‘Ard Boyz Tourney
Wow. So got back from Maui and my wedding goodness to have a week to prep for the tournament at Gamer’s Inn. (great place by the way, just wish the AC was a bit more vigorous) I realized what a shambles my Dark Angel army was in. Arms and heads removed and green stuff areas all prepped. So a flurry of late night modeling ensued. Got them mostly tourney ready, and very glad it was ‘Ard Boyz as they did not need to be painted but just assembled.
Got to the tourney before the listed 7pm start time!! The gaming room was fairly large and it helped a lot for the struggling AC that we were not crammed together sardine fashion. Plenty of tables were in evidence, around a dozen I think. And people seemed pretty jazzed to be there.
Attendance of armies was slightly better than I had hoped. A large amount of Space Marines taking the bulk of the pie. I noticed at least one Tau player, a Chaos SM army, Two Black Templar armies (one was freaking awesomely painted!), a Sisters army, a Eldar army, and two freakin Dark Eldar Armies! I have to be perfectly honest here, I think that the people who use the Dark Eldar armies are pretty hated. The codex is so old and not in mesh with the current rules that some things just outright make yiou want to hit the guy across from you in the mouth. I am so very much not emotional over wins or losses anymore, but man some of the junk that army does could make a nun go homicidal.
Not even special character commanders in the army and the HQ units can attack with 13 attacks on the charge, all power weapon, auto wounding on a 4+ kind of bullshit that makes you just hate the jerk who brought them to the table. That is not counting the preponderance of dark lance and what have you vehicles that run around and cause headaches. The list needs to be either seriously updated or scrapped as a army. I do not have a problem losing, but at least make it so that if the army gets first turn the game is decided and not bu tactics or chance but just min/maxing a broken list. Oh and Dark Eldar players, it does nothing more than make you closer to being maimed when you try to console the player across from you by agreeing that the army is broken and completely cheese but “it is a list that GW allows so it’s ok”. Seriously have a conscience. Go buy a army that people can play with you on, not just watch and count down the turns till the rape is over. No one loves for it, so stop being a dick.
Ok that’s off my chest.
I was surprised that no Imperial Guard armies were seen, or maybe I missed them. I was thinking with it being the latest codex dropped that it would be represented more.
So my first game was a complete failure. Against a Dark Eldar army and he trounced me. Harshly and without lube. I won’t go into it in turn by turn detail, it still causes me to want to kill him. Repeatedly.
My second was against a Dark Templar SM army. Not a bad game at all. It went well my first four turns, with great target focusing and my opponent’s dice rolls being less than happy at critical moments, but he clawed back in the last two rounds to a Tie vicory by some great Deepstriking Reserves and excellent target kills. A great game that really was what the tournament should be made up of. Fun and games with a emphasis on how and what you do and not just what juiced units you show up with. My sincere “great game” to that player!
My last game was against Chaos Space Marines. Again a great diverse list he brought to the board and not just uber kill units or min/max type choices. But this game was vastly different that the previous two. First I have to say that if anyone could have said “my dice hate me” it would be him. He could roll great for attack rolls but to wound it was horrible, likewise for his save rolls. With a particular moment when his HQ rolled double ones on a special ability that caused him to take wounds on himself and then rolled double ones for his saves. The game was ended in a Massacre victory for me, but I really felt for my opponent. His dice rolls and luck were not there for him and though I felt bad I played the game to my best still because I respected him. I respect that he did not concede the game, though he had every right.
So in the end at around 5:00am the tourney ended. The end result is that I placed 6th! So if some peeps don’t show for the next round I get called up, a longshot to be sure but still a pleasant thought.
For the Emperor!
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