Battleforge Games VS. Dragons Lair BATTLE-O-RAMA!!!
So this weekend I decided to take a day off and play in this inter store tournament. BFG picked 4 players and Dragons Lair also “choose” 4 players to battle it out for store dominance. The points were set at 2000 a piece, VP’s were used to decide winners, and the thought was that everyone should bring “hobby” lists in order to create a nice and fun environment for some dice battles. I decided to play orks and ran with this fun list.
HQ: Warboss, PK, Bosspole, Attack Squig, Cybork, Eavy Armor
HQ: Big Mek, Field, Burna
Troops: (10) Nobz, 3 PK’s, Bosspole, Waagh Banner, Painboy, Eavy Armor, Cybork Body
Troops: (29) Shoota boyz, 3 Rokkits, Nob, Bosspole, PK
Troops: (29) Shoota boyz, 3 Rokkits, Nob, Bosspole, PK
Troops: (29) Slugga boyz, 3 Big Shootas, Nob, Bosspole, PK
Elites: (15) Lootas
Heavy: Battlewagon, DeffRolla, 2 Big Shootas
Fast Attack: Deff Koptas (3), TWL Rokkits (3)
Fast Attack: Deff Koptas (3), TWL Rokkits (3)
A nice round about list that was fun. Here is a rundown of what each of the other players played.
BFG Players
Me: Orks “I don’t like poems”
Nick “Cheater” Rose: 32 year Old Eldar
Jay: Eldar
Robert: Tzeentch Flavored Chaos Marines with one dab of Lash
DL Players
Mike: Dark “I like Poems” Angels
Byrce: Orks “What do you mean I need to play”
Kingsley: IG Chem Inhaler Madness
Nathan: Mixed Chaos Marines
Some of the DL players couldn’t make it, so we had to make some phone calls and got Kingsley, a BFG regular and participant from last years battle, to come out and help DL. Bryce also came by and was able to help out DL and their two missing battle partners.
RD 1: Pitched Battle – 12 inch Deployment lines, nothing else funky. I ended up playing Bryce. So it was a battle of Orks on Orks. Byrce had two big squads of boyz, some boyz in a trukk, 5 deff koptas, 10 lootas, Warboss w/nobz in a trukk, and 15 kommandos. I put my boyz in big blocks and took advantage of the big mek putting out his protective field to all the boyz squads. First turn went to Bryce and I was unlucky in seizing the initiative. He flew Koptas forward, shot at my BW, didn’t do anything. His two trukks moved foward and his small squad of lootas were ineffective. His deffkoptas were far enough forward that I could tank shock them with my Deff Rolla BW. He broke, ran back and my boyz jumped out and assaulted his 30 man boyz squad. I also blew up his Warboss trukk and did a few wounds to his nob squad (FNP nobz are poopies). But that first turn ended the game due to me having my hammer in the middle of his army, running through the squads. I had whittled down his Nob squad enough, that they wouldn’t be killing out the 30 man squad in front of it, and I just had to wait and sacrifice squads to it and then get a massive counter charge off to kill them out.
Game ended with me at 2000 VP and Byrce at less then 200, one squad of slugga boyz were at below half. Massacre for the Orks, so we always win muahahah!!!
Other Players results.
Nick “I’m not 32, I’m 9000” beat Mike “Green Marines RARGH!!!” in a massacre.
Jay “Eldar are not Sassy” beat Nathan “Chaos gods be damned!!!”
Kings “Ringer” beat Robert “Chaos likes me.” in a close game.
BFG 3 DL 1
Rd 2: Versus Nathan (Chaos) – Set up was Spearhead and Nathan rolled to go first. I filled up my entire quarter, with my field hitting all the squads. Nathan had a Defiler as well as a vindicator and a Lash Prince. Nathan put his prince too far in the back, so his first turn he didn’t get a chance to lash anyone around, thus his Templates did not work as well. MIx that in with getting 7 5+ saves out of 10 and we can see how the game was going to go. My first turn, lootas ate the Defiler, and rokkits from my deff koptas immobilized the Vindicator. Nathan didn’t get close enough to lash my guys around, and some more orks died to Noise marine fire. Nathan lost his first chaos marine to plasma overheating and it was onto my turn. I had moved my BW around to get into range to charge some Plague Marines and Noise marines hidden in a forest. Lucky for me, my waagh took me close enough and I was able to hit both squads. PK to the Plague marines and Choppas to the Noise Marines. I also shot the power Daemon Prince down with Loota fire (Lootas for the win?). After that it was just munch time as my nob squad made it around his army, kill both noise marine squads, plague marines, and vindicator. Again the evilness of Nobz with FNP rears its ugly head.
Game ended with me at 2000 vp and Nathan at 0 (Nothing below half).
Other Players results.
