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I entered a tournament this past Saturday at my flgs. It was an escalation tournament consisting of 3 games. One at 1200, one at 1600, and one at 2000.

Game 1

My list:
HQ
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mok
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mok

Troops
9 Khorne berzerkers, Champ w/ PF
9 Khorne berzerkers, Champ w/ PF
9 Khorne berzerkers, Champ w/ PF
9 Khorne berzerkers, Champ w/ PF

My opponents List:( not exactly sure, I dont play space marines
3 10 man tactical squads, flamer and missel launcher
1 ten man squad with plasma cannon
basic commander HQ
venerable dreadnought
dreadnought
predator with TL las cannon and las cannon side sponsoons
orbital bombardment

Mission: we had a unique deployment which ended up with us deployed diagonally about 30 inches apart.
Objectice of the mission was not decided until a dice roll on turn 3.

Turn 1. Opponent goes first, not much in range or in LOS, a few berzerkers die from missle launchers and plasma cannons.
My turn, I move and run everything forwad

Turn 2. He drops a few more berzerkers, his dread moves up and shoots a daemon prince, takes a wound.
My turn, Daemon princes assault the dread and consolidate towards his lines.

Turn 3. We roll and decide on VP mission.
He shoots up a daemon prince, reducing it to one wound. He has a plasma cannon kill a few berzerkers and an orbital bombardment kill only 4 thanks to hand dandy cover saves. rapid fires some berzerkers and kills a few
my turn, I assault a group of marines with a DP, assault a venerable dread with another DP, and assault a squad od marines with 2 berzerkers. Prince kills 4 marines, survives in CC. Other prince, gets 5 pins against the dreadnought and inflicts 5 crew stunned and then takes a wound from the dread CC attack. The berzerkers reduce the marines to 3 models.

turn 4. He shoots my berzerkers not i CC and now half my squads are below half strength. My daemon prince fighting the marines dies, and my other daemon prince fails to inflict any damage on the venerable dreadnought. His marines get wiped by my zerkers, who consolidate 6 inches forward.
My turn, I move up and assault his remaining units. all of his army except the predator are now in CC. I win CC everywhere and reduce his models to next to nothing. Again, I fail to inflict damage on the venerable dread.
turn 5. Venerable dread explodes, (finally!) and kills one of my guys 3 of his. I wipe out all the rest of his units.
my turn, I assault his preadotr and get more than 10 penetrating hits. It explodes and kills a few of my guys.

End result, I table him and get all 1200 VP. I lost a DP and only 2 squads are below half strength so I only give up 409 VP. I get a crushing victory.

Game 2.
Next I fight a necron player.
My list: Hq:
Daemon Prince, wings, Mok,
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mok,
greater daemon

Troops:
12 berzerkers, champ w/PF
12 berzerkers, champ w/PF
13 Berzerkers, Champ w/PF
13 Berzerkers, Champ /PF

His list:
HQ
Lord w/orb and veil
Troops
10 warriors
10 warriors
Elites
8 immortals
8 immortals
10 immortals
fast attack
3 destroyers
3 destroyers

Mission: there are 5 objectives stretching in a line from table corner to table corner, a little over a foot apart. Beginning at the start of turn 3, for every objective you control you recieve a token. Whomever has more tokens at the end of the game wins. tokens may be cashed in for a S 8 AP 3 orbital bombardment on a D6 roll of a 5+ if the player so chooses

Deployment:
Pitched battle deployment, I deploy first and put everything in the center. He deploys as far from me as possible.

The game can be summed up like this, I charged headlong toward him the entire game. and he stayed as far away from me as possible the entire time. I took horrendous shooting casualties but since I was moving towards him I conrolled some objectives on turns 3 and 4. I reached his lines with only a handful of models and got lucky and ended up killing an immortals squad, 2 destroyer squads, and 2 warrior squads earning me 970 VP. I however was reduced to 3 models and game up far too many VP. But at the end of the game I had 3 tokens, he had none, so I earned a solid victory.

Game 3
My list:
Hq
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mok
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mok
Greater Daemon

Troops
10 Khorne berzerkers, champ PW, Personal Icon
10 Khrone berzerkers, Champ PW, Personal Icon
13 lesser daemons

Elites
4 terminators, 4 combi plasma 2 PF
4 terminators, 4 combi plasma 2 PF
4 terminators, 4 combi plasma 2 PF

Heavy Support
Land Raider w/ Daemon Possession
Land Raider w/ Daemonic Possession

His list:
this was an absolutely beautiful army by the way, the guy had it painted by blue table painting. anyway,
It was Nidzilla Tyranids, I dont know all the details, I will list what I remember and attach a picture of his list.
3 carnifexes with uber anti personnel shooting
3 carnifexes with the strength 10 blast thing
a shooty flyrant
a hive tyryant with 2 tyrnat guard.
a squad of ten rippers
a squad of shooty gaunts
2 squads of 12 inch assault gaunts
3 zoanthropes with the S 10 psychic shooting attack.

Mission: Straight up VP and some plus 200 VP for each unit above half strength you have in your enemies deployment zone and and plus 200 VP for any troops you have in your enemies deployment zone.

the mission called for alternating deployment and out units had to be at least 24 inches apart. I went second in deployment which was a bad idea because he forced me to deploy my land raiders all the way up against the back edge. He put down everything, and I deployed 2 Daemon princes and 2 land raiders, everything else was in reserve.

