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2015/01/13 07:42:54
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons (Game #3 completed p.4)
Just came back from TSHFT Open 2015 in Seattle, Washington, and had a blast. Most of our team - Team Zero Comp - went. Also, at the tournament, we added our newest member to our team - Sean aka AbusePuppy.
But before I go into my list and my games, I'd like to start off with a homage to all the fine armies out there, starting off with our team's armies:
TEAM ZERO COMP
I didn't get pictures of all of my teammate's armies, but I did get pictures of most of them.
Spoiler:
First off, this is the army of the club's founding father, Reece aka Reecius. He ran Space Wolves with a Culexus assassin.
Frankie aka White925 and his beautiful Dark Eldar. Frankie's army won Best Painted and deservedly so. It was just stunning. BTW, Frankie is the defending champion from last year's TSHFT and I played against his army in this tournament.
More pics of his gorgeous army.
Ben Cromwell and his Eldar/Dark Eldar army.
Jason aka Raw Dogger aka Kimchi Gamer and his nasty Centurionstar Grey Knights-Space Marines.
Grant aka Grant Theft Auto aka GTA with Eldar + Space Wolves and the controversial Lynx.
Geoff aka iNcontrol and his Barbed Hierodule-led Leviathan + regular Tyranids. While this is a slightly older photo of his army, Geoff's had quite an influence on competitive Tyranids as you will soon see.
Ben Schimmoller and his White Scars + Astra Militarum. This is actually an older pic of his army but it is basically what he ran.
The newest member of our team - Sean aka AbusePuppy. He ran Mechdar + the Tau Firebase Cadre.
Not only did Sean beat Reece in a challenge match, but he also then went on to win the whole tournament!
Last but not least, you have yours truly, Jim aka Jy2, in what will most likely be the last tournament for his "Oldcrons" before they get updated.
Coming up next....more Army Pics!
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Tyranids were by far the most represented army in the tournament. First of all, the most common Xenos super-heavy at the tournament, the Barbed Hierodule:
Spoiler:
Tyranids+ Tau Firebase Cadre. BTW, that spider thingamajiggy there is the Barbed Hierodule.
Chancey's Tyranids - one of my opponents.
Barbie + the Endless Swarm.
Overall, there were about 9-10 Barbed Hierodules in the tournament.
One of the rare Tyranid armies not running Barbie. This one ran 2 units of zoanthropes + neurothrope in spores instead.
Jessup aka Seaphoenix's Tyranids. He didn't run Barbie. Instead, he ran the Deathleaper Assassin Brood.
Jessup's converted Deathleaper.
Lastly, we had 1 Pentyrant (5-flyrant) Tyranid army (no Barbie)....which I did not get a photo of.
CHAOS
Chaos was rare indeed. There were only 2 Daemon players and I believe 2-3 Chaos Space Marine players (there were, however, a lot of armies who could bring in some daemons).
Spoiler:
John Paul and his Daemons. JP is one of the best Daemon players in the Northwest and has been tearing it up in the local tournament scene with his Flying Circus.
Jeremy (hope I got his name right) aka Undertow's Flying Circus.
Skkipper's Khorne walkers.
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fidel wrote: Why was the Lynx a controversial model - did I miss something with the rules?
No, it's not so much the rules as it is a performance-vs-cost issue.
ELDAR/TAU
Spoiler:
Eldar + Space Marines? Hmm...wonder what he used Space Marines for.
A beautiful Saim Hain Eldar army.
Paul McKevley and his Tetra-based Farsight Enclaves Tau. Paul is a really good Tau player and is currently ranked #1 on the ITC leaderboard. He also won the last GT in our area, Brawl in the Fall.
NECRON/ORKS
Spoiler:
The dreaded Necron Pylon!
Necrons with Imperial Knight ally.
Not only were there 2 of them....
....but they were actually all part of the 3 Necronteers.
Meganobs galore! Todd was one of my opponents and he ran 20+ meganobs via the Bullyboyz formation.
