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skrulnik wrote:WTF is a Leafblower?

(I'm so useful).


It's a name that's come to be associated with mech-guard lists that aim to 'blow' the opponent off the table with enormous amounts of firepower... (at least, that's what I think they mean)

This is a leaf blower.


It's supposed to "blow away" AV12 and troops very rapidly. IG mech with lots of templates or something. I'm not 100% sure on the lingo.

Edit: Ninja'd! With the same freaking google image search picture!

Alpharius wrote:Jason Roy must be wishing he studied up a bit harder...

Hey, I actually didn't even take the quiz Am I wishing I had? Eh, a little. I was intending to have fun with it and did not expect to win anything. The Hammer still comes home to Austin.

skrulnik wrote:WTF is a Leafblower?

A dude made an IG chimera/ vendetta, manticore/medusa list that blew everyone away at an Ard Boyz last year (?) and it got labeled the leafblower. Some people don't like the name.

Also could be Steel Legion, light mech etc.

I wasn't there, others can elaborate.

Yeah, Darkwynn's Alpha Strike IG army got the lable from a guy at the Ard Boyz Finals last year, so it just seems like a convenient shorthand for a Mechanized IG Alpha Strike army with tons of AV 12 shooting.

A Leafblower list trades off the AV 14 of Russes for more AV 12 firepower; typically the Heavy Choices in the list are Manticore, Medusa, and Hydra, though Colossus is coming into view as a contender.

The concept of the list is to blow up as many transports on turn 1 as possible, then kill the chewy bits inside as they slog into a hail of fire.

jwolf_bols wrote:Yeah, Darkwynn's Alpha Strike IG army got the lable from a guy at the Ard Boyz Finals last year, so it just seems like a convenient shorthand for a Mechanized IG Alpha Strike army with tons of AV 12 shooting.

A Leafblower list trades off the AV 14 of Russes for more AV 12 firepower; typically the Heavy Choices in the list are Manticore, Medusa, and Hydra, though Colossus is coming into view as a contender.

The concept of the list is to blow up as many transports on turn 1 as possible, then kill the chewy bits inside as they slog into a hail of fire.

This just in:

Leafblower is shorthand for Mech IG.


I thought shorthand was suppose to be shorter than the original label...

Not when your using english in the US Timmah. Here we have acronyms that have move syllables than the words

This just in: Timmah doesn't read English.

Mech IG, designed for Alpha Strike, lacking AV 14. I play Mech IG that is none of these.

Its not really anything to fight over lol

jwolf_bols wrote:This just in: Timmah doesn't read English.

Mech IG, designed for Alpha Strike, lacking AV 14. I play Mech IG that is none of these.

It lacks AV 14 because the AV 12 vehicles are just better. It has a lot of shooting, like all mech IG, how does that make it Alpha strike? Heck the original list didn't even have a Tarot on its inquisitor.

Alpha strike, lulz.


@GMMStudios

Everything is something to fight over. We are on the internet.

I vote GMMStudios converts/paints up a 'Leafblower' Imperial Guard army for next year's AdeptiCon...someone has to keep those 40K golf course looking tables looking trim and proper!

Haha with a legit Sears countertop for a display board. Craftsman all over everything. It is the "tool" army after all right?

I already have the list though. Built my krieg when the book came out.

It was a great time, as always. This was my fourth Adepticon, and my second year captaining a second team for the Cold Steel Mercs.

I usually play Warhammer on Friday but didn't want to bring a second army this year, so I played Gladiator instead. I had four great opponents- Ricky from Toronto with horde orks, two of the Blade & Bolter Boys (Matt Rogers, IIRC, and Jason Sperka?) in rounds 2 and 3 using Marines, and Cory from the Sons of Shatner with horde orks again in R3. I lost to the Orks due to making mistakes against the Vortex Grenade and Stasis Missile special weapons. I came in middle of the pack in 50th. All of my opponents actually had "normal" (albeit very strong) armies. Two horde Ork and two LR-heavy space marines.

