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Most armies seem to have a few flyers, but I don't think there were too many.

I got the luck of being matched up against Tony Kopach round 1 Suffice to say I lost. He's running lots of grey hunters on foot with a giant allied Guard Blob led by Njal. Pretty nasty, but it was pretty close - with better dice I would have won at the end, and I also made a rather big mistake at the beginning. Was loads of fun though, I'm pumped for tomorrow! I'm going for a 4-1 Ren Man win baby!

The 3 demon players got taken out 1st round. Yermon, Nobu the Destroyer, and Kenny Boucher(sp).

Glad I didn't take Daemons haha. And Nick lost 1st round?

 DarkCorsair wrote:
Most armies seem to have a few flyers, but I don't think there were too many.

I got the luck of being matched up against Tony Kopach round 1 Suffice to say I lost. He's running lots of grey hunters on foot with a giant allied Guard Blob led by Njal. Pretty nasty, but it was pretty close - with better dice I would have won at the end, and I also made a rather big mistake at the beginning. Was loads of fun though, I'm pumped for tomorrow! I'm going for a 4-1 Ren Man win baby!

I'm very interested in knowing what his list is/was...

Epic Sadface for Daemons. They'll probably ruin my day on Saturday :(

And there were a good many flyers and the invitational.

Favorite part of the evening: While being informed on the rulings on the Doomscythe, Neil from the 11th Company loses all focus on the rest of the discussion and says: "So you mean I can shoot behind me and through walls?"


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@RiTides

As far as I could tell, 4-5 Grey Hunter Squads lead by Terminators, Njal, Blob of I.G., not sure on the H.Q. for the I.G.

I would love to see Invitational standings posted somewhere with the corresponding armies next to the player names.

Seeing the round one pairings on 3++ was cool, standings and army selections would be great.

As soon as I get downstairs. Armies and pairings and results will go up. I can tell you off top of my head, blackmoor, the everliving of dakka [hernandez and Fennell, both won their first invitational rounds.

 RiTides wrote:

 DarkCorsair wrote:
Most armies seem to have a few flyers, but I don't think there were too many.

I got the luck of being matched up against Tony Kopach round 1 Suffice to say I lost. He's running lots of grey hunters on foot with a giant allied Guard Blob led by Njal. Pretty nasty, but it was pretty close - with better dice I would have won at the end, and I also made a rather big mistake at the beginning. Was loads of fun though, I'm pumped for tomorrow! I'm going for a 4-1 Ren Man win baby!

I'm very interested in knowing what his list is/was...

From memory -

Njal
5x Grey Hunter squads, 4 w/ 2x Plasma and 1 w/ 2x Melta. All wolf standard and each lead by a PF Wolf Guard Terminator
2x Lone Wolves w/ Chainfists
Primaris Psyker
5 man PCS w/ no upgrades
50 man Blob Squad w/ 5x Power Axes

And...yeah, that's pretty much the list. I think it's a solid list, but it has some glaring weaknesses and some armies are simply going to crush it.

Results after Round 1; some armies TBD or being updated; I'm running around, as would be expected at this big a convention, and need to retrieve all the army lists.

FIRST NAME WON IN ALL CASES BELOW

Zachary Lovett (Necrons) vs. Aaron Aleong (GK/IG)
Alex Fennell (Necrons) vs. Vaden Ball (Tau/Eldar)
Allan Hernandez (GK) vs. Troy Esposito (GK)
Tony Kopach (SW/IG) vs. Andrew Blackwell (SW)
Andrew Gonyo (GK/IG) vs. Tim Horwath (GK/DA)
Bill McFadden (Ork/IG) vs. Nick Nanavati (Daemons)
Bill Souza (....) vs. Ryan Holliday (GK/Necrons)
Brad Townsend (....) vs. Rich Therkorn (...)
Neil Gilstrap (Necrons) vs. Dan Matulich (....)
Ray Tautic (GK/DA) vs. Devin Schafer (....)
Nate Stevens (...) vs. Ed Miller (...)
Eric Hoerger (Necrons) vs. Pete Daze (...)
Mike Taylor (BA) vs. Gabe Dobkin (IG)
Werner Born (....) vs. Hans Krueger (...)
Kelsey Haley (...) vs. Kyle Cox (...)
Kurt Clauss (Necrons) vs. Kenny Boucher (...)

You have a "..." next to Hulk's army!

