once. Maybe start studying that Comp sheet for Da Boyz GT...

That sucks, sorry to hear it. Maybe someone will drop out.

rednekgunner wrote:Knightfall Games Beaverton, OR.

1st: 59 points Pretre. Space Wolves (Long Fang/TWC/RB)
2nd 58 points Me, Space Wolves (Drop Pod Assault)
3rd 53 points Eldar10, Vulkan Marines (4 LR and lots of TH/SS Terminators)

Whoop whoop! I figured you might beat me to posting. I played Drop Pod SW in round one (Art) who played a tight game and capitalized on my deployment mistake. I lost by one KP. That saw me submarining the rest of the tournament to pop up at the end. Played Jonathan's Guard and got a table massacre (full Bonus) and Tim's Grey Knights with a table massacre (full bonus). As you can see, I barely popped up ahead of rednekgunner at the end. This will be my first semi-finals, so I'm excited to go.

Great games and a great day. The only thing that I really didn't like is that some dark eldar guy played one game and decided he didn't do well enough so left, leaving my buddy Punk to sit on his hands for round 3. Lame. People should not go to tournaments unless they are willing to stick it out.

Results for Brave New Worlds in Willow Grove, PA (not listed on GW's pdf but confirmed with GW rep):

1. Grey Knights (draigowing)
2. Blood Angels (razorback spam) me
3. Tau

Had a major victory in first scenerio versus Nurgle CSM army. Had a Massacre in the 2nd scenerio versus a Khorne Berserker/Abaddon Termie CSM army. For the 3rd scenerio, I had a minor loss versus a Tau player who doesnt know you cant have friendly units within an inch of each other, liked to move his units through each other, and modelled his hammerhead stands so the nose is always hitting the ground so his railguns are lifted and can shoot past other tanks. Booooooo.

I picked up a Dark Eldar Raider box for my prize. A fun tournament overall though! Lots of CSM at our tournament.

Results for Midland, TX...Astral Castle

1st. Dark Eldar Venom Spam. (This guy )
2nd. Space Wolves Heavy Longfangs.
3rd. IG Power Blob with a hint of mech.

Other non-placing armies...that I can remember, Space Wolves (LR/Logan), Space Marines (not sure), Chaos (Black Legion), GK (not sure), Necron (yeah I don't get it either).

Took first after getting a Massacre against Chaos as I popped the LR so Abby got to walk, and venom SC drowned the bikers with mark so termis had to DS normally...all battle points. Second non-placing SW (because of me) Major due to longfangs dropping venoms left and right but 2 lived to last turn to contest center, incubi contested his and I held my own plus obj opposite from mine along the short edge. Third game was against the IG blob guy...yeah IG blob vs Venom Spam...massacre on the Victory Points game having killed his general (Lord Commisar in a blob with 5 Incubi and my general (Vect).

Kearney, NE -"Game On"

1. Grey Knights (Me)
2. Vulkan Marines
3. Vulkan Marines

Great store. Well ran tournament. Cool players. I traveled away from my FLGS this year. Small turn out but a few veterans kept it challenging. Bummer was there was another store in town that ran the tourney as well. If there had only been one we might have seen more players in the same spot. Also another qualifier within 2 hours. Great time.

Seems like GK are the new hotness and IG are taking a back seat in numbers anyway. Wolves, GK, Guard, BA, Vulkan and a touch of DE. Seems the net predictions are on this year.

New Game in Town- Dekalb, IL

1. - Space Marines
2. - - Flesh Tearers (Blood Angels)
3. - Imperial Guard
4. - - Grey Knights
4. - - Chaos
6. - - Blood Angels
6. - - Dark Eldar
8. - - Orks
9. - - Grey Knights
10. - - Imperial Guard

Blacksun Games Chicago:

1. Inquisitorial GK
2.Mech IG (me)
3.Mech SW

Ares Wargames - Albuquerque NM

1. Balanced ultramarines w/ vulkan, dual raiders
2. IG leafblower (4 leman russes, 2 basilisks, 2 vendettas, bunch of vets)
3. Mech DoA (me!)

we had 17 players in attendance. Good spread.

