40k team tourney results • Introduction

I played in a team tourney this past weekend at Coliseum of Comics in Kissimmee, Florida. This is definitely one of my favorite places to play and its always worth the long drive. xD

My partner and I brought Blood Angels and dark eldar - our team was named Speed Kills... heh !


Army Lists
Here is my partner's 1000 point Blood Angels army list:

Librarian - Fear of Darkness & Shield of Sanguinius

5x assault Marine - flamer
Razorback - twin linked plasmagun|lascannon turret & dozer blades

5x assault Marine - flamer
Razorback - twin linked plasmagun|lascannon turret & dozer blades

5x assault Marine - flamer
Razorback - twin linked plasmagun|lascannon turret & dozer blades

5x assault Marine - meltagun
Rhino - extra armor

Whirlwind

Dreadnaught - 2x autocannon

Landspeeder - multi-melta & heavy flamer


Here is my 1000 point dark eldar army list:

Archon (Drachenfel) - blast pistol, haywire grenades, combat drugs & agonizer

9x Wych - haywire grenades & hydra gauntlets
Hekatrix - blast pistol & agonizer
Raider - flickerfield, show prow & grisly trophies

9x Warrior - splinter cannon & blaster
Syrabite - splinter pistol & venom blade
Raider - flickerfield

9x Warrior - splinter cannon & blaster
Syrabite - splinter pistol & venom blade
Raider - flickerfield

2x Reaver jetbike - melta lance
Arena Champion - agonize

Ravager - flickerfield & 3x dark lance


Missions
All three missions were designed by the one of the tournament organizers. They all had some special rules and were well designed. I'll describe each mission in detail in each batrep.


Opponents' Armies
The first round was versus the ringer team - Space Marines and eldar. The second round was versus the Tau Collective - Tau and dark eldar. The third and final round was versus an awesome pair of fellows also fielding Blood Angels and dark eldar - so basically a mirror match with a very interesting customized scenario. All of our opponents were great to play and I got to see some beautiful armies indeed ! I'll post up our opponents' army lists in each batrep.


Pre Tournament Analysis
My partner and I both felt that our combined speed would be powerful and this definitely turned out to be the case. A plethora of lightly armored vehicles that can all move 12" and fire a heavy weapon is powerful versus mechanized armies which is mostly what we faced off against each round plus with flickerfields and the Shield of Sanguinius across the board we had some fairly decent protection as well. Sure AV10|11 is fairly easy to pop but if we could shake|stun most of our opponents' mech that was not going to really be a problem. We only had one dedicated assault unit (my Archon and Wyches) so I would have to be careful with them and choose the right enemy units to engage... Typically my philosophy is to focus on destroying the opponent' scoring units first in melee.