Alamo GT Pictures

 Game 1 v. Will's Decurion

 Game 2 v. Dru's Decurion

 Game 3 v. Chris' Coven

 Game 4 v. Dan's UltraPods

Game 5 v. Josiah's Farsight Tau

Alamo 40K 2012 coming up!

      Update: Lame! I don't get to go. 

  So I am making back down to the great State of Texas for the Alamo 40K GT this coming weekend. This will be my third year in a row with my Lamenters and it has been a blast every time. Look forward to seeing some old friends and throwing down some dice! Here is the list I am rolling with, I call it "Fits in my Carry-On with all my work stuff."

HQ
Mephiston 250
Librarian w/ Lance, Shield 100
Elites

Furioso w/ Frag Cannon, Heavy Flamer, Searchlight, Drop Pod 171
Priest 50

Troops
8*Assault Marines w/ Meltagun, Power Fist, Rhino 204
10*Assault Marines w/ 2*Meltaguns, Power Fist, Rhino 250

10*Assault Marines w/ 2*Meltaguns, Power Fist, Rhino 250

Fast Attack
'Baal' Predator w/ Assault Cannon 115

'Baal' Predator w/ Assault Cannon 115
2*Land Speeder Typhoon w/ Heavy Flamer 180

Heavy Support
5*Devastators w/ 4*Missle Launchers 130
5*Devastators w/ 4*Missle Launchers, Razorback 185

=2000

Alamo 40K GT 11'

So it's May and that means the start of the Texas GT season with our trip slightly south to SA. John Bailey organizes an absolutely awesome event. The missions are almost completely just straight up rulebook affairs, which is perfect in my opinion. Not to mention, it's held in a beer hall, I obviously had a blast. This is the army I used.

Game I v. Sarat's Salamanders

Primary- Seize Ground; 5 Objectives
Bonus- Table Quarters
Pitched Battle

Sarat had an interesting Salamander list sporting Vulkan with Assault Terminators (Hammers) in Redeemer, a Sternguard with a couple melta guns, a Dreadnought in a Drop Pod, two Tactical squad in Rhinos (Power Fist, Combi-Melta, Flamer), two Land Speeders, and two Vindicators. I looked over the list and noticed that it was entirely restricted to weapons with range 24" and less. We ended up with our five objectives spread with one in each quarter and one in the middle. He got first turn and deployed strong in the center while reserving his Tactical squads. I deployed my Assault squads in Rhinos to move onto the close objectives and held the Stormravens in reserve. He surged forward. His Dreadnought came in near my deployment zone, and my seven-man Assault squad got out to charge it. This was enough to tempt Vulkan and his buddies out of their ride. They wrecked the Assault squad, but were stuck sitting in my deployment zone when the Ravens came in. They all died after being charged by all the occupants of both Gunships. Sanguinor ended up being able to charge a Tactical squad Turn 4, but really it was the Stormravens who ended up wreaking havoc. They wrecked a few vehicles and ended up contesting his objectives. 16/20.

Turn 5

Game II v. Joshua's Farsight Enclave

Primary- Capture and Control
Bonus- Most units outside either players DZ
Spearhead

