Well the tourney's been and gone. I had a great time but wasn't able to recreate my success at the heas. In hindsight, with the heat lsit working so well, I probably shouldn't have subbed it out for the crazy gimmik dropp od list, but I had a grea time and in the end, that's what really counts
Game 1:
Vs Ork
Result: Massacre Loss
So I was massacared, but to be fair, as I mentioned to my opponent (great guy, went on to win best sportsman) when he deployed: 'Any one whom nagaes to paint 120 ork boys to a high standard deserves to win'. And boy did he. I just couldn't pump out enough shots to dent his 30 man boys mobs before they lsammed into me and whittled me away through sheer weight of attacks. My librarian did earn himself a heroic death though, surrounded by a circel of 30 orcs in combat, he survived a turn before finally sucoming to the nobs powerclaw
Game 2:
Vs Chaos Space Marines
Result: Draw
This was an exceptionally bloody game. His large number of Plague marines (T5 and feel no pain, boy were these things hard to kill) just wouldn't stay down, until my terminators arrived and cut a bloody swathe through them. By the end of the 6th turn he had 3 chaos space marines and a wounded sorceror left and I had my Libby and 2 terminators (plus a handful of drop pods).
Game 3:
Vs Chaos Space Marines
Result: Minor Loss
This was agaisnt the same guy as game 2. As we drew we both wound up back on the same table. We were given the option to swap with someone else but decided as we'd had such great fun in the pevious game, we were happy to play each other again. All I was after today was 3 good games of 40K against decent (non-dickish) opponents, and I knew I'd get another one against Ian. Unfortunatley, it all went a bit awry for me this time. Post game, we figured out that if my Dreadnoughts hadn't waited until turn 6 (!) to arrive in their pods, we'd have had another draw on our hands. But then that's the risk you run with the drop pods
So a great day with 3 very enjoyable games against no super cheezy maxed out lists. What more could you ask for? An award of some variety? Well I did scoop the Best Army award for the Snakes agaisnt some very stiff competition giving them 2 best army awards to date. I really ought to reward them by painting that titan they've had their eye on...
thanks
Corai
