Austin City-wide Tourney
Hi everyone,
Last weekend I played in yearly Austin City-wide tournament. It is a 2000pt tournament that pits a team of players from each of Austin’s gaming stores against each other for both Individual and Store bragging rights.
This year saw 3 stores send 4 players each to the tourney.
- Battleforge Games
- Dragon’s Lair
- Thor’s Hammer
I took my 2000 pt Eldar Torrent of Fire Army and played 6 games over 2 days. The army performed well being both mobile and hard hitting. Most folks were unprepared for the amount of S:6 fire it can project onto key elements of their army.
It’s Achilles heel however is short range, so my hardest (and funniest) game was against a very well constructed Necron army. He had me on range and maneuverablily (with many destroyers). The table had a wide open center and by turn 2 I had determined that venturing forth into the shooting gallery was suicide. I hung back and hid. My opponent sent forward a unit or 2 using Veil of Darkness and almost lost them all as the entire army focussed on the now isolated units. The survivors quickly withdrew and we drew down the clock…stalemate 
We both had a fun laugh and wrapped our 6 turn game as all the other tables were starting into turn 2.
The games were:
Bigred vs Imperial Guard
Result: Bigred Victorious Slaughter
Bigred vs Witchhunters
Result: Bigred Victorious Slaughter
Bigred vs Tau
Result: Bigred Victorious Slaughter
Bigred vs Necrons
Result: Bigred Tie
Bigred vs Space Marines
Result: Bigred Crushing Victory
Bigred vs CSMs (Black Legion)
Result: Bigred Victorious Slaughter
The overall Tournament results were:
Best Store Team: Battleforge Games
Best General: Bigred
Here are some pics of the event.