Just wanted to show a couple of Todd's cool conversions. This truck with the buzzsaw was actually converted from a Tau devilfish.
Last but not least, we have the Imperial armies, coming soon.....
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Bens Eldar list has WWP with WraithGuard or dragons? Str10 gun or flamers?
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5000+ pts. Eldar 2500pts "The only thing that match's the Eldar's firepower, is their arrogance".
8th General at Alamo GT 2011.
Tied 2nd General Alamo GT 2012
Top General Lower Bracket Railhead 2011
Top General Railhead 2012
# of Local Tournaments Won: 4
28-9-1 In Tournaments As Eldar.
Maintained a 75% Win Ratio As Eldar in 5th Edition GT's.
2015/01/14 01:10:05
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
Bens Eldar list has WWP with WraithGuard or dragons? Str10 gun or flamers?
Can't recall on the flamers or str10, but the WWP would go with whomever he felt needed it. Usually with the fire dragons and the wraithguard in the reaver.
2015/01/14 03:38:39
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
Bens Eldar list has WWP with WraithGuard or dragons? Str10 gun or flamers?
Can't recall on the flamers or str10, but the WWP would go with whomever he felt needed it. Usually with the fire dragons and the wraithguard in the reaver.
were the WraithGuard flaming out of the OT Vehicle? If so thats sounds hilarious.
5000+ pts. Eldar 2500pts "The only thing that match's the Eldar's firepower, is their arrogance".
8th General at Alamo GT 2011.
Tied 2nd General Alamo GT 2012
Top General Lower Bracket Railhead 2011
Top General Railhead 2012
# of Local Tournaments Won: 4
28-9-1 In Tournaments As Eldar.
Maintained a 75% Win Ratio As Eldar in 5th Edition GT's.
2015/01/14 03:46:32
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
Slight correction. Jessup would be my name. Not wessup. Perhaps that will become my street name.
Great seeing team comp0 there, though I am disappointed we were unable to get my challenge in, maybe next time. Look forward to hearing the minutiae of your battles.
~seapheonix
2015/01/14 04:36:46
Subject: Re:2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
seapheonix wrote: Slight correction. Jessup would be my name. Not wessup. Perhaps that will become my street name.
Great seeing team comp0 there, though I am disappointed we were unable to get my challenge in, maybe next time. Look forward to hearing the minutiae of your battles.
Doh! My bad. Sorry man.
BTW, good to see someone bringing a non-standard Tyranid list. I tried running the Deathleaper Assassin Brood before and it isn't easy at all. Props to you, my friend.
Bens Eldar list has WWP with WraithGuard or dragons? Str10 gun or flamers?
Can't recall on the flamers or str10, but the WWP would go with whomever he felt needed it. Usually with the fire dragons and the wraithguard in the reaver.
were the WraithGuard flaming out of the OT Vehicle? If so thats sounds hilarious.
Yeah, that would be funny indeed. More importantly, he's got the flexibility to put either in the raider....or he could just deepstrike them without a transport.
IMPERIALS
There were 3 common themes with the Imperial armies - Imperial Knights, drop pods and centurions.
Spoiler:
The only Adlance army in the tournament. He was running them with centurions!
Really liked what this person did with Dreamforge Leviathan-knight conversion.
Jeremy Veysseire aka the French Overlord aka MikhailLenin and his beautiful White Scars + Space Wolves army. Jeremy is a former TSHFT winner and has won other tournaments as well. I was hoping to play against him. Alas, it just wasn't meant to be....yet.
I believe he was running Forgeworld Carchadons?
One of the few Space Wolf armies. While his army didn't do so hot, Anthony did manage to take with him Best Sportsman despite his rather scary deathstar.
Sisters with 2 knights!
Amazing conversion for the Cerastus Acheron.
Grey Knights with the stormraven/2-stormtalons formation.
Aaron aka CaptainA and his dreaded centurionstar. Aaron was also one of my opponents.
