As there was a request for this, from memory, from a week ago...
I teamed up with Brian Carlson, another Chicagoan, and a great painter, to play in the doubles tournament the day before the
GT kicked off. As there was no theme or appearance score, we decided to make a strange combination that had some teeth. The combined army was 1500, so we both had 750 to spend.
I took orks:
Big Mek w/ Kustom Forcefield, Powerklaw, eavy armour
2x 30 orks (3 rokkits,
PK Nob w/ bosspole)
9 lootas
Brian took Genestealers:
Broodlord + 6 genestealers (feeder tendrils and +1 S upgrades)
3x 6 genestealers (feeder tendrils, +1S, scuttlers)
The idea was that I'd rush the middle, and he'd outflank the genestealers. Sounds like a solid plan, as long as we don't run into any heavy armour lists.
Game One
Mission: 5 objectives
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Opponents:
A Tau/Eldar coalition. They've got:
Eldar:
3 units of guardians w/ warlock (one storm guardians, two with either brightlances or starcannons)
3 warwalkers (2 scatter lasers, 4
EML)
Falcon
Tau:
2 squads of firewarriors
5 man Stealth team (one fusion blaster)
2 Crisis Teams
Maybe some broadsides - can't recall.
We put objectives near the table edges, to force them to move that way and allow the genestealers to jump them. First turn, lootas destroy the warwalkers, which are the real threat to my hordes. The boyz advance.
Stealth guys kill the lootas, and a few other orks die, but not much. Turn two, the stealers come in. They eat stealthers, fire warriors, suits, while boyz kill other guardians and stuff. After this, it's kind of academic - they left stuff too close to the edge and the stealers got assaults when they arrived. We ended up scoring 3 objectives to 0, so 20 points to us.
Game Two
Mission: Kill Points
Deployment: Spearhead
Opponents:
Two marine armies:
Combined, they have something like:
Librarian in terminator armour w/ fury of ancients
5 Terminators w/ missile launcher
5 Terminators w/ missile launcher
6 Marines w/ lascannon in
HB razorback
6 Marines w/
HB in Lascannon razorback
6 Marines w/ lascannon in
HB razorback
6 Marines w/
HB in Lascannon razorback
Scouts w/ Missile Launcher & sniper rifles.
Vindicator
Vindicator
Too many easy kill points from small squads and transports really. They end up killing our lootas and all the stealers except 2 (broodlord and a buddy), but that's only 4
KP. We killed the vindicators and 3 razorbacks, librarian, scouts, three marine squads, and both terminator units, for 11, so that's another massacre.
Game Three
Mission: Capture & Control
Deployment: Pitched Battle
Opponents:
More Tau and Eldar
Eldar:
Wraithlord
3x 10 Guardians
Avatar
3 Scatter laser warwalkers
Tau:
2 broadsides w/ shield drones
2 3-man crisis teams (one w/ irridium armour)
2x 8 firewarriors
We set up the objectives in opposite corners. (this helps the stealers a lot). I put one unit of boyz to guard ours, behind a big hill and one w/ the mek to advance on theirs. Lootas go center. The have the wraithlord, two units of guardians and a crisis team guarding their objective, and the broadsides, avatar, guardians and
HQ suits center, with firewarriors off opposite our objective on the right.
We go first, lootas kill a unit of fire warriors, and the boyz put a wound on the wraithlord. In response, everything they have kill the lootas. The majority of their center moves towards the middle of the table.
We get two units of genestealers on, they make short work of everything guarding their objective. Broodlord drops the wraithlord in single combat. They hide, as much as possible, behind the hill.
And, this is where it gets weird. We now have both objectives, on either side of the field, and they're mostly in between them. They spend two turns moving towards our objective. And then we get to bring in the rest of the reserves, which we use to reinforce our objective. So, it's now turn 4, and they've spend two turns maneuvering to the right - they turn around and move back to take their objective back.
The game ends up going to turn 7, so they did actually manage to get back to their own objective, and wipe us off it, but not before we killed their only remaining troop unit, so they're unable to claim it. We get the win with 1 objective to 0.
Tournament Results
We end up winning the overall award for the doubles tournament. There was another undefeated team with 3 more battle points than us, but I guess we were friendlier and had better sportsmanship scores, so that just goes to show
