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I'm pulling for jy2. I think you can win it all with your Tyranids. Have fun! : )

I'm saying 5-2 with one shellacking. FW will be your undoing.

Ok, last post before the tournament. Then it's off to the event tomorrow morning for me and SabrX.


Come on by and say hi. And if you want, I will put you in my battle report. I'm going to take a little more of a personal perspective of the games. I'm not just playing against another army. I'm playing against another person!


And here is my army - Hive Fleet Pandora:


Almost completed.


Finally finished my termagants. Well, 20 of them at least.


Also worked on my biovores. Only 1 left to finish.


Last but not least, got a new flyrant and was able to finish him before the tournament. Should have used him as my Warlord. He got Iron Arm in maybe 4-5 of my games! My actual Warlord flyrant only got Iron Arm once!

More photos of my new flyrant:






Coming up tomorrow....photos of the other armies.


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Ok, took a lot of pictures of other people's armies. There were 144 players, of which I probably got photos of half the armies. As there are a lot of pics, I'm going to organize it by categories. The photos within do not represent all the armies in those categories, just some of them.

First off, a special mention to the winner of the BAO and her beautiful "Sea Daemons"


Elizabeth Foster, the hardcore gaming nut (no, just kidding). She is the only person ever to go a perfect 7-0 at the BAO, beating the very, very good Alan Bajramovic in the final game for the BAO Championship.

Frontlinegaming will be posting the videorep of their game in the future (I think).


And her beautifully converted "Sea Daemons" Chaos Daemon army. Sorry for the mess as this photo was taken just right after she finished her game.


More pictures to come. Check back periodically.


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There appears to be a theme in this tournament and that theme isn't really Forgeworld. Yes, there were a lot of FW units in this tournament. However, even more prevalent than FW is what I will call the predominant tournament builds:


Heldrake Armies:




The Forces of (Non-Heldrake) Chaos:




Eldar/Dark Eldar:




The Imperial Guards:




The "Marines":




Necrons:




The Inquisition:




Tau/Orks:




Tyranids:




Ok, all finished with the army pics. Stay tuned for my first battle report - Game #1 - coming tomorrow.

I really hope you take first with your nids, it's been a great time watching you improve with them this past year.

I might have mentioned it before but it was your battle reports that got my brother and me back into 40k. Thanks for the inspiration and the incredibly entertaining chronicles of your battles.

Best of luck!
Jason

Good luck, I reckon Top 5, if there had been a Top 3 option I would have chosen that, and if I had to bet money I'd go 3rd place.

That is if I had any spare money that wasn't already being funneled into wargaming lol

Also, if you want to freak your opponents out a bit, grow your hair a bit and make it spikey, shave your beard, and dress the same as the bobblehead. Then wear it on your shoulder. Talk to it, feed it, all sorts of things you can do to make people distracted. And it'd make for a hilarious photo.

Just finished a 1500 astrominicon. It ended DE 1 , nids 2. I hope you rock and take first. Love your reports man.

Good luck! Also LOL, is that a bobblehead of yourself?!

Let it be known, I expect a quick progress report at the end of the day...

Hahaha yeah, we're on the edge of our seats!!

I voted that you take it all. Good luck, and for the swarm!

As a Ork player I say go nids. A good ork player can build a list that will tear apart corns, but the same list will not do well against bugs. That could be said of most armies I think. Throw in that wrench at let havoc reign.

Man, just got back from the tournament and had an awesome time. First of all, I'd like to thank Reece, Frankie and the people at Frontlinegaming for putting up the event. You guys did an excellent job!

Secondly, I'd like to congratulate the winner of the event - the very first female player to ever win a large GT (and with a non-flamer/screamer-spam Daemon army!!!). Congratulations, Liz, for making 40K history!

Sorry....tired, hungry and need to go watch the Walking Dead (before sleeping). More updates tomorrow.

 More Dakka wrote:
Good luck! Also LOL, is that a bobblehead of yourself?!

Yup!

Shame you didn't win, but congratulations to her! I can't wait to see the batreps, I'm sure you put in a great showing!

 jy2 wrote:
Man, just got back from the tournament and had an awesome time. First of all, I'd like to thank Reece, Frankie and the people at Frontlinegaming for putting up the event. You guys did an excellent job!

Secondly, I'd like to congratulate the winner of the event - the very first female player to ever win a large GT (and with a non-flamer/screamer-spam Daemon army!!!). Congratulations, Liz, for making 40K history!

