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This past Saturday I took my daemons to a 1500 point gt offering up 2 las vegas tickets in Media Pennsylvania as Showcase Comics. This was a nice switch from my usual tyranids, and though my daemons performed well in play testing I've found some pretty major flaws at this tournament in the army as a whole. Mainly AV 14.

Anywho the list I brought was

HQ
Fateweaver 333

Bloodthirster- unholy might 270

Elites
4 crushers- stuff 200

4 crushers- stuff 200

Troops
5 horrors- bolt changeling 100

5 horrors- bolt 95

5 horrors- bolt 95

5 plaugebearers 75

8 bloodletters 128

The field was pretty small having opnly 24 people, and the purpose of my attendance in the tournament was to ge the tickets for vegas, however the level of skill in this tournament was quite unexpected unfortunately.

Round 1
Space puppies
Mission- 5 objectives and terrain features were either or fire counting as dangerous or smokey prooviding +1 cover, this never came into play though.
Deployment- Spearhead

His list was from memory
Wolf lord of killyness riding thunder puppy

2 10 man grey hunter squads kitted out in rhiinos

1 6 man grey hunter squad in las plas razorback

5 thunder puppys- all different, as least 1 hammer and 3 shields

vindicater

He won the roll for first and took it (mistake 1) deploying his whole army in his coener with the puppies waiting to countercharge. The objectives were pretty odd 3 of them being near the center 1 far in my deployment zone and 1 deep in his.

His turn 1
litterally nothing (shouldve popped smoke)

My turn 1
I ask for fateweaver bloodthirster 1 squad of crushers and 2 squads of horrors and the dice gods smile upon my decision and i get it. Crushers come in dead center. Fateweaver right behind and scatters a bit to the side. Bloodthirster even further to the side next to fateweaver and the horrors in back. I spend my turn doing nothign really but a random bolt at a rhino immobilizes it.

His turn 2
He repositions a little. He does disembark his 10 brey hunters from the immobilized rhino and keeps them bunched up and moves them up ready to charge into the crusher combat on his nexzt turn. Insignifigant shooting but he puts a wound on the bloodthirster. His puppies charge my crushers and wound 3 of them. I put 1 wound on his unit and lose another due to fearless saves despite fateweaver. (Guess puppies beat crushers?) At this point I knew whoever won this combat would win, so I decided to thrw everything into it.

My Turn 2
The other crushers and 1 squad of horrors come in. The crushers drop right next to my other crushers using their icon and horrors go for another objective. Fatweaver flies up and uses breath of chaos at the bunched up grey hunter squad killing like 7. He also fails to turn the wolf lord into a spawn and uses his bolt to immobilize another rhino. He then charges in and kills 1 more. The bloodthirster charges into the puppycrusher combat (note the crushers and thirster are both fate weavered) and tips the scales in my favor.

His Turn 3
His other grey hunter squad gets out of their rhino and charged into the squad of crushers that just deep struck in, needless to say they bouncd right off. But they kiilled 1 crusher and wounded abother. He rolls awfully for his thunder puppies saves and is left with 1 puppy with 1 wound and an untouched wolf lord, while I was sitting pretty with 3 wounded crushers and a bloodthirster wiht 3 wounds left.

My Turn 3
I move my crushers into a position so that they have lots of options on what to charge. Then his list hope gets booned awayu as fateweaver turns his wolf ord into a spawn! I then kill his last thunder puppy. Fateweaver also finishes the squad of grey hunters.

His Turn 4
He's left with grey hunters and a razorback and he concedes.

I'm in a 4 way tie for 1st with a full point masacre. And I hed off to table one.

Next round alex Fennel's orks.

Well played, Nice Batrep!

god damn nick, where do you find players like this? I wish my opponents would do things like choose to take first turn, then charge into the middle of a CC specialist army.

Methinks the SW player is a tad inexperienced against Daemons. That, and he thinks too highly of his thunderpuppies.

Roumd 2
Opponent- Orks
Mission- victory points. But it was basically just like the mission in the ard boyz finals, where 2 units started in close combat before the game started in the center of the table. With daemons I had to pick my waves, see which one I got and pick a unit from their to start in combat.
Deployment-Dawn of War

Also my game was against Alex Fennel, who's a really great player and is representting the UK in the ETC which made this even harder.

His list
HQ
Gazghakul

Kustom force field mek

Elites
8 burnas

Troops
4 Meganobz
Battlewagon

15 boyz- nob klaw

15 boyz- nob klaw

10 grots

Heavy
Battlewagon

Battlewagon

Battlewagon

Battle wagons had deff rollas and stuff

So he won the roll off and gave me first. I split my wave and rolled a 2, meaning I only get 2 squads of horrors, the bloodletters, and 1 squad blood crushers. I chose my crushers to start on the table (since they have an icon) and he chooses grots.

Pregame
Crushers kill all but one grot, but there's no combat resolution for this and he stays.

My Turn 1
I bring out the horrors and bloodletters off the icon in front of my crushers in the middle of the table and put up a screen protecting my crushers.

