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Hey guys.
As all of you know recently Brandt and his fine crew hosted a massive gaming convention in VA.
He hosted several events, two of which were the 40k GT and the 40k Invitational. I played in both quite happily.
In the next few days I will be typing up reports, my GF was also there taking pictures of all the games. I will try to find some of my games and throw them up.

Picture of my 2k Army






But for now, this is the Thread for which I will be posting all the battle reports in. My lists were as follows:
D lord with fun stuff
3x5 warrs with Scythes
5 morts walking on
11 wraiths with 6 whips i think
5 scarabs
3 spyders
2 Doom scythes.

Pretty simple, not very complicated .

2k--
D lord again
Barge lord with scythe and scarabs
1 cryptek with abyssal staff

5 deathmarks in scythe

5 warrs in scythe
5 morts in scythe
2x5 morts walking on

12 wraiths with 6 whips
6 scarabs

2 A--barges
3 spyders

My plan with the 1750 list was to overwhelm most hybrid armies with firepower and killing power, against horde armies I would hopefully get 2nd and take objectives and tie KP and quarters. Against MSU i would just blow up the tanks and eat whatever i can while mainting board dominance. Essentially i would always hang back or sit midfield until my flyers came in, then I would go in for a large attack where I would get a charge with all 3 units and good shots off with my flyers.

At 2k my list was a bit of the same but with much more on foot so it was a more balanced list. The idea was to be prepared to play against anything, it had the ability to table weaker armies while maintaining good board control for MSU armies and solid assault/shooting to deal with deathstars. If you know how I did already. Dont spoil it for anyone else

I will start writing the reports tonight. But I will ask, would you guys prefer I start writing them now? or wait for my GF to find pictures then try to integrate them?

Your GF actually stuck with you throughout the tournament and not get bored? Wow....

heh you would be correct. She was there the entire weekend from thursday night until sunday evening watching almost every game. She was taking pictures for NOVA also so she had some entertainment through that, she also had her laptop and my tablet. Though most of the time she was actually watching which was mildly impressive lol.

To be honest, I would love to see this with the pictures - I am willing to wait!

Klauss you are a very tall, tall man.

Looking forward to your Bat Reps, kinda wished I played you also!

 Clauss wrote:
Though most of the time she was actually watching which was mildly impressive lol.

You are one lucky son of a Necron.

I'm fine waiting for the pictures, but I'm sure it will be a good read either way.

hehe I am not that tall. Only 6"3.

Mikhail did I meet you at nova? Ill get a game in whenever
I would agree I am quite lucky my GF was willing to sit through every game then go to dinner with me and a bunch of gamers while we talked about more nerdy stuff.

I think i am going to just write the reports, then add the pictures when I get them to make them better.

I played Tony Round 7 with my Sisters

I had the pleasure of getting tabled by Kurt in the first round of the GT. From there, fortunately, there was nowhere to go but up!

:( makes me feel bad man.
I never like having a game like that, but that is the way the dice rolled in our game. Mine got hot, yours were anything but that.

Oh, don't worry about it! It really was a very fun game, but you're right about the dice. Your Tesla rolls were crazy, but it was worth it when they killed your own Destroyer Lord! :-)

I'm really not much of a competitive player (as you could probably tell), but I had a great time at the NOVA Open. All my opponents were great to play with, and I can honestly say I didn't have a single bad game, even when my dice conspired against me. After the re-bracketing, I even made it to the final rounds for "best of the worst."

I also can't say enough how impressed I was with Mike and all of the staff, they did an incredible job!

Back on topic, I'm looking forward to reading about how the rest of your games went.

Here is a quick bat rep from game one against SpaceRatCather---

Game one-- (Warning, I type these quickly and I like to ramble, so I will be writing long sentences that are most likely run ons. if that bothers you...well sorry.)

NOTE---When i say left and right, I will refer to my left and right, whichever position I AM IN. So I will try not to confuse you too much.

