The ND Open, Part 4

Day 2 Recap

This is the forth instalment in my tournament adventure at the ND Open. Part 4 will delve into the 2^nd day at the tournament and includes a short battle report of the 3 games that day. Read on for glory!

You can find Part 3 here

Because of the previous night's celebratory drink, I did not get much more than 2 hours of sleep. But, with the trusty aid of my Cranberry Sportsmanship Drink^TM , I was back in action in no time. My 1^st opponent of the day was Fred. He played Space Wolves in a very 5^th edition style army, buch of razorback, 3 units of longfangs, 2 Rune Priests and Arjac in a drop pod. To quote a famous musician, I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! on these wolves. Actually, Fred rolled pretty much like I did in my game 3. As I've told him after the game, I'm pretty sure that the entire 2^nd game turn, there wouldve been absolutly no difference wether he used dice or not. It was that horrible. Tactically speaking, He set up his Aegis in a corner, long fangs and rune priests behind. I set up in the opposite corner and negated this 600ish chunk of point for the entire game. Scoring Arjac was really a thorn in my side, it took me a lot of manpower to kill that dude. Fred was a really nice guy the whole game, despite rolling horribly. Should he read this, I will accept his challenge for next year as his wolves need to reclaim their honor.

Game 5 was against a Necron list with a bunch of units that I was unfamiliar with. To be honest, I'm familiar with Night Scythes, Annihilation Barges and MindShackle Scarabs and thats about it. There was a cryptek unit, a Command Barge, Ghost Arks and wraiths. It was a game where I was quite unlucky ( payback for last game some would say ) with my assassins missing 2 charges within 6'' in back to back turns. That or 24 Psycanon shots in the rear of a Barge that could not get more that 1 HP off. Looking back at the game, I feel it's the one I made the most misplays in the tournament. As a player I think copping with badluck is something I should work on, as I tend to lose focus in those instances. By turn 5 I got my shit together and made decent scoring moves, but as luck would have it, there was no turn 6 for me to redeem myself. The game was pretty close overall and ended 18-12 for my opponent.  Challenging games like this are always tons of fun, event when things don't go your way.

Game 6 was quite a weird game. My opponent was playing a Daemon/Chaos Marines list with no shooting. The scenario was all Victory Points. It was a weird game because there was absolutely nothing the daemon army could do to stop my deathstar crushing everything. I tried to delay everything in my reserves to arrive on turn 4, then with everything on the board, I charged my deathstar into his army. I won by 1200 vp or more, and none of my strike squad disembarked from a tank or shot at all in the game. All the bloodshed is the Land Raider, 2 Dreadknights and the deathstar's work. I lost a dreadknight to a Great Unclean one because I forgot about the Balesword and the Land Raider. His army was down to Big Nug, 2 half squads of plague bearers and a squad of cultists. It's also the first time ever I get to use my banisher. Yay me!

You can find part 5 here!