Greetings All. Today I traveled to the Crazy Tiger in Clemson,
SC, and participated in their 1750 point
40k tournament. It was a great tournament, and if you are in the area, I recommend you to stop by the next time they have one.
Today I took my Monster Mash Chaos Space Marine Army List:
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Tzeench
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Khorne
7 Khorne Berzerkers, Champion, Power fist, Rhino
7 Khorne Berzerkers, Champion, Power Fist, Rhino
7 Plague Marines, 2 melta Guns, Rhino
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Dreadnought, Missile Launcher, Close cobat Arm, Extra Armor
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat Arm
Defiler, Reaper Auto Cannon, Close Combat Arm
I have been running and tweaking this list for almost two years now, and I wan anxious to see how it would do in a new store.
Round 1:
My First opponent was a Space Wolf Player by the name of Keith. He was a nice guy and had a good list. I will put the pictures at the end.
I deploy all of my stuff in a tight bunch on the right side of the table. Keith deploys across from me, thunder wolves in the middle
Keith Turn 1:
Keith seizes the initiative. He moves up his thunder wolves and rhinos. His magical shooting phase kills 2 defilers with the long fang squad. He forgot about his pod, and so did I.
My turn 1:
2 dreads behave, one goes RAGE! I move up my rhinos and smoke one, daemon princes move up, staying behid the walkers. Defiler tries to shoot long rune preist, misses.
My rage Dreadnought fleets 5 inches and assaults his wolf lord. 4 attacks, 2 hits, 2 wounds, 1 failed save. Wolf lord dead. my 115 point dread, consolidates in front of the other wolves.
Keith turn 2:
He brings his pod in and shoots the khorne prince. He forces 2 saves, and I fail both. His rhions drive forward and his other thunder wolves. Long fangs blow up a smoked rhino. He assaults the dreadnought and kills it. I take one down with me.
My turn 2. On the right side, 7 berzerkers and 2 dreads assault the thunder wolves, on the left side, both daemon princes fly over and assault another group of thunder wolves. the dreads and berzerkers kills both, the princes kill one, and the khorne prince dies, failing ever save he was forced to take the entire game. I also move up the plague marines, and send a rhino wit berzerkers at the drop pod. Defiler shooting fails again
Keith turn 3
Keith drives 12 and hops out to melta gun my dreadnoughts. He immobilizes one. Long fangs immobilize and weapon destroy the defiler. he kills the battle cannon. He kills the plague marine rhino with melta,and rune preist kills the other dreadnought. By the drop pod, melta guns wreck the berzerker rhino. Everything he has shot so far has died. This concerns me. Daemon Prince keeps fighting the thunder wolves, does 1 wound, takes none.
My turn 3:
I move up my berzerkers toward the long fangs. Mo berzerkers by the pod move up toward the grey hunters, and my plague marines move up to assault some grey hunters. Shooting, I try and kill a rhino with a dread and defiler, but only manage to immobilize it. I assault the long fangs with berzerkers and wipe them. Plague marines assault grey hunters and tie combat, 2 dead a peice. Down by the pod, Daemon prince and thunder wolves keep fighting, no wounds anywhere. The berzerkers charge the grey hunters and kill 4 at I5. Grey hunter swing back kills
PF 
. I win combat by 2, grey hunter fails
LD check, I catch them, they pass both saves.
Keith turn 4.
Moves and meltas immobile dread. Rune preist uses JAWS and does not kill anyone. Now to close combat! Plague marines fight and lose by 2. pass fearless saves. Daemon Prince goes 1 wound to wolves. Berzerkers and grey hunters fight, tie combat.
My turn 4.
I move up berzerkers and assault rune preist. killing him. Plague marines are killed in assault. Daemon prince and thunder wolves fail to wound each other. Berzerkers and grey hunter by the pod fight it out. Now, just 2 berzerkers and 3 grey hunters left.
Keith turn 5
My berzerkers are now in keith's deployment zone, so he books it after them and shoots a few shots, killing none, but he is in persuit.
In assault,
Dp and wolves draw again...Grey hunter kill my berzerkers.
My turn 5. I continue to run away from keith's 2 grey hunter squads and stay in his deployment zone. In assault, My Daemon Prince FINALLY kills the last of the thunder wolves.
At this point, I am losing the game, and Keith has a scoring unit in my deployment zone. I need another turn to pull this off. I roll for it, and get a 4. We keep playing.
Keiths turn 6.
He continues to chase and shoot my berzerkers, he manages to kill a few.
My turn 6.
My berzerkers run further away, and my Daemon prince moves in and kills the last 2 grey hunters. Time is called, and the game ends.
I have more scoring units in his deployment zone than he has in mine, so I win primary.
However, He controls more quarters than me, so wins secondary.
No one gets tertiary.
Final score:
Me: 15
Keith: 10
Thoughts: it was a close game, but I feel like it should not have been.( no offense to keith) Statistically, his shooting was SOOOOO much better than it should have been. Losing the 2 defilers early on really hurt me. But I cannont complain, I did win. Also, I was suprised at how ineffective Berzerkers are at killing grey hunters. I learned some good lessons from this game, and hope to apply them in the future.
MVP: the MVP award has to go to my Dreadnought that RAGED first turn and punched out the wolf lord. This was extremely helpful and before this 115 point model died, it destroyed over 300 points of thunder wolves. space wolces are one of the main reasons I run dreadnoughts, and it really paid off in this game.
Pictures of the battle:
