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Been waiting for this event for about 6 months now so im hyped up. As a special deal unlike other GT's all the lists were revealed today for the competitor's views. The games start saturday and this looks to be a doozy with almost every list really hard and nasty. It's a bit pre-emptive, but I'll post up the link to the lists for everyone to see and you guys can start betting on how i'll place. I'll be traveling together with Allen Campo to represent Central Louisiana at the event. I'm Allen Broussard btw.


http://www.redstone-rumble.com/2014-40k-lists/


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So due to cash constraints and meta changes, I only had 2 possible lists to bring. I could have taken my White scars grav spam list, or my Imperial Knights list. I knew with the meta being so vehicle heavy however, and that I would see other knight players at the Redstone Rumble, that my grav spam bikers were going to do poorly. It is a list that can handle both tau and eldar pretty well, and even do fairly decent againgst daemons, but Knights and thunderwolf calvary would beat it pretty hard.

I decided to bring my Knights list, which had won me best general at the much smaller Enter the Maelstrom tournament in Lafayette in July. The list consists of:

Knight detatchment-
Knight Errant (warlord)
Knight paladin x2
Iron hand marines-
Master of the Forge/w bike and conversion beamer x2
Sniper scouts/w LSS + camo cloaks and melta bomb x2
Cc scouts/w LSS and melta bomb
Stormtalon/w skyhammer

It's a fun list, having many blasts templates of varying strength and AP, fast outflanking scoring units which could infiltrate if I needed them too or just protect my Knights from deepstrike threats due to the jamming beacons on the LSS's. The MotF's could either throw down some long range hurt, score objectives, tie up units without AP2, or repair the knights (trading for the beamer does not remove their repair roll, just makes it on a 4+ instead of a 3+).

I think its a very balanced list that covers all corners of durability, damage, mobility, and scoring potential. I felt confident that I would preform well at the tourny, knowning I would be facing other lists of comparable power level.

We had an 8 hour drive from Marksville, LA all the way to Huntsville, AL and arrived at the hotel around 6PM. I unloaded everything and then went to check out the tables. The amount of terrain was considerable and the tables looked great but I realized that the organizers had planned around knights for the tourny. There was almost no tables with room for Knights to manuver without gimping their speed. They had FAQ'd it so that knights could only move the highest of 3d6, which while is RAW with the BRB is a rather large nerf to knights when 22/25 tables dont have enough room between terrain pieces to move them without rolling every turn.

The amount of terrain was possible due to the fact that they also ran a Top Table event in which gaming groups brought their own tables and terrain to see who had the best looking tables. The organizers then used the terrain that was brought to help cover all the tables, reducing their own workload and also allowing for some truly nice looking gaming tables for the games.

Overnight we all received an email stating who our first opponent would be and what table we would be on. It's a new system they have for running their tourny and was very slick. It was their first year using it though so a few bugs popped up with the matchmaking over the weekend, but what can you expect. As large as the tourny was, and considering they only had 4 guys working 40k and 5 working fantasy for the 50+ tables, they did an excellent job.

Ok first off let me mention this was the largest tournament I have ever attended.

Its not the biggest in the states, but its big. With 25 tables for both 40k and Fantasy, not to mention a warmahordes and infinity tournies in the smaller side rooms there were a ton of gamers.

Also, I have been keeping tract of all the big tournies across the states and I am not lying in the least when I say: This tournament had the largest amount of cutthroat army lists out of every single tournament in the US of A. Over 80% of the lists here were hardcore lists.

We didnt have the huge amount of well known players that events like the LVO or NOVA have, but considering that Forgeworld and Lords of War were not allowed, this was the true reincarnation of the Hard Boyz tourny.

I'll get the the reports over the following days, and I apologize ahead of time for the lack of pictures. I had an 8 hour drive there and not much sleep so stayed exhausted for the first day. I'll dig up what i can. Here are the results:

