Last Saturday (Oct 26th) saw the grand opening of the new Hobby Forge at Zenith Corporate Park. It was a good move as the location at Cova Square was too secluded and bad for business. Here the potential is bigger and I wish all the best to Alvin.
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| A very nice place to hang out and roll dices |
From the picture (bottom right - yellow signs), you can see a mamak restaurant where I had a nice roti telur banjir that day :). Come and visit this place and you'll want to drop by again later.
FORCE RECON 1K TOURNAMENT
I entered with a Daemons of Khorne themed list. A sucker for Close Combat, I tried making a 1,000 points CC-oriented list of all my armies but can't seems to get any that may work at that point level. Then I remembered I have some daemons ally back home and a thought occurred to me. Why not use them as a proper army on their own?
It didn't take long for me to make a list because the Daemon stuff I own are small, so I'm just going to make use of what I have. It is a very straight forward, Khornate and simple list based on the Maximum Threat Overload principal which I think is the only way CC-oriented armies may work competitively at 1,000 points.
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| Bloodthirster | Greater and Exalted Gifts 2x10 Bloodletters 2x Daemon Prince | Khornate, Wings, Armour, Exalted Gift |
Will it work? Theoretically yes that is a scary list, but with almost no shooting at all and such a small number of models, only actual gaming may tell. So let us proceed with the game.
1st Game : Purge The Aliens, Vanguard Strike Deployment
Opponent : Dark Eldar (Coven list)
The 1st game was where beginners luck (my 1st time playing Daemons kan :)) played their role. One of my DPrince got Wind of Chaos gifts and I rolled 9, 12, 9, 9, 9 for Strength throughout the game. On the other hand, my opponent suffered several streams of bad luck, rolling low on so many important rolls.
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| 2nd turn - right before the slaughter began |
2nd Game : Crusade, Dawn of War Deployment
Opponent : Eldar (Death by Thousand Cuts list)
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| Count the number of shots I have to go through. With Guide and Prescience |
The other Prince took out the Fire Prism and destroyed one of the Eldar troops that was holding an objective before he died.
After that the Eldar started advancing forward to try annihilate my troops holding on to an objective. At the same time, the Portalglyph kept on spawning Daemons every turn. Suddenly a Wave Serpent (5 Dire Avengers inside) skimmed nearby and I sent one Bloodletter to deal with it. Boom! It exploded and the passengers were pinned right in the middle of the table. With that the game turned into my favour since I hold 1 objective (3 VP). If I could hold it until the game end..
.. but then a Viper and 2 Warwalkers successfully moved into LOS and eliminate my remaining troops.
3rd Game : Scouring, Vanguard Strike Deployment
Opponent : Thousand Sons (Infiltrating Rubrics Marines)
This is one funny game. The opponent infiltrated Ahriman and 2x8 Thousand Sons 18 inches away from me while his DPrince (Warlord) flew from behind. Came my turn, I assaulted Ahriman unit with Bloodthirster and a Prince while the other Prince assaulted another unit nearby.
Both Prince fought unit Champions from both units and won. Bloodthirster on the other hand, killed like only 3 marines before dying to the Black Staff of Ahriman + Iron Arm (1). There goes my Warlord, and now I have a feeling that I'm going to lose the game with his Warlord flying above throwing S5 AP3 flames (Burning Brand + Gift) on my Troops. But the opponent got greedy, cast Boon of Mutation on his Warlord, and rolled 22 --> Spawnhood!!
From then on everything went smoothly, my DPrince killed Ahriman and wiped out all the Rubrics.
4th Game : Relic, Dawn of War Deployment
Opponent : Space Wolves (Thunderwolves)
This game was mine from the very moment my opponent was announced. Not because the opponent was a bad player tactically, but the fact that his list couldn't ever beat my list without extreme luck. I knew this because my own 13th Co. Space Wolves always got bullied by Daemons back home.
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| There's no stopping from the carnage that is sure to come |
Result : 3 Wins and 1 Lost
I'm pretty happy with the result, it was a fun experience. I never thought 1k point games can be so fun like this. Anyway, the tournament was won by once again, our Chosen Joe Soon and his Necron army. Congratulations to Joe.
Then there was the Lucky Draw!!... Sadly, I didn't win anything. But it was fun, and I'm sure everyone felt the same from all the smiley faces I saw when I walked out the door.
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| Yup.. everyone had their share of fun that day |
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| Some new faces throwing dices at the cool 4x4 tables for beginners |
Again, a special thanks to Hobby Forge and Legio Malaysia for providing us a cool new place to hang out and roll some dices!
2 comments:
Wish I could have made it to the event. Looks like fun!
It was so much fun. And the crowd.. nuff said heheh
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