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Isn't there another thread that basically did this? Whatever, I'm a sucker for a thread that lets me brag withotu looking like I'm doing so.

Phoenix games, Atlanta

1. Tri-lith + Deceiver Necrons, me
2. Kan Wall Orks, Primarch
3. Space Marines, non-dakka-ite

Giga Bytes cafe, Atlanta

1. generic Chaos Space Marines, non-dakka-ite
2. Land Raider heavy Space Marines, not sure of his SN
3. Twin lash CSM, Player A

Fedral wrote:Rhubarb Games - Winter Park, FL

1st: Mech Eldar

2nd: Tyranids <-- Me

3rd: Tyranids

Mech Eldar was me

Sci-Fi City Orlando, FL

1st Orks
2nd Chaos Space Marines
3rd Black Templars (me)

Capt K

Oklahoma

Tyranids - 1st

Krystal Keep, Dayton, OH area:

CSM swept the top 3.

I was spectating, so no place for me.

Las Vegas, Nevada (Dark Tower)

1st Mech Guard (Me)
2nd Mech Tau
3rd Demons

All Star Cards and Comics Louisiana

1st place

1st Mech orks
2nd Eldar
3rd TAU

Malecus wrote:For my own curiosity, I decided to tally up our reports thus far. Might as well share.

The count of top 3 finishes thus far from this thread, in no particular order:
Blood Angels -- 1
Necrons -- 2
Chaos Daemons -- 6
Tau -- 3
Eldar -- 11
Tyranids -- 8
Space Wolves -- 3
Space Marines -- 14
Chaos Marines -- 8
Orks - 14
Demon Hunters -- 1
Imperial Guard -- 10

Couple of surprises here.

a. Demon Hunters. Wow. I wonder if the player utelized the ally rules.
b. No Dark Eldar? I figured with all the mech lists anticipated, a good old fashioned 30+ Dark Lance army would have been spotted.
c. Good to see Space Marines finally getting some top spots. Marines and Orks: the classic match up in 40K.

Fort Mill, SC

1st - Blood Angels ----- D Pod/Term Hvy , was my first time encountering Death Co.
2nd - Mech Space Wolves (Me) ------ Only had 2 Raiders, and two rhinos. I did have a kitted WG Term Unit.
3rd - Tank Spam IG ------ Like 13 tanks overall, cant remember exact mix. Had DH allies LR and a Psychic Hood.
4th - Nidzillas ------ Never really got to check the army out fully. Maxxed out on Big Bugs, and Warriors. No Genestealers!!?!?!?


All in all a good tourny. I think there needs to be some way to regulate who uses the most of the 2.5 hrs you are allowed for play time. The only game I didnt win/massacre was the first game and we had to call it @ turn three because my opponent took like 30+ minutes to take each of his turns. I am all for some friendly chatter during games or even local tournies, but when there is a strict 2.5 hr limit on a 6 turn game it's gotta be less chatter more splatter. I had some friends go to Borderlands in Greenville. I will see if I can get the winners from there and post um up.

Stillwater, OK

Chaos Space Marines - 2nd place


1st was vulcan marines
3rd was Daemons

Hobbytown USA, Dallas

1st - Nurgle Demons
2nd - Mixed Demons
3rd - Dark Eldar

adam_gipson wrote:Hobbytown USA, Dallas

3rd - Dark Eldar

THEY DO EXIST!

nevermind, 40Kenthusiast beat me to it.


Clay

Malecus wrote:For my own curiosity, I decided to tally up our reports thus far. Might as well share.

The count of top 3 finishes thus far from this thread, in no particular order:
Blood Angels -- 1
Necrons -- 2
Chaos Daemons -- 6
Tau -- 3
Eldar -- 11
Tyranids -- 8
Space Wolves -- 3
Space Marines -- 14
Chaos Marines -- 8
Orks - 14
Demon Hunters -- 1
Imperial Guard -- 10

Yeah, thats pretty much what I would have expected. Orks and Vulkan Marines both scale up very very well. IG and Eldar just a bit behind them then Chaos and Nids. Interesting that demons did not show up more. I did not see a single Demon player in my area and they seem to be very lightly represented overall. With the power of some of the better demon builds, that suprises me a bit. Nids did better than I would have expected as well with all the Mech out there.

I think Orks may be the army to beat once again just with a different build than last year. I agree that it pretty much proves all the nay sayers about the ork codex badly wrong. That is a powerful book with numersous very strong builds. I think a lot of players dismissed orks coming into this and paid the price.

Game Empire, San Diego

1. mechanized Orks
2. foot Orks
3. Space Marines

Game Empire, Pasadena CA

1) Tyrannids
2) Tau
3) Vulkan Marines (I think)

bigtmac68 wrote:I think Orks may be the army to beat once again just with a different build than last year. I agree that it pretty much proves all the nay sayers about the ork codex badly wrong. That is a powerful book with numersous very strong builds. I think a lot of players dismissed orks coming into this and paid the price.

You, sir, just made my day. Now I just need a few dozen Ork codex haters to come to that same conclusion.

Sarigar wrote:Demon Hunters. Wow. I wonder if the player utelized the ally rules.

