Hello,
So today was the monthly Huzzah Hobbies RTT! We had some good attendance with some Torrent of Fire top 50 players: http://www.torrentoffire.com/rankings
Eric Hoerger, Werner Born, Joe Harmon (Smurfalypse for those who know him by his infamous screen name) Phil Rodokanakis, and Brad Voorhees to name most of them.
Anyway...this was a pretty good NOVA Open prep event. We used 3 of the new primer missions which can be viewed in entirety here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJ20WB96DzRE635aokDX3XbhOHzw4Xt0UobUZ5j56JM/pub
(I am not going to explain the missions in depth, so if you want to understand the missions completely click on the link above this and go read them!)
I brought my current running 7th edition list:
Farseer on bike (warlord)
Farseer on bike with Shard of Anaris
8x warlocks on bikes
5x3 windrider bike squads
3x wraithknights
Baron sathonyx
1x5 warriors
Round 1:
We did primer mission 1 (Blitz and the Maginot)
Round 1 I played vs a daemon player named Andrew Main. He has a wonky looking army which is mostly composed of large floating sea creatures which are all counts as. It is interesting and he makes everything very clear on what it is.
His list:
herald of khorne
2x10 daemonettes
1x11 pink horrors
15 flesh hounds
9 screamers
2x torrent slaanesh soul grinders
csm allies:
tzeentch lord on disc with daemonheart and other goodies
1x5 cs marines in a rhino
3x nurgle oblits
I chose to do end of game objectives and my opponent took turn by turn. I took first blood, slay the warlord, and marked for death (I marked his warlord, the khorne herald)
Powers wise:
fortune, executioner, doom, guide
terrify, shrouding, prescience
Turn 1:
I won the roll off and set up first. I deployed pretty evenly across the board, my opponent cornered up most of his army. I then promtly made my opponent go first.
Him:
He moves most of dogs and screamers up the left flank and ends up pretty much doing nothing of consequence this turn.
Me:
I cast fortune on my council, prescience a wraithknight, and guide another. My knights shoot some pot shots and kill a dog, a screamer, and a pink horror.
Turn 2:
Him:
He scores 1 point this turn for holding 2 objectives to my 3. A soul grinder and some daemonettes deep strike. He moves his dogs up toward me more but still kind of hangs back. His Tzeentch lord jumps over a ruin and comes solo toward my wraithknight and the screamers move up to support the charge. He fails both charges and his turn ends.
Me:
I cast my powers, they all go off. My wraithknight near the tzeentch lord jumps away and heads toward those screamers. My seer council moves up, shoots, and kills the tzeentch lord. My wraithknight charges and kills most of the screamers (i think 2-3 are left)
Turn 3:
Him:
He charges a wraithknight with the dogs and the herald instant deaths him with a cool axe of khorne. The other soul grinder and daemonettes drop in on my right flank where I have a spare wraithknight and some jetbikes all hanging out. He also scored 1 more point this turn (again 3-3 objectives)
Me:
My council casts all its powers and the end result is everything except fortune failed this turn. I then charged into the khorne dogs and have a wraithknight charge the rear armor of the soul grinder who deep struck on turn 2. I kill like...8-9 dogs with shooting and charging and kill the soul grinder with my wraithknight. However on the right side wraithknight number 3 fails to kill the soul grinder.
Turn 4:
Him: He putters around again for the turn with little to do since most of his army is in combat. (This turn he scores 3 points >.< he holds 3 objectives to my 1) We go into combat...I kill the rest of the dogs and some daemoettes.
Me: I finish off the herald earning the last of my secondaries and then proceed to start sending my council into his back field to deal with his remaining obliterators and marines.
Turn 5:
Him: He earns 1 point, shoots me...and the soul grinder on the right kills off my spare knight >.<
Me: I kill the obliterators...i position with jetbikes to hold 4 objectives if the game ends.
Turn 6:
Him: He moves around and tries to some damage..he cant seem to finish off any units (including a single kabbalite warrior who survives the soul grinder bale flamer!)
The warrior who lived!
Me: I kill off his 5 csm's and then the game ends.
I win 14-10!
