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Judged for Time Warp Comics and Games (Cedar Grove,NJ) , we held the event off-site due to conflicts with MTG/YuGiOh events that were pre-scheduled. Only had 6 people play, 3 Ork players, a Blood Angel Player, a Dark Eldar player and a Nid player.

1. Blood Angels (Death Company, Death Company Dreadnaught, bunch of Rhinos/Razorbacks/Predators, some termies, and a drop pod for good measure).
2. Dark Eldar (3 units of trueborn in venoms, wyches/warriors in raiders, some bikes, 3x ravagers)
3. Orks (not sure which Ork player won (wasn't paying attention), but I think it was an infantry horde with some 150 boyz, 45 kommandos, some big guns and grots and other assorted stuff)

NJ is going to be seeing a lot of people advancing to the semi's, the North Jersey area alone had approx. 7 stores hosting the tourney (hence only 6 people this year vs. 16-18 last year).

Visions Cards and Games, Montgomery, AL:

1st - Blood Angels (me)
2nd - Space Wolves
3rd - Daemons

Avalon Comics and Games, Silverdale, WA

1. Space Wolves (LF and Wolfguard)
2. Vanilla Marines (Calgar, enough said)
3. Blood Angels (DoA)

The lowley Guardsman, me, came in last. Don't get me started...

New World Comics and Games, Oklahoma City OK


20 Participants


1st: Grey Knights - My list was a GKGM, Corteaz, 2x Purifier squads, 2x Strike Squads, 2x Psyker Squads, 3x Psyrifles, 1x Vindicare
2nd: Space Marines
3rd: Space Marines

someone should accumulate these and post the totals of how many of each race made and maybe even which race won the most. I think Dark Eldar take the prize this year followed by grey knights!

The first results are from me, the second, from my brother

The Whiz, Westborough MA

1) Tyranids (me, with swarmlord and Tyrant death stars, and a whole bunch of other T6 models)
2) Tyranids (swarmlord death star, plus dakka flyrrant)
3) Chaos Space Marines (Dual lash)

round 1: massacre
round 2: major loss
round 3: massacre

Battle Grounds, Plainville MA

1) IG (my brother, relatively standard mech vets with plasma russ)
2) Tyranids (dual death stars)
3) Sisters of Battle (This guy is really good, the other times i have played him he has wiped me off the table)

round 1: minor win
round 2: massacre
round 3: win be default (sisters guy had to leave, and he still came in third)

Great weekend, and I got a hammer head for my new tau army

canadianone wrote:I actually managed to play twice, once on sat, and again on sunday

The Whiz, Westborough MA (Suaturday)

1) Tyranids (me, with swarmlord and Tyrant death stars, and a whole bunch of other T6 models)
2) Tyranids (swarmlord death star, plus dakka flyrrant)
3) Chaos Space Marines (Dual lash)

round 1: massacre
round 2: major loss
round 3: massacre

Battle Grounds, Plainville MA (sunday)

1) IG (my brother, relatively standard mech vets with plasma russ)
2) Tyranids (me again)
3) Sisters of Battle (RIDICULOUS MECH SISTERS, this was a combo guard platoon+mech sisters that beat me round two and gave me zero points, he was an AMAZING player, my brother only beat him because he had to run out at the beginning of the game)

round 1: massacre
round 2: massacred, 0 points
round 3: massacre

Great weekend, and I got a hammer head and a broadside suit for my burgeoning tau army

ide avoid posting such things as you might find you and your brother dqed for the next round. I hope you at least passed off the qualification for the next round to the 4th place person at either one of those tournaments.

Nice nice guys, keep up the good posts

Game Castle, Londonderry, NH, 18 players

1st Unusual Ultras list- Calgar, Gate/Zone Libby, 20 hammernators, 10 shootynators, three ten man Tac squads in Pods, 10 Devs with 4MLs. Run by a nice guy named Travis up from Savannah, GA on vaca.
2nd. Space Wolves
3rd. Lash/Abaddon CSM.

