Post by jefferestinpeace on Mar 20, 2015 11:49:52 GMT -6
So I won Adepticon! All of it! Don't listen to internets or anything; they're full of porn and shit and shitporn and shit porn.
I went 2-2, so no "worse" than last year, but I dropped considerably on the big list. 37th last year and 83rd this year. Sad face. Now that I think about it, I might have been an alternate last year, as they took top 32 + six alternates this year... MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.
Game 1: Eldar w/ Daemon Summoning
My first thought was that I was quite happy he had no Wave Serpents or Skyfire to speak of, but that unfortunately didn't last. It was a decent game, I squeaked out a few Battle Points and wasn't completely routed, but he basically just swarmed the board with daemons while he holed up in a ruin within reach of 3 objectives (had Stealth: Ruins as well) with a Guardian blob, playing the jetbike game. I sent my Flyrants up his weak flank with a Wraithknight and some jetbikes, nabbed First Blood, but met with quite a lot of misfortune. The objective over there happened to be Skyfire, all his Spiders dropped close enough to utilize it, and his War Walkers Outflanked neatly on it. I got a reprieve when my Rippers ObSec'd it out of his control, but that certainly didn't last long. Post-Flyrants, he rushed my backfield and overloaded me with targets. Game ended on 6.
Also, his Wraithknights and daemons were rainbow-airbrushed and his jetbikes had no riders. I really hate how the competitive side of this game seems to actively destroy the hobby side. It's stupid.
Game 2: Astra Militarum w/ Inquisition
This was a great game; I LOVE playing IG and my opponent was a super cool dudeman. I don't really know why I like AM so much, but they are simply the most entertaining games I get to play. This one was kill points, objectives scored at the end of the game. He had your typical parking lot, 3 Wyverns, 2 Hydras, 2 Vendettas, Coteaz, Yarrick, a blob squad w/ 4 lascannons, 2 melta vet squads (1 Chimera, 1 Taurox), and a plasma vet squad in a Chimera. He reserved the vets and vendettas, and I had first turn. Rightfully scared of the Hydras, I did what I could to them, popping one with the Barbie before it could shoot, and hiding my Flyrants out of LOS (Warlord was in reserve). He took some shots with a bunch of stuff and put a couple wounds on my Exocrine, but that was about it. Round 2, I put my 2 Lictors behind his parking lot and nabbed a hull point or two off some Wyverns. Flyrants got to his backfield, killed the other Hydra, Barbie took some pot shots at the Wyverns, did some damage, and I think my Warlord had come on, putting wounds into his blob. I ended up putting too many shots into that thing as I was a little short on targets (and didn't want to get first rank-second ranked into the ground), but probably could have allocated shooting a bit better. I think one Vendetta came on, didn't do much, Exocrine took a couple more wounds, but I think that was it.
Don't want to get too long here, but the rest of the game was pretty good for me. I had a lot of trouble with the Vendettas (killed neither), only lost 1 Flyrant, Lictors fucked up all the Wyverns in CC, Coteaz got one-shotted on a Vector Strike after he tried to go take a Lictor out on his own and failed, his plasma vets all killed themselves and ran off the board, and his blob squad kept blobbing. In the end, it was actually really close because of kill points (Lictors and Rippers!), and I only won by a single point. We added it up a bunch of times just to make sure, but I ended up coming away with it. Had we gone onto Turn 6, it would have been a complete rout though. He only had the blob and his vendettas, and they were on the ground. Satisfying win, if it didn't do much for my Battle Point total.
Game 3: Dark Eldar w/ Culexus assassin
SAY HELLO TO 8 VENOMS. Jesus. You guys know what a Culexus does? Fucking look that dude up. He's not just Satan, but Tyranids' personal Satan, designed solely for the consumption of jackass Flyrants and their tiny twin-linked bug peens. This entire list was built to fuck up Nids. And it did. Truly.
Case in point: No Flyrant left my backfield. Zero of them. I think I swooped once with one; he was on me that fast. Granted, my Rippers and Lictors had some fun elsewhere (his Warlord assaulted one of my Lictors, I ID'd him), but all my heavy hitters stayed put. Exocrine was BS 4 all game. Thankfully though, I didn't get tabled, just soundly beat. I did kill a lot (love auto-penning with the Barbie), but it didn't really matter. Dude was really nice though and a great opponent (he does this stuff) and actually very thoughtfully gave me a few pointers about where I could have made some better decisions, which was primarily with terrain placement, of all fucking things. Essentially, it was really cool he didn't table me, he wasn't 15, and his parents didn't clean up his toys after his game. That was really cool of him to not be that kid.
