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Our team:

Al - Wolves (me)
Matt - Black Templar
Greg - Dark Angels
Brian - Space Marines
Dung - Chaos

Round #1 was against Chicago Kamikaze's (some of Greg's Peeps from Chi-town). Matchups came out pretty good. I was Champion and played a Mech-Eldar list. Guy was a good player - we danced around but his speed killed me at the end - as did a bad round of armor saves from pathfinders on my Termies (5 died to shooting - and they all had Storm Shields). He contests everything with hulls on last turn - I fail miserably to take any of them down (3 melta's - Two Cyclones, and HTH with Logan and a termy against various and sundry hulls - nothing happens). Sigh...I lose 5 to 25.

As a team we draw with them basically 70 pts to 80 pts.

Round #2 - against 4 really cool guys and the biggest A-hole I've ever met at a tourney from North Carolina. Matchups for us went perfect - with the most favorables going our way. I matched up against the other team captain running Blood Angel. We had an AWESOME game - tactically dancing around the objectives. I win KP's, he wins Seize Ground, and we draw on C&C. Rest of the team rocks - we win 120 to 30 if memory serves. We really enjoyed these guys with the exception of one of their guys who was off the wall angry at life. My opponent was STELLAR - one of those guys you meet and enjoy playing and just keep in touch with the rest of the tourney to see how they did.

Round #3 - another team from NC. Matchups are a total flip flop from last round - nothing favorable. I wound up with a Mech Kan/Dread wall - that I thought I had down ok - but failed to stop him from getting into my lines. I pull a zero. Solid guy to play - I took my beating like a man - shook his hand and wished him luck. Rest of our guys follow suit - except for Swanson who takes 25 and one other getting 5 pts (can't remember who) - we fall on our swords for 30 - 120 point loss.

Round #4 - draw some fella's from Alabama (Jeff O'neil and friends who knew a lot of our guys). Matchups go so-so. I draw a Chaos Dual Lash. We duke it out at range as he closes. It's a touch and go match - looking like a draw/loss for me going into turn 5. At bottom - I run termies to contest an object in SG, Run squad to contest his objective in C&C, Snipe a demone prince with Jaws, Logan smacks a Rhino for a KP. I'm up on all vp's - but probably can't hold them if it continues. He rolls a one and Game ends - poor guy is in shock that he went from at least 15 pts to zero. Good solid guy - fun game. Can't remember how the rest went but we scored around 90 overall I think to 60 for them.

It's been a long/hot tiring day - we go grab a few beers and chow - continue the BS'ing and grab only a few hours of sleep before Day 2.

Round #5 Sunday Morning - we draw the WC-East team - Solid team of Parker, Cauley, Poole, Delgado, and Migliano. Match ups are rough for us. I draw Brian Delgado (who I hadn't met before) and Blood Angels. Again one of the most fun games for me in recent memory. I have early hand at beginning dropping Stormravens with ML's. We have a big HTH with Termies and DC that was epic. At end I have the SG's, He has KP's and C&C. 10 to 20 loss for me but I get a few points. Overall round was bad for us - think we pulled around 30 points to 120 for them. Was our back breaker. They go on to play for first place - we fall from the rankings. My game was one of the more tactical and hard thinking games I've had in recent memory.

Round #6 - We are playing against some guys from Alabama - the same guys that BikeNinja and I played in the doubles at Supremacy in Round #1 and their friends. Match ups go pretty well for us - with me facing a rough BA list. We had a good game - he's a solid player and was cool to play. We dance and duke it out - semi-close game - but at the end I fail to damage anything (in the last three rounds I had 13 melta/Tank Hunter ML's shots on light armor - I did nothing more than stun for damage - I SUCK). My feeble attempt to achieve a draw on SG fails when I immobilize myself when moving a Rhino up to take an Opjective. I pull a zero. Rest of the guys do pretty well - I think we get around 90 points or so.

So all this brings us to 8th overall. But this was a GREAT format and a ton of fun. Hard fought games against a bunch of great players. It was hotter than hades without Air in the room - that's my only major complaint.

Oh yeah....Brian and I won the doubles tournament on Friday night. My ride on his coat tails continues!

Was a blast to hang with my buddies, talk a lot of gaming geekiness and general BS, and not worry about a lot. Wish I hadn't let my team down battle wise as much as I did. Already looking forward to this next year. Our team will be back next year hopefully and will improve.

This was quite honestly one of the best tournaments I've been to (and I've been to around 20'sh GT level events at least) and the team tourney format is a blast. There is so much strategy in the captains pairings that until you do one - they don't all jump out at you. It's not just the army component - but quessing who is the Champion, working to get the right table for your guys, etc. A lot of fun!

Yeah the champion thing was a next level strategic maneuver, I glazed over that prior to the event, and then when we started with pairings it hit me how much of a monkey wrench that threw into the mix!

Hey Aldonis, Tommy here, your 6th round opponent. That was probably one of the best games I had that weekend - not because I was winning or because the dice weren't rolling your way - but because of the level of gamesmanship that you and your guys have. I always enjoy playing against you all, win or lose.

Grats on the Team tourney win, btw!

The teams from NC: do you know if any are the group from Hobby Chest? I use to play there before I moved

I"m not sure - one team seemed to be from Raleigh area - not sure on the other one.

3 sustains 3 improves?

I also believe it should start like, On May 24th 12pm Alpha company Bear Batalion participated in a warhammer 40k tournament with the intention to destroy all opposition!

KAMIKAZES!!!

puma713 wrote:Hey Aldonis, Tommy here, your 6th round opponent. That was probably one of the best games I had that weekend - not because I was winning or because the dice weren't rolling your way - but because of the level of gamesmanship that you and your guys have. I always enjoy playing against you all, win or lose.

Grats on the Team tourney win, btw!

Thanks Tommy - really enjoyed our games. I was really blessed with 6 great opponents in this tourney - for some reason my three games against Blood Angels were the tightest and most strategic battles - which I really enjoy (win or lose) as I usually gain something from them. You guys have a tough little group and are great guys to duke it out with on the table top. Next time we'll have to work in some after action brews!

(btw - sent you that email of the jpg you wanted - pm me if you didn't get it)

Al is one of those players who is great to play against Win or lose. Had the pleasure of facing off against him and would gladly play him again.

Aldonis DNA runs strong in him.

Alas my Aldonis Tiger DNA failed to bring me what I needed most:

WINNING!