So I was able to make it to the tourney, with only 5 hours of sleep total from Thursday night to Saturday's tourney. I was able to complete the army, built with only one landspeeder not undercoated. However, I'm going to have to make a lot of repairs after this event, the bikes weren't nearly as secure on their bases as I would have liked and some of riders arms need repairs. The rest of the repairs will be needed to the army list and my ego.
We played the Adepticon 09 scenarios in sequence. The armies I saw was Tau, Ultramarines, and Space Wolves. The majority of the players has Space Marines or MEq types. The terrain was closer to 1/2 to 3/5 of the 6x4 table was covered with LOS blockers. The number of buildings was also a surprise.
The first game was against a Sniper Tau army. Three 2-suit squads of Broadsides was the core, with another 3 squads of 2 crisis suits (plasma rifle and missile pods) supporting an 8-man pathfinder squad with Devilfish, 2 12-man Fire Warrior squads, 1 Devilfish, and 2 12-man Kroot. Round 1 saw one of my bike squads flee off the table after failing their morale. In the end, too many small units and too little time (only played 4 rounds) didn't allow the bikes to get into position to roll up through the backfield. Total score: 0 pts.
Game 2, pick up match since someone left after the 1st round. The player is known to be a "cheese" specialist. Ultramarines with a Master of the Forge and a Thunder Cannon with 3 Razorbacks mounted with Las/TL Plasma, 2 Land Speeder Storms with Scout Squads with Missile Launchers and Powerfists, 2 Plasma Dreadnoughts, 1 Ironclad, and 1 Venerable Dread. I was able to pop a Dread, Land Speeder, and the Thunder Cannon. Otherwise, I lost a Speeder, 1 full bike squad, a Razorback, the Librarian, a Pred, and the Command Sqd. Turn 4 determined that the goal was highest number of scoring units in the middle. We finished by Turn 5 with most of his army within 12 inches of the middle and my army looking in at 2 Techmarines holding the center with tactical marines inside their Razorbacks. Total score: 0 points.
Game 3 was against a Ragnar Blackmane led armored spearhead. A LR Crusader with a 3 Lascannon Pred, 2 Las Razorbacks, a Dread with Drop pod, and Vindicator. Not really sure what infantry was being carried. They only came out to hold an objective, or to deal biker death to me. In the end, he strung 1 Grey Hunters unit across 2 objectives, and parked his combat squads on the remaining 2 objectives. I was blown off the field of play by piecemeal due to my terrible reserves rolling. Total score: 0 points.
I went perfect for the day and I've learned quite a bit about tournement 40k army builds. Not sure if I want to do it again, I'd have to really think about it. No swag either, the random draws for $25 gift cards didn't land in my pocket. The players were nice, the 3rd player felt terrible about blowing my army away in 1.5 hours (2 hour sessions). Only about 1/3 of the players were regulars at GK, according to my opponents. I did take some pictures, so I'll post them up later. Top 3 were Orks in 1st, and 2 armies tied for 2nd (1 was CSM: Nurgle?, didn't hear the other one). Best painted was an Ork army.
Next up, Santa's Workshop apoc game.
