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Sounds wild! I expect full Battle Reports from the top matches!

Sounds like a great time.

Just out of curiosity, what were the numbers like for attendance?

Yah looking forward to batreps and lists as well. Super interested in Reece, mort's, and Frankie's list. As those are the 3 top most that I've been playing around with. I'd also love to find out how the various drop pod armies fared as I've been using mine since 6th dropped to very good effect.

Had a great time with my buddy at your tourney, Rob. Everyone graciously beat me like a rented mule. Highly competitive lists and players who were exceedingly pleasant opponents. The organization seemed great and I heard several compliments from more experienced tourney goers than me.

Highly recommended.

My list:
180 Boyz Green tide w/ Nobz and goodies.
Skyshield
KFF
15 Lootas
Dakka Jet

Game 1 vs Eldar Harlequins. Loss, but even match.
Game 2 vs Slaanesh Flying Circuis. Win but should've been a draw and had I played faster would've been a loss.
Game 3 vs Eldar jetbikes and Harlequins. Loss.
Game 4 vs Tau w/Eldar Allies. This was a crushing defeat. My opponent killed all but abou 20 Orks. I killed none of his models. ZERO.
Game 5 vs Dark Angel Bikes w/ terminator Death Star. This was the friendliest match, but still, alas, a loss.
Game 6 vs Space Wolves. Drop. The TO went out of his way to pair my buddy and i then my friend had to take a call from the boss (wife). We opted for a roll-off to determine the result. He rolled a 1, I a 5! Victory!

All in all it was a great experience. I was a little disappointed not to see more varied lists. There were 5-10 Tau centered lists +/- Eldar Allies. Really you couldn't throw an ork without hitting one of them. Although some were complete (and AMAZINGLYpainted), more than a few were incompletly painted. No biggie, but it tells me something.

But the final round was more telling of great generalship and list building. I think the real story may be of second place. I won't steal his thunder, but I will say the traditional colors of this would be a canine colored yellow. I'd call it the Ol'Yeller list. I mean fist...
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@ Loch: I think there were 32 ish tables filled.

 jy2 wrote:
1st - Adam (Mortavie) - Eldar + Tau
2nd - Reece (Reecius) - Space Marines + Space Wolves
3rd - Paul - Tau
4th - Frankie - Dark Eldar + Eldar

That's all I know for now.

No offense to Adam, but I am always more impressed by people like Reece who do well with armies that are not considered top tier than I am with players who win with the top armies.

No offense taken Allen, however I was not playing to impress you, so it's all good.

Regardless, I have been playing Eldar since 3rd and my army was not a cookie cutter point-click "net list" :/. Because of how the game panned out with Reece, I could have been playing the worst army ever and still won as long as I had 2 fast scoring units, lol.. Such is a game that involves luck and dice (as our game came down to exactly that).

All in all, fun games and a great event!

 mortetvie wrote:
No offense taken Allen, however I was not playing to impress you, so it's all good.

OH SNAP!

 mortetvie wrote:
No offense taken Allen, however I was not playing to impress you, so it's all good.

Well you failed then! You did impress me because winning any GT is a very impressive feat.

It is just doing it with a crappy army is even more impressive.

And I know you are a long time Thousand Son player and Eldar player. Heck, you were doing really well with Eldar before the new codex. Every codex has its time to shine and right now Eldar and Tau are the top dogs,

Indeed, I was thinking of bringing Thousand Sons even! However, I hate having to rely on Hell Drakes and Demons to carry the poor little guys...

Just to toot my own horn a little, I did take Thousand Sons to the LVGT in 2005 and was the ONLY person to go 5-0 but didn't place because I am failtastic at painting lol..Oh how I wish GW understood how to make Tzeench/Thousand Sons work =(.

Anyway...Bringing a crappy army to a GT is like bringing a Geo Metro to an indy 500...Sure as heck it is impressive if you win but don't count on it. with two relatively equally matched players competing, usually the one with a better army/dice wins.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Reecius wrote:
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Fun event and dou le force org, fw allowed was no big deal. Almost all the finalists had.normal armies. It's the player, not the list that matters.

