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I participated in the Valentines Day Massacre GT in Media, P.A. this past weekend. It was the first GT I've ever been to and I had alot of fun. I was impressed with the organization...great job Mike from Showcase Comics and the guys from Big Gunz. I'm looking forward to attending many more.

There were alot of awesome looking armies, and I didn't care what people were running as far as lists were concerned. If you know how to run your army using what's available from your codex than more power to you! I was pretty impressed with some of my opponents tactical prowess. Fun games indeed!

It was great to meet some new players. Coming from my local game store, I was blown away by how big and competitive 40K has become over the last decade or so. It makes me want to be a better player and hobbyist.

Well that's all I have to say about that!

Oh....and Congrats to all the winners! (and my boy, Nick Nanavati(yermom), from my local gamestore who got 3rd for army general!...way to represent!)

Later dudes!

Would you mind posting your list? Yours was one of the armies I saw and thought was nicely balanced.

Imperial guard list- 1850

HQ

Company command squad- 3 meltaguns, vox-caster, Astropath, Officer of the Fleet, Chimera with multi-laser and heavy bolter - 200

Troops

Infantry Platoon
Platoon command squad- vox-caster- 35

Infantry squad 1- vox-caster- 55

Infantry squad 2- vox-caster- 55

Heavy weapons Squad- 3 lascannon’s - 105

Heavy weapons Squad- 3 missile launchers - 90

Veteran squad- 3 plasma guns, lascannon, vox-caster, Chimera w/ multi-laser and heavy flamer- 195

Veteran squad- 3 plasma guns- 115

Veteran squad- 3 meltaguns- 100

Veteran squad- 3 meltaguns- 100

Fast attack

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130

Heavy support

Leman Russ Punisher- punisher gatling cannon, hull mounted heavy bolter, heavy bolter sponsons, Knight Commander Pask (Leman Russ tank ace, crack shot)- 250

Manticore Rocket Launcher- 160


Total= 1850 (exactly)




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I thought it was pretty balanced also , but I still received a 5 for my comp score...haha!

Comp is always a challenge. I think that changes will be made because this tournament is really geared towards player feedback. Hopefully we see something akin to the fantasy GT comp system. I really like your list, it really seems to have a bit of everything without spamming or going over the top too much.

thanks dude!

I didn't realize you had Pask before, he makes that tank way nastier! Cool stuff though, seems fun to play still.

Nice looking army! I really like the Punisher with the massive gun.

Who ended up in the top spots at the GT?

oh man...I can't even remember right now... My mind is still recovering from all the gaming I did...haha! I'm sure someone will have those posted up somewhere.

overall:
marines, CSM, guard
general:
salamanders, CSM, 'nids

It was a good tournament I'm the nid player that got 3rd best general. I also got a 1 for comp so you can see comp was all over the place. My battle reports are up in the report section. And thanks for the shout out Tom!

best general comp scores
salamanders 5
CSM 2
'nids 1

Doesn't seem all that off to me : P

Great to meet you all!

Did Damian not win best overall? I don't know if the marines/CSM/Guard were in order or not for best overall.

Did Matt win 3rd best overall with the foot-slogging IG?


I posted on the SVDM thread on "Schedule a game" with this:

Ah....18 hours of gaming, 14 hours of driving.

Lots of fun was had; I'll write some battle reports this week. Mike ran a great event; missions were balanced (although not a single one had any nightfight..*sniff*). I didn't stay for awards in hopes of getting home by midnight (massacred out of the top tables in game 5), but for this being my first GT, I'm pleased with the event, the folks who attended, the friends I made, and the smooth gaming. There was a *lot* of grumbling about comp scores from seemingly everyone, but I care less than others; my goal was to meet people better than I can find locally and it was a tremendous success!

Sunday morning was hard on everyone after a hard night of drinking Saturday night - I was actually quite sober because I started drinking Saturday around noon and had about a fifth in me by nightfall, at which point I stopped and sobered up over dinner. *laughing*

I was a little paranoid of how I'd get along because of localized drama closer to home, but I liked everyone I met and only had a single rules issue - one of my opponents (Necron) flux-arced a battlewagon, wrecked it, and thought the same shot should also hit the boys piling out. That got resolved quickly though!

And every time I think I know all the rules, I learn something new; and I picked up a few new rule notes while I was there (models vs. units in multi-assault, reserves counting for killpoints at the end of the game). I also learned to fear Vulkan and the dual land raider list; I pulled three full point massacres, and if not for a 2nd round loss to dual landraider vulkan melta/redeemer flamer and other nastiness that I'd never faced before and didn't know how to deal with (as my ork boys run up to his land raider to power klaw the sides of it, my opponent rubs his hands together in glee....and the following turn tells me that those are flamers on the sides of his land raiders, not twin-linked lascannons....) I might have been a contender for the top.

Here! here! had a great time even if my vlak-heavy IG got their butts kicked almost every game. For my first tournament in many years I was happy not to be slaughtered.

the only bad experience I had this weekend was hitting a foot deep pothole 5 minutes before I got to my house on the way home, completely shredding my tire off the rim, and messing up my shocks and alignment!

and the funniest thing was being awakened in my hotel room at 4:15 in the morning to a girl and guy doing you know what in the room next to mine! hahahahaha!! oh ya, oh ya!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Here! here! had a great time even if my vlak-heavy IG got their butts kicked almost every game. For my first tournament in many years I was happy not to be slaughtered.

