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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:48 am 
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I'm inclined to agree with you Nath, ever since this silly championship was started my results have worsened. Lets get rid of the whole thing - course its only supposed to represent a bit of fun and I'm all for renaming it the Dave Thomas Trophy to be presented to Dave at the end of every season.  :tongue:

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:12 pm 
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Daves days at the top are numbered! I've been studying his moves and when I return I will destroy his armies utterly!

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:15 pm 
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Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 24 Jul. 2009, 13:12 )

Daves days at the top are numbered! I've been studying his moves and when I return I will destroy his armies utterly!

Unfortunately his dice won't let you  :alien:

Unless you mean physically destroy his armies   :devil:


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:16 pm 
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Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 24 Jul. 2009, 13:12 )

Daves days at the top are numbered! I've been studying his moves and when I return I will destroy his armies utterly!

Has anyone ever written a battle report about a game with the esteemed Mr. Thomas?  Surely it can't just be "dice" that win!  *laugh*  I'd like to see his tactical cunning as well.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:35 pm 
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Its not just his dice. He is very skilled with his armies (he plays equally well with marines, guard or LATD) and rarely give his opponent an opening.

I've only ever played him at a tournament once and He did make a lot of 'I really need a 6 now' type of dice rolls  :vD

His tournament record since Jan 08 can be seen here which shows an impressive 24-1-4 WLD record.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:44 pm 
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Quote: (Mephiston @ 24 Jul. 2009, 13:35 )

Its not just his dice. He is very skilled with his armies (he plays equally well with marines, guard or LATD) and rarely give his opponent an opening.

That's why I'd love to see a write-up some time just to see "how he does it"... could be the basis of a tactical bible for Epic!

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Last time he played me he had pretty bad dice actually and I was lucky to draw.

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I think the "Championship" is OK as it is,as Matt states it's never going to be perfect or suit everyone.

It is doing a great job of gathering Data/Stats which was Gavins main intention.

Instead of an end of season "play-off" I'd prefer to see a Handicap style Tournament based on position or points scored in the "Championship".


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Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 24 Jul. 2009, 14:23 )

Last time he played me he had pretty bad dice actually and I was lucky to draw.

Thanks Chris,it seems people only remember my hundreds of good rolls but always forget the games where I roll the odd bad dice  :whistle: .

@Chroma, I think the main reason I do well at tournaments is the sheer number of games I get to play.

Over the last 3 or 4 years I've probably averaged 2 or 3 GT scenario games per week(against tournament standard players)thats not including tournaments I attend.
I've also played a game every week from pre release/testing of the game.
Plus until recently I played a 6000-12000 point game almost every week or a couple of different scenarios.
On top of that when my son paints a new army he wants to play small test games (1500 points),sometimes we've played 30 -40 games over a long weekend although this rarely happens now as he's working.
Then on top of that if you include theory/test games against myself it means I've played quite a few games.

I believe I've faced every conceivable type of list that can be brought to a table dozens of times each,I've faced,

Drop pod heavy armies (4Forlorn Hope/5 Scouts even Ork drop cans)
Air Assault heavy armies
Heavy Air transports (8 T/hawks IIRC)
All War Engine armies
All Titan armies (including 2 Imperators in 1 army and 3 Mega Gargants in another)
All infantry armies and all AV armies whilst using lists suited for the opposite.
Stupidly high activation armies
Low activation armies
All Fearless armies
Chaos armies including dozens of Oblitorators and lots of Princes etc.
Handicap matches where 1 players used 50-100% more points of troops.
plus anything anyone could come up with (TRC included  :vD ).

When I'm at a tournament I've usually faced everything before so I'm rarely surprised by lists, even Tim's extreme attempts (his Lost and Damned/Chaos War Engine and Eldar Nightwing heavy one's spring to mind).

As for writing a Bat-Rep,where do you think I would find the time :vD.
I'll see if anyone wants to help with one but it will probably be the kiss of death.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:10 pm 
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Quote: (dptdexys @ 24 Jul. 2009, 17:05 )

As for writing a Bat-Rep,where do you think I would find the time :vD.
I'll see if anyone wants to help with one but it will probably be the kiss of death.

If all the UK tournament players would like to form an orderly queue.....

I'll bring some Chroma TM Bat Rep sheets in August and record you giving me a good kicking if you like Dave  :_(


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:13 pm 
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Quote: (dptdexys @ 24 Jul. 2009, 17:05 )

Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 24 Jul. 2009, 14:23 )

Last time he played me he had pretty bad dice actually and I was lucky to draw.

Thanks Chris,it seems people only remember my hundreds of good rolls but always forget the games where I roll the odd bad dice  :whistle: .

@Chroma, I think the main reason I do well at tournaments is the sheer number of games I get to play.

Over the last 3 or 4 years I've probably averaged 2 or 3 GT scenario games per week(against tournament standard players)thats not including tournaments I attend.
I've also played a game every week from pre release/testing of the game.
Plus until recently I played a 6000-12000 point game almost every week or a couple of different scenarios.
On top of that when my son paints a new army he wants to play small test games (1500 points),sometimes we've played 30 -40 games over a long weekend although this rarely happens now as he's working.
Then on top of that if you include theory/test games against myself it means I've played quite a few games.

I believe I've faced every conceivable type of list that can be brought to a table dozens of times each,I've faced,

Drop pod heavy armies (4Forlorn Hope/5 Scouts even Ork drop cans)
Air Assault heavy armies
Heavy Air transports (8 T/hawks IIRC)
All War Engine armies
All Titan armies (including 2 Imperators in 1 army and 3 Mega Gargants in another)
All infantry armies and all AV armies whilst using lists suited for the opposite.
Stupidly high activation armies
Low activation armies
All Fearless armies
Chaos armies including dozens of Oblitorators and lots of Princes etc.
Handicap matches where 1 players used 50-100% more points of troops.
plus anything anyone could come up with (TRC included  :vD ).

When I'm at a tournament I've usually faced everything before so I'm rarely surprised by lists, even Tim's extreme attempts (his Lost and Damned/Chaos War Engine and Eldar Nightwing heavy one's spring to mind).

As for writing a Bat-Rep,where do you think I would find the time :vD.
I'll see if anyone wants to help with one but it will probably be the kiss of death.

I'll beat you yet Dave   :no: - you've mugged me a couple of times but one day :)

If the rest of the tourney players want to bribe me not to give him a lift to tourneys my paypal is ..

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Quote: (Mephiston @ 24 Jul. 2009, 17:10 )

If all the UK tournament players would like to form an orderly queue.....

I'll bring some Chroma TM Bat Rep sheets in August and record you giving me a good kicking if you like Dave  :_(

Nice one Mr B.  :agree:


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Makes me think of a chess Grand Master. A GM doesn't really play chess - he doesn't spend time working things out - he just instinctually feels his way through. Huge experience and an enormous database of games in his head means that the next move is immediately apparent. If he does have to work things out, well he's in trouble.

Perhaps Dave is something like that!




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Quote: (Mephiston @ 24 Jul. 2009, 17:10 )

I'll bring some Chroma TM Bat Rep sheets in August and record you giving me a good kicking if you like Dave  :_(

I look forward to it!  :agree:

And, I only learned in this thread that dptdexys = Dave Thomas!   :O

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Quote: (dptdexys @ 24 Jul. 2009, 17:05 )

@Chroma, I think the main reason I do well at tournaments is the sheer number of games I get to play.

Ah the true master revealed - what has happened to me is that I can be remembering any one of a dozen different set of test stats when it comes to a game, and rarely the actual ones!

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