Spacecurves’ War Games Con Report

10 Marines, flamer, missile launcher, Sgt. with Power fist and combi-flamer + Rhino w Dozer Blade

I played a ton of really great opponents and tough matchups.  I played against two leafblowers, a really good grey knight army and player with a super deathstar of ten terminators waving a bro banner, librarian, and tech marine, a fiend heavy daemon player, mech space wolf list with 40 grey hunters, 15 long fangs, las plas razors etc., dual bike riding seer councils, and lastly, Dark Eldar with 9 venoms, 3 ravagers, 3 trueborn squads, and many pointy sticks.  I’m really happy with how I played, and I found ways to win in some tough situations.

In the end I won best general and came in third overall!  Very exciting, and I only missed getting first again by ten points.  The man who took my title was Shawn Lowry, and by de-throning me he has earned a place on the 2012 American ETC team! Congratulations to Shawn who won with a balanced dark eldar army very similar to what I love to play, I can tell we’ll get along great already!

List Performance
My Salamanders gave me all the tools I needed as usual. Most games at the top tables look impossible on paper for me, but because there are so many tactical possibilities with my army, I can adapt to most anything the mission or opponent throws at me. My librarian and thunderfire cannon continue to by my MVP units.  Of course, my librarian did get some dirty looks when he failed 12 out of 12 psychic hood block attempts during my game against Grey Knights.  Perhaps the most important moment was when my Land Raider took a charge from ten Grey Knight terminators all hopped up on might of titan.  The Land Raider literally suffered “handfuls” of simultaneous penetrating hits. Spoiler alert! It exploded.  I still managed to win the game, but I hope my librarian felt remorse for his failure as he crawled from the burning crater.