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Asgaurd Games Houston TX.

1. Loganwing Space Wolves (me, Jonathan Willingham)
2. Battle Wagon Orks (Sean, don't know last name)
3. Dark Eldar Dark Lance Spam (Anton Zaleski)

Well things ended all right but didn't start well... I played against the Dark Lance Spam list, won turn to go first AND he stole the initiative... well I got hit hard turn and it hurt, but managed to pull the minor victory.

After that, got major win then massacre.

Top 3;

1. Guard
2. Blood Angels
3. Ultramarines
5. Necrons

So close... I went into the third round tied for first with the Guard player. Unfortunately he got first turn, and plays Leaf Blower... Still took him four turns to Phase me so I call Morale victory!

3 minor victories earned my tau 4th place. I guess consistency paid off. Above me were

Nids with an insane day. I think he hit 74 points no one close.
CSM
IG

We had 16 peeps, fair mix of amies. and I wish I would of known that Eldar rangers get a +2 cover save in cover, I would of inflicted kroot to deny them the good cover spots. ... maybe next round, maybe next year.

Base Camp in Russel, MA.

1.) Orks - 58 VP

2.) Blood Angels - 54 VP (Me; I played against CSM, the winner and a very good Tau list)

3.) Blood Angels - 42 VP

This was actually my first tournament ever and I had a ton of fun. I'm definitely looking forward to round 2.

I pulled really tough opponents every round with tough armies. We had three guys go to finals out of mys tore last year, one guy got 4th over all, so we have a tough group.

1.) Horde Orks, 68 points, smashed pretty much everyone.
2.) Battlewagon Orks, 4th place last year in ard boyz, somehow managed to get enough points against me in the last turn of the game to to deny me a minor victory.
3.) Wolves (Me)

I had a great time, and some seriously good players from my store didn't make it.

Team San Diego is looking to represent in the semis! Glad to hear everyone had so much fun today.

Oh yeah, and we had just under 20 players.

The Inquisitive (Albuquerque NM)
1st Nids
2nd Ultramarine (Assault style list)
3rd IG Mech Company

1st passed his ticket to the semis and I landed in the 3rd Alt slot playing a dumbed down Logan Wing list... First time I have played since 2004 so I didn't feel too bad. I drew the IG Mech Company in 3rd place in the first round, and went from a small loss to being massacred by the Ultramarines in 2nd in the final round.

All around, it was a fun day.

The other store in town is running their tourney tomorrow so I may get another shot at it.

What store were you at?
I grew up in Dayton, live in Huber Heights until I moved further west after graduating from College there.

keeblerpowell wrote:I won with nids in Fairborn ohio.
Kevin Kirby took second with green skins.
I feel bad (forget the name of the third place fellow.) But he played Eldar.(great guy i just suck with names.


First round was orcs for me. This pretty much ended up being me being lucky and forcing him into a bottle neck. But this was a well played game and was lots of fun.

Second round was against Term marines. Bad reserve rolls for him and amazing Tervagon rolls for me were the swing in this game.

Third round was against mounted orcs. this went in my favor only because of the mission. He kills ones of my units and i get a 2 point swing when I kill one of his. If this was victory points straight up I lose. Because its funky fast unit scoring I win.

I had lots and lots of fun.


I think that at this point level Tervagons are a bit to strong when you can run them apart from each other and have more than one go off. These dudes were my life raft.




hope everyone had a great time.

Acardia wrote:3 minor victories earned my tau 4th place. I guess consistency paid off. Above me were

Nids with an insane day. I think he hit 74 points no one close.
CSM
IG

We had 16 peeps, fair mix of amies. and I wish I would of known that Eldar rangers get a +2 cover save in cover, I would of inflicted kroot to deny them the good cover spots. ... maybe next round, maybe next year.

Just find another store hosting it tomorrow and do it again!

Also, 72 points was the maximum if you got a 20 point massacre each game with 4 bonus points.

