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How'd you do?

In the Houston area, a 15 year old won with triple storm raven-triple dread blood angels. He chose GK as his army.

Had some great games at Bud's Place, Leeds, AL. I took a dual Land Raider Mephiston list and fared fairly well, until my third round:

Round 1, scored a major victory +3 against Coteaz + Henchmen GK.

Round 2, scored a Draw +2 against a Draigo and Coteaz + Paladin and Psyback heavy GK.

Then, had a tough 3rd game. Played against Eldar - 6 Wave Serpents, 6 Dire avenger units. Then other randoms, like War Walkers, Fire Dragons, Banshees, Eldrad, etc. First turn I Sieze the Inititiave and proceed to destroy 2 Scatter Laser Warwalkers, destroyed a Fire Dragon Wave Serpent and Immobilized one Avenger wave serpent. Great start.

Then, he starts knocking out my Razorbacks with his scatter lasers. It's okay, I think, because if it becomes Table Quarters, I have two easily. If it becomes Terrain pieces, I am in the area where I can hold a few and if it is Kill Points, I already have a good lead. By turn 3, I had Mephiston in assault with his other unit of Warwalkers, had a unit of Fire Dragons broken and running and had a bunch of skimmers with 5-man Avenger units racing around. Then, turn 3 rolls up and guess what we get? Terrain pieces. Now, be aware that this board had 9 terrain pieces total - 2 blocked LOS, 2 were Area, and the other 5 were basic hills that stood next to each other.

All he had to do was park 1 Wave Serpent in the middle of 3 hills and capture 3 objectives while my footslogging troops tried to make their way over into other pieces of terrain. Then, he'd zoom over, contest both of those pieces with a single Wave Serpent. This happened to where he had all 9 pieces either contested or controlled. It did not end well.

So, my second round opponent went on to win First, my third round opponent went on to win Second and I was left with a missing Death Company model and two broken storm bolters that now need to be re-glued.





First: Mike Twitchell (Draigo GK)
Second: Rob Blackwell (Eldar)
Third: . . .? (GK again, I think)

Skirmish Games in Deer Park Texas. No last names.

1st Zack BA the 15 year old guy
2nd Jeremy GK
3 Douglas BA

San Antino , Tx was

1st: black Templars (me)
2nd: grey knights
3rd: grey knights

We had 11 massacres first round out of 26 people.

Grey knights are getting old really fast! Just to stomp on your all's grey knight and marine parade.

Omaha, NE

1st: IG (me)
2nd: GK
3rd: BA

There were like 5 or so grey knight players out of 20. A real brutal outing. I will post battle reports later.

Had to play leaf blower guard twice!!
full points round 1 against IG
minor loss with 2 bonus points round 2 against IG
Full points round 3 against CSM

So.Cal was

1st Adam Gati- eldar
2nd Dave Fey- Black Templar
3rd Kieth- Orks
4th (Me)- Orks

First time to the semis out of three years and I feel pretty good about fourth out of 40.

Springfield IL

1st. Henchmen Gk with 2 storm ravens
2nd. Mech space wolves with Njal and thunderwolves (me)
3rd. Coteaz+Draigo gk with 5 dreads

8 or 9 out of 20 players brought gk

Grimgob wrote:Had to play leaf blower guard twice!!
full points round 1 against IG
minor loss with 2 bonus points round 2 against IG
Full points round 3 against CSM

So.Cal was

1st Adam Gati- eldar
2nd Dave Fey- Black Templar
3rd Kieth- Orks
4th (Me)- Orks

First time to the semis out of three years and I feel pretty good about fourth out of 40.

How was the tie breaker decided between 1st and 2nd who both had 69 battle points?

Go Eldar!!!! They are clearly far superior to all, hehe. now I hope that GW doesn't think because I got first with them that they don't need a codex update =(. I'm so glad I didn't end up playing your orks Levi (grimgob), we always seem to face off in our tournaments. IG is tough for everyone =(.

Incase anyone is interested, my list was:

Eldrad; Maugen Ra (thank's Reece for the idea to take Maugen!); 2X5 fire dragons with exarch/crackshot/firepike in wave serpents; 8 harlequins with kisses/shadowseer; 10 Wraithguard with enhance; 3X5 Dire Avengers in 2 wave serpents (3rd went in falcon); 2X3 guardian jetbikes; 1 falcon with scatter laser/holofields and starengines; 2XWraithlords with EML/BL.

Only reason I won my first game against IG was because the falcon made it to his deployment zone with my messenger turn 1 thanks to star engines (best 15 points evar!).

Second game was against Ragnar/greyhunter spam list which was pretty balanced. A wraithguard/harlequin and double wraithlord charge broke the army in middle and I got 6 scoring units to his 0.

Third game was against a killer deathwing army that I just killed enough scoring units and rolled table quarters so his 3 scoring units to my 6 wasn't enough to prevent the massacre.

Woot! I chose Grey Knights.

mortetvie wrote:
Woot! I chose Grey Knights.

I played in minneapolis, mn at legion games
there were 42 participants, including people from ND,SD,MN,IA,WI,CANADA

i took first with Dark eldar

second and third went to grey knights

i picked guard

chewielight wrote:Skirmish Games in Deer Park Texas. No last names.

