So! Bishop back at the front of this event after sitting it out for the last couple of years. JD ran as smoothly as ever, even being the first major 6th ed 40k tourney.
I rocked up a little late and missed the first mission breifing, but it was okay, cause no matter what the mission was, I was planning on losing the first game considering i've played all of 2 or 3 games excluding JD.
I drew Ben Zagami first, and I like to think i contributed to him winning the event :)
My list for the day was as follows:
Coteaz
10 Strike Knights w/2 Psycannons, Psybolts and a Hammer
11 Warrior Acolytes with stormbolters and a mystic
Razorback with psybolts
Dreadnought w/2 TLAC, Psybolts
Dreadnought w/2 TLAC, Psybolts.
Ben was running a necron list with lots of tricks... It's not worth listing, cause it was irrelevant, he had guns and they killed things.
So, I had no real clue how to play it, I shot stuff at his transport and eventually killed it, but his destroyer lord ran full steam at coteaz, challenged him and killed him without so much as taking a wound. The rest of the warrior acolytes piled around and were killed soon after.
My shooting proved ineffective during this game, everything i killed stood back up. -_-
His shooting, on the other hand, destroyed the grey knight squad in a single turn, leaving me with 2 dreads to shoot his lord, and eventually punch on. I managed one bonus point when a dreadnought punched the destroyer lord in the face, but took a loss the first round 20-6.
My second game was against a grey knight list which consisted of an inquisitor with grenades, 7 terminators, 10 strike knights with the same kit out as mine and a psyflemen.
I deployed defensively, then seized the initiative, allowing my dreadnought to take out his, and put the rest of my army to work on his terminators.
Turn 2 involved minimal damage to my strike knights before i completely destroyed his terminators and took a chunk out of his grey knight strike squad, my strike knights fell back, then failed at the start of my turn 3 and fell back again, ultimately denying me a bonus point for not getting them into his deployment zone.
I tabled him on turn 4. It wasnt a very fair game in all honesty, seize is ruthless in 750pts, but he took it like a champ, it was a great game.
Third up was the tyranid warrior goodness of Tom Nurse. He was running 2 Primes, 4 hive guard and 2 squads of warriors. I felt pretty confident coming into this game as my autocannons can instakill the warriors.
He deployed in a blob so his venomthrope would give cover to the whole army. I spent my first turn shooting the hive guard and managed ot kill 3 out of the 4 of them, his first turn was just moving closer ot me to try and get the charge off.
In my second turn i finished off the hiveguard and started shooting the warriors, i killed one of the units except the prime, and the other unit charged into coteaz and the strike knights. The prime challenged coteaz and tore him up pretty eaily, while the strike knights and warriors punched on. After a long winded combat the 2 dreads walked in to tie up the prime and eventually kill him, while the warrior acolytes and razorback killed the second prime allowing me to table him and take the 19-5 win.
My fourth and final game was against Mark's eldar which consisted of a farseer with guardians, some dark reapers in a bastion, a fire prism and some jetbikes.
Theres nothing more to say than that i rolled terribly and Mark rolled like an absolute god D:
He seized the initiative on me and proceeded to kill my razorback and dreadnought in turn one, both from single shots. The damage roll on the razorback also killed some of the grey knights had combat squadded inside. The dark reapers proceeded to destroy one of the GK combat squads. My first turn involved all of my shooting missing. YAY :D
We had a heated discussion about dark reapers being able to be guided while inside the bastion, and it was allowed by the TO, which i sadly only found the page reference for later to show it doesn't work. (Page 67 btw)
The game was basically over after that turn, but hey, to keep it going his fire prisms single shot penetrated and rolled a 6 vs my second dread, which ended up leaving 3 pens and 3 dead tanks on my side of the board. From here there was little i could do. I was tabled on turn 4.
Result: Loss 5-20
I scored an 18 for paint and perfect 20 for comp, allowing me to place 14th overall.
Overall JD was a great event once again, got to catch up with some friends I havent seen in a while and roll some dice. will be back next year for sure! :)
