Tales of the Capital City Blood Bath 2017

A weekend of gaming has come and gone, and your favorite frenchie is back with tales from the Capital City Blood Bath, a 40K tournament held in Ottawa.



So I know updates have been few and far apart lately, but truth is, so has my hobby time.  I've been dealing with a lot of unrelated issues and fell out of touch with my 3-4 jobs schedule balance.

But no more.  I've spent a whole week painting and fixing everything that was falling a part, and the CCBB weekend was the perfect time to celebrate and get drunk out of my mind.  And, also, play some sort of Warhammer games.

The list:

The CCBB was no-codex and no-FW tournament, so my nurgle army was a no-go.  Rather than tweak it to remove all the FW items, I just fell back on my fancy Ultramarines Disco Rockets.  I did however take 3 hours out of my week to paint myself some IG.  35 conscripts, a comissar and an officer later, ready I am.  Click here for the list.

Game 1:

Game 1 was versus the infamous Jeff Brown, whom I've met at various events before but never had the chance to play until then.

Jeff had a quite brutal army, Storm Ravens with Militarum Tempestus and Tauroxes.  The game was quite straightforward, and I quickly realized that getting Maelstrom Points would be hard in the tournament, and even harder versus and army like Jeff's.

I did manage to play keepaway with some objectives once I realized winning was not going to happen and scored a decent 6 points out of 20, rather than 0.

Game 2:

My second game was versus Connor, who played Sisters of Battle and Space Wolves, with fancy primaris marines.  Again, getting Maelstrom Points proved quite hard with an advancing army to deal with and resilient Primaris marines in the back.

The game was really fun and I was drinking quite heavily at that point, and the final score escapes me.  It was either a draw or a close win for Connor, maybe 12-8 in points.

Game 3:

My time to shine!  Ynnari Eldars is one of the best matchup for the Disco Rockets, and I had grudge to settle versus Marc-André, my 3rd round opponent, after he beat me at Chaos Ludik a couple months back.

To put it in Ultramarines' terms:  I smurfed him good.

The game was pretty brutal for him, losing the Yncarne and both his airplanes on my turn one, after he failed to kill my Comissar Lord with his pathfinders.  This chain of events meant that the game snowballed out of MA's control pretty quickly, and he finished with a single farseer on the table.

Despite the horrible rolls he had and the slaughter of his pointy eared models, the game ended closer to 14-6 for me rather than a flat 20-0.

Game 4:

The submarine is getting real here, as I am paired versus orks, another great matchup for the rockets.  However my opponent Nate is no slouch, and knows how to play this match properly: cagey.

With a huge building sitting in the middle of the board, I have to move around with the devastators in order to kill stuff, but also remain in a safe position, as getting too close means getting wreckedy-wrecked.  The game ended somewhat draw, with me edging a couple of points over the orks.

Game 5:

I am paired versus my buddy Seb, and his list looks quite brutal.  5 Shooty Dreadnoughts, 5 Razorbacks, 60 conscripts, Azrael, a Darkshroud and St-Celestine.  Wowza!

The good thing about this game is that I have less drops, and going first means destroying a couple of tanks early on and making a sweet push with the conscripts torwards the relic.  But of course Seb seized on me.

The game went pretty well, mostly because 4 of the 6 tanks I blew up first exploded and proceeded to kill Azrael for me, and a few lucky rolls on maelstrom objectives.

The game ended up something 12-11 or something for Seb, which I was quite pleased with considering his better list ( in my opinion ) and unfortunate seizing on me.

Game 6:

I was pretty close to dropping out because 2 of my buds were playing one another in Age of Sigmar and spectating their game while trashtalking seemed like waaaaay more fun at that point.  In the end, we decided to play, and I was paired versus an Armitage brother ( bad at names ) from the infamous Basement Collective!

The mission is Kill Points, and I'm facing a double Stormsurge and triple Ghostkeel list, which is another good matchup for my gunline.

I'm pretty sure the game was over within an hour, with a pretty solid Smurfing of the Tau.  I proceeded with my initial plan to yell insults at my Age of Sigmar friends.

Overview:

Not a Best General worthy tournament like last year, but what a fun time I had!  I did end up somewhat tied with Will Paul for best sports, but no one can really compete with that guy.

Notable things:

• Unrelated to the tournament, the restaurant we went to on Saturday night ran out of beers and had to get more from a close by franchise.  I'm not saying we drank them all, but we were definitely the bigger part of the problem.

• I beat Jeff Brown in a dance off.

• At least 3 of my opponents called me a dumbass for playing Abba's Dancing Queen during my games and infering the song was meant for Guilliman and/or would boost his close combat prowess.  This is my biggest win of the weekend.

• Joce, my partner in crime in this road trip, destroyed the Age of Sigmar, wining something like 4 different categories.  P-L, who was my roomie last year, got Best Painted player's vote for a second year in a row. 

Overall, CCBB is one hell of a convention, which I will be quite happy to return next year.