[Plainville MA] 1000pt Attacker / Defender Event - 2/22

[Benjamin]

*wakes up*

Mission 3, Defender Outflankers enter the board as usual, not from the center.

That's a normal first thought of the day, isn't it?

[chrisocasio]

Great event, I really enjoyed the speed with which we could get through a game! Also some awesome paintjobs and conversions by you guys, and a very nice assortment of terrain (just enough to be important in maneuver/placement of units and objectives). Also was nice to play new missions rather than the same book missions. All together, well worth the time and money! Pleasure to meet you all today as well, look me up if you're ever down in Providence, RI. I've got a table and usually have evenings free for a game.

-Chris

[bradpowers]

Chris, it was nice to meet you today, and I'm glad you could come.  If you're available on Thursday nights, you should definitely check out Thursday night 40k, we have a great group (many of the folks you played today, and others).

Also, don't miss the narrative event on April 5th, it's going to be awesome and/or insane.  Probably both.

[Loranus]

Lots of fun glad I came out. Hopefully going to see more of me around Battlegrounds now also.

[Benjamin]

Today was a really good day for me. I have high hopes and higher standards for the next Attacker-Defender, whenever in the distant future it may be!

Chris, it was nice to meet you as well. Congrats again on Player's Choice!

[Sir_Prometheus]

I had a lot of fun.  Glad I was able to whip out some rarely used models and prove terminators can still terminate. 

[Goblin]

i had a lot of fun at the event. all my opponents were a lot of fun to play against, even the oft-maligned matt bennett was a pleasure to play. i think these out of the ordinary events bring out the best in people. it was certainly interesting seeing 8/10 people bring their marines out for once!

[robpro]

Very fun event, definitely interested to see what the next attacker/defender event will bring.

[andalucien]

I wanna hear stories!  What kinds of lists did people bring?  Battle reports plz!

[Sir_Prometheus]

For attacker list, I brought Mordrak and Full Ghost Knights (DS first turn, no scatter, stealth< mordrak is a slightly suped up Grand Master but not an IC), 5 GKT with Thawn leading them (thawn gets back up like old celestine), and a full unit of GKSS w/hammer and the psybolts in a rhino. 

Defenders I brought a full GKSS again, but no rhino or hammer, Coteaz, 2 min acolyte squads in razorbacks, 2 jokaero iwth acolytes to sit in the bastion, a lone inquisitor to run the gun, and Thawn's unit again. Bastion with quad gun.

Mordrak historically has been huge fail, but he was a little more dominant at 1000 pts than I expected.  Thawn was hit or miss as per usual, sometimes he keeps on getting up and is annoying as hell, sometimes he dies and just takes a nap the whole game. 

[Goblin]

i brought shooty bugs for defense (dakka flyrant, zoanthrope, 30 gants, tervigon, exocrine, 3 biovores, aegis with quadgun). i wanted to have 2 venomthropes instead of the zoanthrope and quadgun, but my models didn't show up in time.

for attack i brought three fmcs (2x dakka flyrant and crone) and the standard 30 gants + tervigon core. the leftover points went into a single biovore.

the list performed as expected, only losing to grey knights (force weapons hurt) while attacking and drop pod marines defending when my flyrant failed 4/4 saves and died top of 1.

[chrisocasio]

I brought IG with DA allies (I know, crazy at 1k points but I just finished painting up my DW and wanted to run them).

For attacker, I brought 3 chimaeras (filled with CCS, vets, all with special weapons) and a hellhound on the IG side. DA contributed a librarian + tac squad in a drop pod w/ locator beacon as well as 5 DW terminators (2 with TH/SS).

On defense, I had a full DA tac squad with plasma gun and plasma cannon as well as the librarian, then 2 chimaeras for CCS and one Vet squad as well as a platoon of IG rocking flamers/autocannons. Also an ADL with autocannon.

First game I had was against the nids. IG shooting didn't do much to them, and they cracked the transports and consumed my precious biomass. The DA did manage to come down, pop the zoanthrope, and then get stuck in assault with gaunts. Game ended as my terminators were merrily slaughtering the gaunts in his backfield, but everyone else was dead at that point. On defense, his flying monstrous creatures just had a field day and I never really accomplished much of anything.

Second game was vs. space sharks and was very competitive to the end as both attacker and defender. A biker chapter master is not something to be trifled with apparently!

Final game was against White Scars bikers (attack list) and then an Iron Hands defense list. Again, very good back and forth. His bikes were in my face turn 1, but I managed to whittle them down with flamers and lots of FRFSRF from my IG. With my attacker list, I managed to chew right through his Iron Hands, getting some very good results with my shooting. Was the first time playing against centurions as well as grav guns, not a fan of grav vs. vehicles!

All in all, very enjoyable! It was amazing to find that you could get 6 games of 40k into ~8 hours of playtime.

[Benjamin]

First Round. Played Sam and his Space Marine / DA allies list. First game, two Librarians gave Centurions 4+ invulnerable and Prescience. That is legitimate business, especially in a Kill Point game. Second game, stared down White Scars. Did better than we both thought I would, but still not good enough. Again, an excellent list for Sam in a Kill Points game.

Second Round. Played Chris and his IG/Dark Angels. First match. My Chapter Master drove across the board, soaking up fire enough for a Rhino to get to the line. Again, just short on time. Darn. Second match. Played my butt off to hold off 6 Chimera hulls rolling toward the objectives. Drop Pod full of Terminators sure got my attention, too.

Third Round. Played Pat's Hat and his Space Marines. In both games, my Chapter Master rolled a 6 on Personal Warlord Traits, making him a Scoring unit. So in both games, my Chapter Master punched a lot of dudes while rolling around with the Relic.

In summary, Chapter Master on a bike is awesome fun. HEROHAMMER.

I finished 5th overall, just a couple points out of 3rd. I finished as the top Space Marines player of the day, which I was happy with given literally half of the field played Space Marines.

[Benjamin]

I'll write up my thoughts on the event itself at a later time. Overall, players seemed generally positive. I aim to improve the missions, make them even better, because I know it's possible. But the format itself seemed excellent. Players were exhausted afterward, as if they had actually played two hours more than they had. Very quick pace!