Austrian 40k Championships / ÖMS 40k

Austrian 40k Championships / ÖMS 40k (German)

After a long time of lurking in the shadows I'm again posting something here. I didn't play a game for about 4 months and what way is better to get back in the picture than the national championship? ;)

My codex marines are still not finished and so my Black Templars again went on a crusade to Vienna to rid this glorious city of heretics and xenos.
And again no pictures, forgot my camera. :(

Army:
- 1850 points
- No Forgeworld
- No allies
- No special characters
- No two identical HQs
- No three identical Elites, Fast attack, Support
- Only four identical Troops if the Codex has only one Troop choice
- No identical psychic powers

My modified 1750 List to match 1850 points:
*************** Black Templars ***************
1 HQ: 140 pt. 7.5%
3 Elites: 515 pt. 27.8%
4 Troops: 564 pt. 35.5%
0 Fast attack
2 Support: 530 pt. 28.9%

*************** 1 HQ ***************
Emperor's Champion
- Accept any Challenge, no matter the odds
- - - > 140 points

*************** 3 Elites ***************
5 Terminator Assault Squad
- 3 x lightning claw
- 2 x thunder hammer & storm shield
- Furious Charge
- - - > 215 points

Dreadnought
- Venerable
- Tank Hunter
- missile launcher
- twin-linked lascanon
- - - > 165 points

Dreadnought
- missile launcher
- twin-linked lascannon
- - - > 135 points

*************** 4 Troops ***************
Crusader Squad
9 Initiates
- 1 x power fist
- 1 x meltagun
3 Neophytes
- - - > 199 points

Crusader Squad
5 Initiates
- 1 x missile launcher
- 1 x meltagun
- 1 x bolter
+ Rhino
- smoke launcher
- - - > 153 points

Crusader Squad
5 Initiates
- 1 x missile launcher
- 1 x meltagun
- 1 x bolter
+ Rhino
- smoke launcher
- - - > 153 points

Crusader Squad
5 Initiates
- 1 x missile launcher
- 1 x meltagun
- 1 x bolter
+ Rhino
- smoke launcher
- - - > 153 points

*************** 2 Support ***************
Land Raider Crusader
- smoke launcher
- - - > 268 points

Land Raider Crusader
- smoke launcher
- - - > 268 points

Total points Black Templars : 1849

The games:
Game 1:
Opponent: Fabian "g_g" Paulista (final placing: 30.)
Army: Chaos Demons
List: Bloodthirster, Great Unclean One, 2x 8 Juggernaughts, 6 Fiends of Slaanesh, 3 Nurglingbases, 1x 10 Plaquebearers, 2x 6 Plaquebearers, 1 Demonprince of Nurgle
Mission: table quarters as objectives, units must be completly in one quarter to claim it
Deployment: Spearhead
First turn: him

Well. He had no printed armylist. He used a measuring tape that is worn out beyond all recognition so you can't even guess where the markings are. He forgot to field his Demonprince. He put the riders of his Juggernaughts with equipment on their mounts on the second round after they appeared and after moving them in attack position. He prevented me from charging his Plaquebearers with my big Crusader Squad out of my LRC because of 1-2 millimeters after pushing the table, his models and my models while measureing with his crappy tape. He failed 7 saves in 7 rounds of playing. He is/was captain for the Austrian team for the European Team Championships?! Yay. But all that doesn't matter as I apperantly held my brain in my hands and tried to rush at his Troops to kill his scoring units instead of playing for the draw from the start as I couldn't win the game anyway. Nothing much to say for the game. He went lucky and blew up the 12" moving Terminator LRC with the Bloodthirster before reaching his troops with just one hit. The Terminators then got eaten by the Juggernaughts and my big Crusader Squad get killed after disembaring and beeing unable to charge. Conserving my units to simply contest the whole table would have brought me a solid 20:20, but in the end it's a draw as I still contest every quarter, but with my whooping 0 (read ZERO!!!!!!!!!!111one) victorypoints it gets modified to only 10 points for me.
Result: 10:30

Game 2:
Opponent: Christoph "divaimidada" Gausch (final placing: 19.)
Army: Chaos Space Marines
List: 1 Slaanesh Sorcerer with Lash, 8 Berserkers with fist in Rhino, 1 Demonprince with wings, 3 Chaos Terminators with combimelta, 5 Noisemarines with Rhino, 6 summoned Demons, 5 Plaquemarines with powerfist and 2x plasmagun in Rhino, 10 Chaos Space Marine with 2x meltagun in Rhino, 1 Defiler, 2 Obliterators, 1 Vindicator
Mission: 5" template in the middle as objective
Deployment: pitched battle
First turn: him

He put everything on and drives everything forward to claim the objective. I placed my two dreadnought out of sight of all his shooting and placed the rest in reserve. The dreadnoughts wrecked his vehicles and the his squads in the open. Next round he couldn't do much as my dreadnought still are out of sight of his long range shooting and on my turn I rushed nearly all my transports forward and killed some more vehicles with the dreadnoughts. When I placed one of my Rhinos on the template in round 4 it was over. My shooting took out all vehicles except the Defiler and most of his infantry fell to close combat.
Result: 32:8

