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So I'd noticed that this hadn't been posted up here yet and since I'm signed up to go I figured I'd also help get some word out. Looks like it's gonna be a great time.

Here is the Website: http://theindyopen.com/blog/

Here is some of the gist of the event:

They will have a 2,000 point 64-man, 6 round win/loss Grand Tournament, with Separate prizes for the best Painted army, Best General, and Renaissance Man (best combined Paint and Generalship). There is a three color minimum for this tournament.

The format will be a Win-loss style (like NOVA Open) with prizes for the top person in each of the W/L brackets (5-1, 4-2, 3-3, 2-4, 1-5) as well as other door prizes. March 3rd we will have 4 games, followed by two games on March 4th.

Registration fees will be as follows:

$50 Early Registration (Jan. 1st through Feb. 24th)
$60 At the Door Registration (if slots are available)

Location will be:
The American Legion located at 601 S. Holt Rd, Indianapolis, In 46241 317-248-8801.

And here are the missions: http://theindyopen.com/blog/missions-2/

Hope to see you guys there!

Does this still have spots open? Cant see if its full or not...

I'm pretty sure there are still spots open. There were when I spoke with one of the guys running it this weekend.

Hulksmash wrote:I'm pretty sure there are still spots open. There were when I spoke with one of the guys running it this weekend.

pending a setback it looks like we might get that rematch

Though hopefully its not that dreaded combo of DoW and KP as primary.

There FAQ includes witch hunters but not white dwarf SoB. Will they be allowed?

Anyone from sc want to car pool up?

Anyone know if they are allowing forgeworld imperial armor apoc. 40k approved models if the player has the actual model and a rulebook?...sure hope so...Hope everyone has a safe trip there...

@Widowsbane

Nope. No FW rules are being allowed.

@TombKing

They are a valid 40k codex even if it is a WD Codex. So SoB from the White Dwarf would be valid. The FAQ is from the Nova and the WD SoB weren't allowed due to the 1-month minimum time frame.

@ Hulksmash....Thanks bro...was really hoping to use my Necron Tomb stalkers...But I will just use them as Tri-arch stalkers counts as I guess...

Sounds awesome man. I don't think a single person would have a problem with that counts-as since the Tomb Stalker is the shiz!

Thanks for posting about this, it will be a good chance to try out my ATC list.

No problem. I'm a big fan of making sure events in fly over country take off. More places for me to game each year

I've been registered for about a month now. I'm looking forward to meeting alot of the fellow dakkadakka guys and having a few good games!

This might be the only GT I can make it to this year so i plan to make it up by having fun enough for the rest of them. Does anyone know of any hotels that are near to the actual event? I dont need a luxury place I am happy with just somewhere safe to sleep.

BTW: Still trying to decide which army I want to bring. I wanna have fun but in the same sense I dont wanna drive 8 hours to get curb stomped . If only my sisters of battle were just a tad bit more complete and competitive.

Really stoked for this weekend. Any idea on the type of numbers that are gonna be there? I got me and a buddy drive in from KC tonight.

Final Undefeated 4 are:

Necrons
Necrons
GK
IG

I'm sad faced cause I'm sitting at 3-1

Awesome to see 2 Necrons undefeated! Only thing that could make that top 4 better would be a 'Nid player

Unholy_Martyr wrote:Awesome to see 2 Necrons undefeated! Only thing that could make that top 4 better would be a 'Nid player

Out of all 64 players I dont think there is a single tyranid player.

I somehow survives games 1-4. Im now in the final 4 sad though as I was really looking forward to that rematch brad.

So far what I have had to run through:
Space Wolves (mech)
Dark Eldar (Multiple small unit spam)
Imperial Guard (a painful mech build and he went first it hurt)
Imperial Guard (another mech guard but I managed to go first and had superior longe range fire power this time)

And Necrons with the Win. Norbu the Destroyer won with an all foot cron list. Congrats.

That's another for necrons. lol

Anyone got his list?

