Hey all,
I'm not sure where to post this, so feel free to move this thread to an appropriate forum. I'm a long time lurker, but thought I'd finally create a profile and start posting.
I'm looking to document the games I play and the learning curve of the army I'm wanting to run for the next few months! Mainly because I forget about how my games go, this thread will motivate me to type out the games I play so I can learn from the mistakes I make and hopefully others can as well!
So here are the events I'm looking to attend over the next few months:
24th & 25Th of September 2016: -
40k GT Heat 3
https://www.facebook.com/events/540413366145229/
2 Day event,
ETC FAQs. 1850pts - Rulespack;
ETC missions,
FAQs and Scoring.
22 of October 2016: Come the Apocalypse (Doubles Event)
https://www.facebook.com/events/172145859868448/
1 Day event,
GW FAQs, 1500pts - Rulespack; Eternal War/Custom Missions,
GW FAQs
19th of November 2016: Rolling Thunder 3
https://www.facebook.com/events/650725955080285/
1 Day event, Rulespack Pending. - I expect, 1850pts,
GW FAQs
10th of December 2016 Hall of Fame
https://www.facebook.com/events/195492870835929/
1 Day invite only event @ Sanctuary, Rulespack Pending.
21st & 22nd of January 2017: Caledonian Uprising,
https://www.facebook.com/events/1039389352809018/
2 Day Event @ EGNWGC,
ETC FAQs, Missions and Scoring. 1850pts
As you can see a pretty busy winder period for myself! I'm looking forward it a lot!!
I've recently been to an event (20th of August), below the list I took and a brief run through of those games.
Event: Scorched Summer Skies, at Sanctuary Gaming Centre, 1850pts, Battle forged armies was the only restriction.
Sanctuary Gaming Centre run a monthly event (Mostly the events I posted above), usually 20players or so, but this was a bumper attendance at around 35players!
Army Points Total: 1849
Primary Detachment: Craftworld Eldar Combined Arms Detachment:
HQ1: Autarch; Skyrunner [85] (WARLORD)
Troop1: Windriders; 3 Scatter Lasers [81]
Troop2: Windriders; 3 Scatter Lasers [81]
HS1: Vauls Weapon Battery; D-Cannon [55]
HS2: Vauls Weapon Battery; D-Cannon [55]
HS3: Vauls Weapon Battery; D-Cannon [55]
LoW1: Wraithknight; Heavy Wraithcannons, 2 Scatter Lasers [325]
Secondary Detachment: Craftworld Eldar War Host:
Core: Windrider Host:
HQ2: Farseer; Skyrunner [115]
HQ3: Warlock Conclave; Skyrunner [50]
Troop3: Windriders; 3 Scatter Lasers [81]
Troop4: Windriders; 3 Scatter Lasers [81]
Troop5: Windriders; 3 Scatter Lasers [81]
FA1: Vyper Squadron [40]
Auxillary: Aspect Host:
FA2: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
FA3: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
FA4: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
Auxillary: Aspect Host:
FA2: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
FA3: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
FA4: Warp Spiders; Exarch [105]
Tertiary Detachment: Inquisitorial Detachment:
HQ4: Xenos Inquisitor; 3 Servo Skulls [34]
GAME1: Emperors Relic (Combined mission) Vanguard Strike deployment.
vs Chris Dickinson (Nids)
Chris was running, Nid
CAD, with Flyrant, Spore, 10 Termagants, Shroudthrope (no idea on actual name), 2 Mawlocks, Barbed Hierodule. And a full Genestealer cult.
I've never played the Genestealer Cult before, so I had no real clue what they could do (Ive read through it once.. so new a couple of the tricks, like Infiltrate and charge on turn one and a couple of other things. So I would learn a lot from the game either way.
The game was pretty frustrating for my army to face, the Cult is annoying to deal with, Stealth and Shrouded turn1 means my alpha strike is neutered, Stealth after turn1 would help as we were playing on a ruin heavy board, so it was an uphill battle, going into the game:
Wraithknight failed to kill the Hierodule in 2 rounds of shooting doing zero wounds!! Then 15 Warp Spiders (30 shots), put 3 wounds on it.. (on average its about 8 wounds, it only has 6?).
The game boiled down to if I could survive on the objectives last turn as I went first, Chris had last turn to clear me off, Chris managed to clear my units off his Emperors will objective, a Mawlock scattered off my home objective (I had a Obsec Windrider unit with attached Autatch to tank). And I have the Relic, again with Obsec Windriders, but it was fully surrounded by chaff.
We only got to 4 turns in, but I felt ,it was only going to get better for me if we had a turn5/6/7 as he only had the Hierodule on a couple of wounds, Mawlock on one wound and a few remnants of the Cult. I'd only lost 4 units of Spiders and a Warlock (most of which sacrificed themselves to get into Chris's objective knowing it was the last turn).
WIN: 12-4
GAME2: 3 objectives, 1 central and 2 other objectives 18" either side along the centre line, Dawn of War. - start of turn4 1 objective randomly disappears.
vs Jamie Dempster (Marines)
Jamie was rocking Skyhammer, with 2x10
Devs, 2 Grav Cannons, 2 Multimeltas in each, Assault squads with Meltabombs and Lightning claws.
