First Tourney - BL Spam (Brief Batreps added.)

[l0rdf1end]

In just under two weeks I'm going to my first 6th Tournament.
I only did one in 5th and that was last minute with my mates Grey knights.
My mate had a spare ticket and theres nothing like a bit of pressure to get your army finished and painted.

It's 1500 points and I believe 6 games.
I'm taking my Broodlord Spam list (See latest battle reports).
I have a Harpy to build, 2 Flyrants to stick and paint.
6 Broodlords and around 30 Genestealers to paint.

I'm not expecting to be in the top rankings, just plan to go there and get some experience and see how well Broodlord Spam does agaisnt competative lists.

Wish me luck chaps.
I'll report back.

Oh, if anyone has any additional advice feel free to share.

List I will be taking is this:

Flyrant Devx2
Flyrant Devx2

6 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST (ALL Toxin)
6 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST (ALL Toxin)
6 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST (ALL Toxin)
6 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST
5 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST
5 Genestealer/Broodlord+ST

Harpy TL Stranglethorn Cannon

1498

[Jabberwocky]

Best of luck! I'm building my 2nd harpy tonight for a possible game tomorrow :-)

[lostminds]

6 games? I've been trying to get them to go 4 games here and so far that is like hitting a brick wall.
oh and good luck

[l0rdf1end]

Now confirmed to be 5 Games.
The event is called StarSmash in Reading, Berkshire, UK.

Painted and based 28 Stealers over the weekend, I now have developed a hunch back.
6 Broodlords, 2 Flyrants and a Harpy to paint and base by end of day Friday!

I will try to take some pictures and do battle reports over the weekend.

[coredump]

Good luck!! Let us know how it goes.

[l0rdf1end]

So I had 1 week to paint my army for tomorrow's tourney.
Please bear in mind that I have a full time job and a 15th month old Daughter so time is limited.

I really just had to get some base colours down as I just dont have the time for finishing touches although I have some obvious finishing touches to do tonight like basing and putting some more solid colour down on the Flyrants, will try and get some highlights done on the Broodlords also.

So this is what I had last Friday



And this is what I have now -








I think one more week will allow me to add hightlights and finish the MC's/Broodlords. Will try and get as much more possible done tonight.

Wish me luck chaps, i'm going to need it. If you could all pray to the Hive Mind that may help!

[Lanesend]

Good luck, man!

Kill 'em for the Kraken!

[l0rdf1end]

Played my first 3 games today. Had awesome fun and sorry for no pictures but I will give a quick run down of the games. Today I ended on 2 wins and one loss.

Game 1.
Blood Angels
Mission = Purge the Alien

His army was something like this:

1 Landraider, the one with flamers.
1 Standard Landraider.
2 squads plus his leader dude (the one that headbuts in CC)
1 standard pred.
1 baal pred
1 whilrwind
1 rhino with 5 guys.

I might be missing sme stuff but that what I can remember.

I ended the game with just one Flyrant in combat that worked his way through his warlord and 2 sergeants.

He just had a falling back squad and the 2 Raiders left when we ended turn 6.

I scored warlord/line breaker and first blood and won on kill points 11-9.

The scoring system is 30 for a win and 2 bonus points for each secondary objective.
I think 10 for a draw and 1 for a loss.


Game 2.

Ultra Marines
The Scouring

The army was something like this.

3 10 man tac squads, flamer and heavy bolter in each. 1 had a rhino.
Squad of missile launchers.
5 man termy squad + Warlord.
1 Landspeeder.
1 Pred.
1 ven Dread.

I think that was it...

I won the game due to the Harpy stealing a high point objective and consolidating Genstealers onto a central objective,

I also had Warlord and Line Breaker.


Game 3.

Deamons
Big Guns never tire.

Fateweaver.
3 squds of 6 Flamers
3 squads of i think 6 Screamers, maybe more.
3 squads of bearers
Skyshield landing pad.

Some of losing this game was down to never having played Deamons before.
I went for biomancy on everything hoping to use enfeeble against the flamers and screamers, didnt know they had eternal warrior lol.

If I play Deamons again I will roll Telepaphy.
I didnt know lord of change had a leadership of 9.
I should of concentrated my skyfire on him and used spells like dominate and terrify.

I ended up tabled bottom of turn 5, we ran out of time and played the end of turn out.

One thing that I did that was complete awesome though was to steal his Landing pad.
I went first and infiltrated my Stealers in base to base, then changed the configuration to 4+ save and spread 4 Geanestealer units over the entire top deck of the landing pad so he had no chance of deepstriking anything on top.

My harpy got turned into a Spawn on a roll of 6, one flyrant basically just nose dived and burned after failing a series of wounds on very bad dice.
I think I managed to kill a unit of Flamers and hlaf a unit of screamers, few bits and bobs from other units.

So my strategy was all wrong.
Always go for fateweaver first. If he fails a morale he just dissapears!
wish I knew about that before the game and wish I took telepaphy rather than Biomancy.

2 more games left to play tomorrow.
Broodlordspam is very fun and I think it can hold its own given reasonable dice and a good strat or understanding of opponents armies weaknesses.

I'm already happy with my own inexperienced performance, If I can pull out anoher victory tomorrow I'll be very pleased.
I'll follow up tomorrow.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to swing me advice.

[N.I.B.]

I really like your list at 1500 points, I have a weak spot for themed armies and I think 2 Flyrants + a Harpy at that lower point level has a strong synergy. It's a bit of a glass cannon army but I wish you luck and have fun!

