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As I said in the lists section I would be posting battle reports on how I did in the BFSR tournament this past weekend. Well I took best overall with a 4-0 win record.
Forgive me if I omit some details as I am new to this and didnt take pictures or write anything down till ... today! I can answer any questions you might have though.

My list
1 Epidemus

1 GUO
-Aura
-Flies
-Breath

19 PBs
-icon

19 PBs
-icon

19 PBs
-icon

9 Nurglings

9 Nurglings

2 soul grinders
-phlegm and tounge

GAME 1 - mission (random objectives)

ELDAR
1 Eldrad
1 Avatar
5 wraithguard
1 warlock
Wave serpent
-cats
10 man Dire avengers
-protect
Wave serpent
-cats
6 guardian bikes
5 shining spears
3 Warwalkers
- lasers
6 rangers

He rolls high and gives me first turn.
His deployment has him clustered heavily to the top left (from me) with bikes behind a large hill and rangers dug into that same hill. The warwalkers are to the right of this with avatar and eldrad out in front. He places his wave serpents and shooties in the top right corner.

Turn 1
I get my primary wave of 2 SGs and 2 PB squads, 1 with attached epidemus. Epi and company drop on the far right objective revealing 1 point while the other PBs drop in on the mid left gaining the 3 point objective. Both SGs drop far mid left and drop large blasts and harvesters on the 6 man gaurdian bike squad. Despite the 4+ cover 4 die and they flee off the table.
The PBs run and spread out to establish a greater foot hold.

His Turn 1
He shoots with is wave serpents into the Epi squad and does minor dmg I lose 1 or 2 PBs. The other PB squad takes the warwarlker fire and I lose around 4 or 5 he then assualts with the avatar and flubs his rolls. I do one wound to the avatar and have been yanked off that 3 point objective into his deplment zone.

My turn 2
I get all my reserves minus 1 nurgling squad. PB squad drops on mid right objective (another 1 point) while the nurglings and GUO all DS nest to the combat with the avatar. I run this formation to have my GUO Surrounded by nurglings so he does not get hit by the Shining spears. I fleet my SG closest to the rangers to try and get into CC but fail the DT to get close enough. The other SG takes some pot shots at the Spears but comes up short killing none. The PBs near epi try a fool hardy assualt into the wave serpent closest them but also fails to do anything to it. The CC with the avatar is another slap fight.

His turn 2
Both wave serpents fire at the epi squad again and do minimal dmg again. The warwalkers go after the newly arrived pbs and do about 3 causualties due to cover and FNP. His spears and eldrad assault the PBs and I lose around 7 this time, Ouch. The rangers in near the SG run like girls shouting NOOOOOO.

My turn 3
Last squad of nurglings show up. The SG spots better targets and takes off after the Warwalkers making a 6inch move out of cover and a 6 inch fleet leaving him well in assualt range, he kills 2 in CC, leaving one to ponder its fate. The PBs with epi run back to their 1 point objective to chill. The turn 2 Dsing PBs move and run to start the conga line to objective 3 points. The GUO and squad of nurglings join the fray north of that objective. The GUO does nothing the Avatar does nothing , I end up losing by 3 and that GUO takes 2 wounds from this, HA! My SG not in CC is now in range of one of the Wave serpents and takes a pot shot at him with a large blast and shakes him.

His turn 3
Both wave serpents high tale it away from the epi PB side of the battle and come back to the mid left, at this point I see he is going to try and park his dire avengers close to the objective that is left worth 2 points and try and contest the 3 point objective forcing a tie. Not much as far as his shooting goes this turn. His rangers fleet again trying to run towards the objective on the left table edge. CC is another mash and the GUO takes 1 more wound to fearless … boooo. At this point the PBs are almost gone but the nurglings are tarpiting everything. The soul grinder finishes off the warwalker and consolidates to try and get back towards the Wave serpent that just jumped 24 inches.

My turn 4
Epi chills with his PBs on the far right ojective now completely out of the game except for the miserably low tally. I run the mid right PBs again and reach the mid left objective. CC with the avatar sees yet another crappy uneventful mash. I get lucky and destroy the Wave serpent with the dire avengers in it and wound 6 of them killing 3.

His turn 4
Wraithguard disembark and blow one of my SGs sky high. His avengers move away and shoot PBs on mid left objective while falling towards far left objective. The rangers run again getting a precious few more inches closer to the far left objective. CC ends with eldrad and the rest of the shining spears dead. The avatar now has to hack through about 7 bases of nurglings. All those PBs originally in the combat are dead and the GUO is dead.

My turn 5
This is the turn that ends it all, My SG hits his rangers and they stick in combat. The nurglings wipe out the DA, and the PBs kill tie up the wraith guard. He no longer has any scoring troops and can only hope to contest 1 of my objectives. Epi smiles from the other side of the board.

Game 2

Funny Funny game … no real need for details with this one. I loose and get first turn, get my favored wave of 2 SGs a GUO and epi and PBs. Objective was to keep your scoring units on their side of the board. Whoever had the most won the game.

