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| by Danny Internets | August 16th, 2010 - 1:39 pm
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As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the opening event on the Friday night before the NOVA Open was the Whiskey Challenge where known personalities in the 40k community were given the opportunity to put both their opinions and their dignity to the test. All told, 8 of us got our drink on and rolled some dice. Some games had more on the line than others and, unsurprisingly, the epic struggle of Orks vs non-Orks took center stage for the vast majority of participants.
The match-ups and results were as follows:
Stelek (Space Wolves) vs Dashofpepper (Orks)
With the amount of pre-game trash-talking that went on (most of it not even from the players themselves), this was clearly the main event of the night. Stelek and Dash both took the lists they would be using in the actual tournament and fought tooth and nail, and almost to a complete stand-still. The result? Tied by both table quarters (primary objective) and objectives markers (secondary objective) it came down to victory points where Stelek was able to pull ahead by roughly 200-250 points (by his estimate).
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| by Danny Internets | June 25th, 2010 - 1:56 pm
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My third game of the day was against a Black Templars player from Ordo Malleus, a local club from just over the Tappan Zee Bridge. His army was a single Land Raider (Crusader variant) build with deathstar unit of 7 Assault Terminators on board supported by 3 Rhinos, a Marshall, Emperor’s Champion, Venerable Dreadnought, and a Land Speeder.
The mission was standard Annihilation with Spearhead deployment. My 19 possible KPs versus my opponent’s 12 would give him an edge, but my long-range dominance would more than compensate. Having not played against Black Templars since 3rd edition could have been problematic, however I managed to remember most of the important stuff (namely Righteous Zeal). I won the objective and geared up for an alpha strike against the Land Raider packed full of Terminators.
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| by Danny Internets | June 22nd, 2010 - 10:55 am
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Despite needing four rather than all five objectives to score a Massacre in the first round there were relatively few people who managed to get full points for the scenario. Among those who did were Jawaballs, with his mechanized Blood Angels, and myself. We’ve played casually many times over the past couple of years and have attended tournaments together, but we had yet to face one another in a tournament setting. Today, finally, we’d be squaring off at the Battle for Salvation summer 2010 tournament.
Jawa was running a pretty solid list with 3 Razorbacks, 3 AC/LC Predators, a Land Raider, Chaplain, Terminator Assault Squad, Corbulo, and Mephiston. With only 15 Assault Marines making up his Troops, the army is light on scoring units, but that wouldn’t matter for this mission. The trick would be identifying each of the individual threats and dealing with them systematically. There’s (1) Razorback firepower, (2) Predator firepower, (3) LR + deathstar unit, and (4) Mephiston.
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| by Danny Internets | June 21st, 2010 - 11:59 am
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This past weekend I participated in the summer 2010 Battle for Salvation Warhammer 40k tournament. Our club typically hosts two events per year (summer and winter) and the turn-out has always been exceptional. We managed to completely fill up despite opening registration a mere two weeks before the event. This bodes well for the larger Grand Tournament that we’re planning for the fall (more on that in the weeks to come as the details are hammered out).
In the past we have been able to accommodate 40 players, but due to limited space this year we had to restrict registration to 28. Still not bad! And while we have more than enough terrain for 20 boards, having only 14 let us showcase some of the better stuff. Bob generously spread the prizes around so despite the overall winners being decided solely by battle points there were also significant awards ($40+) given out for painting and sportsmanship. Lastly, there were 10 different prizes being raffled off (Chinese auction style), including a Grey Knights army painted by Black Matt!
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| by Danny Internets | June 18th, 2010 - 8:30 am
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For my last game, I found myself squaring off against Rich, a really nice guy and fellow Dakkaite whom I had met at the Sunday preliminaries at The Only Game in Town in NJ. Having watched Rich use Orks to dismantle a competent mech IG player in the last tournament it was obvious that he was much more talented than most (he also took 1st place that day). But rather than bring the greenskins, Rich decided, based on the objective-heavy scenarios, to take his dual-Lash Chaos army instead.
Again, I found myself with a lucky draw in which my army was heavily favored due to its composition and the primary scenario objective. As described previously, this mission was all about scoring kill points, but it also featured atypical deployment to shake things up. I spent a great deal of time thinking about this particular mission during the days prior to the event and knew exactly what I had to do. With my Vendettas, Manticores, and multi-lasers it was clear that I had a massive ranged advantage over my opponent, whose army had limited resources with which to reach out and touch me. To make matters worse, the board had virtually no area terrain, meaning that any of Rich’s units out in the open would be subject to a volley of lascannons with only their Go to Ground save to spare them.
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| by Danny Internets | June 16th, 2010 - 7:30 am
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For my second game I was pitted against one of Bobby’s opponents from the preliminaries at Mark’s Comics in Queens, NY. The guy came with one other player (both brought identical lists) and a posse of half a dozen observers wearing matching club shirts with the slogan “Make no friends.” I introduce myself, hand him my list, and immediately he whips out a calculator to make sure I haven’t cheated. You can already see where this is going.
