Might as well throw mine up on in there, trying desperately to remember who I played.
Game 1 vs Morgan's Wooden Spoon Guard- Minor Victory (2 objectives to me, one to him)
Not a bad start all in all, Carnifex with Barbed Strangler visited muchos muchos death on the puny Guardsmen cowering at the other end of the board, to my immense delight. Having said that, I did take quite a beating from his God Damned Pie Plates (4 Ordnance templates? 4?). Should have won it by more but made a mistake by going mental trying to kill his God Damned Leman Russ with my genestealers instead of going "beslubber this noise" and wandering back to hunker down on the objective. Good game, cheers Morgan for being such a good sport (especially with that dice rolling, I actually felt bad)
Game 2 vs Ian's Shiny Guard- Minor Victory (2 objectives to me, 1 to him)
This was an incredibly close game and really good fun, despite being versus Guard again. Ian's canny deployment meant that I had to cross a massive no-man's-land to get into CC, which in turn meant that I got shot. A lot. So much in fact that this game set a new precedent- first time I've ever seen my walking Tyrant with Tyrant Guard die. Ever. Did however manage to secure a pair of objectives and move him off the objectives by Turn 5 (think it was 5). Rolled to see if we went to Turn 6... no. Phew. Excellent game.
Game 3 vs Chris' Deathwing Of Ineffective Power Fists- Minor Victory (I believe it was 6-5, but I'm not entirely sure. I had one more than him anyway)
Quite possibly the best game of the tournament, this pitted the might of my Tyranid force against Chris' Deathwing. Despite slightly screwing up my deployment I advanced fairly rapidly on Chris, managing to avoid total destruction at the hands of his non-rending assault cannons and making a string of invulnerable saves on the Flyrant from the twin-linked lascannons coming my way. This was to be a theme. Around about Turn 3 I finally got into range with some guns other than the mostly useless Barbed Strangler (which had hit a squad of 5 terminators, wounded 3 and killed none), and blazed away. All of a sudden they started dropping like extremely well armoured flies, and shortly afterwards my Flyrant took on Belial's squad. After a fairly sketchy to hit/to wound roll that fell a mere 2 terminators I prepared for the shock of the return attacks. 2 powerfists wounded and I rolled for Warp Field, not expecting a lot... 2 6s. It was at about this point that Christ exploded. A few turns later and I'd essentially dismantled his force, leaving only a single, armless Venerable Dreadnought...which I couldn't kill. Curses. After tallying things up at the end I discovered that despite having essentially wiped out his force and receiving relatively minimal casualties in return I had only received one extra Kill Point. Damn it. Nevertheless, a great game.
Game 4 vs Nick's Pointy Eared Bastards- Minor Loss (2 objectives to him, 1 to me)
We buggered up the rules for this one somewhat and as a result both armies appeared in a rather more piecemeal manner than they should have. The fact that half my army hadn't shown up at the right time combined with Nick's EEEEVIL tactic of deploying right up to the halfway line and then redeploying to the back of the board with Eldrad kind of shafted me. Advancing (VERY) slowly under torrents of firepower, worst of all from those God Damned Fire Prisms, I managed to grab an objective. That's about all that can be said really, I got completely atomised in this one. Worst moment of all has to be the Walking Tyrant going down to Mind War, bewilderingly leaving his Guard wandering around on their own.
All in all a great day except for that last day, which is kind of nobody's fault really. Cheers all- I'll get you next time Erriond!