Turn 1
He went first moved everything ahaed slightly but tried to stay out of my DP assault bubble. Luckily I was out of range of most of his big guns and he only manage to put one wound one one Daemon Prince.
My turn I moved the LRs ahead 12 and popped smoke. I hid the Daemon princes behind them. there was a large peice of terrain blocking LOS in the center. on the left side, I disembarked the berzerkers and assaulted a squad of rippers thinking I could hide in them for a turn and then assault other stuff. However I wiped the rippers out and was left out in the open. Not good.

Turn 2
He unloaded all of his dakka on the exposed berzerkers and killed them. all. He fired everything he had at my land raiders and managed to get one penetrating 6, However I rolled a 4 for my cover save and all was well. He had a squad of 24 gaunts move over the central terrain piece and assault one of my hiding princes. This had me worried, however, he inflicted no wounds and I inflicted 4. He was in synapse range and took 4 saves and lost 4 more.

My turn I roll for reserves and the lesser daemons and the terminators come in. I use the Icon and drop the Terminators nect the a carnifex and the daemons next the a squad of gaunts. In movement, I move the reamining zerker loaded LR toward a Carnifex and disembark. I then use the LR on the opposite side to pivot and shoot the flyrant inflicting 2 wounds(very lucky) the combo plasma terminators unload and kill a carnifex. The Berzerkers assalut and kill another fex, and the lesser daemons assault and win massively, daemond are reduced to 8 models and the 24 gaunt squad is reduced to 2 models. The daemons prince that is surrounded by gaunts again, suffers no wounds and kills 4 gaunts. However this time, they are out of synapse range and he over runs them and then consolidates to hide behind the LR. on the left side my other daemon prince moves up and assaults a carnifex inflicting one wound and taking none.

Turn 3
On the left side he moves into assault range agaisnt my LR that I just realized I didn't move the last turn. On the right side he unloads everything into my LR and manages to only inflict a weapon destroyed. Luckily, the CC with the daemons is blocking line of sight to my berzerkers and he doesn't have much of a shot at anything. In the assault phase he assaults and blows up my LR on the left side and he assaults my DP with his Tyrant and Tyrant gaurd. on the right I finish off the remaing gaunts. and he assaults my berzerkers with more gaunts, but I take no losses and he loses all of them.
My turn everything else comes in. I drop the other two squads of terminators on the left side. one scatter halfway out of rapid fire range. another lands right next to the flyrant. In movement, I embark the right side terminators in the LR and move 12 inches toward a carnifez and a zoanthrope. I move my lesser daemons toward the same carnifex and move and run my berzerkers toward the same one. In shooting, I drop the flyrant with combi plasma and put two wounds on the other fex. In assault, I assault a zoanthrope with a Daemon prince and another zoanthrope with a greater daemon. I kill the zoanthrope with the DP and inflict one wound with the greater daemon. My other DP loses combat but manages to hold on against the Tyrant

Turn 4
On the left he moves up with two fexes and shoots at my termies. I dont lose any. He shoots my DP with a fex and I make every save. he shoots more at DP and he dies. he fires at the Lr and kills another weapon. In assault his tyrant kill my DP and his carnifexes drop a few terminators but I swing back with Pf and tie combat.
my turn, I move and run berzerkers, assault a carnifex with Lesser daemons. assault tyrnat gaund with terminators jumping out of a LR. win combat by one. My terminators on the left side kill one fex and keep fighting another, my greater daemon kills a zoanthrope and my berzerkers assault a carnifez and the fex makes 8 saves and kills a berzerker.

turn 5
On the left he kills another terminator. On the right, he kills 2 termies, termies kill all tyrant gaurd. He aslo kills more berzerkers and I inflict one wound in return.
My turn, I kill carnifex on left side and terminators move toward action. on right side he kills remaining terminators, I assault carnifex with greater daemon kill it.


turn 6.
the only model he has left if Hive Tyrant. He moves around greater daemon and assalts berzerkers. He kill s few, I inflict zero wounds in return.
My turn, I move the terminators toward the action. I assault the tyrant with a greater daemon but it stays alive with one wound. Tyrant kills 1 more berzerker, game ends.

at the end of the game, I have 3 terminators, 3 berzerkers, 5 lesser daemons and a greater daemon.
He has a Hive tyrant with one wound.

I win victory points by a wide margin thanks to having so many units in his deployment zone. I get a crushing victory.

Overall I scored 80 battle points and came in second. I also scored the most VP that day. The guy who won was the Tyranid guy I beat in the last game, which was weird, but it was cool that I beat the guy that one. It was a great tournament and I walked about with some good prizes. Tons of fun.

Here are some pictures from the tournament

wow nice report. and mad props for you getting second place with a more or less fluffy army.

I'd have totally brought my Daemons if I wasn't hitting a different 40k tournament at Dicehead that day. Great job getting 2nd man.

Great pics.

I'm stoked for the next tourney he holds over Christmas.

One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to take down that Land Raider Bomb list with my Deathwing...

CK

Nice report and thanks for the pics. Well done on getting 2nd with what doesn't seem to be an overly powerful list.

My only complaint is that said list is pretty uninspiring. The lack of options in the codex does lend to a bit of 'copy/paste syndrome,' though.

its a fluffy khorne army. khorne inspired.

and you dont want to call khorne uninspiring or lacky!? dont we? (he takes such things personal"y"!!!)

greetings Badger

I will admit, the 1200 and 1600 lists are pretty fluffy. But I tried to make the 2000 list as competitive as possible. And considering what I took down, I would say I succeeded.

A few more pictures I forgot to post earlier: