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I personally hate ard boys now. I got the only player with 3 wins but i got 3rd.. gotta love failpoints

1st Grey Knights
2nd Grey Knights
3rd Chaos Space Marines

OneMeanDuck wrote:I personally hate ard boys now. I got the only player with 3 wins but i got 3rd.. gotta love failpoints

I went 3-0 yesterday and was tied for 5th . Then again our store had 40+ people and the top 3 had 3-0 with almost 3 full massacres each.

Anyway at showcase in media PA it was:

1st-mech IG
2nd-mech wolves with 60 grey hunters
3rd-mech IG

The two mech IG lists were very different, one was the more traditional leafblower vendetta based mechvet list while the other was rocking some executioners (who ironically played my friends 45 termy deathwing). I heard something like 30 terminators died in one turn...ew.

At time warp we only had 13 people, but it was a really tough field since NJ has some great gamers.

I took first with tyranids, after playing mech eldar in the messanger mission, and jaws razor wolves in the last. I chose tau for my next army.
Dark eldar took second.
And msu mech blood angels took 3rd.

Won Michigan yesterday with Chaos Daemons.

1st (Me)
2nd & 3rd (Grey Knights - can't remember names)

26 total players.

So... many... grey knights.... its kinda sickening lol. I'm surprised not more people picked Necrons

Julnlecs wrote:

Grimgob wrote:Had to play leaf blower guard twice!!
full points round 1 against IG
minor loss with 2 bonus points round 2 against IG
Full points round 3 against CSM

So.Cal was

1st Adam Gati- eldar
2nd Dave Fey- Black Templar
3rd Kieth- Orks
4th (Me)- Orks

First time to the semis out of three years and I feel pretty good about fourth out of 40.

How was the tie breaker decided between 1st and 2nd who both had 69 battle points?

Adam and I tied for first.

TO used battle point modifiers for Tie breaker.

Adam and I Both had 9 and tied that.

2nd tie breaker was strength of schedule.

Even though I had to play the top players round 2 and 3, Adams opponents had a higher battle point total.

Thus he won the second breaker.

I also lost rock, paper sissors ;p

IVIOOSE wrote:we had it so the messenger just enter the deployment zone, if the messenger was in a drop pod it had to come in your own deployment zone. no rulings on aethersales so i just moved in 1st turn to give me the extra pts.

The messenger was not allowed to be in reserve so having him in a drop pod wasn't legal. All the messenger had to do was enter the enemy zone, RAW.

I played in Pasadena at the event run by Game Empire Pasadena with Dave, and Grimgob. We had 41 players I went Minor Victory, Minor Loss (please, please, please, no random game length in 6th ed!), and Massacre Vicory I actually ended up 11 or 12 out of 40 with Bjorn Wolves. The first round didn't see as many draws as we had anticipated, and the number of Massacres in round 2 were surprising as well.

Our player breakdown was:
IG: 6
SW: 5
BA: 5
Orks: 5
GK: 2
CSM: 3
SM: 1
Tau: 1
Tyranids: 1
CD: 1
DE: 2
Eldar: 3
Necrons: 0
Witch Hunters: 0

Centurian99 wrote:Won Michigan yesterday with Chaos Daemons.

1st (Me)
2nd & 3rd (Grey Knights - can't remember names)

26 total players.

What did you pay them all off Bill?

Not sure if the MA results are up here yet, but here they are:

The northeast semi's were in Plainville MA at Battleground Games. As always, battlegrounds ran an awesome event.

Results were:

1st: Ben Mohlie, Space Marines
2nd: Jeff Hobin, Imperial Guard (unconventional mechanized)
3rd: Alex Fennel, Imperial Guard (all infantry)

There were at least 30 people at our location, maybe 40, not sure. There were a ton of great players. Simon Leen, Wyatt Traina, Alex Fennel, Jeff Hobin and more. I played Simon second round, and got a minor victory, great game and a ton of fun. Then last round Jeff and Alex tied, and I got a massacre, meaning I jumped past them into first. (I got max points round 1&3)

I thought the missions were generally better this year, except for the fact that different tables could get different victory conditions on the last mission. The way it turned out the top tables all rolled table quarters, so it actually ended up being even, but still bad design I think.

Not sure what I'm going to pick for my army, I'm going to see how long GW will let me delay the choice. (necrons!)

-Ben

Western PA. Pittsburg, held at Legion Games.

1st - Battlewagon Orks, lots of trucks and boyz
2nd - Thunderwolves
3rd - Foot slogging Space Marine.
4th - BLood Angels (Mech-Fear) {me}

It was a very strong field, not as many players as other places but everyone was extremely good. I think by the end of round two there had only been about 3-4 Massacres. So entering the final round, it was just about anyones game.

