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Well another no pic battle report so bear with me.

This Sun. I braved the possibility of bad roads in the evening with the hope of winning the final AWC series tournament held at the Battle Bunker in Chicago. Not only that, I needed a good place to be in the top 10 of the multi-event series to qualify for the AWC invitational championships held at Adepticon on Friday March 26th.

I decided to bring my hodge-podge daemon list to try it out. The tourney was 1850 points. 32 people were in the event.

My list
HQ
Great Unclean One (cloud of flies)
Skulltaker on Jugg.
Masque

Elite
4 Crushers (fury, icon, music)
4 Crushers (fury icon music)
3 Flamers

Fast
3 screamers
3 screamers

Troops
7 Horrors w/ bolt and changeling
12 deamonettes
5 p. bearers

Hvy
2x soulgrinders no upgrades
1 deamon prince of Tzeen. (bolt, gaze of flame)

Game 1
Mission Primary --Kill points
2ndry -- Kill all troops
Tertiary-- Win by 250 VP


Opponents list
Chaos Marines
Abbadon
Lash sorcerer of slaanesh

7 plauge marines (fist , 2 meltas)
8 berzerkers (fist)
5 lesser deamons
5 lesser daemons

3 termies (2 combi meltas 1 h. flamer 1 chainfist)
3 termies (same as above)

2x landraiders w/ extra armour
2 oblits.

Deployment Pitched battle
He puts out 2 raiders, 1 w/ abby and plague marines, other with sorcerer and berzerks

I go first and get my secondary wave. Masque, p. bearers, horrors, GUO, flamers, and a unit of B. Crushers without Skulltaker, all drop near my "deployment zone" . 1 soulgrinder arrives and I drop it 13" or so from one of the raiders.

Bottom 1
He fires at soulgrinder with the raiders, creeps forward a couple inches but does nothing.

Top 2 Skulltaker and his crushers arrive, 3 screamers, d. prince, and deamonettes. The deamonettes are near the soul grinder, the rest is about 18" forward from my table edge. S. grinder assaults raider with sorcerer and berzerkers inside and immobilizes it.

Bottom 2 all his units arrive form reserve. They land off the icons in the raiders, but I am too far away to shoot
except for the lowly s. grinder, he dies to melta. Abbys raider blasts forward 12".

Top 3 Rest of my army arrives and adds to my growing pile of deamons on my half the table. Flamers jump in front of land raider flame it and get a glance, immobilizing it. Screamers assault it and only manage to bust off both lascannons. Horrors shoot a bolt at the oblits, hit and insta kill one. D. prince shoots and kills 4 lesser deamons.

Bottom 3. Abby is pissed about his ride getting broken so he assaults and kills the horrors with the help of the P. marines. Termies march up and blow away my 3 screamers. Lash sorcer disembarks and tries to grab the crushers to feed them to the berzerkers but he rolls an "11" for the psychic test.

Top 4. I jump the flamers over the land raider and using the masque to pile up the berzerkers, I wipe out all the berzerkers. Lash sorcerer lives but the deamonettes asault him and cause two wounds. Crushers assault the first squad of termies and wipe them out. I try and lure abbadons unit with my prince to pull him away from most of my army if he wants to assault me, letting everything else go on its merry way.

Bottom 4. He assaults deamonettes with ermies and his lesser deamons. Cuts me down to 1 deamonette, but loses a termie and 3 lesser deamons. Oblit kills my flamers. Abbadons unit ignores my bait and hits my soulgrinder to get at my army. Luckily Abby doesnt make base contact and he just immobilzes me.

Top 5 Everything I could assaults abby and his gang. Skulltaker and 2 crushers put attacks on abbadon, GUO hits the marines. Abbadon puts his hits on the crushers and kills two but two are still alive. Abbadon takes 2 wounds. Soulgrinder + GUO kills all the plaguemarines. Abbadon takes another wound due to combat res. My other crusher squad hits the deamonette melee mess, wipe out the lesser deamons, and the termies, the deamonette is killed but the sorcerer falls back out of melee and I cant catch him.

Bottom 5 He tries to use lash again to throw my crushers back but rolls another "11". Abbadon attacks and rolls a "1" and kills himself. (This was fitting as he was having generally bad dice all game). We roll to see if the game ends and it continues.

Top 6 Screamers (who have been continuously chewing on the immobilized raider, knocked every weapon off of it) now decide to cause it to explode with infantry of mine all around it. Deamon prince kills the last lesser deamon, masque kills the last oblit, crushers hit sprcerer and he fails morale to fight the melee so he is destroyed. He is left with an immobilized Land Raider and the game ends.

I needed to kill all Heavies for the last bonus point so I score 44/45. I hate to chalk things up to dice, but on average, I had "good" dice rolls in key moments and he had some "bad" dice rolls in key moments. Worked out for me so on to the next ound.





Round 2
Mission Primary Capture terrain feature by having a scoring unit entirely inside it. Only scoring units could contest.
2ndry Kill all opponents HQ's
Terrtiary Win by 500 VP


Deployment Dawn of War

Opponents list Tau
Tau commander in a crissis suit with lots of shooting (plasma and missle equiv.)

