DAY 2
Woke up at seven having had about 5 hours sleep. My tongue feels like its welded itself to the roof of my mouth, and I really dont want to get out of bed.
On the plus side my head feels ok, I just wish I could say the same for my stomach.
By the time I got to Warhammer World I'd sort of recovered a bit - I'd need to be awake 'cos I was up to table 4...
ROUND 4
Black Templars vs Stu Robertsons Tau
GAMMA CLEANSE (like we couldnt see that one coming)
I have to say now that this was probably my favorite game of the weekend, we took almost the full two hours to play, and the balance swung back and forth before the end.
Stu had 2 commanders (dirty deepstrikers with fusion guns 'n stuff to back scuttle my tanks) 2 fireknife suit squads, kroot(!) a tiny unit of warriors, a piranah which refused to die, stealthsuits, 2 braodsides with shield drones, an ionhead and a railhead. Ouch!
Fortunately - I got to choose quarters, and I gave Stu the least JSJ friendly terrain I could. Stu won the roll off, and elected to go second to give him uncontested quarter grabbing chances in the last turn. Forced into seizing the initiative I piled a lot of stuff forwards. By the end of my turn 2 I had taken out his broadsides and Kroot, and was in combat with Stu's fire warriors.
Unfortunately for me, on Stu's turn two, both his commanders deep struck in, and took out two of my predators - bum!
Fortunately, my horrendous-non-scoring-point-sink-biker-chaplain(tm) came into his own in this game (he was in the list specifically for JSJ'ers after all), taking out: a broadside, a crisis suit squad, the ionhead and the railhead. Booyah!
The only downside to the game was one of my crusader squads losing 1 guy, failing a zeal check and fleeing, never to regroup. This was unforunately a precursor of THINGS TO COME.
Still, for the time being, things were going really well.
Result: Black Templar win (massacre)
ROUND 5
Black Templars vs Gaz Jones' Eldar
GAMMA SECURE AND CONTROL
Table 1. Bugger. I've never had a good game on Table 1. Best I've managed was a draw. I was already talking myself into a loss before I was infected with THE WORST F**KING DICE ROLLS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Stilol never mind eh. Gaz was a good opponent and I'd already beaten one Flame On Eldar flying Cheese
so how bad could it be....
I thought my luck was holding as I got first turn, and despite the horrendous terrain on table 1 I was able to draw a bead on Gaz's stationary tanks with 5(!) twin linked lascannons - the result? I took the pulse laser off his falcon, and shook his prism and wave serpent. Woot. And they were my best rolls of the game. For the rest of the game my lascannons either missed or rolled a one to penetrate. Other highlights included a crusader unit spending the entire game stuck in a wood as in 6 turns they didnt roll higher than 2 for difficult terrain, another crusader squad failing a zeal check and running a 12" straight off the board (oh theres my double 6's...) The best part came while Gaz was telling a ref how bad my rolls had been - I hit a unit of jet bikes with 4 heavy bolter shots, and proceeded to roll 4 ones to wound.... not that I'm bitter mind, OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!.
On the bright side at least I didnt get wiped......
Result :Black Templar loss (massacre) (boo) (hiss)
ROUND 6
Black Templars vs Ben Harris' Orks
OMEGA RECON
Down to table 6, and against a mixed orks army (3 big boyz mobs plus a load of warbuggies, killa kans, taqnkbustaz and a looted russ.)this was going to be tricky. Especially as I lost the roll off to go second. Still, I made a good fist of the first half of the game - my chaplain killed a squad of killakans and some tankbustas, my crusaders took out the other tankbustas mob along with a boys bob, and my Emperors Champion took out his warboss. Even my landspeeder was useful, taking care of the other killa kan mob.
I have no idea what happennd in the second half of the game...I made several bonehead longshot plays that didnt pay off, and as a result it cost me a victory that would have probably got me top 5. Bugger.
Still, my qualification was pretty much assured, so all together I was prettuy pleased.
Result: Draw
I came 12th overall, which equals my best previous GT result, and it was definitley the best GT I've been to in a long time.
