Ragnars Claw Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I'm not sure how many of you guys know about the ETC so a bit of background: The ETC is an international team tournament where teams of 8 represent their country in a tournament in Europe. Each country can only have 1 team so each team is theoretically the best 8 players in their country. Whilst i appreciate that this isn't neccessarily true for a whole host of reasons it does mean that you generally have 8 players representing your country who are of a very good standard. Its been going for 3 years now and has grown in size and stature with each year. This year the event is being held in Munster, Germany and has a total of 15 teams: 1) Hungria 2) Denmark 3) Italy 4) Poland 5) Slovakia 6) Austria 7) England 8) Russia 9) Sweden 10) France 11) Switzerland 12) Northern Ireland 13) Germany 14) Spain 15) Faroe Islands The WFB event at the same time and place has 28 teams so thats a total of 344 players + a side event for 40k and wfb with another 200 places available + judges and organisors so a rather large event! I am lucky (or maybe not we will see) enough to be the Captain of the England team :P We have what i consider a strong team with everyone having won at least one major tournament in England and several of the team having won and/or placed top 10 at the GW heats and/or final. What i'm planning on doing is a bit of a mini report leading up to the event and then some bat reps and photos from the event. Hopefully people don't mind me doing it here as i'm using my Space Wolves for one last hurrah before they go to ebay when the new codex rears its ugly head (and i end up spending a lot of £ on the new models!). My aim is that we go with the following targets: 1. Have fun! 2. Not embarrass ourselves. Hopefully we will finish top half. Anything better is a bonus :) Fairly simple really! The list i have settled on is: Venerable Dreadnought [twin linked lascannon, heavy flamer, extra armour] WGBL [frost blade, bolt pistol, wolf pelt, frags] WGBL [terminator armour, frost blade, cyclone missile launcher, wolf pelt] 4 Scouts [melta gun, frags] WGPL [bolt pistol, power fist, frags] Dreadnought [twin linked lascannon, extra armour] 8 Claws [2 fists, flamer, rhino] WGPL [combi-flamer, power fist, wolf pelt] 7 Hunters [fist, 2 plasma pistols, melta gun, 3 bolters, rhino – hunter killer missile] WGPL [combi-flamer, fist, wolf pelt] 7 Hunters [fist, 2 plasma pistols, melta gun, 4 bolters, rhino – hunter killer missile] WGPL [combi-melta, fist, wolf pelt] 6 Hunters [5 bolters, plasma gun, razorback – twin linked lascannon] 2 Landspeeders [multi meltas] I have a bit of painting to get the army ready, namely a rhino, a twin lascannon dread arm and a hunter killer missile or two. The rest of our team (you can only have 1 of each race) consists of daemons, orks, eldar, witch hunters, codex marines, necrons and chaos marines. There is a tournament coming up on 11 July where i will use the army and i have a practice game on tuesday with more to follow hopefully! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn the Fell-Handed Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Best of luck honoured battle brother. Bring the phat lewtz back to England ^_^ And don't ebay your stuff, classics are always awesome :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2028771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhorse47 Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Good luck to you! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2028809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyson_Vore Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 May the All-Father guide your blade, steel your resolve, and cool your ale. The tourney itself sounds like a great concept. Congrats, Mr. Captain. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2028836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyInDeath Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 glad to see that the wolves will get represented! Good luck to you, and I hope you can represent England with pride! It's a shame that everything in America is being scaled back, when it seems like you guys are pushing forward (no more gamesday GT's (hell, no more gamesdays other than baltimore...), only having adepticon being their big central USA tourney, etc). glad to see you limeys are keepin it strong! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2028979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natanael Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 GO SWEDEN! *waving (sp?) pom-poms and stuff* =D Anyway, sounds like a great idea for a tourney. I wish u guys the best of luck, except if you go up against the swedes. Then I hope you get smashed into bits :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2029176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jeske Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 See you there m8 , see you there. also thx for posting what the you UK guys are playing very helpful. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2029200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 the jeske, we aren't really bothered with people know because there are so many permeatations within each race countering it until all the lists are in is pretty much impossible ;) And even then see the number 1 reason for why we are going :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2029275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Guard Hengist Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 See you there m8 , see you there. also thx for posting what the you UK guys are playing very helpful. At least when your packing your miniatures away from the dead pile you can say you have a slight chance of winning. Go Team UK!!! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2029983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirnir Ragefang Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Have fun in Münster, i was born there. I wish look to every Space wolf player in the tourney. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2030095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hfran Morkai Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Congratulations on being captain. And show the world the wolves still kick butt! Do not ebay your stuff, you'll regret it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2030104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roguemarine Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Good luck to the wolves at the tournament. Maybe someday the US will have to make an appearance at this thing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2030318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 First practice game last night and i played Chaos. His list was: Prince with lash and wings Prince with warp time and AP3 flamer 2 x 10 marines with 2 melta, fist and in rhinos 10 Plague Marines with 2 melta, fist in a rhino 4 Terminators with 3 combi plasma, heavy flamer and 2 fists 3 Predators with autocannon and lascannon sponsons. The mission was capture and control. The game ended up in a draw which was a good result against what i consider a tough list. I got first turn and put 3 hunter killers, 3 twin lascannon and 2 krak cyclone shots into his predators stunning one and immobilising the other. That would go on to be the story of the game essentially. On his left he convoyed the 2 marine squads forwards and dropped the terminators down. I managed to repel them with the 3 grey hunter squads and the dread after the deep striking speeders and lascannon knocked out his rhinos. The claws were thrown towards his plague marines and 2 princes and died fairly quickly but held him up long enough for me to take out his left flank, securing my objective. Taking his objective wasn't going to happen after 2 rounds of shooting at the preds did, basically, nothing. It put me on the back foot and whilst the draw was comfortable in the end a win was, imo, impossible. Overall i was happy with the result against a good player and a good army. Enjoyable game too :D I'm playing Eldar on Tuesday and will remember my camera for that one! