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The tyranid results, how the mighty have fallen

(this post is sent after 5th round)

Orks had a tough showing.

Initial scores for the final round coming in. It looks like Space Marines/Imperial Knights are the winners.

http://app.torrentoffire.com/#/tournament/Bay-Area-Open-Championships/results

I just wonder how many Knights if its a knights with sm really

I'm sure it's two at most - probably just one.

Wow, Space Marrines Primary took 7 of the top 12 spots including 1,2, and 5.

1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. And they had 13th for 8 out of 13.

Necrons did well, as did Eldar. Only two good Tau showings, 4th and 23rd otherwise looks like predicted Tau hit was right on.



I can't wait for some more detailed analysis of the data, but looking at the army distributions it looks better than 6th Edition, at least without any real analysis.


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 Zagman wrote:
Wow, Space Marrines Primary took 7 of the top 12 spots including 1,2, and 5.

1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. And they had 13th for 8 out of 13.

Necrons did well, as did Eldar. Only two good Tau showings, 4th and 23rd otherwise looks like predicted Tau hit was right on.



I can't wait for some more detailed analysis of the data, but looking at the army distributions it looks better than 6th Edition, at least without any real analysis.

I'd love to see the winning list. Great to Space Marines back on top again.

The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

 Blackmoor wrote:
The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

Great to know. Objective Secured Drop Pods really had a strong showing then.

How did you do Blackmoor, I don't recall your IRL name?

White Scars + Knight wins the BAO. Cool.

Lots of Sm List

How did the Ravenwing player do and is there a list available/

 Zagman wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

Great to know. Objective Secured Drop Pods really had a strong showing then.

How did you do Blackmoor, I don't recall your IRL name?

Blackmoor shows as 2-1-2 but I don't see a result for game 6

Kind of wondering about the Chaos Daemon players and if anyone played a summon army.

Hollismason wrote:
Kind of wondering about the Chaos Daemon players and if anyone played a summon army.

Best Daemon player was Slaede here on dakka. He went 4-2 and actually ran a summoning army along with 3 soulgrinders.





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And Best Eldar went to dakka's very own, Mortetvie, who finished in 3rd Overall!


Way to go, Adam!





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 Bahkara wrote:

Blackmoor shows as 2-1-2 but I don't see a result for game 6

He dropped out on his last game. Guess he wanted to head back home earlier. Might have been fatigue as well.

 jy2 wrote:

Hollismason wrote:
Kind of wondering about the Chaos Daemon players and if anyone played a summon army.

Best Daemon player was Slaede here on dakka. He went 4-2 and actually ran a summoning army along with 3 soulgrinders.





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And Best Eldar went to dakka's very own, Mortetvie, who finished in 3rd Overall!


Way to go, Adam!





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 Bahkara wrote:

Blackmoor shows as 2-1-2 but I don't see a result for game 6

He dropped out on his last game. Guess he wanted to head back home earlier. Might have been fatigue as well.

Cool, did you take any pics? Hopefully there's a BAO thread that has pics.

 Zagman wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

Great to know. Objective Secured Drop Pods really had a strong showing then.

How did you do Blackmoor, I don't recall your IRL name?

White Scars + Knight wins the BAO. Cool.

Blackmoor is Allan Hernandez.

Despite his record, he actually did quite well. After 4 games, he was still undefeated (2 wins and 2 draws). He even managed to draw against a seer council deldar player running the same list as Alex Fennell's despite the deathstar getting both Invisibility and Fortune....and he did it with Draigowing!

But then on Game 5, he got tabled (or nearly tabled) by Spam Adam's Triptide Tau. Yes, that's the same Spam Adam who has never beaten my Necrons before.





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Hollismason wrote:

Cool, did you take any pics? Hopefully there's a BAO thread that has pics.

No I didn't.

However, you can see his army in his blog:

http://daemons40k.blogspot.com/


He may even do a batrep on his experiences at the BAO, though he didn't really take many pictures. Then again, with a summoning army, he probably won't have time to.

 jy2 wrote:

 Zagman wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

Great to know. Objective Secured Drop Pods really had a strong showing then.

How did you do Blackmoor, I don't recall your IRL name?

White Scars + Knight wins the BAO. Cool.

Blackmoor is Allan Hernandez.