I brought:
Abaddon
Lash prince
5 Terminators w/2 combi-melta, 1 combi-flamer, heavy flamer, powerfist, chain fist, icon of glory. w/Land Raider w/dirge caster
Dread with plasmacannon
10 CSM w/fist, 2 melta, icon of glory, rhino w/combi-melta
8 berserkers w/fist, personal icon, rhino w/combi-melta
5 CSM w/melta, icon of glory, rhino w/havoc
5 lesser daemons
5 lesser daemons
6 havocs w/4 ml, icon of glory
Possessed vindicator w/dirge caster
2 oblits

I was happy with the list, a little annoyed with my own mistakes.

On Saturday as I mentioned we had two teams in the team tournament. Again, I had four great games, mostly against great opponents, though there were two guys out of the eight I faced who were taking it a bit too seriously. Then again, who am I to judge on that score? We faced mechanized Orks, Vulkan-led Salamanders, mostly-mech IG, and Razorback/Thunderwolf Space Wolves. I managed to win all my games, though my team also had a couple of draws and a loss or two. The other Cold Steel Mercs team ran infantry horde IG, my half ran a Space Marine / Space Wolf crusade army. We came in 15th, and our IG half was just behind us in 16th.

My 1k was:
Rune priest w/jaws, lightning, melta bomb
3 Wolf guard- 2x fist & combi-melta, 1x PW & pistol (should have been fist as well, but my mistake)
9 GH w/melta, fist, wolf standard, in rhino
8 GH w/melta, fist, wolf standard, in rhino
5 GH w/flamer, fist, in razor (should have been PW; same points to upgrade the WG instead)
Typhoon w/HB
6 LF w/5 ML


On Sunday I was on the waiting list for the championship (stupid procrastination), and got in. The only bummer was waiting around to be called, I didn't get out around the hall and see all the amazing armies. I totally missed Age of Egos’ amazing Emperor and Custodes + White Scars at the gates during the Siege of Terra army. AoE didn’t win player’s choice, but probably mostly because the poor guy forgot to put his name by his army list. He still got 20 votes while he was sitting near it, but that didn’t manage to win. I got a high-scored Draw in R1 against a gorgeous and brutal Ultramarines biker army (another Blade & Bolter player, Brian Crew, who was excellent), a near-max win in R2 against a neat black/yellow Tyranid horde/mixed army, and a good win against Milan’s Broadside & Kroot-heavy Tau in R3, despite being on a bit of a shooting gallery table. Three really good, nice opponents. I came in 6th overall on the blue side.

My list was:
Lash prince
JP lash sorc w/personal icon
5 Terminators w/2 combi-melta, 1 combi-flamer, heavy flamer, powerfist, chain fist, icon of glory.
Dread with plasmacannon
10 CSM w/fist, 2 melta, icon of glory, rhino w/combi-melta
8 berserkers w/fist, personal icon, rhino w/combi-melta
5 CSM w/melta, icon of glory, rhino w/havoc
7 lesser daemons
6 havocs w/4 ml, icon of glory
Possessed vindicator
2 oblits

So 8W, 2L, 1D on the weekend, and 13/15 great opponents (and really, those two guys still gave a fun competitive game). Also the usual amazing stuff to see, sweet swag bag, great pizza, drinking and socializing with tons of fun gamers. Can’t wait for next year, though next time I’m definitely taking Monday off work and playing poker.

olympia wrote:The #2 overall (Jason Roy? I think) scored 0 of 11 on the quiz and that was enough to prevent him from winning overall. That's what he gets for not reading every book in the Horus Heresy!!

Aside from the aforementioned point that he missed the points for not submitting or putting his name on a quiz, the quiz was purely on the core 40k rules. Mostly lesser-known ones, but core rulebook rules. Got any more erroneous conclusions you want to leap to?