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2035714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf2.3 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 No Scotland team?!!! I'm english but where i am there's on 5 million people who would object (largely for the sake of objecting!) Good luck to you and the team. Tell us if you win! :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2035727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skcuzzlebumm Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Yeah no team Scotland as yet again there was a total lack of interest and/or commitment for enough Scottish players this year to get a team going (i tried the past 2 years, Timma tried this year, we will try again next year) which is why i am now having to wear an England top despite the pain it will cause my ancestors :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2042512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 I'll make sure to get plenty of photographs of you in it, just to remind you of the good times ;) Managed to get another game in last night against Eldar. He was using: Farseer Avatar 10 Dire Avengers with exarch with wave serpent 6 Pathfinders 2 x 3 jetbikes 8 Striking Scorpions 6 Harlequins 2 Warwalkers with starcannon and shuricannon 2 Fire prisms with usual I was guilty of forgetting the objective until the beginning of my turn 4 but luckily i was able to pull it out of the bag a bit and get a 1-0 win, Italian style. ie grab an objective then backs to the wall and hope there isn't too much extra time :) 2 games, a win and a draw. Not bad so far. Another game tomorrow night against Imperial Guard and then 3 games on Saturday in a one day tournament so plenty of practice ahead! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2043596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Guard Hengist Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Hey Ragnars Claw I am curious about your WGBL in TDA do you mind me asking what role he plays in your list? I noticed that all your squads are mech thus cannot accomodate him, does he play lone wolf and provide fire support? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2043993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Lord Duregar Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Hey, good luck! This sounds like fun. ;) Bring back plenty of pics and heroic sagas! :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2045726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Cheers :devil: Hengist, Yep he acts on his own or if need be he teams up with the razorback squad for mutual protection when objectives are close to my baseline. I was sceptical at first but it works pretty well ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2045863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 The lists are now available for each country. Some fun ones in there and plenty of wolves! I've got another 3 games under my belt, 2 wins against battlewagon orks and a monstrous creature nid army and a loss against a Guard army. I have another game against Chaos tonight which should be good ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2051542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnars Claw Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share Posted August 12, 2009 Well the event has been and gone and a good time was had by all and we managed 10th out of 16 countries winning 2 games, drawing 2 and losing 2. Overall we are happy with that and just 1 more point, so turning one of the draws into a win, would have put us level with France in 3rd. Some photos from the weekend: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010040.jpg We drove over and 3 of us were in this beauty. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010038.jpg Relaxing in the sun before visiting the venue on the Friday. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010043.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010042.jpg The venue, a big ice arena. Luckily no ice though! http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010045.jpg Castigator shows us his finely toned torso. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010046.jpg Gus, mid-way through beating Castigator. The start of a glorious weekend for Gus. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010048.jpg Neil, mid-way through losing to me. I'm ace :^o http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010049.jpg Last minute preperation, painting the boards on friday evening :) http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010041.jpg 2 members of the team and Timmy our team mascot relax on friday evening with a beer. Or 15 in Castigator and Neils case :tu: :mrgreen: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010055.jpg Thats a lot of bikes....not that it bothered the French team. Or Gary as it turned out :) http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010054.jpg The pups go toe to toe with a space marine army with more lascannons than a forgeworld! http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010053.jpg Same marine army with the assault terminators taking the bait. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010056.jpg 3 battlewagons + nob bikers. Ouch! http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010057.jpg The 2 multi melta land speeders perform a double role, deep striking to restrict movement and also wrecking one of the other wagons. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010062.jpg Thats a lot of Orks. There are another 60 waiting off the table [-o< http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010067.jpg The aftermath of a heroic saga. WGBL and 8 Grey Hunters face off and kill a warboss on bike and 20 sluggas, both of which charged :D http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010069.jpg Gus relaxes during the tournament. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010070.jpg Neil K and Gaz discuss the finer points of all things round. http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010073.jpg Somehow i ended up playing the Spanish daemon player. How did that happen! and who did the pairings #-o :lol: And finally: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/AlexWest_photo/ETC%202009/P1010068.jpg Team England 2009. From top left, going clockwise: Gus O'Connor Gaz Jones Neil Gibbons Gary Marsh Allen El-Sour Neil Kerr Alex West Paul Burke Look out for the 2010 recruitment campaign starting soon :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2077867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewi Sant Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Well done on the result! I'm based just down the road in Sennerlager. If I'd not been on leave I would have popped up. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/171653-for-queen-and-country-or-russ-and-the-emperor/#findComment-2077911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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