Tournament report part 5 + 2014 plans

I know I said I'd only be doing 4 parts, and then contradicted myself a few times in other posts, but I am going to do 5 parts. Just a quick post to show some of the armies that were there on the day, also don't forget this was a 1250pts tournament.

My second opponent's army.

Dual riptide army with a unit of 3 missile broadsides. Was a keen favourite to go all the way, but lost to a khorne army on objectives, tau had 90% of its forces left, while khorne had about 20%. But had troops scattered over multiple objectives.

Space wolves, this done surprisingly well from what I remember.

AV14 spam space wolves, this army won for its store, he actually asked to play me in the last round for a challenge, I was up for it, but the staff said no.

Dual wraithknight eldar, with d-scythe wraithguard in a wave serpent with a spiritseer. I think this also lost on an objectives mission.

Serpent spam, with a wraithlord and fire prism, he came from our store. This army actually lost it's opening game, if it had killed one more fire warrior off of an objective he would of won.

Old space marines, crimson fists drop pods. Two units of sternguard with kantor making them scoring. This actually was best army for it's store.

Dual heldrakes, but no mobile troops so didn't do well.

The tau army that narrowly beat the wave serpent spam army earlier shown, also beat my second opponent in painting score to take overall winner for it's store.

As you have probably seen already, but I'll say it anyway. GW has cancelled any planned future invasions and will not be doing anymore. Their reasoning is unclear, but on their Facebook page they said that it was not convenient for anyone, right so it was not convenient for the gamers. But I'm not going to comment.

So that brings my tournament report to an end. Thank you everyone who's read all of it and again thank you for being so patient. I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I sure did. In terms of 2014, my New Years resolution is to post more on here, at least I will try to. Due to studies and all invasions being cancelled I will not be attending another tournament until July/August/September time (quarter 3). Since GW has stopped all invasions, I am hoping to attend my first non-GW tournament. Not too sure which one yet, as some allow forge world, and some aren't even going to allow escalation and stronghold assault, I'm going to wait until some tournament packs are released. At the moment I'm looking at:

- northern warlords GT

- rapid fire in Stirling

With a few others as well, but these are the only tournaments where the date is already set, or I have a good idea when it is based on previous years. I'm currently in the north of England, so a trip down to Warrington won't be too hard for me, or even up to Scotland for that matter. Also I've registered on rankings HQ, so after the tournament depending on where I come I will get the equivalent points on rankings HQ, and obviously get ranked in the UK. 

So what to expect over 2014:

- another tournament report (at least 1)

- more army updates + painting (I will be taking CSM allies to the tournament)

- display board tutorial (I'm going to need one)

- general tactics (might do more armies)

- preperations for the tournament 

- and any requests that I get.

So that's it for 2013, stay tuned because 2014 is just around the corner. And I'll post up which tournament I'm going to in a few months time, so feel free to say if you're going. You'll know it's me by the army so come over, say hi and have a chat (provided I'm not ripping my hair out while losing a game).

Tournament report part 4

The final part of my tournament report, and of course the final round. At the moment I've got 1 win from round 1 (5pts), and a lose from round 2 (2pts). Last round luckily no one won their game from my store, best we got was a draw and that was only by 1 person. 

My last game was against a ravenwing army, with deathwing and scout reinforcements. His list was roughly:

- Sammael

- Terminator chaplain

- Ravenwing command, ravenwing banner, ravenwing champion and apothecary

- 3 ravenwing bikes with a plasma gun

- 3 ravenwing bikes with a plasma gun

- 3 ravenwing bikes with a plasma gun and a multi melta attack bike

- 10 scouts with snipers and camo acloaks

- 5 deathwing terminators with assault cannon

Deployment was hammer and anvil (diagonal) with purge the alien (kill points) and night fighting (but that had no effect), i had first turn and deployed right on the edge of my deployment zone, flyers obviously in reserves. He deployed all of his bikes and infiltrated his full squad of scouts into a building on my board edge just out of my deployment zone. He then proceeded to sieze the initiative on me, yes that's right 2 games in a row.

Turn 1:

Ravenwing used their scout move as well, he moved his bikes forward. Deathwing terminators and terminator chaplain used deathwing assault to deep strike turn 1 and didn't scatter using the ravenwing command squad's teleport homer. Shooting and with none of my units in cover, 2 annihilation barges go down and he might of done a HP to a ghost ark. Scouts do absolutely nothing.

Oh dear, turn 1 and I'm already on the back foot. I move my vehicles slightlu backwards, and my shooting takes out his bike squad with attack bike and 2 from another squad, also some of the command squad.

Turn 2:

Everything moves in closer, apart from the scout squad. I was a bit luckier this turn as he only does a few HP here and there. No charges this turn.

Only my overlord and immortals come in, with their night scythe transport. Shooting kills the rest of the ravenwing command squad and sammael, and almost the rest of his ravenwing. 

Turn 3:

He claims that his snipers are S3 rending, so they can damage my flyer, I say they can't, but the likely good of home doing anything to my flyers his unlikely so I let it pass. His scouts don't do anything to my flyer anyway, remaining ravenwing move but don't do any damage. Finally his deathwing finish off my last annihilation barge.

My last flyer doesn't come on. I drop my immortals and overlord off into his deployment zone for linebreaker, we have another dispute here apparently I didn't make it clear that it was immortals and overlord in that night scythe, but he lets it pass. Shooting and kill his remaing ravenwing, but only mange to kill 1 scout in building, he makes something like 4 out of 5 3+ cover saves.

Turn 4:

His sniper scouts again don't move and no damage. His terminators move over and their assault cannon penetrates my ghost ark with the destructek in, but living metal saves the damage, but my quantum shielding has gone.

My other night scythe comes on with the warriors inside, the night scythe on the board flies off. Some movement but not much, shooting and I kill 1 terminator and 1 scout, not great. 

Turn 5:

Terminators move into assault range of my damaged ghost ark. Scouts shoot at my immortals and kill 1, but don't pin them, the immortal doesn't stand back up. His terminators assault my damaged ghost ark and wreck it, because the terminator chaplain struck before the power fists at S6. My warriors and destructek do an emergency disembarkation 6 inches away from it.

Night scythe comes back on and lines up the terminators, warriors disembark and target the scouts. Shooting I kill 2 more terminators, then my destructek shoots his S8 AP1 shot at the terminators, since his terminator chaplain was now the closest he took the wound. He failed his look out sir and then his 4++, his remaing 2 terminators pass morale and I fail to finish them off. Other shooting goes into the scouts killing 2 more, but they hold. The game ends on turn 5 and I win by a fair margin.

Sadly the player from my store who drawn his second game won his last game, meaning he took overall store champion. My second game opponent went 3-0 but lost out to a tau player with a higher painting score. I personally got 16/20 for my painting, my best result for painting to date. Part 5 and I'll put some photos up of te other armies, that shouldn't be too hard for me, at least I hope so.