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Another fantastic GT, loads of fun, good gaming, beer, Saturday night beer and local entertainment, more beer, and then some more games. Close call tho, I almost didn't go. Got home Thursday, 4 out of 6 women in my house are sick, and yes, I start throwing up as well. But by Friday afternoon, I think I can make it. Crawl out of bed, head to Baltimore and the GT.

Checked into the hotel, Days Inn, and think about collapsing into bed. But I've already gotten several phone calls wanting to know where I am, when are we going out, etc, so I grab my army and head over to the convention center. No plans to play, but they're allowing you to get your paintjudging out of the way Friday night. Great idea, IMO, and I'm gonna take advantage of it. Get to the hall, register, chat with a few folks and then track down Stuart Spengler, GW guy doing the paint judging. Wooohooo, a 35. See, worked about as I thought, more time for him to actually look at the army results in a better score. We chatted a bit about what I'm wanting to do next year, revamp my Genestealer Cult as Orks, and wouldn't you know it, a little while later, Stu comes to get me and show me this guy's GS Cult Ork Codex army. Curses!! Beaten to the punch. Finally, stash my stuff in the store (BTW, the retailer this year was a local store that GW invited in, Game Parlor, Woodbridge and Chantilly, VA, two of the IFL home stores) and head out to eat. Wharf Rat, good food, reasonable prices, huge servings, and very good beer. Only able to put down one beer and about half my meal. But it stays down. Then to bed and crash, get a bit more recuperation in.

Saturday morning, wake up feeling sooooo much better, breakfast on some cinnamon rolls and pastries that I brought and head out to find coffe. Starbucks in the convention center, and then to the hall. Grab my army and head for my first game.

My army:
Doctrines:
Camo Cloaks (on everyone but the Inq/Callidus)
Iron Discipline
Hardened Vets
Light Infantry
Drop Troops

HQ 1:
HSO with Iron Discipline, power weapon, standard and missile launcher
2 x Fire Support squads, each with autocannon and 2 x heavy bolters, both Light Infantry

HQ 2:
Inquisitor Lord, Psychic Hood, Emperor's Tarot, 3 x Mystics, bolt pistol/ccw

Elite 1:
Callidus

Elite 2:
5 x Hardened Vets with 3 x meltaguns

Elite 3:
5 x Hardened Vets with 3 x meltaguns

Troop1:
JO with Honorifica, power weapon, Iron Discipline, missile launcher, plasma gun, light infantry
2 x IG Squads, each with lascannon/plasma gun