I will still never forget what 6 ravagers did to me
"Cries in corner"
But nah, my first solo GT was amazing, everyone who attended made it a BLAST for me.
Still I went 3 to 3 for my first GT. and I have only been playing a year.

I played against Frankie's Deldar list as well (in a pickup game). That army has some seriously nasty firepower with 6 venoms, 6 ravageres and 1 wraithknight. I seriously thought that he would make it to the Finals and possibly even win it all.

Who knew Reece and his space marines would be the one to knock out Frankie.

 mortetvie wrote:

 jy2 wrote:
1st - Adam (Mortavie) - Eldar + Tau
2nd - Reece (Reecius) - Space Marines + Space Wolves
3rd - Paul - Tau
4th - Frankie - Dark Eldar + Eldar


That's all I know for now.

Ahem, it's "mortetvie" not "mortavie"

And thanks to all for the great and fun games!

In the end, when all else fails, Eldar always has the turn 5 objective grab with jet bikes tactic to fall back on, lol!

Whoops....my bad.

Won't happen again, mortovie.


Hahaha.....just playing with you. Congrats on taking it this year.

Yeah, those jetbikes makes eldar such a broken army. They also make Tau broken as well j.k.!

 Loch wrote:
Sounds like a great time.

Just out of curiosity, what were the numbers like for attendance?

I believe there was about 75....though 9 dropped out on Day 2.

 Blackmoor wrote:

And I know you are a long time Thousand Son player and Eldar player. Heck, you were doing really well with Eldar before the new codex. Every codex has its time to shine and right now Eldar and Tau are the top dogs,

Personally, I'd group necrons up there with the best of them. They age like fine wine.

Sucks that Frankie had to play Reecius - oh well them the breaks.

how I wish GW understood how to make Tzeench/Thousand Sons work =(.

You could actually build a fairly competitive pure Tzneetch list back in fourth edition using the Lost and the Damned. It's obvious that GW doesn't care much now about Thousand Sons. That is the unfortunate fate of the rubric Marines.

Those pour souls. Oh, wait. Ha!

Congrats to Mortetvie on the win and Reece on blundering his way to second with a $200 GW Battleforce.

Even though Reecius didn't take first place it's still very impressive. He is known far and wide for such amazing feats.

: )

 Dozer Blades wrote:
Even though Reecius didn't take first place it's still very impressive. He is known far and wide for such amazing feats.

: )

Just as long as Paul Murphy is not at the tournament he does really well.

Everybody seems to have at least one bad matchup player wise and I think it's mostly psychological.

That CSM / Necrons list went 2-1. First day.
The list was
Destroyer Lord
6 Wraiths
2 warrior squads
3 Night Scythes
Deathmarks
Doom Scythe

Typhus
2 plague zombie squads
3 heldrakes

Congrats to Mortetvie for winning it all.

doktor_g wrote:Had a great time with my buddy at your tourney, Rob. Everyone graciously beat me like a rented mule. Highly competitive lists and players who were exceedingly pleasant opponents. The organization seemed great and I heard several compliments from more experienced tourney goers than me.

Game 4 vs Tau w/Eldar Allies. This was a crushing defeat. My opponent killed all but abou 20 Orks. I killed none of his models. ZERO.

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@ Loch: I think there were 32 ish tables filled.

HEY NOW, that's what happens when a college football theme is up against a pro football themed army, right? It was a great game to record though, my blue boys were screaming "HOLD THE LINEEEEEE"


All jokes aside I completely agree with doktor_g in that most of the players were incredibly friendly and rob and his crew were on point in answering rules queries, getting to people in a timely fashion, etc.


I was skeptical on the whole pod format thing, but i guess it worked out not having to face people like the top tier zero comp on day two, right?