My list is in the original post, remember this is 2k, not 1750. From memory this was his list:

Grand master with blind/rad/psychotroke
Coteaz

5-10 purifiers--4 psy (combat squadded)
10 Terminators with mix of hammer/sword/halberd( combat squadded)
5-10 strikes with psycannons
( it was either 10 strikes or 10 purifiers, i cant remember which.
henchman squad with plasmaguns and plasma cannons with servitors i think

stormraven with TL MM and TL Hbolt

Dread with TL Asscan+DCC + psybolt
Dread with TL LC+DCCW

I believe that was it. From the looks of it is not the most competetive build as it does not exploit the best things in the codex. But regardless of the list or the jolly nature of my opponent I was taking the game seriously so that I wouldnt get blindsided or something.

Mission was KP-OBJ-quarters---
Deployment was Dawn of war--
warlord traits were..I dont honestly remember, i dont think they were that important.
Psychic powers, He gets misfortune :( and he gets Prescience. Two real solid powers on coteaz.

Deployment--
I had first turn and took it due to it being KPs, i was hoping to neutralize a bit of his firepower if I could turn one.

Scarabs in area terrain in center with spyders behind them in a line, wraiths middle left and middle right about 12 inches up giving cover to my barges and everything else in case he ceases or I need cover. Both annhilation barges are essentially where my objectives are. 5 immortals are out of LOS behind terrain. 3 NS in reserve

He combat squads his termies and his strikes/purifs so that he can claim more objectives, but the drawback is this is KPs, so it is a risky move most likely.
termies split up and go about 24 inches from his short edge on both sides. 5 man strike in middle about 8 inches from his edge, TL LC dread is middle left, TL AC is middle right. 5 purifs with 2 psy are on left with dread, 5 strikes and coteaz+hench are in his area ruins on top right. Gm joins left squad of termies.

TURN ONE---
I roll up to get in range with A barges to shoot purifs on left, other moves into range to shoot termies or henchmen, spawn scarabs, scarabs move up behind the center terrain to create a large threat bubble, wraiths on right move up about 7-8 inches to either make him commit to something. spyders stay behind scarabs/wraiths. lefts wraiths move around edge of board, about 9 inches up, but about 3-4 left so that i can catch his dread next turn and whatever purifiers are left while avoiding his termies/drawing them out. Oh also, my command barge turbos into the middle LOS blocking terraina nd hides so next turn he can go for the 5 man troop.

Shooing kills 3-4 purifiers with my annhilation barge, good rolling for me, did like 8 wounds, he failed 4/8. Then right A barge kills a few hench and maybe one termie..dont remember, it wasn't much though.

His bottom---
Casts misfortune on wraiths, expected this, was expecting my D lord to soak up all the wounds with a 2+ armor and then LOS the plasma to fresh wraiths. Prescience either goes on termies or hench. Termies stay put or shuffle a bit, hench stay put, right strikes move a bit to get shots off. Left termies move towards my wraiths to get shots off. Left dread shuffles to get a good shot on A barge, purif hides behind terrain, middle 5 strikes in area terrain move around to take a few shots, right dread is behind termies to get shots on my wraiths.

Shooting on left from dreads LC does nothing to barge needed a 4+ to pen, his termies with Gm fire on wraiths, kill one I think. Shooting on right goes 100% on wraiths/dlord. He rolls about averageish and I roll a bit cold here, D lord goes down to misfortune to a few less wounds than i expected. Kills 1 wraith, wounds 2 others with LOS, so the right side push got fairly stopped. Luckily my D lord gets back up like a beast and rejoins his team.

Turn 2---
I spawn more scarabs, two night scythes come in, one on right to do some wounds to strikes, other comes in to put shots on dread or termies, dont remember. Deathmarks dont come.
Right wraiths move to engage the termies. Left wraiths move to engage the dread and knock it out. Scarabs move up middle to control the board and be cool. A barges move up to kill models, command barge jumps out of terrain to shoot and assault the 5 man troop.

Command barge kills 1 with shooting, a barges maybe kill 2 terminators total, night scythe on right kills 1-2 strikes, left scythe i dont remember...wraiths hit dread..immobilize and stun :(, right wraiths beat up the terminators with MSS and lord help, command barge kill all 5 guys with the d6 impact hits and his WS attacks. terminators on right flee, only 1 lives, he regroups next turn.