Troop2:
JO with 2 x plasma guns, 2 x flamers

2 x IG Squads with lascannon/plasma gun, both light infantry

Fast1:
Hellhound, smoke, Extra Armor

Fast 2:
Hellhound, smoke, Extra Armor

Heavy 1:
Basilisk, Indirect Fire, Improved Comms


Round 1: Seize Ground with 5 Objectives, Spearhead Deployment
Opponent: Frank Hegedus, Eldar. Emp Tarot fails yet again as I get a -1 and Frank chooses to go first. He deploys everything in his corner (my upper right), Farseer, Harlies, Banshees, Rangers, 10 x Wraithguard troop unit, Wave Serpent full of Dire Avengers, 2 x Fire Prism, and a small squad of Dark Reapers. Rangers and Wraithguard are more or less on the objective in his home quarter. Hmmmmmm, ya know what, this ought to be fun,I'm holding my entire army in Reserve and deepstriking! No thanks, you go ahead and go first.
He does some shuffle shuffle stuff witht the skimmers, keep 'em moving over 12", pushes the Banshees towards an objective on my lower right. Finally, my turn, I got a platoon, a hellhound, the Callidus, Inquisitor, and maybe the Basilisk. Callidus, oooo, Dark Reapers, one of her favorite play toys. Hellhound rolls on to my lower right and an IG squad drops into the terrain there as well, nice and close to the Banshees. The Plt Command with two flamers and plasmas drops right next to the Harlies. Hellhound, whoosh, squad bang bang, only one Banshee left. Callidus, Neural shredder, only one Reaper left, Callidus assaults, no more Reapers. Banshee breaks and runs, no more Banshees.
His turn three, shoots some, Callidus gets shot down, I think I lost an IG squad, then the Harlies assault the Plt Cmd. DOH!!! I forgot to shoot them at the Harlies last turn.................... Don't bother rolling, just give them here, they're dead. My three, Vets in, dead Fire Prism, he lets me go back and move my Hellhound after I start shooting (Merci Beaucoup!!), dead Rangers.
Turn 4, Wave Serpent tank shocks and breaks a squad on an objective upper left. His Dire Avengers are the unit that has been killing my guys to the upper left, but I can't seem to do any damage to them. My 4, squad rallies, moves back up, still can't hurt DA or WS, but kill the other Fire Prism. And BTW, my HQ still hasn't shown up. Turn 5, Wave Serpent is parked on the upper left, my HQ comes in and is all over the middle of the table, and I've got two objectives (lower right, middle) with Troops on them. Looks like he has one with the Wraithguard (upper right). And game ends. Man, those Wraithguard. If they're on the obj, it's by a whisker, but same for if they're off. I'm having fun, we call tham on and I've got a 13-7 win. We both get +1 for our highest point unit being alive at the end of the game.

Game 2. Spearhead, Annihilation
Anthony Gibbs, Grey Knights, 3 x Land Raider (2 regular, 1 Crusader), 3 squads Grey Knights, Brother Captain
Again, my opponent wins the die roll and is going first. This one boiled down to one question. Can I stop three Land Raiders before they dump GK all over me. Well, as the old Meatloaf song says, two out of three ain't bad, but it ain't good enough. Stopped one on turn one with an immobilized and vets blew up another on turn 2. But the 2nd squad of vets scattered and couldn't stop the third one. The squad from the Immobilized LR did make it to hth, sort of. The last three members of the squad, that is. And they died to an IG counterassault. His Brother Captain was in the one that blew up. The Callidus hit that squad, and I managed to shoot it down to the BC and one guy as they did a tactical withdrawal out of range. But the full squad that reached me tore threw everything in it's path. Let's see, I have 20 Kill Popints, he had 7. Final score was 10-2. He had six models left, the BC and his running buddy, two guys from the full squad to hit me (Would have gotten them if a Hellhound hadn't immobilized itself trying to clear the firelane), a mobile LR and an immobilized LR. I lose but get +2 for having more units than he does at the end of the game. Final, 18-5.

