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So first off... this was a weird place. The TO ruled that EVERY storm shield in any army list gives a 3+ invulnerable save all the time. They also allowed armored company and the eye of terror codex. AND every table rolled for each mission seperately.

And Sorry I suck at reports!

Round 1 my sisters vs Armored company

my list
jump cannoness with Master crafted evisorator, mantle, cloak, bolt pistol, book
Jump cannoness with blessed weapon, book, cloak, and inferno pistol
3 sister units in rhinos with melta HF and vet with book
10 Greyknights no upgrades
3 exorcists
elite DH psycannon inquisitor with 3 HB servitors, 2 mystics and a sage

His list
2 LR regulars with side skirts
3 demolishers with side skirts
1 HQ tank
2 sister units in rhinos
10 greyknights with 2 psycannons

He wins turn 1, mission type is DoW and the HQ objective one. My objective in in a big piece of area terrain in the corner... only real terrain piece I have. His in a piece of area terrain in the middle of his deployment zone.

His turn 1
He deploys 2 LR and his command HQ. I deploy nothing.
his army rolls on... and doesn't do anything that turn. All of his Russes are on one side of the table... his sisters on the other, knights in the middle.

my turn 1
I roll on and... can't see anything... I do nothing that turn. Note that both of us are using Greyknights to hold our objective and sisters to capture the enemy. My Exorcists come on the left side, my cannonessess hide behind rhinos that pop smoke... i forget about my inquisitor... this comes back to haunt me later.

His turn 2
with all of his shooting... he manages to kill only a single rhino His scatter dice liked to miss... his sisters advance on me

My turn 2
I do some damage to the knights since they are the only thing near his objectives. my sisters in the wrecked rhino get out and move towards his tanks with their melta gun just out of range. cannonessess hide behind a rhino on its way to him.

His turn 3
He immobilizes and destroys the weapon on one rhino. Knocks the weapon off an exorcist. kills 3 of the marching sisters. he uses the grey knight psycannons to kill off my cannoness who used faith to stave off Russ shells... :( I honestly didn't see it coming... took cover should have went to ground also...

My turn 3
I realize the inquisitor isn't on the board and roll as if he was in reserves. They come in and use their targeters to see if they rhinos are in range. they are not and I happen to see the exorcists can't hit the rhinos either... the exorcists start to move over to the other side of the table to deal with the incoming sister units. My last mobile sister rhino is in range and dumps its load next to his rhinos popping one of them. I pop a Russ with the melta gun walking sisters, the other sister unit dies.

well I don't remember the rest... but it ends up he keeps one objective with one single sister model... and my knights un hurt keep the other objective. Given 1 more turn I would have had him

End Result. Draw.

Sports and appearance was done on a 1-5 scale. He had good conversions... no paint. I gave him a 2 for appearance.
Sports bugs me... as a teacher I prefer to leave the top score to the top. If its a good game I give people a 4. If its an average game I give a 3, if its a fantastic game I give a 5. I give a 4 for sports. In all games in this tourny I give 4 for sports since that was my honest feeling. :( Turns out everyone else is a bit to generous at this tourny with sports scores....

Also turns out its a very small world and this person was a dakka guy also AND he also is a grad student at my undergrad place and knows my old professors... small world indeed

I took the emperors tarot but for the second game in a row i still lose 1st turn... it just didn't do anything. This was a short game... I left him with 3 units at the end of turn 3
Table corner deployment and Kill points

He played 13th company. His entire army had scout moves and move through cover... scared the pants off of me when he did that.

He rushes at me with his units spread out all over the table.

I lose 2 exorcists on turn 1 to his long fangs with missile launchers and his Psyker jumping behind me with some power... After this he really didn't kill anything but a sister unit and my inquisitor squad. I Wipe the table of his stuff that is close to me and then hold back out of range of his long fangs.

Game ends my win His dice hated him however... and he failed every important roll he need... EVERY single one

Game 3 vs Nidzilla.... I wanted to play the other Nidzilla guy at the tourny since he was bragging about how he never loses... :( Instead I played the much cooler guy

his List
Tyrant with TL devs and a Barbed strangeler with 2 guards
Brood lord with 8 man ret
2 Genestealers with tendrils and scuttlers
2 small units of termigaunts without number
2 dakka fex
3 heavy fex (may have been 2)

I get turn 1! first time the tarot has done me well.
deployment is corners so I take the corner of the table with a 4 story building in it. I deploy everything at least 18 inches away from the board edge and my inquisitor sqaud in the ruins but so high up he could not be assaulted the turn something outflanks. I use my rhinos as a wall to shield my exorcists.

