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Tournament Report Joe (The Waaagh the 16^th to 17^th Jan) 

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The army was chosen based around the Death Guard, the legion of Chaos space marines that spawned the plague marines. I wanted to do this for two reasons, firstly because I had never seen a chaos army done like this, and secondly because I thought it would be cool to see something of the legion and not just the cult. I took a great unclean one because the model is just so great that I felt compelled to use it, and then a lord because I thought that a lower level character would not be considered worthy of such a daemon’s aid (to make up for this I took limited wargear though). The rest of the army was pretty basic stuff around this theme, with nurgle stuff taken where possible, except of course for nurglings, I really cannot stand them.

The plan was to hold everything back and shoot the crap out of my opponents before they got near to me and then launch a counter attack with plague marines, daemons and terminators. I just had to hope that the daemons wouldn’t turn up too early and get shot. Note that throughout the tournament I got the rules for summoning my plague bearers wrong, apologies to all opponents.

Game one: Space wolves

I lost this mainly because of bad luck and rather foolishly not sticking to my plan. It started quite well with the firepower of most of my army breaking his blood claws, but I pressed forward far too early and got overwhelmed. The worst bit of luck was all my las-cannons firing at his longfangs and despite all of them hitting I caused not a single casualty. There were some pretty good points to the game though, for example when one plague bearer held up twenty or so marines for a couple of turns, or when my lord killed his in a one on one combat. The great unclean one turned up too late and too far away to be of any major use.

Game two: Space marines

This game was played against Ian Wood (an opponent I had previously beaten with my Tyranids). His army had remained more or less the same, a couple of scout units, a couple of whirlwinds, the odd landspeeder and all his units in razorbacks. The scenario roll meant that all units (except troops and one HQ) started in reserve, so I was able to begin out numbering him enough to cause concern. I was able to win this game (no thanks to the plague bearers who turned up on turn two charged some scouts, killed none and were wiped out in the next turn by his command squad without causing a single fatality).

Because of the scenario roll I wasn’t able to counter attack as well as I had hoped, but considering that he wasn’t at full strength either this wasn’t too catastrophic. My rhino immobilised itself in a forest after moving two inches, repaired the next turn but was instantly immobilised again (then my plague marines decided to get out and walk). The terminators arrived just in time to kill some scouts and clear my deployment zone, but the plague marines and great unclean one (who had possessed my lord) made short work of his command squad, several tanks and devastators winning me the game (had the great unclean one been half an inch further forward I would have got maximum points for being in his deployment zone, ah well).

Quiz:

At this point the games stopped for the quiz, the questions had their usual ambiguity (causing much consternation to several participants), but I was able to score 17 out of 20.

Game 3: Alaitoc Eldar

The third game was against Anthony Theodossi (team mate and regular opponent of mine). His army was beardy as hell in a protest of previous juding, so I didn’t expect to get even near to winning. Oddly enough I was nowhere near to winning and got thrashed. For once my plague bearers did quite well (killed a bunch of rangers), but in an unusual reversal of fate the rest of my army did bugger all.

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