Game 2:
This mission was the Heart and Homes mission (relic or turn by turn corner objectives)
I played vs Lance who was playing an eldar/dark eldar army (mirror match!) not really..he had:
His list:
Eldrad
Spirit seer
7x fire dragons in a serpent
8x banshees in a serpent
2x3 windrider bikes
2x6 warp spiders
baron sathonyx
1x3 trueborn in a venom
1x8 wyches in a raider
beast pack w/ 4 masters, 10 kyhmerae, 4 razorwings
We both had pretty terrible powers, no fortunes and no protects is the highlight, but I did get 3 destructors which probably won me the game tbh.
I won the roll to go first and deployed across the my vanguard line, hiding my council behind the large center ruin. Lance deployed pretty much right across from me. I chose to go first.
Turn 1:
Me: I moved my knights forward and grabbed the relic turn 1. I went cheesy and used an eldritch storm on his clumped up models and targeted his warp spiders..then i scattered onto his beast pack and killed 5-6 of
the dogs.
One of those boys is gonna die!
Him: He killed a wraithknight for first blood with his beast pack but left himself standing mid table.
Turn 2:
Me: I moved my council up, grabbed the relic again and charged and wiped most of his beast pack (baron and the spirit seer lived) but one of my wraithknights punked eldrad. I also renewed 3 wounds back on a wraithknight that was near dead. He hit and ran away to go kill my windrider bikes.
Him: He tried to finish of a wraithknight but failed then he charged my bikes and didnt kill any so we drew combat.
Turn 3:
Me: I killed off his 2 serpents and their contents this turn and otherwise just puttered my troops around and sat on the relic.
Him: He used his "beast pack" to kill some more of my troops but otherwise just moved stuff around.
Turn 4:
Me: I again killed a few more remaining things but otherwise not much changed.
Him: He killed another bike squad and then the game ended.
his baroness killing my bikes on the left..my council holding the center!
9-4 win for me I think (he might have had 6 points)
Game 3:
I played vs Eric Hoerger who was running something close or possibly the same as his ATC list:
GK
coteaz
inquisitor w/ psyker, psycotroke, 3x servo skulls
4x3 henchmen in razorbacks w/ psybolt ammo (psyker and 2x acolytes i think)
2x dreadnoughts w/ double autocannon and psybolt
Guard allies:
yarrick
primaris psyker
2x priest
2x50 guard blob w/ 5 las cannons each
This game was pretty quick. I got all the powers (fortune, 3 protects) and I won the roll to go deploy first so I did...then I went first. Eric infiltrated a blob due to his warlord trait and deployed a bit further up. He seperated his blobs though which ended poorly. The mission was quarter control, eric chose end of game quarters I chose to drop control tokens.
Turn 1:
Me: I shuffle around, cast powers, and fail to kill a dreadnought with my knights.
Him: he moves his blobs around a bit, shoots 10 las cannons as a wraithknight and doesn't kill it. (A note he probably would have, but I blocked his ignore cover power and then I made probably 2-3 3+ cover saves)
Turn 2:
Me: 4 of my jetbike squads come in I bring them in behind his infiltrated blob and shoot the piss out of his back end. I end up killed something like 15 guardsmen including the priest. My council moves up to charge that blob and finish it off. My wraithknights shuffle around and hold the center line. My council kills most of the blob in combat.
Him: Eric kills a knight and my council kills the blob down to yarrick, the inquisitor and 2 guardsmen. I hit and run away toward the other blob.
Turn 3:
Me: I fail fortune but it doesnt matter...I shoot and charge the other blob with my council and kill something like 25-30 guardsmen between the shots and the charge. Eric swings back and doesnt kill anyone.
At this point I have killed probably over half of his army and in return I lost a wraithknight. Eric asks if we can call the game so he can head on home, I say sure so we end the game here with a 15-0 win for me.
I ended up winning the whole shebang by 1 point over Joe Harmon who also went undefeated with a 3-0 record today. It was another great RTT run by James Watkins (Birdux). Check out his blog over at birdux.blogspot.com!
Thanks for reading guys!
-Farseer Tsarith
