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This one went 3-0 with 2 wins being massacres at Saturdays' tournament. Its also my "perfect" comp list, which doesn't matter except for a few places that refuse to join the year 2007, and still use recycled 3rd edition missions. But I digress

 

Farseer w/ singing spear & fortune & runes of  "I laugh 55% at librarians"

9 Harlequins with kisses and shadowseer

5 Fire Dragons

10 Dire Avengers w/ Exarch w/ double catapults & defend

Wave Serpent w/ scatter laser, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, vectored thrust engines

9 Dire Avengers w/ Exarch w/ double catapults & defend

Wave Serpent w/ scatter laser, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, vectored thrust engines

3 Jetbikes w/ 1 shuriken cannon, + warlock with destructor and singing spear

3 Jetbikes w/ 1 shuriken cannon, + warlock with destructor and singing spear

Falcon with scatter laser, shuriken cannon, pulse laser, holo fields, vectored thrust engines, spirit stones (2 slices of pepperoni, and 1 combination slice too)

I kept running out of points due to all the toys that I thought were required, runes of warding for example, so I ended up taking out a model here and there. I really hated running odd numbered units, but I really felt like I had no choice. I am becomming a fan of scatter lasers again. I really like rolling a million dice and instead of denying my opponent an armor save, now they get to take as many as they want. The boards/terrain that this tournament runs have an unbeleive amount of 4+ armor save features so I didn't feel bad from departing from my standard starcannon/brightlance double wraithlord/eldrad/prism list.

Game One:1 monolith, 1 necron lord veil & orb, 40 warrior necron warriors, 6 immortals, 1 tomb spider.  The monolith deep striked into the heart of army and caused me grief starting turn 2.  It was close I won by 300pts. This was one of the couple armies I figured that would be particulary hard, I had no AP, and limited anti-horde firing (bladestorm every other round, or fire normal, but... I won't be able to face the return fire, so I had to bladestorm) it was a grueling game, if played faster I might have been able to force a phase out, we got just 5 turns. At the same time I was terrified of the monolith, it was always blasting multiple units each turn, I was just getting lucky that he kept rolling 1's.

Game 2: A genestealer horde army, led by a tyrant, 2 gun fexes a biovore, and a lictor. Since I've never played my eldar against nids I wasn't sure what to expect. I played conservative and forced my scatter serpents up a flank along with a jetbike squad and the harlequins, the rest of my stuff was on the far side, which helped scatter his forces during our deployment phase. I crushed the flank, and ran the harlequins hard into his center. It all worked out, I killed everything. Amazing how nasty dire avengers are against 2+ t6 models.

Game 3 was another horde nids army. I counted around nearly 100 termoguants, 1 gunfex, a broodlord and retinue. He had 20 warriors, half flying rending, half shooting rending. His firepower was ineffective against my serpents, and I snaked my way through buildings to get to his HQ (mission objective) it looked like it was going to be a low scoring vp game, but the speed of nids is surprising. Turn 1 was rather quiet, but turn 2 was a blood bath, by turn 5 I had lost a unit of jetbikes and a few of my squads were missing a couple members, but no one below half strength. On the board was 23 termogants, everything else was dead, my opponent conceeded without having resolved turn 5 combat that I think would have wiped him out. For sure on turn 6 I'd have wiped him out. 19 dire avengers still on the table, 2 jetbikes, 4 fire dragons, all three skimmers and the farseer. And all of them in combat or right beside the combat waiting for their chance to put the hurt on.

Congrats on your victories!

Woah, I forgot flying warriors even existed, lol. . .
(thats 5+ save gets them left at home by every tyranid player I have talked to)

Don't you have to take bladestorm on your exarchs to use it?

Congrats BTW.

Congrats on the win, and cred for leaving Eldrad, prism and friends at home.

"Amazing how nasty dire avengers are against 2+ t6 models"

How are they especially nasty vs T6 models? Bladestorm = loads of S4 shooting ... Maybe you meant harlies? Cause I've taken down carnifex with 6 demonettes, so 9 harlies should make short work of them!

- Salvage

Opps! I had bladestorm not defend on the dire avengers.

Yes I really mean that dire avengers can get nasty on a carnifex. I had both squads unload on a fresh carnifex with a 2+ save. I got lucky and my opponent didn't he took 3 wounds and I finished it off with the entire rest of my army save the harlequins which I foolishly joined with the farseer, they absorbed a charge from 6 stealers, 1 hive tyrant and 1 carnifex. The rest of my army was free to do whatever, it was already turn 5, so I went all out on the lone fex.

Boss Salvage: THANKS! My other eldar list has all the cheese in it, eldrad, wraithlords, starcannons, brightlances, a fire prism and even more harlequins. I found that this new list is more fun to play, play against and if you don't mess up it hits harder, then again if I mess up I'm sure it'll crash quicker too. I'm still not ballsy enough to run a war walker army or rely on 60 guardians with weapon platforms, though I'd like to run guardian squads again.

The boards at this game store have a ton of 4+ armor save terrain. Warriors can be bought with extended carapace giving them a 4+ as well, and I think all the ones I fought had that enhancement. I'm not sure because most of the time they were in 4+ terrain or charging me.

Agreed! The boards that are there have TONS of +4 cover save and ALOT of buildings to hide in. The boards are constructed very well and look awesome, but in gaming practicality, they're not that great. Having too much cover and loads of buildings makes for a boring game. With those types of boards, you don't need high strength or low AP because everyone pratically gets a +4 save. Also, the fact that the scenarios used seem to be the same ones over and over again takes out any of the real challenge in the game. The saving grace though is that the majority of the players there seem to be a good group of people.

Hey Baffomet who are you? I'm Jeff, aka the bad guy. You are right there is a bit too much of that 4+ nonsense then again, its not stopping people from taking 1000vp or more from other players. And if you play at kublacon a lot or any of the other yearly tournaments your lucky if you get 2 hills and a 3rd peice of something for terrain. So I'm far from complaining.
I don't mind the missions, though I have considered creating and submitting some new missions for Steve. I don't find them boring, as its the players who make 90% of the game anyhow.