This past Saturday was a 1 day, 3 round Tournament at Shieldbreakers in Aurora, CO. 1850pts was the total and we had 12 people show up. We would play 3 Adepticon missions for the Tournament.
I brought the list I had posted last time, but here it is again.
Farseer, Bike, Shard, Stone, Runes of Warding
Maugan Ra
Warlock
x20 Guardians, x2 Lances
x5 Dire Avengers, Serpent w/ TL-Scatter, Shuri-Cannon
x5 Dire Avengers, Serpent w/ TL-Scatter, Shuri-Cannon
War Walker, x2 Lances
x3 Shadow Weavers
Baron
x5 Warriors, Venom, Trophies
x5 Warriors, Venom, Trophies
x5 Beastmasters, Fiend, x5 Khymera, x6 Flock
Aegis Line w/ Icarus
My first game was against Kevin McDermott from 11th Co. Podcast. We played previously at Ass Con a couple months ago and he had brought Seer Council. In this game, he would have Nids. I always like facing Nids as their high Toughness means jack and they usually want to get close, which is even better for me. He brought the Store Owner Nate's Nids as he wanted to try them out. His list had a couple Tervigons, a Mawloc, 5 Warriors, some Gaunts, Prime, 2 Zoeys, 2 Venomthropes, 2 Fex, and 2 Crones. Nothing over the top and I could tell Nate prolly built the army more for looks than competitive play.
Kevin went first and proceeded to down a Venom. This would be the only KP he would get off of me all game. I then shot and kill both Crones and killed his Warriors with my Beasts. Each turn I would pick a unit and destroy it and it went downhill fast for Kevin.
Another rules dispute came up between us and him wanting to Deepstrike his Mawloc. He claimed that because under the Mawloc's rule, he could place the Mawloc and DS him onto my Beasts who were in CC. The wording says "place a Large Blast Marker..." and he argued that because it doesn't say target, he can "place" the Blast over. I tried to explain to him that by placing you are targeting and you can never target a unit in CC unless a rule explicitly gives permission. He responded with the classic and above all my favorite of rule arguments, "Well it doesn't say I can't." LOL... I love the argument. Well Kevin it doesn't say I can't just slap you across the table either, but I feel that would be against the rules. Nate ruled in my favor and I went on decimating his army.
I would win 19-1 or a Crushing Victory
My second opponent was Noah. I had played him in the 3rd round at the last tournament and he had brought Seer Council. He did bring it again this time but bumped up the effectiveness by bringing DE Allies. He had 2 Seers, 10 Locks, 2 Serpents with Avengers, 3 Walkers with Scatters and Lances, Baron, 2 Venoms, and 2 squads of Spiders.
The only thing he missed was the Grisly Trophies on the Venoms and his list would have been set.
I had first turn and Noah wisely held things in Reserve and stayed out of range of most of my shooting. Unfortunately for him I was still able to Glance out a Serpent for First Blood. He shot his Council away from my Beasts, and I thought he would just go and destroy my backfield and we would switch sides of the table. But, he turned around and assaulted me instead. Had he killed my backfield like he should have, he would have won easily. He did kill my Beasts and the Baron (on his first roll) but I won the match handily.
Crushing Victory
My last opponent ran Mono-Khorne Daemons. He had been annihilating his opponents and it had been fun to watch and see. Skarbrand with Skulltaker, 2 Khorne Heralds, 3 20 man Bloodletter squads, Soul Grinder, Skull Cannon, some Hounds, and a good size Crusher squad lead the way. It was a lot of bodies!
Hounds would assault my Beasts to which they would nearly die from. Venom shooting took out the last Hound when I Hit and Ran away. Beasts would then clear out a whole 20 man block by themselves but get multi-assaulted by Skarbrand, the Grinder, and another block. This is the big mistake my opponent made. By multi-assaulting with the Letters, I was able to kill Skarbrand and all the Letters through Daemonic Instability.
His highlight was making a 10'' charge with his Crushers and last block of Letters into my Guardians. His letters made 5 saves to prevent from being Overwatched out of range. Maugan Ra went toe to toe with a Khorne Herald while all of his Guardians got trampled by the Crushers. The Beasts would turn around and finish the job and at the end of turn 3, my opponent would call the game.
Crushing Victory.
I would win the tournament with Noah getting 2nd and my 3rd opponent getting 3rd. It was sad to see so many people drop after the 2nd round. I know someone who wanted to play a game couldn't because his opponent had left leaving him with no one to play. Its sad, and I get that you paid your money to play, but see the tournament through. I would think you pay the money to actually play the game, not leave because you don't think you can win the tournament anymore. I just don't like it.
On another note, I will be heading out of state (Colorado) for a couple of months for work. Luckily for me I will be in the Northern California area. It will be sad to leave the family for the period of time, but I simply cannot pass up this opportunity for my family and I. I don't leave for another couple of weeks though.
I will give updates on the Crusade of Fire Campaign after this Friday, and hopefully I can finish my Swooping Hawks this week.