More centurions.
White Scars and Grey Knights with....wait, you'd never guess....centurions!
There wasn't very many Astra Militarum armies there....
....but there were a lot of Sicarians.
Ok, that's it for army pics. Coming up tomorrow....the battle reports! Stay tuned....
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2015/01/14 17:22:37
Subject: Re:2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
Paul McKevley and his Tetra-based Farsight Enclaves Tau. Paul is a really good Tau player and is currently ranked #1 on the ITC leaderboard. He also won the last GT in our area, Brawl in the Fall.
Sexy Tau Army there, love that paint scheme. If I wasn't so sick of painting blue/gold on my Thousand Sons, I'd totaly steal it.
Greatly looking forward to reading your batreps jy2, you always have interesting matches.
Peregrine wrote: What, you don't like rolling dice to see how many dice you roll? Why are you such an anti-dice bigot?
2015/01/14 18:37:17
Subject: Re:2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
The Khorne walkers were doomed. I guess when you make a list based of what looks fun. you sometimes lose every game. The contemptor was a gift on Christmas from my Mother in Law.
2015/01/14 20:07:52
Subject: Re:2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
WrentheFaceless wrote: Its nice to see GKs at events again, even if its Draigo shuttling around Centurious. and Dreadknights
Looks like at least 1 person ran the GK's without centurions. Unfortunately, I don't think she did all that well (she ran them with the stormraven/stormtalon formation).
We need to get in a rematch again one of these days after my Necrons get updated.
And of course, in a battle between Tyranid players, it'll be interesting to see which build wins out - your Barbed Hierodule army or my Pentyrant build.
pretre wrote: Great pics. I look forward to the report.
BTW, there were 2 Sisters player at the tournament and both did exceptionally well. Too bad they had to play each other at the end. LOL!
The Khorne walkers were doomed. I guess when you make a list based of what looks fun. you sometimes lose every game. The contemptor was a gift on Christmas from my Mother in Law.
Great to meat you skipper, and way to bring something that you like rather than units that will give you the best chances of winning.
It's always refreshing to see very unique armies such as yours.
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2015/01/14 22:08:56
Subject: Re:2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
WrentheFaceless wrote: Its nice to see GKs at events again, even if its Draigo shuttling around Centurious. and Dreadknights
Looks like at least 1 person ran the GK's without centurions. Unfortunately, I don't think she did all that well (she ran them with the stormraven/stormtalon formation).
Actually Shaylynn (who was the GK player in question) went 4-1 at the tournament, though an error in the data entry appears to show her at 3-1-1 in the final report.
2015/01/14 23:54:14
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
This is your first round opponent. I looking forward to seeing your views of the match we played. If you don’t mind I’d like to borrow some of your pictures for my battle report since mine did not turn out to well. It was a great pleasure to play you and the other members of team zero comp this last weekend.
2015/01/15 00:19:38
Subject: 2015 TSHFT Open GT - The Last Hurrah for the Oldcrons
shadowfinder wrote: This is your first round opponent. I looking forward to seeing your views of the match we played. If you don’t mind I’d like to borrow some of your pictures for my battle report since mine did not turn out to well. It was a great pleasure to play you and the other members of team zero comp this last weekend.
Sure, go right ahead!
Thanks for the game, Chancey. You can read about our battle that should be coming out tonight.
WrentheFaceless wrote: Its nice to see GKs at events again, even if its Draigo shuttling around Centurious. and Dreadknights
Looks like at least 1 person ran the GK's without centurions. Unfortunately, I don't think she did all that well (she ran them with the stormraven/stormtalon formation).
Actually Shaylynn (who was the GK player in question) went 4-1 at the tournament, though an error in the data entry appears to show her at 3-1-1 in the final report.
Cool. Glad to hear. Thanks for the info Sean and congratulations on a job well done.
Too bad we didn't get to play. I don't think that you'd like my army very much. Lol.
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