CAD, Telion, 2x Scout squads with Snipers. Stormspear? Formation, 2x1 Landspeeder Typhoons and 2x Landspeeder Storms with Obsec Scouts. And finally a Warden (Gatling Cannon) Imperial Knight
My Farseer rolled Infiltrate Warlord Trait and Invis which was huge, I then got the choice of turn1.
I deployed most of my army, just the Autarch and 4 units of Warp Spiders in reserve. I wanted to cover a lot of the table to force risky deep strikes to get to the Farseer with the Assault squads.
Jamie deployed the Speeders, Scout squads and the Imperial Knight. I infiltrated the 2 Dcannons into range of the Knight.
Jamie didn't get that 6 to seize the initiative. My first turn was pretty brutal, killing 3/4 Speeders, the Invisible Wraithknight took out the Imperial Knight with a 6.
Jamie dropped down with his Skyhammer, combat squading the
Devs into Melta and Grav, he didn't bother shooting the Wraithknight, so went about killing 2 D-Cannon batteries and charging the 3rd, he also killed a Windrider unit and killing 2/3 Windriders from the Farseer squad.
My turn2 and the 4 units of Warp Spiders deep strike in near the
Dev squads, these, combined with the Warp Spiders move into range of the
Dev squad, the Windriders also lining them up, through a combined effort all 4 units of
Devs are removed. Wraithknight assaulted a unit of Assault Marines.
After this, it was a matter of mopping up scout units and the last Assault Marine unit, I table Jamie on turn4.
WIN - Tabling (15pts)
GAME3 - Crusade (4 Objectives), Hammer and Anvil.
Vs Mike Porter (Imperial Knights/Guard)
Mike was running a Baronial Court (I think) of 4 Imperial Knights, 2 Wardens, Paladin and a Lancer. (2 with Gatling cannons, 1 with rapid fire battle cannon and a 6 shot 18" plasma gun/combat knight). Guard was a Psykana division of 3 Wyrdvane units, 2 Commisars and Primaris Psyker (lvl1).
I've not played against the Psykana division, but I knew what it could do (Summon on a 2+), Mike went for the summoning powers, but only got one Possession, all the squads had Summoning.
We placed 2 objectives in either deployment zone (I contemplated putting my last objective with mikes 2.. to make it a 3-1 split, but bottled it and went with a 2-2 split). Mike then won then roll for sides.. getting the one side with enough
LoS blocking terrain to hide is Psykana division.
Mike then deployed all 4 Knights along his deployment zone line. I put all 6 units of Warp Spiders in deep strike reserve, Wraithknight behind a ruin, I deployed all 3 D-Cannons in/behind the most advanced terrain across my deployment zone. And 3 units of Windriders opposite a Wyrdvane unit I could see.
Mike then took turn1. Possessing a Wyrdvane unit into a D-Thirster. Two knights moved back, the 1 Warden and Lancer moved up, the Knights shot, killing 1 Crew and a D-Cannon, twice. Then managed to just wipe out a Windrider unit (Last dying to the Stubber...).
Basically this game came down to how much damage the Warp Spiders could do, in the end it turns out, quite a bit!
As they landed around two Imperial Knights, killing 1 and putting 2HPs on another as the Wraithknight didn't roll any 6's throughout the game (it caused 2
HPs.. all game)
I had last turn, but there was enough time for a turn6 and even a 7 if we were quick, so I had a choice, I can turbo a unit of Obsec windriders onto the one contested objective to claim it or kill a unit of Seekers moving towards a objective on my side, if the game goes to 6.. I could lose! As I'd lose the obsec Windriders and the Seekers would charge and kill a D-Cannon or could run to at least contest the objective they were moving to, AND eitherway claim linebreaker, with nothing I could do to stop it in my last turns as they'd be out of
LoS meaning I'd lose on firstblood/linebreaker.
In the end I opt to kill the Seekers and win by 3 objectives, because odds are the game goes on.
But the game ended turn5. I Still think I made the right call.
The game ended: we contested 1 objective, and me claiming 3, Mike had Firststrike, I had Linebreaker and Warlord.
WIN 11-1!
I'd won all 3 games, but only one with max pts, I was on table 2, table 1 had a narrow win, 8-4.. so I new it would be close, because there was a max 15pt win on the table below.
In the end, I finished 3rd.
I was tied on
VPs with Second, but he'd only conceded 4vps to my 5! So to lose out on second by 1VP conceded is gutting, first was actual 3vps clear, so gambling on that objective would have got me equal first, but, I did all I could and that was winning all my games first and foremost! And I still walked away with a nice trophy!
The list feels like it has a lot of answers and I cannot really see a way to make it better in a tournament setting (only tax sometimes is the Inquisitor.. but vs scouting armies, he's HUGE!)
Thoughts? What would you like to see from this thread? As I'd like to have a community feel to it!!!
Would you like to see Youtube videos for tactics/bat reps? [EDIT] - or Written format, or a bit of both? Post up your thoughts!
What would you like to see next? Did you want me to talk about how the list works?
My next game is a practice game on friday.
/Rob