Are you Justin? The other one?

I saw the mech IG lists and had my fingers crossed that I wouldn't have to face them.

No justin had the genestealer cult ig army, that took best painted.

As for best overall Dash, that was me! Yay! Damien was second, after pulling an 18 over Alex Fennell with 4 spawn rolls that killed three daemon princes/greater daemons(The Everliving I think?). Matt was third IIRC.

Tom did you have to play mirror guard in round 1/2?

I only played against other Guard twice the whole GT. Round 1 I played against Justin with the Genestealer Cult IG army....and then round 3 I played the kid running the multi-variant Leman Russ squad list...

WarsawTom wrote: Fast attack

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130
I thought it was pretty balanced also , but I still received a 5 for my comp score...haha!

Triple Vendetta omg!! Mean WarsawTom!

haha.....ya, they love hunting down some Tyranid monstrous creatures!

DevianID wrote:No justin had the genestealer cult ig army, that took best painted.

As for best overall Dash, that was me! Yay! Damien was second, after pulling an 18 over Alex Fennell with 4 spawn rolls that killed three daemon princes/greater daemons(The Everliving I think?). Matt was third IIRC.

Tom did you have to play mirror guard in round 1/2?

Congratulations!

I'm pretty sure we met, I remember someone saying that they were DevianID, but all 50-60 people in there were strangers to me and I met a lot of people. I remember Alex because he's british and had the other pink army, Damian because he had LED lights on his chaos...things....and my opponents (Lou, Jesse, Matt, Tim and the other guy >< as well as a few other folks that I engaged in conversations with (Mark, Shane)....but which person were you? Trying to match a face here. Got a picture? =p

Congrats on the win Brad you deffinitely earned it!

And yeah Tom those vandettas just love killing my trygons and tyrants don't they.. haha

Here's some pictures that I took of folks armies (as well as a picture of the man himself)









The pink orks and the pink chaos marines left friends.






The next two pictures are aquatic desert orks - he might have won players choice; I'm not sure.


Freakin' Killa Kans with Freakin' rubber freakin' duckies. It doesn't get better.

I missed best overall by 1 point=-) I learned alot, one of which was not to be greedy (I lost 6 points in 3 games by "going for broke")
Tourney was ALOT of fun, good armies, good people....

I wish round 5, table #1 would have gotten to finish... hate to see a serious game like that on turn 3!

Dashofpepper wrote:Great to meet you all!

Did Damian not win best overall? I don't know if the marines/CSM/Guard were in order or not for best overall.

Did Matt win 3rd best overall with the foot-slogging IG?

Dashofpepper wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Here! here! had a great time even if my vlak-heavy IG got their butts kicked almost every game. For my first tournament in many years I was happy not to be slaughtered.

Are you Justin? The other one?

I saw the mech IG lists and had my fingers crossed that I wouldn't have to face them.

Nah I had the Tallarn IG. Haven't uploaded my pics yet but it looked something like this

AHH i played you first round very close game, was alot of fun. to be honest I your vendettas had me very worried specially when i missed my charge on my thunder hammer termies on that one objective.

nice pics, Dashofpepper...

Does anyone else have pics posted up anywhere for the Valentines Day Massacre GT??

I wanna show my friend some of the armies people had.

Awesome pictures. Those are some ridiculous armies.

cheesesteak wrote:AHH i played you first round very close game, was alot of fun. to be honest I your vendettas had me very worried specially when i missed my charge on my thunder hammer termies on that one objective.

I remember, one more turn and I woulda, coulda, shoulda... story of my life.

Next time damnit!

I'll put some pics up shortly.

Hey all,

I really had a great time at the GT as well, was great to meet everybody and play some games.

Ted.

WarsawTom wrote: Imperial guard list- 1850

HQ

Company command squad- 3 meltaguns, vox-caster, Astropath, Officer of the Fleet, Chimera with multi-laser and heavy bolter - 200

Troops

Infantry Platoon
Platoon command squad- vox-caster- 35

Infantry squad 1- vox-caster- 55

Infantry squad 2- vox-caster- 55

Heavy weapons Squad- 3 lascannon’s - 105

Heavy weapons Squad- 3 missile launchers - 90

Veteran squad- 3 plasma guns, lascannon, vox-caster, Chimera w/ multi-laser and heavy flamer- 195

Veteran squad- 3 plasma guns- 115

Veteran squad- 3 meltaguns- 100

Veteran squad- 3 meltaguns- 100

Fast attack

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130

Vendetta gunship- 130

Heavy support

Leman Russ Punisher- punisher gatling cannon, hull mounted heavy bolter, heavy bolter sponsons, Knight Commander Pask (Leman Russ tank ace, crack shot)- 250

Manticore Rocket Launcher- 160


Total= 1850 (exactly)




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I thought it was pretty balanced also , but I still received a 5 for my comp score...haha!

That list scored a FIVE?!?!?!?

Really, WTF?!?!?

Wait, I am assuming out of 10...