His bottom, his raven comes i think, moved so it can shoot my flyer on left, terminators with GM go to assault my wraiths, lone purifier joins to help/die because it was that or get shot down next turn or assaulted by scarabs. Then coteaz and unit rapid fire on wraith squad/d lord again and so do strikes, his justicar from termies goes after my command barge with his dread to kill my lord. Shooting kills a few wraiths and his assault on left weakens wraiths alot. Dread makes my Lord go squish, but MSS i think kills his justicar..or i shot him down next turn. GM squad of termies rolls something useless on psychotroke Then almost wipes them but i do kill the lone purifier and the dread lives.

Turn 3---

Scarabs commit right to take out the remaining strikes and the hench, wraiths assist to ID coteaz. All my scythes target his raven or his dread and justicar. The dread that made my lord go squish goes boom due to two tesla destructors. Justicar dies to another set of shooting. No damage to Raven. So everything is in melee of his.

Assault he gets my wraiths down to 1-2 models, also his purifier died after trying to cleansing flame. Right wraiths and scarabs eat his strikes/hench, coteaz and a few more models are left.

His bottom--
Raven goes hover mode, the combat side of the purifier unit hops out to assault my wraiths/scarabs. They miss their charge...of 5 inches..really put the nail in the coffin there.
Assault he wipes my wraiths on left, coteaz/strieks all die in melee. I consolidate out.

Turn 4. Deathmarks come in..or they were in before, but now they make their move. Scarabs go after his raven to eat it, wraiths and one A barge go after purifs. Everything else goes for his termies, deathmarks mark and unload. Kill all but the GM and 1-2 models. Purifs go down to shooting/assault, raven dies from entropic.

His bottom Gm and 2 guys wipe out deathmarks, dread takes naother pot shot.

Turn 5---
I unload on Gm and the immobolized dread, cant kill either, move my D lord to assault alone because he is a champ and wants to 1v1 his GM. tesla arcs off of Gm and kills my D lord

His turn his Gm tries to hide and take a shot or two.

game goes on.

Turn 6---
I pour the rest of my shots into both of them, the dread finally goes down, and so does the GM.

Was a good game, but my opponents list was much less competitive that it needed to be at the level of cheese I was playing with.
Very fun game to start off with against a really nice opponent with some very very nicely painted GKs.

4/4 quarters, 4/5 objectives, 2000 pts

On to GAME TWO against...GKs

Strong showing. Looking forward to game 2!

Hah thanks man. Also what did you think of the style/point of view? Would people prefer less? more tactics? quick and dirty of each turn? just want to get an idea of what people prefer to read. Also I will add pictures tonight if possible.

Which I prefer really depends on how much brain energy I have when reading it. I do find that a summary of each army's turn, followed by a quick couple of lines about the tactics of the turn, (or what needs to happen on the next one) is a consistently enjoyable read.

Subscribed! I saw your game vs Tony on livestream but it was a bit hard to follow, look forward to seeing all your games!

 Ricedaddy wrote:
Which I prefer really depends on how much brain energy I have when reading it. I do find that a summary of each army's turn, followed by a quick couple of lines about the tactics of the turn, (or what needs to happen on the next one) is a consistently enjoyable read.

This is good. A turn recap, plus some thoughts about what you were trying to or will try to achieve.

Concur. A relatively quick summary of the action is good, but if you can insert some thoughts on tactics and plans, what you were trying to achieve with a given move and the like, that's great.

Will do. I will try to make them to your guys requests. Also the GF will be loading up all the pictures from nova to drop box so I can pick and choose which ones I want to use. Or possibly post them all up for people to see.

Awesome. You can upload them here, too, if you like.

Glad to have met you this weekend buddy. Hanging out with you was pretty fun even if you ducked me in both events

And props to his lady who put up with an outrageous amount of geekery this weekend.

 Clauss wrote:

Was a good game, but my opponents list was much less competitive that it needed to be at the level of cheese I was playing with.
Very fun game to start off with against a really nice opponent with some very very nicely painted GKs.

Thanks, Kurt. 'Twas indeed an enjoyable game, though a bit one-sided.

That is more-or-less my list; it was indeed one 10-man Strike squad and one 10-man Purifier squad. I also can't recall what the Warlord traits were, but clearly they didn't have much impact. The Purifiers not being able to make a 4-5" charge pretty much set the tone for my other games too, but at least they lived long enough to disembark in this case. Likewise, I only got a useful result on Psychotroke one time out of all eight games, and I rolled 1 at least four times!