Game 3: Seize Ground (5 objectives), Pitched Battle
Necrons. No list, he didn't have spares, so don't remember his name (Edit: looking at the standings, it was probably William Seago). Let's see, from memory. Lord with Orb and Veil, 3 x Wraiths, one squad scarabs, squad of 2 x Heavy Destroyers, squad of 4 x Destroyers, 10 x Immortals, 2 squads warriors, Monolith. Phase out is 12.
Finally, I win the die roll and get to go first. Pull his wraiths out from behind a building with the Callidus Word in Your Ear. As far as my FS squads are concerned (for shooting), they're just Marines, right? He's got the wraiths to my right, all destroyers and immortals to my left and warriors, lord, scarabs in the middle. I've got hellhounds and bassie on the left, platoons in the middle and fire support with Honorifica JO on the right. Well, IG shooting comes throught like a champ. I know I got one Warrior but that's all I remember killing on turn 1! I remember because the second warrior squad was just a little bit too far away from the Orb and so no WBB from the Krak missile. And of coursem the Bassie couldn't get a hit the entire game............ And the Wraiths just would not fail a save. He surges forward, shoots Immortals at a hellhound and it's shaken, veils the Lord to my right. First discussion, as I explain Mystics to him. He doesn't think he should count as deep striking, finally he looks veil up and concedes the discussion. OK, now we just had that discussion right? So he calls an assault with the lord and warriors that just veiled. Ummm, they just deep struck.......... Oh yeah. So I tell him to go ahead and shoot, he does and kills most of a FS squad.
Turn 2, Callidus and some vets arrive and I think the plas/flamer Plt Cmd. Callidus, Immortals. Let's dance. Plasma/flamers, I really don't remember, but I think they went after destroyers. Anyways, no regular destroyers when I'm done shooting. Between shooting and Callidus snicker snack, only a couple of Immortals left, altho several are lying at our feet. His two, some Immortals get up, No Monolith, lord and squad shoot at other FS squad with little effect (but only after he tries to walk the lord across the warriors heads to separate him from the unit), heavy destroyers shoot at hardened vets who go to ground, stil lose two but pass morale, hvy dest assault vets and I lose combat break and run away. Believe it or not, I planned it that way once he moved up to shoot at them from close range. Callidus jumps out and leaves the Immortals standing there all alone, waiting to be shot at again on turn 3. While this is going on, his wraiths hit the center, along with some scarabs. Ouch. Only good thing, they hit separte units. Scarabs are still engaged, but the wraiths aren't.
Turn 3. OK somewhere in here is where I made a comment to him about his dice. He was using pearl wite dice with white pips and I said somethig about I couldn't make them out from over here, his reply, Yeah I know, that's why I use them............... Say What!?!?! Maybe it was supposed to be a joke, but somehow, I just don't know. I also tried to ask him if he was having problems with the rules, given we'd already had several discussions. Was kinda hoping he'd give me a reason to cut him some slack. Yeah, it's a tourney but you tell me you're a newb or it's a new army for you, I'll dial down a notch. Not gonna take it easy on you, but I will be more helpful. Anyways, he shrugged it off.
So on to turn 3. Vets rally, no more Hvy Dest. Shooting and Callidus finish Immortals. Center starts unloads on the wraiths, finally finishing the. The Inquisitor weaves his way forward and goes after the scarabs in hth. His three, still no Monolith, he veils to the left, keeps shuffling the non-Orb squad forward. All he's got left is warriors, lord and a couple scarabs in hth.
Turn 4. I unload on the Orb squad, almost get them all down, but no cigar. But if he fails enough WBB, it's game. Scarabs go bye bye (may be in his 4). His 4, the Monolith finally shows up, too little too late. Gutsy move, he drops it into the narrow strip between my center group and the table edge. HIT! He veils the Orb squad (which made enough WBB, obviously) to the far right behind a building, leaving the other squad stranded in terrain right in front of my center.
Turn 5, that squad stranded in the middle, poof..... Hmmmm, only 11 models counting the Lord behind the building, that's game, you're phased out beginning of your turn. By the way, that's a 17-3 result, regardless of actual objectives held (altho I had two and with his phaseout he had none, so it's still a 17-3). Don't think he was very happy to learn that, and I'm fairly psoitive that he is why I only have a 40 for Sportsmanship for the tourney. Course, I didn't give him great scores in Sports either, that dice comment was still sticking in my craw. I guess we were each "that guy" for each other.

Saturday night!! Post battle syndrome. Only one cure. BEER!!
It's been a little wet and rainy but three of us start the table outside of that sports bar next to Wharf Rat. And the accumulation began. We warned the waiter that more would be joining us but somehow I don't think he was ready for us taking nearly every table on the patio. About 9 I joined several IFL members for our annual GT D&D night. That Drunk & Debauched............ Club up in north Baltimore we like to go to, BYOB, stages with entertainers, etc. I did drink lightly tho as my stomach was still feeling just a touch odd. Anyways, got in about 2:30 or so, got 5 hours of sleep and ready for day 2.