His Turn 1
He rolls on and throws 30 boyz at my 10 horrors and bloodletters. They fold, and kill like 11 total. His other 2 battlewagons are a tad furtherback.

My Turn 2
I get fateweaver and 1 squad oh horrors. I put the horrors way off to the side looking for a side shot at the mega nob wagon, but i only shake it. Fatweaver comes off the icon, fails to bolt anything and breathes on a few orks. My crushers charge the only squad of orks they can and they crumble.

His Turn 2
Clever tank shocks through my army sperate fateweaver and crushers. Then he calls the waagh and charges ghazghul into the un fateweavered crushers and puts 6 wound on them. And he has a 2+ invul... He charges 8 boyz and 4 mega nobz into fateweaver and the boyz cause 4 wounds total, of which I fail 3 saves then reroll and still fail 2, then fail 1 of my leadership tests. Fateweaver flies away. That is the first time that's ever happened. He also sends his burnas at my horrors and decimates them.

My Turn 3
The thirster comes in right off the last icon, behind the combat so it's impossible for any of his battle wagons to tank shock him, since they have to go in a straight line. The crushers put 2 wounds on ghazghkul despite his 2++ and then are left with only 1 with 1 wound left.

His Turn 3
He encircles the combat between Ghaz and the crushers with battlewagons (all moving more than 6) then embarks his whole army. Ghazzy finishes the crushers.

My Turn 4
Plaugebearers show up far away hoping that I don't get tabled. Crushers come in on the opposite side of my bloodthirster, I'm trying to sandwich him. The thirster can't physically get to Ghazz due to the battlewagons encircling him so he just charges a wagon and misses.

His Turn 4
He embarks Ghaz and tank shocks his army through my crushers. But they pass all their deff rolla saves.

My Turn 5
Thrister charge a battle wagon, and miss. Crushers multi charge 2 and get one of them.

His Turn 5
Tank shock more and do nothing.

So he wins by 618 victory points, and claims a minor victory, and I'm left with an 8 out of posible 24.

I'm still pretty solidly at 32 where almost everyone is at 27, so I'm still in 4th.

Off to table 2! Oh how the mighty have fallen! Playing Mannahnin's land raider spam space puppies.

I just want to pre-empt this by saying land raider/battlewagon spam is just a stupid army to play against if you play a codex that cant crak them *cough* daemons *cough* and no one should play them.

Round 3
Opponent- Space wolves
Mission- 3 objectives each placed along the center line, half way through the game we find out 1 of them determined randomly is worth 3 points.
Deployment- pitched battle

His list
rune priest

3 units of 7 grey hunters with stuff and 1 wolf guard battle leader each, 1 squad had Arjac instead

2 land raider redeemers

1 regular land raider.

He won the roll off (Didn't win it once this tournament) and had me go first. He deployed with 1 redeemer on each flank and the godhammer raider in the center leaning towards 1 redeemer. The other isolated redeemer had Arjac.

My turn 1
I want bloodthirster Fateweaver 1 squad of crushers and 2 squads of horrors and get it. I deeepstrike the thirster in the center, and fateweaver near him but he scatters 7 or so inches the other way. The crushers all deploy in the middle but scatter a full 12" back to the very edge of the table. Horrors roll hits of course and land on objectives in the middle and on the flank with Arjac. The attempt to do something to raiders and fail epically.

His turn 1
He moves back into his corner with 2 raiders. And his other one on the other side with Arjac immobilizes itself in a crater in hiis deployment zone. Phew!

My Turn 2
I think I get the crushers and a squad of plaugebearers. The plauges come in on the 3rd objective and the crushers deep strike near them for support. My thirster leaves fateweavers range and charges his regular raider and scores 2 hits (all his tanks are moving more than 6) and blows off to weapons.

His turn 2
Drive around take pot shots. Unload Arjac and his squad and make a run for the third objective.

My Turn 3
I fly fateweaver over to tangle with them and breathes on them and turns Arjac into a Spawn! then the crushers and thirster moves charges some more accomplishing nothing. Bloodletters and horrors also came in, bloodletters in the center horrors double securing the objective with the 2 land raiders near it.

His Turn 3
He moves around a bit more, and moves his wweaponless raider to the centerish.

We find out the objective with my thirster crushers plauges and horrors are is the one thats worth 3!

My Turn 4 Try to get as many bolt shots off as I can and fail at doing anything thirster and crushers also fail.

His Turn 4
He moves up with the weaponless land rider that he previously moved to the center and brings it into the opposite side of the board where my horrors are sitting on a 1 point objective. He then unloads and charges them right off of it. His raider it still contesting the objective in the center. And he moves around with the other.

My Turn 5
Everything ails at opening land raiders again.

His Turn 5
Move up his other raider to contest the 3 point objective. Sit there with his one squad that took out my horrors and moves his other raider in the center over 6 just in case.

He made a crucial error with his one land raider that still had a unit in it. He couldve disembarked them, adn took out my horrors which were the only thing sitting on my objective contesting it after the tank shock, this kept his from a masacre.

So we roll and it ended. Another minor loss and only 8 points. Putting me at 40.

Hey yermom it was good to see you again! still haven't had a chance to play against you, by far the greatest highlight you had was using the chaos spawn spell on the wolf lord lol! any way next time your around we should play.

