Well I did it! I won the 1000pt tourney @ Air Traffic Rosedale. Now it wasn't a regular tourney where you have rounds and 1v1 games, instead it was "mega" battle with 8 people. On my team was Black Templars, Blood Angels, Vanilla Marines, and me with Chaos Marines, versus Black Templars, Vanilla Marines, Necrons, and IG. When you look at it this way we were pretty evenly matched, and it was randomized teams. The rules were as follows:
1 point for:
-Killing an enemy HQ
-Killing a monster in CC (MC, Walkers)
-Killing or finishing off an enemy unit
-If your ally holds an objective at the end of the game
-A successful 'Death or Glory'
2 Points for:
-Holding an objective
And then the following rule: Uneasy Allies
Alliances were made in the direst of circumstances, and the careful, or cunning, commander will take advantage of this. In any shooting phase you may fire at an ally unit if the following criteria are met:
-Ally unit holds an Objective
-Successful Leadership test
-There are no enemy units within 12" of the Objective
-There are no enemy units within 12" of your Unit
So there was room for backstabbing, which I love. First off, oddly, I never utilized this rule to kill my allies, because I never had the need to. However the BT player shot and killed one of my Noise Marines that were on an objective (which he was also on) so I turned around and blew up his tank, thus making him deploy on the other side of it and more than 3" from the objective. And secondly I wasn't able to get a single point until turn 5! And we only played until turn 6. Fortunately we were able to go second, so if I needed to lash anything it could potentially screw over someone.
Anyways, I got 6 of my 11 points in the last 2 turns of the game. The last 5 came from objectives, which put me 1 point over the IG player to win it. It helped that no one had any form of Psychic defense, but it took me 5 fucking turns to kill 1 squad!!! Yes it was a 20 strong unit of Black Templars, but still, 5 fucking turns?! I flipped shit, in happiness, when I finally killed the last guy.
When all the dust settled I managed to pull out a win, barely, but one none the less. The objective that I held ended up winning me the Blood Angels Codex, and one of the employees won a clipper which he gave to me, then I got to pick between an Ironclad or a Mawloc, I of course chose the Dread who still had the entire spruce with him.
All in all it was a great game, and I need to thank Chang for giving me 2 extra points by deep striking a unit of 'crons w/ lord 3.5" away from my objective. And now I'm waist deep in shit because I can't do anything but read this damn codex. So look forward to some random and hopefully insightful rants about the BAs!!
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