Apocalypse 2008- bat rep, the ledgend cont... Options

[Bloodbrotherdave]

well its getting latish. its warm. im feed and have a wont to impart wisdom on the masses.

Apocalypse is a tourney run by the Top guys who frequent WSWA.
The TO hats were worn by Cam and Roy.

That is the way its been for as long as... well for a while.
I like the Apoc tourny. Its never been a huge turn out, but always seems to have enough players to be interesting and not to much that things seem a bit overwhelming.

Now my usuall crew of fellow gaming buddies either dont play 40k anymore or have grown up got married and spawned nurglings. (you try and tell me anything thats #### stinks that much isnt sent from the pits of hell) So my only usuall gaming buddy was Roy. and he was one of the TOs. So if you were wondering why i was sitting near the TO table alot. i wasnt sucking up to the TO. promise

Now as i said i dont get alot of games of 40k in anymore (play too much warmachine) i had some high hopes of getting my army assmebled and ready a few weeks before and give a few of the lads at wswa a bit of a test run so i could see how things worked under 5th and with the DA codex. yeah like that was ever going to happen So my usuall routine of 40k was as follows. Night before the night before. finish assembly. night before. go to roys (he lives heaps closer to the event than i do) and paint. now lucky i had the day off work so got to roys grabbed some lunch. spot of painting. break and a spot more and called it "Daves table top bellow standard tm"

So with my Ravenwing with Deathwing terminators and some scouts to scout with tm army list i rolled in at the tourney at 7.30am.

Yep. we set up in the morning. (stupid mornings)
damn staying over at the TO's place. (truth be told Roy is the best host. ask anyone.)

So i had helped set up and as people rolled in we got off to a slightly later start than planned (waiting for a few people who never showed) So names roll off and I got Consto. Thats cool. Ive played Mike a few times before. always a great guy to play. and he has the same army as me, so no wierd rules thingies.

So the Black Ravenwing army (mine) was
Sammael (on jetbike. very importaint)
2 full Ravenwing squadrons. (6 bikes, 1 attackbike and 1 speeder each. plus spec weapons)
1 of them was the command squad (medic guy and std bearer for +1A)
1 extra support speeder (multi melta + assault cannon)
5 DW termis
5 Scouts. with shotguns.

The much nicer looking Red Ravenwing
Sammael (on speeder)
3 full ravenwing squadrons.

so we had a bit of a bash. trying to kill eachothers commanders. Now thats a little tricky with the limited armies we had. Me trying to punch through AV14 skimmer was hard as Mike mugged all my speeders fairly quick. He was having a hard time as I kept Sam in combat most of the time and Mike had no power swords/fist. So we fought out to a bloody draw in the end. *First Time I should have used Golden D6 reroll*
When i go tot assault Sammaels Speeder with 3 scouts, hit with 2 krak grenades and got a pen hit. I rolled a 2, could have rerolled 5+ would have won me the game.

Game 2.
India's Ork. she borrowed.

Now I honestly cant remeber not finishing 6 turns of a game of 40k. really. i think it might have been at dwarfcon about 5 years of so back but i cant remeber. This was the first game of 40k that only got to turn 5 in a long time. rant mode. If your going to a tourny, know your ####. thats it. end rant. Im lucky that i have had one of my mates play orks ever since we played 40k together. so ive been up to date on the last 2 ork codexs (that does cover almost 10 years though) so i have a good knowledge of the codex. Now dont get me wrong India was a nice girl and was trying fairly hard to keep up with a army list that was to complicated for an Ork beginer. It had a Warboss. (easy) Wierdboywarp head (tricky) nobs (not to bad they were mostly the same) 2 big Ork mobs (should have been ok but hard to tell them apart) grots (ok) battlewagon (should have been simplier) burnars (tricky) kans (would have been better if they were the same) tracks (ok).
But I felt like at the end of the game I had put in alot of effort as I was needing to remeber both sets of rules and tell her what her army did. when i didnt and let her go on her own things were a little incorrect. but the game was done. So for Daves tip of the Game. know your army.

Game 3.
Aarons Marines.

Now Aarons been battleing with 40kz for as long as almost anyone else. and hes fairly good at it. but apparantly suckzor at the painting. so had borrowed his mates army. It was a nice hard Marine List i would expect of him. Tough but not without some weakness (although hard to spot) We had a fairly good game. we had to look a few things up, but neither of us had had to many games of 5th as was my understanding. So we battled through, my bikes got torn up. i killed most of his troops. so it got down to the end. Needed to be in the centre of the board(within 6") with troops to win. Aaron had only got 1 Tac Marine there. some bad difficult terrain and run moves kept the rest away. I snuck in with an attackbike. ended up a draw. both us us had a slightly different idea on who had won. Aaron thought he had it as he had 1 troop vs my one troop + he had terminators and a dread. I thought i had won it as i had a 2 wounds of troops vs his 1. Turns out it was a draw. 1 troop v 1 troop. other didnt count.

