Final game of what has been a tremendous weekend of gaming. I've had my fair share of luck and I was expecting a bit of a humbling in my final game against what was sure to be a very capable oppo. I knew from chatting to various people that I'd be up against either a GW employee with some Grey Knights (grrrrrr), a dude with a terminator heavy BT force or a fellow Dark Eldar Player.
Turns out I'm up against the Dark Eldar player! So it was to be a match up to decide who the most evil / cruel / malicious person would be, great!
My oppo was a pretty cool guy with a beautifully painted army which put mine to shame. His list was as follows;
- 2 x Haemonculus with webway portals
- Baron in a big unit of hellions
- Incubi in a raider
- 2 big squads of wyches
- reaver jetbikes
- ravager
- talos
I'd never played or used a webway list before so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Mission type was 3 objectives and deployment was pitched. I got the first turn and tried my best to take out his transports and ravager. I blew up 1 raider on my first turn but manouvered my forces so I was well out of the way of where he was going to deploy the portals.
His turn consisted of him deploying a webway portal right next to 1 of the objectives. My following turn saw me destroy his remaining raider and ravager and position my flying things so I could shoot whatever came out of the portals.
The next few turns went really well with my oppos reserves coming on and being shot to bits. Turn 4 was a real game-turner. He multiple assaulted my hellions and a warrior squad with 2 big units of wyches. As both my squads had feel no pain I managed to weather the storm and drew the combat! My hellions disengaged and charged the following turn where I wiped out both squads. My Incubi then chewed through his reavers.
On his turn 5 he only had the baron left with a squad of hellions so he decided to call it a day. I won 2-0. Get in, 5 games 5 wins!
I got 1 player vote so my overall score was 16 which I was delighted with. Not enough to win overall but it did get me best Dark Eldar player. Congratulations to the dude who won, he won 4 games with his orks and got maximum player points and from what I could tell he seemed a really great bloke.
Weekend over and I'd had a blast, now to start thinking about January's TOS!
Saturday 12 November 2011
Saturday 5 November 2011
Throne of Skulls October Event 2 Game 4
First day over and done with and an impressive 3 wins out of 3. I'd had a really enjoyable first day and was really excited about day 2.
I rolled up to my table on the Sunday and was faced with Space Wolves. My opponent was a really nice dude from the states named Brian and he obviously had brought with him a decent army. Here it is (ish)
- Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf
- Several other Thunderwolves
- Fenrisian Wolves
- 3 x Grey Hunter sqds in Rhinos
- 2 x Long Fangs with 3/4 missile launchers
- Rune Priest
Mission type was kill points (oh no) but deployment was dawn of war (oh yeah) and I won the roll off for first turn and decided to go first.
My first turn I basically manouvered around a bit and shot up his thunderwolf squad (killed a few Fenrisian wolves and wounded a few of his big squad). I also concentrated on the rhinos and took one out.
Brian's first turn involved him moving things towards me as much as possible.
My second turn was a game winner, I took out a full long fang squad with missiles and killed all but 2 of the other squad. I destroyed another rhino and then wounded/killed a few of his DeathStar thunderwolf squad.
The game continued like this, with me taking out his other rhino and whittling down his Death Star until my Incubi finished him off by taking out 3 squads of Grey Hunters in combat and winning me the game.
Brian rolled 7 dice in anger in the entire game, every other dice roll was either a leadership test (he failed both) or an armour save.
A convincing win, couldn't help but notice that a Dark Eldar player was next to me on the top table and just beat his ork opponent, I now hoped that I would face him in the final match of the weekend, hoping that I wouldn't come up against the guy with the beardiest Grey Knight list in the history of the world, or the dude with the 50 terminators with cyclone missile launchers / storm shield list of doom.
I rolled up to my table on the Sunday and was faced with Space Wolves. My opponent was a really nice dude from the states named Brian and he obviously had brought with him a decent army. Here it is (ish)
- Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf
- Several other Thunderwolves
- Fenrisian Wolves
- 3 x Grey Hunter sqds in Rhinos
- 2 x Long Fangs with 3/4 missile launchers
- Rune Priest
Mission type was kill points (oh no) but deployment was dawn of war (oh yeah) and I won the roll off for first turn and decided to go first.
My first turn I basically manouvered around a bit and shot up his thunderwolf squad (killed a few Fenrisian wolves and wounded a few of his big squad). I also concentrated on the rhinos and took one out.
Brian's first turn involved him moving things towards me as much as possible.
My second turn was a game winner, I took out a full long fang squad with missiles and killed all but 2 of the other squad. I destroyed another rhino and then wounded/killed a few of his DeathStar thunderwolf squad.
The game continued like this, with me taking out his other rhino and whittling down his Death Star until my Incubi finished him off by taking out 3 squads of Grey Hunters in combat and winning me the game.
Brian rolled 7 dice in anger in the entire game, every other dice roll was either a leadership test (he failed both) or an armour save.
A convincing win, couldn't help but notice that a Dark Eldar player was next to me on the top table and just beat his ork opponent, I now hoped that I would face him in the final match of the weekend, hoping that I wouldn't come up against the guy with the beardiest Grey Knight list in the history of the world, or the dude with the 50 terminators with cyclone missile launchers / storm shield list of doom.
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