Post by jaysic on Dec 5, 2014 23:03:23 GMT -5
So I came out of my first game happy with a win, even if it wasn't as major of a victory as I would've liked (though I was honestly lucky I didn't lose that game). Oh well, 13 battle points, should get a fairly easy opponent! I check my ToF app, get my table assignment and opponent, and walk over to shake hands with a tall dude asking if I want to count his TacObj cards to make sure they're all there. I tell him no and tell him he can count mine if he wants. Start placing terrain for a Hammer and Anvil game of "Spoils of War" He has Dark Eldar and Eldar. Uh oh. He has a cool printout where everyone has their own name, and has some fluff pictures around his list too.
Dark Eldar (928 points)
Baron Sathonyx
4 Trueborn with 4 blasters in a Venom
10 Kabalite Warriors w/ splinter canon in a raider (flickerfield, spliter racks)
10 Kabalite Warriors w/ splinter canon in a raider (flickerfield, spliter racks)
5 Kablite Warriors with 1 blaster in a Venom
Razorwing (flickerfield)
Eldar (922 points)
Autarch with Fusion Gun with
5 Fire Dragons (SL, Ghostwalker)
3 Bikers w/ Canon
3 Bikers with Canon
3 Hornets (Pulse Lasers)
Wraithknight
This game was pretty straight forward.
Turn 1
He lines up, fires his Hornets, a Venom, and a Raider into my Warlord. Goes right through his 2+ jink. Firstblood/Warlord.
In return, I glance a Hornet with my Hive Guard.
GT has special rules of no scoring in Maelstrom on T1
Turn 2
He throws down 4 wounds on my Tervigon, and all of his reserves except the Baron comes in.
I decide I'm not going to take this getting shot stuff anymore, so I fire my Hive Guard into the hornets once again, destroy one, and shake another. My remaining Hive Tyrant rolls 4 dice to get off warp lance, perils, takes a wound, but actually destroys the venom. When it goes it takes 3 guys inside of it.
Turn 3
I didn't feel too bad up until this point. He brings out the fire dragons, and blasts down one of the Malanthropes. His raider unleashes on my Hive Tyrant (Did you know you can shoot out of the spikey nose of the raider when measuring for rapid fire of everyone inside?) and finishes it off with volume of fire. The wraithknight decides Malanthropes shouldn't suffer to live, and IDs it with his D-Canon. He uses volume of fire to bring me down to 1 shrike.
My rippers come in with a ballsy deep strike (Heh, heh) and get close enough to contest Objective 2, so he wouldn't steal it out of my hand. Knowing my army is falling apart, I make for some even more ballsy charges and punch what I can in the middle. A carnifex runs into the remaining Warrior from the venom, and stomps him good. The other Carnifex charges into the Fire dragons, hoping not to get OW to death. He makes it in, kills 3 of the dragons, then dies to melta bombs. A shrike I had in the building makes an incredible journey across the board and IDs down the WK. I declare moral victory.
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Turn 4
His Autarch leaves the unit, which then gets in the Wave serpent. The Autarch blasts my last shrike to death, while his buddies inside the wave serpent blow apart nearly all of my Hormagaunts. He has a venom finish off the Tervigon, and the raider kills my Carnifex. Hornets ID down my rippers. Everyone busts moral except the Hive Guard.
On my turn, I accomplish nothing
Turn 5
Tabled
Ouch, 0-20 loss. There go my tournament dreams. I go and find the only other guy from my gaming area, who is 0-40 for the day. We comforts me with a "Hey, at least you're not me." We find a bar in the Hotel/Convention Center, and start getting hammered before Game 3.
Dark Eldar (928 points)
Baron Sathonyx
4 Trueborn with 4 blasters in a Venom
10 Kabalite Warriors w/ splinter canon in a raider (flickerfield, spliter racks)
10 Kabalite Warriors w/ splinter canon in a raider (flickerfield, spliter racks)
5 Kablite Warriors with 1 blaster in a Venom
Razorwing (flickerfield)
Eldar (922 points)
Autarch with Fusion Gun with
5 Fire Dragons (SL, Ghostwalker)
3 Bikers w/ Canon
3 Bikers with Canon
3 Hornets (Pulse Lasers)
Wraithknight
This game was pretty straight forward.
Turn 1
He lines up, fires his Hornets, a Venom, and a Raider into my Warlord. Goes right through his 2+ jink. Firstblood/Warlord.
In return, I glance a Hornet with my Hive Guard.
GT has special rules of no scoring in Maelstrom on T1
Turn 2
He throws down 4 wounds on my Tervigon, and all of his reserves except the Baron comes in.
I decide I'm not going to take this getting shot stuff anymore, so I fire my Hive Guard into the hornets once again, destroy one, and shake another. My remaining Hive Tyrant rolls 4 dice to get off warp lance, perils, takes a wound, but actually destroys the venom. When it goes it takes 3 guys inside of it.
Turn 3
I didn't feel too bad up until this point. He brings out the fire dragons, and blasts down one of the Malanthropes. His raider unleashes on my Hive Tyrant (Did you know you can shoot out of the spikey nose of the raider when measuring for rapid fire of everyone inside?) and finishes it off with volume of fire. The wraithknight decides Malanthropes shouldn't suffer to live, and IDs it with his D-Canon. He uses volume of fire to bring me down to 1 shrike.
My rippers come in with a ballsy deep strike (Heh, heh) and get close enough to contest Objective 2, so he wouldn't steal it out of my hand. Knowing my army is falling apart, I make for some even more ballsy charges and punch what I can in the middle. A carnifex runs into the remaining Warrior from the venom, and stomps him good. The other Carnifex charges into the Fire dragons, hoping not to get OW to death. He makes it in, kills 3 of the dragons, then dies to melta bombs. A shrike I had in the building makes an incredible journey across the board and IDs down the WK. I declare moral victory.
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Turn 4
His Autarch leaves the unit, which then gets in the Wave serpent. The Autarch blasts my last shrike to death, while his buddies inside the wave serpent blow apart nearly all of my Hormagaunts. He has a venom finish off the Tervigon, and the raider kills my Carnifex. Hornets ID down my rippers. Everyone busts moral except the Hive Guard.
On my turn, I accomplish nothing
Turn 5
Tabled
Ouch, 0-20 loss. There go my tournament dreams. I go and find the only other guy from my gaming area, who is 0-40 for the day. We comforts me with a "Hey, at least you're not me." We find a bar in the Hotel/Convention Center, and start getting hammered before Game 3.
