This event was a little different from the standard fare that is usually run down there. This event was an effort to raise some Toys for the local Toy Drive through Lower Township.
The event was a good turn out, one of the local radio stations covered the event and we had 12 players show up. Which is good considering the local event usually only gets about 8 on average.
After much debate (with myself, which is quite a site) I decided to give the Iron Warriors a little break and dust off my Space Wolves. With more than 10000 points painted, I thought I should be able to come up with something at least viable.
I must have left the list at the store, but here is the general make up from memory:
1850 Points
HQ: Wolf Lord Thorgrimm, in Runic Armor, Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield, Space Marine Bike,
Saga of the Beast Slayer
HQ: Wolf Priest on a Bike
Troop: 10x Grey Hunters with a pair of Melta and all the other goodies in a Drop Pod
Troop: 10x Grey Hunters with a pair of Plasma and all the other goodies in a Drop Pod
Troop: 8x Blood Claws with a Flamer, Plasma Pistol, Power Axe in a Drop Pod, with a Wolf Guard in Terminator Armor with combi-PG and Power Fist
Elite: 5 Wolf Scouts with Melta
Elite: 5 Terminator Wolf Guard in a Pod with a couple of Combi-PG an Assault Cannon, and a Fist
Fast Attack: Bike Squad with Attack Bike, Melta gun, Melta Bombs, Power Fist, Wolfguard with Combi-MG and a Power Fist
Fast Attack: Bike Squad with Attack Bike, Melta Bombs, Power Fist
My Thought was to overwhelm my opponent and quickly cripple my opponents forces. Well that was the thought...
First round challenges came up, and I was challenged by some young upstart named Brandon who also plays Space Wolves, the young man wanted to challenge the Alpha Wolf!
His list was quite different from mine. Crusader with Blood Claws, Pod with Grey Hunters, 2x Long Fang packs, couple Rhino units.
The game was an absolute blood bath as one would expect from a Wolf vs. Wolf battle. My Wolf Scouts were actually the ones to gain me first blood with the destruction of a Razorback
At the end of the game I won holding 2 objectives, I also had First Blood, Line Breaker, and Slay the Warlord giving me a solid 12 points going into round two.
I should note here that for this tournament we were using the Mechanicon style points system for Battle Points. I find this a superior system as Power lists are not as reliable, because we don't use a win-loss system. It's all about the amount of Battle Points you manage to gain, and pairings are done that way. This leads to interesting pairings, and interesting games.
Above you can see me pushing hard I don't think he managed to get out of his deployment zone the whole game.
The down side to doing well in your first game, is the pairing you have to face in game two. In this case it was an Eldar list. Farseer, and Council all on bikes, Dire Avengers x3 all in Transports, a Trio of Walkers, and 3 heavy support skimmers with the Torrent weapon thingy... Now before I even continue, you should all know I hate the Eldar. No, you don't understand, I really, really hate the Eldar. I will never even paint one. Now Josh (the young man playing this army) is a nice kid, he typically plays up the road at Jester's Playhouse. He tends to play the flavor of the month and I swear he designs his lists just in an effort to stir me up.
Anyway, I won the roll off for first turn. I decided that all was lost if the Farseer didn't die immediately so I deep struck my 2 pods in, bringing my Plasma GH pack and the Terminator pack and just pushed forward as hard and fast as my bikes would travel.
Then it happened, I caused enough wounds through his stupid invuln saves to force a break check, he responded with box cars and fled off the board. Now the real problem is after first turn I chased over 800 points off the board and I still struggled the whole game. The Eldar are stupid. They break all the rules of the universe and is one of the reasons why I am so frustrated with 6th edition. Anyway, at the end of the day no troops survived on either side and I won 3-2 with First blood and Slay the Warlord, his two points were from Slay the Warlord.
Well, after such a minor win I was looking forward to a relaxing 3rd game, maybe vs. the disgusting Mechguard list that was floating around.
But nooooooo, I would have to face against Stephen's Eldar!!! fuck...
His list had a Farseer and a Council on foot, some Aspect Warriors in the form of Howling Banshees, Fire Dragons, Dire Avengers, two squads of Guardians, all the Transports he could manage, a Fire Prism, and of course that giant Knight thing. Oh and his army Warlord was that special character Autarch guy.
His army is for the most part painted quite nicely (its not finished yet). but have I mentioned that I hate the Eldar? Anyway, again I got the first turn and went for the same tactic. Go for the Farseer and Seer Council. I killed 8 of the 9 leaving his Farseer and 1 Warlock alive. They however passed their leadership and stuck around.
Oddly enough, Russ saw fit to reward our bravery and his last Warlock died to a perils of the warp also awarding me with first blood!
This game was another blood bath, with Thorgrimm taking out the big Knight guy in close combat, and ending the game locked in combat with his Warlord (we are now sworn enemies)
I held a 4 point objective and took another minor win with 7 points to 0.
So thus ended the day with 3 wins, but nothing convincing enough to place. Not a bad day considering my match ups.
I have a bit of a rant to go on with my thoughts concerning the current state of affairs 40k is in with 6th edition, but sadly that is for another time as I must get to work.
Next up another Mordheim update.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...
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