Game 4:
Capture & Control two objectives, Pitched Battle
Alan Phillips, IG. Ouch ouch ouch. He's playing my old style list, lots of troops, lots of sentinels, and this time I'm on the end of an all-deep striking Guard army. Three platoons, each with HQ, two IG squads and a remnant. HQ with two special weapon squads. Hmmm, but............. His only ranged anti-tank is a single AT squad in his HQ and his sentinels. OK, kill those and my Hellhounds will have a field day. So they both start in Reserve. And, with Light Infantry, I start a fire base on his objective with my non-infiltrators on my objective.
I'm not even going to try to break this one down. High points, Callidus having a field day in the middle of the table before being shot down. His surprise at Mystics. I explained what they do and demonstrated with the first squad he dropped in. I do believe he actually changed his deep strike pattern after that. Plas/flamer squad did take out his AT squad, sentinels went down to my deep striking meltas, taking most of the Vet squads with them in explosions. But in the end, he killed everything I had on his objective and took it back, so we wind up 1 each. Victory Points, I get a Minor win. 12-9. Alan got my Favorite Opponent vote. Fun game from start to finish, close nail biter. And Alan, if you're out there on any of the forums I'll post this to, the bit about difficult terrain tests into an ongoing assault not being init 1 is on page 36, last paragraph of the Assaulting Through Cover section.

Last game, Dawn of War, Annihilation
Casey Campbell, one of my fellow IFL members, and his Eldar. Farseer, Aavatar, more fun to play with Dark Reapers, Scorpions (Outflank), Banshees in a Wave Serpent, Falcon, Fire Dragons, three squads Dire Avengers. I win the die roll again, and we're off to the races. I place the two FS squads and the Honorifica JO in a piece of terrain near the middle, one IG squad at the 24" line in a checkerboard. Cunning plan, use them to push back his deployment and move into the terrain behind them that my HQ Commad squad is in on turn 1. Vets, Plas/flamer and Callidus in Reserve, all else coming in on turn 1. He puts out his Avatar and two squads of Dark Reapers. Callidus Word in Your Ear pulls one squad out and a little closer to the FS squads. And away we go.

Turn 1. Move everything on, both hellhounds pop smoke. Bang bang shoot some Avengers, get carried away and shoot with the forward squad instead of moving them back. Pay for it in his turn as the Avengers move up a little and unload on them. They fail Morale and fall back, a good thing actually, as they are now in the terrain they should have been in and next to my CO. He moves everything on,

Turn 2, Callidus shows up, hi Dark Reapers!. Both Vet squads are in, altho one scatters a bit. First Vets shoot, dead Wave Serpent as it explodes. Other Vetrs shoot, dead Falcon as it explodes. Unload on Banshees and Fire Dragons. They go bye bye. Callidus neural shreds and assaults Dark Reapers, they go bye bye. His 2 the Callidus gets shot down, as does the Vet squad that scattered the wrong way. His Avatar reaches a Hellhound, 5 attacks, one penetrating hit, a one. Shaken. I think his SCorps actually showed up this turn as well.

Turn 3. Hellhound scoots 12", clears the field of fire and everything in my army unloads on the Avatar. Last shot, the Bassie, takes his last wound and he's gone. Whew............ OK, it's in the bag now. He's got nothing that can hurt my tanks except the Scorps, and they can't get to them. His 3, the Scorps move as close as they can while staying in cover.

Turn 4, lots of shooting at the Scorps, whittle them down pretty good but they're still going to get an assault. Hellhounds move towards his Avangers. And I've even given them their sacrificial lamb by pushing that understrength squad to the edge of my terrain. And the plas/flamer squad deep strikes in and finishes off the first squad I shot at on turn one. His 4, another Avenger squad revenges their brethren upon my plas/flamer squad, Scorps do get an assault in and kill of the IG squad.

Turn 5. Two hellhounds, two fire support squads and a couple potshots later, no more Farseer or attached Avenger squad in the middle of his table edge. All he has left is a partial squad hiding behind a building. We roll and game continues, but I do a quick count and score is 10-5. So I suggest we just call it a game as I'm not gonna close with them except with hellhounds and the Bassie can pummel them from afar. Oddly enough, he agrees. Final score, 20-5. BTW, this is the opponent that chatted with GoGo afterwards to suggest that personalized dice should't be allowed. Course, I was more than willing to point out that on several occasions during our game, those same dice rolled ones to wound, on lascannon hits. And yes, he agreed that did happen.