Game 4: Legion of the Damned w/ Nids
This was an okay game. I ended up tabling the dude, which was great for my ego, but I was burning out and fraying at the edges. He showed up to the table late, didn't have a LotD codex, and dragged his ass through everything. His voice was also completely monotone, so I had no idea what he was trying to say half the time. There's not much to say about the game though. His LotD were lackluster, he podded two Exocrines (?), and I almost tabled him first turn, as he only started with 2 Flyrants and a Crone on the table, flew off with the Crone, and flew into my 3-Flyrant range with one. Had I successfully cast Onslaught, it would have been over in 20 minutes. Highlight was spawning a Muke, charging his 2W Crone, wounding him, and him failing grounding and getting killed. In the end, he was nice enough, and died like a champ, and I won full Battle Points and then some.
All in all, a good exhausting time. I like my list, but found the Exocrine and Sporocyst lackluster (surprise!). They weren't disappointing, but I enjoyed the Lictors a lot more than them. I really couldn't believe how they stood up to fire and did pretty decently in combat. They're scary enough to actually do shit. I know, I know, next I'll be loving on Maleceptor. Sporocyst was a huge target for people that was pretty hard to kill, but was mostly just annoying. Exocrine's AP 2 was pointless all tournament as I didn't face a single 2+ save, and the S7 wasn't enough to do what needed to be done. I honestly think Deathleaper formation and the Sporefield would be badass to play, and maybe even some of those Genestealer formations, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice ObSec. But god, no scatter Deep Strike with a single 40mm model gives me such an erection.
Casting psychic powers is fucking stupid. It's a terrible phase. I swear, I hurt myself just as much as I actually did good for my army. In the last game, full-wound Warlord Perils'ed, rolled a 1, and failed Leadership. I finally cast fucking Catalyst though, but Satan H. Culexus, what a cost. Stupid game.
I also saw that at least one person voted me Best Army. I didn't win, of course, but I'll take it.
TL;DR: The road to mediocrity has been successfully traversed.
I went 2-2, so no "worse" than last year, but I dropped considerably on the big list. 37th last year and 83rd this year. Sad face. Now that I think about it, I might have been an alternate last year, as they took top 32 + six alternates this year... MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.
Game 1: Eldar w/ Daemon Summoning
My first thought was that I was quite happy he had no Wave Serpents or Skyfire to speak of, but that unfortunately didn't last. It was a decent game, I squeaked out a few Battle Points and wasn't completely routed, but he basically just swarmed the board with daemons while he holed up in a ruin within reach of 3 objectives (had Stealth: Ruins as well) with a Guardian blob, playing the jetbike game. I sent my Flyrants up his weak flank with a Wraithknight and some jetbikes, nabbed First Blood, but met with quite a lot of misfortune. The objective over there happened to be Skyfire, all his Spiders dropped close enough to utilize it, and his War Walkers Outflanked neatly on it. I got a reprieve when my Rippers ObSec'd it out of his control, but that certainly didn't last long. Post-Flyrants, he rushed my backfield and overloaded me with targets. Game ended on 6.
Also, his Wraithknights and daemons were rainbow-airbrushed and his jetbikes had no riders. I really hate how the competitive side of this game seems to actively destroy the hobby side. It's stupid.
Game 2: Astra Militarum w/ Inquisition
This was a great game; I LOVE playing IG and my opponent was a super cool dudeman. I don't really know why I like AM so much, but they are simply the most entertaining games I get to play. This one was kill points, objectives scored at the end of the game. He had your typical parking lot, 3 Wyverns, 2 Hydras, 2 Vendettas, Coteaz, Yarrick, a blob squad w/ 4 lascannons, 2 melta vet squads (1 Chimera, 1 Taurox), and a plasma vet squad in a Chimera. He reserved the vets and vendettas, and I had first turn. Rightfully scared of the Hydras, I did what I could to them, popping one with the Barbie before it could shoot, and hiding my Flyrants out of LOS (Warlord was in reserve). He took some shots with a bunch of stuff and put a couple wounds on my Exocrine, but that was about it. Round 2, I put my 2 Lictors behind his parking lot and nabbed a hull point or two off some Wyverns. Flyrants got to his backfield, killed the other Hydra, Barbie took some pot shots at the Wyverns, did some damage, and I think my Warlord had come on, putting wounds into his blob. I ended up putting too many shots into that thing as I was a little short on targets (and didn't want to get first rank-second ranked into the ground), but probably could have allocated shooting a bit better. I think one Vendetta came on, didn't do much, Exocrine took a couple more wounds, but I think that was it.