Robert “I paints good!” beat Mike “Eternal Dice hatred”
Kings “Super Ringer” beat Jay “YOU FAIL ME SPACE ELVES!!!”
Nick “I swear I’m not 32” beat Byrce “Nobz = epic fail!!”
BFG 6 DL 2
Game 3: Versus Kingsley and his IG: Dawn of War
I won the roll to go first and set up. I set up 18 inches away, ready to blast some dudes with some fire. Of course the dice gods were against me as Kingsley rolled to seize the initiative. All those awesome orks in the front… They started to die to massed templates (Two Demolishers, 1 Battle Cannon, and a hell hound). So there went my perfect games hah. Still the game went alright and I held my own, with my nobz eating up a lot of units and basically allowing me to stay in the game. The nobz lived and stayed at under half but both my HQ’s ate it as well as 2 squad of boyz. My lootas took out some light armor and regular doods, but for the most part were living on the life due to dealing with the bits from Nathan. Still a good game and as usual Kingsley brought his A game. You can see his army in a lot of the battle reports from good ole Aventine.
Game ended with me getting 1043 and Kingsley getting 1350 – Minor loss to me.
Other Games:
Mike “Green for the Tie!!” drew with Jay “Space elves just want love.”
Robert “Super Paint!” beat Bryce “Orkie ork ork ork”
Nick “Dice love me like your mom” beat Nathan “Stoopd chaos!!!”
BFG 8 DL 3 Draw 1
Game 4: Versus Mike and his Poem loving Dark Angels. Pitch battle deployment
Mike won to go first and I couldn’t sneak the initiative from him. I set up in a huge block as usual and was ready to just push forward with my BW and take on some Green Marines. Of course the dice gods favored Mike, one lone lascannon took out the poor battlewagon with a 5 to hit, 6 to pen and a 6 to blow it up. Of course I rolled a 3 to try and stop it. To add insult to injury my Warboss took a wound coming out of the BW. Bastard. They fell out, weren’t pinned and were ready to add some helmets to their victory pile. My turn, my lootas ate a Razorback, regular shooting was just blah and some rokkits stunned one rhino. My warboss ran up and got to the center, ready to jump over and waagh into some Marines. Next turn, Mike’s shooting left him (can’t hit with meltas or can’t wound) and it was up to me to come on. One squad of Koptas outflanked in, and gummed up a squad of heavy bolters. My lootas took out another rhino and a rokkit blew off more weapons. My Warboss got a good movement as well as a waagh and was able to hit two squads in assault. Rinse, repeat, the squad ate it and spread out to take on what was in the Land Raider. Mike threw out the raider and his Commander with Lit Claws took on my warboss. Sadly his commander wiffed and my warboss added his head to his backpack. The rest of the squad ate it and the nobz of doom went off to get the land raider and some other Marines. Oh his terminators came down near the nobz, but their fire didn’t help (heavy flamer and storm bolters didn’t get throught FNP and cybork). My warboss ran into the land raider with 3 other PK nobz as the other bits hit two squads of marines. A big explosion later and we are left with 2 marines and a whole bunch of nobz. The terminators were about 14+ inches away, and thus taken out of their chance to squish some green skins. Mike called it after that, since I had gotten some boyz in charge range and he just had some dudes and Terminators I was going to torrent the hell out of.
Game finished with me at 2000 and mike at 270 (Deff Kopta units).
Other Games:
Robert “Chaos loves me long time.” beat Nathan “Chaos doesn’t call me the next day.”
Jay “ME HATES ORKS” lost to Bryce “I guess Orks kinda like me”
Nick “Woot you suck Thomas” beat Kingsley “Ringer 4000” in a good game.
Final BFG 11 DL 4 Draw 1
Total victory points for me is 7043 and by the looks of it in second place in total Victory points.
This was a fun little tournament with everyone looking at just having a good time, versus total annihilation. I wanted to try out the BW and I can say for sure, you need more than one. If I had two others, it would have been a different army and in a lot of ways, a much more abusive list. But hell I will wait till next year, to grab me two new BW’s and start the chant of dirty bastard from my local players. To everyone that played, thanks for making this a fun tournament, and for my teammates, thanks for kicking bootie heh.
Sorry for the lack of game pictures, I was rushing to get my games in due to people being late and the sheer number of damned dirty orks that have to run around. Also, if I messed anything up in my reporting, comment and I will fix it. Next year we will hopefully have a few more stores involved and thus have a much grander tournament. Thanks to everyone involved and a big shout out to the store organizers for both BattleForge Games and Dragon’s Lair Comics. I thought this tournament was a lot of fun and we went into it for the spirit of the game, instead of just crushing the skulls and doing a happy dance on their dead bodies. Good games all, and I hope to get a chance to throw down next year.
Now onto some art, my Battle Wagon in action.
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