(Deployment.)

Orcish mishaps start on the bottom of turn 1, when his demolisher went orcy and surged forward 9 inches, taking away the demolisher cannon shot and presenting side armor. (Obliterators took it out. Havocs chewed through the 2-kan unit.)
I sent my bikes, lord, and the plasmagun squad around the far edge of the center ruins.

He sent both trucks to try to head them off, but thanks to the timely arrival of bloodletters and furies, the boss and truck mobs headed into the jaws of a deadly trap. Plasmagun fire penetrated and destroyed the warboss’s truck. Spilling out of the wreckage, the warboss and nob mobs took a combined charge from the bikes, furies, and lord, wiping them out before they could swing their power klaws.
From that point on, Derek struggled and failed to regain the initiative. I ended up holding my quarter uncontested, another quarter uncontested, and other forces deep in his starting quarter, contesting that one as well. Victory.
Derek was a good-natured opponent, who kept his spirits up even as his battle plan and then his army disintegrated.

Game 2. Versus Tyranids. (Several genestealer squads. 3 zoes. A hive tyrant with 2 tyrant guard. And 5 carnifexes, 3 of them shooty and 2 of them kitted out for close combat.)
Mission was kill stuff and Gaze of the Gods (which helped me out, since units in assault starting the turn size 8 gained preferred enemy, a blessing I invoked repeatedly). Terrain was desert (which also helped me, since the cover was limited).
Opponent was Mike Moran, who plays a lot at Empire Games. Nice guy, with a very friendly style of play. (He eventually got my vote for favorite opponent.)

Concentrating early fire on the genestealers, I managed to mow both squads down to 1 and 2 bugs, respectively, before they could fleet their way across the table to my lines. I also drew several shooty carnifex off to one side of the table by dangling an infiltrating squad and turbo-zipping the bikes to that flank. These forces then hugged cover, taking opportunity shots here and there and evading his efforts to take them out with fex and zoe shooting. (Once he brought my bikes down to 3, they promptly fled off to cower behind cover in a corner, nursing my highest-point unit.)

Meanwhile, I put wounds on several carnifex here and there with las-cannon shots from the obliterators and las-cannon squad as they lumbered across the table. This fire softened them up for the arrival of the bloodletters, who first mowed their way through 2 of the zoenthropes, then swept into and took out 2 of the wounded carnifex (before being swamped and stomped by the tyrant, guards, and third carnifex).
From that point on, I played cat and mouse, trying to keep scoring units alive. (This mission awarded points both for killing stuff and keeping scoring units alive.)
I won by a few hundred points. A close game against a great opponent.

Game 3. Versus Death Guard (led by Jaime Hatcher, a very skilled DakkaDakka veteran). Mission was All Out Assault (with troop units getting sustained assault), on a table with a few forests, some low hills, scattered minor ruins. Death Guard had a statured flying lord, 2 large squads (14 each) of Plague Marines, 2 packs of Plague Bearers, a set of Nurglings, a las-cannon dreadnought, a predator, and a defiler.
I spent a lot of my havoc and obliterator fire trying to take out the vehicles (though I probably should have concentrated on thinning out the marine squads). (In the end, all I managed to do to his vehicles was destroy the dread with obliterator las-cannon shots, and blow the battle cannon off the defiler with my las-cannon squad.)
His lord basically mowed through my infiltrating squad, then fell to my bloodletters, who in turn got swamped by one of those 14-marine squads. Even the arrival of the furies failed to prop up that collapsing flank.
Meanwhile, on the other flank, I played my bikes too aggressively, bogging them down in a combat with the nurglings, who pinned them down long enough for plague bearers and the defiler to wade in and pummel the bikes into oblivion.

(Here I am trying to get to the objective at the center of the table late in the game -- too late and with too little.)

Jamie played a tactically shrewd game, and beat me solidly. (He was also a fun opponent.)

High soft scores, 2 victories, and a modest accumulation of battle point bonuses here and there were enough to win me second place! And I got best sportsman, which was cool, since I played three new players. All in all, an enormously fun day.

Empire Games is an amazing place to play. The space is huge and light and high ceilinged. The tables and set-up and terrain were all first rate. And Ragnar put together a highly enjoyable tournament, with balanced missions and smooth logistics. I highly recommend a return visit, either to Empire Games or to their next tournament (which is coming in February).

edited: spelling, names, and so on.