Tony here from 40K Stats Centre covering the final game from LVO 2020! You can follow along here or stream it live from Warhammer TV Twitch or 40K Stats Centre.
Richard Siegler‘s Iron Hands take on Brad Chester’s Raven Guard successors.
Brad Chester wins first turn and Richard fails to seize.
Richard’s secondaries: Gangbusters, Engineers, Butcher’s bill
Brad’s secondaries: engineers, Butcher’s bill, Headhunter
The first turn is relatively uneventful with both players jockeying for position. While Richard puts three damage onto Brad’s smash captain neither player gets a kill and only scoring hold one.
No kill again in turn 2 while Brad scores hold, hold more, and an engineer while Richard only scores hold and engineer. Its 4-3 in Brad’s favor at the end of round 2.
Turn 3 and Brad has to commit his reserves. After he establishes board control Richard starts his push. He kills an infiltrator squad in the mid board. Brad scores hold, hold more, and engineer while Richard scores kill, hold, kill more, and engineer. Score is tied 7-7 at the end of three.
Brad wipes a unit of intercessors going for an objective with his snipers. In his answering volley Richard moves further up the board killing a single unit of scouts and taking a unit of assault cents down to three total models. Brad scores kill, hold, hold more, and engineer. Richard scores kill, hold, engineer, and two gangbusters. The score is 12-11 in Richard’s favor at the end of round 4.
Brad moves his surviving centurions up, shoots one squad out, charges another to kill it, and then wraps a model from a third squad. Richard spends 3cp to be able to snipe a character with an intercessor squad, but the Capt lives with a single wound remaining. He shoots more of Brad’s sniper scouts before charging all the Chaplain dreads into the surviving assault cents. Richard wipes the cents in combat, however, he fails to finish the smash captain or scout unit. The score is tied 17-17 at the end of 5.
Brad moves his devastator centurions out to try and kill the Leviathan. He plans to shoot his entire army into it. Richard played cogitated and half damage. Levi survives with 4 wounds remaining. Richard kills two units sealing victory 21-20., becoming the LVO and ITC Champion!