[Plainville MA] "ARMOR WAR" 1250pt 40k Tournament - 10/26

[The_Chef]

Nothing beyond November? YOU LIE! The MEGABATTLE is in Jan. =p

[robpro]

Necrons can horde things up with a hilarious number of warriors.

[Sir_Prometheus]

Necrons aren't power armor.  Nothing is really power armor except marines (various) and sisters.  Sure, that includes (CSM) demon princes.

Artificer is a form of power armor though, isn't it?

Why the restriction skimmers, Chase?  If the goal is to see mostly marine armies, aren't landspeeders an honoured part of that?

I personally wouldn't mind a limitation on bikes, otherwise you're going to see a ton of all-bikes armies.  It's a bigger problem than drop pods, I think. 

[Loranus]

Artificer is a Specially modified set of Power Armour. You have to actually replace Power Armour in the book so I don't think it should count as Power Armour.

[Chase]

High gravity world isn't conducive to proper skimmer use. 

Can't ban flyers (for fluff reasons /wink) and not skimmers.

[Dan Bunker]

I agree with Bennett this is going to be dominated by someone using bikes with grav guns. Most of the bike armies weaknesses aren't allowed for the tourney.

[andalucien]

Yeah, I think that if this were going to be a repeatable and/or at all serious thing, you would have to ban grav guns.   The downside of grav guns "doesn't work great against targets without good armour" has been eliminated leaving them about twice as effective as Plasma, for the same price as Plasma.  But, really this is just for sh*ts and giggles, so, no big deal.

[Chase]

I'm not too worried about anything.

I suppose you could have said that NOVA was going to be dominated by people using some combination of Tau and Eldar with monstrous creatures.

I've heard that Plague Marines are going to dominate this event.  I've heard that bikes are going to dominate.  And I guess grav guns are too good here also.

So... Plan for that stuff if it's a giant concern?

The restrictions are mostly in place due to fluff.  If someone exploits a perceived flaw in the rules and ends up winning the event because of it, that's perfectly fine.  These weird, different events are done for a few reasons.  One of those reasons is to get people thinking about what might work and what might not.

I reasonably certain that there's a list or 5 or 10 that does very well against Plague Marines, bikes, and grav guns.  Very few things aren't allowed and at 1250 points a few bad die rolls can change the entire game.

[Loranus]

Well Said Chase. I already have a list that is going to incorporate and try to face all these threats. Waiting on my Boss's response to me getting that day off.

[shwnlyns]

Not too sure about a battle of hordes armies, but an event for xenos armies would be along similar lines at includes the rest of the armies except IG.

[Bill]

I agree with Bennett this is going to be dominated by someone using bikes with grav guns. Most of the bike armies weaknesses aren't allowed for the tourney.

You guys are over thinking this and worrying too much. Just play some 40k. It's a 1250 tourney have some fun.

[Ian Mulligan]

I agree with Bennett this is going to be dominated by someone using bikes with grav guns. Most of the bike armies weaknesses aren't allowed for the tourney.

You guys are over thinking this and worrying too much. Just play some 40k. It's a 1250 tourney have some fun.

Every now and then, someone says something intelligent on the internet.

[King of the Elves]

Chase, I'm digging these events you've been thinking up. It's making people think outside the box and not just go with the regular stuff that wins games. Good job bro. 

[Sir_Prometheus]

at 1250 points a few bad die rolls can change the entire game.

Thats a feature not a flaw?   O_o

[Chase]

at 1250 points a few bad die rolls can change the entire game.

Thats a feature not a flaw?   O_o

It's a fact.