Thanks for the update

Well you can add me into the list of losing to Tony. He decimated both of my wraith+destroyer lord units with the combo of jaws, enfeeble, and 50 lasguns using frfsrf. I came up short on an assault and that sealed the deal.

It's an interesting list, I definitely did not help myself any with how I deployed/moved/target prioritized.

Just started playing again after about... a decade, heading over soon for the 40k GT with my Tau. Psyched.

Just hoping for a win or two this weekend, and I'll be a happy Shas!

 morgendonner wrote:
Well you can add me into the list of losing to Tony. He decimated both of my wraith+destroyer lord units with the combo of jaws, enfeeble, and 50 lasguns using frfsrf. I came up short on an assault and that sealed the deal.

It's an interesting list, I definitely did not help myself any with how I deployed/moved/target prioritized.

I thought jaws didn't work on jump infantry. I must have been mistaken.

They now stated Jump Infantry are a type of Infantry; check the jump type rules. As a result, they follow affects to both, and are thus now jawsable. It was an eye opener when first brought to my attention too, at a local nova prep-our-judges tourney earlier in August.

Round 3 is wrapping up, lots of close matches again.

Any updates? I'm on ustream, which is sweet, but sound is out right now. Bill Souza and Mark Howell setting up now.

Who won the invitational and with what?

Final four for the invitational will be Kurt Clauss, Alex Fennel, Neil, and Tony. That doesn't resume until Sunday though.

Finished the first two rounds of the open, no idea where everybody stands this early on but I'm pretty sure most the invitational guys are 2-0 still minus ones that played each other.

Here is the meta for everyone...flyers up the wazoo.

There are a lot of flyers. There are also lots of 0-2 flyer spam lists. About 75%+ of games are finishing before the 2.5 hour buzzer. Invitational and Open standings at present are up on 3++ is the new black.

So about 1/4 games are ended by the clock? Are you tracking how many games ended by roll of random game length/went to turn 7?

The coverage is awesome.

If I was watching right---that all Pod assault got a pretty good jump on Hulk's Greyknights. Looked like Sternguard's ahoy.

 Mannahnin wrote:
So about 1/4 games are ended by the clock? Are you tracking how many games ended by roll of random game length/went to turn 7?

The coverage is awesome.

Not too specifically, no. For now this is all anecdotal, but we're getting almost no "rush," and the very visible majority are relaxing/wrapping up/handing in before or well before the 2.5 hour limit hits.

Although i have not talked to anyone about it much seems like the Open games are finishing on time with 3 hours for 2000 points.

I have talked to a lot of people who are playing in the invitational on the other hand and it seems like a lot of games are not finishing on time with 2.5 hours for 1750 points.


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 morgendonner wrote:
Final four for the invitational will be Kurt Clauss, Alex Fennel, Neil, and Tony. That doesn't resume until Sunday though.

Neil and Kurt have necron flyer armies. Alex is using a necron/grey knight army and Tony is using a space wolf/IG walking horde.

The Sternguard pounded me flat, I'm 2-1 in the invitational

And the Open is 2.5 with the Invitational being 2 hours.

I finished all of my games with 2 invite games going to 7, one going to 6, and my two open games with one going to 6 and one going to 5. Those are the rolled for finishes. Though some people do seem to be having trouble at the Invitational finishing.

Lists available?

Here are the armies in the top bracket. This is Round 6 so after this it will just be the top 4.

Top 8:
Space Wolves/IG
Necrons (Flyer Spam)
Sister/GK
Necrons/Orks
GK/Necrons
Necrons
Daemons
GK/Necrons

Guys in Bracket 1 Who Lost Round 5:
Space Wolves
GK/IG
Sisters of Battle
IG
GK/Space Wolves
IG/Orks
Eldar/Dark Eldar
Necrons

5 out of 8. Necrons FTW.

Sisters/gk is a Portland, or local.

Pics from earlier today













Yermom's Daemons at the Top Table in Round 5:




Tony Kopach's SW/IG at Table 5 or 6 in Round 5 (with some termies sneaking up behind them in the top right corner):




Lasercut terrain by Tectonic Craft:




Painting contest entries:




More pics here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-9594-28596_Nova%20Open%202012.html

Also, cheers to MVBrandt for connecting name to screen name and knowing what the heck I was talking about when I walked up to him today

Am I missing something or why was Tony assaulting after rapid firing his blob squad against Neil? He kept doing it late game, is his blob getting relentless somehow?


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I just double checked, he does it at least twice against his wraiths/warriors which helped sling shot him into the far corner.