Evening at La Porchetta's
I like getting out for dinner now and again. and getting out with a bunch of people with similar interest is always a good night. i think we had 12 people out of the 18players+2 To's there so it was a good night. Drinks, pizza, internet celebrities making a guest appearance. all top fun.

got some sleep after watching some dvds and a bit of tv.

game 4. Serious business.
Ben's Imperial Guard.
Recon mission (did i mention ben has mostly infantry. no transports)
all Night fight (Ben really wasnt to excitted by the idea at this stage)
Now lucky for me Ben is a top bloke, mates with Consto, and although we hadnt played against him before it was a relaxed game. He knew what all my stuff did. and I knew what most of his stuff did (didnt know hellhounds ar AV12 on the side though ) Ben had done a bit of work on some nice fiction. a good 3 pages. It was a nice read. some nice pics and art imposed in there as well. nice little presentation.
Now I had all the advantages going into this game. speed, and scouts. and marines on bikes vs flashlights and bayonets. Only thing that worried me was the demolisher. It got nailed around turn 3-4. Multimelta speeders are mean. I like to get stuck in. It isnt the best plan of attack with Ravenwing (so people tell me) but im not particualry patient. It almost cost me Samael. as he was getting kicked to death by Sentinels. but the terminators eventually got there and saw them off. 5th ed tip. if you stun or imobalise a walker you can use grenades on it So with all the advantages i managed to get the win.

Game 5.
Matt's Daemons.

Now i hadnt played against demons before. So most of it was fairly new to me. To be honest I can sort of see why they arent everywhere. The only deepstrike half their army to start with and the rest come on in dribs and drabs. they lack in shooting. but then again maybe i got lucky? Matt is a nice guy who likes tough armies. This in his words is not as tough as his usuall choices. It was a good game and came down to the wire. Basicly he couldnt kill my speeders after his 2 HQ greater deamons were gone. so he ripped up all my bikes. couldnt finish off the terminators (who also couldnt finish of the plague bearers) and in his last turn managed to kill Samael. *Reroll opertunity 2. If i had rerolled the last save that killed him he may have lived at the end of the game and won me the last game*
Resulted in a draw. better than last time we played. (i was much less hung over)

WE packed up tieded up, results were added up. Cam and Roy made up some stuff to even #### out. (maybe) roy laughed at me and said "if only you had based all your models" mmm what did he mean?




It ment I came 4th. again.

I managed to come 4th a few years back (2 maybe 3) with my spacewolves. its the closest Ive come to winning a 40k tournament in a while.

So Big Thanks to Roy and Cam, for putting on a great show, putting up with me .
Big thanks to the Rest of the WSWA committee who come down and run the canteen and help set up/pack up.
Big Cheers to all the people who made it out to the event for the 2 days. It was a great tourney. It was intimate and had a great laid back feel to it all. Its like going back to when i first got into 40k comps. Viva 5th ed. bring on more well run and intimate events! because really I only have the energy for 1 mega comp (Arc) per year.

And to my fellow waacy team members. Ive set the bar for the next 40k event you get to


and i promise i will do more painting and get the rest of the bases for next time

[Bloodbrotherdave]

wow that s a wall of text.

will add in my fiction when i get to work tomorrow.

[Autarch]

Well written mate.

Couldn't agree more with your last thoughts. Great fun indeed.

My question is, did you actually use your golden dice?

[Cancer]

Only 2 Golden Dice used all tournament......

[Bishop]

Noice Dave.
Your batrepa crack me up.
The thing with golden dice...you use yours and your opponent remembers his...back where you started.

Congrats man.

Thats a high WAACY bar you've set.

Cheers
Mark

[Griddon]

I used my golden dice! I'll get to that

So, first tourney for me, and the Riddler (Ryland) had to twist my arm to come. I just wasn't sure I could deal with 1500 x 5 over 2 days. Its a tiring sport somehow for me. Mentally and physically it seems. (He says, lying here in agony having 'exercised' my right thigh excessively somehow over the weekend... ??) I'm glad Ryland talked me into it. Had a blast. Played the best game of 40k i've had and mixed that with 4 other very close games.

So,

Game 1:

Tim's Tau.

I'd never played tau, (and still haven't played Nids, Daemons, Dark Eldar or some of the SM variants) but I kinda knew they were shooty. Tim did an awesome job of telling me what his stuff did. So we set about the first rules query of the tourney even before we had deployed. Just checking if I could redeploy my eldar using divination within 18 of his infiltrators. I couldn't so, no worries. Long story short, I killed his leader with a very lucky insta kill krak missile from a wave serpent and Tim failed his invuln save on. I then went into operation run away with my farseer as the whole of Tim's very mobile force chased me down. IN the end, i deliberately put the farseer in h2h with some guardians charging some tau in cover... I won the combat and I really wanted to be tied in h2h. Tim needed more than 4 to fail and flee... He rolled 3... And that saved my bacon since he couldn't rapid fire me with his other fire warriors. Ended me:tim 19:11

Game 2:

Marks Black Templars.

