Recently returned from tournament weekend

[thor1234]

so six games over two days and 3 losses 2 draws and a win...........

unlike many tournament builds i decided to build a list composing entirly of infantry (yes i know! no mech in 5th edition doesnt do well) i wasnt aiming for top prize just a good time! ( and to kill as much as possible!) game 1 saw me take on the BA Mephiston/razorpam list, in practise games i discoverd that the usual tournament lists have too much anti mech and not enough anti-infantry..... this was apparanet in this game more than any, my BA opponent couldn't kill enough wolves with his spattering of lascannons,mephi and a terminator squad ate the whole 15 claws + Characters, poor rolling (nothing but 1's all game!) prevented the Thunderlord +Wolves and single cavalry getting anywhere useful, and a poor 1" charge meant that the lord and his cronnies were slain and he was almost killed through combat resolution........ a loss as i watched in disgust as mephiston rampaged through my army acounting for 15 BC WP/RP Wolf lord * wolves 2 x10 GH packs........

Game 2 was a much lighter affair taking of Orks in a kill points game, i started ok killing 2 buggies and a third from a second unit with rapid firing plasma guns, it all went down hill once a deffrolla ran over my thunderwolf while another flatned the wolf guard and several blodd claws only be destroyed by meltas and unleash a burna unit inflicting 66 wounds on the blodd calws.......... 2 games outta 2 my hardest hitting unit died spectaculaly achieving nothing..............

game 3 Dark eldar a night fight capture and control mission, the game was a hard fought DRAW as we coviniently swapped objectives.... the blood claws slaying a talos 20 dark eldar warriors, duke slicus and a haemunculli to sieze an objective

most under whelming unit of the day: the Thunderwolf lord who despite costing a land raider in point had managed to slay 1 Lighting claw termiantor 8 ork boyz and one trueborn before dying without passing a single armour or invunerable save.........

 

DAY 2

began against tyranids, now past experience led me into false security, with no chance of stealing his home objective ( it was guarded by a tervigon and tyranofex) i focused on defending mine from the swarmlord, once agin my wolf lord died when he came into contact with something that required an armour save, but the BC held on long enough for me to secure my objective Highlight of the game: the rune priest leapt from the 4th floor of a building leaving gh holding my objective, landing on the doom of malantai (10 wounds at the time) and ID with his rune hammer!

Game 2 was death wing, depsite some good luck, my wold lord killed two terminators squads at the same time (over several rounds of course)

while i watched in horror as belial and his deathstar unit walk through my BC and GH escorting them off the board, by the time my uninjured wold lord got back across, a badly wounded bellial and single LC termie lived, would you belive they each took 3 wounds from th charging lord, pasiing all saves and inlicted just 3 wounds between them, and yes i failed all three SS saves......

 

Game three: Guard, pitched battle, kill points, so i line up my infantry he lines up his tanks (2 exicutiners, medusa and lots of guns) and I charged across the battle field, it was as if Russ had saved all my 6's for this glourious charge across no mans land, as blood Claw and grey hunter alike refused to move less than 12"! or fail a cover save! the highlight was the wold lord who after 5 games of fogetting to use his shield, he finaly worked it out! suffering NO wounds all game despite taking 5 plasma wounds in a single shot! the wulven in each sqaud where monumental! one felled a command section & platton command in a display of violence that would leave Khorne shocked and appauled! while he other didn't know how to die as he passed cover after cover save from 4 direct plasma cannon hits a medusa and a vendetta over two consecuive turns and actually won me the game!

 

all in all a good weekend with some good opponents and horendous luck..........

now i will look to tweak the list for the next tournament, adament that if walking was good enough for Russ its good enough for me!

[Coverfire]

Re: Game two - I have always had trouble playing against orks when they field Battlewagon with Deff roller, and Burner boyz in an ork truk all protected by the tech ork which gives 4+ cover saves to vehicles (kustom force field?). I have always felt that it wouldn't be so bad if the deff roller could be removed as a destroyed weapon.

 

Re: Footslogging - Blood Claws are quite frankly unimpressive, Grey Hunters and best suited in rhinos; I would look at running Wolf Guard as troops. More customisation options and if you equip them with stormbolters that might help against Eldar races, Orks and Imperial Guard.

 

You should take your current list and write up a comparative list using Logan/ Wolf Guard and see how the numbers stack up - you will probably have to lose the Thunderwolf Lord to do so but try running the thunderwolves as a distraction as Long Fangs are really our best hammer.

[the jeske]

what did your 3 units of long fangs do in all battles ?

[thor1234]

thanks for the responses!

@Coverfire the intention of the list was to build an all footslogging list (minus the thunderwolves)..... would this be viable with a logan wing? power armour all round?

 

and @Jeske the long fangs were quite useful in game 1 against the mech but were either wittled down very quickly or failed to have any impact in the game in others....

 

I Will be going back to the drawing board I'm determined to make the footsloggers competitive!