DLair vs. ThorsH tournament

Lucky me! I've been chosen to represent out store *Dragon's Lair* in the annual Dragon's Lair VS. Thor's Hammer Warhammer 40,000 tournament [of the 3 D's: Doom, Death, and Destruction!!!]!!!

Right, my list I shall be taking is a modified version of Dusjo-Katon, such as adding the Avatar for a firebase babysitter (anyone wanna charge a MC that is amazing in H2H??? I think not!) dropping the hawks for Warp Spiders [very wise decision] and dropping the fire prism.

Here is the official list.
2000
Dusjo-Katon

Hq:
Farseer – Jetbike, witchblade, cc weapon, ghosthelm, guide

Avatar

Troops:
5 Wraithguard with Spirit Seer (Witchblade, Shui-pistol, Enhance)
Wave Serpent with Twin Linked Shuriken Cannons and Shuriken Cannon

5 Wratihguard with Spirit Seer (Witchblade, Shuri-pistol, Enhance)
Wave Serpent with Twin Linked Scatter Lasers and Shuriken Cannon

Wraithlord – 2 Flamers and Brightlance

Wraithlord – 2 Flamers and Starcannon

Elites:
9 Scorpions w/Sardasshar [Whipser of Sand] (biting blade, crushing blow, stealth)

9 Spiders w/Lossani [Weaver of Doom] (two spinners, Hit & Run)


Heavy Support:
5 Reapers w/Anta’ae [Death’s Gaze] (fast shot and ML)

Falcon – Spirit Stones, Holo-field, Starcannon

Tournament

I recently attended a tournament this past saturday (8/19/06) and it was great.
The rules for this was a modified version of Rules of Engagement. To win, you have two objectives, be it capture your two objective markers, your opponents objective markers or something else like that. Each player has their own objectives and it's a very different game this way. Was amazing, I ended up taking 3rd place and the second best prize of $40. I too 3rd because my painting score wasn't as high as the person who took 2nd. So I "got" 3rd place but was 2nd....
Oh well. It was still very fun.

3rd Game. Can one really defeat one's own army?

Ok. To start with, I brought my friend Cj to this tournament. He plays Space Marines, but couldn't get a 2k point force. Thusly, I lent him my 2k points of Necrons, the Salty Doggs.
We ended up facing each other in the third game.

He was starting to get used to all the necron rules.

Objectives: Cj- Get my objective markers
Me - Get my objective markers.

Turn 1: Cj
Deepstriking the Monolith, as I advised him to do (kinda forgetting that it might come in late on turn 5 as it did for me) and a squad of warriors, Cj had a solid line of warriors and destroyers near my two objectives. He couldn't shoot anything, thanks to the terrain and range of the gauss weapons. His wraiths moved 24" and were in line of sight for my dark reapers, wave serpent, and a wraithlord. My scorpions and falcon were hiding nearby.

Me
Falcon and scorpions advanced to take a flank. Wraithlord took a shot at the wraiths, one laid down. Dark reapers killed another. Necron lord with res. orb prevented them from insta-gak. Wave Serpent unloaded Wraithguard, who wounded the wraiths. Who saved the AP 1 shots with their amazing 3+ invurnable saves....I wasn't worried about the squad of warriors behind them though....Fire Prism shot at a destroyer, but missed. Mistake on my part, leaving the Crystal Targeting Matrix at home....

Turn 2: Cj
Moving only the wraiths and the squad of warriors behind them, Cj's lucky rolls had the monolith arrive right next to the striking scorpions and my falcon. His horde of 20 warriors annihilated my Fire Prism. Not cool, because with its' S9 weapon, it can wipe out a necron and not give it a chance for a "We'll Be Back" roll. Monoith got one shot at my scorpions and 2 on my falcon. It missed its' shot on the scorpions and didn't glance my falcon. Wraiths killed almost all my wraithguard. The spiritseer died from a power weapon wound that i failed...