So, I'd never played Templars before, but Mark did a great job on explaining. This was the quarter grab and Mark only had 2 troops, so I was thinking this should be a good chance, but then he had 3 armor pieces and some termy nasty ness. I started with a few speculative shots at the power armored marines... Mark had really crap luck and started bleeding marines on turn 1. Infact bleeding heavily to some really unlucky armor saves. So, I kept on at them and basically 95% of his troops died. Armor killing went suprisingly well for me and the swooping hawks did their first ever piece of magic by taking down a land raider with haywire grenades. Mark was staying positive throughout the game even with really really statisitically borderline impossible armor save rolling. So, my vote for best sports went here. Oh - and nicely painted force there too. 23/7 here.

Game 3:

Daniel (Gee Dub) Orks

I'm familiar with orks because I play Ryland a lot (read - every weekend mostly). Ryland is prone to brain farts, so I wasn't exactly thinking positive as I was looking at the most mobile ork force I've seen. This was the objective grab in the centre of the table and I just expected a mountain of green sat tight there forcing me to get involved. As it was, I was totally out maneuvered in the game and basically flanked but I hang tight with most things, pegging off what I could. Highlights for me was my routing farseer mindwaring the warboss... twice... 1 wound left, last mind war, failed the psychic test. Golden Dice. Passed it. Killed the warboss. So, for punishment, I gat harried off the pitch by a truck with no weapon. Was a good little bit of action there that had us both screaming. So, in the centre at the end there was 1 meganob and 1 nob. Both died on my last turn of shooting and we had 1 wave serpent and avengers on the objective with rear armor facing 3 rokkit equiped warbuggy thingies.... The suspense! Hits and penetrates with 1 rokkit. He's got trucks with big shootas lined up to hit my avengers if they had to get out... Alas, it was not to be, the pen roll was a 1 or a 2. So, I jammed this one but as it came down to the last dice and had been a tough and bloody contest the whole way through I have to say it was the most fun game I've ever had in 40k. We were both left guessing until the last moments. 20/10. I also voted best painted here because I thought that anyone who has the patience to paint so many orks and get them looking so neat and tidy has to have put in the serious hard yards. (The red ravenwing was also a favorite, but didn't show for the beauty contest? so out of sight out of mind for me.... A deserved best painted win for those ravenwing!)

LaPorchetta. Strength 10, large blast mexicana please. Perfect. Great company and relaxed. Good to talk about the days games and learn how others had been going on. Really helped cement the 'intimate' atmosphere. Few beers back at Rylands later on and we kicked on with a 750 Eldar vs Chaos. Ask Ryland about that one

Sunday. Game 4;

Rick (?) Daemonhunters:

I'll keep this shorter. I drew this contest. It was a close game but I was definitely on the back foot trying to scrape a draw. Few things I questioned here. Mostly due to admission that Rick hadn't played 5th Ed much. Wish i'd queried his list a bit more, POtMS on GK Landraiders possible? Can't see it in the codex (edit... its in the errata. So, nice upgrade that one...) The night fighting caught me out a lot and I just didn't have the range to hit when it mattered. Nevermind, Rick was a tactical mastermind and countered my deployment brilliantly and I knew i'd have to hope for a draw even before the first turn started. Definately a good thinker and certainly wise in the ways of 40k. Rick was big on conversation and was a really friendly guy. I'm more of the quiet type, so apologies to Rick if the conversation was a bit 1 sided, but if I don't think at the start of my turn, I forget things like psychic powers and reserve rolls. Draw, 14/16. (and... I'l certainly remember to roll 2d6 armor pen in h2h with my Wraithlord in future... DOH! Think I amused most people on Sunday morning when the Gee Dub guys pointed out my mistake... It wouldn't have converted the draw to a win at all, but would have made me feel better squishing that poncy =I= armor piece into the dirt. )

Game 5:

Jordan's Eldar... Girl on Girl baby!

Christ. Where to start. Well, we'll start with me using Divination to redeploy the hell away from the snipers and more importantly, the striking scorpions. Turn 1 shooting went really well for me and I busted both of Jordan's waveserpent transports. That was unlucky for Jordan, because if form is anything to go by, my armor busting capabilities were very low. I prematurely celebrated that one, but Jordan really got into my left flank and ripped me a new one with his autarch. Who basically took down my rangers and dark reapers before falling to a howling banshee charge. We whittled each other down in dribs and drabs. In the end we had an almighty show down between banshees and scorpions, which I won, but jordan lost his exarch before the combat so that more than likely swung that for me. I turbo boosted a troop into his deployment zone for an extra point and mopped up a couple of mobs. Farseer again earned his points with eldritch storms and dooms.

Jordan knew eldar rules better than me and had to pull me up on a couple of things. All specific to Eldar as it happens. No 2d6 from eldritch storm on a wave serpent for example. Jordan would have taken me down completely if he'd retained his mobility in this game. So, the dice gods had a hand in this one. I think Jordan blew his Golden Dice to re-roll 1 armor save here? can't remember. A pleasure mate. A shame the eldar had to fight each other...

So, summary.

