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Since today i participated in 3 tournaments, 1 of which was a team-tournament where i won 1st place because my teammate had a really good Orklist with lots of boys & kans - it was a perfect synergy of mass & elite.
In the single-tournaments my Nurgle Marines wheren't that successful, but since i'm an absolute beginner i wasn't disappointed (finishing last in the 1st and 6th of 8 participants in the 2nd tournament).
This time i was sure to maybe go for 5th or 6th place (out of 10), if my dice wouldn't fail me.
My List:

1 Demon Prince, MoN, Wings
1 Sorcerer, MoN, Wind of Chaos, Terminatorarmour

5 Terminators, 1 Chainfist, 1 Reaper, 2 combimelta
2 Cybots with Plasmacannon

2x 8 Plaguemarines, Personal Icon, 1 Melta, 1 Flamer, Champ with Powerweapon, Rhino
7 Plaguemarines, 2x Plasma, Icon, Rhino
2x 1 Obliterator
1 Predator with TL-Laser (no sponsons)
1749 pts.

First round:
vs. Imperial Guard
Lots of Infantry, 3 Lasers, 2 Heavy Bolters, 1 Veteran Squad w. Melta & Plasma, Marbo, HQ Squad, 2 Sentinels, 3 Artillery (dunno the name, big gun, direct & indirect fire)
3 objectives, 2 where in my half of the table in a ruin and in a wood, the other one in a ruin on the other half. Deployment was table quarters, i chose the one with the objective in a ruin. It was on the 3rd floor of the building, so i placed the Plasma-marines in the building together with an Obliterator. The other 2 Squads sat in their rhinos, ready to take the objective in the woods. Instead of swarming me with his infantry he relied on his superior firepower - totally forgetting about the fact that this missions' special rule was PERMANENT NIGHT FIGHT!!! *tee-hee*
While puncturing the air with scattered shots or simply not seeing far enough to hit me, my men sat on 2 objectives, smelling bad and enjoying their pustules til the game was over... not even Marbo was able to do some damage, his demo charge blew up nothing (scattered off the board).
I was a happy camper and won the game, holding 2 of 3 objectives, while he almost lost his single objective by an empty rhino (which he luckily shot down in the last turn).

Secon Round:
vs. Witchhunters.
4 Immolators & two Rhinos with small units of sisters or guards, 2 Exorcists and a flying canoness with some nice gadgets.
Mission was capture & control, no special rules.
Whoa, this game was a hard one - so many tanks!! While i was at first able to divert some of his forces with a sucide attack by one plaguesquad in a rhino and my DP, he just had so much to throw at my objective after destryoing them, that i couldn't prevent him from contesting my obbjective. If my Oblits and the Predator hadn't missed 90% of their time i'd have been able to stop him, but these stupid fellas weren't in the right mood to fire laz0rs i suppose (maybe they were hungry?).
Game lost, but i really liked the opportunity to fight against such a seldom-seen opponent.

Third round:
vs. World Eaters
I already faced this player and his list in my last tournament and almost got tabled, so i was a little bit nervous, especially because he had almost the same list:
Kharn, 2x 8 Berserkers with Rhino, 2x 10 CSM w/icon of Khorne, Meltas & Rhino, 10 CSM with Laser & Plasma & IoCG, Defiler.
One of the CSM Squads had a PF, one of the Berserkers a PW.
Mission was Annihilation, Dawn of War Deployment.
He won the roll-off and deployed the CSM with Plas/Laser in cover. I deployed nothing.
I wanted to put my supporting units in a forest near my table edge, sending out the Plasmaguys & DP on the left flank and the other 2 PM-Squads on the right flank, keeping my Terminators and 1 Obliterator in reserve to help out on any of the flanks...
well, that plan failed epically because i got my reinforcements on the 2nd turn already!
Shooting was very ineffective on both sides, so it all depended on a big clash of the titans on the left flank, where my DP and the Plasmaguys shook hands with 10 CSM, 8 Berzerkers and Kharn - and goddamn it was the most epic assault i ever witnessed & participated in. It took 3 rounds until Kharn finally managed to kill my DP, but he had rolled so many 1s and subsequently killed so many of his own Berzerkers, that he also lost the assault 2:4. It got even better when he tried to save 2 wounds for the fearless units locked in combat - 1 Berzerker died and Kharn lost his remaining to wounds when my opponent rolled snake eyes *giggle*
Man, i love Kharn! He won me the game by killing more of his own men than i did!!
The game ended after the 5th turn, i had 5 killpoints, he had 4 - i won!

2 Victories, 1 Loss and my 2nd opponent came out 2nd place in the end - that gave me the better "opposing total" than the other guy that had 2 Victorys 1 Loss and i came out 3rd.
3rd place in my 3rd tournament, i'm a happy Nurgling today ;-)

Things i learned:
- Oblits are too stupid to hit anything with Lasers, but Predators are even more stupid (even if they're twin-linked).
- Jumping around with a winged DP is loads of fun!
- Witchhunters have some nasty tricks up their sleeves (trade armour saves for inv saves!!).
- Kharn rocks! I'll definitely try him out someday!
- If you're facing IG, HOORAY for NIGHT FIGHT!

Maybe I'll switch my Sorcerer for a 2nd DP next time, trade in the Predator for a 3rd Oblit and use the remaining points to buy some Powerfists or psychic powers for my DPs...