3x GK
2x IG
2x BT
2x SM
2x BA
1x Nids
2x SW
2x Eldar

Game Empire San Diego
20 Players

1. Blood Angels (Dual Storm Raven Meph Mech List)(Junior)
2. Space Wolves (TWC, Mech, Njal) (Aldarionn)
3. Space Wolves (Mech LRC Ragnar) (Danny L)
4. Black Templars (Termy Typhoon Spam) (Me)
5. Blood Angels (4 Landraiders list) (Mac)

Tough games, good games.

Here's Aldarionn's Battle report http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/390211.page

At the end of the report he sums up how my games went ;p

2x IG
2x SW
1x BT
1x Dark Eldar
3x BA
2x GK
1x Chaos
2x Orks
1x Sisters
4x SM

Ancient Wonders / Tualatin, OR

1st DE
2nd Dualwing (me)
3rd Horde Orks/Bikers

15 players, mostly marines & grey knights

Round 1
Faced off against SW razorspam. Everything went wrong for the first half of the game (I scored my first KP in turn 4), then everything came up milhouse. Game was decided when I destroyed a razorback on the bottom of 6, and the unit inside (njal, the traitor, and a GH squad) broke & ran. Game ended immediately after. Gotta love an 8kp krak missile. 15 bp.

Round 2
Faced off against a beautifully painted BA battleforce list. Tabled her, 24 bp.

Round 3
Faced off against an ork foot list. 160-180ish? As with the first game, things went very poorly for the first 3 rounds, followed by much bloodshed in the last rounds of the game. We ended up within ~200 vp of each other. 11 bp.

DE won with authority, with 67-68 BP, followed by a 3-way tie for 2nd @ 50 (broken by difficulty of schedule).

Hobby Craft, Anchorage AK

1. GK DraigoWing
2. DE mixed w/Baron&Duke
3. Orks not sure, tons of shooting i guess
4. Eldar mixed
5. Eldar foot
6. Dark Angels mixed
7. Daemons fate/thirster
8. Eldar 2x autarch mobile
9. Dark Angels mixed

much smaller turn out from last year, another local shop decided to run it as well bringing in at least 2-3 of our guys as they offered 200 bucks toward travel costs to go to next round for winner(making it almost worth your time to go from AK). Then we also had a shop about an hour away host one taking at least 3-5 of our gamers.

Overall though a good time was had, can't believe i showed up saying "ok IG are gonna be a pain but really mobile shooting armies will be worst for my foot DraigoWing..." then i played Eldar, Dark Eldar, Eldar...

Did anyone get the certificate for placing like last year? Our store said they never got em...but lately it seems my store can't get anything from GW..

Top 3 @ my shop were.

1. Blood Angels
2. Space Wolves
3. Black Templars

Followed by a mix of Orkz, IG, and Daemons. Nids did not have a good showing. I think generally they were the weakest I saw at the point level.

I think @ The Hobbit I head that Necrons took #1.

Fanatix, Dothan AL

1st Grey Knights (didn't play him but I remember he had 3 Stormravens and 3 Dreadknights)
2nd Blood Angels (3 Stormravens, Sanguinor, Meph, 5 Assualt Squads in 3 Razorbacks with TL Flamers and 2 Rhinos, 3 Furioso Dreadnaughts (2 Librarians). Tore my nids to pieces.)
3rd Deathwing (9 squads of terminators and 2 land speaders with melta/typhoon)

We had 16 people and filled the place. Was a great time for everyone.

1 Grey Knights
1 Blood Angels
1 Deathwing
2 Imperial Guard
2 Tyranids
3 Eldar
3 Space Wolves
2 Tau
1 Space Marine (Shrike)

I'm really wondering how DW is going to do next round. It seems like they placed in nearly all the tournaments they were present at. I guess the codex is still viable.