Me
Starcannon-lord got in range to assault the Wraiths. Scorpions got in range to haywire the monolith and block the portal so the warriors couldn't unload. Falcon and wave serpent shot at the warrior squad with the tomb spyder. Killed a few and had the reapers mop up the rest. Farseer jetbiked behind cover to save herself. Scorpions assault the monolith with their haywire grenades and managed to immobilize it. Wraithlord killed a wraith made them fallback a massive 12". Hey, no more assault.

Turn 3: Cj
Wraiths moved to the otherside near the objectives. Was pissed monolith couldn't get troops out. : D Sent his tomb spyder to its' death. Destroyers moved forward to get some shots at my reapers, but were just over 36" range. His warriors did however, immobilize my wave serpent and take out it's scatter lasers.

Me
Tomb Spyder died a death from starcannons and shuriken cannons (falcon and wave serpent combo anyone?) Reapers killed all three destroyers, but the other tomb spyder allowed them to attempt WBB rolls. Wraithlords moved forward to try and finish his necrons. Wraithguard jumped out of the serpent so as to not go up in flames with it. They were ment to hold their objective. And kill anything that got too close. Scorpions destroyed the monolith with their second wave of Haywire grenades. Tomb Spyder took a wound from my star cannon. The shuriken catapults finished it though!

Turn 4: Cj
Not much happened, besides one destroyer staying alive. They hopped back and the wraiths were staying where they were. Warriors inflicted a wound on my Starcannon-lord. Both had 2 wounds left now.

Me
The scorpions couldn't make it to another enemy in time before turn six, but they still started to move on. Wraithlord moved forward to take the objectives. I didn't think they could get in range of the objective, but I could still try.

Turn 5: Cj
Wraiths moved right next to the Wraithguard, using their 24" move, so no assault. Warriors began to move up to the objective. The squad of 3 Destroyers moved towards the falcon, along with the Heavy destroyer. Ended up doing nothing. But my wave serpent had no weapons left.

Me
Wraithguard moved to kill the wraiths. Wraithlords moved up to take out a few more warriors. Falcon killed the heavy destroyer. Wraithguard knocked down a wraith and then assaulted. They did nothing, but lost one of their own. Farseer jumped forward and assaulted the warriors that were running toward the objective marker.

Turn 6: Cj
Destroyers jetted forward onto the objective and the Necron lord's Veil of Darkness scattered too far away from the objective. Wraiths and Necron lord stayed locked in assault.

Me
Dark Reapers killed the 3 destroyers on the objective. Falcon shot at some more warriors, and wraithlords just barely missed the other objective marker.

End Result:
Me: 1 Cj: 0

Win for me. I guess one CAN defeat one's army....

Second Game

Slightly tired, the game vs. Space wolves was a bloody one. Synopsis.
Turn one: I stun a dreadnaught. He kills some scorpions.
Turn two: I get his vindicator with my prism. He gets a wound on my lance-lord.
Turn three: I get both his dreads with my wraithguard and lance-lord. His wolf scouts come and kill my dark reapers.
Turn four: Wraithlord and 6 scorpions return the favor to the wolf scouts. He assaults one squad of guard and melta-guns down the lance-lord.
Turn five: Wraithguard stay in assault. Starcannon-lord tries to join in. His tanks are gone and shakes my wave serpent.
Turn six: I have my prism on his objective, he blows it up. He assaults my wraithlord and gets 2 sixes on the one wound it already has. Game ends.

Objectives:
Me 0; Trent 0
Draw

Dusjo-Katon vs. Mech IG

The first game of the tournament went very well. As I stated earlier, it was a RoE game. My objectives were to hold my two while his were to kill my Farseer and have one of mine.

He got first turn and deployed most of his tanks (2 lemans, 3 chimeras) in the upper left to set up a fire base that I would have to come to. His Hellhound and Basilisk were on the right (my left and right) to prevent me from flanking him. Keep in mind, he's been looking at my Blog and kinda knew what he was up against. I split my force to have my Falcon, one squad of wraithguard, a wraithlord, Fire Prism and the second wraithlord to support them. Farseer would be following my Prism for every single game so she could guide it. Reapers and scorpions with the other squad of wraithguard would be on the right, going for the other objective and taking out any tanks that got too close (and that basilisk).