Enjoyed it, although its a bit too tiring to do often. 1 dayers be the go for me I think. Really grateful to walk out with 2nd place and even more chuffed to take down Best General. I'd been saying for weeks to Ryland that I was worried my list didn't have enough scarey factor. I'd gone for balance with a bit of AP, a bit of anti hoard and a couple of multitaskers. In the end, I found that my Wraithlord attracted a lot of fire, yet survived 4/5 contests. (Tim's Tau got rid of him) I found that balance won me the games due to being able to react in most areas of the battlefield. Also, a big nod to my 'Counts as Eldrad'. He's a boon. Simply put. Divination is worth it alone and he definitely earned his points in every game.

Big thanks to the TO's. I can officially say that my First tourney exceeded my expectations.

Big shout to everyone who showed too, all great people.

It's late... Thanks again.


Edits - miscellaneous bad spelling, grammar and a few elaborations here and there.

This post has been edited by Griddon: Oct 13 2008, 06:53 PM

[Bloodbrotherdave]

Nice Bat Rep.

so 4 wins and a draw. well earned Best General

will have to break out a few more marines and get a game at wswa sometime.
And was there any after effects from the pizza the following day as Ryland suggested?

This post has been edited by Bloodbrotherdave: Oct 13 2008, 07:45 AM

[Autarch]

Another great report!

I don't think i could have better described that game between our forces. Bloody hell... that was one of the hardest games i've ever played. You were right about when i used my golden dice.

Certainly a pleasure.

[Welsh Rarebit]

I'll add some stuff.

Now dont get me wrong India was a nice girl and was trying fairly hard to keep up with a army list that was to complicated for an Ork beginer. It had a Warboss. (easy) Wierdboywarp head (tricky) nobs (not to bad they were mostly the same) 2 big Ork mobs (should have been ok but hard to tell them apart) grots (ok) battlewagon (should have been simplier) burnars (tricky) kans (would have been better if they were the same) tracks (ok).

Being new to the game myself (been playing since April) and using Orks as first weapon of choice, i found it helpful to write myself a quick summary of what stuff does, ie Ramshakkle rules on Trukks, Weirdboy psychic powers, Shokk Attack effects etc. The complexity of the orks is found in the sheer volume of dice you have to roll with which is made more tricky when you have different weapons in the squads.
Luckily for me, i had some practice with my Cybork unit prior to the game so wasn't too befuddled (as i was when i first started using them) In that unit i have 5 Slugga Nobz, 3 with Uge Choppaz which adds +2 to strength, a Powerklaw and just to make things even trickier....a poisoned weapon which more often than not, re-rolls failed wounds. Throw in extra attacks for Charging, modifiers for furious charge and a Waaagh banner which changes their WS and it get's even dicier.
So in summary, it might help in future for India to quickly jot down a bit of a reference summary to speed games up. I still refer to mine, particularly in regards to the SAG and Warphead. (My 2 Trukks die every game so i got Ramshakkle down pat )

Onto the Tourney:

Apoc has been on my radar since last year so was really looking forward to this, my second tourney.
As always, i go in with low expectations (see Chris' Brainfart comment, and this past weekend was no exception!) so basically i'm just happy to not finish bottom of the pile and get some enjoyment from playing different people/armies.

Game 1 v's Meowing Cat aka Adam in kill HQ mission.

Adam started by saying "I know you" so i thought that was ominous. Turns out he's been exchanging pm's on here with my mate Tomsey so good to add another prospective gamer to Friday Night fights.
Got my perfect match up to start as i have a good record against the Guard and this turned out to be no exception. Adam had some awful rolls for reserves and even when they did come on, all but one Sentinel came on from the wrong flank.
Cyborks weighed into the ranks on turn 2 so he was in trouble from that point on, Kommandos came on in turn 2 and i rolled a 6 so they immediately chewed through a tank also. My Warboss and Ard Boyz got turfed out by a tank round and hid behind the wreckage to avoid the Leman Russ shots. They did emerge momentarily to dispatch aforementioned sentinel before jumping back behind the Trukk wreck for the remainder of the game.
Cyborks attempted to soften up the Guard HQ and retinue with a one shot Kombi skorcha shot prior to assaulting but as it turned out, the Skorcha ended up killing the whole lot!
I win by 21 - 9 i think.
Glad to get the first one out the way, and due to the usual first game head fuzz, both Adam and i took some liberties and allowed each other to do stuff we'd forgotten about after the point of no return. Cool bloke, proper laid back and there to enjoy it so he edged Cobbler for my best sports.
Was happy with how i played this game, tactically sound and no major brainfarts.

Game 2 Rick McKay's Grey Knight Daemonhunters army.