2 x 10 kroot units
10 man firewarrior squad

Marker light squad (forget what they are called) w/ devilfish
pirhana w/ melta equivilent
pirhana same as above

3 teams of battle suits, each with relentless, twin linked rail guns, missle arms, and 2 drones. Each team was 3 members.

3 crisis suits w/ flamers and melta equiv.
3 crisis suits w/ plasma and melta equiv.

He goes first and walks everything on with rail guns in the back, a layer of kroot in front of them, the two crisis suit teams, and another layer of kroot. He has everything in one corner. Devilfish empty in the center of the board, protecting the flank.

I get my primary wave and land everything towards the center of the board. Skulltaker and his crushers land in terrain in the center of the table. GUO lands near the devilfish, 12" away or so. Screamers land near him. Deamonettes scatter to 3" in front of kroot. Soulgrinder scatters into terrain and gets immobilized. He shoots a couple Kroot with his bolter though. Other screamers land near him.

Top 2. He markerlights my Crushers and proceeds to shoot every gun in the army at them. The get on a hot streak with some invul saves, and thanks to wound allocation, it takes every gun to kill the whole unit of crushers, and wound Skulltaker once. Kroot shoot deamonettes and kill all but two.

Bottom 2 Horrors shoot and wipe out the first layer of kroot. Deamonettes assault one of his crisis squads to tie them up. I lose the melee and am wiped out. Screamers assault the devilfish, and do nothing. Flamers land and flame one crisis squad and wipe it out.

Top 3 He jumps his crisis squad to anihilate my horrors but the changleing glamours them and they shoot at a battle suit unit. Do no real damage but they didnt shoot at me Pirhana moves up to melta S. grinder, but misses. He marker lights another of my crusher squads and shoots all his rail guns at them and wounds all 4 but kills none. He shoots one battle suit unit to wipe out my flamers.

Bottom 3. I take one lone screamer and assault the very edge of the Kroot conga line so he can only get 3 or 4 Kroot into the fight. I kill 1 and he does not kill me. He breaks and the squad is wiped out. S. grinder flames a pirhana and breaks its melta guns. My 2 screamers near the grinder assault a squad of fire warriors and kill 2. He pases morale. GUO and crushers wreck the devilfish. D. prince lands and shoots the crisis squad with the commander and kills one and wounds the commander. Another grinder of mine lands.

Top 4 He moves his marker light squad up to block the GUO from hitting the rail gun units. His crisis suits blast the horrors and kill all but one. He shoots and kills my D. prince. Also he shoots and immobilizes my other s. grinder.

Bottom 4 Melee between screamers and au rages on. GUO kills marker light unit. Masque kills crisis team.

Top 5 He kills a couple crushers and the masue with shooting.

Bottom 5 GUO and Skulltaker wipe out a battle suit squad.

Top 6 Shoots and kills another crusher.

Bottom 6 I wipe out another battle suit unit with GUO and Skulltaker kills his commander.

Top 7 He finally kills my screamers in melee with his warriors.

Bottom 7 GUO hits last rail gun squad but fails to break them.

I succeed in taking more terrain pieces and killing his HQ. But that last battle suit unit plus the high attrition rates I took with marching into his guns meant I did not get the terrtiary (winning by 500 vp)
I score 38 out of 45.

I move on to the final game and I am at the top table against the guy who is leading the overall series points. I know he doesnt lose often but I have been waiting for a chance to play him to see if I can win. Today he is playing Mech Eldar (an army I do not match up well with). Well Ill have to give it a go and see what happens. I am happy knowing if I can pull out a big victory I should win the tournament.

I will post this last report later.

Thanks for the report, enjoyed reading that. Who would have thought that The Masgue and Screamers were that usefull in CC. :-D

Well it was the final game and if either of us won big we could claim the tourney.

Mission Primary - One player places 3 objectives, other chooses 1 to be the "main" objective. Each objective is worth 5 points the main is worth 11.
Secondary Have a unit in each table quarter
Terrtiary Win by 750 VP


His list

Eldrad
Prince Yriel

Seer council in wave serpant w/ brightlance, ex. armour

5 Fire Dragons He put in a Falcon. (ex. Armour, missle launcher, bright lance?? lots of guns)

9 Dire Avengers in serpant (ex. armour, bright lance
10 dire avengers in same serpant

3 Eldar on jetbikes
3 eldar on jetbikes

3 War walkers with 8 laser shots each.

Tbale quarters, he deploys 4 boats and flat outs to center of board near his table edge.

Bottom 1. Primary comes in. Crushers w/ skully land in the center of the board. Grinder near them. GUO near them. Both screamer units lean towrads him on my left but near center. Deamonettes behind them.

Top 2. War walkers come in shoot at the crushers and do 2 wounds Dire avengers unload and grab ruins in the cente of the board. Other dire avengers unload on deamonettes but only kill 5. Lances do nothing.

Bottom 2. Deamon prince lands shoots at walkers, pens 2 but he makes both cover saves. Soul grinder charges one unit of dire avengers is 3" away and rolls "1 and 2". Just sits. GUO moves up. Screamers hit falcon, pen but it just cant shoot. Deamonettes hit other squad of avengers and wipe them out.

