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Just got home from Game Room in Toledo. Thanks to getting lucky when I needed it, I managed to go 3-0 and won 1st Place with my Chaos Daemons. Jeff McConnel took second with his Chaos Daemons, and I think third place went to a SM army.

Batreps to follow when I've rested, and see if the pics from my phone are worth anything.

I've heard back from the guys who traveled a state over from the local store. First place in Bellavue was tank guard. Second was dual lash prince. Third was another tank guard, one of the local guys. Unfortionitly I heard that the guy who beat me in the third round decided yesterday that he wasn't going to be able to go but didn't tell anyone from the store.

A Dark Eldar player I beat in round #1 won overall in AZ (I think).

Salamanders, marines on bikes, and Chaos marines, were our top 3 in PA, (If my brain is working correctly, 40 people, long day.)
Tim Hudak won the overall.

At Ernie's Games in Woodinville WA we had a good tourament with the final results comming down to the last turn on all three of the top tables.

Dark Eldar wych cult won 1st place with 3 massacres (he was the same player who got BONED last year at the finals with deamon deployment against him, I hope he takes it all this year.)

I finished 2nd with my Salamanders with a Minor Victory, Massacre, and Major victory. Had I really been thinking well I could have gotten a Massacre in round 1 instead of the minor but those are learning experiances. When in doubt: MOVE THE RHINO AWAY!

3rd up was CatPeeler with his awsome Chaos deamon conversions.

As I said, all three of the final games came down to the last turn. I had 1 tactical marine holding the center objective in my game, the remaining Dark Eldar Armada downed a Falcon guarding the center objective for in another game, and the Chaos Deamons could not down the last fire prism contesting the center object in Catpeeler's game.

All in all, a very fun event.

Just back from Fayetteville, NC at the Hobbit. Top spot went to Ork BW spam, second place was me with a Green tide (boyz spam?), and third went to a Nidzilla player (who got into 3arguments with his opp/the TOs during his last round- was unimpressed).

Overall, had a good time- all my opponents were pleasant and faced some good lists.

I am glad to see that some good DE players are making a run for it.

Southern Florida winners were as follows:

1st place - mechdar, 12 skimmers
2nd place - lash/Nurghal Marine/Oblit spam
3rd place - Blood Angels (my army)

I have not heard yet what armies made it through in central Florida.

G

Phoenix Games in Atlanta


1st- Lash CSM
2nd- SM
3rd- Orks
4th- Lash CSM
5th- Orks(me)


20-22 players.



I played the 3rd place Ork guy in round 1, and we drew, then I played back to back Mech Vulkan lists in round 2 and 3. I got a Massacre in round 2, and a minor victory in round 3. Even with going 2-0-1, I didn't score the big win in the 3rd round, I was on table 2, and the minor victory allowed the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place finishers to pass me up in total points.


Good time though.



Clay

Orks swept the top 3 spots in Louisville.

#1 was a Mech Ork list of 4 Battlewagons with each carrying a Mega Nob unit.
#2 was a mixed Battlewagon/Trukk list.
#3 was a horde list with a unit of nob bikers, 2 loota squads, some Kans, and forcefields to protect the Boyz as they crossed the table.

Here's the list of armies I counted:

6 Mech Chaos
5 Mech Guard
3 Orks (2 Mech, 1 Horde)
5 Mech Eldar
1 Tau (Mech)
1 Necron (Mostly Destroyers)
1 Black Templar (Mech)

SandWyrm wrote:Orks swept the top 3 spots in Louisville.

#1 was a Mech Ork list of 4 Battlewagons with each carrying a Mega Nob unit.
#2 was a mixed Battlewagon/Trukk list.
#3 was a horde list with a unit of nob bikers, 2 loota squads, some Kans, and forcefields to protect the Boyz as they crossed the table.

Here's the list of armies I counted:

6 Mech Chaos
5 Mech Guard
3 Orks (2 Mech, 1 Horde)
5 Mech Eldar
1 Tau (Mech)
1 Necron (Mostly Destroyers)
1 Black Templar (Mech)

When you say mech, are you claiming full mech?