Turn 1: Jason
Not much happened here. Besides the fact that my Falcon died turn 1. (It would proceed to get destroyed turn 1 on every single game we played...) His bassie missed hitting my prism and scattering onto my farseer. One leman shot at my Dark Reapers in cover. Nothing happened.

Me
Guiding the Prism, I got a lucky shot on that damn Leman and blew it up. Wraithlords advanced, glanced a chimera and shook it. Scorpions advanced and my Wraithguard went to kill the bassie.

Turn 2: Jason
None of his deepstrikers arrived. He disembarked some troops so they wouldn't be killed and poped smoke on the same Chimera. The Hellhound drove out to take care of the Wave Serpent. Got a glance and I couldn't shoot. Scorpions were almost roasted, but he decided to go after the serpent due to the fact the scorpions would still get an armour save. : D Bassie inflicted a wound on my brightlance wraithlord.

Me
Wraithlords advanced. Serpent jumped over terrain and hid from that damn Hellhound. Hawks flew in, dropped a grenade on the disembarked troops and landed nearby. scorpions advanced but then chilled around for a bit. Wraithlords were facing two chimeras that were probably going to advance soon. They shot and didn't do anything. Fire Prism missed both its' shots with a 2 and a 2 to hit. Hawks killed more IG kasrkin.

Turn 3: Jason
Deepstrike. Command squads: 1 & 1. Sentinals: 2 & 2. Not kidding. With my hawks behind his mobile line of fire, he deployed another squad and was ready to light them up. Hellhound moved to try and get the serpent. Two chimeras, both empty, moved up to take out the wraithlords. They caused a wound. The Hellhound's napalm of it didn't glance me this time. : D. However, the combined fire power of 2 Kasrkin squads and a chimera killed my squad of 8 hawks. Revenge is bittersweet.

Me
But I find I take it to my liking. Revenge that is. My Serpent, no longer shaken, moved to the back armour of the Hellhound. The other serpent flew forward and was near the remaining leman. Prism was guided and looking at 2 chimeras. Wraithlords were pissed as well. As the prism blew up a chimera, the other was almost boxed in. Serpent unloaded its' W.guard and destroyed the Hellhound. Wraithguard did jack squat to the damn Bassie. But the others shook a Leman and would have immobilized it, but his extra armour prevented that.

Turn 4: Jason
Command squad and its' helper demolition squad dropped next to my farseer. Sentinal did too. The chimeras moved to take out the serpent by the leman. Boxed in chimera failed difficult terrain roll, but had an upgrade to that allowed to re-roll the failed roll. Damn. It moved up still.
The chimeras took out the wave serpent and bassie killed my wraithguard. Everyone of them. His command squad shot up my farseer and did one wound. Two left...until his tank killing squad threw a demolition pack onto her...S8, with her T of 4...Instant kill. Objectives: Him 1: me 0. so far...

Me
Reapers just got a lot of new targets. So did my wraithlords. Wave serpent moved to the side armour of the damn Bassie. Prism wasn't guided now and missed....Wraithlord flamed the demopack squad as the reapers tore open the tin-can (sentinal). Wraithguard shot the leman again and did nothing...but the wave serpent destroyed the damn basilisk that was causing psychological terror. Scorpions moved back to take their objective.


The rest of the game consisted of small fire fights until the end of turn 6, where he had all of his infantry around my other objective. I had my wraithlord flame and kill everything within 3" of it as the prism sat on the objective. Scorpions held theirs and the reapers killed another sentinal that had landed.

Objectives: Me 2: Jason 1
I won.

You know you're a collector...

I've not posted in a while. Life happens.
Tournament coming up on the 19th (this Saturday) so expect a few battle reports from that...IF I don't horribly lose! : D

I will be taking an edited Dusjo-Katon list with more aspect warriors and tanks. Oh yes, there will be fire power.

But I disgress, my main reason about this post was I just realized when I started to like collecting miniatures. It was back, VERY far back, in about...4th grade? I loved those "holiday village" models. There were houses, people, frozen lakes, shops, benches, hydrants, everything you could want to make a "winter wonderland town."

It was a joyous time. And it definetly helped getting me started into "figurines" which is what my friends call my "obsession" with 40k.
: D