Roll on March!
Woke up at seven having had about 5 hours sleep. My tongue feels like its welded itself to the roof of my mouth, and I really dont want to get out of bed.
On the plus side my head feels ok, I just wish I could say the same for my stomach.
By the time I got to Warhammer World I'd sort of recovered a bit - I'd need to be awake 'cos I was up to table 4...
ROUND 4
Black Templars vs Stu Robertsons Tau
GAMMA CLEANSE (like we couldnt see that one coming)
I have to say now that this was probably my favorite game of the weekend, we took almost the full two hours to play, and the balance swung back and forth before the end.
Stu had 2 commanders (dirty deepstrikers with fusion guns 'n stuff to back scuttle my tanks) 2 fireknife suit squads, kroot(!) a tiny unit of warriors, a piranah which refused to die, stealthsuits, 2 braodsides with shield drones, an ionhead and a railhead. Ouch!
Fortunately - I got to choose quarters, and I gave Stu the least JSJ friendly terrain I could. Stu won the roll off, and elected to go second to give him uncontested quarter grabbing chances in the last turn. Forced into seizing the initiative I piled a lot of stuff forwards. By the end of my turn 2 I had taken out his broadsides and Kroot, and was in combat with Stu's fire warriors.
Unfortunately for me, on Stu's turn two, both his commanders deep struck in, and took out two of my predators - bum!
Fortunately, my horrendous-non-scoring-point-sink-biker-chaplain(tm) came into his own in this game (he was in the list specifically for JSJ'ers after all), taking out: a broadside, a crisis suit squad, the ionhead and the railhead. Booyah!
The only downside to the game was one of my crusader squads losing 1 guy, failing a zeal check and fleeing, never to regroup. This was unforunately a precursor of THINGS TO COME.
Still, for the time being, things were going really well.
Result: Black Templar win (massacre)
ROUND 5
Black Templars vs Gaz Jones' Eldar
GAMMA SECURE AND CONTROL
Table 1. Bugger. I've never had a good game on Table 1. Best I've managed was a draw. I was already talking myself into a loss before I was infected with THE WORST F**KING DICE ROLLS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Stilol never mind eh. Gaz was a good opponent and I'd already beaten one Flame On Eldar flying Cheese
so how bad could it be....I thought my luck was holding as I got first turn, and despite the horrendous terrain on table 1 I was able to draw a bead on Gaz's stationary tanks with 5(!) twin linked lascannons - the result? I took the pulse laser off his falcon, and shook his prism and wave serpent. Woot. And they were my best rolls of the game. For the rest of the game my lascannons either missed or rolled a one to penetrate. Other highlights included a crusader unit spending the entire game stuck in a wood as in 6 turns they didnt roll higher than 2 for difficult terrain, another crusader squad failing a zeal check and running a 12" straight off the board (oh theres my double 6's...) The best part came while Gaz was telling a ref how bad my rolls had been - I hit a unit of jet bikes with 4 heavy bolter shots, and proceeded to roll 4 ones to wound.... not that I'm bitter mind, OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!.
On the bright side at least I didnt get wiped......
Result :Black Templar loss (massacre) (boo) (hiss)
ROUND 6
Black Templars vs Ben Harris' Orks
OMEGA RECON
Down to table 6, and against a mixed orks army (3 big boyz mobs plus a load of warbuggies, killa kans, taqnkbustaz and a looted russ.)this was going to be tricky. Especially as I lost the roll off to go second. Still, I made a good fist of the first half of the game - my chaplain killed a squad of killakans and some tankbustas, my crusaders took out the other tankbustas mob along with a boys bob, and my Emperors Champion took out his warboss. Even my landspeeder was useful, taking care of the other killa kan mob.
I have no idea what happennd in the second half of the game...I made several bonehead longshot plays that didnt pay off, and as a result it cost me a victory that would have probably got me top 5. Bugger.
Still, my qualification was pretty much assured, so all together I was prettuy pleased.
Result: Draw
I came 12th overall, which equals my best previous GT result, and it was definitley the best GT I've been to in a long time.
Roll on March!
