UK Throne of Skulls October 2012 1500pts Tyranids

[dwez]

I've just completed the write up for my first Battler Report from this months Throne of Skulls.


Tournament headlines:
I was nominated for best army [seven were nominated out of 140 competing]
My mate Liam was nominated once again for his Dark Eldar
My mate Otty was also nominated for best army
Otty won 'The Scribe's Quill' - the award for best designed army list
Out of five games I won four!!! [what the flip!] Yep folks, my weak force with weak nids won four!!! Ben worked out I came something like 26th!
I faced:
Andrew Bruce's Grey Knights, similar list to my friend Pete B's but was hammered on kill points.
Jim Klapkowski's Ravenguard,
Phil Elliott's [of www.4tk.co.uk] Blood Angels Mech,
Andreas Kkounnous's Imperial Guard [Squats],
Sean O'Sullivan's fluffy Necrons,
Liam won 2 out of 5
Ben won 3 out of 5 [losing only to the best Nid and Tau players with five wins each!]
Otty won 3 and drew 1 out of 5 [yes with nids!]
Necron's were there in force and the seven flyer Necron air force was in for a lot of stick ;)
Equally the five Tervigon list that my mate Ben lost to [as well as 4 other players] wasn't a pleasant match.
The highest average army score went to ... Eldar!!!
The lowest average army score went to ... Dark Angels!!! [bring on the new codex]
Surprisingly the new kid on the block Chaos Space Marine army average was 2nd last!

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First the Introduction. (http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/throne-of-skulls-2012-prologue.html)So first part is here. (http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/throne-of-skulls-oct-12-battle-1.html) And second part here. (http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/throne-of-skulls-oct-12-battle-1_30.html)

[isotope99]

Congrats, voted for you for best army. Shame they didn't let you use the quad gun. Do you knwo who won the best monument award? there were a lot of good entries.

There were quite a few Nid lists there doing well, that all tervigon list looked evil though.

Agree surprised to see so few chaos armies but i guess it will take a while for people to really get to grips with the new list.

As I'm too lazy to write up my own thread:

I took beast heavy dark eldar with an allied avatar and a Bastion.

Won 2, Lost 2, Drew 1 but the first four games were very close and could have won all four.

1) Versus grey knight henchmen with kill points - was doing fine turn 5 7:1 up turning to 9:8 down by the end due to a single challenge costing me 5 KPs in one go (Baron, Hellions, Haemonculus, Wracks and warlord :o)
2) Versus fairly standard Space wolves list with a few tanks, grey hunters, long fangs etc. - Crusade I think. Beasts eventually broke through and pushed the wolves off their objectives whilst holding mine.
3) Versus Dark angels deathravenwing list - Scouring I think. Was doing great at turn 5 again but Sammael [only surviving enemy model] shrugged off everything and bounced all my troops off the objectives in teh last 2 turns leaving a draw on secondaries.
4) Versus Necrons death star [Stormlord, Zandrekh, Obyron, 2 chrono crypteks and lychguard in one unit] - Capture and control- That unit is b@st@rd hard to kill (didn't get a single character in the end just one cryptek and one lychguard) and with Obyron can go where needed but he left his objective comparatively unguarded and I was able to zip a raider down and take it with wracks whilst contesting mine to win.
5) Versus Vulkan marines with 2 thunderfires - Big guns - Horrible list versus my eldar, my beasts couldn't quite get up into his defense line and the avatar got hammernated. Highlight was shattering Vulkan on a 6 with the shattershard and nearly squeaked a draw on objectives but indestructible attack bikes and seven turns put paid to that. Final score not good.

[dwez]

Congrats, voted for you for best army. Shame they didn't let you use the quad gun. Do you knwo who won the best monument award? there were a lot of good entries.

There were quite a few Nid lists there doing well, that all tervigon list looked evil though.

Agree surprised to see so few chaos armies but i guess it will take a while for people to really get to grips with the new list.

As I'm too lazy to write up my own thread:

I took beast heavy dark eldar with an allied avatar and a Bastion.

Won 2, Lost 2, Drew 1 but the first four games were very close and could have won all four.

1) Versus grey knight henchmen with kill points - was doing fine turn 5 7:1 up turning to 9:8 down by the end due to a single challenge costing me 5 KPs in one go (Baron, Hellions, Haemonculus, Wracks and warlord :o)
2) Versus fairly standard Space wolves list with a few tanks, grey hunters, long fangs etc. - Crusade I think. Beasts eventually broke through and pushed the wolves off their objectives whilst holding mine.
3) Versus Dark angels deathravenwing list - Scouring I think. Was doing great at turn 5 again but Sammael [only surviving enemy model] shrugged off everything and bounced all my troops off the objectives in teh last 2 turns leaving a draw on secondaries.
4) Versus Necrons death star [Stormlord, Zandrekh, Obyron, 2 chrono crypteks and lychguard in one unit] - Capture and control- That unit is b@st@rd hard to kill (didn't get a single character in the end just one cryptek and one lychguard) and with Obyron can go where needed but he left his objective comparatively unguarded and I was able to zip a raider down and take it with wracks whilst contesting mine to win.
5) Versus Vulkan marines with 2 thunderfires - Big guns - Horrible list versus my eldar, my beasts couldn't quite get up into his defense line and the avatar got hammernated. Highlight was shattering Vulkan on a 6 with the shattershard and nearly squeaked a draw on objectives but indestructible attack bikes and seven turns put paid to that. Final score not good.

Thanks for the vote isotope99. I didn't mind so much about the quad gun I was struggling to fit it pointswise in the army anyway. According to my pics the Monument award went to Brad Glover and his Necrork quad gun and defence line.

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I totally loved his army and was surprised he didn't get nominated, I could only assume he didn't paint it but he told me he did. The only reason I could work out he didn't get a nomination was it wasn't a straight Codex army and was a total kit-bashed hybrid of Necrons, Orks and anything else in the mix, but I can't be certain. I thought it deserved a nod anyway.

Meanwhile the battle reports for my second battle are up Part 1 (http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/throne-of-skulls-oct-12-battle-2.html) and Part 2. (http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/throne-of-skulls-oct-12-battle-2.html)

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