Draxtar Games Tournament 1/25 Round 2

All right after eking out a win in game one it was on to game 2.  This game was dawn of war deployment.  The primary mission was place an objective in the middle and then place one in a a cross formation so one was on each deployment line and the other two were 12" from the center on the midline.  If a troop comes into contact with a objective marker they could search whether or not it was a relic.  On a 3+ it was.  After three relics were found the other ones would disappear.  The secondary mission was kill points.  All the regular bonus points were in play

Once again played against a great guy but forgot his name.  Not even sure how his army worked with allies he had Iyanden and Eldar:
Farseer
2 x Spiritseers
Warlock
2 x 3 Jet Bikes
10 Wraithguard with cannons
5 Wraithguard w/flamers in wave serpent w/bright lance
3 x Wraithknights

Somehow the one wraith knight was his warlord.  Anyway he wins the roll and lets me go first. I deploy everything but the Raven filled with Coteaz and henchmen.  I deploy on my line with most of my stuff.  He deploys the wraith knights sort if together with the wave serpent in the middle.  The wraith guard along with all the psykers go on my right.  There is two big pieces of terrain that sort of funnel everything to the middle.  Everybody scouts forward I land on 4 out of 5 objectives finding two relics.

My 1st turn one attack bike moves forward to shoot the wave serpent.  (I forgot about the stupid shield) One attack bike and the flamers move back with the relics I have found.  All the attack bikes shoot at the wave serpent doing two hps.  The stupid vindicator scatters off the wave serpent.  I wound one wrath knight about three times also knocking off a toughness point.  I fail the charge.
His turn 1 he casts a billion psychic powers but fails the one that allows his wraith guard to battle focus.  So his wraith guard unit moves up and they toast my lone attack bike for first blood - doh.  The wave serpent fails to kill the windy.  The wraith knights fire at the command squad but He only hits 3 times and only wounds 2 and I save both.  All three wraith knights charge in to my command squad I put some wounds on an unwounded one and wait for the carnage.  I challenge his warlord with my champion (who I am pretty much sure is suicidal because he ends up a red smear after every game)  He takes one for the team.  The other 10 attacks hit about five times and do maybe 4 wounds of which I fail one save pasting the banner bearer.  I manage to get one of the librarian's attacks on to the wounded wraith knight and insta kill it.  I then hit and and run out of there.

My turn 2 I am sitting pretty.  The two wraith knights are sitting in the open in front of a bunch of plasma and melta.  The flamers move back behind terrain with the relic they have.  My other attack bike finds the last relic so now I am in possession of all three.  The command squad lines up the warlord.  Coteaz flies in to line up the warlord as well.  The melta bikes head after the serpent.  The plasma bikes and the attack bikes line up the non warlord wraith knight .  The vindicator driver stares in dis belief as he realizes the wraith guard are all bunched up in the open.  The command squad drops the rad shell on the warlord knight and knocks 4 wounds off of it.  The Raven manages to knock another wound off of it and hit the warlock with a mind strike missile killing him. One of the attack bikes finishes it off.  The vindy hits the bunched up wraith guard killing six and a spirit seer who fails his look out sir roll and his fortuned save.  The melta bikes manage to down the one hp wave serpent.  The plasma bikes and the other attack bike do 3 more wounds to the last wraith knight.  In order to plug the hole in the middle the plasma bikes declare a charge on the wraith knight.  I lose one bike but make the charge and do nothing in combat losing one bike.  We lock.
His turn 2 wow is pretty bad turn for him.  He gets both jet bikes who make a bee line for the flamer bikes zipping across the board.  The wraith guard with flamers come out an punish the bikes who killed their ride killing four.  The wraith guard  having not much to shoot at blow the raven out of the sky.  It scatters near the wraith guard with flamers leaving Coteaz and one plasma gunner left.  The wraith knight kills one more bike and I hit and run.

My turn 3 Coteaz casts prescience on himself and forewarning and prepares to go say hello to the five man wraith guard squad.  Everything else lines up the wraith knights and wraith guard.  The flamer bikes go after one of the jet bike squads.  They kill two jet bikes.  The wraith knight and the wraith guard are gutted by the remainder of my shooting.  I think the far seer and one wraith guard remain after all the shooting.  The remnants of the melta bikes shoot and then charge in to the wraith guard with flamers.  I lose one more biker to overwatch and then Coteaz joins the party.  I killed two with shooting and Coteaz finishes off the rest with his hammer.
His turn three he gamely soldiers on stating he never gives up.  He shoots the jet bikes into the flamer bikes killing one.  The wraith guard kill a command squad member.

My turn 4. I finish off his army and get 27 points to his 1.

He was a great sport about it and even stated my list was the paper to his rock.  I had just too much plasma and melta for him to overcome.  Plus when he let me go first I was able to get to all the objectives on the first turn giving me control of them.  So a crushing victory and on to table two.

