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Pittsburgh was a hard fight and in the end the winners were

Eldar (me)
Chaos
Marines with pedro NOT vulkan

We only had 11 people which is fairly average for semis

1 Eldar
2 vulkan marines
1 space wolves
1 non-vulkan marines
2 orks
1 chaos
2 imperial guard
1 dark eldar

I faced an ork army, dark eldar and vulkan marines

My list was

Eldrad
Farseer - jetbike, fortune
10x warlocks on jetbikes - 3 destructor, 2 enhance, 2 embolden

10x DA - exarch with defend/bladestorm, 2x catapult
Wave serpent - TL ML
10x DA - exarch with defend, shimmershield
wave serpent - TL ML
5x jetbike guardians - cannon

8x fire dragons - exarch with tank hunter, crack shot, dragon breath flamer
wave serpent - TL cannon, cannon

8x fire dragons - exarch with tank hunter, crack shot, dragon breath flamer
wave serpent - TL cannon, cannon

Fire prism
Fire prism - holofields
fire prism - holofields

Game 1 - Orks

8 nobz + warboss in a trukk
30 slugga boys
30 shoota boyz
30 shoota boys
30 grots
battle wagon
10 burnas
15 lootas

I set up with the council on the far right flank with eldrad in a skimmer with DAs. The rest of the army was on the left. He set up with his nobz squad to counter the council and a bunch of orks all across the board. Using eldrad's diviniation ability I moved the seer council to the far left thus negating the nobz

First turn I turbo boosted the council up and shot the orks with prisms and missile launchers, killing around 20 id say. On his first turn he stunned a wave serpent and moved the trukk with the nobz to try to get back into the fight

Second turn my seer council hit a unit of shoota boys and wiped them out as dire avengers and the serpents killed a full unit of slugga boyz while the trukk with the nobz also died. In successive turns the council just leaped from unit to unit, in the end they killed around 80 orks or so. Not much else to say on that, orks dont have a great answer right now to a full council.

Massacred 24 - 0

Game 2 - Dark eldar
Archon

20 warriors
20 warriors
20 warriors
20 warriors
10 warriors in raider
10 warriors in raider

3 units of 5 bikes
9 wyches in raider
9 mandrakes
3 talos

Everything that could have a blaster or dark lance had one
Now, id like to say this dark eldar player was pretty good and he massacred a solid vulkan list because his list was a counter to it. However, night fight + my eldar list was a counter to his.

He deployed 2 units of 20 warriors in the middle and I deployed eldrad + wave serpent + DAs on the far right flank hoping to negate shooting due to night fight. On his first turn he stunned my serpent was most of his fast units came on the opposite flank of mine, with only 1 unit of bikes and 20 warriors really being near me

On my turn 1 I turbo boosted the council up 24" on the right flank as everything else moved in and formed a huge armored wall with 2 serpents boosting to provide cover to everything behind. My shooting was pretty pathetic as I killed 10 warriors and failed on my night fight. On his second turn he revealed the mandrakes infront of the seer council, shot and charged them. Now, his strategy was to not die to the council and hold them for a turn.. this failed and my council consolidated closer. He destroyed one wave serpent and thats about it

my 2nd turn the council charged a unit of 20 warriors, wiping them out and putting me heavy into his rear lines.. another 20 man warrior squaded died and one unit of bikes survived because apparently they have a 4+ invul save and a 3+ cover save?! whatever.. DE are a jank codex that needs a huge rewrite.. To make a story short my jetbike guardians died to them because of all that wackiness

On his turn 3 he moved literally everything to engage the jetbikes.. I lost 1 bike and that was pretty much the game. From that point on the council murdered his lines and at the end still had 6 remaining

massacre - 23-0

Game 3 - vulkan marines

Vulkan
Lysander

5 TH/SS terminators
Crusader

5 grey knight terminators with psychic hood
land raider

3 tactical squads
2 razorbacks, 1 rhino

Attack bike
2 land speeders MM/HF

Vindicator

This was a very hard fought game, however due to how the point spread was all I had to do was get a minor victory to secure the tournament.. Therefore it allowed me to play very defensively and wait him out
I went first and I got fortune off on the council (Note they were always fortuned.. the hood did not nullify the right powers).. First turn I killed some marines and thats about it.. His first turn was just moving up with the land raiders a bit and he shot eldrads wave serpent with everything.. eventually killing it. Eldrad then rolled an 11 for LD (with the avengers) and fell back, however he did rally fine

on my second turn I killed 1 full combat and the remains of another squad with the jetbikes and then consolidated 6" back.. Not much more shooting going on honestly

The HUGE turning point in the game happened yet again on turn 2 when his land raider carrying the TH/SS become immbolized in a forest which denied him a good charge.. From this point on he was on the defensive as I picked apart units

In the end there was a massive combat involving the remaining 3 council members + eldrad vs 1 term, lysander and vulkan.. I forgot about the combat squad in another razorback but in the end I scored a minor victory by having more table quarters

Minor victory - 13 - 7

Nice to see it wasnt quite a spam fest of one type of power list (Vulkan, MechDar, MechVet guard, etc)

And it sounds like you played well, that last battle was hard fought based on the scoring.

