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Question: might it be valuable to indicate which side went first in these results?

With 2 exceptions, I have won every game of 8th edition when I went first, and lost every game where I did not.

 techsoldaten wrote:
Question: might it be valuable to indicate which side went first in these results?

With 2 exceptions, I have won every game of 8th edition when I went first, and lost every game where I did not.

With a high number of drops I am second normally; in addition all my wins have been as second, both times I went first I lost.

Konor campaign mission tonight so it was a special mission with a special set of stratagems.

Dark Angels+Knight vs. CSM+Daemons-DA win via mission

Seriously Konor mission is not an easy win as the attacker as your only points are line breaker and the defender gets kill points.

Close game even so. Daemonettes (the one daemon unit) cleared out about 300+ points of infantry.

Dark Angels vs Nurgle (with FW stuff): DA loss

Dark Angels vs Grey Knights: DA Win

Went second both times.

Went to a small 8-person tournament today. 1k points, 2 detachments max.

My Mixed Chaos force had 2 Wins and 1 Loss. I had a Renegade Knight, a plague marine squad, a CSM squad, a Palanquin Lord, and some Tzeentch Flamers.

1st Game: Loss, vs Orks. Don't remember if I went 1st or 2nd. Opponent brought a some Grots, Big Mek and Warboss on bike, a few deffkoptas, and several Boy Mobz in Trukks. I couldn't chew through both the Trukks and the contents before they charged and wiped out all my infantry. The Knight did a lot of work, almost clearing the board, but the Big Mek, an empty Trukk and the Grots were still around to claim objectives at the end.

2nd Game: Win, vs Tau. I went 1st. Opponent had lots of Firewarriors and Pathfinders, backed up by just two Broadsides [that was it]. An unconventional approach. I was quite lucky in that I managed to have the Knight kill a Broadside with his Battlecannon first turn. I haven't played vs Tau very often, so was caught off guard by how many shots the Firewarriors could put out [even if they don't shoot well]. Some bad luck on my part was made up for by my throwing some spare shots at the drones, quickly gaining points in this Kill Points mission.

3rd Game: Win, vs Pure Death Guard [played by the Ringer, a store employee]. I got to go 1st. He had 2 of the special Death Guard Characters, two units of Plague Marines, and three Bloat Drones. I hadn't played against them before, and am coming to appreciate them [they don't look great on paper, but perform well on the table]. My infantry was able to clear out his, with some clever use of Supercharged Plasmas on my part. But as before, the Knight did most of the heavy lifting, even as it was whittled down by the Drones, he kept stomping and shooting them, until the 7th turn, when it was just the Knight on 2 wounds left, vs a single half-dead Drone. Thankfully, the Knight was closer to the Relic, so I narrowly pulled out the win.

Overall, I'm pleased with how my army went. I think I might've done better if I'd had a wider variety of units instead of the Knight, but he was quite effective nonetheless.

2000 point ITC tournament; each mission had an eternal war, and a maelstrom, and an additional set of objectives. Max score was 19 points.


Grey Knights vs Eldar/Harlequins - Won Maelstrom, won Eternal War. Tabled; 19-2 Grey Knights. It was close, until an ill-fated charge into my terminators, which also featured a Draigo pile-in. 2 command points later and that was all she wrote. Went second in this game. Lost about 380 points in this game.

Grey Knights vs Astra Millitarium - Tied Maelstrom, lost Eternal War; 13-5 Astra Millitarium. Lost the Eternal War by only 12 kill points, with game ending before i could potentially make up the difference. Really tough game, but it always is against AM for me. Went first in this game. Also saw a Celestine vs Celestine combat. She needs a nerf. Badly. Lost about 1100 points in this game.

Grey Knights vs Craftworld Eldar - Won Maelstrom, won Eternal War. Tabled; 19-3 Grey Knights. Honestly he could have probably won, except I rolled incredibly well to bring down his wraithknight in the span of 1 game turn (he charged, and I fought it on my turn. Did a total of 24 on the nose. 6 purge soul (ouch), 12 from Celestine (wow; thank you acts of cheese), remainder Draigo melee). Lost about 900 points in this game.

All in all, this was good enough for 2nd place. The guy who beat me got first.

Starting to realize that GK are a very solid counter to Eldar. The multi-wound strength 4 stuff really does the nasty.