1750 Tournament Draxter Games Jan 25th

All right went to Tournament at Draxtar Games yesterday.  Was 1750 points and three rounds.  At the last minute I decided to take my Ravenwing allied with Grey Knights.  I usually hate allies but I needed to get some sort of flyer defense in there.   List was as follows:

Sammael on Corvex
Librarian Level 1, Bike, Force Staff, Power Field (Took Psychic Shriek in all games)
Command Squad w/Apothecary and Champion, Banner of Devastation
Full Bike Squad w/2 Plasma Guns and Combi Plasma, Multimelta Attack Bike
Full Bike Squad w/2 Melta Guns and Combi Melta, Multimelta Attack Bike
Three Man Bike Squad w/2 Flamers and Multimelta Attack Bike
Vindicator w/Siege Shield
Allied GKs
Coteaz
Henchman Squad 4 w/Bolters and 2 w/Plasma Guns
Storm Raven w/TLLC and TLMM

Game 1 is versus a Farsight player whose name I wrote down but of course threw the paper away.  Anyway real fun guy to play against.  His list as I remember it is

Farsight
O'Vessa
Riptide w/Burst Cannons and Smart Missiles
3 Man Crisis Team w/weapons and drones
2 Man Crisis Team w/weapons and drones
2 Man Crisis Team w/weapons and drones
About 13 Kroot w/Shaper and sniper rounds
2 Units of Pathfinders
3 Broadsides w/Rail Rifles
2 Hammerheads

Deployment is vanguard strike.  Primary mission is five objectives each worth five points.  Objectives are pretty much even scattered around the board on in the center of the board and one in each quarter.Secondary mission is whoever controls more objectives.  Usual bonus points line breaker, slay the warlord and first blood.
He elects to go first.  He deploys Ovessa on my left with a group of pathfinders in some ruins.  In the middle in some more ruins he deploys the broadsides and one hammer head.  A little to the right of them he deploys he other Riptide.   All the way on the right he deploys the other group of pathfinders and the other hammerhead.  He leaves all the crisis suits and Farsight to deep strike and the Kroot will outflank.

I deploy the command squad w/Sammael and libby on my left alongside of them goes the plasma bike squad and the melta bike squad goes behind them.  The vindy goes next to the command squad.  Coteaz gets in the Raven with the henchmen and all the other bikes outflank.  I scout forward and fail to seize.

Turn one sees some abysmal shooting for him He only kills two bikes from the plasma squad.  I move forward and show him just how abysmal my shooting can be as well.  I shoot 24 twin linked bolter shots into 5 pathfinders killing 2.  The vindicator hits the broadsides and does nothing.  I then fire six plasma shots, a plasma cannon, 8 twin linked plasma shots, psychic shriek and a bunch of bolters to a T5 riptide and did one wound.  Oh well guess I have to do this the hard way I charge the plasma bikes into eat the overwatch which they do and fail their charge.  The command squad hits Ovessa and does ...nothing.

His turn 2 he gets two crisis suit teams and Farsight.  Farsight lands behind the vindy which he then blows up.  Everything else proceeds to wipe the table with the rest of my army.  I tickle the riptide for one wound I think.  Take none in return we lock and I roll a 5 for hit and run.....
My turn 2 sees the three flamer bikes come in on the left.  With nothing to do the turbo boost on the left side to try and stay alive.  We slap fight a little more and stay stuck in combat.

His turn 3 the last crisis team comes.Farsight is making his way towards the combat.  The rest of his army happy to have targets wipes the turbo boosting bikes off the board.  Farsight charges into combat and promptly whiffs on all of his attacks.  The champion and librarian beat him into the dust.  Of course he sticks around and once again I roll a 5 for my consolidation......

My turn three everything comes on.  The three attack bikes come in on the right behind his hammer head on my right.  The stormraven comes in to line up a shot on the three man crisis suit team.  The attack bikes kill the hammer head taking three melta shots to do it.  The raven kills both crisis suits.  And finally the command squad goes nuts killing Ovessa of course in my turn. (I believe Sammael was down to one wound as was the libby)  Great I am now sitting in front of the broadsides, a hammer head and some crisis suits.

His turn 4 the kroot come in the lower left corner and start heading to an objective.  The command squad manages to only lose one guy.  The riptide lights up one attack bike erasing it.  I think he forgot that they are all one man units. The kroot run on to an objective in cover in the bottom.
My turn 4 the command squad shoots at the broadsides wiping out 2 and then multi charges them and the hammer head killing both.The raven drops into hover mode disgorging Coteaz and the henchmen who charge into another 2 man crisis suit wiping them out.  The raven and the attack bikes shoot at the other crisis suits managing to kill one.  One attack bike makes his charge into the crisis suit doing nothing.

