The loss was actually a 12 to 12 draw, but by victory points it was a win for them technically, by 30 points. But, we got 12 points plus sportsmanship to win the overall
The reason we "lost" was because it was Cleanse II mission and a huge squad of nurgle hid the whole game behind a huge stand of trees. They finished off some mandrakes that were holding the cover, a judge said that because the drakes were in cover with them I would not get cover saves pfft whatever, so I had to assault them. I killed 2, but lost 3 and I held, but I was below scoring. So they held that corner uncontested. Bad fleet of foot rolls is what made the difference, 2 Inches short for a Warrior squad.
However 2 lascannons failed to wound marines that would have dropped them below half, and they would not have held their own quarter. The marines broke, and hid behind cover when they auto rallied. So could not be shot at again.
The IG helped out a good bit being able to drop troop in at times. The demo squad died every game without doing anything. Had they landed the demo on those nurgle it would have been a different game.
So you could say the weak IG cost us the win, but it was a draw for game purposes.
The tourney was awesome, and my mandrakes were so uber it was unreal. 7 mandrakes killed their points every game, and got 2 points in one game for killing a squad and then getting into the deployment zone. Our opponents chose not to shoot them up because of them being our hunter squad. So we lost 150 VP's for them, but +2 game points and we pulled out a minor win based on my cunning. Besides they were in 4+ cover, so 2+ invulnerable save baby!
Best moment for the mandrakes was turn one in the last game they killed some scouts who ran off the board, then they were assaulted by a Demon Prince of Nurgle with a Manreaper. I put 2 wounds on him and he promptly failed both saves, and he killed 3. We broke, but rallied and he died to DL fire the next round. So that squad of nurgle who was behind him decided to hide on us ><.
Worst moment... wyches used 2 blasters, which I won't ever take again, for the only time in the tourney. They vaporize a Nurgle Rhino which leaves them wide open to heavy bolter fire from one of the dozens of a devastator squads that we faced in the tourney. Literally not one Marine army did not have 3 of them except one, who did a librarian with fear of the darkness coupled with Zoey Nid negative leadership thing. Best general was a Marine/Eldar army with 3 Dev squads with 4 Missle launchers each, and 2 5 man tac squads with Missle Launchers, thankfully we did not face them, as they got horrid sportsmanship. That team lost a game by the slimest margin as they failed to kill off the hunted squad totally, they killed a huge wraithguard squad but left the seer, after that they dubbed themselves team dumb. I told them dumb meant mute, so I expected not to hear from them from that point on.
All good though, great games for the most part, met some new folks and got some cool swag including...Warrior coven book.
Also, welcome Raider101, here drink this...
