Wednesday, January 15, 2014

All right have started playing 40K again my first real 6th edition tournament w/Daemons

All right have finally got back into 40K after a long hiatus.  Who knows I might even try to actually post once a week.  Anyway played a 1500 point tournament with my Daemons for the first time.  The list I brought was:
Lord of Change Level 3, 2 x Greater Gifts, 1 x Lesser Gift
Herald of Tzeentch Level 3 w/Greater Locus of Str 6
Herald of Nurgle w/Greater Locus of FNP and Exalted Reward (Grimoire)
10 Pink Horrors
10 Daemonettes
10 Plaguebearers
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Level 3, Wings, Armor, 1 Exalted Gift (Portal) and one Greater Gift
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Phlegm
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Torrent
Comes to 1500 Points on the head
Tournament was battle points with primary and secondary missions and the three extra points

Round 1 was against a necron player who brought
Lord on a barge
5 Voltaic staff guys
5 Scythes w/5 warriors
3 Barges
Mission is 5 Objectives primary and kill points secondary dawn of war deployment.
I am not going to write up detailed battle reports as it has been a couple of weeks and I don't remember everything.  In this came my big mistake was in not pulling out the rule book when I had a question.  the main question was whether or not a chariot can lock a monstrous creature in combat (btw it can't).  this caused my prince to be stuck in combat with his lord all the way to turn 5.  He crushed all of my stuff except for the prince and some horrors also go the portal and a couple of small units.  I killed all his troops his warlord and a couple of scythes.  We each had no objectives he had one more kill point than I.  We both have linebreaker and kill the warlord he has first blood.  I lose 20 to 9.

Round 2 is against Mitch Tucker's girlfriend Natalie a newer Daemons Player
She has
Fateweaver
Karnak
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Level 3w/Exalted (Grimoire) and Greater Reward
18 Daemonettes
18 Daemonettes
10 Plaguebearers
10 Plaguebearers
14 Flesh Hounds
This game is Objectives via the scouring and kill points hammer and anvil deployment
We exchange princes early with me sacrificing mine getting hers for first blood.  Actually had I not failed a grounding test I wouldn't have died.  I was able to get one grinder into her dogs and another into her one unit of daemonettes crushing them both on instability tests.  In the end I kill everything but one unit of plaguebearers hiding in the back.  I win 28 to 1.

Round 3 is against an Ultramarine Army played by a player named Gary.
He has:
Tigurius
2 10 man tactical squads in assbacks
5 man tactical squad in razorback
5 scouts
2 Talons w/skyhammer missiles
2 Thunderfires
3 centurions w/grav cannons

This one is vanguard strike 5 objectives each worth 5 points apiece no secondary.
This game turned on his mistake of letting one of my prescienced soul grinders get to his centurion plus tigurius squad.  I was able to pound them to dust and then mop up the rest of his scoring.  It did not help that his scatter dice for his thunderfires were absolutely horrendous.  At one point he roller 21 straight deviations.
In the end I held 3 objectives to his none and had all three bonus points.  A 18 to 1 win for me.

So I finished with 55 points in 7th place out of 28 players.  Not too bad.  If I hadn't made the rules mistake in the first game who knows?  I like the list it plays pretty good plus it does not have Fateweaver.  I figure to take it to 1850 I am going to add some screamers another batch of plague bearers drop the exalted on the prince and give him a second greater gift.  I will have one exalted to use for either the portal or grimoire depending on what is needed.
The 1850 list will look like this:

Lord of Change Level 3, 2 x Greater Gifts, 1 x Lesser Gift
Herald of Tzeetch Level 3 w/Greater Locus of Str 6
Herald of Nurgle w/Greater Locus of FNP and Exalted Reward (Grimoire)
10 Pink Horrors
16 Daemonettes w/Alluress
10 Plaguebearers
10 Plaguebearers
8 Screamers
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Level 3, Wings, Armor and 2 Greater Gifts
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Phlegm
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Torrent

So far in play testing I like it and just need to get the other unit of plague bearers and screamers painted.  Playing in a tournament on Jan 25 at Draxtar Games at 1750 points will post on that later.