Paradox Comics-n-Cards in Fargo

1st - Vanilla Biker Marines
2nd - Mixed Eldar
3rd - Space Wolves (Stelek's list) played by me.

Extended write-up of my games here: http://rkik.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/weekend-gaming-ard-boyz-and-more/

Looking forward to playing in Minneapolis for the semis.

Droma wrote:I'm really wondering how DW is going to do next round. It seems like they placed in nearly all the tournaments they were present at. I guess the codex is still viable.

The codex is viable via Deathwing (maybe some Ravenwing).
The problem is the rest of the Codex suffers greatly with LD9 Librarians with junk powers, and overcosted transports.

I will however be taking my DW to the next round.

Standish, ME

1st: BA (me)
2nd: Eldar
3rd: SW

Magilla Gurilla wrote:The codex is viable via Deathwing (maybe some Ravenwing).
The problem is the rest of the Codex suffers greatly with LD9 Librarians with junk powers, and overcosted transports.

I will however be taking my DW to the next round.

As will I.

I've added it up. Showings per army placing in top 3 as followed
Grey Knights- 41
Space wolves-35
Dark Eldar-29
Blood Angels-28
Space Marines-23
Orks-20
IG-18
Eldar-15
Dark Angels-14
Nids-11
Chaos-8
Deamons-8
Tau-6
Black Templar-3
Necrons-1
S.O.B.-1

Showings per army placing first
Grey Knights-18
Dark Eldar-15
Blood Angels-11
Space Wolves-9
Space Marines-7
IG-7
Nids-5
Orks-4
Eldar-4
Black Templar-3
with Chaos, Deamons, Dark Angels, Necrons, and Tau all with 1 first place win each

Grey Knights 43
Space Wolves 35
Blood Angels 29
Dark Eldar 28
Orks 22
Imperial Guard 20
Eldar 15
Space Marines 14
Dark Angels 13
Tyranids 12
Chaos Daemons 8
Chaos Space Marines 8
Salamaders 8
Black Templars 6
Tau 6
Necrons 2
Sisters 2
White Scars 1
Crimson Fists 1

Danny Internets put it into bar graph form:

http://www.baldandscreaming.com/news/2011-ard-boyz-preliminaries-nationwide-results/

I will add another store to the list where a friend was running the event.

Game Cafe Independence, MO
1st: Grey Knights Inquisition Heavy
2nd: Dark Eldar Drahzar + incubi and wyches
3rd: (3 way tie)
3.1: Orks, horde version
3.2: Grey Knights
3.3: slaanesh daemons

Enslaviour wrote:I will add another store to the list where a friend was running the event.

Game Cafe Independence, MO
1st: Grey Knights Inquisition Heavy
2nd: Dark Eldar Drahzar + incubi and wyches
3rd: (3 way tie)
3.1: Orks, horde version
3.2: Grey Knights
3.3: slaanesh daemons

So the orks had the most VP and got actual third?

just saw this thread, don't think i saw a results post for Little Wars, in Baton Rouge, LA

1. Blood Angels
2. Chaos
3. Dark Eldar (Dash of Pepper)

pretre wrote:So the orks had the most VP and got actual third?

Yes and no, my friend who was running it did not read the packet and so they did not track VP all day. So he went to the next most indiscriminate thing he could, ala, strength of schedule. So orks had the harder opponents all day and got to move on.

Jupiter games vestal ny

1 Black Templar(me) 45
2 Blood Angels 44
3 Dark Eldar 35

After scoring a massacre on the first mission i went on to fight chaos marines in the second round and pulled off a minor victory by literally a 1/4 inch. the final round i faced off against the blood angels and after 5 rounds of fighting we ended up drawing with the difference of 10pts in victory points 1290 -1300 i believe.