Rick did a great job explaining his list to me before commencing. He's played Orks extensively on the circuit for many years so saved me the job.
Cyborks absolutely chewed through a unit of GK's on turn 2. Didn't even require the attacks from the Klaw or 'Urty Syringe to finish the job. Impressive.
Did that get your attention Rick? I think it did as he just unloaded pretty much all his shots to whittle them down in his shooting phase. Dice gods weren't kind as i failed several feel no pain rolls and they were toast on the next assault.
My first Brainfart of the weekend came shortly after (and it was a pearler.)
Assaulted a unit with HQ with approx 25 Shoota Boyz. Rick caused 9 dead and like an idiot, i took them from the kill zone meaning the other Orks that were strung out in the ant line couldn't hit back. So instead of giving a 30+ attack back and a powerklaw to boot i took 9 extra wounds as my unit was still fearless.
Well i learned that one the hard way. grrrrr
Maximum win for the bad guys 20 - 5. Doh!

Game 3. G Dub's own Autarch....tricksy girly Eldar.

Here's a Novel idea. There's an objective in the middle, i'll meet you there on turn 2.
Didn't expect to go hammer and tongs with an Eldar army in the middle so it was a crazy mass of combat from the get go.The Shoota Mob fared badly on an assault from some Scorpions so the Boss and Ard Boyz waded in to seal the deal. Dred frell to Fire Dragons so Boss and Ard Boyz assaulted those and the Banshees in cover simultaneosly and performed well.
I'd taken out both transports, The Cyborks taking one, and the outflanking DeffKoptas the other to kill his mobility.
Cyborks performed appallingly in h2h. With the amount of dice i was rolling, they didn't even finish a Dire Avengers squad and got assaulted by the head honcho jet bike riding HQ dude and retinue. Not one Powerklaw hit sealed the deal (and that happened several times and at least once per game over the weekend...my Klaws did nothing for me on both days.)
Cyborks suffer the embarrasment of a Sweeping Advance.
Jordan's HQ were blinding this game, they accounted for over 700 pts of my army.
Brainfart 2. Not chasing his Troop choice off the table when they were routing and only millimetres away, allowing them to regroup and run towards the objective (they were too far away but what the hey)
Even after the brutal hiding we gave each other i was in with a shout of salvaging a draw. I had no Troops left but Jordans girly sniper unit broke cover and started running. Took a pot shot with Immobiled Trukks Big Shoota and killed 2. If Jordan fails morale, drawn game. He passed and they ran to the prize.
Good fun game mate, was a blast.

La Porchetta action.

Love this part of the day, great to wind down a bit, shoot the breeze with fellow gamers and not eat girly Eldar salad.

Back to mine and a few Ciders and a bottle of Whine. Made my third Brainfart by allowing Stalker to set up the table when my back is turned....then watched helplessley as my 750 pts of Chaos were shot to pieces due to table length and a veritable sea of open space.......Best General??!! Oh he's the best alright......

Sunday.

Laughed at the state of Chris Milligan after his heavy night and got straight into the best painted.
Red Ravenwing was on display....i voted for it. I'll never compete in this category, i just slap it on and get them table ready.

Game 4 v the Black Templars in the Night Fighting.

Had mixed feelings on this one. Had a chance as i had more troop choices but the Clawed up Termies in the Raider was gonna give me fits and i knew it. Poor record against Marines too.
Mark won the roll and deployed all on one side, allowing me to deploy Warboss/Ard Boy Trukk way out down the other side. The plan was to ditch the Ard Boyz in some Trees and then turbo the Warboss into the action. Las cannon shot put an end to that idea so the whole mob hid in the trees until turn 5 before making a break into the deployment zone. So that was my bit done....all i had to do was kill his 2 troop choices.

Rolled the S 10 Ap 2 Melta weapon on the Weirdnboy and he rolled a 2 to penetrate the land raider.....great.
termies assaulted the Shootas in cover and stacked up a heap of dead. Re roll hits and wounds.....nice.
Shoota Boyz accounted for 2 in reply. If Mark had killed one less boy, i'd have been Fearless and would've had to take another 12 or so wounds....as it was, i rolled a morale and stuck it out. (Klaw did nothing btw)
dred engaged Termies and stuck around, Cybork Trukk Turbo'd and got blown, they were then charged by a Dread.
That combat lasted 3 turns as the Cyborks and Dread hit each other with wet paper towels. Must've scored 15 glances with the Uge Choppaz and rolled nothing over 3 on the damage chart. Klaw....did.....nothing. Mark got his one troop choice in on the action for this combat also so focused all attacks with the exception of the Klaw, on them and whittled them away.
Dread now kicking me in the shins, as it had no weapons and was immobilised.
Mark on 3 successive turns rolled snake eyes to wound me.....you couldn't make it up...this crazy game.

Here comes the Brainfart.

Mark's only scoring unit breaks for my deployment zone.
I'd forgotten to move my weapon destroyed Looted Wagon to impede them on turn 5. To all intents and purposes this was a draw. My final turn 6, the Cyborks break from the Dread and come back to shoot at the unit who are in my deployment zone by an inch.
In a final act of futility i move the wagon 12" towards the unit and the orks take a pot shot on them and kill one.

This means, due to that Zeal special rule, he has to take a leadership. If he fails, he retreats out of the Deployment zone, if he passes he moves towards the nearest enemy which was my immobiled Dread (taking him out of deploment zone) but is now.....you guessed it....my Looted Wagon taking him further into the Deployment Zone.

