Round up of Day 1 from Rising Tomb, the 40k crusade event I'm at
I lost. A lot.
As a recap, I took along my Wolfspear Vanguard Spearhead army. 50Pl list, but with 75Pl worth of models.
We(all 50-ish of those there) were assigned into 1 of 4 teams. I was put into the defilers'. Now what exactly the moody sons of Russ that the Wolfspear are, are actually defiling I'll leave up to you.
Game 1: Martian AdMech - Narrow the search
Things looked promising at the start. I had enough units in concealed positions that I could control the centre reasonably well. Then the invictor ate a neutron laser to the face, my incursors got acquainted with the business end of tasers & the less said about the eliminators the better. But hey, the Phobos Librarian wrote a mighty saga as he carved through an entire squad of raiders, a cavalcade of rust-stalkers before sticking his sword into a dragoon. Which took it very calmly and promptly blew up in his face, killing him.
End result: Loss
Game 2: Tryannids - Can't remember the mission name but it was the 6 objectives, find the real one
This could've gone better. Decided to play defensively, bide my time like a patient wolf and methodically find the real objective. The only problem with this plan? It required my forces to exist in the first place. Unfortunately my opponent had an incredible game 1 and his bugs were already fairly buffed and they promptly walked all over me. Was over by the end of round 3.
End result: loss
Game 3: Torchbearer Fleet - Cut off the head
My first game against a narrative force! And a good mission! What could go wrong, it had 2 objectives, I had 2 characters which wanted to be on them, and I could deploy on them unlike my opponent.
What went wrong was a genetically engineered demi-god in gold basically walking through my librarian before he could cast anything to charge his relic force sword up. The las-eliminators getting drive-by'ed by a storm speeder probably could've been avoided. But it was neck and neck for so long
End result: Loss
So at the end of day 1 I'm 0 - 3. There's 2 games to go tomorrow so I'll hopefully get another decent mission which I'll be able to work well with