Not sure if posted,

Games of Berkeley, Berkeley CA

1st Blood angels (mostly foot) with about 59 points

2nd Guard Vendetta list, not sure on total points

3rd Grey Knights (mostly terminators/Paladins with Stormravens, Deathcult Assassins and psyrifle dreads providing support)

___

4th place: Tyranids (list uncertain)

tied 5th (33 points)
Dark Eldar (me) mixed close combat and shooting, mechanized w/ 3x bombers)
Tau Empire (my last opponent) 3 MSU Firewarrior teams, Oshava w/ bodyguard, broadsides, and snipers. Ridiculously annoying list, he lost 3-4 wounds out of those bodyguards all tournament and no whole models.

Interesting looking at the California Lists; especially since all of us will be playing at one of two sites.

My son and I went to Art of War gaming in Cincinnati for the HB tourney. We were speed bumps as out of 8 players we placed 7th and 8th. We have been playing only a year and IMO 2.5 hours for 2500 points of ORKS = 3 turns each game. I won ( barely ) against the Grey Knights and lost so bad VRS Demons. Since I have never played a Demon army when the guy gave me his list I told him it could be in Russian as it means nothing to me.

My son did very poor with his Dark Angels. As I played him in the last game and he dumped a landraider full of Veterans against a total of 22 nobs I can see how that happened.

The winners of our tourney were Blood Angels With Demons second. The Grey Knights I beat came in third. What I likes most about the games were except for the GK every army was painted well.

Reecius wrote:Santa Maria, CA
1st black templars (me)
2nd grey knights (ChristianA)
3rd blood angels (stave stiff)

Team zero comp swept it, with all three of us present going on to the next round.

I had planned on taking footdar and then my forward scouts told me to expect at least two triple manticore leaf blower lists with hellhouns support and that just didn't sound fun, so I took the boys in black.

You guys are just lucky I had to work...


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Magilla Gurilla wrote:Danny Internets put it into bar graph form:

http://www.baldandscreaming.com/news/2011-ard-boyz-preliminaries-nationwide-results/

Yeah, got a Malware alert when I tried going to his page...

While the rules do state that stuff can be undpainted I think in general at least 75% of most armies will be fully painted. I know everyone except a GK player at my event had a fully painted army and the GK player was just missing a couple things.

Droma wrote:While the rules do state that stuff can be undpainted I think in general at least 75% of most armies will be fully painted. I know everyone except a GK player at my event had a fully painted army and the GK player was just missing a couple things.

Painted models fight better.

Yeah, got a Malware alert when I tried going to his page...

Site got hacked on Friday, but I got the junk off there within a few hours, updated the site security, software versions, passwords, etc. It'll probably take another week before it gets de-listed from automated browser security warnings (Google warnings, Firefox plug-ins, etc).

Not sure if posted, didnt see it...

The Battle Standard , Manchester Ct.
Good turn out.

1st Blood Angels, lots of Termies & scouts
2nd Space Wolves , 2 WL on T-wolfs, 4 more T-wolfs Calv, & Njal (Me)
3rd Imperial Guard, some crazy, insane amount of Infantry played by this Popular British Guy

Close 4th & 5th went to Space Marine Bike Army and DA's

Magilla Gurilla wrote:Interesting looking at the California Lists; especially since all of us will be playing at one of two sites.

Game Empire, Pasadena and ... ? Bay Area or SD?


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Danny Internets wrote:

Yeah, got a Malware alert when I tried going to his page...

Site got hacked on Friday, but I got the junk off there within a few hours, updated the site security, software versions, passwords, etc. It'll probably take another week before it gets de-listed from automated browser security warnings (Google warnings, Firefox plug-ins, etc).

My power book loaded the site up just fine, so I think you're good Danny.

Brothererekose wrote:

Magilla Gurilla wrote:Interesting looking at the California Lists; especially since all of us will be playing at one of two sites.

Game Empire, Pasadena and ... ? Bay Area or SD?