A well fought Draw but i nail the points 19 -11. Great game Cobbler, good guy to play against.

Game 5.

Will get to later as i goota run into Sth Melb and feed the meter.

[meowingcat]

Game 1 v's Meowing Cat aka Adam in kill HQ mission.

Turns out he's been exchanging pm's on here with my mate Tomsey so good to add another prospective gamer to Friday Night fights.
Got my perfect match up to start as i have a good record against the Guard and this turned out to be no exception. Adam had some awful rolls for reserves and even when they did come on, all but one Sentinel came on from the wrong flank.
Cyborks weighed into the ranks on turn 2 so he was in trouble from that point on, Kommandos came on in turn 2 and i rolled a 6 so they immediately chewed through a tank also. My Warboss and Ard Boyz got turfed out by a tank round and hid behind the wreckage to avoid the Leman Russ shots. They did emerge momentarily to dispatch aforementioned sentinel before jumping back behind the Trukk wreck for the remainder of the game.
Cyborks attempted to soften up the Guard HQ and retinue with a one shot Kombi skorcha shot prior to assaulting but as it turned out, the Skorcha ended up killing the whole lot!
I win by 21 - 9 i think.
Glad to get the first one out the way, and due to the usual first game head fuzz, both Adam and i took some liberties and allowed each other to do stuff we'd forgotten about after the point of no return. Cool bloke, proper laid back and there to enjoy it so he edged Cobbler for my best sports.
Was happy with how i played this game, tactically sound and no major brainfarts.

If I knew how to play the army better I think I could of pulled of a draw all I needed to do is get my russ's to were your HQ was and keep pounding the hell out of them with the basilisk... but I didn't go in with a game plan other than to have fun! and it was very fun! BBQ guard 66 pts HQ, LOL!!!

Oh and Ry, I think it was 23-7. Very fun game mate, thanks!! Next time Ill maybe even put up a little bit of a fight for ya!

Grate torny all round!

[Welsh Rarebit]

At the end of turn 4, me and Chris Wyrm discussed our score totals and records and thought it entirely feasible that we face off.

Scored a 6.

Grudge match with Bragging rights on the line.

We've been playing each other for several weeks now but had never squared off on one on one.
Mission = Annihalate Necrons using Victory points.
Chris won the roll off and after we'd both deployed, a key moment as the grubby green skinned Warboss casually rolls that 6 to seize the initiative. Huzzah!!

I contemplated using a golden dice if i rolled a 1 as i moved my Trukks straight up the guts to enagage asap but it wasn't needed (crucially as it turned out.)
Chris lined his 2 units of Destroyers up near a flank to shoot the Trukks and turfed out Ard Boyz but cover saves prevailed.
Warphead rolled sniping shooting powers all through this game and started off by pinning a unit of Warriors. He then rolled a Waaagh on turn 2 giving Ard Boyz and Cyborks Fleet and i'm in.
Usually thats the end of the sports but the wet paper towels came out again.
Warboss couldn't make combat (another brainfart) and the ard boyz scored 14 wounds on thge warriors....Chris saved them all. Powerklaw laid an egg and killed one but i was left with the proposition of the Ard Boyz and Warboss losing an assault, where they've had the charge, to a unit of bonies.....unbelievable. Luckily...combat was a draw. The Boyz llick their wounded pride and the Lord, veils the unit out of h2h.

Cyborks engage the other unit and also engage the scarabs as an insurance policy to stay in h2h and not get shot to pieces next turn.
Kommandos enter on turn 2 and outflank (100% on these since i've been outflanking...they've always come on from the flank that i want.)
Kommandos engage 2 units of Destroyers and kill them over 2 turns....Klaw did nothing again.

Cyborks in combat rolled poorly again so took some time killing scarabs and warriors. (Klaw on the charge hitting on 3's due to increased WS rolls 2 1's and 2 2's....summed up the weekend for them.)

Cyborks win combat and consolidate 5 inches into cover behind a house leaving Warriors in forest with no viable target. My next turn i move 5 inches out of terrain and announce a Waaaagh. I roll a 2.

Golden Dice re-roll gives me the minimum 5 i needed. Assault into terrain needing a 5 and get it to engage the other unit of warriors. Smash them to pieces....the stars aligned for me on that sequence.

I played this game tactically sound, extremely lucky to seize initiative as it would've been a very different game otherwise.
We handed in our Best Sports votes prior to this game as we agreed not to vote for each other.

Bragging rights are mine as i'd killed uber points in Chris' armies and he'd managed approx 350 i think.

Good guys win.

Record for weekend = 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses for mid table mediocrity of 10th place.

Great weekend and thanks for running it Cam, Leigh.

Thanks to all my opponents and to all the guys that attended....particularly the Nid player who flew down from Darwin to attend! Kudos.

[Welsh Rarebit]

Oh and Ry, I think it was 23-7

Yes it was mate, soz for that Selling meself short. haha

[Bloodbrotherdave]

Further adventures of the metal man.