My turn 1
I kill off his tyrant guard and a carnifex with my exorcists and inquisitor unit.

His turn 1
He moves up and pops a rhino. sisters get out and make 90% of their saves No other losses

My turn 2
I take down the tyrant and another fex. Inquisitor unit then makes a guant squad half as big as it was.

His turn 2
Both guant squads run, 2 genestealer units come in. fexes immobilize a rhino and destroy things. A lictor DS's onto the table. I did not make him roll dangerous terrain tests for his lictors coming in. He tried to bring his lictor into my wrecked rhino, but since it is not area terrain, and the TO ruled with me he had to go elsewhere.

My turn 3 I use my remaining sister squads and exorcists to kill off the remainder of his fexes, my cannonesses kill off the lictor, my greyknights kill 3 genestealers with shooting.

His turn 3. At this point he has his brood lord and 2 genestealer squads. his gaunts are useless... they advance and kill off my inquisitor unit. Lictors come in and don't do much damage.

My turn 4. I back up, kill off his genestealers but not the brood lord squad.

His turn 4, he concedes the game.

result! Win for me.

I gave him a 3 for painting since he said thats what he would give his army, it was table quality but nothing special.


End result of the tourny, I take 2nd over all since they did a simple win = 2 pts tie = 1 pt loss = 0 pt system :(

Battle points wise I think I would have won this with 2 massacres and a tie :(

Highlights of other things.

there was a fantastic Ork/Deathwing thing going on.
Stuttering brought his Deffweng and it was fatastic looking.

The Greyknights I have in my list now deff earned their keeps

Hey, I live in Bethlehem. Where was the tourny at?

The Portal comics and games. I posted about it in a thread announcing it.

I obviously missed your announcement. How was the turn out? Are they hosting any more in the near future?

turn out was 14 people... they are hosting one in January again

frgsinwntr wrote:. he uses the grey knight psycannons to kill off my cannoness who used faith to stave off Russ shells... :( I honestly didn't see it coming... took cover should have went to ground also...

You do know that Spirit of the Martyr just gives you an additional invulnerable save, right? You still keep you armor save.

Huh, I didn't know there was a tourney out there that weekend! Which day was it, Sat or Sun?
Congrats on your place! It must have been wierd for them to see a Sisters player other than me there

AdeptSister wrote:

frgsinwntr wrote:. he uses the grey knight psycannons to kill off my cannoness who used faith to stave off Russ shells... :( I honestly didn't see it coming... took cover should have went to ground also...

You do know that Spirit of the Martyr just gives you an additional invulnerable save, right? You still keep you armor save.

My version of the book says the save BECOMES invul

Wehrkind wrote:Huh, I didn't know there was a tourney out there that weekend! Which day was it, Sat or Sun?
Congrats on your place! It must have been wierd for them to see a Sisters player other than me there

yea, it was sat. next time is in jan

The AC player was myself, I had some amazingly bad rolling for the tanks shooting all game, but in frgs's defense I got crazy lucky in the last turn keeping one sister on an objective and having the game tie, when he would have won it hands down if not for that.

I'm back to eldar at this point, this was my 4th game with my AC and they continue to disappoint me, I tried them out of a whim and although I like them in a lot of ways, they dont fit me tournament wise very well.

Also, I just went and found a more recent copy of the WH codex (possibly online) (my hard copy says becomes like yours) and indeed the newest version is worded "gains an additional invulnerable save equal to its armor save"

So the psycannon trick wouldnt have worked had either of us had the more recent printing.

Ah well, good game, made me think tactically for a change,

--Next tourney is January 17th I believe, portal has a website, you can google portal comics and gaming and find it easily

--Also, I'm going to attempt to talk to Jared (who I think has forgotten to update the tourney rules for his RTT's for quite some time) and help him spruce up the rules if he's willing. I expected AC to be allowed as they were in ard boyz, but certain other armies (eye of terror, one player using 3rd edition eldar, was a bit OTT) and I don't think was the intent of the tourney.

Cheers, Andrew