The Heresy event was a blast, ended up getting a chance to meet a number of the Heresy 30k forumites that I've gotten to know online over the last few years, as well as a few fellow bloggers. Good times! In between the first and second game, they had people lay out their armies, a selection of which may be found below:
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Imperial Fists/Knights
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Sons of Horus
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Dark Mechanicus
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Imperial Fists/Knights
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Another Thousand Sons player!
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Mechanicum
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Night Lords
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Word Bearers/Daemons
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Knights
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My first game was up against one of the Imperial Fists/Knights groups and due to a hysterical bout of poor saving throws and multiple deep strike mishaps, I was essentially tabled by turn two.
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Second game was up against a lovely Raven Guard army (sadly the army shot I took was a blurred mess). Massive back and forth, he'd held a lot of his army in reserve and I had deployed almost everything so I'd mauled him pretty bad in the first half, but a pair of Venators and a Fire Raptor got their revenge in the back half of the game.
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The center of the table ended up being a swirling melee that lasted for four turns, with units from his side and mine crashing in to reinforce the combat - my assault squad got bogged down in a twenty-man tac squad, who where then backed up by a second twenty man squad.
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The Praetor just wouldn't die, buying the terminators enough time to then back him up. Very bloody!
Had an absolute blast, and will definitely be attending again next year!
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The huge, multi-turn-meat-grinder of a melee in the middle of the table, which sucks in all units within a 24" range was always one of my favorite aspects of 40k.
ReplyDeleteO wow - some really lovely armies on display, and such variance too! Nice to see still-yet-to-be-represented-in-book forces being used. :)
ReplyDeleteAlmost makes me regret selling off my Raven Guard. Almost.
Excellent stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dai sold his Raven Guard ?!??!
I'm sure I knew that....
So sorry i didn't have more time to chat. I always forget how crazy hectic these tournies are. You want to talk to people, but you don't want to interrupt their games!
ReplyDeleteBtw your army looked fantastic! Was a treat to see in person!
@Da Masta Cheef: Absolutely, it was an epic fight!
ReplyDelete@Dai: Indeed! I was blown away by the quality and variety of armies. Really cool stuff to be seen!
@Zzzzzz: Thanks man!
@Greg Hess: Totally, the weekend was a whirlwind. Was an absolute blast though - definitely attending next year, we'll have to make sure to meet up for a game or at least raise a pint at the pub crawl (not that I remember much from the pub crawl)!
Cheers everyone!