Ambassadorial Tourney Report Round 4 vs West Rider

[shadowfinder]

Hi all. This will be my first battle report that i will do so be kind to me.

This tournament is a little diffrent. You can read about it here. www.40kambassadors.com/index.php

Through a twst n fate I will be repersent Tyranids this year. lol

My list is:
== HQ ==
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Thorax - Electroshock Grubs, Wings = 240 pts.
Hive Tyrant (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Wings = 230 pts.

== Elites ==
Venomthrope (1) = 45 pts.
Hive Guard Brood (3) - Impaler Cannon = 165 pts.

== Troops ==
Tervigon (1) - Stinger Salvo, Crushing Claws, Thorax - Electroshock Grubs, Adrenal Glands, Taken As Troops = 235 pts.
Termagant Brood (160 pts.)
Termagant (20) - Fleshborer = 80 pts.
Termagant (10) - Devourer = 80 pts.

== Fast Attack ==
Hive Crone (1) = 155 pts.
Ravener Brood (6) - Rending Claws, Deathspitter = 270 pts.

== Heavy Support ==
Carnifex (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Adrenal Glands = 165 pts.
Carnifex (1) - Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Twin-Linked Devourer - Brainleech Worms, Adrenal Glands = 165 pts.
Exocrine (1) = 170 pts.

== Total ==
2000 pts.

All the misson are unique and force you to be creative.

Below is some picture of my army.





I will have the first Battle report up by monday i hope..

[tylertt]

Best of luck! Nice looking force you have there as well.

Curious on the choice of Raveners though. How come you went with them? I have found them very very hard to use effectively myself.

[WestRider]

OK, this freaked me out for a second. I thought I had somehow lost a day or two and missed the Tournament

[tylertt]

What army are you playing Westrider?

[PumpkinHead]

You have LOTS of painting to do in a short amount of time... Good Luck and may the dice roll in your favor!

Westrider is playing Space Puppies

[WestRider]

I've got my Space Wolves for this one. Looking at the lists, I kind of wish I were still the Nid Player. Other than the Orks and Necrons, pretty much everyone is really light on Anti-Air, and I bet I could wreak some serious havoc with my Skyblight List. Oh, well, Drop Pods are always fun to play, I feel pretty confident against most of the field, and one way or the other, this list gets fast games, so I should have time to wander around, hang with people check out all the Armies.

[gigasnail]

Best of luck!

[macdaddyt]

Good luck! Hope the ravenors treat you well! I don't normally have success but I would like to see them work!

[shadowfinder]

Raveners have been really good for me. In my last tourney they where MVP for two of my games. People underestimate the which is great for me. Deep strike them in to cover next to your flyrat that just killed stuff and see what people shoot at
That and I didn't have bio vores lol. I know how to use them well and they give me a very good threat in their back field.

[Yautja]

Lovely models but the list looks scarily low on synapse to me. Good luck!

[shadowfinder]

Well it was a great time. Nid's walked away with 1st place.

It was a show down with West Rider and me in the finals. It's funny I called it and it happened.
I will try to get some battle reports up soon. I fought Necron, CSM, Blood angles, and Lastly Space Wolves.
Great time had by all.

[xarrax]

Congratulations on the win
Looking forward to reading the battle reports

[gigasnail]

grats!

[WestRider]

Congratulations, dude! I think I might have been able to pull it out if it hadn't been my fourth game that day, but you still definitely earned. Heck of a beat-down, very well played.

[shadowfinder]

Report #1

My first game was vs. Necron
My opponent was a nice guy with one of the 3 list that I didn't want to play. But I got him first turn.

