GW Monthly Tourney - Round 1
Played the first round of the National GW Warhammer tourney at the Columbia store against a guy named Wes who was playing Vampire Counts. Really nice guy, good opponent - played very well; it was a thinking game, with each player forcing decisions by the other and a couple of wacky dice rolls that added interesting amounts of drama at some key points.
I was playing my tourney Slaanesh list, with an additional block of Horrors and the Changeling added since the tourney is 2500 instead of 2250. The VC list was a block of Grave Guard (20), 2 skeleton blocks (20 ea), 2 ghoul blocks (20 each), banshee w. 2 cairn wraiths, 5 hounds, 5 bats, necro on corpse cart, Vamp lord on steed in a unit with 5 black knights, 2 vamps on foot (one in GG and one in skels). He did a lot of good work with his blocks supporting each other and solid use of summoned zombies, but in the end I was able to mostly out-maneuver him and roll his flank.
Final tally was a massacre for me, 1515 points vs. 435 points for him. I lost the horrors and a small unit of daemonettes, a unit of furies and 4 of the seekers. I managed to kill the black knights, a block of skeletons, 2 units of summoned zombies, the hounds, the bats, one of his vampires on foot, the necro and cart, captured 2 standards and controlled 2 table corners.
Overall, it was a good game - there were few easy decisions, a few surprises and a lot of denial plays; great way to start the tourney. Next game is end of March.
I was playing my tourney Slaanesh list, with an additional block of Horrors and the Changeling added since the tourney is 2500 instead of 2250. The VC list was a block of Grave Guard (20), 2 skeleton blocks (20 ea), 2 ghoul blocks (20 each), banshee w. 2 cairn wraiths, 5 hounds, 5 bats, necro on corpse cart, Vamp lord on steed in a unit with 5 black knights, 2 vamps on foot (one in GG and one in skels). He did a lot of good work with his blocks supporting each other and solid use of summoned zombies, but in the end I was able to mostly out-maneuver him and roll his flank.
Final tally was a massacre for me, 1515 points vs. 435 points for him. I lost the horrors and a small unit of daemonettes, a unit of furies and 4 of the seekers. I managed to kill the black knights, a block of skeletons, 2 units of summoned zombies, the hounds, the bats, one of his vampires on foot, the necro and cart, captured 2 standards and controlled 2 table corners.
Overall, it was a good game - there were few easy decisions, a few surprises and a lot of denial plays; great way to start the tourney. Next game is end of March.