One finals location up north and one location down south. So everyone that played in Brea, Temecula, SanDiego, Burbank, Pasadena, and a few other locations (about 30 people altogether) will be playing at Pasadena.

SoCal looks like this so far:
Orks 4
Space wolves 4
Nids 2
Dark Angels 2
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Blood Angels

But there are like 4 or 5 locations that havnt posted results yet.

Fantastic Games Columbiana, OH. We had 8 people, would've had 10+ but 2 guys showed up on the middle of round 1 and other people had work/drill/not enough points.

1st GK Henchmen w/dread knights(there was some bs involved with this guy but whatever.)

2nd Orks didn't play him but saw lots of stuff with def rollas.

3rd SW Long fangs missile spam

4th GK Purifier spam(me) My first ard boyz! I should've played more aggressively vs the 3rd place winner but I'm still a back up for semi finals

5th CSM I only got 4th by 1 pt bit he and I had a good 1st round duel.

6th DE lot of raiders and fighters, he's a young kid but had a good list.

7th SW Long Fangs the two SW players tied in 1st round it was pretty amusing.

8th BA my buddie's dice were just hating him all day, he was pretty upset.

1 of the guys who didn't make it in time would've played CSM, don't know about his friend.

GAme Depot AZ

1st paladin GK 32 models and 5 kill points with two autowin missions
2nd Dark angels using the marine codex
3rd Tri land raider black templar

TBS Comics - Pensacola, FL

We had 10 players - 2 Dark Eldar, Mech IG, Powerblob IG, Eldar, 2 Chaos Marines, Black Templars, Blood Angels, Vanilla Marines

1) Dark Eldar - lots of Wyches, Vect, and 3 Razorwings
2) Mech IG - 2 Vendettas, 3 Hydras, Vets in Chimeras, 2 Leman Russes
3) Dark Eldar - lots of blasters and dark lances

TBS Comics - Fort Walton Beach, FL

They had 10 players as well, dont have the army breakdown as I was running the Pensacola event but the top three were:

1) Vanilla Marines - Lots of TH/SS Termis, Null Zone Librarian
2) Grey Knights - Purifer spam with Coteaz
3) Chaos Daemons - Fatecrusher

Grimgob wrote:

Brothererekose wrote:

Magilla Gurilla wrote:Interesting looking at the California Lists; especially since all of us will be playing at one of two sites.

Game Empire, Pasadena and ... ? Bay Area or SD?

One finals location up north and one location down south. So everyone that played in Brea, Temecula, SanDiego, Burbank, Pasadena, and a few other locations (about 30 people altogether) will be playing at Pasadena.

SoCal looks like this so far:
Orks 4
Space wolves 4
Nids 2
Dark Angels 2
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Blood Angels

But there are like 4 or 5 locations that havnt posted results yet.

You left out the GK player from GE Pasadena

I didnt leave him out. I thought you said in your post that he couldnt make it and the Ork player was taking his place. If not I stand corrected. anybody else have results from SoCal (like Aero hobbies or the Burbank event)?

Results from Auto Master in North Canton, Ohio.

1. Orks - 5 Battlewagons (me)

2. Necrons - Deceiver, 2 Monoliths, heavy shooting

3. Grey Knights

4. Space Wolves

5. Blood Angels

6. Space Wolves

I took first with nids, horde orks and DOA tied for second and third.

Mind Games SLC Ut

1rst Dark Eldar mech
2nd Grey Knight
3rd Tau (me)

The End Zone, Mattoon, IL

1st. Grey Knights

2nd. Tyranids (Me)

3rd. Dark Angels

Grimgob wrote:I didnt leave him out. I thought you said in your post that he couldnt make it and the Ork player was taking his place. If not I stand corrected. anybody else have results from SoCal (like Aero hobbies or the Burbank event)?

I meant that he probably couldn't, it isn't 100% certain yet. Sorry for the confusion Grimgob.