His list was built around the BA Land Raider dedicated transport gimmick with 7 (yes, seven) Land Raider Redeemers and naked Troop squads inside.. He smugly handed me a copy of his list (probably expecting me to freak out given the 7 Land Raiders) and I smugly handed him a copy of mine. He gave pause after looking it over and asked, “Um, how many meltaguns do you have?” to which I replied, “16.” Scissors, meet Rock.
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| by Danny Internets | June 15th, 2010 - 8:30 am
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My first opponent was a local from Brothers Grim who I have beaten previously in a tournament hosted there. Sorry for the lack of pictures, but I forgot my camera (again). Perhaps for the finals I’ll tattoo it on my forehead the night before. (Backwards, so I can read it in the mirror.)
He was running a mixed bag of mechanized Eldar:
Eldrad
Prince Yriel
5 Fire Dragons
Wave Serpent (2x SC, stones)
5 Fire Dragons
Wave Serpent (2x SC, stones)
10 Dire Avengers
Wave Serpent (BL, stones, star engines)
10 Storm Guardians – Fusion gun x2
Wave Serpent (BL, stones, star engines)
6 Jetbikes – SC x2
6 Jetbikes – SC x2
5 Rangers
5 Rangers
Nightspinner
Nightspinner
Nightspinner
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| by Danny Internets | June 14th, 2010 - 7:01 pm
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Another month and another round of ‘Ard Boyz down. I hitched a ride with Bobby down to my favorite store, The Brothers Grim (Long Island, NY), where we met up with Jawaballs, the three of us from Battle for Salvation representing 3 of 18 total players. We were all pretty shocked by the low turnout given that there were only two local semi-finals locations this year. I’ve heard that the other location, Time Warp Comics (NJ), had a large enough crowd to warrant renting out a hotel conference room (as they did a couple of years ago when I went), totaling 30-40.
Having only practiced one of the scenarios prior to the event I was curious to see if they would play out as I had envisioned. I spent a lot of time this past week thinking about strategies to use against different army archetypes in these contexts, particularly with the third mission’s radically different deployment options. My overall impressions of the missions were ultimately spot-on. Thanks to search lights, the fog in Mission 1 had almost no impact on my game and with 8 Troop units I had no problem seizing 3 objectives. Getting a Massacre in Mission 2 was obviously going to be hard without tabling someone due to the need to capture all 5 objectives (and it was). Finally, Mission 3 was dominated by shooty armies both at my venue and elsewhere according to battle reports across the internet.
Interestingly, there were no Orks or Tyranids represented at Brothers Grim. I know at least one of the players won the preliminaries with Orks, but chose to take a different army based on the nature of the semi-finals scenarios. From memory, the codex representation was as follows:
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| by Danny Internets | May 27th, 2010 - 12:02 pm
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Unfortunately, because the TO was filling in for the original event organizer who was recently let go, no prizes or tickets to the semi-finals were awarded at the ‘Ard Boyz preliminary round tournament that I attended on Saturday. While the confusion regarding results reporting may or may not have been sorted out since, I didn’t want to risk my right to participate in the semi-finals. I had wanted to play in separate events on both Saturday and Sunday and this basically cemented my decision.
On the 16th I took a trip down to The Only Game in Town, located in Somerville, NJ. Though considerably further from my home than some other venues, I had attended a tournament here back in February and really liked the store, the TO, and the players. There’s a lot to be said for a group that can run a smooth tournament and it’s more than worth the extra 30 minutes on the interstate. At the previous tournament I had come with several competitive players from our store and took 1st, however the TO said that many of the competitive locals were attending the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, so I expected some stiffer competition. Surprisingly, the turnout was low with only 10 gamers, but there were definitely more heavy-hitters present than on the previous day.
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| by Danny Internets | May 24th, 2010 - 12:10 pm
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On Saturday, May 15th I kicked off the ‘Ard Boyz season by attending the preliminaries at The Game Room Store in Woodbridge, NJ. I wish I had brought my camera because this was the swankiest game store I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’ve been around the block a few times. The front of the store was mostly designed to sell high-end, gentlemanly gaming apparatuses (pool tables, dart boards) along with some kitschy stuff that you’d expect to see on the set of The Man Show (a 3-foot tall statue of a monkey butler smoking a cigar, for example). In the back there were a bunch of gaming tables with decent terrain, probably enough for 14 people. The final headcount, however, was 10.
Game 1
My first opponent had a mostly mechanized IG army (Vets in Chimeras, squadron of Punishers, 2 Manticores, 2 squadrons of 3 AC/HK Sentinels, 1 Vendetta) with an allied Inquisitor for the Psychic Hood (but not the Tarot) and a few units on foot, including two triple lascannon heavy weapon squads. (I should have written this up sooner because my memory of the list is a little hazy and is blurring together with the other IG force I played in the first game on Sunday.) Thanks to the Emperor’s Tarot, I won the roll-off and chose to go first, deploying everything as far forward of possible and gearing up for a potential alpha strike.
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