Yes. I started to mark that down on the original list, but I thought there might have been a purist or two as well. Maybe there will be yet. Suppose you could mark it as .75 and give another .25 to IG, but I'll give 'em the benefit of doubt.



EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

California:

1st Eldar (don't know what kind)
2nd Green Tide Ork
3rd Vulkan and his marines.

Just under 1/2 way down: Tau - Me.

We had 5 Deamons, 4 guard and 10 Space Marines in 24 players. (almost all with Vulkan)

Bonnie Brae, CO

1st Vulkan Mech (me)
2nd Eldar Mech
3rd Dark Eldar Raider Spam

So no dark angels or witchhunters yet.

EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

Hmmm,

Seems all the "OMFG the IG are so Broken, run away ..." talk has shown not to be the case, just as the " Orks can compete, they are tier 3" talk was bunk.

I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack while Chaos, IG, Demons, Nids and Eldar are all running about equal in their shadow. To me this seems to show a pretty balanced field with most of the major codexes having the ability to compete. As Orks and Marines are more forgiving armies with more variations on solid builds they have more representation in the top but I personally do not think any of the top 6 races lack the ability to go all the way or compete at the highest level with multiple solid builds.

I still think JetCouncil Eldar is the army to beat because so few people see it and can prepare against or practice against it. The very rarity of the army is one of its greatest advantages.

bigtmac68 wrote:

EDIT: UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 20
Orks -- 19
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 12
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 3
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 1
Dark Eldar -- 1

Hmmm,

Seems all the "OMFG the IG are so Broken, run away ..." talk has shown not to be the case, just as the " Orks can compete, they are tier 3" talk was bunk.

I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack while Chaos, IG, Demons, Nids and Eldar are all running about equal in their shadow. To me this seems to show a pretty balanced field with most of the major codexes having the ability to compete. As Orks and Marines are more forgiving armies with more variations on solid builds they have more representation in the top but I personally do not think any of the top 6 races lack the ability to go all the way or compete at the highest level with multiple solid builds.

I still think JetCouncil Eldar is the army to beat because so few people see it and can prepare against or practice against it. The very rarity of the army is one of its greatest advantages.

QFT. I dread facing Eldar council with my Tau. I think I might get lucky in the semis since no one around here knows of anyone playing them... of course, with only two semis in the Northeast, we'll probably get a couple of people from "away" as we say up here in Maine...

Lindstrom, MN

1st place: Necrons, 56pts (me!)
2nd place: Black Templar, 38pts
3rd place: Nob Trukks Orks, 37pts

I have to say, I know a good ork player, and I was well aware of how dangerous orks were. Around where I live, they are the top of the heap by far.

And just for jollies:
UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 22
Orks -- 21
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 13
Eldar -- 14
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 10
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 4
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 2
Dark Eldar -- 2

bigtmac68 wrote:I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack...

That they're the two easiest armies to acquire cheaply has to be a big factor, though.

Boise, Idaho

All About Games

1. Space Marines.... 32 bikers, 2 Land Raiders, & 3 Vindicators 58 pts
2. My nasty Orks (Nob Bikers & 2 battlewagons, 2 trukks, kommandos, stormboyz, 2x30 boyz, 1 x 18 boyz with Ghaz) One Stupid Weirdboy who ruined my chances of 1st. 56 pts. Don't ask me why i brought him.
3. Tied between two chaos players. Both had 54 points each

Hobby Town USA

1. Killa Kan Mob Orks
2. Nid Zilla
3. Nid Zilla & Genestealer happy

Charlotte, North Carolina

Hobby town USA

1st: salamanders force 52
2nd: raider rush templar 48
3rd Mech orks (me) 46

but i cant go due to assorted circumstances so i gave my ticket and best wishes to next guy with Mech nurgle

was fun except for our 2nd place winner guy was raging all over store about people not playing the way he thought best

UPDATED COUNTS (this thread only):
Space Marines -- 24
Orks -- 24
Imperial Guard -- 13
Chaos Marines -- 15
Eldar -- 14
Chaos Daemons -- 10
Tyranids -- 12
Tau -- 6
Space Wolves -- 4
Necrons -- 4
Blood Angels -- 2
Demon Hunters -- 1
Black Templars -- 3
Dark Eldar -- 2

Still no witchhunters or dark angels.
(edited didn't include above post in tally)

templar raider rush manimal. 3 templars now

CatPeeler wrote:

bigtmac68 wrote:I really like how marines and orks , the two poster children of 40k are leading the pack...

That they're the two easiest armies to acquire cheaply has to be a big factor, though.

Cheap? If you mean the AoBR boxset. Sure the boxset is cheap, but my army was able to utelize 11 Orks and 1 Deff Kopta and 2 Nobz out of that boxset. 151 points out of a 2500 point list. If you mean cheap as in lots of plastic, yes. Except for 3 Killa Kanz, 1 Deff Dread, 1 Big Mek and Ghaz, my army was plastic. Quite the bargain priced Ard Boyz army

Chattanooga TN
Dicehead games

1st Me- Nurgle Demons
2nd - Eldrad/council
3rd - Tau