His turn 5 the Riptide erases yet another attack bike, 5 pathfinders kill three henchmen. The other remaining crisis suit from his three man team takes refuge in the objective in the lower left corner.  I hit and run out of combat with his other suit.
My turn 5 the command squad head for the kroot, Sammael and the librarian head fo rthe lone crisis suit in the lower left corner.  Coteaz and his remaining guys shoot at the pathfinders killing three.  The raven introduces the kroot to mind strike missiles killing seven of them.  The lone attack bike kills off the last crisis suit on the right.  The command squad turbos towards the kroot.  The librarian and Sammael manage to kill off the last suit on the left, however somehow Sammael dies in the process.  I have two objectives he has one.  But the game goes on.

Turn 6 the Riptide and the pathfinders turn Coteaz and the henchmen into paste.  The kroot stand there as they went to ground last turn.
My turn six the command squad moves up to contest the objective the kroot are on.  The attack bike moves forward and then turbos back to his objective, the raven kills a few more kroot and the libby does some wheelies...

Turn 7 in his turn he makes a mistake instead of targeting my wounded attack bike driving around an objective he shoots the Riptide (the killer of attack bikes) into the command squad killing tow of them but leaving one remaining to contest the objective.  Had he shot my attack bike the best I could have done was tie.
My turn 7 I kill a few more kroot and maybe some pathfinders.

I possess one objective he has none.  I pick up 5 points for the primary.  I pick up 10 points for the secondary.  I also have slay the warlord and linebreaker.  He has slay the warlord and first blood.  I win 17 - 2.  Wow what a bloody game I have a librarian, a storm raven and one command squad guy left.  He has a Riptide, a few pathfinders and a kroot or two left.  Managing to eke out a win I move on to the next round.  He was a great guy to play against and won his next two games handily.

New Tyranid Vanguard formation

Manufactorum Genestealers
—The formations allow your genestealers to set up in ruins or unoccupied building within 6" of your enemy, and have hit and run.
—5 Genestealer broods, but may not include additional genestealers.

Lictor Forest Brood
—Lictor Forest brood formation inside forests can infiltrate up to 6" from the enemy, and have the shrouded rule in forest.
—This is 5 broods of a single model.

Deathleaper's Assassin Brood
—The Deathleaper brood makes anyone within 12" of a model from the brood have -1 LD - this could be pretty massive combined with a few other rules (shadows, Its after me, the horror, Psychic Shriek etc.).
—Deathleaper + 5 lictor broods of 1 model.

Broodlord's Hunting Pack
—Another Broodlord hunting pack formation when it comes from reserves can deploy into any unoccupied building. It can also be deployed in any ruin terrain during setup as long as its 6" away from the enemy.
—They also have hunting pack, which when deployed, your formation has preferred enemy against any nominated enemy unit.
—3 Stealer broods and 1 must have a brood lord. only a single broodlord allowed.

Gargoyle Bio-Bombs
—The gargoyle bomb is 3 units of gargoyles and 3 units of spore mines, and allows the spore mines when ever they start a move action (move, run, charge) within 6" of a gargoyle to move at 6", or no longer half the distance when running or charging.

Next Draxtar Games Tournament January 25th

All right now that I am actually playing again I might make tournaments in two months in a row.  Heading to Draxtar Games in Batavia for a 1750 point tournament on Saturday.  No data slates,escalation or stronghold.  One Forge World unit with the 40K approved stamp no super heavies or gargantuan creatures.  Not sure what I am going to bring.  I refuse to play unpainted models in a tournament setting so if I am going to take Daemons it will be:

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 Khorne on Juggernaut w/Locus of +2 attacks and Lesser Gift
Herald of Nurgle w/Greater Locus of FNP and Exalted Reward (Grimoire)
10 Pink Horrors
14 Daemonettes + Alluress
10 Plaguebearers
5 Flesh Hounds
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Level 3, Wings, Armor & 2 Greater Gifts
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Phlegm
Soul Grinder of Slaanesh w/Torrent

I really wish I had got my butt in gear and got my screamers and another unit of plague bearers painted but it ain't happening between now and Saturday.

If I take Grey Knights it will be:
If I take Grey Knights it will be:
Coteaz
Inquisitor in terminator armor, psycannon, 3 skulls, psyker
5 Paladins 2 x Hammers, 2 x Pyscannon
10 Strikes Hammer, 2 x Psycannon  Psybolt Ammo
4 Henchmen w/Bolters in a  Lascannon Razorback
4 Deathcult Assassins w/Axe & Sword, 2 Crusaders w/Shields and Mauls
4 Henchmen w/LP & CCW
4 Henchmen w/LP & CCW
Stormraven w/TLAC, TLMM Hurricane Bolters and Psybolt Ammo
Stormraven w/TLLC and TLMM
Land Raider


Oh well will see how it goes....