I believe this is his list somewhat,
Orikan, the Stormlord, a ctan with writhing worldscape, a unit of lyche guard, a unit of immortals, 5 wraiths decked out so he can wound allocate, two units of scarabs, 6 tomb spiders, 2 units of warriors, and some crypteks or something. I don't know the exact list but i've played it a couple of times(im his brother i got got to be a test dummy for the list). It a hard list to approach because Orikan makes the whole board difficult on turn 1 and then the ctan makes it dangerous. Add in the Stormlord and his lightning and nightfight the first couple of turns you do nothing or go reserve. No vehicles or down range shooting in the list.

Congrats to the winner!

Another for Necrons aye? They've swept the all the recent US GT's I can think of now...

Templecon, then SVDM, now Indy Open...


Maybe GK's will finally lose some of the heat for being the current ish!

I was lucky enough to go 6-0 with the following list

Orikan

Imotekh

2 x tremor crypteks
1 x Chronomotron tek
1 combat lord w/ orb

7 lychguard w/ sheilds
1 Ctan (wrything worldscape, lord of fire)

5 x warriors
5 x warriors
5 x Immortals

5 scarabs
4 scarabs
5 wraiths (coils, pistol)

3 spyders
3 spyders


Games were

Rnd 1 Mech IG
Rnd 2 Mech IG
Rnd 3 DE venoms, ravagers, large hellion pack, large beast pack
Rnd 4 Necrons (Lots of AV 13....stalkers, cmd. barges, annhilation barges, 15 wraiths)
Rnd 5 GK (2 Ravens full of assassins and crusaders, techmarines with grenade belts.....4 Auto dreads, 4 razors with chead scoring units inside)
Rnd 6 Another Mech IG


Scarabs were heroes most games, Imotekh was a super hero game 6, and Orikan nearly singlehandedly won me games 4 and 5.

That tourney was a blast, great venue, fun, competetive games, good folks, and well run.

I would recommend this tourney to anyone vaguely interested in going next year.

Congrats Norbu!

Wow. Can't believe you won with Tremorcrons. I've been playing with them recently and found that they struggle more than my wraithwing against the better armies. Of course I don't really run either Immo or Orikan, but I am still experimenting with them.

Well done on the wins with a necron build that really isn't their best.

Yea my guard finally fell in game 6 finally to Immotep and that damn lightning. Going over the game I really cant see anything I could of done differently beside just reserving my entire army so lightning would not strike them. Though that would allow you to close the distance faster. It was really a lose lose and I need to get me a new scatter dice.

I believe the top 5 generals were. Note I believe the most represented army was IG.

Necrons 6-0
GK 5-1
Gk 5-1
IG 5-1
GK 5-1

In no particular order but hulk was the top 5-1 combined score. I believe I finished tied for 2nd best general and 5th overall.

jy2 wrote:Congrats Norbu!

Wow. Can't believe you won with Tremorcrons. I've been playing with them recently and found that they struggle more than my wraithwing against the better armies. Of course I don't really run either Immo or Orikan, but I am still experimenting with them.

Well done on the wins with a necron build that really isn't their best.

With all do respect your tremorcrons build has had an inherent flaw which Hans has corrected. IMO combing av13 assault with the movement denial of tremorcrons tugs the army in two different directions. This list synergizes better with denying the enemy a movement phase.

I can't wait to read the batreps. I have been saying all along Tremorcronz are strong in a mech rich environment. Norbu made the complete commitment to this style of play featuring Orikan and the Stormlord - it paid off.

So, any word on the final awards/standings?

I take it Norbu is Best General with his 6-0 record


Then does anyone know Best Overall/the 2/3rd place spots for each?

Best Overall went to a GK player. I'm not sure if he was 5-1 or not. No sure about the rest of the standings as I had a long drive and didn't take the time to study the sheet. Once the results are up I'll do my write up for the event over on my blog.

Hulksmash wrote:Best Overall went to a GK player. I'm not sure if he was 5-1 or not. No sure about the rest of the standings as I had a long drive and didn't take the time to study the sheet. Once the results are up I'll do my write up for the event over on my blog.

My buddy played the best renaissance man on day 1 when he was 1 and 2. So I believe the renaissance man was in fact 4 and 2 as well. The funny thing is my buddy would of beat him but he messed up counting the kill points as he won 9 to 7 and my buddy completely forgot the win by three on kill points but he didn't wanna say anything after the fact the next day.