Bobman Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I entered a local 40k tournament today and took along my Space Wolves as I usually do, only this time was different. I'm usually a 50/50 mr average but I managed to win 3/4 games to secure 3rd place. Only losing to the tournament winner at the end. So ale all round to a victourious day. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyInDeath Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Congrats Bob! glad to hear the wolves were represented so well! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1960547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPetersson Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 HUZZAH! I'm raising a 'generous' vodka & Coke and shortly a tasty Heineken to your success. Praise Russ! Praise The Emperor! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1960549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryzouken Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Grats! And wha'd you run and why'd you lose? That way we can improve that record to 100% maybe! (I'm currently 4-1-0 W-L-D with my Wolves <_<) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1960565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Mage Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Yeah, tell us about the boss fight ;). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1960674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobman Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Like to know the tale of the last fight? It was against Black Templars. He was using 2 Crusaders filled with terminators and a couple of rhinos with mabye 5 marines in each. I had 2 squads of Grey Hunters with Razorbacks, 1 squad in Rhino and Blood Claws in my own Crusader, with Wolf lord and Ven Dread as HQs. The game was Anniliation with pitched battle and I decided to go first. It started good with me Blowing a Crusader and decemating the terminators from inside early on, but then went downhill from there. The problems started with a missed melta gun shot at close range on the second Raider allowing him to wipe out my Hunters in assault. He then managed to wreck my Raider before I could close for my own charge (it having been hung out to dry on deployment). So I decided to charge the terminators with my Dread. This combat lasted way to long as he made an inordinate amount of inv saves. Maybe a bad mistake as I was running out of options to deal with the second Raider. Which after I had assaulted it with the Blood Claws tank shocked them and they legged it. To be honest I was pretty happy with that as it was the best result I've had in a tournament, I think every other one I've been to has been exactly 50/50 win loss. Bobman out. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1961447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolflars Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Congrats Bobman, more glory to the fang Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1961451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryzouken Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 You may consider leaving things in reserve, especially the Raider as it seems to be a counter assault type of unit which would do well sitting out for two turns until it's really needed. Alternately, you could deploy to a central location on your board edge and deploy close together. Avoiding a wide frontage for your army decreases the effectiveness of attempts to divide your force, but opens up chances for you to be flanked. Since there aren't any extra rules for being flanked in 40k other than vehicle armour values, it doesn't tend to be a significant problem. Did the BT player deploy his army in a tight formation or did he adopt a wide coverage as well? Could you have, through maneuvers, hit his line on one end, making it more difficult for both of his raiders to orient on you? Sounds like you need more anti tank. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1961468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobman Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Yeah certainly holding things in reserve would've been a good idea. As I was deploying to an empty table I tried to cover one side with the bulk and the other with the Raider as it can take care of itself. In hindsight a bad idea as it was not where it was needed. On his part he started with only the Raiders on the table. Which was basically his army and went for the rest of my army. Anti tank is a problem at range, although I can never get anything to work that well. Biggest lesson I think is the deployment one. I was gonna flank him sooner but decided against it as there were dangerous terrain tests for my Raider and my luck was failing. If I had thought it was obvious he was comming to me so could've held the Raider back to counter like you say. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1961519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfside Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 "i love stormtroopers, they make me hard" wut? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1962163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobman Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 It was a quote from a game a site admin guy made as a signature for another site without me knowing. It was funny at the time so I made it a signature on here too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166478-tournament-result/#findComment-1962290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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