So we went to the Baltic Brother Challange at Rostock, a team tournament where you have to divide into attacker and defender, my brother in arms was TheSailingLord with a Tyranid Sporepod list representing the attacking force and I went with my BA, giving them a chance to proof themselves viable again. I decided to build an aggressive list, planning to put my opponent into a defensiv role and force him to react to my actions.
I went with :
Reclusiarch
Sanguine Priest
Assaultterminators 3x Lighteningclaws 2x Thunderhammer/Stormshield
Land Raider Redeemer, Multimelter
Librarian Dreadnaught + Wings & Bloodlance
2x 5 Marine Ass.Squad 1x Flamer, 1x Meltagun
RB Las/Plas 1x HK Missile
1x 5 Marine Ass. Squad
RB Twin. Las
1 Attackbike + MM
Baalpredator +twin Ass.Cannon+ heavy Bolter Sponsons + Stormbolter
Predator + Lassponsons
Dreadnaught + twin Autocannons
Yor team is allowed to use 3550 points to make two lists which has to be at least 1725. We decided to use 1775 each. Missions were really different from what we are used to :
First mission was killpoints, the defender sets up first, attacker automatically has the first turn and enters the game deepstriking in two waves, like Demons.
I faced a Demonplayer, SL had to deal with Orks. Both of them seemed to be rookies and unfamiliar with their armies so we both scored a 20/0 major victory with almost no losses. Nothing really spectacular happend here.
Next game was 5 Objectives, honestly what I expected to be the worst mission for my list because of the simple reason that I just had 3 small troopchoices which will die if you look at them awkwardly. I played against a well-built Vulcan Marinelist whilst my buddy at to engage a classic lash 2/9. Not the best match up for our armies though. At first glance I didn´t know what to do with all these meltas and raiders and stuff, best I could do was to move up my parking lot and try to put pressure against his terminators in the raider while killing off the small stuff to decimate his anti-tank.Worked well. Throught field controlling with my Terminatordeathstar he was forced to spread out, encircle my army and devide his firepower. Through that (and some bad rolls/good saves) he wasn´t able to destroy my Landraider and I managed to pop both of his the next shooting phase and I started pushing forward and assaulting which ended the game pretty much for him. I won with 3 to zero objectives which was a major victory and SL beat the crap out of that 2/9. I thought that anybody who says Nids are crap just don´t understand the codex.
Next game was against two guys from the Northguard,a gaming club from Hamburg. We already knew them and have played them at several tournaments around here and I was sure that that´s going to be a really though one. Mission was Killpoints again but the long side of the board was divided in 3 areas. The attacker approaches from one side,scoring 1 extra point for every unit within area 2 and 2 extra points for getting them into area 3 (the defenders deploymentzone). My opponent played Orks with a Nob-Deathstar, some Stormboyz, 2 squads of Lootaz and 90 boyz or somewhat. So I planned on playing to minimize how many points he´ll score for there was no hope for me winning that game and pray that SL scores enough point to bring us victory (the points at the end of every game were added to determine which team won).
He set up, I set up and he got first turn. He popped two of my RB with his lootas and slowly approached on the table,so I had to do something to stop that horde on the other side of the table. I moved up and shot everything my guns could spit out into the lootaz, making them fail their moralechecks and run away, unfortunaly one group was able to recover a few inches away from the table edge. His battletank came out of reserve and he decided to put him into cover, leaving the terraincheck for the next round. That was a mistake for my last RB was thirsty for revenge and popped it with his lascannon.Boyz died and red tanks rolled up delivering the Emperors fury. I made the mistake to move up my Attackbike to far forward and I realized that the Stormboysquad of 20 was able to assault it. He suggested to just take it away for we´d save some time he otherwise would take for rolling, but I made him roll it, and tadaa, my bike only took a wound and tarpitted the stormboyz for my advancing Terminators (har). Unfortunaly my Reclusiarch failed an invulsave, otherwise Id have won by one, but I won´t complain for my attackbike could stand 20 Boyz and life. It was a draw and i was very satisfied with it. My buddy Saillinglord was able to put the BA´s Terminator/Rocketlauncher-list to the mangle and so we scored our third victory. Im not sure how many points we scored on that one so Ill just leave it.
So, this was the first day of the Baltic Brother Challange and we were really excited and looked forward to the second day eagerly. Ill write about that in a later post because this already is a huge chunk to read.
So, more to come, take care !
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