1250 - 4 Player FFA - Round 2

Round 2

Each of the tables used in this tournament are a bit different to provide 3 unique experiences as we all played one game on each table.  This table had a huge circle of LoS blocking terrain on the peripheral with nothing in the center.  I was nervous about this one and need a little luck to make things work for me.  As it turns out, I choose my deployment zone first and arbitrarily choose one with a little less terrain to prevent mishaps.  My opponents for this round are hyv3mynds Dark Eldar again here who end up across from me this time.  There is also a Grey Knight player and an Imperial Guard with the following

1250 - 4 Player FFA - Round 1

I have already posted twice about the rules and list associated with this four player FFA tournament and now it is time for some reports. The rules can be found here for rules while my most recent proposed list can be found here for list. Unfortunately, I realized when I arrived in Rochester at the in-laws that I had misplaced 10 Horrors somewhere but I had thankfully brought an extra set of Fiends with me. In the end I took a list close to my original proposition with Horrors instead of Daemonettes - in retrospect I think I should have nabbed the Daemonettes for this kind of game but they Horrors led to some epic moments. The final list was:

Chaos Daemons

HQ
Fateweaver

Elite
6x Fiends
6x Bloodcrushers w/ Chaos Icon, Fury of Khorne, Instrument

Troops
18x Plaguebearer w/ Chaos Icon (these will have a painting article/concept article soon!)
9x Horrors w/ Changeling

6th Edition - New Rumors - Daemon - Redux Part 1

The rumors are coming fast and furious at this point, and it appears a lot of them have come from actual reading of the new 6th edition book.  I think overall this looks like a pretty significant boost to Daemons and I am going to hit on a few of the large ones here: Deep Strike Mishap Table, Vehicle Damage, and Assault Distances - I will address some of the later ones...later.

1250 - 4 Player FFA - Revisited

With the tournament coming up tonight I have made a few revisions to my list (some pictures to follow tomorrow on the painting progress).  The rules and original list can be found here.  I managed to complete the bodies of all 19 Zombies who will be my stand in Slaanesh Plague Bearers.  To make them appropriately Slaanesh'ish they will soon have all the paraphernalia needed to be Slaanesh devoted addicts suffering the results of their addictions.  I also forgot to bring along my Daemonettes which means I am going to have to make a few swaps for this list.  The new list I will take with me tonight is:

The 6th Edition Waiting Game...

I have a lot of thoughts on Daemons that I would like to share, but at the moment it seems a bit moot to post an in depth evaluation of units, strategy and tactics with 6th edition well on the way.  As such, I am in a bit of a stasis when it comes to writing - this is compounded by my daughter making it difficult to get much painting done.  Blood Crushers, I promise someday you will be shaded and based...possibly in the next few days with a day off coming due to travel.

1500 Point Throne of Skulls Event

Millennium games is running a Throne of Skulls style event with a few hitched (common to the types of events being run).  I am hoping to get out for both the ToS tournament and the 1250 team tournament lock in following it.  The major points for list construction are...

Special Characters: -5 points
Duplicates: -2 points
Triplicated: -4 points
Dedicated Transports: -2 for each over 3

1250 Points - 4 Player FFA

I am prepping now for a 1250 FFA tournament, with some unique rules.  Each game is Kill Points with 4 total players on the board.  Each player is assigned a board edge and 1'x4' deep of dedicated deployment space.  The player across from you on the board's units are worth 3 KP each, while the ones to the side are worth 2 KP.  There is also an objective in the board center that is worth 4 KP a turn it is held.

The last time this event was held, the winner was determined based on the total KP achieved in the tournament which had some interesting effects in the later rounds when a player put up a massive score in the final round by holding the central objective.

As a Daemon player, there is a unique chance to grab that objective and to remain a low profile target, I am planning to bring a small number of very resilient units with me for the tournament.  This will reduce the shooting going into me, since 1250 points shooting into one of my units is likely to just allow another player to harvest that Kill Point.  Since special characters are allowed in this tournament, it seems like a great time to break out Fateweaver.