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Brawl Overall Standings

@Jonathan

I went 2 & 3.

Round 1: Liz Foster. Epic fun. We killed models and laughed. Somewhere in there I won. Go figure. After the game, I offered her my arm, gentleman-like, to escort her to the Judge Table to turn in score sheets. She accepted and sauntered along side, hamming it up. Fun, fun.
Round 2: Tim Hosker and his 3 Drop Pod/3 TWC SW army (cool dude). I lost. I didn't spread out enough, got caught by the TWC and got hosed on Reserves. I'd play Tim Hosker again in a heartbeat.
Round 3: Anthony D'Amore. I think he was one of Liz's team mates from PowerPlay. It was funny as one of his buddies came by toward game's end and kept giving him a hard time about how he was gonna lose, even though it was close. We were tied at Turn 5's end, with only six minutes left. Anthony wanted to keep going. If we didn't finish a full Turn 6, then we agreed to go back to our tie. He had primary & LB, so 5 points. I had Maelstrom 3, and FB & LB.
IIRC:
Turn 6, he killed my Warlord and gained a Maelstrom point, but then I killed two dudes off a Primary objective. Points swung around to me. We rolled for Turn 7, and got a 'two'. I hope he wasn't too hard on himself. Nice guy.

Round 4: Sirus Chappell, another PowerPlay guy with BA: Mephy (who I delightedly killed), 4 Preds, Chapter Master Beat-stick-on-a-bike. Close game; he won. We squeezed in all 7 turns. I prolly coulda had my FireDs do more, but we rushed.
Round 5: Israel Sanchez. Fun game, though an easy one for Israel to win. I thought going second for the objective runs would be a good idea, but no, it wasn't. I Reserved too much as well, instead of starting with everything on the table. 3 or 4 of his units had Interceptor. Many things died on arrival. I walked right into that little strategy and got clobbered by it. I had little left at game's end. We had a great time though, talking about painting more while just going through the steps of playing the game.

Good judges, good staff, venue, tables & raffle prizes. Clovis has an enormous strip mall (and a mile from the venue) with all that is needed for a weekend, Denny's, a couple fast food joints for lunch and the SteakHouse for dinner. I will try to go again.

Mike & Darrel and Ian will have their stories to tell.

Clearly by placing 25th I'm setting myself up to win first place again in November......

I have wanted to make my way up for one of these for a while and I finally get a chance to do so. Excellent!

See you guys on Saturday.

 lajollagrad wrote:
I have wanted to make my way up for one of these for a while and I finally get a chance to do so. Excellent!

See you guys on Saturday.

Most Excellent Indeed!

Awright, I mean it *this* time. The elves stay home as I have finished my AM.

Start quivering your sphincters:

freshly finished:



Cmdr. of Doom




Other Cmdr. of Doom




The guys insurance won't cover:




... ran outta punchlines:







Looking forward to Saturday's tourney.

Welp I am bringing one of my classic silly lists to this months tourney, should at the very least be entertaining.

I have one question though, and I would be interested in the game empire court ruling: If a flyer has deep strike, can it enter play from reserve deep strike and be zooming? The rules seem to indicate that they can, because you seemingly just declare before you place them whether they are zooming or hovering...

Thoughts?

Thanks for the info on bringing 40k Chuck Norris (aka Draigo), sadly I will be unable to attend as I will be knee deep in a fountain spraying colors with a HVLP gun. Shooting for November instead, maybe I can get a 7th edition rulebook by then... You say there is a psychic PHASE, weird...

PS I do decorative concrete and have all kinds of fun tools and materials that would be usable for making terrain or restoring it, shoot me a PM if there is someway I can help with a terrain day should you guys have one. I live in a small condo here on the beach so "she who must be obeyed" has put a moratorium on all terrain projects... Have fun guys.

Flyers have to zoom on and can only enter turn 2. Unless there is a rule I have not seen in a codex?

 gameandwatch wrote:
Welp I am bringing one of my classic silly lists to this months tourney, should at the very least be entertaining.

I have one question though, and I would be interested in the game empire court ruling: If a flyer has deep strike, can it enter play from reserve deep strike and be zooming? The rules seem to indicate that they can, because you seemingly just declare before you place them whether they are zooming or hovering...

Thoughts?

The better question is which flyers can still deep strike, as nearly every one doesn't have that ability anymore. If a flyer can Zoom or Hover, you have to decide which mode it's in when it enters from Reserves. However, Flying Monstrous Creatures can still deep strike, and are locked into Swoop mode on the turn they do so.

