thanks to all for a fantastic weekend of gaming, I had five of the highest quality, enjoyable games I've ever had, against friendly and sporting opponents
thanks to Steve for his hard work herding the cats and organising the event, Slayer Gaming for hosting, and of course Darren, Kev, Robin, Andy H and Steve for 5 fun and memorable games!
very quick reports
Game 1 - Darren (orks)
Darren had taken a bit of a toybox list comprising less-used but much loved models, he had a great gargant and supa stompa mob, bulked out by (in his words) "lots of chaff" my orbital strike landed in the big hole in the centre and did very little, but my aircraft had a field day strafing all his light vehicles for 3 turns, the gargant rumbled forwards then ended up heading back to Darren's Blitz
it went to four turns but some canny moves by Darren meant I couldn't push for the win and ended up way ahead on the countback for an 18-14 winning draw
Game 2 - Kev (AMTL)
Kev castled up and put everything on overwatch on turn 1, on turn two I waited until everything had activated, then tried to kill a warhound with terminators, confident they would kill the thing outright and avoid the supporting fire from the nearby warlord, my dice failed me (see exhibit A a few posts back) and the terminators ended up very dead.... I decided to finish the job with my assault marines, who failed to do the single point of damage required to the stupid wolf-bot and were similarly mashed by the warlord titan.... I stupidly landed on the wrong objective with my landing craft turn 3, giving kev a 3-0 win
Game 3 - Robin (Nids)
Robin had taken lots of big gribblies but only had 8 activations, when my orbital strike landed and blew a massive hole in the BTS formation, I comfortably picked him apart, knowing my huge activation advantage would lend me the edge, I took it 2-0 on turn 3
Game 4 - Andy H (Iron Warriors)
I'd never played Andy before, and after my orbital strike killed precisely zero stuff, I watched as Andy castled up on overwatch Turn 1, there was some back and forth but no real action until later in turn 2, we had a few fights, then Andy engaged my assault marines sitting on an objective in my half, he moved his BTS formation into support range, but unwittingly allowed two assault marines to counter charge into BTB, dragging the two blast markers into the assault, the assault marines ended up winning and breaking the BTS who eventually fell to the weight of blast markers, turn 3 came round and a thawk failing to activate to break a decimator cost me the game and I could only hold on for the draw after turn 4, the countback was 500 in my favour so another 18-14 result
Game 5 - Steve (Thousand Sons)
Turn 1 went my way for sure, I de-meched two retinues, killed a warphound and broke a second, however on turn 2 and 3 Steve won the strategy roll (a first for me for the entire weekend) and gained a big advantage, I managed to drag it to turn 4, with successive aircraft engaging and defeating his warphound on my blitz, but I ran out of stuff on the ground and couldn't stop a 2-0 defeat
I enjoyed every game, win or lose, and it was a great honour to win the players choice for Best Painted, many thanks to all who voted, I'm truly humbled, what a way to close out the 2015 season!
