The XXVIII annual Epic tourney was held in the usual spot The Portal in Mansfield, CT. There was 18 players and we were missing the NYC crew and only one NJ guy showed. 1 from ME. 3 from PA came up. They suffered a terrible drive once across the Hudson. I was lucky and working in Albany. My drive was a short easy 2hrs Friday at noon.
Coach's Steel legion took top spot. Mars and Dark Eldar were 2nd or 3rd.
I had submitted two list. With no work up games, I couldn't decide what to field. I did not have a nailed down schedule prior to the event. I sent in Tau. As I can play them with little study and a Sallie list.
Dave selected Salamanders for me. No worries, sort of. Sallies are challenging due to the lack of range. My Friday warm up game was against Frank. Frank borrow Dave's IG. Frank played with 3 or 4 detachments of super heavies. It was a lesson in what not to do and what could not be done.
Being the Dick that I am I made everyone play corners. I had a plan. Where there Blitz went determined where my 2 objectives in their half went.
In the tourney my first game was against Tim. Grudge match, we played at last year's tourney. The blue was used in this game. He had IG. I did much better, but still lost 3-0 BTS, Blitz, DTF.
Next was a game of bad things. I had Chris and his Grey Knight. No part of the plan was used as everything dropped. 3 teleported on my left flank. I lost the initiative roll. Chris failed to activate. I ate two of them nicely. He landed a Thawk and with a retain sent 2 detachments to the foam. The other 2 Thawks and friends came down. We both got bloodly. Those friends took off in Thawks. Everyone rallied at the end of turn 2. I won initiative finished the left flank. Chris landed all but smashed the right flank. A lone busted rhino was engaged by a Thawk. The rhino dished out box car after box car won the engagement. Then the space craft came last activation, hit nothing ad drop podded the Blitz and T&H. Sallies 2-0. Chris's BTS got away with a single stand.
Third game was with NJ Darius. Darius had Squats with him. The pink was used in this game. I held a Tactical for drop, garrisoned one group of termies and teleported the other. I had T&H in turn one and the gate was swinging home. It took 4 detachments to wall off Darius. All where busted and down to one or two stands. The last Tactical and Dev ran a blocking action in turn 3. Sallies with TSNP and T&H. 2-0
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| Termies bounced in every game but the last. |
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