To say this army was unique would be an understatement. It was comprised of O'Shovah with a five suit retinue w/ various weaponry, an additional Commander, a three man Fireknife, three Stealth suits w/ two marker drones each (drones pictured above), six Fire Warriors w/ two marker drones, ten Fire Warriors w/ carbines in a Devilfish, six gun drones, two Broadsides, and a Skyray. He had a lot of markerlights, which I think is a very smart way to play the army. He even had cool markerlight counters (also seen above), and got a deserved Player's Choice placing. A Spearhead Capture and Control is always a challenging mission, and in retrospect I feel like a made a major mistake in not reserving both my Stormravens, even though I had first turn. I deployed them front and center and surged towards Farsights bodyguard, fully knowing they would be shot down immediately, with three of my Rhino units around my objective in the corner. I figured the Stormravens cargo would eventually march there way to his objective. The Ravens went down and I got the turn two charge on his lines. (The red Dreadnought is actually part of Farsight)
One Furioso got a charge on his Stealth team, and wiped them out. The Terminators go down to shooting. It takes Sanguinor and the other Furioso until turn 4 to wipe out the whole Farsight bodyguard, with the Dreadnought going down in the process. Meanwhile, his Devilfish is able to break from his lines towards my objective. Bottom turn 5, Sanguinor is in combat with his foot Fire Warriors contesting his objective, I'm holding mine. We get turn 6. I am unable to disable his Devilfish, and he moves it in for the contest. Game over. Draw. Josh got the secondary for his Gun Drones chilling in the middle of the table. 8/20

Game III v. David's Iron Warriors

Primary- Annihilation
Bonus- Reduce all enemy units below 50%
Dawn of War

David had an absolutely beautiful Iron Warriors army that won Player's Choice and got 2nd Best Painted. His army consisted of a Daemon Prince w/ Warptime and Wings, a Dreadnought with combat weapons, Kharn the Betrayer with eight Khorne Berserkers w/ a Power Fist, in a Land Raider, three Obilterators, a Defiler (pictured above), and three squads of Chaos Marines with dual special weapons (2 melta, 1 plasma) and a Powerfist in a Rhino. I got first turn and zoomed my Stormravens towards his lines, one going at each end. Sanguinor got a charge off the next turn on his Daemon Prince and killed him with the re-rolls from Avenging Angel.

The Terminators and Librarian in the other Stormraven flew to his board edge, over all his tanks, and get shot down. The Assault Terminators charge and kill the Obliterators. They are in turn shot up by his Chaos Marine squads until only one survives (he doesn't die). My Rhinos catch up to his lines and the Land Raider destroys one and the Berserks charge them and kill them. The Berserkers are then charged by a Furioso, and wiped out barring Kharn. Kharn then proceeds to chop off both the Dreadnoughts arms and legs, then finish him off next turn.
The Sanguinor is gunned down. The lone Terminator starts wrecking Rhinos while the remaining Stormraven makes a bother of itself, and my Assault squads get into his Chaos Marines. The Stormraven spectacularly destroys his Defiler, shooting it's lascannon, multi-melta, and all four Bloodstrikes to do it. I don't remember the exact count, but I won on Kill Points. 16/20.

Game IV v. Bushido's Deathwing

Primary- Capture and Control
Bonus- Most scoring units in enemy DZ
Pitched Battle

With such a big crew it is always bound to happen, finally drew one of the locals. And to make it worse, I had to march through thirty Storm Shields to grab his objective. He stole the initiative and immobilized both my Stormravens. Boo. So my guys have to hoof it.
Sanguinor kills Belial. So I'll make it short, I neutralized his contesters (three Land Speeders, a Drop Pod, Scouts), and failed a difficult terrain for an assault move that could have possibly left me with my own Terminators on top of his objective at the end of the game ( his objective is in that crater you can see above). Draw. I get the bonus for an Assault squad in his DZ. Game is done in 45 minutes. And on day two we have three hour rounds. Time for a long lunch. 12/20.

Game V v. Brad's Craftworld Eldar

Primary- Seize Ground; 3 Objectives
Bonus- Four selected enemy units are worth a bonus point each
Dawn of War

