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I may make the fluffy event. Not sure if Iyanden Eldar or Thokt Necrons with Monolith would be best..

This was fun. 10 guys with a good spread of armies.

Rex brought a RTT era Eldar Revenant Titan.
Adam S. brought a WarHound with 3 Imp. Knights. That was his whole army.
Tim had the Transcendent C'Tan ( broken! ) with 3 annihilation barges and 3 Croissants.
MikeFox had a HellHammer (BaneBlade) and a Imp Knight with assorted orks and IG.
There were around 4 or 5 armies without Super-Heavies, mine (Tau/IG), Jonathan's, Nick L had some well painted Marines. There was another Tau. I think Chris just had a normal Mech-IG list.

Most games were really short and lopsided.

Still fun though. Results :

Jonathan continues to take the whole thing. Gravguns (or was it meltaguns?), bikes and Drop Pods. I didn't get to look at his army but I don't think he brought Esc/Stronghold stuff. He beat Tim's Tranny-C'Tan for top spot.
Chris T took best Imperial with his IG.
MikeFox's Imp Knight to orky conversion garnered enough admiration for Best Paint.
Best Xeno ... okay I already forgot. Maybe the other tau guy.
Best Sportsmanship was me. With 18 Fusion Blasters. As Lucifer from Constantine said, "There's no accounting for taste."


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"Tranny-C'Tan" - can we now call it Dr. Frank n Furter?

Ahem *cough* I believe Dr. Frank n Furter and his many croissants won best xenos.

pleasantnoodles wrote:
Ahem *cough* I believe Dr. Frank n Furter and his many croissants won best xenos.

... amazingly, I can't think of a line from the movie that would be witty enough a reply. Well done, sir. Well done!

I did in fact have an VSG from stronghold.

the list was basically:

White Scars Main:

khan
4x5 grav bikes with grav/combi grav

2 storm talons

UM ally:
level 2 pskyer

2x5 marine melta pods (melta, combi melta)
1 command squad with 5 melta guns

Devastator squad with 4 lascannons

Inqusition:
Coteaz

Stronghold:
VSG with 3 void shields

admittedly the VSG didnt really end up coming into play much but it was still there as backup.

I'd like to thank everyone for helping to prove how silly D weapons can be. Hope you had a great time. Here is a briefing of the next tournament. There will be themed missions to reflect the fluff. Nothing as crazy as it has been, I promise.



Ok everyone now that we got our fill of D weapons, void shields, and our new patent pending paint stick 15'' blasts; lets go to the extreme opposite side of the spectrum. FLUFF!!!

Way back when, people used to play wargame for fun! I know right since when are tournaments not for running unpainted cheesy armies based on the OP flavor of the month. But this time we are going to focus on the fluff bunnies that secretly hide in us all. To turn the tables the Best Over All prize will be 50% based on your army presentation. So lets see the best painted figures you have, even if they arn't the best rule wise. That means Ogryn bum rushing Chaos Marines, Burna Boyz cripifing Sisters of Battle, and Centurions being.... well Centurions.

So please don't bring your WAAC lists. This event will be back to 1750 pts. So if you feel like you got the brush skillz to throw it down with me and Paul; BE THERE. You wouldn't want to miss ork looted tyranids would you?

Also how do you people feel about a Highlander Style tournament in June? Where you can only bring on of each entry in your book.

 MikeFox wrote:
Also how do you people feel about a Highlander Style tournament in June? Where you can only bring on of each entry in your book.

Highlanders are cool only if the missions are balanced against books that have tons of troop choices available. Only having two scoring units as Necrons or DE sucks in traditional 3-6 objective games. So maybe more of an emphasis towards Big Guns or Scouring to keep things even?

Also keep in mind that Higlander format just pushes Deathstar 40k even harder than traditional meta.

And what about people who want to play Knights?

There would be exceptions. Sisters of Battle only have one troop choice too if I recall. And I'm just sending out feelers.

Barely anyone plays death stars at GE. I could always bring down a full 12 man, double biker boss Nob star.

