League Play-offs

Im leaning heavily towards using the nova open missions.

Nova Open missions

They are prety balanced.. and the best part take away Capture and Control.

Unless I hear big protests, thats probably the plan

Cool ars. I wasn't sure if I was still in the top 8. I'll arrange a game with Bidyk for next week.

So are we using these now, or this first game is with the book missions?

Randy, I tossed you a PM, my schedule is nuts, so if those times don't work, let me know soon and I can take an afternoon of work or something.

Wow, the first scenario is nuts. With a slight tweaking, it is fair and acceptable.

It says I have to beat my opponent by 3 or more KP to win, or it's a draw. And being I placed 7th, I auto lose due to the tiebreaker scenario. How about we modify it just to KP, win by 1 point, you win.

the 3 goals are in play for every mission Scott.

So every game has objectives and table quarters to worry about as well as the kill points. so if you don't win by 3 KP, you check table quarters to determine the winner, if that is tied, you check objectives to determine the winner. if all three of those are tied, THEN you check to see where you were placed. which i don't think is unreasonable.

This is actually a really elegant system.

You could make a "random mission generator" that's somewhat tailored to both armies.
Roll-off to see who picks the primary mission. Picks one of the three.
Other player picks one of the remaining as a secondary (and possibly deployment).
remainder is third.

Time limit to get the 1st game done? I might be able to play Friday, maybe not even Friday. If Friday falls through or my opponent is not available that day, it'll have to be after the tourney.

If need be, I'll forfeit. Things I got going on this week are more important than 40k.

System Commander wrote:Mark, you haven't heard from randy yet have you?

Just, we're working on setting up a match.

I'll be able to play next week for sure.

Ok. Just let me know which day.

Randy and I got our game in. Randy bringing a very mobile Dark Eldar list. 3 Ravagers, 4 raiders, all with contents. Two with witches, one with trueborn, one with incubi. Vect was with the incubi. All the vehicles had flicker fields.

My list was a surfboard lord, Trazyn, storm-tek, rock-tek, destro-tek, two orb lords.
C'Tan with pie plate and S4 shooting, 8 warriors in an ark, 10 immortals, 15 warriors, 2 annihilation barges, and a Monolith.

Pre-Game -----

Lame jokes told by me. Roll off for first turn. I elect to give Randy first turn and edge choice. He deploys a Raider with witches in it, and deployes Vect on the ground. I deploy nothing, and Randy goes first. I do not attempt to seize.

Turn 1 -----

Randy drives on. 12" up with reasonable board coverage.

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I move on, 6" up everywhere. Ghost ark tries to shoot at the one Raider, yet fails to see. Was also 7" out of range!

Turn 2 ------

I grant Randy the gift of night fight by way of my solar pulse. Randy moves up his Ravagers, depositions his Raiders, and Vect boards the Incubi Raider and heads towards the C'Tan. Ravager shoots at a surfboard lord, rips off the gauss cannon and shields. Another Ravager shoots and takes a flayed array and shielding off the ghost ark. 3rd Ravager can't see anything. Another Raider is able to see, and glances off a tesla destructor off a barge.

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Surfboard lord runs over a Ravager, stunning it. Barges move up. C'Tan moves up, ghost ark stuns another Ravager. Nothing else is in range. I mentally prepare for the terror that is going to be Randy's shooting phase.

Turn 3 -----

Randy cautiously advances, trueborn heading towards the surfboard lord. Vect and the incubi disembark close to the C'Tan. Shooting begins. 3 Raiders and a Ravager open up on the C'Tan, getting 4 wounds. C'Tan makes all 4 saves. Trueborn shoot Blasters at the surfboard lord, he makes his 4+ saves too. The other raider shoots at the ark, rolling a '1'. The ark makes it's living armor roll.

With all the shooting done, Vect fleets and assaults the C'Tan, killing it. It's explosion takes out 4 incubi!

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Bottom of three, surfboard lord runs over trueborn raider, failing to hit. He disembarks. Immortals walk out of the monolith portal. They shoot at a raider, wrecking it. The monolith shoots at the trueborn raider, blowing it up. The ghost ark and occupants stunned a Ravager. The two barges shot and finished off Vect and the incubi. The trueborn fail a pinning test. The surfboard lord assaults the stunned Ravager, blowing it up, the explosion killing a trueborn.

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That was basically the beginning of the end for Randy. The was some good performances from the rest of his army, but luck was not on his side. He reduced the barges to shells, but they endured.

The final Killpoint tally was 10-1 in favour of the 'Crons.

Scott and i played our playoff game this morning.

Chock up a win for Dawn of War.

Lets just say that tyranids dont like blast templates and having to walk 48 inches to engage the enemy.

Nor do they like it when you fail 6 out of 7 4+ cover saves, every psychic check for the opponent is pased, plasma cannons roll 3 hits in a row, outflankers come in the wrong side 3 out of 3 times, 4 hive guard get 1 glancing hit on a dreadnought in 8 shots, and 7 poisoned genestealers kill but 4 marines off the assault.

Enough from me. I don't want to sound like Stever.

Sounds like somebody ticked off the dice gods...

Or sacrificed someone to them.... :-)

Mark and I played or league game today. I managed to pull off win although the game was so close the entire way.

I started to write up a battle report but I think I meshed turns together and decided to get rid of it.

It was a hell of a game. going back and forth the whole time.

Gavin is the semi finalist for pool awesome.. how are things for pool boourns going?

Tim and I are playing Thurs. night.