Well its the 1st day back and still exhausted after a long week end of gaming and drinking. The weekend itself was split into 2 events a singles 1750 points on the Saturday with my Raptors and a doubles 1500 points on the Sunday with my Iron Warriors both 4 rounds, so that’s 8 games in one weekend. I’m not going into batreps but will give a brief overview of what i played and any key moments i had in the game.
So day one started with me very hung-over but ready for the challenge ahead. 1st thing i noticed was that although this was a tourney a fair few of big UK tourney players had made it down - the competition had arrived. There were also 36 players involved.
Game 1 - Vs Tim King with Eldar
Mission - Head-hunter (wipe out squad leaders for points)
His list was a Ulthwe list fairly fluffy footdar led by Eldrad but being played with the Captain of the Scottish ETC team, not the easy start i was looking forward to.
Key moment was the Sturnguard coming down scattering into a better position then combat squading, shooting down a Avatar to a wound and half Guardian squad which essential gave me a flank that he tried to defend, but was over run by my out flankers.
Win to me
Game 2 - Sam with Space Wolves
Escape the flood (both armies start on one side of the board but with objective going to the other side)
Logan with Wolf Guard Termies some Drop Pods, Rhinos, Land Raiders and 2x Long Fangs was a good list but played in a mission that i would struggle to loose as it was ruled i could out flank straight onto the furthest and most valuable objective.
Key moment was the Sturnguard again coming down wiping out a unit of gray hunters and rune priest in a round of shooting.
Win for me
Game 3 - Gary Marsh with Witch Hunters
Race for the loot (grab objectives and take them to your deployment zone)
Standard list that you’d expect to see with 3 exorcists played by a guy who new the army inside out and the army itself was gorgeous to look out and won best painted overall.
As good as the last mission was good for me this was the opposite and against such a experienced player i was never going to win so played for the draw.
Key moment not reading the mission properly and letting him have two objectives to my one although i was only 2 inches away from a draw.
Loss for me
Game 4 - Stu with Chaos SM
Retrieve the Spy (nominate an enemy unit that you have an spy in, kill the unit and get the spy back to your deployment zone)
A fellow ‘Boota and a great opponent with a mixed up chaos list with Kharn the Betrayer a brutal fight and a narrow victory at the end.
Key moment for a 3rd time was the Sturnguard who dropped crippled and then ied up a Tzeentch Daemon prince and killed a Defiler, stars of the whole event.
Win for me
So that’s my quick round up for day one, as the doubles didn’t involve my Raptors im not interested in going into that but I did finish with 2 wins and 2 losses so a decent enough result for the day.
The overall feeling i got from the event was a positive one with a good mix of gamers and some fun missions (although they were written poorly, it worked out on the day). My biggest criticism for it was the scoring and random match ups which made little sense and didn’t seemed to have any intelligent thought behind it more what was easy and simple rather than sensible and logical.
Also sorry for the poor English used in this but fatigue has set in.
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