GT heat 2, how did the Druchii do?

[Grez90]

Hey everyone, now that heat 2 of the GT has ended I just wanted to know how everyone did, and what lists had good success.
Was Kairos everywhere again, or did the druchii dominate this time?

Also did everyone have a good time?

[Dalamar]

Can't remember exactly but first 6 or so armies were:
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host

so yeah... not sure about if they were Kairos lists, didn't really pay too much attention to other tables around me <.< I do know that there were a few two-headed Lords of Change flying around but that's not neccessarily Kairos

I ended up 12th (would be 8th if not for my opponent's incredible luck in last game)
And there was another Dark Elf army on place 9 or 10

[Sulla]

Can't remember exactly but first 6 or so armies were:
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host
Daemon Host

Hehe. Anything common about the lists or a good variety?

[Dalamar]

only know that second one was pretty unorthodox with only 2 heralds for heroes and packed with units.

As said, didn't pay much attention to armies other than my opponents... can't be distracted! <.<

[Dark Alliance]

Highest placwd Druchii were in 10th.

Dalamar played very well. He had some good draws - missing all but one (I think) of the Daemon armies . His army worked well but I know he appreciates the value of the ring of hotek...!

Congrats to him

[Dalamar]

And that single daemon army I had to face happened to be PURE KHORNE ANTI-MAGIC HORROR >.<
with my 8 levels of magic...
byt the end of the game my level 4 was level 2, my level 2 was level 1 and my other level 2 was dead... all from miscasts I did myself!
I still won though
Bloodthirsted became a pincussion suffering around 30 RxB shots per turn.

[Grez90]

lol sounds like I'm gonna have fun with my 8 levels and ring of hotek. plus my 24/25 kill points yippee

[Dark Alliance]

I heard the BT died to DR xbow fire??

[Dalamar]

yep. when it lost its 1st wound on turn 1 I decided to keep at it and made it die on turn 5. each and every single wound dealt to it by repeater crossbow from either dark riders or shades

[Dark Alliance]

Dude that is so funny!

I was watching his face through that game, there were times he was convinced he was gonna win which soon disappeared!

[Dalamar]

I was really at loss what to do with my hydras against his bloodthirster... and extremely surprised when he decided not to charge them both when I put them side by side... my only hope was do deal its remaining 3 wounds with a single hydra, doable but hard.

[Langmann]

Congrats on downing it, Dalamar. His fault.

[Dalamar]

Just proving that darkening the sky with repeater bolts can hurt anything in right amount

[Grandmaster ej]

well, then you made a mistake. bacause if you read the rule book you would find that strength 3 crossobow shots cant hurt a toughness 7 warmachine... oops lol

[Dalamar]

Give me 7 turns in a 6 turn game and I'll do even that! (I never said what amount is the right amount )

[Langmann]

Just proving that darkening the sky with repeater bolts can hurt anything in right amount

I think I wrote a tactic article on the benefits of the repeaterXbow a long time ago. Before bloodthirsters ever were spawned. Maybe I should revise it.

[Grez90]

Is Kairos any good in combat?
Because I'm thinking about chasing him around with dark riders and trying to pin him in combat, but this won't work if hes any good.

[Dalamar]

Kairos is amazingly awesome in combat. He has 1 attack at about WS1 or so, and S5
3+ ward save and can never be wounded better than on 3+
And good luck catching him with anything ever.
Just ignore him, make sure his spells are affected by RoH and kill him army.

[Grez90]

I will ignore him with everything except dark riders, aslong as I keep 3 or 4 of them, then i'll outnumber him, possibly have a flank/rear charge, so I'll just try and win on combat res and make him take wounds from rolling above his leadership, but let me guess, hes ld 10?

[Dalamar]

Ld9, don't think any daemon is Ld10 to be honest

But you won't charge him, don't waste your dark riders on futile pursuits.

[Sulla]

Is Kairos any good in combat?
Because I'm thinking about chasing him around with dark riders and trying to pin him in combat, but this won't work if hes any good.

Even harpies can hold him in combat for the entire game if your general is nearby.