Thunderground Comics in Edmonton, AB:

1st) BA with triple fully-loaded Stormravens
2nd) Mech Guard
3rd) Dark Eldar

A lot of Dark Angels this year! I remember going to the semis last year and being the only one...

Empire Games Mesa AZ

#1. Space Wolves
#2. Dark Eldar
#3. Grey Knights (Me!)

JS Anime, Chino Hills CA
-More results for socal:

1st - Blood Angels (with Meph)
2nd - Black Templars (Alpha Strike) [Possibly Dropping from semi-finals]
3rd - Tyranids (Me; Stock Tyrant with Guard, 2x Trygons, 2x Fexes, 4x Zoans, 3x Hive Guard, 50x Genestealers)

[4th - Eldar (Foot list)]

Had a rough round one against the fourth place Eldar player - relying on warp blast with runes of warding up is rough, and fortuned inv saves on the traitor was too much for just one squad of HG. Fun scenario, though.

Didn't have any trouble with marines though; genestealers were as scary as always to watch, especially in the DoW scenario.

Grandiosity (Muskegon, MI)

1) Space Wolves
2) Ork Green Tide
3) Black Templar

Compleat Stratagist NYC

1 - Grey Knights
2 - Daemons
3 - Eldar

Legions, Birmingham, AL:
1. Orks
2. Imperial Guard
3. Grey Knights

Bud's Place, Leeds, AL:
1. Grey Knights
2. Orks
3. Orks

Grimgob wrote:
One finals location up north and one location down south. So everyone that played in Brea, Temecula, SanDiego, Burbank, Pasadena, and a few other locations (about 30 people altogether) will be playing at Pasadena.

SoCal looks like this so far:
Orks 4
Space wolves 4
Nids 2
Dark Angels 2
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Blood Angels

But there are like 4 or 5 locations that havnt posted results yet.

Found results for GMI in another thread down in Battle Reports...

Gray1378 wrote:Gmi Games Ontario, Ca

1st Blood Angels
2nd Daemons
3rd Black Templars

I placed 5th with my Battlewagon orks only because I played the guy that placed 1st in the final round (I was in 2nd at that time b4 the game started). He just so happened to be one of the best players in the nation (he is on games workshops site for it).

I had a great time can't wait to see how my orks do next year

SoCal looks like this so far:
Orks 4
Space wolves 4
Nids 2
Dark Angels 2
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Blood Angels 2
Daemons
Black Templar

No ig and only one de in the semis? Hmmmm, might have to bring the footdar down to socal for the finals!

Giga-Bites Cafe, Marrietta GA

1) Space wolves (TWC/LF Spam)
2) Mech Eldar
3) Grey Knight Dual DreadKnight

Reecius wrote:No ig and only one de in the semis? Hmmmm, might have to bring the footdar down to socal for the finals!

Come on down....
...Cooper played his Nids against Footdar at our 'Ard Boyz...think he got a massacre.

Would love to see you two guys matched up!

At the Warhouse in Long Beach, first and second went to blood angels, and third went to Deathwing. I took fourth with Tyranids, and am going on to the semis, as I was the only one in the store interested in doing so.

Not sure if people know or not ,but i just called empire games(La second round place) and they are taking all your information(name ,where you placed, army .ect) and verifying it . That is how second round is working this year.So everyone who placed should call their location to make sure you dont have any problems the 17th.

Reecius wrote:No ig and only one de in the semis? Hmmmm, might have to bring the footdar down to socal for the finals!

Not so fast! I have been considering playing my IG in the Semis Reece

I'm supprised we don't have any Grey Knights as thats the new hotness.

Guess all the new hotness couldn't compete against the old and busted.

Grimgob wrote:I'm supprised we don't have any Grey Knights as thats the new hotness.

I'm jealous of your GK-free environment down there. My Tyranids do not like them.

Old and busted FTW!!!

