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Don't have the official builds of the contenders, but about 34 people played in the legions tourny.

1st Dark Eldar (me) - Hybrid Wyche Cult/ Kabalite warrior
2nd Eldar - of the shooty variety.
3rd 'Nids - 3 tervies and plenty o' MC.

Edit - Kirasu already got this.

Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA.

1. Tyranids (myself)
2. Grey Knights (jy2)
3. Tau (Gus Indo)

Surprisingly light turnout; we only had 10 players, where last year we had 24 or so. Another local store ran the prelims this year, too, and I think that drew off a number of people. Didn't make my games any easier!

4 Grey Knights
2 Blood Angels
1 Space Wolves
1 Eldar
1 Tau
1 Tyranids

Santa Maria, CA
1st black templars (me)
2nd grey knights (ChristianA)
3rd blood angels (stave stiff)

Team zero comp swept it, with all three of us present going on to the next round.

I had planned on taking footdar and then my forward scouts told me to expect at least two triple manticore leaf blower lists with hellhouns support and that just didn't sound fun, so I took the boys in black.




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Well done, janthkin! Winning with bugs and going through grey knights to do it!


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And Gus going through with tau! Nice!

ABX Augusta GA:

1st:: Grey Knights
2nd: Orks
3rd: Chaos Space Marines (ME)

BKG Conifer, CO

1st: Mech Eldar
2nd: Mech Blood Angels
3rd: Hybrid Mech/Foot Eldar

Evolution Gaming, Eugene Oregon

1st : Sisters of Battle switcheroo
2nd : Foot Eldar (Me) YAY go me!
3rd : Dark Eldar

Shinkaze wrote:Nids have never shown poorly in Ard Boyz. They won a bunch of events last year in the prelims.

emmm, no.

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

1st- Drop/Stormraven BA
2nd- Space Marines (Me)
3rd- Space Wolves

Janthkin wrote:Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA.

1. Tyranids (myself)
2. Grey Knights (jy2)
3. Tau (Gus Indo)

Surprisingly light turnout; we only had 10 players, where last year we had 24 or so. Another local store ran the prelims this year, too, and I think that drew off a number of people. Didn't make my games any easier!

4 Grey Knights
2 Blood Angels
1 Space Wolves
1 Eldar
1 Tau
1 Tyranids

Too bad we didn't get to play. I was really looking forwards to a rematch with your nids.

Morgantown WV
(WOW... WV had at least 5 of these? No wonder numbers were low)

I was supposed to be the judge, but when we had an odd number of people show up I was forced to play. I ended up playing a CSM using a ton of peoples stuff.

1st Ork Vehicle/Hoard Mix
2nd Duel Lash Prince CSM (Me it was the only way I could be competitive.)
3rd Grey Knights

I gave my prize away and if someone below me wants to go to semis I will drop my spot since I was supposed to judge.

Morning Star Games -Savannah, GA

1. IG Mech
2. DE Venom Spam (me)
3. GK Henchman/Dread Spam

Had a full house of 16 Players

Emerald Knights, Burbank, Ca.

Bugs - 3 trygons & gamut of other units
Horde orks
Deathwing

Only 5 players, and the TO made the buy count as a Draw. I didn't participate, but checked in on the beginning and end of the day. Horde Orks slow played (novice player) so will probably be a stepping stone for someone next month.

Maplewood Hobby
Maplewood, NJ

1. Imperial Guard (me)
2. Salamanders
3. Grey Knights


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Shinkaze wrote:Nids have never shown poorly in Ard Boyz. They won a bunch of events last year in the prelims.

The Tyranids' unusually good performance last year in the preliminaries last year had a lot to do with the wacky KP mission that was almost an auto-win for horde armies. They didn't fare well in the semi-finals.

Game Portal Mountain Home, AR

1st Grey Knights

2d Chaos Demons

3d Chaos Demons

Dual Raven knights list, and MC heavy Demon lists.

