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I never could vote against you JY2, you pretty much always find a way.
Go kick some butt! I'm voting you take it all the way to the top.

Widowsbane wrote:
JY against Hoeger in round 5...two great tourney players...wish I was there to see...

A rematch of sorts. This will be the 2nd time we've faced each other.

BTW, he's also my roommate here in Vegas!



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macexor wrote:
I'm sure we are all interested in seeing your opponents photos. Especially your second game's enemy Lyzz.

Don't worry. I've got pics.



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bogalubov wrote:
I was wondering how the imperial guard were in the top 2 at the moment. The answer is 9 quad launchers and a bunch of sabre platforms. Also, the old triple vendetta standby.

Figuring out the wounds from those quad launchers would be annoying. I've been using 2 and it takes a while.

That's Gareth Hunt and he is also a super good player on top of that.

I think he purposefully brought a broken army to show how broken Forgeworld could be.




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 mortetvie wrote:
GL Jim! I wish I could have made it this year. If you get a chance to swing by SoCal again lets get a few games in again .

Sure! I'd love to.

Thinking about returning to the Golden Throne?




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 Valek wrote:
good luck Jy2, wraithwing again? and lucky not facing tau or eldar...

I was hoping to....but I'm actually more happy facing players that I want to face instead. One of my goals is to face as many GT winners as I can and in just 5 games, I faced 3 of them: Lyzz, Dan and Eric Hoerger. To me the opponent is more important than the army.




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 Blackmoor wrote:
His nids were there because I do not own any 5th edition bugs I borrowed 2 mawlocs and a tervigon from JY2.

I made it to table 6 and was playing for the top 8 on game 5 but came up a bit short against a seer council.

Thanks again Jim for the use of the models.

Lol. I didn't bring my nods because my flyers weren't done.

They should be by the time Adepticon comes by.




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 mortetvie wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
His nids were there because I do not own any 5th edition bugs I borrowed 2 mawlocs and a tervigon from JY2.

I made it to table 6 and was playing for the top 8 on game 5 but came up a bit short against a seer council.

Thanks again Jim for the use of the models.

Gj Allan, what was your list? I am toying with the idea of using a lot of little bugs, stealers and warriors but its tough :(.

2x Flyrants, 1 with Hive Commander

Tervigon
30x grants, some devourers
More gants, some devourers
10x gants

2x Hive Crones

2x Mawlocs

Bastion w/Comms Relay


Going into game #4, Blackmoor was doing really well, going 3 wins and 1 draw. He drew against a vicious Mechdar army and even beat a Taudar opponent!

Man, Tau sucks. They don't make it to the Top 8 and even get beaten by Tyranids. Hahahaha.....j.k.!

Hopefully we'll see some battle reports from Blackmoor too. I wonder how many of Blackmoor's wins came as rude surprises to the other players.

Glad you had a great time jy2 !!!

 ImotekhTheStormlord wrote:

Naw wrote:

Fragile wrote:
It would help in these polls to see what your list was

HQ:
2x The Usual

Elite:
3x Spam

Troops:
5x Flying Spam

HS:
3x Spam

Something like that..

You mixed up Elite with Fast Attack and troops would be more like 4x Flying Spam, but yes.

I realized that after hitting submit, but had no time to fix it at that time. The forum doesn't really work too well on this mobile device.

Edit: So only 3 Flying Spam

Awaiting batrep especially of the last game.

Can't wait for your reports against Liz and Eric. I find necrons and demons are a worst case matchup for my bikes. And demons are for my necrons so can't wait to see your tactics used.

jy2,

Wait, why did you not choose to run your Chaos Daemons? I know that you are a seasoned Crons player, but I think that Daemons might provide a little more of a challenge under your command. Flying Circuses are really annoying IMO. (I learned first hand from you, lol)

Yes Jim, I hope to make it to the Golden Throne again this year (finances permitting) so we should get some practice games in for that .

 mortetvie wrote:
Yes Jim, I hope to make it to the Golden Throne again this year (finances permitting) so we should get some practice games in for that .

I'm going to enter in the Golden Throne GT too.

 jy2 wrote:


Man, Tau sucks. They don't make it to the Top 8 and even get beaten by Tyranids. Hahahaha.....j.k.!

Man i missed top 8 by 2 battle points! Oh well I cried myself to sleep with my best tau player plaque.

Looking forward to the bat rep jy2, you played a guy at my flgs on saturday I think

thanatos67 wrote:

 jy2 wrote:


Man, Tau sucks. They don't make it to the Top 8 and even get beaten by Tyranids. Hahahaha.....j.k.!

Man i missed top 8 by 2 battle points! Oh well I cried myself to sleep with my best tau player plaque.

Dam... I feel for ya. That really sucks. What was your list? Also, why do you think that Tau didn't do very well overall? I think that Eldar pretty much dominated...