I was, yes, one of those Tau/eldar players, and i was really surprised by the lists i saw, too bad i couldn't go up against all of them! I found it funny that i played pairs of codexes in order of tau/ork/eldar, here's a rundown of my experiences

round 1: tau list which was MSU all the way, really took me by surprise but i scrapped in a win
round 2: my ONLY loss, to the only full tau player to make it to the elimination rounds, great game and hard fought but alas, it was a loss for me...
round 3: up against an ork player with nobs in a battlewagon with the Thrakka himself and mad doc, he brought a mekka deff dread, and damn that was hard to kill. Thrakka died to overwatch win!
Day two, essentially a 3 round singles tourney
round 4: fought doktor_g and only lost 4 wounds on one riptide, crushing defeat on his end but i really enjoyed the match and probably would have even if the roles were reversed!
round 5: went up against a pair of nightwings, the aspect fighters, illic and a few other characters and harlies with eldar, i was dancing in my deployment zone to avoid the shredding i would have gotten if i got close, though by turn 5 only illic lived...
round 6: this match got me more nervous than any other, facing one of the guys from "the dice abide" and staring down 5 waveserpents and 5 warp hunters I had to really take advantage of that 2" coherency rule, and deepstrike all my suits. he got me nervous but i somehow was able to wreck all his tanks and come out with a win

overall my team in the second day singles got third (Vince), second (myself) and first (the ever-famous Israel)


it was a great tournament, keep up the good work Rob!

 doktor_g wrote:


All in all it was a great experience. I was a little disappointed not to see more varied lists. There were 5-10 Tau centered lists +/- Eldar Allies. Really you couldn't throw an ork without hitting one of them. Although some were complete (and AMAZINGLYpainted), more than a few were incompletly painted. No biggie, but it tells me something.

This is the usual with new codexes. If Marines, Orks, and Tyranids get a halfway decent book we will start to see more variety in tourneys. There's a ton of people sitting on Grey Knight, Imperial Guard, and Space Wolf armies and their new codexes will eventually arrive too.


Out of curiosity, how much Forgeworld stuff did you see being played?

 D6Damager wrote:

Out of curiosity, how much Forgeworld stuff did you see being played?

I only played the first day, but in my three games the only FW units I saw were my 3 Hyperios Launchers and my last opponents Sabres. Overall, as always, not a ton of FW on display and it was not a problem.

yeah forgeworld is almost never a problem, and it was smooth sailing at the gt. I saw tetras, ran tetras, and also faced a meka deff dread, a pair of nightwings, and that last match I saw two nightwings and five warp hunters so that was a lot but it was no biggie

@d6. I faced only FW tetras. But saw the Mek's Dred and some hyperios. That's it for FW. I'll be back for you Alex! Next time I'm gonna kill at least one model!

Just to echo what others have said; this was an excellent and well-run event. I really enjoyed the "pod" system as it allowed me to avoid facing people I play against regularly, and allowed my record to reset after going 1-2 on Day 1. Going into the event I was concerned about the time limit and 2,000 points, but five of my six games finished early and the TO's left us plenty of time for lunch and a break. Certainly did not feel rushed.

Overall I faced six great opponents, and really enjoyed myself. I'd be more than willing to make the drive up from SoCal again next year.

My friend took some pictures of the event which can be found here: http://www.thediceabide.com/2013/08/photos-from-the-golden-throne-gt/

I also suspect we'll do some sort of write-up on The Dice Abide sometime this week.

IronfrontAlex wrote:
round 6: this match got me more nervous than any other, facing one of the guys from "the dice abide" and staring down 5 waveserpents and 5 warp hunters I had to really take advantage of that 2" coherency rule, and deepstrike all my suits. he got me nervous but i somehow was able to wreck all his tanks and come out with a win!

I think we discovered that Tau are rather adept at wrecking AV12! Great game overall, look forward to playing you again.

Out of curiosity, how much Forgeworld stuff did you see being played?

I did bring quite a bit of FW with 5 Warp Hunters and 2 Nightwings. As for my opponents I only faced two with FW in their lists (Tetras and Hyperios).

GTGT 2013 final standings have been posted! We'll be adding a more in-depth analysis of the event, including a metagame breakdown and Forge World/dual force org analysis, as soon as we can. As a favor to me, please provide a link to our website if you're writing a blog post about the results!

If you enjoyed playing in the GTGT, please take a look at the upcoming GTGT Southwest we'll be hosting in Waco, Texas at the WaCon Game Convention this September 28-29!

