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This past weekend I played in a tournament and ended up winning best general award and coming in second overall. I have to say, I was very happy. I took this list:

HQ:
2 X Destroyer lord, disruption field, phylactery, warscythe

Elites:
2 X 10 immortals

Fast attack:
5 scarabs
2 X 5 destroyers

Troops:
2 X 10 warriors

This list did amazingly well in the three games it played

My first opponent was Tau. and Though I lost the list he took I know it had 2 hammerheads with Ion cannons, 2 devilfish loaded with fire warriors, 2 broadsides, a squad of drones, an hq with 2 crisis suit body gaurd and two teams of crisis suits and 6 stealth suits. The specifics elude me but those were the models.

We played on a dense terrain city board and the table was divided into 3 zones, each 12 inches wide and 6 feet long. We would score by claimin these objectives at the end of the game and there were some other ways to score, but I cant really remember. Tau player got first turn. With the terrain the way it was I fell victim to alot of jump shoot jump tactics but thanks to great saving throws and ever better we'll be back rolls by the end of the game I had only lost 1 destroyer lord, 10 immortals, 10 warriors, the scarabs and 2 destroyers. Wheras my oppenent was down to his hq, the broadsides, and 10 fire warriors. It was a narrow victory, 11 to 8 but a very fun game. One particular highlight was when my Destroyer Lord managed to avoid getting wounded in my oppenents turn, then assault and overrun some drones, consolidate into some fire warriors and overrun them, and then chase down and kill 2 crisis suits. Even though it wasny a VP game, it was still fun.

My next game pitted against imperial gaurd. Points were scored by claiming your opponents deployment zone, your zone, and killing your opponents most expensive HQ while keeping your alive. terrain was scarce and for the most part it was a huge battle in an open field with a few trees. The gaurd army looked really cool just to see and wonderfully painted and based. I never saw my opponents list but I know he had 3 sentinels, 10 catchcans, 10 storm troopers, some gaurdsman that looked like 1840's british troops, (I cant remeber their names) some mortars, a commissar and 50 conscripts with alot of heavy weapons. he deployed ina huge firing line on the other side of the board, only about 27 inches away and his HQ is hiding behind 50 conscipts, so I know its going to be tough to get to and kill.

Turn 1
Gaurd player goes first, but thanks to bad rolls on his part and amazing saves on my part I only lose a few immortals and one scarab base.
My turn comes around. I turbo boost scarabs directly infront of the conscripts I rambo with one destroyer lord in the left flank and begin marching stright ahead with everthing else. I keep my other destroyer lord back, not wanting to risk losing him and failing an objective. in my shooting phase, I blast away with AP 4 and 5 and drop almost 20 troops altogether and a sentinel. in assualt, no one is in range

turn 2
gaurd player blasts away and my ramboing destroyer lord, takes a wound. heavy weapons and mortas drop some troops but no real damage is given, which shocks me.
My turn begins and I am amazingly excited because the scarabs are still alive! I fire tone of shots and kill some catchacan, finish off the storm trooprs and kill nearly a squad of gaurdsman in the right flank. If I rember correctly I dumped a few shots into the consrcipts, but killing 6 guys with las guns from the back, didnt do anything to hinder the special weapons the army wielded. and my destroyers popped a chimera and immobilised it. assault phase comes and my scarbs assualt and tie up 50 conscipts, which is amazing. I also assault with the D lord and kill a few steel legion gaurdsman.

turn 3.
with his fire power SIGNIFICANTLY reduced, I only lose a few models in shooting and in the assualt phase, the scabs hang in there. HE piles intot the D lord with some sentinesl and I kill one with warscythe attacks. I get to go and contine my march forward. I weaken the right flank with concentrated power. and on the left, my destroyers have flown in and gotten line of sight on his HQ. They shoot their 15 Strength 6 AP4 shots of glory and obliterate the HQ units. Primary objective accomplished. but the game goes on. In assault the D lord drops another sentinel and the steel legion guys run away succesfully. I then assault the consrcipts with 8 warriors and inflict a few casualties but lose a few models due to the massive amount of attack backs, however, the combat is tied.

turn 4.
Gaurd player, drops one or two models with mortars and lasguns but basically nothing happens in his shooting phase after we'll be back. assault phase, he finishes off the scarabs and kills two warriors. I lose the combat and fail morale but succesfully break away.
My turn starts, I move the destroyer lord in position to assault the immobilised chimera. everything else stays where it is. I am not withing 12 inches of his 40 +/- man conscript squad and I blast it with about 16 immortals, and 14 warriors and 5 destroyers. the Squad is totally annihilited. With the other 5 destroyers I blast the chimera, because its all I can see that is still alive and it dies. at this point, we roll a dicde to see of the game goes on and it does not.