[Silentdeath]

mmm, interesting heat 2

Norther Warlords Results

Tom Hall, 5 wins, one loss - 5th Deamons
Keith Wilkinson, 4 wins 2 draws - 8th Deamons
Anthony Spiers (me), 4 wins 2 draws 10th - Dark Elves

Well done to all the lads only one game lost between the three of us !!

The scenarios were certainly unforgiving and THREE table quarter games were a nightmare. There scenarios enables wins to come out of nothing, their opponants had them clearly beat then some crap dice and its all over in the final turn for a draw. I know our lads will be tweaking their lists so this cannot happen in the final.

Out of our 18 games happened to me and keith both once each.

Game 1 - orcs, table quarters won
Game 2 - orion wood elves , objectives won
Game 3 - kipper masque deamons, table quarters draw in turn 6 after a dister of two turns failing to cause a single wound !!
Game 4 - manfred vampire counts, table quarters won
Game 5 - skull taker bloodthirster deamons annhilation won
Game 6 - 4 x flesh hound unit, double flamer deamons, draw

Learning curves from the heat -

Kipper + masque + LD banner is brutal unless your immune to psychology, terror checks etc become so tactiacally effective, with siren songs too is a real challenge

When a combat deamon army sets up and plays for a draw in objectives your struggling. Fires off its entire combat force straight at your lines you have to deal with it, they take so long to wipe out that they take all your turns up. If your army is then not fast enough to get accros the whole battle field you can do nothing but draw. This is the bit where my army will be seriously tweaked.

Playing vamps in either objectives or table quarters you just cannot let them go second!! If they have any vampires left in turn 6 your going to struggle to get anything better than a draw. The raise the dead spell was game breaking on so so many occasions.

10th Position dark Elf army f anyone is interested -

Dreadlord, dark steed, H/A, SDC, shield,. Heart seeker, potion of strength, pendant
BSB, H/A, SDC, soul render 2 x null talismans (which were not used even once)
L1 wizard 2 x scrolls
2 x 10 RXB warriors, shields
5 x DR RXB
18 Witch Elves, std banner of murder, assassin hand of khaine, add h/w
12 black guard, champ, ring of hotek, std hag graef
7 shades great weapons
War Hydra
2 x reapers

My opponants were all sound, bar Tristana, James Ramsay seriously rode his luck!!!!

Well done to the newly 'transformed' Tristana finishing second and wish her luck in the final, where I hope she will bring a slightly more tasteful hand bag that matches her outfit !!

Anthony

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Thanks for attention.

Oh BTW, I too killed a bloodthirster and was my only amount of luck in the enire tourney.

Turn 1

10 Dark rider RXB shots - 1 wound :-)
2 Reaper bolt thrower single bolts, at long range, two hits, two wounds, two failed ward saves, 4 wounds, dead thirster, ouch LOL

[Silentdeath]

Did qualify

14 deamons top 45 46.7%
8 vampires top 45 34.7%
8 Dark elves top 45 50%
3 Lizards top 45 42.9%
2 Wood Elves 22.2%
2 High elves 15.4%
1 Empire 14.3%

Didn’t qualify -

16 Deamons didn't qualify 53.3%
15 Vampires didn’t qualify 65.3%
11 High elves didn’t qualify 84.6%
8 dark elves didn’tqualify 50%
7 wood elves didn’t qualify 77.8%
6 Empire didn’t qualify 85.7%
4 Lizards Didn’t qualify 57.1%


Totals -

Deamons 30/139 21.6%
Vampires 23/139 16.6%
Dark Elves 16/139 11.5%
High Elves 13/139 9.4%
Wood Elves 9/139 6.5%
Lizards 7/139 5%
Empire 7/139 5%

And drum roll ……102pts to qualify just, 111 to qualify for definite

The average deamon gaming score 110.4/180
The average vampire countes score was 99.7/180
The average darl elf score was 97.2/180

[Count zero]

is the abouve a list of all the armies that competed?

so no dwarfs, O&G. Tk etc?

[Silentdeath]

No,

I could not be borthered doing every single race, they are just the popular ones

Anthony