I help organise events and tournaments for a local war gaming club called the Northern Knights, I was planning a Planet strike campaign with some other higher ups, and then I thought that we could have an event based on choosing the commanders of said campaign, through a 1000pts singles tournament, a kind of fight for reputation amongst your factions, because at our club it's generally the same 2 guys who are in charge and I thought It'd be a great chance for anyone to take up the responsibility, also this tournament would give me a chance to help some of the newer players learn the basics.
So the tournament was split in 2 sides, the Forces of Order had a tournament amongst themselves to find a Commander and the Forces of Disorder had a tournament to determine their Warlord.
Just like to say for those who can't be bothered reading, that the pictures I took, too few I believe, can be found here: Weekend Photo's
I spent the first hour or two of Saturday with 4 young, relatively new gamers, and using my old tau army and elements of my old marines and some new ones I acquired, to set up a standard 1000pts game and ran them through it. Since there were 2 actual tau players amongst them they assumed those roles and the other two players (one was SM and the other IG) took control of the Space Marines. I gave them the benefit of my experience and taught them how to use the armies to a decent extent as well as any other helpful tips. Also they all went on to play very well and generally do quite well for themselves, just goes to show, with the right words you can achieve anything ;)
Then it was time to Spread the Word! My list was basically comprised of: 1 Chaos Sorcerer, 2 Full Squads of 10 Word Bearers, 9 Thousand Sons, 1 Obliterator and a Dakka Predator (AC, HB's)
My first game was against an old rival, my greatest enemy, and one of my best friends. He is a follower of the Dark God's also, but of a more perverse nature. Slaanesh.
His list was basically, Daemon Prince with Lash, 3 squads of Noise Marines all with Sonic weapons and some Blastmasters, a Defiler and an Obliterator.
This game did not go well, my decision was to let him march to my AP3 weapons and try and wipe him out, I used buildings to keep my marines safe from the Battle Cannon and pick it off with my Obliterator. Sadly this did not work.... the fear of the cannon kept me in position while the sonic/inferno shootout raged, safe to say I didn't weather the storm that well.... thanks to the lash prince. Enough said. I lost this game 6-3 on kill points, but was glad to get something out of it, and only really disappointed in myself, Adrian is a veteran player and very good at what he does, just means I have to try harder next time :D
Disappointed and slightly angry, I turned my rage upon my next opponent, another servant of the Dark Gods. Dave. Yet again a very seasoned player and good friend. His list was roughly: Kharn, 3 squads of 5 Khorne Bezerkers, 1 Obliterator, 1 Defiler and 5 Khorne Havocs.
This game went well for me, I learned from my last game, I can't fear something like a cannon, that's not how we Word Bearers do things, we Attack, Attack, Attack until there is nothing left of either us or our enemies. So I took first turn and prepared to face off against the shootiest/stealthy Khorne I've ever met. I made my priority the Defiler/Havoc's after all charging out to those was not a great idea, after enough AP3 shots and some focused fire on the defiler, I was clear to flush the lurking Khorne out of the buildings they were hiding in. Only to find them try to counter charge me when I got close but fortunately he didn't quite reach me and I was free to gun them down, although my Predator was popped :( The only survivor of the Khorne forces was Kharn, who had stayed in the same building not moving all game, unfortunately I didn't get enough time to bring him down, so he escaped to slaughter another day. My first victory with I think 7-1 on kill points.
That was my day wrapped up, I had 3 more opponents to face on Sunday, (2 Nid armies and 1 Dark Eldar force.) but I decided to rest up and head to the pub with the guys. Hilarity ensued.
Sunday carried on smoothly, although my head was not, my first game of the day was against Mitchell, a Nid player with a decent amount of experience under his belt, his list was roughly: 1 Tyrant with Tyrant Guard, 3 squads of 20 Termagaunts, 2 squads of 3 Warriors and a Carnifex. (I think.)