Samael knew this time would come. Where he would assemble before a superior force. Face unsurmountable odds and the possibility of defeat was greater than ever faced before. He revved his jetbike. It continued to hover a few yards from the cold hard terrain bellow. He knew his battle brothers had committed to this fight. Dare he look to the heavens to seek the emperors blessing. He glanced up.

Nothing.

It was clear. Maybe they had averted the clumsy fumbling of “The Big Guy” Maybe this time their movements and actions would be guided by one gifted with the emperors talents in battle, rather than the fat fingered oaf.
Samael suddenly felt this battle was in their grasp. He looked around the battlefield.
His Command squad was present. Full kit on them all. Medic, Sacred Standard, Powerfist on the sgt, special weapons. All accounted for and ready to do battle. Even a second full squadron of the Ravenwing had been deployed. Some lurked on the flanks, eager to pounce on wayward vehicles and infantry. Attackbikes with Multimeltas ready to speed within deadly range and vaporise enemy armour. Ravenwing pattern land speeders filled out the last of both the squadrons. Assaultcannons and heavy bolters, ready to mow down infantry. Even an extra land speeder in hellfire pattern was deployed. Multimelta and assaultcannon ready to take on all targets.

Samael checked his holochronomiter. The Deathwing terminators will be able to strike down with accuracy and support the initial push. And not to forget the eager scouts, with their superior shotguns armed and itching for a fight.

Things are looking up…

A shadow fell over Samael. It sent a shiver up his spine. He saw the can of beverage and meat product wrapped in pastry and covered in sauce placed next to it.
The Big Guy had been at the canteen.

Samael groaned. “Were doomed.”

[Welsh Rarebit]

LMAO

Great continuation of the fluff Dave.


(For those who missed the first installment, it'll be in the Judgement Day forum battle Rep thread i think)

[Autarch]

It's just dawned on me now, but has anyone got any pictures to share?

Unfortunately i forgot my camera(with my fluff too )

[Welsh Rarebit]

I took photos of my opponents' armies on my camera phone....usually appalling quality though.

[Agent Smith]

Hey all, Dan here, Thought I'd give the battle report thing a go....

Game 1:
India Bye's Ork. she borrowed.

As has been stated by other players thus far, India came in not knowing what her army was capable of. But being Orks vs Orks, fun was guaranteed, rules were not a problem, and I helped her out where I could. Game started off with all the inaccurate shooting you could expect from two ork armies shooting each other, even with a amusing side battle of two units of rokkit trucks firing at each other for the whole game (5 turns each) with S8 rokkits against armour 10 and both units were alive at the end. Unfortunately both my HQ were both the same points, and as it was hunt the commander mission, so if either of mine were killed it counted . My fault for not buying a ammo runt for my warboss. Her Warboss was hunkered down at the back of the battlefield with a bodyguard of ‘ard boyz, speeding past much of her horde, I finally got to her warboss on turn five with mine and duked it out with him… With the help of my mega nobz it was short and sweet. However in the mean time her warphead teleported a unit of 30 boyz right next to my big mek at the back killing him from a hail of slugga shots. The other thing that caught me off guard was I charged her cyborks with my boyz thinking that with the charge and with my numbers I could win… nope, I just bounced off, 4+ save and feel no pain they would not die. The game ended in a perfect draw, 15/15. The best thing was Orks win! (well they had to of, “coz orkz iz neva beetun in battle!”)

Game 2:
Ben’s IG

I gotta say, Jordo had given me the heads up on this army as he had played it in the first round and I was not looking forward to going against two hell hounds that ignore my best armour and bike/turboboost cover saves. But none the less, guard vs orks is one of those match ups that always promises a good game, and his guard looked great (my best painted vote ). The mission was quarter grab, and I had the mobility on my side. First turn I raced forward leaving my running killa kans in my dust, and my deff koptas were threatening his armour on his flanks. The first few turns were brutal for guard shooting, taking a heavy toll on my army and up till turn three it was not looking good. Tho I did manage to destroy one of the hellhound flamers which was nice. His demolisher surprised me when instead of firing its cannon at me it rammed my squadron of 3 rokkit buggies and destroyed them all, and when my boyz jumped out and wiped out a squad in combat, a command squad covered them in flames in return. At the start of turn four my killa kans were in firing range of a jucy target, 2 tightly packed units of grenadiers. I targeted a place where if I rolled a hit on the scatter dice I got about 9 of his men. I killed 7 from one squad causing it to flee off the table, and about 4 from the other, finishing it off next turn. A meanwhile a loan nob with power klaw charged 3 sentinels by him self and in 2 rounds of combat killed two of them, and died to the third. Ben was a great sport tho, he pointed out that a nob biker that failed his dangerous terrain roll suffered a wound instead of death as I thought which caused the demise of his healthy hellhound. The killa kans munched for the last two turns and brought me home a win. I know Ben will be shooting them first any time he sees them from now, but this game also concreted them in my army list, that even that they are not as fast as a truck, they run for the first few turns then hit hard on the last few. Game resulted in a 25/5 ork victory, but if I was to tell you that was going to happen on turn three you would have laughed at me.