I missed qualifying due to eating a Minor Loss in a tight game against Travis in round two (after he and I being the only two players to get Massacres in round 1), then not being able to get better than a Draw against DW in round three. This was a fairly tight and low-scoring event, with lots of Draws and Minor wins. The top six players were separated by only six points, and 2nd and 3rd were actually tied on points, which they broke using strength of schedule.

Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with a sad story about my luck or dice; I already did that for the DCMs. I'll just relax and try to adapt to the feeling of NOT going to the Finals for once. Maybe start studying that Comp sheet for Da Boyz GT...

lol 4 people, more people than that were playing warmachine pick up games

1st My GK Henchman
2nd 5 Battlewagons
3rd Foot GK (they came to repo the 11 vehicles I had borrowed)
4th Eldar

Store manager let us take full value so I got 2 boxes of Bloodletters. Woot! I think that is the closest to a sick brag in 40k terms.

Reecius wrote: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.

Oh snap, I was totally gonna play there. Glad I decided to stay at the beach!

Knightfall Games Beaverton, OR.

1st: 59 points Pretre. Space Wolves (Long Fang/TWC/RB)
2nd 58 points Me, Space Wolves (Drop Pod Assault)
3rd 53 points Eldar10, Vulkan Marines (4 LR and lots of TH/SS Terminators)

Overall we had 14 players.
3 Grey Knights
3 Space Wolves
3 Vanilla Marines
2 Blood Angels
1 Tyranid
1 IG
1 Dark Eldar

Sci-fi City, Orlando

1.) Grey Knights
2.) Green Tide
3.) Grey Knights

Much smaller turn out than expected. Still I think 12 players. But I know of 5 players that did not participate because of the lack in effort by GW to make the missions worth a crap or even seem to care about their own tournaments like they used to.


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thehod wrote:Paladin Games - Orlando

1) Grey Knights (me)
2) Deathwing
3) Orks

Can you really count it as 1st when there prolly was only 3 people playing at Paladin?

Roguejm11 wrote:
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thehod wrote:Paladin Games - Orlando

1) Grey Knights (me)
2) Deathwing
3) Orks

Can you really count it as 1st when there prolly was only 3 people playing at Paladin?

I'd say the $60 prize in his pocket would say it counts

The Dark Side, Sarasota, FL

1st Inquisitorial GK
2nd Dark Eldar
3rd Eldar

I took 4th with Vulkan Droppod Marines. The 3rd place Eldar player is a high schooler and said he would be unable to make it to the next round or nationals if he made it that far, so he passed the invitation down to me! I'm pretty excited as this was my first 40k Tournament and my friend was the 1st place finisher, so a road trip for the 2nd round my be in our future if we don't get a 2nd round closer to home. He also got balls lucky in the last round picking up a Massacre to jump him 4 pts ahead of me in the standings.

We had 18 players, this is the breakdown as best as I can remember
2x Grey Knights (1 Inquisitorial)
3x Space Wolves
1x Blood Angels
3x Codex SM (1 Vulkan, 1 Bikes, 1 Mess'o'Stuff)
1x CSM
1x Tyranids
1x Orks
1x Eldar
2x Dark Eldar
2x IG
1x Sisters of Battle (Footsloggers, all metal models)

I played against CSM, Space Wolves, and Sisters, with a Minor Victory, Major Victory, and Draw, with 5 bonus points. There was only a handful of massacres all day and the standings after 3rd place were tight. There were about 6-8 people in the 40-45 pt range.

Grim Foe Games, East Greenbush NY

1st Daemons
2nd Tyranids
3rd Grey Knights

others = Orks, Space Wolves, Chaos Space Marines, ect...

Pulp Fiction Comics and games Lee's Summit, MO

1st BA DOA Army (Me)
2nd DE
3rd SW Logan wing

I did
Mass, mass, major for first

im happy to see that as many tyranid players did as well as they did

Mannahnin wrote:Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with a sad story about my luck or dice; I already did that for the DCMs. I'll just relax and try to adapt to the feeling of NOT going to the Finals for once. Maybe start studying that Comp sheet for Da Boyz GT...