I would be interested in a breakdown how the psychic powers performed afterwards.

[l0rdf1end]

Psychics weren't all that useful in all honesty and the list doesnt need them, but if it gets the good ones it can be a game changer.

First game i tried to get Objuration Mechanicum over 6 Broodlords and didnt get one copy.
I had a bunch with gate and dome and 2 with nothing usable. Unlucky if you ask me.
I had biomancy, Iron arm on one Flyrant and I think endurance on the other. I kept casting iron Arm but it made very little difference to the game.
I maybe used dome once or twice plus endurance a few times on my Stealers but from all of that i may have made 1 or 2 extra saves.

Second game I went Telekenesis again on the Broodlords, this time i managed 2 Objurations.
Maybe a Dome and a couple of gates across the rest which weren't used or ungame changing.
The 2 Objurations were though because they allowed me to take no overwatch from his termy squad and a tac squad.

As said I should of gone for Telepaphy against deamons. Terrify and dominate at least would do something against them possibly.
I went Biomancy across the board, had an iron arm flyrant, hardly at all game changing. i had maybe 3 enfeebles which maybe helped a tiny bit. Otherwise mostly ungame changing.

In all i dont see Biomancy that useful on the Flyrants, I think the reason I keep rolling for it is for increased survivability but i think its actually a very minimal boost no matter what your power.
I get afraid and always roll Biomancy when perhaps i should be going Telekenesis also or Telepaphy in some situations.

Wish I took a picture of my Stealers on his Skyshield landing pad, that was truley a speacial moment lol.

[l0rdf1end]

Well that's Starsmash over.

Was hoping to do better today, lost both my games but the first one was very very close, I was winning until we went into turn 6 with 2 minutes on the clock.
The second game I was going to loose, went to turn 6 and was tabled.

Todays Games:

Game 4:
Blood Angels...again.
The Emperors will.

He had something like this:

Ven Dread and a tac squad with leader inside a Storm Talon - thats a lot of stuff inside one Talon?
Another empty Storm Talon
A squad that was wounding on 2's from shooting..
A squad with librarian + Flamer and Lascannon.
One more standard squad with flamer.
1 Assault Squad.

I killed the empty StormTalon with Objuration mechanicums and Flyrant Devourers.
The other survived on one hull point. I must of fired at the Talons 3 times scoring about 8-10 hits each time failing to roll one 6!
I lost more genestealers than i would of liked due to charging into cover.

The game ended by going to turn 6, he had to kill a Broodlord holding an objective in cover to win.
Broodlord made it through the shooting phase but then fell in combat to a dread as he only had one wound left.

I had line breaker and a Flyrant left.

Game 5:

Was hoping for bit of an easier ride as I got pushed down the rankings quite a bit after 2 losses.
I was horrified to see Deamons.

Mission = Crusade,

He had something like this:

Fateweaver
1 squad of 3 flamers.
3 squads of bearers.
1 squad of I think 8 screamers
1 squad of horros with the leader guy.
1 squad of beasts
1 squad deamon hounds?
Blood Thirster.

I was left trying to secure 1 objective far corner in my deployement. I tried to hold this with 3 units of Stealers but I just hadnt done enough damage to his army so my last holding broodlord died turn 6.

I went for telepaphy and had a lot of Dominate and Terrify. He didnt fail one moral check or LD test all game.

I also took some advice and went for Fateweaver as a primary target when he came in turn 2.
I think i put 24 shots into him from Brainleech devourers, I think I scored 16-18 wounds.
He saved every one of them and passed both grounding tests.

I was left with a Harpy turn 6 that bit the dust after being downed by his Bloodthirster who was on one wound after a combat with one of my Flyrants.

I dont think this list can matchup agaisnt deamons, I just didnt seem to have anything on my side to try and gain the advantage or even make it a fair fight.

I placed 24'th over all out of 36.
Not bad for my first proper tourney although I was hoping to do better.


Its a great list and fun to play and some opponents like all comers lists really struggle with target saturation.
I wish we had more choice of flyers. I wish there was something better than the Harpy that I could put in this list.
Nothing else I think synergises.
I eagerly await the harrier.

So, sorry to the Hive, I tried.
More experience gained at least and maybe I'll do better next time.
Being spanked twice by deamons hurt.


I will continue to test, maybe try some tweaks, poisen i dont think made an awful lot of difference across all 5 games. Maybe I can take those points back and try something else.

Thanks for reading.

[gigasnail]

great effort, great write ups man.

[l0rdf1end]

Swarmlord 280
Tyrant Guard x1 60
Prime, Lash, Bone 95
6 units of 5 Stealer/Broodlord 696
Harriers x2 (dreaming that they'll be 180 points or less)

Wishing to the future i'd probably try something like that.

Back to serious, may try some slight alterations and see how it performs:

x2 flyrant double dev 520
6 units of 5 Stealer/Broodlord+ST 708
Doom + Spore 130
Ymgrals x6 138

Just thinking about it, my Genestealers suffered more due to charging into cover, so even an additioanl unit of Ymgarls might push them out of area terrain. I could drop the Doom and fit another squad in.

[N.I.B.]

Sept 16, 2012 18:46:37 GMT l0rdf1end said:

I wish we had more choice of flyers. I wish there was something better than the Harpy that I could put in this list.

20 fully upgraded Gargoyles.

[Jabberwocky]

I think adding the Ymgarls to push enemies out of terrain is a good idea. They can also soak overwatch for your stealers to combined assault.

I wouldn't want to lose the dakka from the Flyrants, having that firepower can be vital for first blood.