Game 3:
Chris Stalker’s Eldar

Chris has already talked about this game in a above post far better than I could explain the highlights, and how close the ending was, so I’ll just throw in a few more things. Mission was take the centre... first my worst combat of the tournament happened in this game, I had a biker ork nob with power klaw in combat with his wraithlord for 2 turns, and 2 killa kans in combat with it for another 2.5 turns(one died, a turn later the other) and I managed one wound on it… need I say I hate wrathlords? Also a note on Chris’s highlight when Eldrad was running and mind warred my warboss I lost 2 wounds, I thought “phew he’s still alive” until Chris said, I’m doing it again! Trixy Eldar! When he failed the psychic test once again I was happy to have the boss alive, then the he used the golden dice and sealed the deal and killed him! In disgust of his death I revved the engines of my truck and escorted Eldrad off the field. Not the nicest thing to do to another player I know, but I have a rather close attachment to my warboss, sorry chris! Other than that the ending of the game was priceless, big shootas lined up ready to kill his remaining 5 troops, three rokkit buggies shooting at its rear… I get a penetrating hit… and…. Nothing! A very good and close game.

Dinner:
I gotta mention LaPorchetta as well, firstly after being in that hot room all day a beer never tasted so good, followed by an awesome parma… not to mention the excellent company. Everyone was talking about their games, and how many ones they had rolled, or how many sixes their opponent had rolled, all in all a great night.

Game 4:
Gumbie – Cameron Hickey playing Deathwing

Honestly I was really scared when I found out I was facing deathwing, ever since choppas got traded in in the new dex for furious charge 2+ armour saves have been tough to beat. The mission was get in each others deployment zone with troops, and all his units were troops. He had first turn 3 units come down, one went back up from landing on dangerous terrain. He promptly took out my only AP 2 weapon, my shokk attack gun, he mentioned I should have put in in a unit to protect it, but I claim it may have been my stupidity that got him killed but it ment that the termies were all in range for a first turn assault. And with only 2 of his units on the board I could concentrate fire, then assault them in force. One survived the combat, allowing my 3 assaulting units to stay in combat for his next turn and not get shot up. From there he got one unit in a turn, so I took him on piecemeal. I thought my warboss was committing suicide when he charged the librarian, but it was the orky thing to do, the librarian hit and wounded the warboss and failed his psychic test with his force weapon to kill him outright! I swear after the game against the Chris’s elder and his failed psychic test my warboss has some resilience to psychic attacks despite the lack of inv save. He did have some luck when his final unit landed in my deployment zone won a combat vs boyz and mega nobz by passing 5 out of 6 5+ inv saves (how?!?) and chasing them off the board. Suddenly I had to race across the field to them in the last 2 turns and get them. One lasted till turn 6 where I took him down from orky shooting. A good game, I just got luckey with his piecemeal reinforcements. Game was a 24/6 ork victory.


Game 5:
Rick’s Grey Knights

The final mission was simple, kill the enemy and get VP’s. The Grey knights deployed in one corner where they could all support one another, while on turn one it looked really impressive (from my point of view) because I had a quarter ring around his force ready to close in. I took out his lascannon dreadnaught early on with a rokkit from a deff kopta, this limited his anti tank ability and let me wait an extra turn in my trucks while all was moved into place. His storm bolters only managed to kill one truck despite trying hard with multiple units at them. His counter assault hit me hard when his grey knight grand master and bodyguard wiped out my bikes with ease, then killed my warboss in combat the following round but died to my bosses would be successor (whom was killed later). His landraider was very resilient, requiring two charges from 3 S10 killa kans to finish it off. The game ended and I was exactly on my break point, 16 models left out of 62. I think Rick had some really bad rolls against my armour at the beginning like blowing off a big shoota with a penetrating hit instead of destroying it or at least slowing it, this left my boyz to get into combat in force relatively unscathed. Game ended with a 24/6 ork victory.

Result:
I really rate this tournament, I liked the fact it wasn’t a huge so all of us got a chance to have a good chat and get to know one another. And yeah, we finally sat down to get the results, my name wasn’t read out for a long while. Honestly with one loss a draw and 3 wins I was expecting 5th… somehow I beat Chris by a mere point and pulled off first. I can’t tell you how wrapped I am with that result, and thanks all for a great weekend, I’ll see you all there next year.

Agent Smith, aka Dan

[Autarch]

Congratulations on your first post mate.

Well deserved and well fought. That first place will be the source of bragging rights for a long time.

[Golden]

DAN SMITH! Congratulations mate! What happened to "anywhere above jordo?" haha, taken him for 1st.

Well deserved and well fought. That first place will be the source of bragging rights for a long time.

Not just a long time jordo, and eternity! Wait till i see you next...the bagging you will cop!

[Bishop]

Sweet fiction Dave.
As Ryland said it's a great addition to the intial installment.

Cheers
Mark