I dropped down my more expendable units, the 2, 5 man Tac Marine squads, and 1 unit of Sternguard. I was a bit forlorn after the roll for first turn, but my opponent encouraged me to be optimistic as you never know how the dice will fall. Best of all though, he won the roll to decide who would go first or second….ouch! In Drop Pod on Drop Pod battles, the player going first almost always loses. I may have missed a few details on this list, but it was a massed MSU drop army with not 1 but 2 units of Grav Cents…yikes! This would be tough. Opponent: White Scars Drop Pod Battle Company list from memory: As we finished the game quite quickly, we played through to turn 7 for fun, and had it gone the distance, I would have had only the Attack Bike left, with a single wound, to hold my backfield Objective for a narrow victory! Again, at Adepticon, ObSec all day.īig thanks to my opponent who was a great sport and good player. Luckily for me, the game ended on turn 5, and I was able to win by a large margin despite my army getting fairly well creamed on the table. I focused on simply keeping bodies on Objectives and impeding my opponent’s ability to move, or engage multiple units per assault phase to slow him down. My Culexus was a stud, going into the enemy backfield and taking out the Obejctive Campers there before dying.Īs the game wound down, my army was evaporating faster than my opponent’s, but as he had no ObSec and essentially my entire army was, I was wracking up points all game. My boys did their best but were outmatched in melee, hanging in their largely due to the Sternguard being Fearless. He was able to erase Pedro and the Dev Cents with Sanguinary Guard (but to his credit, Pedro did take a bunch of them with him!), and the Knight Paladin was essentially untouched all game, and took a heavy toll on my army. He countered by assaulting across all my lines, and the game boiled down to a vicious melee. The game was bloody and brutal! My Sternguard all came in turn 1 and unloaded with AP3 Bolters, rerolling 1’s thanks to their Chapter Tactics to avoid Gets Hot!, and took a huge chunk out of my opponent’s army. This was actually a solid counter to my army and a pairing I did not expect. My first opponent had a very cool army! While it may not look crazy powerful at first glance, it has a ton of bodies, mobility and it hits hard due to +1 initiative and strength on the charge. Sanguinary Guard x 10: Fist x 2, Axe x 2, Banner.Opponent: Blood Angels assault army list from memory: Pretty straight forward! The benefits were mobility, alpha strike potential, anti-Eldar power, and a fairly high model count for endurance. Lastly, it is a fairly unique list which is my preference to play.ĭevastator Cents Grav, Omni, Missiles 3 280Ī Demi-company, First Company Task Force (made ObSec by Pedro), and a Culexus. Warp Spiders, Jet Bikes and Wraithknights were sure to be extremely prevalent, and the Crimson Fists list is good at fighting that and at winning the Adepticon missions as almost all of my units are ObSec. I bounced from Raven Guard (which would have done very well, but I couldn’t get them painted in time) to a Space Wolf/Space Marine mash up list to a Crimson Fists list at the last minute, writing the list about 30 minutes before I took off for the airport!Īs the meta was sure to contain TONS of Eldar players (and they were seriously, everywhere!), I built an army that would be very good for fighting Eldar. Adepticon format also really heavily emphasizes ObSec due to the nature of how they score objectives, so some of my armies like Decurion Necrons for example, I felt would struggle to win missions. Those are all verboten, so I had to build something a bit different. Right now I am having a lot of fun playing Space Wolves with some Forge World units that aren’t currently allowed at Adepticon, Chaos Renegades and Elysian Drop Troops which are Forgeworld army lists. Adepticon’s format is a significantly different from ITC format (which is what I typically play) and my main armies I actually couldn’t bring or didn’t want to due to the format. I had a bit of a journey figuring out what I was going to play. Thank you to everyone that came by to say hello! It was great meeting you all.
If you have not been to Adepticon, you should go! The staff are pros, run a great event and the energy at the show is very positive and fun. Mats at our booth and just in general geeking out for 4 days. Check the Tactics Corner for more great tournament reports.Īdepticon was a blast this year, we had a great time hanging out with friends, playing challenging games of 40k, selling F.A.T. Hey everyone, Reecius here from Frontline Gaming to relate my Adepticon 40k tournament championships experience.
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