Conclusion:
My casualties: 5 scarabs, about 7 warriors, 4 immortals.
IG casualties: about 85 troops, 3 sentinels, 1 chimera, 2 hQ choices
At the end of the game IG was reduced to only a handful of models. I accomlished all objective except captuing his deplyment zone and the game ends in Necron victory of 21 to 2.


For the final game of the day I go up against another Tau player. RIDICULOULSY well painted stuff. ALot of the units were conversions using ork parts and it looked awesome. Again, I never saw his list, but I know he had, O'shava with 7 crisis suit body gaurd and lots of drone. 2 broadsides with 2 drones. 2 squads of fire warriors, a squad of sniper drones, one 2 man crisis team and a skyray misslie gunship. He also had a tau commander.

the mission is on a road. basically, we eash get 24 inch by 18 inch deployment zones, and they are linked by a 12 inch by 12 inch cube. right down the middle of the board is a road that no terrain can be placed on, so this battle is totally open. points are scored by claiming the road, winning VPs and annihilating your opponent.

Turn 1
I win first turn and move my scarabs as far as possible. they happen to land about 4 inshed from his o'shavah squad and I am very happy about that. I turbo boost the destroyer lords, march forward with everthing else and then shoot with the immortals and destroyers. I drop the skyray, and take target priority to avoid o'shavah and I drop two drones off of the broadsides and kill the other crisis team. I then assault o'shavah and his bodygaurd with the 60 point scarab squad. in assualt they kill two drones I believe and take 4 wounds.
His turn starts and he retalites with what he can, which is not alot. boradsides drop a few warriors, sniper drones kill a few immortals and manages inflict a few wounds on one destroyer lord. then off to assault, scarabs kill just a few drones and then are killed by the o'shavah squad, which consolidates 2 inches.

turn 2
I dont move at all really. but then fire with everything. I kill broadsides and destroyer half of o'shavah's body gaurd. then, to my amazement, o'shavah and his body gaurd fail morale, and fall back off of the board. suddenly I am not in assault range witha destroyer lord anymore, but I could care less. the other lord however is in range and he assaults a group of fire warriors. Tau goes and droprs a destroyer lord and, other than that, I make all my saves. in his assault the destroyer lord overruns the fire warriors and consolidated into the tau commander that had just shot to death the other destroyer lord.

turn 3
amazingly, the dead D lord, comes back to life. I shoot and obliterate everything not in CC, then pile in to the CC with the other D lord. I drop the drones and inflict a few wounds on the commander. tau plyer only has one unit left, we go straight to assault and the tau commander hangs in there and manages to kill the 1 wound D lord again.

turn 4
D Lord comes back to life AGAIN and the strength of the two D lords destroy the tau lord. THe tau player has now lost ever model.

Conclusion.
the game took 40min, and I killed every single model he had, while only losing 5 scarabs and under 5 other models. I got really really lucky and I felt kind of bad for winning by such a large margin, but it was still fun. I ended up winning 22 to 0. It was the bloodiest game I have evr played. and at the end of the day I won an award for having killed more stuff than anyone else in the tournament that day.

It was a very fun tournamnt and I fished second overall. Coming in behind a guy who is currently ranked 3rd in the nation. I am pretty sure his list would have destroyed me but it still would have been a fun game.

Congratulations on your wins!

Good use of the scarabs; i'm amazed that your Destroyer Lord did so well on his own against the Sentinels. You definitely got a lot of lucky breaks, but hey, that's part of it!

You were fortunate to face 2 Tau with a Necron army, but great job anyway. I'm especially impressed that you made the Destroyer Lords work for you, I have a lot of trouble getting them to do well.

I am well aware how lucky I got.