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Here is a summary of the SVDM from my perspective.

I was lucky enough to get a ticket to the Vegas nationals at the Conflict GT so I was coming to this to mostly roll dice and meet people. I took a break from my Guard and brought my Twin lash plague marines. That got me a comp score of 2 out of 20. Now considering that Lash is not nearly as good as it was thanks to the preponderance of mech armies and psychic defence I thought that was harsh (I'd have thought between 4 and 6 would be a fairer score). From chatting to people Friday night it seemed that the comp score was done by a bunch of local players, instead of being one person per club, and lo and behold a lot of very brutal local armies scored very generously in comparison to others.... Lucky for me I wasn't trying to get a winning ticket.

Game 1 was the 5 objective mission against Paul Miglino's Razorback Wolves (with his comp of 3). After a spectactular first turn for me of Paul missing with all of his shooting things started to go downhill and my marines started to get ground down with plasma, melta and lascannon fire killing off my daemon and princes. He ended up with the primary objective and the tertiary while I got the secondary and tertiary (14-11).

Down the tables I go and I'm playing Marc Parker and his Tyranids. I'd not met Marc before but I've played Wrecking Crew players at Adepticon '07 and '08. I won the first turn and raced my rhinos along a road to grab the primary objective. The lash started working overtime and I moved back two units of gaunts to give my obliterators a chance to shoot at the Swarmlord. Mediocre shooting saw me kill only one tyrant guard.

Marc managed to lock the plague marines with the objective in combat with gaunts but T5 and fnp meant that the combat was going to go my way. The lash continued to annoy the swarmlord and this time I wiped out the last of the gaurd and wounded the swarmlord a couple of times. By the end of my turn 4 I'd killed the swarmlord in combat with a prince and the greater daemon and all but wiped out the gaunts leaving marc with 3 hive guard, some way out of position stealers and a wounded Tervigon. He called it there and we spent the next 30 minutes chatting about gaming.

For game 3 I get paired against my teammate and the guy I drove 220 miles with to get to the event :/ The mission is to kill each other with no penalties for losing models so I drive everything right at him and lash two units into combat in turn 1. The game rapidly dissovles into massed close combat. He blows a couple of stubborn Ld checks and I slowly start to fail armour saves. In an effort to get a small unit out of my deployment zone my 1W prince perils the lash on a 12 and kills herself, giving him the win.

Game 4 was against Patrick and his Mech Eldar (a 16 comp here).We'd played before at the Baltimore GT where I got the win against his Orks. Nearly everything went my way in this game and I was able to immobilise and stun enough of the skimmers early that the Eldar had to disembark in turn 2 to try and salvage the game. It didn't work that well and despite pouring enough fire into me to kill 30 or 40 marines I didn't lose a single squad. In return I wiped out everything bar a serpent and one squad of pathfinders. The final score was 18-6.

My final game was against Damien on table 2 with his Tzeentch marines. A few people had told me of their less than stellar games against him but in general I thought the game was fine. He went first and I left everything bar one rhino off the board. With nothing to really target Damien moved his whole army forwards twice. Only a couple of my units turned up in my turn 2 but I did lock one prince with the lesser daemons and wipe out the second. In my turn 3 I get nearly everything else and wipe out one of his two scoring units and start to grind down the 18 strong 1k sons who get pulled out of position by the lash. The Greater Daemon charges the last prince and takes it down to one wound. At that point it pretty much all goes wrong. Over the course of a couple of turns Damien pulls out 4 sixes to spawn the greater daemon, a daemon prince and the two marines holding my objective. Those spawn then go and kill my last prince who has been taking way too long in killing two obliterators and is on 1 wound. If the game ends at turn 5 I'm going to win 10-8 but of course it doesn't and he gets the primary as well making the final score 18-10.

I'm not sure where I placed overall but I ended up with 2nd best general. It was good as well to finally be able to start putting dakka names to faces, and I'm looking forward to seeing more people at the end of the month in Chicago.

Was great to meet you Alex.

There were a lot of cool models and armies at the GT, but this was will remain my favorite:

Alex, talk about a first round pairing! That was indeed a nail-biter!

The dice gods seldom favor me which explains my inept shooting in the 1st turn. Impossibly, they felt the same for you as well. I thought I was the only one who was out of favor!

Taking down your greater daemon and the lash prince's in those last turns proved to be the deciding factor but what a tactical game it was. You were indeed my most challenging opponent of the tourney. Looking forward to our next encounter for sure.

I missed out on 3rd Best General by a mere few points. Pat, and his Black Templar's thwarted my chance for glory!

We'll catch up soon Alex.
Paul

Good jog Alex! I've seen your chaos army a coule of times before, but I dan't realized how good of a player you were with it. I was the tyranid player on the top tables that won 3rd best general. I'd like too take a crack against that army sometime in the future.

mmm cake or death! Cool to see some people are still keeping lash alive just to keep the meta honest, if nothing else ;-)

Thanks for the write up.

I was thinking about doing a Tzeentch themed army, but there is no way I have the stones to rely on something like Gift of Chaos.

but there is no way I have the stones to rely on something like Gift of Chaos

I'm with you 100%. Some people can just roll 6s when they need to

The Everliving wrote:I took a break from my Guard and brought my Twin lash plague marines. That got me a comp score of 2 out of 20.

Look, everyone agrees that Chaos is OP. Its your own fault that you didn't bring one of the other solid chaos space marines lists that don't use plague marines or lash.

Oh wait.


Nice writeup though.