So a couple weekends ago I played in a great event up in Seattle, part of the TSHFT series of events. There were about seventy participants; which shows this events great growth. It was 2,000 points with a nice battle point system. See here for more about the event rules and layout. I play-tested my list for about a month before in a half-dozen or so games, making adjustments until I got it just how I wanted it. Here is what it looked like:
HQ
Destroyer
Lord w/ Semiternal Weave, Resurrection Orb, Mindshackle Scarabs 190
(Allied)
Typhus 230
Troops
10*Immortals w/ Tesla 170
5*Immortals
w/ Tesla, Night Scythe 185
5*Warriors
w/ Night Scythe 165
(Allied)
26*Zombies 114
(Allied) 26*Zombies 114
Fast
Attack
7*
Canoptek Scarabs 105
(Allied)
Heldrake w/ Baleflamer 170
Heavy
Support
Doom
Scythe 175
Annihilation
Barge 90
Annihilation
Barge 90
(Allied) 2*Obliterators w/ Mark of Nurgle 152
Fortification
Aegis
Defense Line 50
=2000
....and here is what it looked like:
So I have two fairly beatstick HQs, a solid footprint of tough fearless Troops, some decent heavy shooting, and some potentially devastating flyers. The army doesn't a ton of spam but it still has redundancy. I had five great games against five great opponents. ....and here is what it looked like:
Game
1 v. Fluger (ORK) - Hammer and Anvil/ The Scouring
From that point it came down to my flyers harassing and whittling down his Boyz in midfield and surviving the Lootas.
Turn 5 I was winning, turn 6 Fluger was winning. We got turn 7. It came all the way down to me needing to kill a wounded Nob gone to ground on the 4 point objective behind an Aegis, managed to barely do it with an Annihilation Barge and claim the win.
Game II v. Tasty (NEC/CSM) - Vanguard
Strike/Big Guns
Played against his 5 armour 14 stuff list. He deployed his three Monoliths spread equidistant along his deployment line. His Icarus with Chronometron re-rolls and Tank Hunter was nasty. My Obliterators killed a Land Raider and a Monolith and my Destroyer Lord killed another to claim an objective on the last turn to win.I think Tasty could have won this with better target priority; I had very few units to harm his AV 14 and they mostly had to be close to do the job.
Game III v. Jesse Z (GK) - Dawn of War/Purge
Nice guy who came in from Michigan, had Coteaz, 4 Acolyte units, a couple Strike Squads, 5 Paladins, 3 Psyflemen (2 Venerable) and 2 Dreadknights w/ Incinerators. Came down to his lack of anti-air stuff (the Heldrake and Doom Scythe dominated) and the Destroyer Lord getting up multiple times and killing both Dreadknights and Coteaz. Good win.
Game IV v. Ben
C (DW/GK) - Vanguard Strike/Crusade(4)
Playing against Ben with his 4 Interceptors was a nightmare scenario for my army, but thankfully I was able to fly in out of range of his Kheres assault cannon toting Mortis Contemptors to help mitigate the problem. Only 1 flyer went down on the turn they came in. We were both able to eliminate all the threats we put on each others objectives and ended up with a draw.
Game V v.
Kriston B (NEC) - Dawn of War/Emperor's Will
Played against a Scarab Farm/Scythe list with 40 Immortals. Emperor's Will was modified so that there was an objective the the center worth twice as many points as the objectives the deployment zones. I played this game wrong for the most part, I targeted the Scarabs early when they weren't really a great threat to my army when I should have focused on his troops. I let his Destroyer Lord sneak into the flank of my deployment zone to start wreaking havoc. Despite all that on turn 5 I would have won; Typhus cleared the center objective with two zombie friends remaining and my flyer troops dropped in for the contest on the other two objectives. Unfortunately I didn't roll a 1 or 2 and lost the game. If I had rolled that 1 or 2 I would have been TSHFT Champion.
Great event and I can't wait for the next one in May!
*all photos courtesy of TSHFT and my inability to take photos myself!