1st Zack BA the 15 year old guy
2nd Jeremy GK
3 Douglas BA

I don't know how many semis there are in Texas but I'm pretty sure that was my friend Jeremy playing my old GKs with a list based on my original paladin build. Which is pretty lulz.

Well done everyone!

@mortetvie
Maugan ra is a boss! Glad he worked for you. The firedragon exarch woth crack shot and firepike does work! I never play without him.

@darkwynn
Haha, I seem to remember you and I talking black tempkars and me saying they were now top tier and you saying they weren't ;-)
Glad to see you do well!

@levi
Tough break, brohym. You almost got it.

Norcal results:
1st: bjorn wolves (me)
2nd: leman russ ig
3rd: battlewagon orks

I had three great games, all fun and tough. Grey knights, horde orks (crazy bad match up for mission 2) and eldar.

Man, all these "subpar" armies winning when played by top players. What ever will the internet do?

Congratz everyone, see you at the finals!


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Oh, and I had 70 points if anyone cares.

It's not so much that armies are subpar as that they only have 1-2 competitive builds and require a deal of luck + a good general.

Amaya wrote:It's not so much that armies are subpar as that they only have 1-2 competitive builds and require a deal of luck + a good general.

The deal of luck part is what makes it subpar - if you can't win without above average dice rolls, chances are the army is subpar.

Tualatin Oregon. 31 players showed up, a 32nd player played for the bye matches, just to help fill in for points for those participating.

7 people brought Grey Knights
5 Space Wolves
4 or 5 Dark Eldar
3 Eldar
3 Orks
Chaos Daemons
Blood Angels
Dark Angels, etc etc etc.

1st: IG
2nd: Witch Hunters
3rd: Dark Angels

I personally got stomped on, and gave a massacre to every opponent. I finished dead last. However, I did not get the least number of victory points. Ah well, game 2 was a total blast, and that mayhem alone was worth the trip.

Nightwatch wrote:

Amaya wrote:It's not so much that armies are subpar as that they only have 1-2 competitive builds and require a deal of luck + a good general.

The deal of luck part is what makes it subpar - if you can't win without above average dice rolls, chances are the army is subpar.

I don't think there are only 1-2 builds, there are quite a large variety actually (with Eldar anyway) and while every army needs some sort of luck I guess, you should not need to rely on dice to win. So yeah =P.

I usually have way below average rolling-I hope for average and still place routinely with random Eldar armies so =).

@guy who doesn't like that I chose GK
In regards to choosing Grey Knights, I'm converting them with Thousand Son bits so that I will end up playing a thousand sons counts as GK army. I promise, it won't be a 6 psyrifle dreads list with henchmen spam!

@Reece
Unless I somehow fall into a bundle of cash, I might not make the finals but I hope to be able to play your SW again...Well they aren't really space wolves, just breaded guys with missile launchers and razorbacks =P. And yes, firepike/crackshot is a-mazing. I love getting those pen rolls at 9" on silly skimmers moving fast and going "BTW, you can't stop this because my exarch is pro and you wish you had his skills" I actually had to bust out the crack shot rules for some guy because he was so amazed by that ability.

I think it has alot to do with there only being 3 rounds. You dont really who are at the top since you end up with alot of 3-0s and only battle point modifiers dividing the winners up from 1st 2nd n 3rd place.

Congratz to Reece and Dave on a 1st and 2nd place victory, and qualifying for the finals! Nicely done!

Nightwatch wrote:

Amaya wrote:It's not so much that armies are subpar as that they only have 1-2 competitive builds and require a deal of luck + a good general.

The deal of luck part is what makes it subpar - if you can't win without above average dice rolls, chances are the army is subpar.

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It's not just dice rolls. It's will the army be able to perform how I want it to. Will my opponent be foolish enough to let me get control of the game and let me play my game? All it takes are couple of big guns firing at the wrong targets and you can turn what should be a close game on paper into a massacre.

How were the TOs handling the messenger?

a) just have to ever enter the deployment zone

b) have to be there at the end of the game

Ya took 2nd at Skirmish in Deer Park. Lost out on 1st by 1pt. Was still fun and had some really fun games.

we had it so the messenger just enter the deployment zone, if the messenger was in a drop pod it had to come in your own deployment zone. no rulings on aethersales so i just moved in 1st turn to give me the extra pts.

Took 2nd in Norfolk with Mech IG.

In Phoenix it was:
In first place John G with Space Wolves
Second was Austin from El Paso with Dark Eldar
And third was me with grey knights

So I will see you suckas in LA next month!

@Reecius So it was you who beat out my buddy for first(He was the Russ IG). I don't know if you remember but he was up there with Tau at BAO for awhile.

Richardson Texas was:

1. Coteaz mech GK (3 dreads, SR, some purifiers, termies, and henchmen + other stuff)
2. Mech BA with 2 land raiders and i'm not sure what else.
3. Mech SW (Me). RP, CC scouts, 2x2 CML WG squads, 3 speeders, 6 GH rhinos, 3x5 missile LFs, 3 HB razors, 2 Las/plas.

Got myself a nice Ogre Boxed set that I then returned at the local GW for store credit...lol.

Grats to all! Wish I coulda made it... but now I'm in Florida for work lol

Jacksonville. AR

1st Dan (Dual wing Dark Angels)
2nd Jeremy (Mech IG)
3rd Matt (Me(Mech Wolves))