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Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut





Daemon Battalion

2x Poxbringers

3x Nurglings

Aux super heavy

Renegade knight crusader

Thermal Canon/Avenger canon/Icarus/stubber

Partner played my

Deathguard spearhead

1x Daemon prince -wings-supperating plate-talons

3x PBC - Rothail volley and spitters

Auxiliary super heavy

Renegade Helverin

Game 1:
1st round vs guard batt and baneblade and eldar guardian batt +1(4 bright platforms) and 3 walkers(bright).
They seized 1st turn - All 10 brights and baneblade did 2 damage to my crusader (4++ tanked it all).
Our 1st between the pbc (didn't move) bombards and helverin and 1 shot from my thermal(22 wounds it had exactly 22 w left) it died.
From then on our knights and crawlers shrugged off most fire and vaporised there army. Tabled turn 3 max points.

Mates from club so great game.

Game 2: Tesseract vault and 17 warriors + cryptek with drukhari 2 engines + ravager stuff.

We won 1st turn Again bombards + helverin + Thermal Canon (17w this time it had exactly 17 wounds - i think???).
This demoralized them because there main strat relied on the vault to mw stuff to death. Clean up from here on in and all his burst canon failed to hit or wound all game!! quite sad TBH.

Tabled turn 4. Max points.

Great people fun times but sad on there rolling, I've been there it sucks.

Game 3. Tyranids 2 flyrants and hiveguard +3 spores partnered with necron battalion immortals + destroyers + cryptek.

1st turn we won we baited left side(beta rules not in play) with the helverin right side crusader.
Helverin(was on fire all tourny) and PBC bombards(again we didnt move) annihilate the hive guard.
pop some spores and immortals(nurglings steal us vp- they did this all tourny dont understand why there was so few infiltrators).

There 1st turn and they fell for our trap. They split the deep strikers -destroyers on the hel and 2 flyrants on the tanks.
although this seemingly played out well strategically, i thought they should have focused down my crusader with all 3.
Helverin was wiped flyrants locked up 2 tanks (but did 1-4 wounds max for 3? turns).

Our turn 2 my knight wiped the destroyers and we engaged the flyrants in cc with daemon prince etc.
This game was notable for the nurglings not dying engaged with immortals (who coudn't quite steal the middle obj) just chipping away with vp and then the pbc finally disengaging flamer immortals to death and the daemon prince hopping between 4 units - flyrant -immortals -immortals - immortals and wiping them all!!(consecutive turns).

Tabled turn 4. max points.

Game 5: vs ork battalion x3? 180 gretchin + storm boyz and stuff partnered with tyranids 4 carnifex 3 shott 1 cc psyker dude and hive guard. We honestly thought maybe this was a loss for us as winner is decided by obj at the end of the game derp.

Our 1st turn again helverin + bombard canons wipe hive guard(damn what a combo). knight vapes cc carnifex and damages another.

There turn 1 they move for obj Carnifex's prove useless against PBC's Toughness and saves and resilience(tbh was my 2nd time vs tyranids since 1997 for 8th both this tourny and i thought they were a lot better obviously not).

From then on it became a grind of shooting and massacring in cc with the knight etc.

They made a crucial play in the last 5 minutes to steal the win from a draw and his lord went for my mates DP. The DP spat him out and we won because of that play.

turn4. Just 2 points shy of max.

Turn 5. For what we thought was winner takes it all(I will explain at the end). Tau 2 riptides + fusion Com + drones + command Drone. Imp guard batt + 2flamer tanks + 3 smash caps.

Extremely tough match up.

We won 1st turn and in positioning we both missed the smash caps 3d6 charge and positioned my crusader 10" away screened(semi) by a poxbringer. If we had remembered i would have positioned it 12+ away from deepstrike - derp.

We damage 1 riptide to 5 wounds he chose to back his roles and used the drones sparingly he lost all but 2 drones(damn them).

Opponents turn 2. Again damn them lol. Smash cap drops 10" away from the knight. His other smash jumped onto middle obj(using before turn strat to move). Shooting wasnt amazing until he shot my knight dropping it to 12 wounds(my worst saves the entire tourny and its all on the line!!) smash rolls 11" for the charge cant be over watched and i thought well we scrapped that really bad(all i needed was 13" away which is what i would have done if i had remembered).

We make a bunch of misplays, we are both knackered from 2 days of mental gymnastics and come 20 mins from play we cant win so we call it they get max points and we get 12.

They are undefeated for the tourny and have 2 lovely painted armies.

Now onto some details my entire army is unpainted(both armies are mine - borrowed the crusader because mine hadn't arrived in time) - i wasnt even going to play until 2 weeks ago when the organizer the sneaky bastard said my mate needed a partner to play so i should partner with him so i did(my partner hadnt even talked to him lol).

Points are awarded for painting/sportsmanship maybe other stuff - didnt read the faq and neither did my partner again lol.

Our 1st entered army was illegal, we got our wires crossed and we were lazy and hadn't read the faq - yes we are idiots.

So i made this list on the friday before!

Neither of us have ever played with knights before!

The list was of course inspired by the bao list of Deathguard!! so mad props bro!!

It worked amazingly the nurglings stole vp all tourny were tough as all shizz and the helverin was basically ignored the entire tourny because of the PBC and Crusader threat!
It honestly was amazing to watch it eat up stuff it really shouldn't be killing with only a -1ap but that flat 3 was lethal.

Dp was mad awesome buffing early and eating whole squads late game.

Crusader was tough as shizz and the thermal canon was mvp in like 3 games.

Ok so anyway!! we lose and prize giving is about to start we know we aren't painted and we are sure they pull ahead of us in points by winning the last game!

They call out top 5 we arnt 5th or 4th and so we think damn maybe the painting has really screwed us and we didnt even make it to top5. Top 3 and then the guys that beat us get called at 2nd!! and we both turn to each other and say damn i wonder who beat them!!! Derp they call us as 1st and the 2nd team is as surprised as we are, in bewilderment we take top place and then my mate we beat in the 1st round says there was a lot of weight on sportsmanship and a few other things and thats how we beat them in points!! We apparently may have been 2nd for sportsmanship.

So even with the loss a positive attitude and playstyle takes us to the pinnacle!! i suppose there is lesson in there for all the win at all cost types out there but you guys wont agree with me anyway lol.

Awesome fun great people and some amazing paintjobs!! 1st major victory since 1996 lol back when i last played for 2nd edition. Got back for 8th.

Hope you enjoyed the read have fun all!!
   
 
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