I wish I lived in the US, I can't imagine large tournaments like that happening down here. And wasn't she also the first to carry the BAO undefeated? 7 wins on the trot or something along those lines?

What did she play?

Ok, posted some photos above.

More pics of the tournament armies coming tomorrow

z3bb3 wrote:
What did she play?

The tournament winner, Elizabeth Foster, played daemons. Her army was:

2 Heralds of Tzeentch on Chariots
1 Bloodthirster
3 Flamer units
4 Horror units
2 Screamer units


She went a perfect 7-0, the only person to ever do so at the BAO. She beat Alan Bajramovic - a very good player who won TSHFT and Wargamescon and is a member of Team USA at the ETC - to win the title.

Very nice! Sounds like much fun was had.

But I just wanted to point out one thing about the Crons; Gloom Prisms on Spyders, that 4+ null psychic powers is pretty nice, considering the only thing better than that wargear is the Grey Knights Null Rod.


Im excited to see the photos now!

 jy2 wrote:
Ok, posted some photos above.

More pics of the tournament armies coming tomorrow

z3bb3 wrote:
What did she play?

The tournament winner, Elizabeth Foster, played daemons. Her army was:

2 Heralds of Tzeentch on Chariots
1 Bloodthirster
3 Flamer units
4 Horror units
2 Screamer units


She went a perfect 7-0, the only person to ever do so at the BAO. She beat Alan Bajramovic - a very good player who won TSHFT and Wargamescon and is a member of Team USA at the ETC - to win the title.

You had me confused and slightly concerned for a while when you said that she wasn't running Flamer/Screamer spam, without either of those two units Daemons aren't anywhere near as strong so it would be a massive surprise to see that take out a top GT. However that list isn't Flamer and Screamer spam, its a more balanced Flamer and Screamer list with a Thirster to deal with Fliers and more than 2 small Plaguebearers so you have more options in heavily objective based missions.

Ok will be wainting armies and places

Will be updating my batrep with photos throughout the day. Sorry, but there are a lot of pics to process and upload.

Check back periodically for photos as well as comments.

My Game #1 will probably be up tomorrow.

Are you putting your batreps in this thread, or starting a new one? Either way, I think it's safe to say we're all really looking forward to reading about your weekend!

It'll be in the same thread.

when seeing the helldrake armies, people seem to make lists and assume they will do everything, you need a very agressive list and playstyle.

as with all flyers if you fail to dictate the game they will take them down.

but tbh so many deamons man, good job on nerfing those flamers GW, to bad you nerfed the whole army to smithereens in the proces though

I couldn't get accross the border ... I had passport issues with your @@##4 customs and missed the tournament and my business appointment down south. Ah well. At least Xenos and not Necrons won. It was the last hurrah for screamer/flamer spam too.

 jy2 wrote:
The tournament winner, Elizabeth Foster, played daemons. Her army was:

2 Heralds of Tzeentch on Chariots
1 Bloodthirster
3 Flamer units
4 Horror units
2 Screamer units

So it was an atypical screamer/flamer spam army


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 jy2 wrote:

 More Dakka wrote:
Good luck! Also LOL, is that a bobblehead of yourself?!

Yup!

Wait...you can get personal bobble heads!?! That is so cool!

 Eldarain wrote:
I really hope you take first with your nids, it's been a great time watching you improve with them this past year.

I might have mentioned it before but it was your battle reports that got my brother and me back into 40k. Thanks for the inspiration and the incredibly entertaining chronicles of your battles.

Best of luck!
Jason

You're very welcome!

I'm glad I'm able to inspire. When you love a hobby, there's nothing more gratifying than to be able to encourage more people to get into (or get back into) this great hobby of ours.

 motyak wrote:
Good luck, I reckon Top 5, if there had been a Top 3 option I would have chosen that, and if I had to bet money I'd go 3rd place.

That is if I had any spare money that wasn't already being funneled into wargaming lol

Also, if you want to freak your opponents out a bit, grow your hair a bit and make it spikey, shave your beard, and dress the same as the bobblehead. Then wear it on your shoulder. Talk to it, feed it, all sorts of things you can do to make people distracted. And it'd make for a hilarious photo.

Nah, that'll give me too much of an advantage.

Stormbreed wrote:
Just finished a 1500 astrominicon. It ended DE 1 , nids 2. I hope you rock and take first. Love your reports man.

Thanks! So were you DE or were you the bugs?

krazykishere wrote:
As a Ork player I say go nids. A good ork player can build a list that will tear apart corns, but the same list will not do well against bugs. That could be said of most armies I think. Throw in that wrench at let havoc reign.

