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Just got back from the weekend, will upload the pics later.

List i took:

Farseer on bike with guide, mind war, singing spear
8 Warp Spiders
Storm Guardians and warlock with witchblade, fllamers and destructor, all in wave serpent with lances x 2
3 Vypers with starcannons
2 Falcons with starcannons and normal pixie tricks
Fire Prism with s. cannon and normal pixie tricks



Started the tournament well, lost my ticket......ah well, things can only get better!!

Down on table 63 first off, facing off against Black Legion. He had plaguebearers, bloodletter, an infltating squad, two small squads, termies with lord, flying lieutenant, defiler and predator. First game was gamma cleanse. I tried to hide everything as much as poss. Most of his stuff isnt hidden, not even in terrain. I get first turn, most of his army disappears. Both icons on the table die (he deepstruck his termies and oblit), predator gets lanced, defiler gets deathspinnered on turn 2. Termies turn up on turn 3, and get starcannoned and mind warred off the table.  Felt sorry for him, it was his first GT and he played against my list.......i hope he uses cover next turn.







Due to the 3000VPs difference from the first game, i end up on table 1 against AL. Ironically, its a list i helped design on warseer and near identical to the list i use so i know what to expect. Lots of 6 man squads with double plasma and fists, an oblit, two speed lieutenants, 3 havoc squads with autocannons/missile launchers and heavy bolters.

Luckily its omega recon, so i cant get first turn CHUMPED. His army is spread acros the table. Most of the double plasma squads are on my left, as are the tank hunting autocannons. So my whole army goes down the right and takes out the squads there. It was a pretty uneventful game tbh, i couldnt do anything about the squads on the left scoring, just made sure i scored with what i could and took out half his army for the loss of my warp spiders and a couple of vypers.  We only get 6 turns in though its enough for a minor win.



Third game on table 2, against tau....deep joy. He has 6 Broadsides with shield drones and targetting arrays, a railhead, two HQs with gun drones, one big crisis unit with gun drones, stealths and several FW squads. Its gamma take and hold so space out my first few deployments across the table to see where his railguns go. THey mainly go on the left so i castle hard on the right to restrict LoS, though he still has LoS to my prism and a wave serpent, something i cant avoid.

Strangely he gives me first turn and everything burns to the right and up the right side. Shooting nails a FW squad. He does nothing really, stealths charge the spiders but get mugged by my guardians as well. I shoot my whole army at his broadsides inthe middle of his DZ on a hill and take out a squad, the other squad is on the other side of the table and slowly makes it way towards the middle of the table. I slowly hunt down his crisis suits, LoS sniping to get the HQ suits. Theyve all got twin plasma so are struggling to do anything to me. Everything jumps the objective on turn 5 and takes his other broadsides out (mind war is great for this). Railhead bites it as well, other FWs get chargrilled. In the end he has a HQ on two wounds in combat with my guardians, i have all but the spiders and a guardians squads surrounding him in the middle of the table.










Game four on table 1 against Duncan Brown's Mech Tau. Urgh, its first thing on sunday morning, we were out drinking til half 2 and im playing against the guy whgo won last years GT Final. Oh well its omega seek and destroy as well. He had two ionheads, broadsides with ASS and shield drones, two fish squads, lots of fireknife spam and two HQ suits with plasma and fusion and a shield drone each.

His BSs hide on the left, his reserves come on the right. Two of the elite squads dont hide well enough so the fire prism comes on, hits three of them, then rolls two 1's to wound. Falcon makes up for it and leaves one suit alive, who stubbornly refuses to run for most of the game. Rest of the game devolves into JSJ tau annoyance and me trying to hunt the buggers down. Both his HQs deepstruck in front of my army so died, i lost both wave serpents, two vypers and a guardian squad. He lost a fish, the HQ suits and some elite ones. In the end, seek and destroy against mech tau is an uphill battle and i lose by 400odd VPs. Not too bad bearing in mind i have a hangover from hell.









Game five and im down to table 7 against MORE tau. HQ suit with plasma/fusion, two fireknives, stealths, one suit with AFP and burst cannons, 2 full FW squads, pathfinders, two BSs with ASS and a shield drone and an ionhead. Mission was secure and control. His army is spread across the table, as are the loot counters. I castle hard on my right behind the only reallly good terrain to hide behind. I get first turn, bosh everything forwards, take a FW squad below half and warp spiders charge his stealths who were 17" away. They run as well but regroup. Everntually the 2 stealths he had left charge the 3 warp spiders that survive the tau shooting and one warp spiders dies over four GAME turns of combat. Nice. His shooting is quite unlucky, my vypers all die but nothing else does whilst i chip away his army, starting with the broadsides and crisis suits.

First moment of  sheer comedy arrives when i tank shock his AFP suit with a serpent to get a shot at the last fireknife, exposing my rear armour. He goes for the rear, jumps into terrain, wounds himself, does nothing with the burst cannon, i convince him to fire the AFP, it scatters back, partially gets himself and dies to it.........
Second moment of comedy was due to the last remaining pathfinder wtih a rail rifle downing my falcon.....the only time i lost any of my heavy support ALL weekend!!






In the end his army is virtually wiped out, a unit of kroot who i couldnt stop, claim one loot counter but i claim three and win by about 1400VPs.