Of course, I had the misfortune of playing both demon players as it is the type of list I have the most trouble with

mortetvie wrote:The Realm games and comics (Brea, CA)

1. Eldar (Wraithzilla army with some mech) (me)
2. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a bunch of lootas)
3. Orks (Ghaz, 4 battle wagons and a lot of trucks/wartracks)

4. Nids (2 tyrants, 3 tervigon, 2 Trygon, 3X3 Hiveguard)
5. Necrons (3X monolith, lotsa warriors and immortals)
6. SW (lotsa AC razorbacks, LR and ML spam)
7. DE (3 bombers were all I remember him having)
8. BA (pretty balanced list with librarian/chaplain, 3X assault squads, LRC, 1 Tac, 3 Dev squads and 2 Furioso dreads in pods).

I was the Ork player that took second (minor with 3, major with full, Major with full). Beat the eldar player round one but he came back with two massacers.

Way to go, Grimgob!

Black Sun Games, Chicago IL

1. Mech IG
2. Mech SW
3. Mech IG or GK henchman spam(didn't stay to find out who won)

5. DA deathwing (me lost to the two IG lists, very close games)
6. SW foot lists (this guy got tabled every game)

Sarge's Comics, New London, CT

1. Eldar (me)
2. Space Wolves
3. Grey Knights

Turnout was light compared to last year. Almost everyone had some kind of Marine,except for me and one Tau player. The scenarios were okay, if kind of stupid at times. They seemed poorly thought out to me, especially the second one with the varying costs for the objectives.

My army was: Shining Spears with Autarch, Farseer, Howling Banshees, Fire Dragons, 2 squads of Dire Avengers (all Aspect warriors in Wave Serpents), Harlequins in a Falcon, Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Fire Prisms. It was a list built with the cunning strategy of taking every model I own.

I played the Grey Knights round 1, on a city table, and concentrated my forces on one flank. His army was a largely static and shooting-oriented, so once I killed his two Storm Ravens I was able to roll of the flank and kill his army piecemeal, using the terrain to block LOS to my army. I only lost a few things and almost wiped him out.

Round 2 was a mechanized Space Wolf army. His opening salvo of shots (from 1 Landraider, 1 Long Fang Squad, and 1 Dreadnought) killed 3 of my tanks and some 15 of my infantry. It was bad. Luckily my two bike squads were in reserve and came on from the corner of the long table edge, outflanking his army, and proceeded to kick butt. The Shining Spears, supported by the Fire Dragons, killed some 35 Space Wolves + vehicles, while my dismounted Harlequins and Dire Avengers managed to tie up and eventually defeat Logan Grimnar and some terminators (Fortune with an Invulnerable save is really good). At the end of the game my army was shattered, but there were only 2 damaged Rhinos left for the Space Wolves.

Round 3 was more Space Wolves, an especially obnoxious army with a bunch of Thuderwolf cavalry, a bunch of Long Fangs, a bunch of Razorbacks, and a bunch of small Grey Hunter units. The game started well as getting the first turn and the Dawn of War set up allowed me to get the jump on his largely static army. Again I shifted my forces to concentrate on one flank and some serious firepower saw about a third of his army killed on turn 2. But some utterly incompentent close combat against three Thunderwolves gutted the center of my army and stalled my momentum, so his Razorbacks and Longfangs showered me with love for several turns. Luckily his shooting was almost as bad as my assault so I was able to out-shoot his Longfangs with my tanks and eke out a victory.

3 good games, and the last 2 were real knife fights. I can't wait for round 2.

Even though you do not see so many Space Wolves around this days as you did a year ago, the army is still a power house.

The other thing that leaps out is how well the Tyranids did. I wonder if it could be a couple of factors. The long time limit so that they can finish their games, and what I think is the biggest factor is the point limit. With the extra points they get to fill out their often neglected heavy support slots, or just fill up with an overwhelming amount of troops.

Also a lot of people are commenting on how low the turn out was. They had about 25 players in my store last year and they had about 14 this year. Here is the kicker though, at the same time as the 'Ard Boyz, they ran a Warmachine wrath book release tournament that had 20 people attending. I know that it is just one event and you can't make much of it, but that might be an ominous sign of GWs health at least in the Phoenix area. It seems like Warmachine is taking off, and GW games are declining.

