20-05-2013, 10:14 AM
So I went to a tournament at the weekend in Colchester, 1750pts and I took my league list minus an attack bike, 2 plasma guns and a tactical marine.
Three good games against friendly opponents, first I was facing the new Tau - what's called a 'Farsight bomb' which was nasty - three special characters in there, including a libby with gate and null zone, had lots of tricks up it's sleeve, a tonne of gun drones and a tonne of crisis suits - the unit came to just shy of 1200pts I think! Managed to pull off a draw in seize the relic game which i was very happy with, and had a chance at a win but his warlord passed a 4++ save... that unit is atrociuos and i barely scratched it, but i mnaged to wipe out all his other units bar an immobilised skyray - crucially the farsight bomb isn't scoring.
Next up I was playing venom spam dark eldar with lots of venoms, 3 ravagers and a masiive beatmaster unit with 19 khymearas. Dawn of war, killpoints - he had more killpoints than me available but his shooting was so incredible and it was only my second time facing dark eldar...I lost 11-8, I got bottled up in a corner and made a couple of mistakes including forgetting to fire my flamers etc, but still a good game. He was also the eventual winner of the tournament so I didn't feel too bad.
Game 3 and I was facing an easier list of Blood Angels, a stormraven (first flyer of the day!) with 10 death company and a chaplain, then a load of rhinos/razorbacks and a furioso dread.Big guns never tire and hammer and anvil - my best deployment due to the bikes. I seized and shot up the board, plasma'd his Dread to death and assaulted his Aegis line turn 2 before the death company arrived - had control of the quad gun when his flyer came in which was fun although i only glanced it. It was all over really after turn 3 as he had lost too much and i had lost 1 attack bike and some tactical marines i think. His death company did wipe my command squad - ouch - but by the end i had 3 objectives and contested another so finally won a game!
Was a bit disappointed with the Terminators and not sure i have enough tl bolters to make the dakka banner worthwhile really - am considering switching to pure ravenwing again, but overall the list fared pretty well and i had a great time, plus learnt a lot about different builds i'd never faced (or even heard of!) before.
Three good games against friendly opponents, first I was facing the new Tau - what's called a 'Farsight bomb' which was nasty - three special characters in there, including a libby with gate and null zone, had lots of tricks up it's sleeve, a tonne of gun drones and a tonne of crisis suits - the unit came to just shy of 1200pts I think! Managed to pull off a draw in seize the relic game which i was very happy with, and had a chance at a win but his warlord passed a 4++ save... that unit is atrociuos and i barely scratched it, but i mnaged to wipe out all his other units bar an immobilised skyray - crucially the farsight bomb isn't scoring.
Next up I was playing venom spam dark eldar with lots of venoms, 3 ravagers and a masiive beatmaster unit with 19 khymearas. Dawn of war, killpoints - he had more killpoints than me available but his shooting was so incredible and it was only my second time facing dark eldar...I lost 11-8, I got bottled up in a corner and made a couple of mistakes including forgetting to fire my flamers etc, but still a good game. He was also the eventual winner of the tournament so I didn't feel too bad.
Game 3 and I was facing an easier list of Blood Angels, a stormraven (first flyer of the day!) with 10 death company and a chaplain, then a load of rhinos/razorbacks and a furioso dread.Big guns never tire and hammer and anvil - my best deployment due to the bikes. I seized and shot up the board, plasma'd his Dread to death and assaulted his Aegis line turn 2 before the death company arrived - had control of the quad gun when his flyer came in which was fun although i only glanced it. It was all over really after turn 3 as he had lost too much and i had lost 1 attack bike and some tactical marines i think. His death company did wipe my command squad - ouch - but by the end i had 3 objectives and contested another so finally won a game!
Was a bit disappointed with the Terminators and not sure i have enough tl bolters to make the dakka banner worthwhile really - am considering switching to pure ravenwing again, but overall the list fared pretty well and i had a great time, plus learnt a lot about different builds i'd never faced (or even heard of!) before.
40K - Dark Angels, Dark Eldar, Necrons; Lord of the Rings - lots; Bloodbowl - Dwarves, Wood Elves; SAGA - Anglo Danes & Welsh; Guildball - Morticians, Engineers; Dropzone/fleet - Shaltari