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Next weekend I will be attending a 6 game tournament with my Grey Knights army.
The first day will be 3 games at 1750 points and the second day will be a further 3 games but at 2000 points.
This will be my first tournament and I'll be using an army list I've developed since the codex came out and although it bucks the trend with standard competitive grey knights armies, it has performed well against other competitive lists I have come across.
I will try and take pictures but, having never tried to log a battle before, I am not sure how many I will end up with.


The lists!

1750 list.

HQ

Lord Kaldor Draigo

Inquisitor Lord Cotaez

Troops

5 x Paladins
2 x psycannons
3x master crafted halberds
1 x master crafted nemesis daemon hammer
1 x mastercrafted psycannon
1 x master crafted nemesis warding stave

Inquisitorial henchman warband
Servitor with multi-melta
Servitor with plasma cannon
Servitor with plasma cannon
2 x warrior acolytes
chimera

Strike Squad
razorback with twin linked lascannon

Elites

Purifier Squad
2 x psycannon
3 x halberds
Rhino

Heavy Support

Dreadnought
twin linked autocannon
twin linked autocannon
psybolt ammo

Dreadnought
twin linked autocannon
twin linked autocannon
psybolt ammo

Landraider redeemer
multi-melta


2000 list

HQ

Lord Kaldor Draigo
Inquisitor Lord Cotaez

Troops

5 x Paladins
2 x psycannons
3x master crafted halberds
1 x master crafted hammer
1 x mastercrafted psycannon
1 x master crafted nemesis warding stave

Strike Squad
psybolt ammunition
razorback with twin-linked lascannon

Inquisitorial henchman warband
Servitor with multi-melta
Servitor with plasma cannon
Servitor with plasma cannon
Warrior acolyte with plasma gun
warrior acolyte with melta-gun
chimera

Elites

Purifier Squad
one extra purifier with falchions
2 x psycannon
3 x halberds
Rhino

Purifier Squad
2 x psycannon
3 x halberds
Rhino

Heavy Support

Dreadnought
twin linked autocannon
twin linked autocannon
psybolt ammo

Dreadnought
twin linked autocannon
twin linked autocannon
psybolt ammo

Landraider redeemer
multi-melta




My gameplan tends to revolve around a driving gunline and staying in my tanks as long as possible. With fortitude it will be hard for my opponents to suppress my fire and I have, from my experience, enough firepower to put the hurt on other mech armies. If i have any major problems it will involve armour 14 and the 1750 list. I have not developed a list designed to be efficient at 1750 and the one I am using is a toned down version of my 2000 point list, simply because I only found out about the tournament the day the lists needed to be submitted.
The idea behind the list was to show that paladins can be competitive and I hope that i can show this.

Any tactics you think I should try and use for the tournament would be appreciated!

Keep an eye out and I will post the reports as soon as I can!

Bede.

Hey i was wondering by Games of War do you mean the shop in seaham ? its just i live in sunderland and my m8s and are into 40k but we just cant find the place :/ sorry for not offering some helpful advice but i ve only just started playing my own Grey Knights so any advice of mine wouldnt be too reliable

Don't forget you can't fire out of a razorback.

Don't be afraid of the assault. You have power weapons, and such against most armies with no saves they'll become butter. But you're right to run around shooting while you can, but you only get 5-7 rounds of shooting that may or may not go through armour, and you get 10-14 rounds of CC that goes through armour.

Forlorne, yes I do mean the games of war in seaham and it is on station road. If you search, 'games of war, seaham' on google maps you will find it

invisiblade, I am not scared of combat with the paladins or purifiers but strike squads are not much better than tactical marines when it comes to combat.If push comes to shove then I can charge with them but i will be trying to maximise shooting first :p

Im at the tourney as well im the chaos marine player who usually gets his daemonic face shoved into the ground by other competitors.

for me it isn't about winning its about the fluff

Well, I went 2 - 0 - 1 on the first day. My loss was to the imperial guard players who always win the tournaments there, so I'm not too worried about it
How did you do?
I would write the reports now but I'm so tired :(

I know how you feel we have i fought him 1st round and the game felt like him patrolling me instead of an invasion

Needless to say i was literally wiped off the bored.

First Battle.

Sorry, I took photos on my phone and it doesn't feel like working today...

Grey Knights versus Blood Angels 1750 points

My opponents list

Librarian with lance and the strength ten power
Chaplain
10 death company with five power weapons
Death company dread
3 x 10 assault marines with melta gun and power fist
3 x sanguinary priests with random equipment.
Stormraven with multimelta, assault cannon(?) and hurricane bolters.

Deployment
Purifiers deploy in the middle with a psyfleman and the raider, whilst the henchmen, strike squad and the other dread position themselves to the left. He castles up on the right hand side of the board trying to keep me out of range.

Turn one

GK

Everything moves up with lasback and psyflemen opening up on the stormraven which results in a stunned. Stormraven has moved flat out in the scout phase

BA

Everything Moves forward. Raven tries to melta the purifiers’ rhino but only stuns it.

Turn two.

GK

I weigh up whether I could get into assault with the paladins if I move 12 but I don’t want to get counter charged by two assault marine squads and some death company.
I move back and fire on the stormraven again only stunning it. Psycannon fire kills a couple of marines.