That sucks, sorry to hear it. Maybe someone will drop out.

rednekgunner wrote:Knightfall Games Beaverton, OR.

1st: 59 points Pretre. Space Wolves (Long Fang/TWC/RB)
2nd 58 points Me, Space Wolves (Drop Pod Assault)
3rd 53 points Eldar10, Vulkan Marines (4 LR and lots of TH/SS Terminators)

Whoop whoop! I figured you might beat me to posting. I played Drop Pod SW in round one (Art) who played a tight game and capitalized on my deployment mistake. I lost by one KP. That saw me submarining the rest of the tournament to pop up at the end. Played Jonathan's Guard and got a table massacre (full Bonus) and Tim's Grey Knights with a table massacre (full bonus). As you can see, I barely popped up ahead of rednekgunner at the end. This will be my first semi-finals, so I'm excited to go.

Great games and a great day. The only thing that I really didn't like is that some dark eldar guy played one game and decided he didn't do well enough so left, leaving my buddy Punk to sit on his hands for round 3. Lame. People should not go to tournaments unless they are willing to stick it out.

Results for Brave New Worlds in Willow Grove, PA (not listed on GW's pdf but confirmed with GW rep):

1. Grey Knights (draigowing)
2. Blood Angels (razorback spam) me
3. Tau

Had a major victory in first scenerio versus Nurgle CSM army. Had a Massacre in the 2nd scenerio versus a Khorne Berserker/Abaddon Termie CSM army. For the 3rd scenerio, I had a minor loss versus a Tau player who doesnt know you cant have friendly units within an inch of each other, liked to move his units through each other, and modelled his hammerhead stands so the nose is always hitting the ground so his railguns are lifted and can shoot past other tanks. Booooooo.

I picked up a Dark Eldar Raider box for my prize. A fun tournament overall though! Lots of CSM at our tournament.

Results for Midland, TX...Astral Castle

1st. Dark Eldar Venom Spam. (This guy )
2nd. Space Wolves Heavy Longfangs.
3rd. IG Power Blob with a hint of mech.

Other non-placing armies...that I can remember, Space Wolves (LR/Logan), Space Marines (not sure), Chaos (Black Legion), GK (not sure), Necron (yeah I don't get it either).

Took first after getting a Massacre against Chaos as I popped the LR so Abby got to walk, and venom SC drowned the bikers with mark so termis had to DS normally...all battle points. Second non-placing SW (because of me) Major due to longfangs dropping venoms left and right but 2 lived to last turn to contest center, incubi contested his and I held my own plus obj opposite from mine along the short edge. Third game was against the IG blob guy...yeah IG blob vs Venom Spam...massacre on the Victory Points game having killed his general (Lord Commisar in a blob with 5 Incubi and my general (Vect).

Kearney, NE -"Game On"

1. Grey Knights (Me)
2. Vulkan Marines
3. Vulkan Marines

Great store. Well ran tournament. Cool players. I traveled away from my FLGS this year. Small turn out but a few veterans kept it challenging. Bummer was there was another store in town that ran the tourney as well. If there had only been one we might have seen more players in the same spot. Also another qualifier within 2 hours. Great time.

Seems like GK are the new hotness and IG are taking a back seat in numbers anyway. Wolves, GK, Guard, BA, Vulkan and a touch of DE. Seems the net predictions are on this year.

New Game in Town- Dekalb, IL

1. - Space Marines
2. - - Flesh Tearers (Blood Angels)
3. - Imperial Guard
4. - - Grey Knights
4. - - Chaos
6. - - Blood Angels
6. - - Dark Eldar
8. - - Orks
9. - - Grey Knights
10. - - Imperial Guard

Blacksun Games Chicago:

1. Inquisitorial GK
2.Mech IG (me)
3.Mech SW

Ares Wargames - Albuquerque NM

1. Balanced ultramarines w/ vulkan, dual raiders
2. IG leafblower (4 leman russes, 2 basilisks, 2 vendettas, bunch of vets)
3. Mech DoA (me!)

we had 17 players in attendance. Good spread.

