1850 point tournament this weekend

[nurglez]

Right, I am heading to Brighton tomorrow for a 50 player, 6 games over 2 days tournament. While I feel that Draigowing has been hit by the recent rulebook faq, they are my only painted force, and I still love them.

 

Allies and forge world 40k approved allowed, so it should be interesting.

 

I shall be taking:

 

Draigo

Inquisitor, terminator armour, psycannon, 3 servo skulls, PML1 (Divination, Prescience is awesome).

 

10 Paladins (4 psycannons, 2 swords, 2 hammers, 5 halberds, 1 falchion)

5 paladins (2 MCed psycannons, 1 sword, 1 hammer, 3 halberds)

 

Dreadknight Ying (personal teleporter, heavy incinerator)

Dreadknight Yang (personal teleporter, heavy incinerator, greatsword)

 

Finally got the last few models painted (Inquisitor + servo skulls), working tonight until midnight and have to leave around 6.30am to make the train, this is also the first tournament that I am going to on my own, so a little bit nervous <_<

 

I'm hoping to not do too badly, though we shall see i'm sure...

 

I shall try and take as many pictures as possible, wish me luck!

[Blackwinter]

just kill, burn, purge...

 

have fun and goodluck.

[alloyslayer]

Good luck nurglez! Let us know how it goes mate

[nurglez]

I shall, I shall.

 

And next weekend I have 1500 point Throne of skulls event in Nottingham, after that I shall be focusing on my first love. CHAOS!

 

So these two tournaments are a sort of good bye to Draigo and friends (I'm still keeping the force, just wont be focusing on them anymore).

[Mr.darkness]

sounds awesome, I would love some reports.

 

and I cant wait for your move to CHAOS!!

[Zeratul29]

Yeah, good luck man, I would love to see a battle report as well

[nurglez]

I'll do my best and try and take notes... :(

[WhoaDirty]

Good luck nurglez! Hopefully you can share as many notes (and pictures?) as you can.

[nurglez]

Just a quick update, bit tired and have an early start to get there on time tomorrow.

 

first game was a win vs grey knights, , then I lost the second vs necrons (ouch, mind scarabs are nasty) and third vs orks (ran out of time on the 4th turn, might have won/drawn if it had gone to a 5th).

 

Took a few pictures but not enough. I'll give a more in depth explanation tomorrow (and hopefully a few victories).

[nurglez]

Right, after a long few days of fun, and six games, I have returned!

 

This was the second qualifier for the relaunched UK grand tournament (finals are in march 2013).

 

So, a quick run down, haven't gotten round to sorting out pictures yet, though I didn't take too many. 2 and a half hours to fight an 1850 point tournament game + getting caught up in the spirit doesn't lend itself well to me taking pictures..

 

There was wide mix of armies, quite a few marines, necrons and 4 daemon armies. 44 players. There were also quite a few, er, not so nice flyer armies (blood angels with Gk allies 4 storm raven list, 3 doom scythes 3 night scythe list, 3+ vendetta lists, daemon flying circus etc).

 

Day 1

 

First game (Crusade, 3 objectives, hammer and anvil). I fought a grey knight army!

 

GM with psycannon + sword, 10 GK termies, 10 strikes, 2x10 interceptor squads, DK with heavy psycannon and incinerator. All squads had max psycannons and a mix of halberds, hammers and swords.

 

I prioritized his DK, as it was the easiest to unit to kill (with only 4 wounds). Managed to kill it and gain first blood in the second turn. Both DK's deployed on the board and shunted down one of his flanks, targeting his scoring interceptor squad. Deathstar did what it is designed to do and absorbed a lot of fire power, slowly being chipped away. Game went to turn 7 and by the end he had 4 interceptors hiding in my deployment and 3-4 terminators left alive, while I had 2 objectives, first blood, slay the warlord (he died to a perils). I had lost 4 paladins and the DK's.

 

Second game was vs Necrons, my first ever game vs Necrons, and it sure taught me a lesson! Relic, dawn of war.

List was 2 lords with scythes, mind shackle scarabs, phase shifters in barges. 4x5 immortal squads with cryptecs (veils, ap2 flamer that targeted LD) in night scythes, 2 10man immortal squads, 3 annihilation barges.

 

I made one of my DK's scoring and grabbed the relic, only for him to kill him easily (flying melee attack from the lords + assault and the mind scarabs making my DK kill itself), I counter attacked with my 10man squad, but couldn't catch/kill the lords. the amount of tesla he had slowly chipped away at my Paladins, and by the end of the 6th turn all I had was a wounded Draigo stuck in combat and my opponent held the relic, also having first blood and line breaker, while I had killed his warlord. I had no chance of winning so we called it there. 1-5

 

Third game was vs Orks with Necron allies. big guns never tire vanguard strike.

warboss, mega armored warboss, 5 mega nobbs in a trukk, 2x20 shooter boys, 20 choppa boys, 2 dakkajets, necron lord in barge, 5 warriors in a night scythe, annihilation barge.

 

I was doing pretty well, killing loads of orks up until his mega nobbs and mega armored warboss (who wasn't his warlord ofc) sent their trukk through a ruin, and charged my deathstar. Draigo killed the warboss but I lost 8 paladins and the inquisitor in that combat (11 wounds, made 3 saves and failed the look out sir). I ended up sending the DK's off to their deaths (really should have remembered the mission). Game ended on turn 4 as we didn't have time for a 5th turn (which might have helped me draw or possibly win, but thems the breaks). My opponent of this game finished 4th overall. I lost 1-7 or 2-8.

 

I then took the train home for 5 hours of sleep before hopping back on the train for day 2.