Final round, saw a lot of massacres. And really shook up the top 6 order. I finished in 4th, lost out by one point as the foot Marines tabled and scored a 24 pt Massacre vs a Battlewagon Ork list, just beating me out with my 22 pt Massacre vs Draigowing... :( but, the winner, said he was unable to go to Finals, so I get to go!

I would like to thank Kirasu for a Great Tournament. Of course no 40K Tournament is without Drama, but it was well run, and fairly judged.

Also want to congratulate all the winners at Legions, and elsewhere.. see you all (well 1/3) of you at Nationals!

I took 1st place in Oregon with my guard.

4 times playing in Semis.. two 1st place finishes and one 3rd place finish and a 4th.. All with different armies. woot!

Came in 6/7th didn't report my last rounds Victory points ... I had a Massacre,Major Loss,Major Win. Fair amount of bonus points throughout the day though

Fredericksburg,VA
1st DoA BloodAngels with 3x Auto/Las preds Dante + Sang
2 GK
3 GK

not 100% on second and third, however I had the mispleasure of playing the DoA BA guy in mission 2 with my MSU SW's

The Compleat Strategist, NYC
Only 10 participants and rounds were cut to only 2 hours each, which drastically affected outcomes... (my first and third game opponents would have massacred me if we had more time)

1st: Eldar
Mechanized, but didn't get a good look at it.

2nd: Space Marines
All infantry. 5 Tactical squads, Librarian, Shrike, 30 Terminators.

3rd: Imperial Guard (me)
Mechanized, 5 Vendettas, 3 Manticores, 8 Chimeras.

Spacecurves wrote:Not sure if the MA results are up here yet, but here they are:

The northeast semi's were in Plainville MA at Battleground Games.

I think there were more than a couple North East semi's. I played at the Semi held in Standish, Maine at Crossroads. Unfortunatly I didn't think to write down all the winners. But I think it went like this, hopefully somebody can correct me.

1st, Vulcan list maybe, nice guy who came down from Quebec
2nd, Me with GK
3rd, GK as well I think.... Hell I don't remember

There were 22 people at the even though.

I just noticed but the Da boyz tournament is the same time as the Ard Boyz Finals :(

Also the sad part is no one has an idea where the finals are anyways.

Landrain wrote:Western PA. Pittsburg, held at Legion Games.

1st - Battlewagon Orks, lots of trucks and boyz
2nd - Thunderwolves
3rd - Foot slogging Space Marine.
4th - BLood Angels (Mech-Fear) {me}

It was a very strong field, not as many players as other places but everyone was extremely good. I think by the end of round two there had only been about 3-4 Massacres. So entering the final round, it was just about anyones game.

Final round, saw a lot of massacres. And really shook up the top 6 order. I finished in 4th, lost out by one point as the foot Marines tabled and scored a 24 pt Massacre vs a Battlewagon Ork list, just beating me out with my 22 pt Massacre vs Draigowing... :( but, the winner, said he was unable to go to Finals, so I get to go!

I would like to thank Kirasu for a Great Tournament. Of course no 40K Tournament is without Drama, but it was well run, and fairly judged.

Also want to congratulate all the winners at Legions, and elsewhere.. see you all (well 1/3) of you at Nationals!

Thanks! and yeah there was some drama but thats to expected with a lot on the line.

Congrats to Polonius this year!

Grand Adventuers Murfreesboro, TN location:

1st Dark Eldar (me)
2nd orks
3rd vanilla marines

I played mech BA, Shrike+27 assault termies, and draigo wing + psyfilmen dreads. Got 71 points

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:Came in 6/7th didn't report my last rounds Victory points ... I had a Massacre,Major Loss,Major Win. Fair amount of bonus points throughout the day though

Fredericksburg,VA
1st DoA BloodAngels with 3x Auto/Las preds Dante + Sang
2 GK
3 GK

not 100% on second and third, however I had the mispleasure of playing the DoA BA guy in mission 2 with my MSU SW's

I was the second place with GK, bit of an error but mostly right, it should be:

1st - BA
2nd - GK (Me)
3rd - IG

Hard fought games, I made a couple key mistakes throughout the day that seemed small, but looking back and reflecting cost me the overall win. Mistakes rooted in not knowing my own rules well enough, and making a few key misplays that cost 1bp here, 2 bp there, and it added up. Lessons learned!

Cookie cutter GK won Orlando's.

That being said, the guy is known to be a pretty good tournament player regardless of faction.

