Random Team Tournament - Round 3 - 1000 Points

My army and the tournament rules can be found here.


Round 3:
Mission - Seize Ground (5 Objectives)
Deployment - Pitched Battle

Allied Army - Imperial Guard

HQ
Primaris Psyker w/ "Lighting" (2d6 shots?)


Elite
6x Ratling Snipers


Troops
10x Veterans w/ Demolitions, 3x Melta (in Valk)


Fast Attack
Valkyrie w/ Multiple Missile Pods


Heavy Support
2x Basilisk
2x Leman Russ Demolisher w/ 1 Lascannon

Opposing Coalition - Necrons/Necrons

HQ
Necron Lord w/ Mindshackle Scarabs, Warscythe, Tachyon Arrow
Command Barge
Court- Necron Lord w/ Warscythe and MSS


Primaris Psyker w/ "Lightning" (2d6 shots?)


Elite
C'Tan w/ Writhing Worldscape, Lord of Fire


Troops
5x Gauss Immortals
5x Tesla Immortals
10x  Guardsmen  w/ 3x Grenade Launcher, in Chimera
10x  Veterans w/ 3x Flamers, Demolitions (in Valk)


Fast Attack
5x Triarch Praetorians (yep that is right!)
Valkyrie
Hellhound


Heavy Support
2x Leman Russ Punisher w/ 2x Lascannon

Random Team Tournament - Round 2 - 1000 Points

My army and the tournament rules can be found here.


Round 2:
Mission - Capture and Control (3 Objectives)
Deployment - Table Quarters


Allied Army - CSM


HQ
Chaos Lord w/ Terminator Armor


Elite
6x CSM Terminators w/ 2x Combi-Melta, Heavy Flamer


Troops
6x Chaos Space Marines w/ Plasma Gun in Rhino
6x Chaos Space Marines w/ Plasma Gun in Rhino


Fast Attack
-


Heavy Support
5x Havoks w/ 3x Autocannons
3x Obliterators


Opposing Coalition - Necrons/Necrons 
HQ
Necron Lord w/ Mindshackle Scarabs, Warscythe
Command Barge


Necron Lord w/ mindshackle Scarabs, Warscythe
Command Barge
2x Crypteks w/ Tremorstaves


Elite
C'Tan w/ Writhing Worldscape, Lord of Fire
C'Tan w/ Writhing Worldscape, Pyreshards


Troops
5x Gauss Immortals
5x Tesla Immortals
5x Necron Warriors
5x Necron Warriors


Fast Attack
5x Triarch Praetorians (yep that is right!)
7x Canoptek Scarabs
6x Canoptek Wraiths w/ 2x Whip Coils


Heavy Support
Annihilation Barge


It is a random team tournament so I am pitted against my partner from the previous games with the CSM opponent from my previous and vice versa.  We win the roll to go first and hand over the first turn to our opponents since it is an objectives game.  I am not sure this was a great decision overall.  It really restricted my deep striking and engaging the enemy further back may have been more beneficial.


We also play all the terrain pieces as area terrain (I wanted to play them as open terrain, difficult to move up and down but alas) and the 2 level pieces as impassible.  This is just about the worst possible scenario we could run into.

Random Team Tournament - Round 1 - 1000 Points

This weekend (May 12) I had the chance to go to Millenium games for a random team tournament. This was a format I had not played before and had some strict composition rules. Before I too much criticisms hits my, and my opponent's, lists here they are:




Army Composition:
1000 Points consisting of :::: 1 HQ, 0-2 Elites, 1-3 troops, 0-2 Fast, 0-2 Heavy.
No Special character/Named Sergeants upgrades
Choices for Elites, Fast, and Heavies are 0-1 I.e. No two long fangs.
Choices that modify army selection are allowed. I.e. Master of the Forge. Sagas
You must also have at least 4 of the 5 force org slot


With a unique opportunity to completely screw over my ally, I decided to take my Chaos Daemons with the following list:

HQ
Keeper of Secrets


Elite
6 Fiends
4x Bloodcrushers w/ Icon, Instrument, Fury


Troops
12 Daemonettes
5x Horrors w/ Bolt


Fast Attack
-None-


Heavy Support
Daemon Princess w/ Mark of Slaanesh, Iron Hide, Pavane, Aura of Acquisence

1000 Point Random Partners Tourney

After much consideration I finally decided on a 1000 point list for tomorrow's 'Random Team' tournament.  Remember the requirements for the tournament are - no replication, no special characters, 1 HQ, 1-3 Troop and up to 2 choices from the other slots.  Nova style missions. First the list, then some rationale:

HQ
Keeper of Secrets

Elite
6x Fiends of Slaanesh
4x Bloodcrushers w/ full kit

Troops
12x Daemonettes
5x Horrors w/ Bolt

Heavy
Daemon Princess w/ Mark of Slaanesh, Pavane, Iron Hide, Aura of Acquiescence

I was a bit restricted in what I could take to this due to my limited diversity of painted minis (I have 2 Grinders done, 12x Fiends for example).  I really wanted to take Seekers instead of the Daemon Princess (and instead of the Bloodcrushers), but the steeds are just about done for them while their riders are still languishing on the sprue.

With that in mind I want to saturate the board with high toughness units (or to have the option to drop in some standard units as well if I face a lot of poison before it goes down).  I am relying on my opponent to help open transport vehicles - but in my experience at these kinds of events players tend to bring more foot heavy armies (nothing like being blown off the board Turn 1 while your opponents Gaunts point and laugh) and there tends to be a shortage of special weapons.  I expect this to be exacerbated by the 0-1 restriction on individual selections which should help make my big guys last a bit longer.

Even if they do perish in a firey death, I will be putting a lot of pressure on our opponenets and even in standard team tournaments people tend to 'play their own army,' which will hopefully make dealing with my in your face Daemons a bit more difficult.

Tonight though, I have some final prep work to do on the crushers.  I have the other 3 basecoated, magnetized and generally ready to go for this tournament.  Unfortunately, they are not all going to be at the quality of my first model by game time.  I blame a leaky kitchen sink that I spent 3 nights fixing along with two electrical outlets that were not to code that had to be rewired.