Despite his record, he actually did quite well. After 4 games, he was still undefeated (2 wins and 2 draws). He even managed to draw against a seer council deldar player running the same list as Alex Fennell's despite the deathstar getting both Invisibility and Fortune....and he did it with Draigowing!

But then on Game 5, he got tabled (or nearly tabled) by Spam Adam's Triptide Tau. Yes, that's the same Spam Adam who has never beaten my Necrons before.

The old Draigowing still had some life left. Most of my problems came with my unfamiliarity with a lot of the new 7th edition armies, or I would have done better.

Spam Adams gave me the worst beating that I have ever had with my Draigowing with a 2 turn tabling. I lost the dice roll to go first, and he hit me with everything he had before I could get my defensive buffs up and that was all she wrote, There was no LOS blocking terrain in my deployment zone and there was nowhere to hide from his alpha strike.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
How did the Ravenwing player do and is there a list available/

First off the BAO was awesome. Reece and his guys did a great job. The venue was very nice, a/c, carpet, easy parking. Plus a ton of places to eat right in close walking distance. All in all a really fun and well ran tournament.

I was running Dark Angels, Raven Wing with White Scars Allies and ended up in 20th place. I was the top placing Dark Angels player. The other Dark Angels players got 40th and 42nd. One of them was running 2 DA land raiders with 3 knights. Ryan was my first game Sunday as we were tied at that time. I lost that game 9 to 0, almost getting tabled. We were joking that us getting paired up showed that Reece didn't like Dark Angels. I bounced back from that winning my last two games, to finish the tournament with 4 and 2 record
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Once again, in a tournament with enough resin from Nottingham (Forgeworld) to feed a 3rd world country, a list with NO Forgeworld humbled them all. Steve Sisk, of the Mercy Killers, in Sacramento, was the only undefeated player and won it all!

Agreed, the venue was really nice. While we were tightly packed, there was plenty of movement space and the location was central to a nice part of downtown San Jose.

Congrats to another Sacramento local, Trevor van Cleave, who took 13th, and one of the newest members to the Mercy Killers, Ben Vaughan, with a 15th place win for Chaos Space Marines!

I am also in the same camp that I would love to see some lists. Top 5, heck even the top 10 would be nice!

Certainly interested to see how some of those drop pod marine armies are composed.

Congrats to all the winners!

 jy2 wrote:

 Zagman wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
The top Grey Knight player is running a Gravstar.

Steve Sisk is running a white stars bike army with on Knight.

Most top marine armies are drop pod armies.

Great to know. Objective Secured Drop Pods really had a strong showing then.

How did you do Blackmoor, I don't recall your IRL name?

White Scars + Knight wins the BAO. Cool.

Blackmoor is Allan Hernandez.

Despite his record, he actually did quite well. After 4 games, he was still undefeated (2 wins and 2 draws). He even managed to draw against a seer council deldar player running the same list as Alex Fennell's despite the deathstar getting both Invisibility and Fortune....and he did it with Draigowing!

But then on Game 5, he got tabled (or nearly tabled) by Spam Adam's Triptide Tau. Yes, that's the same Spam Adam who has never beaten my Necrons before.

Which is obviously match up related considering his only loss this weekend was against Necrons. He came in 4th BTW.

I'm gonna guess at S.Sisk's army based on the picture I saw in "inthenameofsanguinius" blog. Let's see how close I get ;p

1 W-W-W-W-W-W Sisk Steve 62=White Scar bikes. (See above)
2 D-W-W-W-W-W Kaiser Carlos 57=Drop pod Space Marines
3 W-W-L-W-W-W Gati Adam 59=Wraithblades+2 Wraithknights+4 Wave Serpents
4 W-W-L-W-W-W Merlic Adam 52=Tau Fire Cadre 2 Broadside Units+3 Riptides
5 L-W-W-W-W-W Rodriguez Julio 51= ?
6 W-W-W-W-W-L Gonzalez Alex 50=Necrons with Pylons

So top 2 are both, technically, undefeated.

Congrats to our local guy, Carlos, for placing 2nd

So the Tau player brough 15ish Broadsides and 4 Riptides.....haha!!!!! I love it!

I did horrid. W-L-L-L-L-L
I had a super weak list. I lacked to tools to kill superheavies and flyers.

