A new year means a new tournament season, and we’re off like a shot! Let’s take a look at some of the results we’ve got coming in so far.
Wild West Shootout 2,000pts
The Wild West Shootout was run over this past weekend by Battlefoam.
It was a rather expensive event, with tickets coming in around $100 for admission to the con and the 40K GT.
The top finishers were:
- Best General: Blackmoor with his Draigowing
HQ
Draigo
Librarian w/Warding Staff, Shrouding, Might of Titians, Sanctuary, 2 Servo Skulls
Troops
10 Paladins w/3 Psycannons, Master Crafted Psycannon, Warding Stave, 2 Swords, 2 Demonhammers, 3 Halberds, Master Crafted Halberd, Brotherhood Banner
5 Grey Knight Strike Squad w/Psycannon
Fast Attack
9 Interceptors w/2 Psycannons
Justicar w/MC Demonhammer
Heavy Support
3 Dreadnaughts w/2 Autocannons, Psybolt ammo
- Second Best General: Geoff Zatkin with Battlewagon Orks
We don’t have the exact list, but I was told it was a Ghaz Battlewagon list, with 4-5 Deff Rolla Battlewagons.
- Third Best General: Dave Fay’s (TEAM ZERO COMP) Black Templars
Marshall w/Bike, Powerfist, Adamantine Mantle, Storm Shield
Emperor’s ChampionElite
5 Terminators w/2 Cyclone Missile Launchers
5 Terminators w/2 Cyclone Missile Launchers
5 Terminators w/2 Cyclone Missile LaunchersTroops
5 Marines w/Lascanons
5 Marines w/Lascanons
5 Marines w/LascanonsFast Attack
3 Land Speeder Typhoons
3 Land Speeder Typhoons
2 Land Speeder Typhoons
- Best Painted: Dave Fay’s (TEAM ZERO COMP) Black Templars
Tropicarnage 1,500pts
Frontline reader, Rantiums, brought us coverage from an Australian GT, Tropicarnage. Tropicarnage took place in Cairns and had an attendance of 54. Rantimus took 10th with his Blood Angels, and relayed what data he could to us about the other top finishers which can be found here: http://www.rankingshq.com/public/tournamentprofile.aspx?tournamentid=2548
The interesting thing in my mind was that 1st was taken by Crons. First event of the year, and already off to a strong start for the Robo Warriors! Fantastic!
The top 10 armies at this event were as follows:
- Necrons
- Grey Knights
- Dark Eldar
- Imperial Guard
- Dark Angels
- Grey Knights
- Tyranids
- Orks
- Dark Eldar
- Chaos Space Marines
Hmm. Pretty good spread, there. Again, Orks, Bugs, and CSM. Again, the internet would lead you to believe that would now happen, and yet there it is. No Wolves (although it appears there were none at the event!), and only 1 IG player, but 2 Grey Knights and 2 Dark Eldar. Once again, good players winning with “bad” armies.
Here is the top Cron player’s list we dug up sas Rantiums reported it to us:
1 x Overlord HQ (cant remeber his name) in a command barge
1 x Destroyer Lord HQ with mind shackle scarabs (good for killing mephiston and assault marines)
1x Cryptek
3 x Wraiths
3 x Canoptek Spyders
10x Scarabs
2 x Annihilation Barges
1×10 Immortals
2×5 Immortals
So, a mini Scarab Farm with Wraiths, Command Barge Overlord, Destroyer Lord and a few objective holding scoring units. Those seem to be consistent elements we see in winning Necron Lists.
So what does this all mean? For now, not much. We need more data to really tell, but as a starting point this reaffirms what we see every year: that good players win with any army.
We’ll continue to analyze tournament data as it comes in, but so far we are off to an exciting start to the 2012 tournament season.
Here are some pictures of Tropicarnage and an interesting anecdote about the event after the pictures.
From an attendee of the event, apparently the Gentleman that won the Cheese Award for bringing a Grey Knight army of 3 Land Raiders full of Death Cult Assassins was not happy about winning the award, and when talking to a Blood Angels player at the event, told him that he had read Raw Dogger’s “Vampires Suck!” article series on this very site, and told the Blood Angels player that his army was therefore crap!
Well, we’re happy to hear that people are reading our articles, and we don’t know what was actually said that day. But, everyone, those articles are meant to be humorous! Raw Dogger is a jokster, please don’t take them as actual tactical analysis!
At any rate, well played to all of the Tropicarnage Attendees and please send those results, pictures and stories coming!
Reece people will read those articles and actually take them seriously. More if they say that they are tactica articles. It might be helpful to list that they are jokes and therefore untrue.
Yeah, that is fair. I think we just didn’t emphasize enough that it was meant to be a joke. Going forward, if we do anything like that again, we’ll be sure to make it plenty clear that our intentions are to be humorous.