1: Tyranid
2: DARK ELDAR!!!!!!! (yea thats right I beat the system!)
3: Space Puppies


Syracuse NY

1st: Horde Orks
2nd: Battlewagon Rumble
3rd: Vulkan Marines(Me! )

I had really good games against Daemons and IG, and played the guy that came in second and managed to fight him to a minor victory(for him) that allowed me to sneak into third with a major victory +2 against IG in the third round.

The tournament was comprised of:

Orks
Orks
Daemons
Ravenwing
Codex Space Marines
IG
Tyranids
Tyranids

I'm actually happy with the way it turned out, since my buddy was the guy that came in first, so we both moved on to the semis. Luckily, Mannahin wasn't there to whoop my ass second round. See you in Bangor or Londonderry, boy!

How did you do? Massacre round 1, Draw round 2, Minor victory 3 = Tied for first and whole via VPs with just over 4900

Did you have fun? Had a balst

Did the whole thing turn into a massive argument about KP for drop pods (yes, I know they were fixed)? Nope, faced Mech Vulcan SM vs my Eldar Skimmer spam so round three was rather even.

Top lists for us were:

Mech Eldar (me)
Black Temple Pod spam
Melta Spam Vulkan SM

Wow it amazes me that in some places people are placing without going 3:0 and scoring all major victories.

SilentBob367 wrote:Asgaurd Games Houston TX.

1. Loganwing Space Wolves (me, Jonathan Willingham)
2. Battle Wagon Orks (Sean, don't know last name)
3. Dark Eldar Dark Lance Spam (Anton Zaleski)

Well things ended all right but didn't start well... I played against the Dark Lance Spam list, won turn to go first AND he stole the initiative... well I got hit hard turn and it hurt, but managed to pull the minor victory.

After that, got major win then massacre.

Hobbytown USA, Plano, TX.

1. Bugs
2. DAngel Multi-wing(me!)
3. Green Tide Orks

I would love to see your Loganwing @ Semi's . I'm going to go full Deathwing... tired of wasting points on high costing bikes

Round 1 Massacre +2 BP against Ork Biker spam, Round 2 was 1kSons spam which was also a Massacre +1. The Green tide orks completely owned me, but I managed a KP draw purely on amazing Helfire spam from my Terminator librarian. +1 BP. 54 points baby! Go Go DAngels!

Had a ton of fun at ard boyz. Our tourny had a lot of solid list.

Top 3 for us in Salt lake were,

1st Mech Eldar (me)
2nd Tyranids
3rd Space wolves

At the Game Kastle in San Jose, CA, 24 players:

1st: Tyranids (mine)
2nd: Horde orks
3rd: Dual-lash, 9 oblit Chaos

I massacred BA in round 1 (5 LRs, 2 Baals), massacred BA in round 2 (wipeout), and took a very cautious minor victory against the aforementioned dual-lash CSM (I knew what the overall points looked like behind me, so didn't need anything more than a Draw).

Picked up a couple boxes of Gargoyles, to try out something new.

Predator Games in South Houston, TX

1) Blood Angels (me)
2) Space Wolves
3) Tyranids

Massacred Orks and Chaos the first two rounds and pulled a minor win against a Pedro/Calgar Terminator Spam list the 3rd round.

Anthem Games, Tampa FL

1. CSM Mech
2. IG
3. Dark Eldar

I had a good time the first two games but had a lot of disputes the last game which was a damper. I was on the top table the 3rd mission -> my four lanraiders & two Baals versus 6x rhinos. I got to go 1st and over the course of five turns only managed to destroy two rhinos... So I lost & will not be playing in the semis this year. Had a really tough go the 1st turn vs. Salamanders but managed to pull a major. Really bad dice karma the last game losing 3 landraiders & both Baals. It happens.

G

Clthomps wrote:Wow it amazes me that in some places people are placing without going 3:0 and scoring all major victories.

It is hard to massacre in the first two missions if you play anyone decent.

1nids (me)
2csm(passed inv to 4th sm)
3csm

Tie vs Eldar round 1, plenty of victory points though. Major Victory vs Tau round less than 70 pts from massacre!. Minor loss (7 pts)vs marines round 3 ( Darn KP's)

I played battle wagons and burnas. Took 4th, first ever tourney it was fun! Played 3 new people. I made some mistakes, last game I forgot to re-roll dangerous terrain tests.....demobilized 1 wagon with a rolla and a truck round 1.