His list
2 vindis
1 pred annihilator
1 chappy
1 10 man assault squad
1 10 man scout squad
1 10 tac squad with rhino
1 10 man tac with drop pod
2 dreads – one laz CC the other assault cannon CC.

I drop the SGs first one scatters on top of another and it goes back into the warp. Epi drops with friends right in the mid in front of his army. They take a lot of punishment but still remain around 13 strong. The Soul grinder gets blown up by his pred doing nothing … the tongue missed. Epi and friends survivability was key in the game as I used to mark to DS on top of his dreads in his deployment zone with my other 2 PB squads. The next turn I had his dreads in combat with the PB squads and he could do nothing to get them off. I had my tally up to the 10 mark pretty soon so the nurglings took care of the scouts and drop pod marines while epi and pb friends got the charge on the DSing assault marines. The GUO was the one responsible for the 10 man tally so soon. A good breath on to disembarked tac squad from the rhino and ensuing assaults were to thank for that.

So thanks to the survivability of PBs I kept his Dreads in combat for 8 assault phases before his just gives to the sheer stupidity of my PBs dancing around his dreads. We didn’t roll for turn 7.
Other than that he killed the crap out of my army and all I did was take out his scoring units.

Game 3 (hidden objectives)

More marines!!!
1 land raider
2 tac squads with rhinos
1 devi squad with rockets and rhinos
5 man shooty termies
5 man assualty termis – in the raider
1 vindi
Drop pod dread
1 force commander

Again there isn’t much to say about this game. I tarpitted his DSing shooty termies. Killed his dread and CC force commander with the GUO. Used the SGs to take out the land raider and candy like terminators inside. DSed my PBs on top of objectives late game with a 20 tally and just swept his controlling units off of them.

Game 4

Demons on Demons!! KP!!!!

His list
1 Keeper of secrets
2 soul grinders with phlegm
1 DP slanessh
1 blood thirster
2 10 man blood letter squads
1 10 man demonette
2 10 man horrors 1 with changeling
1 8 man PB squad

Ok I am getting tired of writing I am on page 6!

Basically this fight was a trade back and forth with KP for KP being traded … I won the roll and knew that being second would probably be more to my advantage with his greater amount of shooting and I would allow me to keep some of his units out of the fight for longer than he would have liked. His dice were HELLA hot as he rolled 10 RENDING ATTACKS! On one of my PB squads and decimated it. He also was able to kill epidemus with his PB squad … wrong!!!

The game came down to one dice roll … I charged an ongoing CC with a 9 man unit of nurglings which consisted of, at the time, 1 Blood letter, 8 blood letters, and a the thirster. The KPs were 5 to 5 So I threw as many nurgling attacks at the 1 man blood letter squad as possible which turned out to be 4 bases out of 16 attack I land 3 hits needing 5s .. I crap my pants … I then roll the 3 hits and get 1 wound … I pee a little .. His dice have been hot all game and all he needs is 1 5 plus to force the tie ….

He rolls a 4+ and with 3 minutes remaining in the round the game ends on the bottom of the 4th turn with 5 KPs to 6 KPs favoring me … yay!

Hope you guys liked this and like I said I will answer any questions you have as I kinda got impatient and wanted to rest my sore fingers a bit.

Oh yes and my final score ... I think was 143/160

Wow just wow! Clay you rocked their world. Your Nurgle list is skin tight.

G

just wondering, but what is the epi army's weakest match................?

Duel lash.

I would also think you tie alot against mech lists? Seems like they won't have the weight of fire to take out your pb's but you'll struggle getting them out of the tanks?

Very nice, unique army list. We now demand pictures of said army !!

a presume 9 oblits and plague marines would be really harsh with all the AP2 what about the sheer volume of shots from NM with oblits instead of plague marines?

SGs and GUO work pretty well for that. Having the bottom of the turn is key for that aswell as random game length. You can no longer rush up to an objective and claim it without putting your troops at risk. Thats the thing I like about demons ... I can make sure that I will be there waiting when they do try that.

As you can read in my reports I did face 2 heavy mech MEQ lists for my 2nd and 3rd game. I was just able to peal them and keep them off the objectives with the 20 tally at game wrap up.

Mech eldar can be a pain but I have never had them force more than a tie. It also makes for a very boring and uneventful game.

my current record with the army (in different list configs is) 25-6-2 - that includes 6 tournaments.

Good luck on your matchups! Congrats on the overall win.

- Blackbone

Clay I so wish we could have played in that tournament. may we will play together in adepticon.

Of course, I wont be playing in the team tournament this year, so if you want to get in a game sometime that day then sure.

I do like to go out and have fun while I am up there so lets keep it early =)

Clay Williams wrote:Duel lash.

Just to clarify, do you mean "dual lash" - as in two lash sorcerers?

Or is it actually Duel Lash, where you you've got dueling banjos of chaos psychic powers?

The second one.

You know I help put on The Big Waaagh right? We do have a tendancy towards that kind of activity.

I am a picking and you are a grinning.

Hee haw hee hee hee haw.

G