Providence Hobbies, Ithaca NY

1) Nids
2) Chaos (dual Lash)
3) SM

Heavy Support Games Toronto Canda

#1 Dark Angels Death Wing
#2 Mech Eldar
#3 Codex Marines Vulkan

Have to say that all the games were close with only 2 massacres in 9 games the rest were minor wins or losses. In the third round it was still wide open. A great day of gaming and fantastic oponents.

Cheers all.. lets see the Toronto players at Black Knight next month!

Austin, TX:

1st - Triple land Raider SW's
2nd - DE 4 raiders/4venoms/2ravagers/fighter(me)
3rd - Crowe - 60 purifiers - 3 PsyDreads
4th - Mixed Grey Knights
5th - Mech IG

Sadly I couldn't come due to college hunting in Florida.

So the one-digit battle points, last place crown goes to someone else this year. (thank goodness )

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Sadly I couldn't come due to college hunting in Florida.

Did you kill any?


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Grimgob wrote:I'm supprised we don't have any Grey Knights as thats the new hotness.

We didn't have any GK where we were either. 2 Daemons and 1 Necron player though.

We had 1 GK player at the location I went to. He played Draigo bomb and got rolled for the most part...

We had a ton of GKs. rednekgunner (who got second at our location) ended up playing 3 games against GK. It was kind of hilarious. Obviously they were not all winners though.

Magilla Gurilla wrote:

Reecius wrote:No ig and only one de in the semis? Hmmmm, might have to bring the footdar down to socal for the finals!

Come on down....
...Cooper played his Nids against Footdar at our 'Ard Boyz...think he got a massacre.

Would love to see you two guys matched up!

I indeed got a massacre. I however doubt I would have an easy time against Reece.

On the other hand, I will be wearing a robe to the next round.

pretre wrote:We had a ton of GKs. rednekgunner (who got second at our location) ended up playing 3 games against GK. It was kind of hilarious. Obviously they were not all winners though.

And I thought my two games against GK were bad! Jeez.

All second hand, I was running a seperate 40k event this weekend (yeah...). So far localy I've got

Merlyn's Spokane WA,
1) Tyranids
2) Tyranids
3) Tyranids

Crazy huh?

Will post more when I find out specifics. I know IG, Space Wolves and GKs won some spots but don't know all the results yet.

Johnny Cee Cards
1. Nidzilla
2. Double Big Mek Orks
3. Balanced Nids
4. Deathwing with bikes (me)
There were also 2 chaos marines, BA drop pod, IG, Nobz heavy Orks, Dark Angels with green marines, an Ultramarine, another Orks, another Nids shooty list, and a necrons player.

I bombed in the second round losing to the 2nd place ork. I think the Meks has anti storm shield tech on power klaws, kill kans, and his pair of deff dreads!

Grimgob wrote:I'm supprised we don't have any Grey Knights as thats the new hotness.

You are not out of the woods yet. You might get some Grey Knight love after all!

Since Grimgob asked and I didn't see it, the best I can do at the moment:

Aero Hobbies, Santa Monica CA:

1st: Orks (4 battlewagons, Ghaz, lootas)
2nd: Grey Knights
3rd: Space Wolves (on foot)

i was the daemon player who played who took second in gmi games man i wanted to playe the guy who took first so bad i just didnt get matched up with him and to the ork player who posted that played there i so wanted to have a daemon vs ork match but again i wasnt match up agaist you but you did demolish my bro lol he had fun playing you tho

i had a blast playing my wacky daemon army

I'm not sure if its been posted, (Its taken me 30 minutes to get to the bottom of page two my comp is so slow right now, I don't want to search another hour and a half to see if someone else posted this)

Mini Wargames, Fairhope, AL

1. Mech BA(but not Razorspam)-me
2. Mech BA(Razorspam with a side of Mephiston)
3. GK (Draigo w/friends)

lambadomy wrote:Since Grimgob asked and I didn't see it, the best I can do at the moment:

Aero Hobbies, Santa Monica CA:

1st: Orks (4 battlewagons, Ghaz, lootas)
2nd: Grey Knights
3rd: Space Wolves (on foot)

There you go Grimgob! Grey Knights!

Ok, I read on one of the Blogs covering this data talking about how Orks are 2nd tier again and how Grey knights have all the tools to compete. In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove? All I knows is dat Da uns in da power armour make a betta krunch when ya krump em'.

Good thing orks suck at shoot and hand to hand and cant compete verse power armour

Grimgob wrote:Ok, I read on one of the Blogs covering this data talking about how Orks are 2nd tier again and how Grey knights have all the tools to compete. In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove?

Clearly, the competitive players in California need to L2P! Hurrrrrr!

Grimgob wrote: In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove?

Those ork players used extensive metagame knowledge to metagamify their army lists in an attempt to metagame the metagame thereby metagaming and winning. meta.

At least that's what the internet will say.

pretre wrote:

Grimgob wrote: In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove?

Those ork players used extensive metagame knowledge to metagamify their army lists in an attempt to metagame the metagame thereby metagaming and winning. meta.

At least that's what the internet will say.

He said meta alot..he must be genius!

pretre wrote:

Grimgob wrote: In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove?

Those ork players used extensive metagame knowledge to metagamify their army lists in an attempt to metagame the metagame thereby metagaming and winning. meta.

At least that's what the internet will say.

No, no - the internet will say that this wasn't "Warhammer 40k," but rather "Ard Boyz 40k," and so the data points don't count.

Janthkin wrote:No, no - the internet will say that this wasn't "Warhammer 40k," but rather "Ard Boyz 40k," and so the data points don't count.

Oooh, very nice. Also, since 'competitive' lists didn't win, it wasn't a competitive event.

Grimgob wrote:Ok, I read on one of the Blogs covering this data talking about how Orks are 2nd tier again and how Grey knights have all the tools to compete. In SoCal we have like 5 Orks in the simis and only 1 GK, So what does that prove? All I knows is dat Da uns in da power armour make a betta krunch when ya krump em'.

It just means I was on vacation!!!

Grimgob wrote:I didnt leave him out. I thought you said in your post that he couldnt make it and the Ork player was taking his place. If not I stand corrected. anybody else have results from SoCal (like Aero hobbies or the Burbank event)?

I posted 'em on page 2, Grimjob. Here 'tis again.

Emerald Knights, Burbank, Ca.

Bugs - 3 trygons & gamut of other units
Horde orks
Deathwing

50$ on a Tau list to come 1st.....

BAH, I wont let it happen at my semi finals!
If I see tau I will take my huge metal daemons and smash my models into theirs for the blood god...
Unless the tau player is bigger than me, if he is, then..well...Disregard my last comment.

Clauss wrote:BAH, I wont let it happen at my semi finals!
If I see tau I will take my huge metal daemons and smash my models into theirs for the blood god...
Unless the tau player is bigger than me, if he is, then..well...Disregard my last comment.

Please reference your profile picture for my reaction to this.

Fantasy Games, IL

1. Blood Angels
2. Tyranids
3. IG

I placed 7th with Vanilla Marines. KP mission shot me in the foot with having 30 man ork mobs to kill to get a single KP...

Massacred another Vanilla Marine in 2nd round. Left him with 1 model on the table at the end of the game. Controlled all 5 objectives.

Draw against Space Wolves in round 3. Would have had a minor win if it wasn't for his Wolf Brothers that don't count for Victory Points.

From Fresno, CA

Crazy Squirrel Game Store
Nids ( me )
Dark Eldar
Blood Angels

Hobbytown
Orks
Blood Angels
Orks

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but I don't think I've seen it.

Played at Y2 Komics in Fort Worth, results were:

1) Tau
2) Vanilla Marines (Salamanders)
3) Tyranids (me)