Yeah. It's hard to fight both a good necron army and a good tyranid army. And with the number of cover-ignoring weapons at the tournament there, orks had a really tough time (i.e. all those heldrakes, thunderfire cannons, flamers, etc.).

However, my friend SabrX did really good with his Torks (Tau/Orks), going 5-2 overall.

 Xzerios wrote:
Very nice! Sounds like much fun was had.

But I just wanted to point out one thing about the Crons; Gloom Prisms on Spyders, that 4+ null psychic powers is pretty nice, considering the only thing better than that wargear is the Grey Knights Null Rod.


Im excited to see the photos now!

The only problem with that is that spyders are so slow. If you trail the scarabs, then they will be protected. However, if you run wraiths like I do, the wraiths will usually outpace the spyders by a long shot, especially when you move and assault. But still, I guess something is better than nothing and for anyone who ever runs spyders, definitely consider getting the Gloom Prism.

Powerguy wrote:

You had me confused and slightly concerned for a while when you said that she wasn't running Flamer/Screamer spam, without either of those two units Daemons aren't anywhere near as strong so it would be a massive surprise to see that take out a top GT. However that list isn't Flamer and Screamer spam, its a more balanced Flamer and Screamer list with a Thirster to deal with Fliers and more than 2 small Plaguebearers so you have more options in heavily objective based missions.

Sorry. I was going off what I saw and with some of her heavy conversions, it's quite hard to tell what some of her units were. It didn't look like she was spamming flamers/screamers.

In any case, yeah, her Tzeentch daemons were a little more balanced than some of the other daemon armies, incorporating not only flamers and screamers.

I'm looking forward to hearing about your games and the overall experience! (And maybe get an idea of how well the DA players fared!) I haven't played competitively in over a decade, reading your battle reports on the run up to the BAO really got me excited, I think I'll have to attend next year!

 Valek wrote:
when seeing the helldrake armies, people seem to make lists and assume they will do everything, you need a very agressive list and playstyle.

as with all flyers if you fail to dictate the game they will take them down.

but tbh so many deamons man, good job on nerfing those flamers GW, to bad you nerfed the whole army to smithereens in the proces though

Not too familiar with the new Daemon army yet, as I have yet to get the codex. However, I do agree that heldrakes need to be complemented with the right units. Seems like a lot of the "heldrake armies" just took advantage of the heldrakes without having a whole lot of synergy in the army.

Then again, I only played against 1 heldrake army in the entire tournament. That's too bad because heldrakes don't really bother my army too much.

 felixcat wrote:
I couldn't get accross the border ... I had passport issues with your @@##4 customs and missed the tournament and my business appointment down south. Ah well. At least Xenos and not Necrons won. It was the last hurrah for screamer/flamer spam too.

That really blows. Sorry to hear about that.

So were you planning to come to the BAO, or was it another tournament that you missed?

Surprisingly, necrons weren't really that common at this tournament. They were actually a "minority" army.

 wyomingfox wrote:

Wait...you can get personal bobble heads!?! That is so cool!

Yeah, had it customized in Asia. Pretty cool souvenir.



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 Brock79 wrote:
I'm looking forward to hearing about your games and the overall experience! (And maybe get an idea of how well the DA players fared!) I haven't played competitively in over a decade, reading your battle reports on the run up to the BAO really got me excited, I think I'll have to attend next year!

Awesome! Come join the party.

Even though there were some competitive armies out there, overall I think most of the people had a lot of fun.

I think DA did alright. There were 3 DA players who made it to the Top 20.

The Blue DE with the white and green Eldar allies was mine, it is the 3rd shown DE army. I got 4th overall and best DE player.

The caption with "Wraithdar!" under it was my buddy Mark Broughton's Iyanden army. He won best Eldar player.

Thanks for the pics and congrats on Best Nid!

SCP Yeeman wrote:
The Blue DE with the white and green Eldar allies was mine, it is the 3rd shown DE army. I got 4th overall and best DE player.

The caption with "Wraithdar!" under it was my buddy Mark Broughton's Iyanden army. He won best Eldar player.

Thanks for the pics and congrats on Best Nid!

Awesome! Thanks for the introductions. I'll be sure to mention you guys under your armies. For my reports, I like to also introduce the persons, not just the armies (at least for those that I've met). Congrats to both you and and Mark for a very fine job, both in your armies and your performances!