Game 3:
Opponent: Alexander "Laertes" Krebs (final placing: 44.)
Army: Space Marines
List: 1 Captain with combiplas and powerfist, 1 Chaplain with meltabombs and Jumppack, 1 Commandsquad with Banner, Champ, 2 powerfists and meltagun in Rhino, 5 Terminators, 1 Ironclad Dreadnought, 1 Scout Squad with heavy bolter, 1 Tactical Squads with plasmagun and lascannon, 1 Tactical Squad with flamer and heavy bolter, 10 Assault Marines with powerfist, stormshield, flamer and plasmapistol, 1 Vindicator
Mission: Annihiltion
Deployment: Dawn of War
First turn: him

He placed everything on board, I don't. He came a litte closer to the middle. On my turn rushed the LRCs forward and poped smoke, the Rhinos drove behind cover. My dreads shook the Vindicator. His Terminators and Assault Squad still came a little closer and his shooting failed to do anything. I drove further on, killed any meltawielding things that looked funny at at my LRC and killed his Termis and Assault Marines in close combat. Next round I slaughtered one of his Tacticals and moped up the Rest of his army with shooting. In the end he had 2 Scouts and 5 normal marines remaining.
Result: 40:0

Game 4:
Opponent: René "Vitek" Vittmann (final placing: 17.)
Army: Chaos Space Marines
List: 1 Slaanesh Sorcerer with Lash, 1 summoned greater demon, 3 Chaos Terminators with 3x combiplas, 3 Chaos Terminators with 3x combimelta, 5 Chosen with 2 flamer, 2 meltaguns in Rhino, 2x 5 Chaos Marines with champion and plasmagun in Rhino with havoclauncher, 2x 6 summoned demons, 8 Chaos Marines with powerfist and meltergun in Rhino with havoclauncher, 1 Defiler
Mission: seize ground with one marker in the middle and each player places one marker
Deployment: Spearhead
First turn: him

He placed everything on board, I didn't. See a pattern here? ;) He drove everything to the middle and rushed at him on my turn. Next round he castled up in the middle of the board to claim two objectives. His Terminators tried to melta one of my LRCs but scattered on it and I am able to placed them in the far back corner of his deploymentzone where they were out of action for the rest of the game. His shooting did nothing and I multicharged 3 Rhinos and the Defiler with my big crusader squad and his combiplas Terminators and some summoned demons with my Terminators. The assault ended with a dead Defiler, dead Terminators, dead demons, a stunned Rhino and a weapon destroyed on another. His greater demon and some Marines killed the big crusader squad and I drove forward with one of my LRC to contest his objective. He tried the same with a Rhino and his greater demon, but I destroyed the Rhino and tank shocked his demon three times to get it of my objective. His Sorcerer and a marinesquad ran off the board and the demon died from massive fire. One objecitve for me, none for him.
Result: 34:6

Game 5:
Opponent: Anton "Spida" Pum (final placing: 13.)
Army: Orks
List: 1 Warboss with powerclaw, squig and cybork on bike, 1 Big Mek with force field, Meganobz in Trukk, 2x 28 with Clawboss Boys, 1x 12 Boyz with Clawboss in Trukk, 1 Deff Dread, 6 Nobbikers with dok and some stuff to be different, 2 Bazookabuggies, 3 Killacans with Grotzookaz, 3 Killacans with Rokkitlaunchers
Mission: seize ground with five markers
Deployment: pitched battle
First turn: him

The best for last. We both placed everything on the board. I tried to block his Nobbikaz with my Terminator LRC and we get a standoff until round 3 taking some shots at each other. I tried to get rid of his walkers and destroy 3 of them. Some boyz died to shooting. On round 4 he tried to push forward with his bikers but couldn't reach me yet so he tried to block my Terminators with his buggies but I still get the charge in. Couldn't kill them all but got them to run, but as I was only able to consolidate 1" they stayed on the board. My big squad got to charge one of his boymobz on his two objective, slaughtering them all and claiming the objectives. The fifth round brought the desicion his Killacan were unable to charge my Rhino on the objective on my side and I tank shocked his remaining boymob on the middle two objectives to contest. The fourth marker was contested by a small crusader squad. Then time ran out so we had to stop after round 5. In the end I claimed 2 Objectives contesting 2. The fifth marker was out of reach for both of us. The most exciting game of the tournament as winning or loosing was decided by difficult and dangerous terrain tests in the fifth round and nobody clearly had the upper hand in claiming the markers.
Result: 32:8

Summary:
Results
Battlepoints: 148
Paintingpoints: 20
Bonus: 5

173 points for me in total. Got me third place in the tournament, but as first and second place went to German players I apparently took the title of Austrian Warhammer 40k Champion 2010. All in all a great tournament with good and (mostly) fair opponents. Next stop will be the Warhammer 40k Styrian Championship (German) I think and again I'm not sure if I am able to finaly field my new Codex Marine army.

I still prefer

"best Austrian player at the Austrian 40k Championships 2010"

Didn't win after all ;D