The Houston area kid also cheated
He played that a vehicle moving flat out that gets destroyed allows his men to come out freely

FAQ which I showed to him states there all dead. But he ignored me.

CageUF wrote:Cookie cutter GK won Orlando's.

That being said, the guy is known to be a pretty good tournament player regardless of faction.

What the heck is Cookie Cutter GK? There's 1000 effective lists coming out of that book!

My coteaz henchman/psyfleman spam pwned my first space wolf opponent.

My second round I fought another local space wolf who after a bloody bloody fight with vehicles exploding and bodies dropping all over the place on both sides managed a win by having two infantry models on the objective at the end of the game. All other troop choices along with their transports from both sides were dead....between the two of us that was probably around 40 mounted grey hunters in 4 squads on his side and 2 mounted grey knight along with 4 henchman units in chimeras. Piles of dead bodies and wrecked vehicles surrounding the objective.

...guess they all wanted that beer.

I dropped out of the tourney for the last game to equalise another player who wanted to drop. I didnt sleep the night before (I work nights right now) so I welcomed a chance to go home and eat some defeat pizza, get some comfort from the gf (over my loss) and get some shuteye!

Better luck next year....I should've gone with my gut and went with my DE instead. I was too worried about the second mission though. Second guessing FTL.

Gnome Games in the shadows of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI

1. Hans Krueger Bloods Angels Mephiston mech
2. Lee Zagrzebski Draigo-wing with x3 Baby Carriages
3. Justin Wierzba Imperial Guard

10. me with Deathwing 46 termies and 2 typhoons. I was in 2nd after rd 1 and 2. I faced the eventual winner rd 3,
I saw what happens when termies roll 1's for saves. Very disappointing to get majored 21-4 in terrain feature (He had 2 I had 0) game.

We had 28 players and a wide variety of lists...

5 Blood Angels
2 Grey Knights
2 IG
3 Tyranids
1 Space Wolves
5 Orks
1 Dark Angels (me)
2 Eldar
2 Tau
2 Chaos Spaces Marines
1 Dark Eldar
1 Witch Hunters
1 Black Templars

(Corrected Plainville, MA results - you were close, Ben )

1st - Ben Mohlie w/marines
2nd - Alex Fennell w/foot guard
3rd - Jeff Hobin w/mech guard

Battleground is a very good store, and one I'll go back to the next time they run an event.

None of the top 3 finishers had any interest in going to the finals so our invites got passed down to 4th through 6th.

@Aldarionn
Thanks!

@Huckleberry
Yup, I saw a bunch of guys from the BAO there. Your bud was kicking ass with that Leman Russ list. He beat a very good Space Wolf Player to secure second.

I was told we had 45 players at our location, so it was a pretty thick field.

Janthkin took 4th with bugs.

@Bill
Well done on showing people that Daemons CAN beat Grey Knights when played right. Just have to hope it isn't warp quake spam and they aren't going first. Otherwise, Daemons can still get it done.

@Thread
Subpar armies exist in the mind. A good player can make it work with any army. It just comes down to skill, luck, and knowledge of the game. Some match-ups are worse than others, but it is rare that a situation is unwinable.

I just love seeing the internet truisms proven wrong, time and time again.

The player is what matters.

But anyway, congratz to everyone again. Looking forward to finals.

@Blackmoor
I hope to get a shot at that wacky GK list you've been playing....just not in a KP game! Haha.

Surprisingly low count of IG players in all these events. Looks like Marine armies and a couple of dark eldar and eldar will be the bulk of armies advancing.

shank911 wrote:The Houston area kid also cheated
He played that a vehicle moving flat out that gets destroyed allows his men to come out freely

FAQ which I showed to him states there all dead. But he ignored me.

Not true. The passengers only die if it immobilizes itself on terrain while moving flat out. Is this what happened or did it get shot on the other players turn?

Actually theeverlasting, I didn't want to go either so it made it's way all the way down to 7th XD

Game Room
Toledo, Ohio

My self and 2 others had a three way tie for first. The organizer broke it down my who got the most battle points in each mission until we did not have the same.
1st; My buddy Jason with Grey Knights
2nd, not sure on the name but Grey Knights
3rd, Tim(me) with Witch Hunters.

Atlant's top three were:

1. Orks
2. Space Wolves.
3. Nids

Reecius wrote:


@darkwynn
Haha, I seem to remember you and I talking black tempkars and me saying they were now top tier and you saying they weren't ;-)
Glad to see you do well!


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Reecius they are still now a top tier army though Till I have Str 7 rending Psycannons and better troops then we can call them tier 1