Primary Detachment-Farsight Enclaves

HQ:
Commander Farsight(Warlord)
165

O'vesa
305

Elites:
Riptide, Heavy Burst Cannon, Twin Linked Smart Missile System, Target Lock, Velocity Tracker, 2 Shielded Missile Drones, Talisman of Arthas Moloch
280

Riptide, Ion Accelerator, Twin Linked Smart Missile System, Early Warning Override
190

Riptide, Ion Accelerator, Twin Linked Smart Missile System, Early Warning Override, Target Lock
195

Troops:
3 Crisis suits, bonding Knifex3
69

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

Heavy Support:
Skyray, Twin Linked Smart Missile System, Blacksun Filter
116

Skyray, Twin Linked Smart Missile System, Blacksun Filter
116





Allied Detachment-Tau Empire

HQ:
Commander, Iridium Armor, Command and Control Node, Multispectrum Sensor Suite, Puretide Engram Neurochip, Onager Gauntlet, Vectored Retrothrusters
170

Troops:
10 Kroot
60

Total 1750

I went 4-1 the only game i lost was game 4, lost 4-3 due to some bad deployment on my part. The list i played against (eldar/tau) forced me to castle into a table corner to prevent easy first blood, and i chose the wrong corner to castle into.

Cool, thanks for the list. How were you running the list? O'Vesa Star style or what? What do you think about the competition for Tau at LVO? Sadly I wasn't able to go, so I don't really have an idea on what was difficult etc., I can only look up stats and stuff.

 Commander_Farsight wrote:
Cool, thanks for the list. How were you running the list? O'Vesa Star style or what? What do you think about the competition for Tau at LVO? Sadly I wasn't able to go, so I don't really have an idea on what was difficult etc., I can only look up stats and stuff.

I don't think tau had an easy time. A lot of the good players have started to meta hard to beat them. Eldar and dark eldar buddies are top of the heap right now because of their speed and extreme durability. I was running my army as the o'vesa star as usual. I think I could have had similar success with my tau/marine list (gravstar) but went with what I had more experience playing. Its a shame you couldn't make it, it was a fantastic event.

Is it just me, or does it seem that the West coast has all the fun? I can't even think of one in central or even the east coast. I'd love to see you all and have some fun games.

The NOVA open is probably one of the few I can think of on the East Coast.

Theres actually a ton of large east coast events. NOVA, Da Boyz, and 11th company are the largest IIRC. I think beakycon is also fairly large down in florida. Then there's 64ish person events that are usually qualifiers for the NOVA invitational like battle for salvation, the new Delawarr gt etc.

Templecon was the same weekend as LVO.

The midwest had a good amount as well such as, adepitcon, indy open, nova open, renegade open(north GT but easily in range), Midwest massacre GT... to name a few. I think the west coast actually has the fewest grand tournaments tbh.

 Tomb King wrote:
The midwest had a good amount as well such as, adepitcon, indy open, nova open, renegade open(north GT but easily in range), Midwest massacre GT... to name a few. I think the west coast actually has the fewest grand tournaments tbh.

That is correct.

Also the distances are greater out in the West so what few they have are harder to get to. I think that is why the East Coast players did better than the West Coast players is their tournament experience.

Wait...an Indy Open...*google fu activated* Holy crap, 4 GTs just in my backyard.

 Dozer Blades wrote:
Templecon was the same weekend as LVO.

Where was templecon?

Philly.

 Dozer Blades wrote:
Philly.

Warwick rhode island ;p

50 players showed up for templecon. Including nanavati, nayden, brad nochols, and a bunch of other GT regulars. That's where I was it was a lot of fun because it's in a steampunk convention with scantily clad girls and booze. It was the first time I've drank in 2 years lol.

Thanks for the correction. : )

Army pics uploaded on p. 1.


Enjoy!

The White Scars look beyond awesome. And the Bikes/Tau army looks great, those Red and Yellow bikes are crazy.

Then the bikes with lights in em.. you know what they all look great, thanks for sharing.

Some impressive armies there

Nice pics!! You're right that Riptide was way cool. Too bad it wasn't armed with a HBC though. The HBC/SMS loadout has always screamed Heavy Arms to me (or Gouf Custoin for all you 08th MS Team fans).

I'd kill to see an IA/FB Riptide modelled as Wing Zero. Somehow it wouldn't suck as much if Wing Zero dismantled my army compared to a regular looking Riptide doing the same.

Definitely looking forward to your battle reports. Also, just wanna be a fanboy for a sec and thank you, Reecius, and everyone else who helped develop the BAO mission types, and all the tactical advice you guys layout in your bat reps.

Both have been a huge boon to my area's gaming community (small though it is) and I appreciate it!!