Oh, well, live and learn. Anyone reading this I played, thanks for the games at SnG in CDA.

Oh first place was leaf blower guard. 2nd nids, 3rd was tau. I rolled the tau player round 2, he rolled 2 of his opponents, including another ork wagon list. Good for him!

1: CSM (passed his inv to Imperial Fists player tied for 3rd)
2: Eldar (me)
3: CSM (my brother)

Had a great day. I got waxed the first game (I had a feeling I would, I took too few troops, but I was willing to sort of throw away the first game or risk trying to table the guy - didn't work out so well against his 3 Zerker squads and 2 plague marine squads). Then, I got two massacres back-to-back against BA, then Guard.

Glen Burnie, MD @ Games and Stuff

I took first with a Mechanized BA list. As I hoped, I ended up facing a Mech IG list in the third scenario, and I ended up taking him 42 KPs to about 12-15.

Chaos got second, and I forget who got third.

There was no drama at all. Play proceeded very well.

Game Empire Phoenix AZ 20+ Players
#1) Mech IG
#2) ?
#3) ?

I was thinking about playing Nids but I have been really busy and could not finish them, so I broke out the old standby…Foot Eldar.

Round 1 I play against the one of the best players I have played against here in Phoenix (Mundar on Dakka) and his 70 jump pack blood angels and Draw.

Round 2 I massacre a Space Wolf army.

Round #3 I massacre a Tyranid army.

I end up with 58 battle points, and I had the most VPs at 6500, but it was only good enough for 5th place. It looks like in most of the stores that was good enough to win, but not in mine.

Village Games, Anoka, MN

IIRC, the top 3 were:

1st: Blood Angels - never saw his list, but apparently he managed some good victories, even in the one that handicapped him.
2nd: Space Marines - never actually finished a game, but managed a Minor, a close Draw (which would have been another Minor given another turn) and a Massacre when he went up against a 40+ KP Dark Eldar army.
3rd: Orks - I believe it was a horde list, though it was hard to keep track, given that there were 3 of them.

I came in 4th with a Space Wolves list - which was pretty good for it being the first tournament I ever attended (and only having played a handful of games in the leagues prior to the tourney). My games were:

Round 1 - Fought the resident Dark Eldar player, who has raised the army to an art form. Managed to scrape up a Draw, which was partly because he forgot we were playing objectives and only had time to grab one before time was up.

Round 2 - Faced off against a balanced Ork list running Nob bikers, some Boyz, and a Nob squad led by Ghazghkull. I got a really lucky first turn and toasted one of his Battlewagons, taking out a good chunk of boyz in the explosion. Then his Bikers proceeded to wipe out my heavies one at a time, though I did actually beat him by 200 VPs, ending the game in a Draw.

Round 3 - Went against the sole Sisters of Battle player in the tourney. He fought valiantly, but luck was on my side - one of his units (Not sure what it was, don't know the codex at all) basically went nuts, charged my Dreadnought, and failed to do any damage throughout the entire game. My LRC with Wolf Guard did a lot of damage through massive amounts of gun (along with a Vindicator sitting next to it) and I eventually got him down to one squad left, most of mine intact. Though I lost all my vehicles (Giving him a 15 KP boost) all but one of my other units remained alive until the end, and I scored 26 KPs in the end.

Rivals Games in Hillsboro, Oregon.
1st: Space Wolves 55 points (Logan/Long Fang spam)
2nd: Blood Angels 54 points(Heavy Mech)
3rd: Me, Space Wolves 45 points(Drop Assault Force)

We had a decent turnout, and the venue was well organized. There were about 10 players ( we had a bunch drop last min), and there was only one TFG.

I had mission 1 vs Fate Crusher. This game was a slaughter fest. I dropped down on the objectives and was poised to make the mother of all assaults, and then I make the dumbest mistake of my life, and assault 4 crushers with a wolf lord (ss/fb) and 10 Skyclaws. That assault was painfull, but the wolf lord managed to hold his own for 2 & 1/2 turns. The game finished with me in an assault with his Daemon Prince, him winning the combat an being able to contest the objective. I held 2 objectives and he did to. Final score 13-12 me. VP's earned Me 1648, Him 1730.