Don't want to get too long here, but the rest of the game was pretty good for me. I had a lot of trouble with the Vendettas (killed neither), only lost 1 Flyrant, Lictors fucked up all the Wyverns in CC, Coteaz got one-shotted on a Vector Strike after he tried to go take a Lictor out on his own and failed, his plasma vets all killed themselves and ran off the board, and his blob squad kept blobbing. In the end, it was actually really close because of kill points (Lictors and Rippers!), and I only won by a single point. We added it up a bunch of times just to make sure, but I ended up coming away with it. Had we gone onto Turn 6, it would have been a complete rout though. He only had the blob and his vendettas, and they were on the ground. Satisfying win, if it didn't do much for my Battle Point total.
Game 3: Dark Eldar w/ Culexus assassin
SAY HELLO TO 8 VENOMS. Jesus. You guys know what a Culexus does? Fucking look that dude up. He's not just Satan, but Tyranids' personal Satan, designed solely for the consumption of jackass Flyrants and their tiny twin-linked bug peens. This entire list was built to fuck up Nids. And it did. Truly.
Case in point: No Flyrant left my backfield. Zero of them. I think I swooped once with one; he was on me that fast. Granted, my Rippers and Lictors had some fun elsewhere (his Warlord assaulted one of my Lictors, I ID'd him), but all my heavy hitters stayed put. Exocrine was BS 4 all game. Thankfully though, I didn't get tabled, just soundly beat. I did kill a lot (love auto-penning with the Barbie), but it didn't really matter. Dude was really nice though and a great opponent (he does this stuff) and actually very thoughtfully gave me a few pointers about where I could have made some better decisions, which was primarily with terrain placement, of all fucking things. Essentially, it was really cool he didn't table me, he wasn't 15, and his parents didn't clean up his toys after his game. That was really cool of him to not be that kid.
Game 4: Legion of the Damned w/ Nids
This was an okay game. I ended up tabling the dude, which was great for my ego, but I was burning out and fraying at the edges. He showed up to the table late, didn't have a LotD codex, and dragged his ass through everything. His voice was also completely monotone, so I had no idea what he was trying to say half the time. There's not much to say about the game though. His LotD were lackluster, he podded two Exocrines (?), and I almost tabled him first turn, as he only started with 2 Flyrants and a Crone on the table, flew off with the Crone, and flew into my 3-Flyrant range with one. Had I successfully cast Onslaught, it would have been over in 20 minutes. Highlight was spawning a Muke, charging his 2W Crone, wounding him, and him failing grounding and getting killed. In the end, he was nice enough, and died like a champ, and I won full Battle Points and then some.
All in all, a good exhausting time. I like my list, but found the Exocrine and Sporocyst lackluster (surprise!). They weren't disappointing, but I enjoyed the Lictors a lot more than them. I really couldn't believe how they stood up to fire and did pretty decently in combat. They're scary enough to actually do shit. I know, I know, next I'll be loving on Maleceptor. Sporocyst was a huge target for people that was pretty hard to kill, but was mostly just annoying. Exocrine's AP 2 was pointless all tournament as I didn't face a single 2+ save, and the S7 wasn't enough to do what needed to be done. I honestly think Deathleaper formation and the Sporefield would be badass to play, and maybe even some of those Genestealer formations, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice ObSec. But god, no scatter Deep Strike with a single 40mm model gives me such an erection.
Casting psychic powers is fucking stupid. It's a terrible phase. I swear, I hurt myself just as much as I actually did good for my army. In the last game, full-wound Warlord Perils'ed, rolled a 1, and failed Leadership. I finally cast fucking Catalyst though, but Satan H. Culexus, what a cost. Stupid game.
I also saw that at least one person voted me Best Army. I didn't win, of course, but I'll take it.
TL;DR: The road to mediocrity has been successfully traversed.