Game 6 against mech eldar......., both of us look at each other armies wishing we'd got a nice easy game against a chaos army lol. Omega cleanse it is and i really dont want to go first......his list was 3 'lords with lances, an avatar, 2 serpents with starcannons, 6 vypers with starcannons and lots of CTM around. I give him the quarter where i think i can get him pinned down, he gives me first turn and most of my army turns up - d'oh!! I opt for a split army to try and pin him down, but he goes hard left and takes out a serpent and all the weapons off my falcon. My return fire is less than brutal, i manage to kill two vypers and take a starcannon off a serpent in return from all my shooting. Luckily his is just as bad, one vyper goes down and i lose some spiders. I then repeat my previous turns shooting, warp sppiders spectacularly fail thier targeting priority and shoot the serpent instead of the vypers. I think that cost me the game tbh. Rest of the game consisted of me trying to kill 3 wraithlords in 4+ cover with him making cover saves like theres no tomorrow. He doesnt kill anything else of mine over the rest of the game, i manage to wound the avatar and take a wraithlord out (go mind war!!). Turn 9 comes along, he tries to kill one of serpents with his storm guardians' krak grenades, he fails to and i flamer them into oblivion and down their serpent as well. At this moment all quarters are contested and im up on VPs. Then with the last shot of the game, his last remaining vyper, with only catapults for weapons, slinks into my home quarter, gets just into range of my vyper holding my quarter, and immobolizes it..........un-frikking-believable!!! Makes up for all his wraithlords doing NOTHING all game i guess.



Cracking game to end a cracking tournament. In the end i finish 21st which im very happy with bearing in mind i'd played 10 games with eldar before this tournament..

Thank you for the report. Also, thank you for an army that surely does not look optimal on paper and doing well with it. Can it possibly a person actually needs to know how to play a game of 40K in order to win as opposed to it being an army list on autopilot (sarcasm). I look forward to the pics.

Haha. My army might not quite be optimal, but its enough to make some armies cry. If i had taken a third falcon instead of the fire prism, i would have done much better as the fire prism managed to hit about once a game!!

Posted By Fallen Angel on 10/16/2006 3:40 AM
Luckily its omega recon, so i cant get first turn gayed.

Assuming you mean charged on the first turn, you can indeed...Check out the official GT FAQ. 

 

'Q./ Can Daemonic speed units deploy in escalation,  codex says move as beast, not count as beasts, but it seems silly to allow them to set up in escalation'

A./ Yes'

 

 

yep infiltration and demonic speed. My commander Moo pulled the arms off of 4 wraithlords + lots of other kills during the gt.

He means he couldn't get all his tanks shot down first turn I'm pretty sure. Omega is great for Mech Eldar on account of they can't be penetrated.

Yeah im not arsed about speed lords. I use a couple myself so know how to counter them initially (just not when my spiders turn up three turns after everything else!!). I was more worried about all those havocs shooting my ass out of the sky as there was very little horizontal terrain in my DZ, a recurring theme actually, it always seemed to be angled or parallel to the short table edge.

Well done on qualifying. Thanks for putting up your reports and pictures. I'm going to heat three so its good to know what to expect terrain wise. That sounds like a lot of Tau!
I'm pleased you did so well with the list you took.
J

Holy cow! I just realized you didn't play against Space Marines. A rare moment indeed.

Thanks for the pics. Very cool I've seen some pics on Warseer where your army was shown. Again, great job with the army you took.

With the new codex, how do you think you'd tweak your list?

Yeah not a single game against IWs or loyalist marines - part of me is disappointed, my farseer is glad of not facing all those librarians.

Been playing about with what to take in the new codex today. I cant see any point in taking 10 man storm guardian squads or vypers, i might as well just take avengers for the squads and go for the bladestorm drop off shooting. With that and the new fire prism rules, i think im going to take two prisms and drop the spiders as well. In there place i might as well just get some fire dragons as i felt i was lacking a bit of AT at certain points. Guess that means three serpents as well. Im definitely going to stick with the theme of fast moving vehicles, just with a bit more jumping out of transports and shooting rather than relying almost completely on skimmers.

Brilliant! I have been saying lately that skimmer tanks properly loaded out with all the trimmings are very resilient.

- Greenie

Hey all. Have posted in swaps, but really need to swap a pair of heat 2 tickets for my pair of heat three tickets. I will throw in an army/ whole bunch of free stuff to sweeten the deal. Or £50. I  accidentally got heat 3 tickets which is on my GF's birthday! eep.....

Let me know asap (you know you want 25 terminators.......)

J

You really feel you can do well in a tournament invironment with 1/3 of your points in non scoring units? I just don't see it.

Do GTs have alpha missions at all?

Have you realised that with the points drop a duel shurican cannon vyper is more effective vs 3+ save enemies (up to T6 iirc) than the previous starcannon config?
Scatter/Cannon allows you to engage speeders nicely aswell.

I do like dragons though, still I like them in falcons myself.

Posted By vsurma on 10/17/2006 4:33 PM
You really feel you can do well in a tournament invironment with 1/3 of your points in non scoring units? I just don't see it.

I would say yes, simply because 45+% of the winning army was non-scoring units.  You can win with a lot of non-scoring units.   

Hey all. Have posted in swaps, but really need to swap a pair of heat 2 tickets for my pair of heat three tickets. I will throw in an army/ whole bunch of free stuff to sweeten the deal. Or £50. I accidentally got heat 3 tickets which is on my GF's birthday! eep.....

Let me know asap (you know you want 25 terminators.......)

J

GTs dont care about alpha level. I dont think im really that bothered about non-scoring transports that much. I could take vypers instead but they just drop like flies when someone looks at them. I ran a bit low on scoring units at points this weekend but i feel that was due to the vypers just being rubbish. Im probably not using them at all, everyone just shoots them first and i only ever seemed to roll one hit a turn with their starcannons.

I will be taking two squads of dragons, one in a serpent, one in a falcon. I just want to give the dual prism shooting a go. It might not work out but its only a swapped turret back and its a falcon again.