3 tournament games as IG

IG v Nids - Nid victory
IG v BA - BA victory
IG v Necrons - Necron victory

Was on the path to tabling the enemy in the first game but ran out of time. BA was a close game but he managed to get a jump pack character on 3/4 of the points when time ran out and was ahead on the KP secondary. Necrons nearly tabled me by turn 7 game 3. Fliers are really nasty. People complain about Conscripts eating a disproportionate amount of firepower for their points, but the fliers alphad most of my heavy hitters and were putting a dent of in my 60 conscripts with tesla/hurricane bolters. 2-3 turns of shooting with my remaining army to bring the damn things down. Which let the death company and tesla immortals mulch my remaining conscripts which were pretty much my only way of scoring objectives. Not sure what to do except maybe take more scions instead of infantry squads and maybe add some Hydras/artillery instead of pask/leman russes.

None of the 3 guard armies out of 14 players even came close to placing top 3. The BA player who beat me with two stormravens took second. First was a guy playing DE who did very well at ATC.

Chaos vs SM - Chaos win.
Chaos vs SM - SM win.
Chaos vs SM - Chaos win.
SM + Chaos vs Guard - draw (our first draw of the edition in over 20 games).

[EDIT] All SM are from the Codex (Raven Guard)

Updated.

Will there be a seperate section for Index vs Codex wins once a factions Codex is released?

Or will it be pooled together?

 Frozocrone wrote:
Will there be a seperate section for Index vs Codex wins once a factions Codex is released?

Or will it be pooled together?

They will be seperate, i.e.

Space Marines: Index - W L Codex - W L

Necrons vs Admech, necron win

For consideration my most recent game of Tau vs SM was against the new codex

Nids VS Scion army (AM, I guess, but there was nothing that wasn't in the Scion 'dex last edition)

Nids win.

Ad Mech vs Genestealers - Ad Mech Win
Ad Mech vs Genestealers - Ad Mech Win
Ad Mech /w Knights vs Genestealers-Tyranid-AM - Ad Mech Win

Obsered Tyranids vs Eldar (Craftworlds)

Eldar win - but the Tyranid player completely forgot about OOEs special rules.

EDIT: Clarifying it's Craftworlds.

Custodes Vs. Astra Militarum: AM win.
Custodes Vs. Thousand Sons: Custodes win.

Blood Angels vs Craftworld Eldar - Eldar win

Dark Angels vs Thousand Sons - 1K Win.

Mazzyx wrote:
Konor campaign mission tonight so it was a special mission with a special set of stratagems.

Dark Angels+Knight vs. CSM+Daemons-DA win via mission

Seriously Konor mission is not an easy win as the attacker as your only points are line breaker and the defender gets kill points.

Close game even so. Daemonettes (the one daemon unit) cleared out about 300+ points of infantry.

You might even say it's designed so that the Defender (IE Imperium) wins!

Speaking off,

Tyranids vs SM (Black Templars) - Space Marine win. Was played with the Index.

Orks vs GK. Orks minor win.

Death guard VS SM. Draw. Konor mission. I was playing DG and was attacker. Opponent (who worked at the store mind you) cheated tho. Said all measuring had to start from the middle of the base (halfway through game) and also reneged on the agreed terrain access points and cover saves. Also tried to say his tact SM didnt need LOS to shoot. Tried to say he could move his predator through my Plague drone without charging. Stuff like that. 5 turn came around and we were tied on victory and i was ripping him up. He rolled a 5 then used a CP to reroll. Got a 2 and the game ended. To be honest i was glad it ended, he was so full of it. Even the owner apologized.

Guard vs Thousand Sons - Guard win

Death Guard vs Necrons. Necron first turn. Necron win.
Death Guard vs Astra Militarum. AM first turn. AM win.

Look at that number of imperium games!

Imperium and Eldar at the top seems about right.

Watch us all need to wait 6 months for balance because GW wants to push out more marine and IoM codices.

Knights and CSM vs BA and SW - Knights and CSM win.

CSM vs Eldar - Eldar win
Nurgle CSM vs KDK /w Berzerkers, Leviathan, renegade artillery - KDK win.
Marines vs Marines /w Celestine, Marines win.
Nids vs SW - Nids win
Necrons vs Single Warhound - Warhound wins.
TAU vs TAU - TAU wins
Nids vs TAU - Nids win
KDK /w fancy toys vs Eldar - KDK win
Marines vs Warhound - Warhound wins.
TAU vs SW - TAU win.
Marines /w Celestine vs CSM - Marines win.
Necrons vs Nurgle CSM - Necrons win

Friend's game, doesn't post here.

Astra Millitarium vs Blood Angels - AM victory

He was shot off of the table in 2 turns. I don't think he even got his second turn.

Oh, here, from last week, other people's games.

Thousand Sons v. Thousand Sons
Orks v. Death Guard
Thousand Sons v. World Eaters


I need to get my game in for the defense of Astaramis soon.