The mission deployment was from 5th edition. I liked this mission as it made you have to move if you where going to score. Mission info can be found here. www.40kambassadors.com/missions.php

The necron list was bad match up for me in my mind,

Necron Entourage
HQ:
230pts Necron Overlord (Warscythe, phylactery, mind shackle scarabs, sempdermal weave
Catacomb Command Barge
230pts Necron Overlord (Warscythe, phylactery, mind shackle scarabs, sepdermal weave
Catacomb Comand Barge
25pts Royal Court: Cryptek(harbinger of the storm) voltaic staff
25pts Royal Court: Cryptek(harbinger of the storm) voltaic staff
25pts Royal Court: Cryptek(harbinger of the storm) voltaic staff
25pts Royal Court: Cryptek(harbinger of the storm) voltaic staff
130pts 10 warriors
115pts Ghost Ark
130pts 10 warriors
115pts Ghost Ark
65pts 5 warriors
100pts Night Scythe
65pts 5 warriors
100pts Night Scythe
65pts 5 warriors
100pts Night Scythe
65pts 5 warriors
100pts Night Scythe
Heavy Support:
90pts Annihilation barge
90pts Annihilation barge
90pts Annihilation barge

As you can see he had a lot of Ar 13. The board was also not in my favour.


Nid turn 1: I went first and flow the crone and tyrants up. The crone went after the ghost arks and flamed both of them killing a few guys in side both and putting a hull point on one of them. They tyrants went one to each flank setting up for turn two rear shots.

Crons turn 1: He moved a little forward with one of his annihilation barges to shot at my tervagon. The other two focused on my crone killing it. He then split the two Arks up one going down the board toward my board edge and one to his right trying to flank me. The two CCB moved down with one of the arks hanging back.

Nids turn #2: I advance the main part of my army toward the middle of the board. The ravener went back in to reserve. The tyrants crossed in behind ghost ark and the CCB. I got FNP on the tyrants. Shooting then toke two hull point of the Annihilation barge with hive guard. Then I killed the one Ghost ark with both tyrants.

I was worried by this point cause I was doing little to his forces.

Crons turn #2: All of his reserves came in. He shot the tyrants up with two annihilation barges and two N. Scythes doing two wounds on both of them with the arcing not the main shots. It was crazy. Nothing died and he moved his lord back in to flanking my lord hoping they would fall down. It didn't happen. He tried to kill the hive guard with everything else but failed. He toke my warlord down to one wound. He flat out his ark one the right flank trying to work behind me.

Nids turn 3: I advance again covering a large space to keep his fliers from landing in a place that would allow them to maneuver for future shots. I moved my one of my fexs after the flanking ark running toward it. I try to hide the warlord in the far corner out of site. The other tyrant went after the secondary and killed off a 6 man warrior unit. I killed one annihilation barge with hive guard.

Crons turn 3: he drops off warriors on the secondary on the right flank and the left flank-and advances the right ark forward just in charge range of my fex. He then kills the warlord with his last annihilation barge. ( Can make 7 3+ saves)
He whiffs on the other tyrant. His CCBs move forward toward my main army.

Nids turn 4: My exocrine finally get in range and help kills a 10 man warrior unit with the other tyrant. The Fex charges the Ark and kills it. Exploding it and pinning the guys in side. I move up the guant toward two objectives and kill the second annihilation barge and a N.scythe. The raveners misshap again.

Crons turn 4: His Scythe have no good places to go so all skatter to different places. He then kills on hive guard wth shoting and moves to clame one of the objective in his back field. He also move to cover 3 others as well. He then charges both of his CCB n the 30 man Gaunt unit. He kills a few I do one wound to his lord.

Nids turn 5: I shot some warrors wth the hive guard killing a few. The exo and Tyrant kill off one objective and the claim it.
The fex goes after the pinned warriors and kills half of them and they pass the leadership taking him down to one wound.
I also charge the other warrior unit with the hive guard and kill one. They also pass leadership. They CCB kill a few more guant and stay put.

Crons turn 5: He goes after the tyrant and fails to take it last wound. He kill the fex in combat take a secondary objective.
All the other combats are pillow fights.

Games ends

This was a crazy fight. I made a big mistake moving the crone up so fast. I should have flown the warlord of the board instead of trying to hide him. But fortunately he made a few mistakes as well. The biggest was charging both of his CCB n to my gaunts. This allowed me to contest one of his objectives at the end of the game.

I thought I had lost but a final tally was 13 to 14. Nids win..