Battle In Barre!! 2K pts 40k Tourny Report
Played at a local 10 man tourny today. Ended up going 0-3, and a total of 153 points on the day over 3 games, placing me 9th overall.
Chess Clocks were used, starting at 80 minutes per player. Most games saw me finish with about 10-15 minutes left.
First game against Druhkari (Dark Eldar)
Lost 43-73 and I was tabled on T4. It's just a really tough match up in general and my melee focused list isn't well suited to transport spam especially, so I didn't expect much honeatly. It was a generally low scoring game too, but I also misplayed and left 8 points on the table, and playing half unpainted cost me another 10. Potentially might have been 61-73, but still it was good practice into a tough matchup.
Second Game vs Death Guard
Scenario was basically, "Just Don't Die" and that played extremely well for my opponent.
Lost 64-82. Vs Death Guard with Mortarion, which was a little more doable, just because of my manueverability. Morty took the center and blocked me out of my last Secondary entirely, so that hurt my score a lot. Ended the game with 29 gaunts left scoring me points. Again, down 10 from unpainted so could of been a bit closer on the margin here as well.
Scenario 13 - Vital Intelligence
Lost 46-97. Played the Space Bugs mirror here, my Kraken / Behemoth melee list, vs a Kronos ranged/ Leviathan list, and Kronos is pretty much hands down our most competitive dps right now, so this does not surprise me at all. Also against the guy who took second overall, and who scored the most points on the day. (We got paired because his round 2 match-up was a loss against the Druhkari player and his only low scoring game of the day.)
I was tabled on T5 but my dice were also just not in it and my army melted pretty fast to all his extremely consistent ranged elements, which also kept picking me off my objectives and that hurt my scoring a lot. Again 10 pts down because of unpainted, but it is what it is. (There is a reason I dont play at LGS tournaments..)
Overall, it was a ton of fun, even when I expected to lose pretty hard. The other Tyranids player topped out the event with 244 points, while the 3-0 Death Guard player had only 242 pts. 3rd had 221, while 6th place had 214 pts overall, so it was very competent group of players with 2 of the games being pretty hard to max Primaries on.
I didn't expect to do well, because I am willfully playing a bad archetype list that I enjoy. It has good melee potential, but no staying power or ranged consistency, which is exactly what the other Tyranids player had.
My final score might have potentially been 191 over three games if I just actually finished painting things, but I enjoyed the experience regardless, and was happy to put another 3 games under my belt!
Photos courtesy of the TO.
