So I went to my competition that I said I was going to, but the question is did get everything done on time for it??????
Well if you look at the image above, then you can see that I did manage to get everything built and fully painted before the competition, well 20:45 the night before. You might have noticed that the left ghost ark is damaged, more than slightly as well. 5 out of 10 of the gauss flayers have fallen off of it. I brought them with me and asked a judge (my local store's manager) and he said that I wouldn't lose any points if they were broken off. So that was it, my army was set up and all my problems had been solved.
My list in short was:
Overlord, MSS, weave, warscythe + res orb
3 stormteks
Destructek
5 warriors ghost ark
5 warriors ghost ark
5 warriors night scythe
5 gauss immortals night scythe
Annihilation barge tesla cannon
Annihilation barge tesla cannon
Annihilation barge tesla cannon
As I waited for my first opponent I caught up with a some familiar faces. To my disheartening I recognised one person I didn't want to see on the 40K tables. Back at the 1000pts tournament earlier this year he brought the 12 wraiths list (pictured up in earlier posts). He was back with his necrons again, and at 1250pts he had 18 wraiths. I wished him good luck and he said he was thinking if bringing a triptide list, but couldn't get it finished in time.
Pairings for each round would be as follows;
Round 1: pick someone who isn't from your local store
Round 2 + 3; opponent picked for you from a different store again, except done Swiss style.
Winning store would be the ones who scored the highest average (total score/total number of players for that store)
So as I sat down next to my army and waited for someone to place their army on the same table. I watched as someone from my store came up to my table said "no, just no" and turned around and headed for another table. That was before we got told to play someone from another store. About another 4 players done the same, they were just too scared of my necrons. Eventually a judge said "does anyone want to play this fine gentlemen here, with his necrons on the end table there who's not from his store?". Eventually someone plucked up the courage and placed their army next to mine.
His name was Steven McVikar and he was lovely chap. He had a nicely painted dark eldar army, and a cunning plan to break anyone's morale. I was confident going into this competition that I'd have a shot of winning. Then Steve started his cunning plan, he had 8 dark lances in total in his army, 2 razorwings and 4 raiders. This spelt doom for AV13 wall tactic with my necrons. He also then told me that he'd played necrons for 7/8 years before this and knew all the strongest and weakest points of the necrons, and most of the tactics. Oh and did I mention he got first turn and it was night fighting turn 1. So all my confidence was gone, he had plenty of anti-tank fire and night vision to ignore cover granted from night forgetting. Yikes I was now really nervous, see how that game goes in part 2.
Post a comment below on how you think this game will go, and if I have a chance on winning the whole tournament?
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