 Hulksmash wrote:
So the Tau player brough 15ish Broadsides and 4 Riptides.....haha!!!!! I love it!

No, that is SpamAdams, I believe Jim said he was running his Triptide, one is part of the FBSC. He is the one jy2 is playing against in many of his Batreps.

Annnnnnnd, that's a wrap, folks!

Whew, we are exhausted, but what a great tournament!

116 of the 128 signed up, showed up, which is consistent with our previous experience.

It was a great event, ran smoothly, was fun, the new venue was awesome. We started 10 minutes late due to a data entry error, but otherwise, it ran like silk. By dice down on round 6 we had awards done and everyone out the door within an hour. Not bad!

I want to give a huge thanks to the staff and volunteers that made it possible, our sponsors and everyone that came!

So much work to make one of those silly things run smoothly, but it went great.

Congratz to Steve who went undefeated, and to Alex G. who went into the finals with his Crons but fell a bit short.

Steve played against Lords of War and Forge World and had no issues with. Lords of War in general were no big deal. They were a lot of fun. I think the best moment was a Stompa getting blown up on the top of turn 1 against a Salamanders Drop Pod army!

Congratz to Israel who, yet again, won best appearance although this time it was by a single vote!

Congratz to Carlos Kaiser who won Renaissance Man and got second best general!

ITC scroe update will be coming later today!

So many good moments and memories, it was awesome and we're happy to have the 4th annual BAO under our belts. We will post pics and give a detailed wrap up later, we are still handling logistics of getting terrain back into storage, returning rental vans, etc.

Thanks to everyone that came and had fun!

Steve's list via Facebook messenger:

Kor'sarro Khan [125]
+ Moondrakkan [25]
= 150
• Command Squad [100]
+ Company Standard [15]
+ 3× storm shield [30]
+ power fist [25]
+ Space Marine bikes [35]
+ Apothecary [15]
= 220
Chapter Master [130]
+ Space Marine bike [20]
+ The Shield Eternal [50]
+ digital weapons [10]
+ artificer armour [20]
+ thunder hammer [30]
= 260

4 Space Marine Bikers [84]
+ 2× grav-gun [30]
+ Biker Sergeant
+ combi-grav [10]
+ melta bombs [5]
+ Attack Bike [45]
+ multi-melta [10]
= 184
4 Space Marine Bikers [84]
+ 2× meltagun [20]
+ Biker Sergeant
+ combi-melta [10]
+ melta bombs [5]
+ Attack Bike [45]
+ multi-melta [10]
= 174
4 Space Marine Bikers [84]
+ 2× meltagun [20]
+ Biker Sergeant
+ combi-melta [10]
+ melta bombs [5]
+ Attack Bike [45]
+ multi-melta [10]
= 174
4 Space Marine Bikers [84]
+ 2× plasma gun [30]
+ Biker Sergeant
+ plasma pistol [15]
+ melta bombs [5]
+ Attack Bike [45]
+ multi-melta [10]
= 189

Stormtalon Gunship [110]
+ Skyhammer missile launcher [15]
= 125

Knight Errant
= 370

1,846 points

Chancetragedy wrote:
I'm gonna guess at S.Sisk's army based on the picture I saw in "inthenameofsanguinius" blog. Let's see how close I get ;p

Spoiler:

Khan - bike
Chapter master - bike, hammer, shield eternal, artificer
Comman squad - Bikes, apothecary, 4xgrav, 4xmelta bombs (edit:actually it looks like a close combat command squad with storm shields and some power fists. Can't figure out an exact load out here)
4xBike squad - 4 bikes, mm attk bike, 2grav, combi grav serg
Storm talon - skyhammer
Knight paladin
1846

I'm always a bit surprised that grav spam bikes do as well as they have been doing in GT's. I'm a big believer in white scar bikes (I run them my self) but I always mix in more plasma guns than Grav, as IMO plasma is a more flexible weapon. Further, While bikes are really good against lots of armies (including some of the higher tier meta builds like serpent spam) they have some absolutely awful match ups (Ork or daemon hoards, Heldrake spam) which in my experience I can't avoid through the course of an entire GT (maybe I'm just unlucky). If orks become really popular in the meta I think this list would struggle.