Now Nids is an army I fear greatly, I think everyone does to an extent, but a lot of my most memorable and enjoyable games have been against them. So I knew in my experience the best thing to do was aim for the synapse. After a few turns of stationary shooting most of the synapse were gone and the Termagaunts began fleeing, this instinctive behaviour however did nothing to save my poor predator, the Carnifex (only other unit left) charged my predator and mauled it in a melee of pure destruction, (6 penetrating and 2 glancing hits.) He then managed to reach some of my word bearers but they managed to scrape a wound or two from him and fled, however they managed to rally and gun the final wound from him at the end, meaning yet again.
A victory on kill points can't remember the total however.... the predator now feels like a cursed unit for me as it's survived nothing so far :P
Next I moved on to face..... more nids..... damn..... I love nids.
So my next player was one of the youngest players on the Forces of Disorder, Brodie, now I have one thing to say about him. For his age, he is one of the most accomplished gamers I've played against, and I would have no shame if he'd annihilated me, at one point I was pretty sure he was going to. Brodie's list was roughly, very roughly: 1 Hive Tyrant with 2 Tyrant Guard, 1 Carnifex, 3 Warriors, 1 squad of Genestealers, 2 squads of Termagaunts and a hoarde of ripper swarms, think it was a squad of 9 or 10.
This was a fun game, my table was very open in the middle making his run to reach me very costly, after wiping out the shield of genestealers around his tyrant and fex, I focused my fire power on the hive tyrant and guard, eventaully wiping them out in turn 2 or 3, this just left me the task of fighting to through the swarms protecting the warriors, removing the last of the synapse. After more shooting from all my army at the rippers, one ripper swarm base was left with one wound and 3 Termagaunts hid behind a forest surviving trying to save a kill point. I made an effort to flush them out, but in doing so my Predator became immobilised. A victory again wih all my units still standing and losing no kill points, I didn't think things could get any better. I think this was a 6 or 7 kill point win can't remember.
My last game of the day was against Eoin, another very young member who usually plays quite well, roughly the same age as Brodie, he was using a Dark Eldar list, his list was: 1 Archon plus Incubi Retinue, Raider with 10 Warriors, 3 Squads of Warriors, 8 Wyches, 1 Talos, think that was it.
This game went very well, I managed to use my first turn to pop the raider and wipe out the squad of wyches, whilst the dark eldar set their dark lances into a better position I tried to take the fight to the enemy, but my predator became shaken in the process. The turns to follow were purely a Wych hunt (see what I did there) I managed to successfully hunt the rest of the warriors down and execute them. The Talos eventually fell to a combination of Obliterator fire and AP3 weaponry. Leaving the Dark Eldar wiped out, and my Predator no longer shaken, meaning I'd not lost a single model or kill point. This is to date the best I've ever done in a game, but I'd like to give credit to Eoin, he was generally unlucky with the dice gods (his archon even Overdosed on drugs and lost a wound) and didn't have as much cover as he'd probably have liked to utilize.
So 4 Wins, 1 Loss, 0 Draws and what came out to 28 Kill points in total, taking me 5 Kill points above Adrian, who came 2nd even though I'd lost to him.... and Dave came 3rd Even though he beat Adrian, weird how it works out. So anyways I was labelled the Commander of the forces of Disorder. Huzzah, This Dark Apostle couldn't have been any more pleased.
The forces of order commander for the planet strike turned out to be a very good friend Dominic and his Daemon hunters army. (a Pure Grey Knights Force by the way). With another close friend Niall coming second with his shiny new Space Wolves.
So overall a great weekend and learning experience for my Word Bearers and our club members, all of which were fun and enjoyable so thanks to everyone who showed up and get ready for Planet Strike my evil minions ;)
My next unit will be posted soon so please keep reading the blog and thanks to everyone at the weekend, I'd say more about it but to be honest my memory sucks and this blog is long enough :P
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