Jawaballs plays in 3 game local tournament

Last weekend I went out to play a 3 game tournament at a local gaming store called Toywiz, in Nanuet NY.  There are only two places in my area outside of New York City that throw decent sized and semi regular tournaments. Brothers Grim in Selden NY and Toywiz. I don't get to make the Grim ones any more because they start them too late for me. The wife did not appreciate me getting home after midnight last time.  :)  So it was nice to be able to get in a good tournament and be home by 7. I even got to cook the wife dinner so as to lessen her wrath.





Moving on!

EDIT:
I am adding my list.


My list:

Meph
Reclusiarch

Termies x5
four claws
one hammer
Land Raider Crusader
Multi Melta
Extra Armor

Priests x2 no upgrades

Storm Raven
Las and multi

Devs with 4 ML

3 assault squads
1: Rhino, Melta
2: Rhino, Melta, PW
3: Razor, TL Las (Priest catches ride)

Furioso with Talons


Game One:

Picture borrowed from Tordek. 

Check his blog for more pics.

I ended up against blogger Tordek! I linked him up under the picture. Check his blog for more pictures and his batrep.  He was a nice guy and the game was a pleasure. I won the roll to go first and he failed to seize. So blast away I did!  If you look at the picture you see a blocky terrain piece near a crater and measuring tape on the left. Well, he had his two ravagers behind that piece. It was not enough to give them a cover save though, and on my first turn my Raven blasted one with the blood strikes and one with the Las, exploding them both.  My raider moved up and destroyed another raider while the rest of my shooting killed another I think, and took the gun off yet another.  

This pretty much ended the game. He with no way to move his boys, and most of his guns dead, there was little he could do against me but brace for impact.  I disembarked Meph and sent him down the middle towards that crater and sent the raven with the dread to its current position. The dread got out and killed the infantry holding that objective while the raven killed their raider. My Land raider put the hurt on some wyches which I surely did not want to have to get into assault. He dropped a webway hoping to bring in his much needed reinforcements right in my face. Sadly though, his Talos waited until turn five to come into the game. By the, it was all he had left. My raider punished his strong assault forces, while my assault forces ate up his shooty troops. 

Tordek was a spectacle of good sportsmanship though. The game was fun and light hearted. Some times guys get very sullied and bring the mood down when lady luck turns her back on them. Tordek just smiled and we played on. Good conversation, good game and good fun. 

In his defense, had he gone first, he would probably have blasted me off the table.  He had a lot of lances and would have certainly killed my armor, then probably gotten the jump on me in assault rather than me getting him. I shudder to think about what two squads of wychs would do to my terminator squad or Mephiston.

Great game man!

I tabled him and prepared for round 2.  

Round 2. (Sorry no more pics.)

I played against a Deathwing army played by a relatively new player. He tabled his round one opponent.

He had all terminator squads with a Deathwing librarian and the named dude who makes them troops or whatnot.

I reserved every thing and prepared for the killing! My raider and raven came on turn two and I sent them straight in after 3 squads of hammer termies I call Hammertime.  I sent in my termies and my dread. Bad mistake on the dread. 3+ invul saves dont care about Blood Talons. This was a KP mission, so I would have been better off just sitting him in the back some place safe. I took down a lot of termies especially after a bad round of rolling on his part from my shooting. He rolled a lot of 1s!  He killed my raven with missiles, and Mephiston was pinned in the wreckage! Damn box cars.  But before he could get more termies over to that side the flank folded. I killed his libby and 3 squads of hammertime. By then it was a matter of staying out of assault and punishing him with my Land Raider and Devastator squad with Frag Missiles.  Make a bunched up squad roll 25 dice, and he is gonna get some 1s.  By the time his named boy hit the table, it was over.

Round 3.
I played a Lysander marine army with Libby with Null Zone, two raiders, two squads of Hammertime, two 10 man tacs with rhinos and some scouts.

Way too confident, I sent in the raven to try to alpha strike his raider and kill his troops.  I failed to hurt the raider, and the cover saves failed to save the Raven, it died in the center of the table. On my next turn I went for assault. Meph got in, but only killed one tactical marine on the charge. The dread rolled a 1 for his movement, and a 1 for his run.  Blah.  I figured I would lose Meph to hammertime, but wanted to at least wipe out a tactical squad first. But I failed. On his turn I only killed two more tacticals, and he hit Meph with Hammers and killed him.  Lysander killed my dread.

Any other Blood Angel army would have folded at those losses. But that is why I have my big red Death Star!  Out charged my termies and killed Lysander and the first squad of Hammer Time.  From there the game became a dance of death, trying to hold objectives. There were three, our bases and one in the center. He immobilized a raider on terrain, and took out mine with a melta shot. I killed lots of marines, and tank shocked guys off his base twice, but going last he was able to take out my razorbacks and recontest or take the objectives.  The game ended in a draw!

You would have thunk I had learned from Valentines Day Massacre where I had two big losses from doing just what I did here. We will see if the lesson set in for next time. All I had to do was sit back and bait him into my destruction range, kill his heavy hitters at my advantage, then contest his objectives. If I had gotten my dread into his base with no hammers to take it down, it would have eaten all 3 of his troops squads defending it.

So that was it. I ended 2-1 on the day. When the scoring was being wrapped up, I noticed that the guy who went 3-0 for the day was playing with an unpainted army. Some of it was done, but it was mostly grey models. That meant that I could probably leapfrog him for the win!  Sure enough. My painting won yet another tournament for me.  :)

All in all it was a great local tournament and surprisingly competitive. There were 24 guys I think, and at least half of them were top notch players that I would see at any GT, with the rest being a mix of experienced casual players and noobies.

Fun stuff! Up next? The Colonial GT.  More to come on that later.

Jawaballs