Great event this year Rob! It was a 100% improvement over last year in San Jose and was my favorite tournament this year. I applaud you for going 2k with FW allowed, made for the most diverse group of WH40k armies I've ever seen at a tournament.

On a more personal note, I was happy to place 8th with my Tau/Eldar list and am still in therapy after having to face the nightmarish Frankie Deldar list for the final game. I was stupified when I heard that Reece's Space Marines handled the space elves.

Thanks for the great tournament and look forward to going to the next one next year!

nickthewise wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:
round 6: this match got me more nervous than any other, facing one of the guys from "the dice abide" and staring down 5 waveserpents and 5 warp hunters I had to really take advantage of that 2" coherency rule, and deepstrike all my suits. he got me nervous but i somehow was able to wreck all his tanks and come out with a win!

I think we discovered that Tau are rather adept at wrecking AV12! Great game overall, look forward to playing you again.

Yeah that's very, very true! But i'll be 100% honest I didn't think that would actually happen at all! I also thought you would gun for my etheral

doktor_g wrote:@d6. I faced only FW tetras. But saw the Mek's Dred and some hyperios. That's it for FW. I'll be back for you Alex! Next time I'm gonna kill at least one model!

That's what I wanna hear! I look forward to seeing you on the tabletop next year!


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nickthewise wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:
round 6: this match got me more nervous than any other, facing one of the guys from "the dice abide" and staring down 5 waveserpents and 5 warp hunters I had to really take advantage of that 2" coherency rule, and deepstrike all my suits. he got me nervous but i somehow was able to wreck all his tanks and come out with a win!

I think we discovered that Tau are rather adept at wrecking AV12! Great game overall, look forward to playing you again.

Yeah that's very, very true! But i'll be 100% honest I didn't think that would actually happen at all! I also thought you would gun for my etheral

doktor_g wrote:@d6. I faced only FW tetras. But saw the Mek's Dred and some hyperios. That's it for FW. I'll be back for you Alex! Next time I'm gonna kill at least one model!

That's what I wanna hear! I look forward to seeing you on the tabletop next year!

If you attended the tournament this year, please take a couple of minutes to fill out a survey and let us know how we did!

I posted a quick breakdown of the GTGT metagame, including armies played (Primary/Allied) and a peek at how many players brought Forge World or double force organization in their lists.

Check out these beautiful pictures Adam from the Dice Abide took of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bodhimind/sets/72157634942815099/

Thanks again to Rob and his team for such a fun event! I really had a great time. The event was well run, quick and fair rules judgments, fun opponents and a cool, unique format. I liked the double force org, FW, craziness! It was a really fun change of pace.

I wanted to say sorry to my first opponent Israel as I was being a bit of a baby in the first round because I got second turn against Tau and was complaining that there wasn't any terrain in my deployment zone. We understand all too well as TOs that it is really difficult to make enough terrain to keep all the boards covered adequately and I am sure Rob will continue to add terrain as time goes by. Anyway, I ended up winning that game because Israel forgot to take an objective last turn, and then then I did the exact same thing in the last game, haha, so I think that was a bit of karma.

The tournament was very fun and I look forward to next year as the format provides a really nice mix up from the norm.

It was a blast playing a "bad" list that had lots of tricks and such. Very fun! Lysander is still a chiefton too, what a bad ass.

Congratz to Adam for hanging in there and finding a path to victory despite getting drubbed all game. A lot of players would have given up after turn 2 when most of his good stuff was already dead, but he hung in there and captialized on my mistake! Well played.

And yes, Paul Murphy is my Everest! Haha, I will defeat him next time!!!!

 Reecius wrote:
It was a blast playing a "bad" list that had lots of tricks and such. Very fun! Lysander is still a chiefton too, what a bad ass.

What was this supposedly bad list?

Hey folks I've started uploading pics from the tourney a link to my "Golden Throne 2013 Gallery" is below. I'll let y'all navigate there to avoid bloating this thread with too many pics. I'll add more today. I tried to take a picture of EVERY army I saw. My apologies if yours doesn't appear.

The Link:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-34385-35892_Golden%20Throne%202013.html

Some of my Favorites: