Solar Watch army in progress for a 1k tournament on Saturday

[TheStatusJoe]

This weekend I'm heading to a 1k "Single Battalion" Starter Tournament for New Players/New Armies. Since I've been sitting on my Custodians since January and have never played them, I figured I'd get some of them painted up and ready to go. I'm doing Solar Watch, and I'm currently 2 Models away from done.

List is

HQ
Shield Captain on Bike, Misericordia, Salvo Launcher (Warlord Trait: -1 to hit) Using Bike Relic too.

Shield Captain on Bike,Misericordia, Hurricaine Bolter

Shield Captain on Bike, MIsericordia, Hurricane Bolter

Troops

3x Custodian Guard, MIsericordia, Guardian Spear

3x Custodian Guard, MIsericordia, Guardian Spear

3x Custodian Guard, MIsericordia, Guardian Spear

[Prot]

Looks like a great reason to get them rolling. Very nice start.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Superior Creation for WLT and the Victor of the Blood Games strategem are both really good. Reroll One save per turn and 5++ feel no pain... very hard to kill.

 

Good luck !

[TheStatusJoe]

Sorry I haven't given you an update yet on the tourney and the list.

I went 2-1 in the tournament and secured 3rd place on tiebreakers, killing a total of 22 units and 2630 points out of a possible 3000.

 

Round 1: Alpha Legion Chaos- 2x Demon Princes, a huge blob of cultists, a couple smaller blobs of cultists, a squad of noise marines and a squad of obliterators. 

Opponent charged into two bikes with both demon princes. Bikes wiped both demon princes in one turn. Noise marines are cheaters, but all in all, the 2+ armor and minimum of 4+ invuln kept my guys in the fight. I tabled my opponent in four turns. 1000 points killed, 7 units killed. Casualties- 1 bike 1 custodian guard.

 

Round 2: Death Guard I don't know their units too well, but 1 sorcerer, 1 bell guy, 1 lord, 1 unit of plague marines 2 units of poxwalkers, terminators and the weird tank thing. I got a few turn 1 charges off on my opponent and got a stooping dive off into his poxwalkers, killing them off on his turn. he drops terminators on my deployment on his turn 2. 6 Custodes wipe them out and face tank the artillery tank thing. Going into turn 6, score is 13-11 him. I need to control more or kill more to tie and both to win. He misplays, charges my bike captain on the objective to put 2 plague marines on the objective marker. He swings, does nothing. I swing back. 5 2+ all hit. Need 3s to wound, roll four 1s. I can reroll one with victor of the blood games, and after everything is said and done, one marine is left on the objective. I lose 13-12. I'm not mad. I made the right tactical move, just got dice hosed. It happens. 630 points killed, 5 units killed. Casualties- 2 Custodes Guard squads, 2 Bikes (BTW: My first game of 40k in four years with both armies completely painted and completely painted terrain. it really brings a new dynamic to the game to see that.)

 

Round 3: Raven Guard gunline. Thunderfire Cannon, Aggressors, Captain, Lieutenant, scouts, tacticals, stormraven gunship, devastator squad. I felt bad about this one, the guy was brand new to the game and I held back a few turns to not just roll him off the table. I sat on four objectives for 3 rounds, watching him try to hit my warlord at -1 to hit. The poor guy's dice were bad, and at the end of the game I lost 1 Bike and 1 Custodes Guard. Tabled my opponent on turn 5. 1000 points killed, 10 Units killed. Casualties prior.

 

All in all, it was a really fun day, and no one got salty. No one tried to be super competitive and the spirit of the tournament was to start a new army or get newer players into the game. Everyone had a blast, and it was awesome to see people oogling my Custodes. 

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Your Dice must really love you .

[TheStatusJoe]

Your Dice must really love you .

 

What?

[Anarnii]

Did you just walk the guard squads up? Did you deep strike them?

 

How did you deal with vehicles?