Anyways, my final scores, 71 Battle, 40 Sports, 35 Painting. Finished in the top 30 overall with IG, and all I can say is, wait until I'm using a new codex!! Hmmmmm, Genestealer Cult IG......................???? NEED MORE HYBRIDS!

well done man- good to hear you had a good time

Hopefully pop over one year to take part and see the IFL lot again

Only if you bring the tic tac titan..................

Sorry I beat you to it, Don. You're still going to do your GCult next year though, right?

Maybe............... Been thinking and wondering how a Genestealer Cult IG would do with the new IG codex.

Hey Mondo, you got hit hard in the sportsmanship scores. What happened? Did someone not like getting roughed up by a bunch of guard?

thehod wrote:Hey Mondo, you got hit hard in the sportsmanship scores. What happened? Did someone not like getting roughed up by a bunch of guard?

It was the hat....definitly the hat.

Did he share his beer? Thats probably the cause!

Hey Don, It was a definately a great game with all sorts of surprises, not to mention promethium. It's just a shame your guard relied on such nefarious liasons as Ms. Calladius and Mr. Mystic

Thanks for the reference and I look forward to the next game.

Cheers,
Alan

Nice report, Mondo! Thanks.

thehod wrote:Hey Mondo, you got hit hard in the sportsmanship scores. What happened? Did someone not like getting roughed up by a bunch of guard?

My round three opponent, the Necron player, hammered me on Sports, as I did him. I got tired of telling him little things, like, Yes, veil does count as deep striking, no, you can't assault after deep striking, no, your lord cannot walk on their heads, no, you can't.......... And he probably got tired of hearing it. And then when I didn't even bother finishing my 5th turn cause I had him below phase out (remember, I went first so he would have phased at the beginning of his 5th turn), AND when he found out that was an automatic 17-3 score (regardless of number of objectives controlled), well, he didn't take it too well. C'est la guerre.

don_mondo wrote:

thehod wrote:Hey Mondo, you got hit hard in the sportsmanship scores. What happened? Did someone not like getting roughed up by a bunch of guard?

My round three opponent, the Necron player, hammered me on Sports, as I did him. I got tired of telling him little things, like, Yes, veil does count as deep striking, no, you can't assault after deep striking, no, your lord cannot walk on their heads, no, you can't.......... And he probably got tired of hearing it. And then when I didn't even bother finishing my 5th turn cause I had him below phase out (remember, I went first so he would have phased at the beginning of his 5th turn), AND when he found out that was an automatic 17-3 score (regardless of number of objectives controlled), well, he didn't take it too well. C'est la guerre.

Geez, playing by the rules huh? What a jerk, I hope I never have to play you!

Deadshane1 wrote:

Geez, playing by the rules huh? What a jerk, I hope I never have to play you!

ppphhhhhbbbtttttttttttttttt

It sucks that someone couldnt take a beating like that. Great showing with your guard and proving they can still kick tail for the Emperor/Slann.

thehod wrote:It sucks that someone couldnt take a beating like that. Great showing with your guard and proving they can still kick tail for the Emperor/Slann.

Oh, I'll admit that by the end of the game I wasn't being all that nice any more. Probably got what I deserved................

You could've whipped out your 'junk' and layed it on the table.

I've heard thats a popular action taken at gt's

don_mondo wrote:Necrons. No list, he didn't have spares,

veils the Lord to my right. First discussion, as I explain Mystics to him. He doesn't think he should count as deep striking, finally he looks veil up and concedes the discussion. OK, now we just had that discussion right? So he calls an assault with the lord and warriors that just veiled. Ummm, they just deep struck.......... Oh yeah.

OK somewhere in here is where I made a comment to him about his dice. He was using pearl wite dice with white pips and I said somethig about I couldn't make them out from over here, his reply, Yeah I know, that's why I use them............... Say What!?!?! Maybe it was supposed to be a joke, but somehow, I just don't know.