Oh, and the Justicar didn't get a chance to kill himself 'cause of MSS--the hammer of wrath hits took him out!

Going to write report #2 later tonight most likely.

In all honesty Ragnar I dont think I have ever put a photo on dakka lol so I dont know how.

It was a pleasure to hang out with you Hulk, very fun at dinner making fun of Nicks..shortcomings we shall call them. Ducking you? insanity, I duck no man. Heh yeah I am quite surprised she didnt try to hurt me or make me buy her something shiny.

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GAME #2----

Opponent is Luke Chamberlain I believe, not sure if I got his last name right.
Young kid about my age. He is running:

GK grand master with grenades and upgrades

5 paladins with 2 psy and hammer/halberds

40 strikes with psy and swords ( or 30)

2 ravens with Tl MM and TL AC

So huge foot force with 2 raven for AA.

We are on a table with solid LOS blocking in the middle with Hammer and Anvil deployment. His range is 24 also, but I have much much better mobility.

The mission is objectives with Hammer and Anvil as I stated earlier. I won the roll and gave him first turn..

With my army i want 2nd turn almost every time due to flyers and my mobility, not to mention these missions.
My strategy is to limit his shooting to a few psycannons while making sure my annhilation barges are getting shots off to clip away at the marines while ignoring the paladins until later. So plan is to murder all the strikes then deal with the paladins with a torrent of fire or double wraith action. Regarding his ravens, I want to give them targets so that they get close so I can deal with them on my own terms and so they are overextended from the rest of his army.

Deployment---



Classic deployment, goal is to control the middle while giving him bad targets and clipping marines until my 3 flyers come in, then I make my move.

He deploys slightly back from the deployment zone with pallies and GM in middle, the rest of strikes to the side and behind, keeps his stuff together more or less, combat squads them all so he can go in as man y quarters as possible.

Turn One-
He shuffles and casts some powers, I think he casted warp quake since he thought I had a veil until I told him I didnt. No perils. He makes sure if I shoot him I have to snap fire.

My turn, I make scarabs, cover as much of the board as I can while taking some pot shots with barges, kill probably 1-2 marines. Wraiths move to about 25 inches away so if he wants to play he has to come to me. I am fine with what is going on now if he wants to keep shuffling back due to have second turn and he gives me more board, if he commits I will have targets and can pick my battles. Also i move my barges to about 12 inches from the center of board so he has targets for his multimelta and I can counter strike them if he brings them to take down my barges, with a 5+ jink save against a MM maybe I will jink one and the other barge dies. I am okay with trading 1 barge for 2 ravens.

Turn two--

Both ravens arrive, come on bottom of board near me. So the side farther than me, essentially right in front of me to down the barges. He shuffles the rest a bit forward to take a few more shots but is careful not to be in assault range.
Shooting, both MM pen, I Jink one, then he rolls a 1 on the other only to stun it, I then use living metal to ignore it. The assault cannons tried to take down my wraiths or barges, did a few wounds to wraiths or nothing to barges, he then tosses a few missiles at the wraiths too to put another wound or two on them.

My turn--

3 scythes come in I think, maybe 2. I move them to take down/stun/immoblize his ravens. I make more scarabs, I move everything in a bubble to cover the board more so he has almost no choices of where he can go with his ravens, he hither goes into hover, or zooms past me, or beside me on the top of the board and be a bad angle.

Two scythes fire to try to neutralize the ravens, results in stunning one of the ravens. Which meant it could only go 18 and not turn. Which we both realized would mean that his raven would be dead since i had that spot covered. I then threw an annhilation barge at the other raven to try to do the same, but was unable to damage it. So the rest of my shooting clipped a few more marines, but no squads dead yet. Wraiths position into about 25 inches away, I am still happy with this standoff because currently I am winning, also my deathmarks are not in yet so he doesnt have to worry about those, I believe the two troops scythes came in.

Turn 3---
He flies his raven off the board due to lack of options and was slightly scared because of other ones fate.

positions to get good shots on my barges and try to take them down with rending while also toss a few bolter shots on wraiths on top and bottom of board. His psycannons knock out one annhilation barge, other psycannons do some hullpoints to my command barge but through cover and dropping a wound off to get rid of damage results, he survives, he also puts a few wounds on my wraiths up top.