Pri = WDL
Sec = BP
Ter = VP

Rank – Player – Pri – Sec – Ter – Sports – Paint – Group- Primary – Ally

1 Shawn WIlliams 500 53 0.694 24 30 Sons of Vulcan Space Wolves _
2 Jeff ONeal 500 52 0.672 36 34 Sons of Vulcan Orks _
3 Phillip French 401 49 0.536 24 26 Ordo Exterminatus Eldar Dark Eldar
4 Kevin Drury 401 44 0.584 14 30 Blade N Bolter Daemons Imperial Knights
5 Steve Martino 401 43 0.642 28 26 19th Legion Eldar _
6 Andrew Gardenhire 401 42 0.62 44 38 _ Tau Imperial Knights
7 Ryan Johnson 401 40 0.692 34 34 Sons of Vulcan Grey Knights Eldar
8 Avery Windau 401 36 0.606 32 34 _ Space Marines Dark Angels
9 Bentley Hicks 401 34 0.512 18 32 Crimson Blades White Scars Imperial Knights
10 Nicholas Helms 401 27 0.662 42 36 Crimson Blades Iyanden Dark Eldar
11 Daniel Fincher 302 40 0.56 34 32 South Alabama War Gamers Eldar _
12 Brad White 302 38 0.546 26 26 _ Necrons Tau
13 Anthony Hinkel 302 37 0.63 36 28 South Mississippi Gamers Orks _
14 Carter Leach 302 37 0.56 22 20 South Mississippi Gamers Dark Eldar Eldar
15 Corey Page 302 35 0.562 28 30 Vanguard Gaming Astra Militarum White Scars
16 Jamie Grigsby 302 34 0.564 30 16 Bluegrass Brawlers Tyranids Eldar
17 Alan Whitt 302 32 0.58 32 32 South MS Gamers Daemons _
18 Reuben Fleming 302 32 0.574 24 34 _ Space Marines _
19 Justin Winters 302 31 0.538 36 30 SS40k Astra Militarum _
20 Christopher Smith 302 31 0.51 24 36 South Alabama Wargamers Space Wolves Space Wolves
21 Chris Staples 302 31 0.49 26 32 _ Necrons Imperial Knights
22 Jake Bussey 302 30 0.518 38 40 _ Daemons _
23 Logan Short 302 25 0.496 12 38 South Mississippi Gamers Space Wolves _
24 Anthony Ryan 302 16 0.56 34 42 South Mississippi Gamers Chaos Daemons
25 Anthony Cook 203 30 0.468 24 40 _ Space Marines Imperial Knights
26 Jason Vertrees 203 29 0.444 34 32 South Alabama War Gamers Space Marines _
27 Megan McGee 203 28 0.462 42 44 Crux of War Eldar _
28 Zeke Sudbury 203 26 0.486 40 30 _ Farsight Tau
29 Jacob Wells 203 26 0.37 32 12 _ Astra Militarum Imperial Knights
30 Phil Fortin 203 25 0.438 24 12 _ Space Wolves Astra Militarum
31 Clay Long 203 24 0.474 26 22 _ Eldar _
32 Allen Broussard 203 22 0.484 24 32 Now Playing Imperial Knights _
33 Colin McCain 203 20 0.516 22 24 _ Astra Militarum _
34 Nathan Clevenger 203 19 0.446 36 28 _ Tau _
35 Jeremy Kaylor 203 19 0.434 30 22 _ Imperial Knights Black Templar
36 Matthew Gilliland 203 16 0.45 26 14 _ Orks _
37 Kirk Gallup 203 13 0.482 32 22 _ Tyranids _
38 John McGee 203 12 0.53 30 36 Crux of War Space Marines Grey Knights
39 Patric Odonnell 104 27 0.354 28 24 _ Space Wolves _
40 Allen Campo 104 21 0.34 36 24 AA Wrecking Crew Daemons _
41 Mike Byrum 104 17 0.374 20 28 _ Blood Angels _
42 Kip Perkins 104 15 0.396 46 46 Loaded Diaper Dark Angels _
43 Jonathan Roop 104 14 0.39 26 46 Rocket City Gamers Space Wolves Imperial Knights
44 Chase Smith 104 13 0.35 40 38 _ Tau _
45 Carl Short 104 11 0.384 24 32 South Mississippi Gamers Tau _
46 George Preussel 104 9 0.41 34 18 Rocket City Gamers Orks _
47 Tera Huppi-Preussel 5 11 0.26 38 22 Rocket City Gamers Daemons _
48 Paul Applebaum 5 8 0.35 28 36 Rocket City Gamers Adepta Sororitas Assassins

I saw you play a couple games and I liked the army. I will agree that if you look down the lists, there may not have been as many BIG names as some events but the lists were straight up hard core. I enjoyed the event greatly. The guys did an awesome job and everything was ran very well. I played against 5 great guys and saw 4 very different lists. Good job on a descent showing for your first large event. Hope to see you guys around.

Cheers,
Phillip French

haha yeah. It could have easily been different though. You really never know how your gonna match up a such a big tourny.

For example, had my list gone up againgst either of the 2 orc foot hoards, they wouldnt have done so well, but thats part how the draw goes.

I honestly could have gone 4-1 had the dice favored me a bit more, but I had absolutely no chance of winning my game 5. His army was a complete counter to mine.

What's your army list?

Jim, if you follow the link at the top, everyone's list can be seen there but he was playing 3 Imperial Knights, 3 speeder storms with scouts, a storm talon and 2 tech marines on bikes.

Ok, thanks.

I had a blast at this years event. The tables where absolutely covered in terrain and LOS blockers where present in abundance.

That being said....summoning daemons is EXTREMELY exhausting to play. Though Im happy I managed to get in 5 rounds each game (not including concessions).

<<Kevin Drury
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Heres some pics:














This is me stretching over the table in the front middle.

Got more pics on my phone but its dead and my charger is currently AWOL.