 

Fourth game, vs vanilla marines (crimson fists). the Emperors will vanguard strike.

Libby with null zone and gate, 5 TH/SS termies in normal landraider with a multi melta, 2 tactical squads in rhinos, 8 sniper scouts with a missile and tellion, 2 storm talons, vindicator, auto twin las pred, auto twin heavy bolter pred.

 

First proper game vs vanilla marines, and I learnt a few lessons here. I got first blood by taking out a rhino, and thats all. Null zone really hurt my paladins with all those lascannons. If the game had ended on the 5th ot 6th turn I would have won, however I was tabled in the 7th turn... 1-4

 

By now I was getting a bit depressed, 4 games, 1 win and 3 losses, however lady luck would smile on me..

 

Fifth game, vs Daemons with ork allies, purge the alien (daemon) hammer and anvil set up,

Fate weaver, Epidermius, masque, 4 squads of plaguebearers (4 to go with Epi, 9, 10 and 13), 6 flamers, 3 screamers and a daemon prince of nurgle. 1 big mek, 19 gretchin and a runt herder (can anyone see where this might be going?). Aegis defence line with quad gun.

 

Opponent goes first and deploys aegis defence line in one of his corners, and deploys the grots + big mek at the edge of the table, Epi deepstrikes near, the grots move to him and he tries to kill them with aura of decay, he hits 7 of them but fails to wound any of them.

My first turn, I shunt both DK's up to the aegis defence line and incinerate the grot squad and big mek, leaving 1 grot alive who runs off the table (netting me 2 kill points and first blood), I also take out the screamers with my deathstar. and then the game is pretty much over. Flamers come in and kill 4 pallies, but I wipe them out and then slowly wipe out the plague bearers while the DK's play with Epi, fate weaver and the prince. by the 5th turn I have lost 5 pallies and the 2 DK's while he has Fate weaver and the prince on 2 wounds each, so we call it. 12-3 (we both had line breaker).

 

Sixth game, vs Dark Mechanicus (count as necrons), Scourging dawn of war.

 

he had a lord, destroyer lord, few cryptecs among squads, 20 warriors, 2x5 immortal squads in nightscythes, 2x5 wraiths, 5 scarabs, monolith and 2 annihilation barges.

 

My opponent had already qualified for the final due to best army nomination, so we had quite a fun relaxed game. My deathstar got FNP from being near an objective, and they stood there absorbing fire power and trying to take down enemies at range while I threw away my DK's trying to kill one of his wraith squads. I lost first blood and my 2 DKs, while my 5man squad eventually killed them (in his 5th turn, they then managed to move from a 1 point objective onto a 3 point objective). My deathstar had been reduced to 4 pallies and Draigo was down to 2, but I had slowly strung out to get Draigo as close to his 2 point objective being held by 14-16 warriors and the 2 lords.

 

The game was looking like a draw at 8 points each, and I was rather tired and felt like doing something cinematic. I detached Draigo and moved to around 10 inches of the warrior squad, and then rolled double 6s for my charge distance. He managed to get 6 hits on Draigo but he shrugged them off, killed 3 warriors, saved the few return hits (plus 4 war scythe hits) and then the warriors fled off the table!

 

I then rolled a 1 for the game to continue! winning 9-6. While he didn't challenge Draigo with his lord equipped with mind scarabs, which could have totally changed the outcome, had I passed the scarab test I may have taken out his warlord, winning anyway.

 

So after six long games, I wait around to see if I happen to qualify to go through to the Finals (didn't think I had done well enough but a few people thought there was a decent chance), and lo and behold I rank 19th out of the 22 who qualify!

 

Pure Draigowing, no look out sir wound abuse, no flyers, no allies, no forgeworld, no psyrifle dreads. Rather happy with that result. My opponents were pretty decent guys too (only a few slightly beardy things happened, not as many as I was expecting).

[Zeratul29]

Nice, sounds like you had quite a comback. I must say thats a good example that you don't need all the obvious "must-haves" to win a game. Congrats Nurglez I hope you do well in the finals!

[Vlâdvar The Destroyer]

congrats on qualifing for the GT next year mate :lol: sounds like you had some great battles post some pix up, I wanna see your new painted models & the dark mech crons. I shall have to make myself a couple of of 1850 lists to see if I can beat your draigo wing 9for only yhe second time, lost count how many times you beat me, hah)

[Circus Nurgling]

Grats and thanks for the batrep.

[nurglez]

Tournament results are here.

 

As you can see, I barely made it. If I go to the final I will probably be taking chaos. Though I am tempted to just take the exact same army and see how they do...

[Aethernitas]

I guess the first race-entry is the primary detachment? If thats so there are only two GK armys out of 26 going to the finals. Thats kind of a relieve. The bandwaggon trend of playing GKs cuz they are da RoXx0R!111! seems to settle :D

[nurglez]

This is the 2nd qualifier, there are 3 in total :D

[Aethernitas]

Well... thats... unfortunate.... :>

[nurglez]

We'll see, I expect a few people will codex hop to chaos (chaos had come out too recently for it to be used in this tournament).

[Aethernitas]

We'll see, I expect a few people will codex hop to chaos (chaos had come out too recently for it to be used in this tournament).

 

Can't blame them. Chaos got a very sexy new Codex. Crunchwise on par with GKs I'd say and fluffwise they are even better off cuz it's not a total cluster:cuss like ours. Kelly > Ward :>

 

edit: Oh I guess I shouldn't use the f-word...

[Zeratul29]

I did really enjoy reading the new chaos dex, and i think its army list is pretty good as well