25 thoughts on “SoCal Open Update and Pics! Final 4 Update!”

1. Hope you post an army break down for the event.

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2. Isn’t the top TAU list(Alexander Villagra) illegal? It has a batallion with only 1 HQ – Longstrike.

   Or is there a special rule?

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   1. Also, tell Ryan Mead and Hayen Navarre to upload their lists already :p

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      1. Its prob supposed to be a fast attack detachment based on the units in it so it appears legit to me.

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      2. It appears to be an outrider detachment probably just used an app and forgot to edit with text. (Or his troops were removed for the lack of 3 colors ?)

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      3. Both of their lists are almost the same as mine. I think the only difference between Ryan’s and mine was that he had plague flies instead of nurgling units, everything else was identical.

         Hayden switched out my knight and herald of nurgle for 3 HB rapier laser destroyers, scorpius tank, a 6th malefic lord, and some summoning points which he spends on giant chaos spawn.

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3. Also. Sooo many bad AdMech lists… like 5 lists bellow 90th place. Yuck.

   I still don’t understand how Reece can praise melee bots. They’re really bad: no damage(because they’ll usually only have 1 wound screen units to charge), no durability(no invul save in melee???). No one is using them.

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   1. Seriuosly. Just compare them to Dragoons. On what world would you take Fistellans

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      1. I am going to ompare your face to their fists! Muahahaha, that’ll learn ya! =P

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         1. I played 2 admech lists. Both were close games and extremely fun, beat one lost to one. Overall they are brutal when used correctly, a guy placed 27th with Admech with AM allies. Chaos, Ynnari, and Imperium are all on a top level because of the allies they can take, and glad to see Xenos were doing well overall before the Codex dropped. Fingers crossed for tyranids! Started a casual army just for fun with the deals from the Frontline store at SCO.

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            1. Yeah, the top-ish lists were OK.
               However a pure AdMech list didn’t even crack top 50. Triggered

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   2. Reece also praised Tyranids. Which we’ve learned by now means it’s middle of the road.

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      1. Tyranids without a Codex though… so easy to pick up command points, so hard to use them!!

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4. I need to see those tau lists. I’m just hoping they aren’t commander spam.

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   1. They’re on BCP =)

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      1. Yeah and BCP doesn’t work on my laptop

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         1. Let me rephrase, the BCP site has no links to lists anywhere. Just pairings.

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5. Is Ryan’s list on BCP correct? I tried recreating it on battlescribe and it doesn’t match up. Is battlescribe wrong or is his list wrong?

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6. What happened in the Adam Gati vs Brandon Grant game? I can see the result but I would be interested to know how the game actually played out since I run a very similar list to Adam.

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   1. Brandon wins, i hope watching a tournament report by someone with that ynnari list, i want watching competitive astra or chaos list vs that ynnari list. I dont know as ynnari can win that match…

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   2. This is Adam, I can give you a brief recap. Before I get into the game, I want to say that Brandon was a great opponent/sport and nothing I say here should take away from his solid win.

      So first off, the mission and table were kind of rough. Regarding the table, there was a lot of LOS blocking terrain but it really limited my mobility because of how it was built. Regarding the mission, all Brandon had to do was camp his 90 Conscripts+Commissar with a 5++ (thanks to Celestine and +1 save power) on the center objective for an easy +2 points each game turn that I couldn’t do anything about-was rough and nearly impossible to overcome that advantage (12 easy point for his army).

      Second, there was some bad dice on my part. Brandon can attest to my dice resulting in 5/8 failed 3+ saves and all then failing all my 6+ Spirit Stone saves on my wave serpents for the first few turns. Also, even with command points, my D-Scythes rolled only 1-2 for number of shots (e.g., 1 shot per D-Scythe) EVERY single time they shot. But that alone did not determine the game results and I won’t blame dice entirely for my loss.

      Smite spam behind a very durable amount of infantry is hard to deal with. He had 9 Primaris Psykers and 3 Astropaths for a potential 11 Smites+the AM super smite. This becomes more problematic when he has a Culexus in there that makes your deny and cast -2. Smites alone accounted for me losing about 1-2 Wraithguard UNITS or Wave Serpents a turn. It was rough.

      With that said, the game consisted of me splitting my army up and then trying to flank his army and doing damage from the sides but he just had too many models/smites for me to handle and he wore me down in a brutal game of attrition.

      What I should have done was hang back for a few turns and skirt his extreme flanks and then hit him from the rear and push in from there. Poor play and tactics on my part ultimately but losing 1-2 Serpents like they were Vypers on turn 1 and 2 really hurt my mobility. I am really looking forward to being able to deepstrike WG once again with Craftworld stratagems =).

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      1. Thanks Adam, bad luck on that game but well done overall at the tournament.

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7. Was curious if these Am guys are able to use the new codex? It seems like a lot of them are using Military Tempestus, which doesn’t seem like the strongest regiment in the new codex.

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8. Incoming wall of text on the final write-up for this tourny :p

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9. Typo caught- It shows an Ork list in the top 8. 😉

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