I just wanted to report back from the tournament I played in on Saturday. I played three games at 2000 points using the White Scars army posted a few days ago. There were a total of 12 players including a ton of marine players chaos and imperial, imperial guard, eldar, and orks. On a starting note… my camera died before I even took my first picture so I wasn’t too happy about that.

First round I played against Mark’s Blood Angels which I think looks like this…

Mephistion
6 assault terminators with 4x lighting claws and 2x thunder hammers
10 assault marines with jump packs 2x plasma pistols, and a powerfist
10 assault marines with 2x melta guns, a power fist, and a drop pod
10 scouts with close combat weapons and a sergeant with powerfist and combi-melta
10 death company with a powerfist and a rhino
10 man devestator squad with 4x missile launchers, a powerfist, and a rhino
10 man devestator squad with 4x missile launchers, a powerfist, and a rhino

The mission was dawn of war and seize ground with 3 objectives

Surprisingly this was a really close battle. I state that because he didn’t have that much in the way of firepower. However, my multi-meltas kept missing, so I couldn’t blow up his transports. Some of the highlights were that mephiston slaughtered a whole bike squad by himself and went to kill the khan before he even swung… but in that same close combat phase, my lightning claw veteran hit and wounded all three times and cut his head off! At the end of the battle, all I had were the 4 veterans in the command squad, 5 bikes in a troop squad and a single speeder, but that troop bike squad was able to capture two objectives and I managed to win a minor victory.

The vindicators really did not do anything because my opponent kept everything spread out and they died by turn 3 but the speeders did ok. They won me the game because they blew up a transport in the last turn of the game which pinned the squad in side and he had to retreat with his remaining 10 man assault squad to claim his home objective. I managed 6 kill points in the game and he claimed 7

Juan’s Space Wolves

Logan
Ruin priest
Wolf Lord with thunder wolf mount, thunder hammer, storm shield, and 2x wolves
Lone Wolf with terminator armor, thunder hammer, and storm shield
15 wolves
10 grey hunters with 2x melta guns, power fist, and a rhino
10 grey hunters with 2x melta guns, power fist, and a rhino
9 grey hunters with a melta gun, power fist, and a rhino
6 long fangs with 2x lascannons, 3x heavy bolters, and a razor back with twin lascannon
6 long fangs with 2x lascannons, 3x missile launchers, and a razor back with twin lascannon

We played pitched battle with capture the flag

This battle ended up in a tie because I was all over his objective, but the game went to turn 7 giving him time to knock the units off of his objective. Some highlights were that the Khan in close combat managed to kill both the wolf lord and logan, hit and run onto contest the opposing objective before taking 3 lascannons to the face. A single land speeder tornado (since his partner died in the first turn again) killed a razorback and 2 rhinos.

So once again the vindicators did nothing worthwhile except when the one did hit it killed 12 wolves with one shot. Every single other shot scattered!

I managed 10 kill points to his 5

Justin’s Imperial Guard

Command Section with 2x melta guns, 2x plasma guns, chimera with heavy flamer, stubber, and multi-laser
Infantry platoon Command with a mortar
3x infantry squads with autocannons
1x infantry squad with grenade launcher and a commissar
Infantry platoon command with 3x flamers in a chimera with heavy flamer, stubber, and multi-laser
2x infantry squads with a flamer mounted in a chimera with heavy flamer, stubber, and mutli-laser
Vendetta with 3x twin lascannon
Vendetta with 3x twin lascannon
2x Hellhounds in a squadron with 2x hull heavy flamers
Leman Russ with hull lascannon, sponson heavy bolters, stubber, and a battle cannon
Leman Russ with hull lascannon, sponson heavy bolters, stubber, and a battle cannon
Leman Russ Demolisher with hull lascannon, sponson multi-meltas, and a demolisher cannon

We played corners and kill points.

I felt sorry for Justin because this is probably the last mission he would want to face my army in. Long story short, I tabled him in 4 turns and only lost a vindicator and a few bikes. I got a full 16 kill points. My command squad racked up 7 kill points alone. Vindicators were pretty lame but they did manage to kill a leman russ after 3 rounds of firing. Massacre for the scars!

So after all the points were added up, I got second place, and was only one point behind Juan who received first place. To show how close the standings were, in Juan’s last game if he would have killed one less unit I would have been able to seize first place. Soooo close!!!! Mark received 3rd place as he got a massacre in the third round as well against chaos. It was nice seeing a bunch of gamers that I have not seen in quite some time and getting some prize support doesn’t hurt either.

Now I have some projects to work on over the rest of the summer!