Quick Update

Monday, March 7, 2011

Quick Update

Posted by AbusePuppy

So I've been pretty quiet the past week or two here, having been preparing for TSHFT and trying to get stuff painted. I went to the tournament, had a blast, got to meet a lot of cool folks, but now I'm back and I'll get some articles written up here once I've gotten some sleep and recovered.

Summary version: I got thrashed in the first round on a pretty bad table (very, very little terrain, though not the worst I've seen) by a good IG army and never really recovered from it. Placed about midway through the rankings (as usual), but it was still a lot of fun. There were some pretty crazy games, including two different Tyranid mirror matches and one against sixteen SM Assault Terminators. Harpies did reasonably well, but I don't think they quite fit at 2000pts- there's just too much long-range firepower on the table, so will probably only be running them in smaller games. Hive Guards were A++ in more games and more ways than I can even count, as they were just cutting down guys left and right, even when there weren't any vehicles around.

Congrats to the winners at TSHFT and many thanks to Fluger, who was kind enough to give me a place to crash for the weekend. With any luck I'll be returning in September as well and perhaps bringing home a prize this next time. :P

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Digilante · 734 weeks ago

TSHFT was a ton of fun! I didn't get to play any of the Tyranid players, but my friend played three of them so I bet you had a Blood Angels game in there somewhere. I had the (partially painted) Thunderbubble army.

Anyone near the Seattle area should make sure to attend the next TSHFT in the fall!

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abusepuppy 121p · 734 weeks ago

Oh hey, I remember seeing you there- don't think we actually talked much, but I heard "thunderbubble" and my ears perked up, knowing we had a 3++ reader in the area. :)

You BA friend actually played with the _other_ Tyranid player who I drove up with, Max; I, unfortunately, did not get a chance to play any BA armies.

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winterman · 734 weeks ago

There was 5 tyranid players (I had the blue and khaki nids). I did play a DoA army and I think we played next to you round 4 (you had the khaki colored marines?). Fun tough game, his army was my pick for fav list. My first tabling in years. Mission was wackadoo though and made it hard for me to win -- probably shoulda just castled kitty corner to his fire base and made it hard for him rather then noobishly run at him from accross the board. I hate playing KPs like that but its alot smarter.

Abuse, was fun to get the mirror match, at least for me. Learned a good bit. My plans went TU when I started losing hive guard and I think listwise you forced me to play into your strategy which makes it tough. Well played! You got a fav opp vote from me.

TSHFT was a great time. I will be back for sure, just not sure if I can make the next one (labor day weekend is tough).

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abusepuppy 121p · 734 weeks ago

That was a good match indeed! Two of my three fav opps ended up being my two mirror matches, they were really exciting fights. DoA armies are really tough for Tyranids when supported correctly, as those three squads of Devs put out pretty brutal firepower.

I definitely felt like I had the advantage going into our match, since I had superior shooting from Hive Guard, Harpies, HVC Tyrant, etc, and ID potential from my Warriors and Prime. However, I knew those Genestealers were going to give you a leg up on the KP portion, since I would have to sacrifice some Termagants to hold them off for a time. It was a heck of a match, though, here's to hoping we meet up again next time. :)

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Digilante · 733 weeks ago

Yea, my color scheme is Tan and Royal Blue. Most of the models were just tan though - slightly better than grey but not visually impressive. I got a 14/50 on my painting score...

I was actually quite sad to not play any bugs - I have another friend that plays them so I have plenty of practice in that fight.