Or perhaps a dissatisfaction with the 'ard boyz events in general. Every year the prize support gets stricter, the event rules dont improve or get more sloppy (like this year they didnt even bother to use the 'ard boyz stationary), no cool swag like 2009 'ard boyz and in general the staticness of 5th ed isn't helping

I know there are people who don't play Mech but after playing in a lot of tournaments and now running a lot of events its like I see the same list played on 90% of the boards.. Yes some may be called "space wolves", "Imperial guard", "dark eldar" or "grey knights" but for the most part its just a bunch of transports running around with random units inside

In either case, the turnout for Pittsburgh wasn't noticeably lower.. Maybe a little lower than last year. WFB is doing awful tho

Here the results for 'Ard Boyz Prelims at The Sage's Shoppe
West Lafayette, Indiana:

1. Space Wolves (Tony Malave)
2. Imperial Guard (Derek Call)
3. Grey Knights (Matt Hutchinson)


I saw Tau, Blood Angels, a 5 Land Raider Black Templar army, Salamanders, and more Marines! No Eldar, Orks, 'Nids, or DE! See you guys in round two!

Tony Malave
http://chicagokamikazes.blogspot.com//

In central Texas it was

1.Black templars (me)
2.Grey knights (goat boy)
3.Dark elder

Gardiner Maine

1 - Logan Wing with 3 x longfangs and no vehicles
2 Grey Knights Paladin star.
3 Dark Angels Deathwing with Landraiders (Me)

kestral wrote:Gardiner Maine

1 - Logan Wing with 3 x longfangs and no vehicles
2 Grey Knights Paladin star.
3 Dark Angels Deathwing with Landraiders (Me)

Ahhhh, Greenhouse, where it all started for me. When IG ruled the world in 2nd ed.

Collector's Corner, baltimore MD

1. Space Wolves ( 3 longfangs, 2 TWL, mech GH)
2. Eldar ( Elvatar)
3. Draigowing.

5 whole players showed from the 12 who signed up. Bye system was implemented that gave the bye player a major win.


Draigowing player had 1 wipeout loss, 1 minor loss and 1 massacre.

Grr I had 2 minor wins and a minor loss and got knocked out. Any scoring system that allows someone with a lesser win loss record place needs to be reworked.

I got shafted because I should have had the third bye, giving me 17 points instead of 3. A guy who already had a bye and had been massacred dropped out instead of playing. I believe they also gave him the bye points, so he actually placed over me, only playing 1 game. Lol I'm done whining about it.....at least I had 2 wins over 2 really good players.

Kenosha, WI-Rockheads

1. Space Wolves(me)
2. Grey Knights(Draigowing)
3. Dark Eldar(Raider Spam)

I played

Wolf Lord on Mount
Rune Priest
Wolf Guard unit leaders in lasplasback(empty)
Scouts
4x Rhino GH units
2x Razorback GH units
Speeder
Puppies for the Lord to join
3x Long Fang units in LasPlasbacks (mix of Plasma and ML due to me expecting Paladin spam, which was a correct assumption)

Played Necrons(got lucky, yea), Draigowing, and CSM Lesser Demon spam.

Very interesting results, I loved seeing those two daemons place 2nd and 3rd. Means I wont be alone at semi finals with daemons
Hey Saber,
Do you happen to be Mike, who plays doubles with another Mike, at the battle standards tournaments. If you are, hey, this is the daemon player from the battle standard who played you in the third round of doubles and your friend in the first round of the nova practice tournament.
If not..good job in your games!

Tower of Games, Chesapeake VA

1. Orks (Me)
2. IG Leafblower
3. Space Wolves
4. Space Wolves
5. Space Wolves
6. IG Leafblower
7+ various marines and 1 Tau

Yeah...it was a repetitive day.

The use of night fight in all three rounds really encouraged the amount of SW and DE imho.

Battle Bunker Games.

1st- Grey Kniights
2nd- Horde Orks
3rd-Deathwing