 Loch wrote:
Highlanders are cool only if the missions are balanced against books that have tons of troop choices available. Only having two scoring units as Necrons or DE sucks in traditional 3-6 objective games.

Answer: Allies

With Allies you can pretty much be sure to have 4 troop choices in your Highlander list (yeah, yeah, SoB is an exception, whatevs), but that ought to make it do-able.

 MikeFox wrote:
Barely anyone plays death stars at GE.

At least since that Ian guy hasn't played with his DE/Eldar Jetstar ...

Oh, wait that's you, huh, Ian?

Anyway, you usually have Kabalites & Wracks, Jetbikes & some DAs. Highlander really just sticks it to the venom spam. Time to break out the NightSpinner again.

Seriously, Mike, as usual, I'm on board with a Highlander gig.

Highlander is less of a big deal at 1,500. The main victims are 2+ stars, and sm bike lists. IG and Eldar are in great shape.

DE can't go full msu venom spam, but they can have a few with 1 warrior, 1 wych, and 1 wracks for troops then 1 trueborn and 1 bloodbride in elites. Can 3 grotesques take a venom? Anyhow just burn the leftover points on a beast pack, baron, and Eldar allies.

I think a good solution to low troop codex is to allow allies to go past the 2 foc limit on troops as long as both dexes don't exceed 8 troops. Also allow AS to field 1 unit of sisters 10 or less and a 2nd that is 11+ models.

I'm in for highlander, that would be interesting to work with.

If you do highlander, my suggestion (based on experience) is to make Elite choices scoring. Not every army has a good amount of troop choices, but all of the ones with limited choices have diverse elites options. And with highlander in place, people will not be able to spam a bunch of power elites, either.

 Phazael wrote:
If you do highlander, my suggestion (based on experience) is to make Elite choices scoring. Not every army has a good amount of troop choices, but all of the ones with limited choices have diverse elites options. And with highlander in place, people will not be able to spam a bunch of power elites, either.

Nice contribution, Q. That opens things up.

 Brothererekose wrote:

 Phazael wrote:
If you do highlander, my suggestion (based on experience) is to make Elite choices scoring. Not every army has a good amount of troop choices, but all of the ones with limited choices have diverse elites options. And with highlander in place, people will not be able to spam a bunch of power elites, either.

Nice contribution, Q. That opens things up.

Make elite scoring for 2 objective/d3+2 objective mission and HQ scoring for the relic.

Big guns and scouring are fine with the heavy/fa.

While everyone else is going for paint and fluff, I'm going to bring in some trumped up, hackneyed drivel about Santhonyx rubbing elbows with a seer counsel to earn some snobbery points with his air-surfcat peeps back in Commorragh, while 4 rookie drivers are given sky tank flight time.

I'm bringing the LVO Winning list, kids. Suck it.

PS:
What the 5 kablites are doing there, *without* their sky-boards is beyond me. Witnesses to state that, "Yeah, the Baron knows some *legit* eldar" ?

PPS:
Post also functions as Bump!

Oh yeah, well thankfully I'm waiting to bring my 4 riptides and compulsary O'vessa star until next month., so yay for not clashing the stars together.

Since this is rapidly approaching, wanted a Game Empire ruling on somethin':

Im trying out the Firebase Formation for tau, and my question is... is the riptide in the firebase formation considered SEPARATE from the rest of the army, and therefore doesnt have access to special issue systems in the case of Farsight Enclaves? Or since Farsight Enclaves uses the codex tau rules, but simply replaces all of the signature systems with Farsight ones, that makes the riptide able to access them?

Not sure how this is supposed to go...

 gameandwatch wrote:
Since this is rapidly approaching, wanted a Game Empire ruling on somethin':

Im trying out the Firebase Formation for tau, and my question is... is the riptide in the firebase formation considered SEPARATE from the rest of the army, and therefore doesnt have access to special issue systems in the case of Farsight Enclaves? Or since Farsight Enclaves uses the codex tau rules, but simply replaces all of the signature systems with Farsight ones, that makes the riptide able to access them?

Not sure how this is supposed to go...

Try getting the TO on the FaceBook for Game Empire:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1410711012537841/

Or, even call the store and ask for Travis.

Are we even allowing formations now? If so I gots me some nids to dust off....

pleasantnoodles wrote:
Are we even allowing formations now? If so I gots me some nids to dust off....

Again, check with the TO via Game Empire direct (I would call GE).

Sorry, but I am a bear of very little brain, (I will lose 2 games despite the LVO jetstar list) and I can't remember what's allowed, and won't say what I dunno for sure.

I was not able to make it to this one. I got sick at the last minute. :(

Results? My guess is Levi's Imp.Fists.

Nope. Drew a game to a great eldar player by giving me too many scoring units to deal with, Got Tabled by crazy Tau Formations list (Missed 3 crucial charges by 1-2 inches that would have made it a lot closer game), and Tabled a fluffy Blood angles player that had too many expensive toys in his list. 1-1-1 but I got best sportmanship which was cool cause I had a really fun day at the "not really that fluffy fluff tournament". All fluff went out the window when the 7th news dropped so Formations, Forgeworld, Battle brother wackiness, and only 1 fully painted army. Kinda sums up 6th huh?

I saw Jonathan there, (FaceBook pix) and I thought his WhiteScars army was fully painted.

Darn. My army is fully painted (and a carbon copy of the LVO list, so yeah, Levi, not so fluffy ) so maybe I coulda ... naw, I had no chance.

Jay, the eldar player (if I guess correctly) has beaten me 3 times. If I'd have showed up, I woulda asked Travis to arrange a grudge match.

Carlos, the BA player, likes fluffy. Cool guy.

Dunno who was playing tau as I didn't see Andrew in the FaceBook pix.

Still kids, can someone post the results?

Results were:

Jonathon won best army with Iron Hands (only fully painted)
I (Tim) went 2-1 with O'vessa Utramarines 7 drop pod list went 3-0 for best overall
Andrew brought formation of Tau
Carlos brought 4 knights and went 2-1 i believe.
We know about Imp. Fists.
David with BA got tabled 3 times, ouch.

pleasantnoodles wrote:
Results were:
I (Tim) went 2-1 with O'vessa Utramarines 7 drop pod list went 3-0 for best overall

2 and 1 and then 3-0 ? I'm confused.

Who was the 7 Drop Podder?

Carlos was not BA, okay, my bad.

Didn't I see Adam Solis? He didn't bring his Imperial Knights? Huh.

Thanks, Tim.

Jonathan was best army marines

carlos best overall pod marines

dunno other stuff, adam had quad knights

So new information is TBA for the next tournament since there this whole new rulese thing. Any ideas on what you might want to do? Maybe a learners game day where everyone can learnt he rules together and still play 3 games. Perhaps back at 1500pts.

I would say since the rules will only be out 2 weeks or so, and decisions will likely not have happened on unbound, lords of war with new D, and such, that we should just do 6e to give time to remove confusion before the event even starts. That and even at 1500, with new rules we still likely won't complete games. Time is needed to digest it first.

Spend that time polling and discussing what will be allowed/unallowed going forward and implement that the month after.

MikeFox wrote:So new information is TBA for the next tournament since there this whole new rulese thing. Any ideas on what you might want to do? Maybe a learners game day where everyone can learnt he rules together and still play 3 games. Perhaps back at 1500pts.

pleasantnoodles wrote:I would say since the rules will only be out 2 weeks or so, and decisions will likely not have happened on unbound, lords of war with new D, and such, that we should just do 6e to give time to remove confusion before the event even starts. That and even at 1500, with new rules we still likely won't complete games. Time is needed to digest it first.

Spend that time polling and discussing what will be allowed/unallowed going forward and implement that the month after.

While I am not likely to attend, I most certainly would not attend if 6th edition were still being played. I have no interest in playing 6th edition, if a new ruleset is out I think the stores 40k Saturday should be devoted to learning the new rules not wallowing in those of a broken and failed edition. Just my $.02, look forward with events not backwards, even if that means it isn't an official "tournament".