Tau remora stealth drones have deep strike and hover, and thus since the rulebook only states that you must choose how they are moving when they arrive, and the deep strike rules state they count as having moved at combat speed, this would lead me to believe they can arrive as flyers NOT in hover mode

October results:

Best Overall: Carlos's bugs. Bon Voyage, man. Give those east coasters heck.
Best imperial army performance: Cooper Waddel's White Scars. Nice for first showing at GE Pasadena
Best xeno army performance: Andrew's Tau. See, I remembered.
Best Paint: Darrel's DE. Display boards, kids, as Travis said, display boards.


For those interested in the 24 card experiment: there was a general consensus that they worked well enough. To restate, each player took their Maelstrom cards, and pre-built a 24 card deck, one deck, for all three rounds (no side board). If you have GK, orks, SW or DE cards, the codex specific 11-16 cards must be included. The intent being to have achievable goals instead of drawing cards you cannot score on, like tau pulling a "Harness the Warp".

Carlos brought up a preference for BAO bottom-of-turn scoring, but he's leaving Calif. so his opinion doesn't count anymore.

The rest of us, sensibly, wish to continue end-of-player-turn scoring. So that's settled. Cue another winking emoticon.

I appreciate it Casey, hahahaha
Disks of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Yeah, tourney was a blast, had tons of fun, great opponents all around and man was Tim and I's game close as hell. Down to the wire that one.

Discovered, aun'va and a tankmander... is hilariously hard to remove. Especially surrounded by 27 sniper drones, that with rapid fire and aun'va granting storm of fire, fire 3 shots. Didn't fully grasp how crazy this was until overwatch with 81 shots. YIKES!

81 shot over watch, please. Let some lootas show you how it's done.

 MikeFox wrote:
81 shot over watch, please. Let some lootas show you how it's done.

or a 102 ork green tide

First post updated to reflect Novembers RTT. Im so ready for the holiday madness.

Time for the monthly bump, with Authority.

I actually haven't had the pleasure of beating Andrew's tau-ish butt like John Bonham beat Ludwig drums. So, Mighty TO! I issue a challenge! Round 1 match up!

I'll see you guys there as well

 lajollagrad wrote:
I'll see you guys there as well

Good deal, Cooper. Maybe a rematch in later rounds after I pwn the Whamo-Wielding-kid.*

Gentlemen (and occasional lady) be sure to call Lucky Baldwin's with your lunch order ... about Turn 4.

Remember, even if you win the tourney, you're still a loser if you don't manage to get 2 at LB's.




*Frisbee reference for you young 'uns.

Bring it teach, maybe you'll learn a thing or two.

I'll be making the trek up as well - looking forward to getting some games in!

Best Overal: Jonathan's White Scars + MissileSide formation
Best Paint: Benjamin's DEldar (lotsa feathers and DE conversions)
Sportsmanship: Guest T.O. Nick!

Need pics on best painted or didn't happen.......

It was a super fun event. Thanks to GE Pasadena and all the players for a great time! I'll post some pics of those feathers soon. RB

 gameandwatch wrote:
Bring it teach, maybe you'll learn a thing or two.

Rough game for you, man. Mission, Deployment, and dice. It was hardly of match of battle acumen, just plastic cubes not helping you at all.

If you want, I'll accept a re-match for Dec 13th.


@Ben:
Yes, please, post some pix!

 Brothererekose wrote:

 gameandwatch wrote:
Bring it teach, maybe you'll learn a thing or two.

Rough game for you, man. Mission, Deployment, and dice. It was hardly of match of battle acumen, just plastic cubes not helping you at all.

If you want, I'll accept a re-match for Dec 13th.


@Ben:
Yes, please, post some pix!

Yeah, I could have dealt with the board just fine, but when the dice go south...WAY south... it is hard to recover. I would dig a rematch, though past experience with holiday mission shenanigans tells me that the missions will likely kill me hahahaha

Very fun and well run event - I will definitely try to come out more often.

Glad I finally got to play Ian - he's made it down to my events a few times, but there's always been an even number of players so I have to sit out. Great games all around!

Is there a winners list somewhere, was wondering if orks placed in the top 20 or so?

There were only about 18 players with one ork army. he placed top non imperial player

I do that from time to time. Won the last two I went to. Bad match first game against an invisible wolf star with endurance...

Killed everything else on the table though And making three 12'' charges in my last game certainly helped.