Yeah we deffinitely have to get a game in! Tom was telling me about the awesome game you two had before.

oh yea that was by far one of the funniest and most insane games I have played. his only troop choice left would end up giving him a minor victory absolutely insane but a ton of fun I will get my revenge!! haha

It's normally crazy to bring LR-spam to a tourney nowadays, but on the chance you go up against trygon/zoan-less nids, deffrolla-less orks, any melta-less builds...or daemons...they're not too bad. I gave up on my LR-spam DH army already, though BW orks are still very competitive. Too bad about the losses.

Yeah despite my 2 losses had I gotten just 2 more battle points throughout the whole tournament i'd get invite to vegas!

please, bring your daemons to the nova open... I could use the free win

Oh Steve my daemons are just waiting to crush the blood and weave the fate of your silly marines

lol you just got lucky you got a puppykicker first round, or you'd have been 0-3 ><

Daemons hurt bike armies Honer

Just sayin......

Looking forward to the Open. Great Batreps. I had a 4 game tourney this weekend at 1,500 and used my Daemons so I can feel you pain. Damn LR's.....

Yeah this was a 4 round GT too. And see you guys at the NOVA, I know I'm looking foward to it at least.

Anywho Round 4
Opponent- More daemons!
Mission- 5 objectives
deployment- who cares its daemons vs daemons

His list
2 great unclean ones

2 units of 3 flamers

2 units of 10 horrors

1 unit of 10 plaugebearers

2 units of 10 seekers

He wins the roll for first and gives it to me HUGE MISTAKE!

My turn 1
I want fateweaver thirster crushers and 2 horrors and i get it they all come in an run then wait

His Turn 1
He wants both great unclean ones, plauges, and flamers, and he gets it. He goes ballzy with deep strikes and his flamers scatter out of flame range his plaugbearers mishap and die and the great unclean ones scatter next to my crushers.

My Turn 2
I think nothing came in or something stupid. Fateweaver went over and shot some flamers and failed at turning a great unclean one into a spawn, the horrors also shot the flamers and all of this killed 2 flamers from 1 squad and 1 from another. Then the thirster charged a dreat unclean one and put 4 wounds on it and took 2 back. The crushers also charged a great unclean one and put 1 wound on it and took 3 back.

His Turn 2
No horrors, but 1 squad of seekers show up and sctter 10 inches towards my horrors. His flamers flame some horrors! WOO! In combat the thirster fails to kill the great unclean one then rolls over and dies, the crushers also fail to wound the other great unclean one who proptlyy brings them down to jsut 1 crusher.

My Turn 3
Things are looking grim, but I get 1 squad of horrors and the bloodletters. The horrors focus on the fiends and decimate them. Then the last squad of horrors blows up his flamers and hes left with just 1. Then the unthinkable happens for him fateweaver turns the great unclean one into a spawn!!! then bolts the other one and kills it. BOOM! 2 GREAT UNCLEAN ONES!

His Turn 3
Seekers and 1 squad of horrors show up. Horrors come in and blow up some of my horrors, and the seekers chill.

My Turn 4
Crushers come in ready to go. Shooting of 1 horror squad lus fate weaver who flew over and breathed on the bunched up horrors who just deep struck sees 7 dead. Then the remaining horror squad shoots his seekers also killing 7.

His Turn 4
His other horrors come in and scatter 12 inches way back to the very edge of his table. His seekers charge my crusher and accomplish nothing but their own death.

My Turn 5
Plauges show up and my stuff moves to capture objectives, I hold all 5. And kill the already maimed horror squad with shooting.

My opponent concedes. Giving me a full 24 battle points. This put me at a 64 total.

First place already had a vegas ticket so his went to third.
Second place was the land raider spam player I played round 3.
Third place with 65 battle points was Steve McDaniel with his nids.

And with that I miss Vegas by ONE BATTLE POINT!

yes, hulk, I know... which is why i'm going with a 2 raider mech SM list instead of bikes... I'm just more comfortable with the mech list.

Have fun dealing with guard

its not like I don't have autocannons / lascannons / missiles out the ass to put down their melta chimeras

besides, a good mech guard player would trounce my bikers anyway through volume of fire... I suck at making saves.

Welcome to that club Yermom. The club of 1 BP meaning the difference for a ticket. You'll pick yours up Maybe at the Nova!

Hulk I have to say I'm really not a fan of this club. But yeah there is always Nova!

Hehe, no one ever is

You will probably be able to buy tickets so don't get worked up about winning. I have found I always do better if I go to have fun with a strong list. Once you get the hang of daemons you'll do better.

G

Nick- The Fate Crusher list is strong,only flaw is people who actually know how it works and know what to do against it...just run away for a bunch of turns and contest at the end! haha.

Cheesesteak- that was indeed a fun and great game. I really enjoyed your list. Drop puppies are cool. It inspired me to make a drop Flesh Tearers list. And, where were you when I was at the bar....was gonna by you a beer!!!

Landraiders Beware!! Manticores and Medusa's will be aiming at you all day long!! hahaha!