He also has moved into torrent range of my stuff so I can force action upon him while also targeting his troops.

Bottom of 3---

I move my wraiths into threatening range of his army, not in assault but about 15-16 from his lines. I also move up my scythes into firing positions, my deathmark scythe comes on 36 to shoot at marines. I focus all my tesla at his psycannon squads to reduce his range power to just bolters. Shooting wipes out two 5 man squads and wittles another down to a few less marines I believe. I also get a charge off against the remaining 3 marines with my barge lord, he wipes the squad with hammer of wrath/mindshackle/warscythe attacks. At this point I believe he has 15 strikes and 5 paladins left, they are being slightly boxed in by my wraiths.

Turn 4--

Raven comes back on to melta my barges/asscan other stuff. Strikes shuffle away to shoot at me more, paladins fire at wraiths more with d lord. Firing kills a wraith or two, not much damage is done, his MM is jinked again by my D lords cover save. Really rough spot for my opponent, because now my barge lord is going to swipe his raven with warscythe doom.

My turn, wraith squad up top goes for paladins, deathmarks move up to flamer/mark/rapid fire another 5 man squad, all other tesla targets the other 2 5 man squads to reduce his model count. Tesla finishes off another 5 man, barge lord sweeps raven, pens twice, makes it go boom with AP1. He then shoots and assaults more strikes, with help of tesla he is able to polish off another 5 man. So he is down to a 3 man strike, and 5 paladins/plus hq. I charge paladins with scarabs and wraiths. Objective here is to get lucky with scarabs maybe break some armor while absorbing the attacks on them from hammers instead of wraiths. Scarabs lose a bunch of bases, dont care at all, wraiths kill a pally, wraith dies, and another wound on another, d lord doesnt die or kill much i think. Forget if mindshackle goes off.

Turn 5--

At this point he has two units, his final 2 strikes try to get revenge on my deathmarks, shooting kills 1 deathmark then they assault, one dies from overwatching deathmarks. He wins melee by one, I make my LD 9. Paladins do work and kill a ton more scarabs and another wraith, I kill another paladin, mindshackle is passed I think.

My bottom--
I move into all quarters, I have 5 immorts in bottom left claiming objective, 5 immorts in top right claiming that obj, spyders in top left securing that quarter, other wraith squad chilling in bottom right with 5 warrs. Deathmarks in melee in top right with the paladin/wraith/scarab melee. I move nto all objectives minus middle. barge lord moves to charge his grand master so he can hammer of wrath..shackle then hopefully kill him. ALl scarabs die, D lord dies sometime in there, I honestly forget where but he misses his 2+ armor. Barge lord doesnt do anything with hammer, guy passes mindshackle then kills my OV with force weapon :( Wraiths all die. Sad face, i expected to get that squad down to 1-2 models since his GM had a hammer.

5 deathmarks kill the one strike in melee..hooray..

Turn 6--
Paladins cant get to any objective, so decide to just kill the barge for fun before the game ends.

They charge it, it goes boom. While also taking the top right corner from me.

My turn, I toss a few shots into the pallies for fun, no real damage. Game ends.

3-0 on objectives, 3-1 on quarters, about 1500 victory points. 2-0 so Far. No complaints at all. Hopefully next round goes smoothly too.

I don't know about the black and green, but those gold and blue Necrons look fantastic

You played 3 GK players in a row?

I can't wait to see what happened in game #3.

 Clauss wrote:
GAME #
Two scythes fire to try to neutralize the ravens, results in stunning one of the ravens. Which meant it could only go 18 and not turn. Which we both realized would mean that his raven would be dead since i had that spot covered.

You know he can get rid of being stunned by taking a psychic check for fortitude.

>.< I think we totally forgot about fortitude. I literally did not even think of that until now.
Wow, I feel like a complete scrub now lol.

Heh my order of games for the GT was---GK, GK, SW, GK/cron, IG/Ork, Gk/Cron, ...Invit was Daemon, GK, GK, Sw/IG...
So it was 3 GK players in a row, happily

did people comment on your mix n match crons much?

LValx wrote:
did people comment on your mix n match crons much?

It confused me at first.

Since Kurt has 2 doom scythes and 3 night scythes I thought that the ones that look different were the doom scythes. I found out that this assumption was incorrect.