Congrats on the win, seems like it was a nice event =]!

You should head over here and post your results:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/251668.page

I didn't want to do it since, well, it seems wrong to steal your thunder But it'd be nice to have all results in one place (you know, for the inevitable re-hash of "Orks Tier 3?" or whatever other balance argument appears this time).

Nice report! What did the winning Pedro list look like?

Hm.. I dont remember exactly

Pedro
3 land speeders
3 attack bikes?
assault terminators
id imagine sternguard
3 or so tactical squads
vindicator

It really wasnt an overpowered looking list.. It just did well. I didnt play him at all, I can only imagine he dug in and didnt rush out and die

My favorite time of the tournament was the chaos player who took second.. He played against imperial guard and was totally blindsided by straken who murdered a unit

Ah straken, 5 or 6 S7 I4 power weapon attacks on the charge. How I love thee....
Get a missionary in there and hes really obnoxious.

Congrats, and ug that was a rank DE list. It would have been ok in 4th ed but in 5th, ug again. Oh and jetbikes have a 4+ armor save and only get the 3+ cover save if they turbo. He may have been confused as the jetbikes have wyches for riders and wyche's have a 4+ invul save in close combat if they aren't on a bike or a hellion skyboard.

Oh I know.. I didnt feel like arguing .. He also claimed his raiders got a 6+ jink save. Ive memorized every codex almost but i didnt care

I knew I was fine and I dont argue unless it matters

yes you dodged me again, darn you Kirasu! Just remember, Pedro will come for you!

I quite enjoyed the games in our Semi, the vulkan list you fought last was a good opponent, I fought him and should have taken him in the first round but when you can put 3 lascannon, 2 autocannon, and 9 heavy bolter shots into one landspeeder and not take it down, you know you are in for a long day...Dice were not my friends in that game. 4 meltaguns within 3 " of the landraider and not a single penetration....how do you even manage that?
I was able to pin him in his one corner where he deployed, but just could not take out his transports to kill the squads inside to get the kp. In the meantime, I couldn't make an armor save and lost 4 of 5 sternguard in only 5 bolter shots...then lost the 5th to a single storm bolter hit from his dread...
But thankfully, even with the horrendous shooting and damage rolls and even worse saves, I managed to only suffer the minor loss 18kp to 12, and after 2 massacres managed to slide back into 3rd. Did hear something I hadn't before though, as a breif rules discusion occured on scoring for vehicle squadrons. He tried counting 2 kp's for each LS in my squad of 3, to get 6 from the sqaudron. Had to have several people, including Kirasu and the TO come over to resolve it.

Was starting to get sick of vulcan and lysander and twin LR's though after playing both (the only 2 at our semi) in the first two rounds. Was sooo glad decided to stay away from that build, and just do something for the fluff and fun of it (Vote for Pedro!). In the 2nd round I caught an almost mirror copy of the first list with the only real difference being that he had regular grey knights and not terminators, and had his tactical squads in drop pods not rhino's and razorbacks. But he overreached himself and dropped his first 2 pods right in front of my deployment to get the markers there, and I brought everything on to destroy half his troops before turn 2. When I made the push forward, he committed his terminators and vulcan into a split charge against my attack bikes who were trying to finish off his third tac sqaud( which had rhino rushed forward to reinforce the drop pods), and my terminators who were advancing, but were far enough away that only 3 of his were able to get close enough to attack my 5, resulting in me being able to inflict more wounds, win the combat and force his to fall back, and I was able to keep them from rallying by staying within 6" to escort them off the board. Our game ended at turn 5, with me holding 1 objective, contesting the only one he had a troop left near which I was about to overrun, and when we rolled for the third, it was one I'd had a squad camping on my side since the initial setup. So 2 to 0, kill points heavily in my favor.

I didn't have any issue with the DE player with shady rules, just that he didn't put a single flyer on it's flying base so I had to remind him they would be clearly visible if not laying on the ground, which he had no problem with. His mass dark lances could have been an issue, but a few shots of heavy flamer love and mass bolter fire at short range cleared them away in droves, and one bad shooting phase of his allowed me to get on him with the stenguard. Pedro was the man of the hour in that game, taking on the 9 wyches by himself, surviving 3 rounds of their attacks to finally win one, have them fail the break check, and get run down! I regretted the lack of powerfists in my tac squads thanks to the one talos I couldn't shoot down as it managed to get in combat first, and wipe an entire squad out, but I was able to finally lay it out as it had no other close by unit to charge. With him only having one partial squad left of troops that weren't fallling back, and the archon, I was able to claim center and 3 of 4 table quarters to head to the finals.