Dayton, OH went:

1st Orks
2nd Nids
3rd Double Lash

Pittsburgh, PA

Eldar (me)
Chaos (no lash)
Marines (no vulkan)

Alright, time to total up the top 3 finishers broken down by codex: (Updated down to the Dragon Keep in Provo)

10 Chaos space marines
9 Space Marines
9 Orks
5 Imperial Guard
4 Eldar
3 Chaos Demons
3 Dark Eldar
2 Black Templar
2 Tyranid
1 Blood Angels
1 Tau (My personal hero!)

A pretty good spread of armies.

You could almost say that GW is doing a good job balancing the codexes if there were more than only one or two good units in each codex (Lash/Seer Council/Vulcan).

I just got home from Ernie's Games in Woodenville, and am pretty pleased for the most part. I played my mech salamanders

I had a tough match in scenario 1 vs mech IG. It was a hard battle going back and forth, until the 4 round when I was able to pull out a massacre. The highlight of the game was a lone tactical marine SGT who made 5 battle cannon cover saves. I won 23-0

Round 2 was vs Eldar. This match was terrible. The first problem was the opponet stalled like crazy. It took way to long for him to set up.( His army consisted of 2 seer councils on bikes, 2 units of 3 war walkers, 1 unit of fire dragons in a falcon, 2 units of warp spiders, and 4 units of 3 guardian jetbikes.) The worst part was all of his reserves were in turn 2, so there shouldn't have been a reason to take so long. Also he spent at least 15 miniutes before each round deciding which psychic powers. The next issue I had with him was his movement was time and time again illeagle. I looked over to one of the guys running the tourney, and gestured to the table. All the organizer could do was agree with me. I took this as the judge telling me to quit whining and play. We only go to turn 4 and I got massacred 22-2. After the match I talked to the judge and learned a few things. First Ernie was the only one in charge.(even though the other guy was taking down people's scores) And he tried to tell me that I didn't object right. We talked and I was very pleased how the situation was handled. I wasn't trying to get my game changed, but the right thing would have been to at least count the game as a draw, but oh well. They warned him and let him play on. Anyway onto round 3

Round 3 was vs IG. This game was a very solid game for me. I reserved most of my stuff and denied his shooting. My first turn I sent my empty drop pod in the middle of his lines. He in turn shot at it and blew it up. (killing 6 guardsman) Turn 2 my scout bikers and LRR came in. I sent the LRR after his hellhound and blew it up with a MM. The bikers outflanked in his backfield and blew up a Leman Russ. Turn 3 my shooting termies came in and deep struck right behind his Command Squad and assassinated them. The rest of the game was me driving him off the board. Victory 21-1.

I ended up in 4th place with 46 points one point behind catpeeler, but that was ok because at least our store was being represented. Over all it was fun, but there is always next year.

rednekgunner wrote:The bikers outflanked in his backfield and blew up a Leman Russ.

How did you get the bikers to outflank? Were you running Khan in your Salamander list? EDIT: Nevermind just saw they were scout bikers. Hmmm (getting an idea here)

Sorry to hear about your rough 2nd round. I hate being slow played (happened to me last year).

So many 3rd tier and totally uncompetitive armies are moving on to the next round...amazing...

I wonder how tonytheman did.

After shooting off his mouth in this thread, I wonder if he could back it up.

Same with Dash of Pepper, since he is 74-1-1 and only plays for the money. He might have made it since he plays Orks and the top 2 finishers at his semis were ork players.

asugradinwa wrote:

rednekgunner wrote:The bikers outflanked in his backfield and blew up a Leman Russ.

How did you get the bikers to outflank? Were you running Khan in your Salamander list?

Sorry to hear about your rough 2nd round. I hate being slow played (happened to me last year).

I was using scout bikers, I will post my list up later.

Blackmoor wrote:I wonder how tonytheman did.

After shooting off his mouth in this thread, I wonder if he could back it up.

Same with Dash of Pepper, since he is 74-1-1 and only plays for the money. He might have made it since he plays Orks and the top 2 finishers at his semis were ork players.

If he won won't he be 77-1-1?

