Astronomi-con Dallas 2012
Game 1 vs Zachary K.
Sisters of Battle
A fun scenario that I had the chance to play in the last
Astro. The objective of the mission was
to clear buildings by having a scoring unit in it at the end of any game turn
with no enemy forces to contest it.
Zach won the first turn, and I reserved everything following my themed force. Zach used the first two turns to obtain 5 buildings putting him at 5 objectives ahead of me before I started to come on the board. My Turn 2 saw a couple units Deep Strike in on the right flank clearing out and obtaining 2 buildings for myself. Leaving the score Zach 3 vs 2.
As more units came in I pushed the right flank very hard
taking advantage of his forces being spread out from his initial push in
clearing out the buildings. My units
continued to push back Zach's forces on the flank through the game with my
callidus assassin making harrassing attacks in the center of his forces keeping
his forces from concentrating on the front line.
In the end I won the mission having cleared out many of the
buildings leaving him with 2.
Game 2 vs David C. Grey
Knights - Supply and Command
I believe I played this scenario last year as well against
the green bikes Clay brought up. In this
mission there are six objectives that can be picked up and carried by your
units. Whoever ends with the most
objectives wins.
I won and took the first turn, and was forced to deploy 2 units and chose a strike squad and the
dreadknight. Everything else was left in
reserves to follow my themed deep strike force.
On my first turn, I took advantage of having units in play and grabbed 3
objectives.
This was a very hard fought battle, as me and David were
shooting the *expunged* out of each other through the game. For most of the game I managed to hold onto
my objects and take the right flank as David's forces came in on the left table
side and began shooting down my forces.
At the end of turn four David was able to wipe out my unit holding 2
objectives. This put him in for the win,
with only 15 minutes left we made the decision to continue playing and I was
able to grab two additional objectives within walking distance and he was not
able to take out those units.
In the end I won the mission 3 to 2 on objectives.
Game 3 vs Brain E. Chaos
Space Marines - Hammer & Ambull
This mission was a straight victory points mission with the
difference of having 3 Ambulls that would come in play at the end of the round
from the center of the board and scatter and attack anyone they came in contact
with.
Brian ended up castling on the right flank on his board edge and waited for my army to deep strike in. On his turn 2 he pops smoke on everything and waits for me. I ended up having my Storm Raven and a Strike Squad come in and shoot at his forces, destroying a battle cannon and stunning a dreadnaught. He quickly took retribution by killing 7 strike squad members with a battle cannon and charging the purifiers with a defiler. With them stuck in combat they would quickly be eating during the next round.
Fortunately an Ambull came into play and assaulted my purifiers creating a out of sequence combat with the defiler, in which I was lucky enough to destroy the defiler and ambull and have the squad ready for the next round.
The squad then took down his commanding daemon prince and I
had other units come into play taking the right flank with the
dreadknight. During the rest of the game
with had multiple exchanges of shooting and combat, but the dreadnight proceeded
to walk through his diminished units.
In the end I won the mission with only 3 noise marines left
on the table.
Game 4 vs John C. Space
Wolves - Err Supply
This mission was quite interesting as the 3 objectives did
not come into play until the second turn, and scattered 2d6 x 3 from the center
of the board.
I ended up winning the roll off for this game and gave it to
John so that I would be able to have advantage of having the last turn to
capture or contest objectives. John
proceeded to deploy his wolf lords near the center of the board. During his next two turns he drop pods his
grey hunters and wolf guard towards the center of the board and brings a rhino
onto his objective on the right flank.
On my second turn I was lucky enough to have everything but
my five man interceptor squad come into play.
I was able to take advantage of this and concentrated all of my forces
on his center squads and wolf lords doing extreme damage to all of them. John then proceeded to assault me, which I
was able to withstand and countered by killing off his lords.
From there it was a matter of slowly moving my forces to maintain
control of my two objectives that I had deep striked onto and to contest
his. We went back and force in
contesting objectives but I had the advantage of having more forces on the
table.
In the end I won with 2 objectives and contesting the last.
Game 5 vs Eric S. Dark
Eldar - Midnight Patrol
I was pretty worried about this mission as it was a Victory
Points mission with night fighting the entire game.
Eric ended up getting first turn, and deploys a warrior unit
on the right flank while I was forced
to deploy a strike squad on the left flank.
Eric gets two units from reserves on the first turn a two wych squads
one with one of his lords. He then moves
30 inches forward towards my strike squad.
My first turn sees my Storm Raven, Dreadknight and Callidus
come into play. I was very fortunate in
this as I was able to destroy the lords transport and shoot and assault it to
death while doing damage to the other raider and warrior squad unit.
Through the rest of the game I ended up getting my other
reserves in, in a timely fashion while the Dark Eldar dribbled in and I was
able to taken them on with massive firepower and assaults from the
Purifiers.
In the end I won this mission with there only being a
ravager left in play.
Game 6 vs Eugene H. Necrons
- Divide & Conquer
This was a standard victory points mission with diagonal
deployment zones. Eugene
Through the game my forces came in, just in shooting range
and staying out of range of the majority of his army. They proceeded to destroy his army down
slowly, and moving forward to get into range of new units.
In the end I won this mission also at the end of turn 5.
Overall I had a great time with every match. I think the uniqueness of the army in that it
was completely deep striking helped to throw some people off and I had some
good luck on my side at pivotal moments.
I've got to say that all the missions were a lot more fun this year as I
was prepared for the experience and I can't wait to do it again.
Tournament
Results
Billy P. - 2nd Overall
Eric S. was 3rd Best Overall (I
believe)
Matt M. - Best Sport
Billy P. - Best Army
Eric S. - Best Army List w/ a
freaky head!
Brian E. - Best General
John C - Best Terrain
I'll update the results if I got any of them wrong or when
the Astro guys put up the official list.
I'm also going to spend some time and do full battle reports for all the
games.