Hmmmm, only 11 models counting the Lord behind the building, that's game, you're phased out beginning of your turn. By the way, that's a 17-3 result, regardless of actual objectives held (altho I had two and with his phaseout he had none, so it's still a 17-3).

Don't think he was very happy to learn that, and I'm fairly psoitive that he is why I only have a 40 for Sportsmanship for the tourney. Course, I didn't give him great scores in Sports either, that dice comment was still sticking in my craw. I guess we were each "that guy" for each other.

Yeah, the whole thing reads very shady:
- Necrons, and no list for you to check.
- Veil player claims not to know it's Deep Strike, claims not to know he can't Assault? :S
- white-on-white dice? yeah...
- claiming not to know his phaseout point? no ing way

Riight...

Nice battle report. sorry if this a the wrong place to put it but what do mystics do. Ive never encounterd them so Im curios as to what they do for deep striking.

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Yeah, the whole thing reads very shady:
- Necrons, and no list for you to check.
- Veil player claims not to know it's Deep Strike, claims not to know he can't Assault? :S
- white-on-white dice? yeah...
- claiming not to know his phaseout point? no ing way

Riight...

Slight misunderstanding, he had a list for me to look at, but no spare for me to hang on to.
He knew his phase out point and told me what it was when I asked, it was the bit about a 17-3 automatic score for tabling opponent that I think he had problems with. Darn, now you're making me defend the guy....................

Golga wrote:Nice battle report. sorry if this a the wrong place to put it but what do mystics do. Ive never encounterd them so Im curios as to what they do for deep striking.

Mystics are members of a Daemonhunter Inquisitor's retinue. They allow you to detect units that deep strike/summon onto the table. If detected (4d6 range to detect), you can shoot at the detected unit. If you only have one mystic, then only the Inq and retinue can shoot. If you have two or more (max 3), then the Inq can nominate any unit within 12" to do the shooting.

@Don:

Not having a takehome means you can't check his math.

OK about the phaseout, tho he really should be happy that it's not 20-0!

Ah kk thanks ^ ^

Don, how did you think your Basilisk worked for you at Baltimore? and the same with the Callidus?

I usually get mixed results with my Basilisks but the Callidus got a whole lot more useful in 5th (eats fateweavers for breakfast)

Both did fairly well.

Basilisk: I was originally worried about LOS and losing this before it could be useful. For Vegas, I didn't even give it Indirect, just used it as an assault gun. I originally included it only because I didn't finish another squad in time. Proved useful enough that I left it in and found the points to give it IDF. However, the new scatter rules made it very much a hit or miss item.

Callidus. Oh yes, quite useful. Against both my Eldar opponents, she took out their Dark Reapers before they could get a shot off. Her Word in Your Ear is still extremely handy. Half a squad of Grey Knights in game 2, and the Necron Immortals in game 3. Game she proved least useful was against the other IG player, and even there she tore apart a couple of units. I was lucky enough not to face Nids or Orks, as those are the two armies she's generall least useful against. The new Charge Reaction rule has made assaulting her into the corner of a large unit equivelant to suicide. Gotta be a lot more picky about where you use her.

don_mondo wrote:

thehod wrote:Hey Mondo, you got hit hard in the sportsmanship scores. What happened? Did someone not like getting roughed up by a bunch of guard?

My round three opponent, the Necron player, hammered me on Sports, as I did him. I got tired of telling him little things, like, Yes, veil does count as deep striking, no, you can't assault after deep striking, no, your lord cannot walk on their heads, no, you can't.......... And he probably got tired of hearing it. And then when I didn't even bother finishing my 5th turn cause I had him below phase out (remember, I went first so he would have phased at the beginning of his 5th turn), AND when he found out that was an automatic 17-3 score (regardless of number of objectives controlled), well, he didn't take it too well. C'est la guerre.

There could not have been many Necron players at the tournament....let's look him up on the results and send him rotten banana peels in the mail!