Hi Everyone,
Logan from 1 Plus Armour reporting in, just returned from the Da Boyz GT in Canandaigua, NY! I attended this event with several friends and clubmates from CanHammer and the Canadian ETC team and we had a great time.
There were two main events that we attended for – 40k doubles, and 40k singles. The doubles event was largely un-comped, other than only allowing a single Forgeworld unit and single Gargantuan/Superheavy Lord of War per team. The singles event was using Da Boyz’s own flavour of Highlander comp (duplicate troops allowed if all troops options are taken, no Battle Brothers, only 1 Forgeworld unit, and no formations or detachments composed of formations).
First things first – the Venue.
This was hosted at the Bristol Harbour Resort, which has an absolutely spectacular view, both from the rooms, but also from the tournament hall(s).
The rooms were a very short walk from the hall (maybe a minute), and were also wonderful. Tons of space, which is great if you want to cram 5-6 people into one, and completely spotless and well maintained.
Let’s talk about the Doubles.
The doubles event was on the Friday, with the singles on the following Saturday/Sunday, and it consisted of 3 2h30 minute rounds. As outlined briefly above, there was little comp for this (notably no comp on D or Invisibility), and past that the main requirement was just that both players must take a CAD.
I was running a Tau CAD with an Inquisitorial Detachment for those wonderful Servo Skulls, and my partner was running an Eldar CAD:
Tau CAD
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Commander – CCN, MSS, PEN, Stim Injector, Iridium Suit
Riptide – Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion, Stim Injector, Interceptor
Riptide – Heavy Burst Cannon, SMS, Skyfire, Interceptor
6x Firewarriors
10x Kroot
3x Broadsides – HYMP, SMS, Interceptor, 3x Missile Drones
Inquisitorial Detachment
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Ordo Xenos Inquisitor – 3x Servo Skulls
Eldar CAD
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Farseer Skyrunner – Spiritstone of Anath’lan
5x Wraithguard
3x Windriders – Warlock, 3x Scatter Lasers
3x Windriders – 3x Scatter Lasters
Vaul’s Wrath Support Battery – Warlock, 3x D-Cannon
Wraithknight – 2x Heavy Wraithcannons
Unfortunately, I do not have lists for my opponents in the Doubles, so I will have to go from memory.
Round 1
Our first round was against a similar list, on a team headed by Chris Lehsten from New York:
Buff Commander
Ethereal
Riptide – Burst Cannon/SMS
3x 12 Fire Warriors
3x Broadsides – HYMP, SMS
Farseer Skyrunner
5x Rangers
5x Windriders – Scatter Lasers
5x Windriders – Scatter Lasers
3x Hornets – Pulse Lasers
Wraithknight
Things went downhill pretty fast for Chris’ team, unfortunately, with us having bottom of turn and being able to very effectively counter-deploy. The end of turn 1 saw Chris’ team’s Hornets destroyed, a unit of Fire Warriors run off the table due to a failed morale test, and things continued from there for the rest of the game. Chris’ team ended up with no models remaining on the table at the end of turn 4. We walked away getting max points of 35.
Round 2
Farseer Skyrunner
3x Windriders – Scatter Lasers
3x Windriders – Scatter Lasers
5x Warp Spiders
Wraithknight
Death Jester
Shadowseer
Solitaire
Archon
2x Venoms
Raider
5x Grotesques
Round 3
4x Flyrant
Deathleaper
3x Lictors
Literally over 9000 Spore Mines, Sporocysts, and whatever the other spore things are… not really, but had to have been close to 40.
2x Mawloc
Overall Results and Thoughts for Doubles
Sounds like a great event! I’ve always wanted to go Da Boyz GT.
It was really, really fun… and neither of these articles even touches on the hilarity that was the Thursday night prior to the event starting :O
I strongly suggest you, Frankie, and anyone else you can bring come out next year!
Nice! Yeah, we’ve wanted to go but every year things come up and we have not been able to make the trip.