Linkdead- Aaaaahhhh....Obviously they are not 3rd tier armies. Meta game changes fast. What was 3rd can now be first later. The guard are throwing allot out of wack at the moment. While not dominating, they are changing what people need to be prepared for. Take deamons. What you fight SM, Guard and Orks with tend to be very different things that what you take to fight deamons. If you are not expecting to see them. You might not prepare for them and bam they are making it to the finals. Count no one out. Just saying it does not surprise me. Saying these armies are not competitive is just being silly and narrow of focus.

Linkdead wrote:So many 3rd tier and totally uncompetitive armies are moving on to the next round...amazing...

Tiers are fake.

Anoka, MN (I guess?) Results:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/251663.page

Blaznak wrote:Well, Anoka was fun.


First: the winners, Eldar, I Gard and Templars (3, 2, 1 in that order)


I took the tyranids and at least did not EPIC FAIL. I did get a loss, a massacre, and a loss, but the games were fun.
Round 1 against Eldar: He had a ton of weird tank transports and Eldred (whatever) and some walker dudes and an avatar thingy. I had a lot of nids. We kind of met in the middle and I blew up a lot of stuff, but then his tanks had guys in them and they killed a lot more of my stuff so he ended up winning. It was close. He took 3rd, by the way.

Round 2 against Tyranids: He was a good player and it was hot Tyranid on Tyranid action. Normally, that's pay per view stuff. I know because I accidentally rented that at a hotel three times onces. Anyways, He waaaaaay over extended in the dawn of war and then didn't kill much with his hormagaunts. I counter charged with stuff and we fought a lot and I got the objectives and then he was mostly dead so it was a Massacre.

Round 3 against Space Wolves. We just charged and died and charged again and died and charged again and died. he killed my last troop and had one guy left on the center so he got a major victory and that was that.

I hope those detailed battle reports make it seem as if you were there in the room with us!

Blaz - 14 of 2X (at least I made the teens)

North Carolina I think?
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/251575/895483.page#895483

Sarigar wrote:Locally, mechanized lists are what is played. However, with only 3 local players out of 38 players at the Ard Boyz semi finals, mech was not the norm:

1st: mech Orks
2nd: horde Orks
3rd: Tyranids

Folks travelled from Virginia, South Carolina and other parts of North Carolina for the event. It was interesting to see the various armies being played.

Springfield, Illinois.

1) Vanilla marines
2) 9-skimmer Guard
3) Black Templar LR rush

Linkdead wrote:So many 3rd tier and totally uncompetitive armies are moving on to the next round...amazing...

Especially the Orks. Clearly it was nothing but scrubs they played against... I'll bet the players they faced were all the suck. But were Ellesar and Frank Fugger playing against them this travesty would not have happened.

Seriously, congratulations to all the winners moving into the next round and really to all of you that made it thus far.

Sci-Fi City in Central Florida:

1st - Lash/Oblit Chaos
2nd - Lash Chaos
3rd - Dark Eldar

4th was a Black Templars player that was behind by only one point, and it was realized after the fact that he should have gotten the point he needed from his first game (he was at 23 when his opponent forfeited so he should have gotten full points) and he would have broke the tie in VPs. But the results where already done, it was realized to late.

The semi-finals in Little Rock

1st Orks
2nd IG
3rd Chaos

Game Empire in Pasadena, CA

1) 6 Battlewagon w/Deff Rollerz
2) Vulkan Marines w/Sisters Allies
3) Not sure, but probably Marines by 435vp's
4) Wraithzilla (Mortevie)
5) ??
6) Pedro Space Marines (me)

Deff Rolla ruling heavily affected the results of the tournament.

Congrats to all. It's great to see the performance of the marines. Clearly the kinks have been worked out since their disgraceful performance at the Baltimore GT.
No Tau

Blackmoor wrote:I wonder how tonytheman did.

After shooting off his mouth in this thread, I wonder if he could back it up.

Same with Dash of Pepper, since he is 74-1-1 and only plays for the money. He might have made it since he plays Orks and the top 2 finishers at his semis were ork players.

I was at the Media PA event, and Tony got kicked out for threatening another player.