3x GK
2x IG
2x BT
2x SM
2x BA
1x Nids
2x SW
2x Eldar

Game Empire San Diego
20 Players

1. Blood Angels (Dual Storm Raven Meph Mech List)(Junior)
2. Space Wolves (TWC, Mech, Njal) (Aldarionn)
3. Space Wolves (Mech LRC Ragnar) (Danny L)
4. Black Templars (Termy Typhoon Spam) (Me)
5. Blood Angels (4 Landraiders list) (Mac)

Tough games, good games.

Here's Aldarionn's Battle report http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/390211.page

At the end of the report he sums up how my games went ;p

2x IG
2x SW
1x BT
1x Dark Eldar
3x BA
2x GK
1x Chaos
2x Orks
1x Sisters
4x SM

Ancient Wonders / Tualatin, OR

1st DE
2nd Dualwing (me)
3rd Horde Orks/Bikers

15 players, mostly marines & grey knights

Round 1
Faced off against SW razorspam. Everything went wrong for the first half of the game (I scored my first KP in turn 4), then everything came up milhouse. Game was decided when I destroyed a razorback on the bottom of 6, and the unit inside (njal, the traitor, and a GH squad) broke & ran. Game ended immediately after. Gotta love an 8kp krak missile. 15 bp.

Round 2
Faced off against a beautifully painted BA battleforce list. Tabled her, 24 bp.

Round 3
Faced off against an ork foot list. 160-180ish? As with the first game, things went very poorly for the first 3 rounds, followed by much bloodshed in the last rounds of the game. We ended up within ~200 vp of each other. 11 bp.

DE won with authority, with 67-68 BP, followed by a 3-way tie for 2nd @ 50 (broken by difficulty of schedule).

Hobby Craft, Anchorage AK

1. GK DraigoWing
2. DE mixed w/Baron&Duke
3. Orks not sure, tons of shooting i guess
4. Eldar mixed
5. Eldar foot
6. Dark Angels mixed
7. Daemons fate/thirster
8. Eldar 2x autarch mobile
9. Dark Angels mixed

much smaller turn out from last year, another local shop decided to run it as well bringing in at least 2-3 of our guys as they offered 200 bucks toward travel costs to go to next round for winner(making it almost worth your time to go from AK). Then we also had a shop about an hour away host one taking at least 3-5 of our gamers.

Overall though a good time was had, can't believe i showed up saying "ok IG are gonna be a pain but really mobile shooting armies will be worst for my foot DraigoWing..." then i played Eldar, Dark Eldar, Eldar...

Did anyone get the certificate for placing like last year? Our store said they never got em...but lately it seems my store can't get anything from GW..

Top 3 @ my shop were.

1. Blood Angels
2. Space Wolves
3. Black Templars

Followed by a mix of Orkz, IG, and Daemons. Nids did not have a good showing. I think generally they were the weakest I saw at the point level.

I think @ The Hobbit I head that Necrons took #1.

Fanatix, Dothan AL

1st Grey Knights (didn't play him but I remember he had 3 Stormravens and 3 Dreadknights)
2nd Blood Angels (3 Stormravens, Sanguinor, Meph, 5 Assualt Squads in 3 Razorbacks with TL Flamers and 2 Rhinos, 3 Furioso Dreadnaughts (2 Librarians). Tore my nids to pieces.)
3rd Deathwing (9 squads of terminators and 2 land speaders with melta/typhoon)

We had 16 people and filled the place. Was a great time for everyone.

1 Grey Knights
1 Blood Angels
1 Deathwing
2 Imperial Guard
2 Tyranids
3 Eldar
3 Space Wolves
2 Tau
1 Space Marine (Shrike)