Game 2 was vs Foot slogging Chaos Marines. This was by far the worst game of 40k I have ever played. The player was not the issue it was the fact that I went all reserves and only had 30 marines on the table until turn 4. The game came down to the fact that even though the chaos player had nearly killed me to the man, my assault squads, HQ's, tac squad, and 2 drop pods lived, and I got enough stuff of his to eek out a minor loss. The score was 14-8. VP's earned Me 748, Him 1386.

Game 3 was me vs Mech Eldar. This game went as bad as it could get for the eldar player. I was made to go first (first time of the night), and deployed my 30 Skyclaws on the board. Then it was my 2nd turn, and I had everything come down ( talk about making up for last game). The rest of the game was me killing his tanks, and him not having the ability to kill enough marines to win. We called the game top of turn 5. Final score 24-0. VP's earned a whole lot to not enough to matter.

I will post a battle report later.

Mattoon IL 20+ people:

1. Nids
2. Nids (me)
3. Dark Eldar

Great day. I had good tables and drew the right people.

At my LGS in Altoona,Pa it was
1. Josh- nids (tervi-gons???)
2.brad- fluff marines (awesomeness)
3.gary- Chaos (nurgle/khorne/kharne list)

i didn't do so hot but it was a blast i love any time i get to use my Chaos warbands (warriors of mayhem, world eaters, thousand sons, and Dark wolves)

I got Third Place where I live with Orks. My HQ was Thraka, I got small squads of Meganobs. A Mega Armor Warboss, I got Three Troops of boyz and everything transported by Trukk for speed factor. Some Deff Kopters and Lootas and a Looted Wagon With Boomgun. Anyway, I can get a $20 blister. I wanna know what to go for an HQ choice!?

MY first match was against Chaos Space Marines, I got a Minor Victory!
Second Match I was Against Space Wolves...got a perfect score!
Third Match I got massacred.

I am most likely not playing in the semi Finals so I wanna know what to go for and here is what I am thinking.

Space Wolves:

Logan Grimnar
Terminator Armored Rune Priest


Orks: - What I played with
Big Mek with KFF
Mad Doc

Battle Creek, MI

1st - Ultramarines - MoTF Dreadnought Drop Pod Spam(me)
2nd - Black Templar - Sword Brethren/Land Raiders
3rd - Chaos Space Marines - DP Lash Princess

Had a blast great fights every game. I massacred footslogging Orks the first round (24points), I had a draw with the Black Templar due to 8 melta weapons all in melta range (4 Multi-meltas, 2 Meltaguns, 2 combi-meltas) totally missing on turn one, it was unreal! (13points), and I had a draw with a really good Tau player (13points)

at ye olde hobby games in cinnaminson NJ:

1st:blood angel raider wall (me)
2nd: black templar raider wall (guy I drove to the tourney)
3rd: mixed bag orks

I played greenwing first round, he had something like a full company of marines and 2 dreds (he said it was dark angels 3rd company per story line). I had 5 land raiders. Dark angels needed to replace the whole company afterwards.

Game 2 put me against the mixed ork army that came in 3rd. He left both his hqs (zogwart and a SAG mek) out of units and i sniped them off turn 2. He really didnt have anything to threaten my tanks, he did have 10 nobs with pks (no painboy though), but they died after they nuked an immobilized raider in terrain. I only lost a raider and 2 attack bike squads, tabling him in return.

Game 3 put me against one of my clubmates that I had brought to the tournament. Between us we had 11 land raiders on the table. Between us, we killed 8 of those raiders, as well as 90% of each others armies. It was devastating, but on the last turn he pulled out a minor win by gunning down my librarian and killing a whittled down assault squad. I had enough of a points buffer at that point that i needed to lose bigger to fall out of first. I had 3 squads of attack bikes that cost me dearly mission 3, but did manage to kill 3 raiders in the bargain.