Top 3. Seer council assaults GUO and soulginder. He kills the grinder. GUO swings at eldrad and causes only two wonds. He makes one invul. fails one, but with fortune, retries and makes it. GUO dies to combat res. Walkers unload and kill deamon prince. Jet bikes arrive and turbo boost around.

Bottom 3 Unit of crushers assaults an empty boat. Only 1 6 is rolled to hit and it fails to roll a 4+ for chance of damage. Flamers land with no masque support and flame seer council. I also drop the horrors and unload into the same squad. When the smoke clears, 2 warlocks are dead and a wound on Eldrad. Screamers hit the falcon again, pen, and cause it to not shoot.

Top 4 He assualts my flamers and horrors with seercouncil and wipes them out. His shooting withers down and kills rest of my deamonettes. Walkers unload on crushers but do no wounds.

Bottom 4. My crushers and skulltaker hit the Falcon this turn but agian fail to hurt it. My other crushers hit another boat and merely knock off te bright lance.

Top 5 Seer council hits a unit of crushers and wipes them out. His walkers hit the blood crushers and I fail 8 of 8 3+ saves wiping out the crushers. Falcon and dragons finish off Skulltaker. Things now look grim.

Bottom 5 Soulgrinder shows up and I plop it on one objective. Plague bearers are wandering towards the main objective.
Masques dances her heart out and rends a wave serpant, rolls the D3 for extra armour pen and only glances the vehicle, cant shoot.

Top 6 He unloads everything into a soul grinder but it lives. Seer council makes a ring around the main objective. Wave serpant with avengers inside flat out over to the main objective to block the P. bearers.

Bottom 6 Soul grinder eats eldar on jetbikes on one objective. I use the masque to move the seer council in a way that Yriel is in the back and cant get invovled in the melee. The nearest unit is in position so that if the p.bearers assault and survive they will be in a position to contest. I assault and survive leaving my p. bearers in 3" of the objective. Masque is 2" shy of getting the last unit of bikes to dance off the final objective. He scores the 2ndry and tertiary along with 5 points from primary. I get 0. Skulltaker and his crowd falling to the fire cost me 2ndry, as well as tertiary.

Even if I had made the saves, no guarantee I guess I would have done much better, but man I hate fighting the seer council with deamons. In fact Mech eldar sucks to face.

I kept my opponent from scoring 16 points on the last turn and that tied him for first, but the tie breaker went to the guy (Darth Diggler) playing on table 2, (Redbeards opponent in his third game). Darth agreed to split the difference he won between finishing first instead of 2nd with me since I helped him win Just kidding. Winning a tournament of 32 people is tough and he earned it. I finished fourth in the tournament, and somewhere in the top 6 for the series qualifying me for the invitational at Adepticon later this march.

When all was said and done I finished fourth, but my opponents finished 2nd, 7th, and 11th. Out of 32 that was probably the toughest road anyone there had to walk, but not winning was my own fault. I had the opportunity to win big and win the tournament and I didnt capitalize. Zero Cool did an awesome job of running the tourney, playing both ringer and having to do all the paper work as well as running most of the series events. Thanks again.

I love the deamons almost as much as I love the Crons.

I drove 2 hours back home through some crappy weather but the tournament was worth it. The AWC tourney series has a reputation of one of the best in the country, and living nearby I am lucky enough to be able to play at the Bunker now and again. If you do wel there, it is saying a lot because I have not had an easy game yet out of twelve. I usually fair pretty well at local tourneys but I routinely get stomped a good 1/3 games there in Chicago. Thanks agian for the @$$ kicking Tony, perhaps a rematch at the next tourney. See everyone at Adepticon..

And I will be playing my Crons at Adepticon which Redbeard has dubbed my "Adepti-crons"

Did your second opponent also get a massacre in the first round? Thanks for the report.

- Blackbone

Grats on your placement here and in the series.

All those lists sure look a lot different from stuff I'm used to seeing. I thought it was amazing to only see 3 troops in your list, but you played a list with 3 and a list with 2, and the only one that had 4 troops, 2 were 5 man lesser daemons (are they scoring units?).

It's a far cry from most of the armies that I run across which usually take at least 4 pretty large troops or 5-6 smaller ones (or armies that can combat squad into 5-6 at least).

Yes, I assume the guy I fought in the 2nd round also had a first round massacre. He could have also just had the next most points to me. I was on the 2nd table. 2 people each had perect scores in the first round meaning they had wipeouts. Either way the Tau player was pretty good and I was lucky enough to win against him, let alone score 30 some points, it was a close game.

The lists I did face did not have a large amount of troops. The Tau player had three but those troops were thee for protection more than scoring. The Chaos Marine had 2 scoring marine units and the 2 packs of 5 lesser deamons, he used pressure from his other units to kep the heat off the small squads of deamons. The Eldar player had 2 squads of dire avengers in w. serpants and 2 small jetbike units for turboboosting and late objective grabs. Not a lot of troops, but there were lists there with 6 full Tactical squads. You just never know what you are going to draw in a tournament.