BA

Moves forward into melta range. This was the pivotal turn because he failed to damage me at all and he was in range of all of my firepower. He targets the purifiers’ rhino again with two squads and the stormraven but only shakes it. The librarian attempts to lance the raider but thanks to reinforced aegis he fails his power.

Turn three

GK

This is the turn I won the game, I shifted slightly with the dreads but the purifiers’ rhino stays stationary to unload 8 psycannon shots at something. The landraider positions itself for a flame attack on an assault squad and the paladins disembarked ready for a charge. The first dread stuns the stormraven but the second scores a wrecked result. 10 Death Company, a chaplain and a death company dread hit the ground. Then the purifiers unload 8 psycannon shots on the dread and score an explosion which takes one death company marine with it. The paladins with draigo charge an assault marine squad with a priest and with one hammerhand going through the librarians hood, wipe the squad before they can hit back. So in one turn, a raven, a dread and 12 mechs including a full assault marine squad and a sanguinary priest fall.

BA

Not much happens in the movement phase or the shooting phase except lining up charges.
The Librarians squad charges draigo and the paladins making sure the librarian is not in base to base with draigo whilst the death company are forced to charge the purifiers rhino.
Two hammerhands go off in the paladin combat and after initiative 6, 5 and 4 only the librarian remains whilst the paladins do not suffer a wound. The librarian did cast a spell making him strength 10 but fluffed his attacks rolling two threes and a one. Initiative one came and the strength 10 hammer hit the librarian in the face inflicting instant death. The death company did blow up the rhino however but my purifiers came out inscathed.
At the end of this turn, the score was 6 – 1 on kill points.

Turn four

GK

I don’t move a lot, just taking up position for best shots.
Shooting sees a few marines from the last squad die whilst 5 of the remaining 9 death company die. The purifiers choose to fire assault psycannons so they can charge the death company. Hammerhand goes off and after my attacks there are no death company left but a purifier dies and I elect to remove a psycannon.

BA

The last assault marine squad multi-charge into the purifiers and a dreadnought. The purifiers score 3 wounds on the chaplain killing him but the purifiers lose combat thanks to 3 penetrating hits on the dreadnought and two wounds on the squad. Due to fearless saves the purifiers are wiped out.
At the end of this turn, it is 8 – 3 on kill points.

Turn 5

GK

With only an assault marine squad and a priest left, my army lined up and proceeded to shoot them to bits and an assault by the paladins finished them off before they could strike back.

Post match review.

Victory to the Grey Knights!

10 – 3 on victory points

What a way to start my first tournament! I think everything went as well as it could have and my plan of using my superior firepower to try and cripple my opponent before he got close worked fairly well. I have to say that fnp marines are horrible to deal with! Only the psyflemen, rending psycannons and the plasma cannons caused any sort of significant damage to his squads. What really hurt my opponent were the halberds spread liberally throughout my army. He was losing his combat effectiveness before he could inflict losses on me and I attribute that to the positioning of my army in not allowing him to target my weaker units. He was unlucky with some of his melta shots but even if the rhino has wrecked earlier then my whole army was in a position to target him so I could have stayed at arm’s length and shot him to pieces as he had no long range guns left.
Stay tuned for the next instalment.

Nice battle i will also do my own report soon however was this the same guy who had a death company dread and a large death company squad with chaplain in his storm raven.

Fought him and his deat company was very deadly to my thousand sons and his assault marine arn't that hard to beat (yes he has a shed load of attacks but you do get your saves which helped me a lot).

Just advice here but use your terminators in assault against the assault marines they will own them.

Hope you read this before you got there its day 2 of the tourney now isn't it?

Hope day 2 goes well for you.

right, in all fairness, how often do you go to Games of War? xD

I don't often only went for this tournament. I normally game at gamesworkshop newcastle. I have really enjoyed this weekend and will be going back for the next one

I will write the rest of the battle reports soon.

Hopefully i'll get to play you next tourney

Hopefully I didn't get to play wolves this time! I wanted to play them as well. My list will be different next time though, no coteaz or henchmen and more grey knights. The henchmen die too easily once they're out of the chimera.

I played Henry and honestly, his did nothing

His Vindicatre Assassin did okay

But, why not a dreadnight?

Against my nids you would all be slapped senseless and if any of you want a game either at seaham or games workshop feel free to pm me and we will get one sorted

Wittman - great tourni at the weekend - thanks for organizing it had a blast. As you know I'm going down to Throne of Skulls not next weekend but the next - taking Tau after my success with them this weekend, but need some practice before I go down - would you be up for some games at 1500pts on friday the 15th? I'm on holiday that week so could play at any time, but would have to get down to nottingham that night so might have to leave earlyish.

Anybody else fancy a game on the Friday?

Bede - really enjoyed our game yesterday - one of the best games of 40k I've played - more like chess towards the end than 40k. Looking forward to your report, and I'll chime in my 2 pence worth.

David

I aggree, it was a great tournament!
I really enjoyed our game too David, it was a fantastic game and was very close! We should definitely have a rematch at some point. I would come down on the 15th but I'm in Rhodes from the 13th. Whenever you are down again just let me know.
Wittman, I would be happy to play you at some point too! We can arrange a game at some point.

The rest of the reports will be written soon hopefully!

You guys are welcome
Dave 15th will be good what time you thinking of getting down ? Can bring both nids and necrons to test your gunline