Brad had a cool Mech Eldar army that managed to cram in nine tanks. He had a Farseer with Doom, an Autarch on Bike with Reaper Launcher, three units of five Fire Dragons in Wave Serpents, three Jetbikes, five Avengers in a Falcon, five Avengers in a Wave Serpent, two Flame Storm Guardian units in Wave Serpents, and two Fire Prisms (w/o holos). So I was just completely worn out by this game, and made tons of mistakes left and right. I mark all three Dragon units and one Fire Prism for my objective points. He went all reserves, so I took all three objectives and put my Stormravens near his board edge (again realizing a good chance of their destruction at the hands of the Dragons, but by delivering their cargo they will have done their job). The Dragons take out one. The Terminators and Dreadnoughts kill the Fire Dragons, while Sanguinor hops over and and engages the Jetbikes and kills the Autarch. I then mention to my opponent the idea to skim his still living Wave Serpents over my Dreads and shoot them in the back. He says that he may not have even thought of that. D'oh! (Maneuver seen above). He completely disables both of them. Sanguinor wrecks a Guardian Serpent and kills the occupants. The remaining Stormraven is destroyed by linked Fire Prism. I then make another huge mistake and move off the center objective (flight base seen below) and don't get back to it.
Then Turn 5, remaining Guardian Serpent zooms onto center objective, and other tanks move to contest the other two. Fritz'ed! Game ends. I was playing way too loose on my objectives and put the wrong Assault squads in the wrong places. Thanks for the fun game Brad! 8/20.



The final breakdowns haven't been released yet but I imagine I scored around average on battle points, and a little above average on appearance and sportsmanship. All in all a fun tournament where I learned a lot about playing double Stormravens. The Sanguinor killed an enemy HQ every game, and I only played against nice looking armies, which is doubly awesome.

Strikeforce Helios

*This is a little fluff bit for the army I'm taking to this weekend's Alamo GT. You can see the actual list here*

In 988.M41 Chapter Master Malakim Phoros commissioned a Strikeforce to be assembled under the augury of Codicier Sygovax, one of his trusted advisers. The Strikeforce was charged with giving the Lamenters a presence in the Alamnos sector, where great turmoil was brewing. An area of wild space deep on the Eastern fringe, Alamnos appeared ready to break out in chaotic bloodshed. In the galactic north of the sector a small warp rift left attack by Daemons and Chaos Space Marine warbands an ever present danger, while at the same time a Tyranid Splinter fleet intersected the sector from below the galactic plane. The smell of war drew roving Ork warbands from all around, while hosts of Eldar looked to protect future interests. All the while every Imperial world in the sector fully mobilized their Planetary Defense Forces, and every Space Marine Chapter with forces in the area responded.

Sygovax was allowed to personally choose every unit for the Strikeforce, from anywhere within the Chapter. First and foremost he chose the council of a pair of Ancients, both Viridian, Master of the Depths, and brooding Tyrus. He also asked Veteran Crixus, and his unit of Honor Suits, to do battle at his side. Because the exact location of battle would be unknown, he knew speed would be of utmost importance, and thus requested two Stormraven Gunships from the Chapter Armoury. Sygovax then commissioned every Assault squad of Strikeforce Iltempus to join his Strikeforce Helios, and received squads Ignacio, Rigio, Volare, and Venturos. With his force assembled on the Gladius class frigate Storm Eye, Sygovax headed to the Alamnos sector.

Alamo 40k GT

Won some awards. Best Painted and Player's Choice for my Lamenters! Woo.





This was my list, which I went 3/2/0 with...

HQ
Captain Tycho 175

Reclusiarch 130

Elites
Furioso w/ extra armour, heavy flamer, frag cannon 150
in Drop Pod 35

5*Assault Terminators, 2*Hammers 210
in Land Raider Redeemer w/ multi-melta, extra armour 265

Sanguinary Priest w/ Infernus Pistol 65

Troops
6*Death Company w/ 3*Power Weapons, Thunder Hammer, 2*Boltguns 195
in Rhino 50

10*Tactical Marines w/ Meltagun, Missle Launcher, combi-melta, power fist 210
in Drop Pod 35

10*Assault Marines w/ 2*Meltaguns, Power Fist 235
in Rhino 15

Fast Attack
'Baal' Predator w/ Flamestorm Cannon 115
'Baal' Predator w/ Flamestorm Cannon 115

=2000