Because my day was a Dinosaur fighting a Whale fighting a Squid kind of day. |
1st: Blood Angels w/63 pts (Chambers)
2nd: Tyranids w/60 pts (Nidzilla)
3rd: Chaos Marines w/55 pts (Nurgle/Khorne)
4th: Imperial Guard w/54 pts (mech)
5th: Eldar w/45 pts
6th: Space Marines w/41 pts (your's truly)
7th: Space Marines w/34 pts
8th: Space Wolves w/34 pts
9th: Orks w/27 pts
10th: Orks w/23 pts
11th: Space Marines w/17 pts
12th: Black Templars w/12 pts
13th: Space Marines w/11 pts
14th: Chaos Daemons w/10 pts
Games were against the Chaos Daemons in the first round, Chaos Marines in the second, and Blood Angels in the last. Here's a brief breakdown:
Game 1 |
I won the roll and had the Daemon player go first. I castled up in the middle of my deployment zone and waited for the deep strikes. He rolled for his second wave to come in first and then had two units destroyed via mishaps, landing only a Greater Daemon, a Daemon Prince, and some plague bearers directly in front of my guns. I killed the Daemon Prince & Greater Daemon with shooting and finished off the Plague Bearers in assault. He had seven units to roll for reserves on turn two and got none of them. I had 10 kill points at the end of turn two (I had killed the traitor as well), and he had 1 (the Vindicator in the ruins). This is where the game turned sour. I had killed all of his units on the table when his turn three came up. He said that I had one since I tabled him. He apparently thought that if he didn't have any more units on the board that he couldn't bring on the rest of his reserves. I had never experienced a situation like that, and asked him if he was sure because it didn't sound right. He said that he was, and we ended the game. Afterwards, we obviously found out that shouldn't have been the case. I would have felt bad winning that way if it were true, so winning that way when it wasn't was particularly bitter. This player and I are friends, and there's no hard feelings, but I just wish he wasn't so confident about that bogus rule. While I accumulated max points for this turn I, in no way, earned them. On the plus side, he does have a super-sweet Cthulhu Daemon:
I am painted now for extra mind shattering goodness...Cthulhu fhtagn!!! |
My second game was the best technical game I played on the weekend (meaning I didn't get tabled or win by either player not knowing the correct rules). He had a Khorne/Nurgle list with terminators, a land raider, some obliterators and Havocs. I don't often play with five objectives, so I used max combat squads and waited for him to come to me. It was a fun, close game, that ended up with me claiming my home objective and one "away" objective. He claimed his home objective. All other objectives were contested. Great guy. Great game.
I really need to come up with a better tactic than "march forward and die" for my dreads/speeders |
None of those models could touch my Ironclad. I thought I was clever. A havoc w/Lascannon off screen killed him. before he could kill more than one berserker. Pathetic. |
Note the super awesome suicide death tactic of my Ironclad...again. |
At the end of the day, it was a fun time and a so-so tournament. I enjoyed playing all of my opponents, but the outcome of my first game, and my performance in my last really dampened my experience overall. My rolling was so bad that Chambers offered me the chance of re-rolling some of my dice. Run that through your mind a few times. It's Ard Boyz, we're playing for a win, and my rolls are so appalling that my opponent offers to let me re-roll a few of them because he feels so badly watching this disaster unfold. Team Snake Eyes, I'm not only the founder, I'm also the President. :)
5 comments:
“I really need to come up with a better tactic than "march forward and die" for my dreads/speeders”
How about: March forward and die For The Emperor! I think that even your dice would allow for that strategy. Or better yet they will fail you by hitting and saving. Just a thought.
I enjoyed the banter at the table even if the game wasn't too a lot of fun. Once again your tactics were good, in fact you caught me flat footed at the top of turn two. You had every expectation to not only put me on the defensive but to also destroy my mobility if your dice had rolled just slightly less than average rather than abysmally.
Have you considered a dice monkey? It might help and I hear that they don't eat too much.
I'm interested in what the Tyranid list looked like. Do you have any idea what he was running?
Dice Monkey? I'll look into that.
@TheGraveMind: I'll do some digging and find out what he played.
From memory with the caveat that I never played him, and I did not see all of his army laid out.
Hive Tyrant (not sure on build)
four baby momas (all with crushing claws)
3 squads of guants
4-6 hive guard
3 floating brains
3 trygons (I think they were primes)
and one pod for what i would assume to be either the brains or a unit of gaunts.
He mentioned bringing something in the neighbor hood of 120 gaunts with him.
Chambers,
So you are in St. Louis? I am moving to Evansville and I hear we are only 2 hours away. If you do I would love to finally meet you. Let me know.
Spaguatyrine
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