ETC 2014 - Round 6 - Tyranids+Necrons vs SW

My last game at ETC 2014 against Greg “Inquisitor Malice” Sparks. We saw each one on the captains forum but it was the first time we get the possibility to shake hands:)

Greg played a popular SW drop pod army with 8 droppods that had an objective secured rule:)

ETC 2014 - Round 6 - USA - Pairings

With 1 loss, 1 draw and 3 wins we had to play the last game with team USA. If we win this game - we take 3-rd place for sure! So, there is something to fight for in this round! It's the first time team Belarus got the possibility to get a prize at ETC:)

At the other hand, team USA consist entirely of a top players, winners of the most famous American tourneys. Let's check our pairings estimation table for team USA:

ETC 2014 - Round 5 - Tyranids+Necrons vs Eldar+DE

My fifth game at ETC 2014 was with Olof Svensson extremely positive sweden Eldar player.

His list is so good that none from our team actully wanted to play with it. A boeing of warlocks with Eldrad has higher probability to get fortune than a normal 2 farseer list. Jetbikes and scoring serpents are a must for any eldar list today:)

ETC 2014 - Round 5 - Sweden - Pairings

Day 3 we started in a good mood. Our opponent for the 5th game was team Sweden. It is a strong team, but this year their composition consist almost form a defensive lists.

Let's look at our pairings estimations table against Sweden:

ETC 2014 - Round 4 - Tyranids+Necrons vs DE+Eldar

The game with team England and Paul Burke was the last game of Day 2 and fourth game at ETC. This pairing was hard for me, so I prepared to save points:)

Sorry to Paul, I forgot to take a photo of him. So, let's look at his list:

HQ 1: Baron (105) - Warlord [105]

Troops 1: 5 Wyches (50) Haywires (10) – Transport 1 [60]
Troops 2: 5 Wyches (50) Haywires (10) – Transport 2 [60]

FA1: 5 Beastmasters (60), 24 Kymera (288) 348pts

Transport 1: venom (55), additional splinter cannon (10) 65pts
Transport 2: venom (55), additional splinter cannon (10) 65pts

ALLIED DETACHMENT:

HQ 1-1: Spiritseer(70), Shard of Anaris - exchanging shuriken pistol (40) [110]
HQ 1-2: Spiritseer (70) [70]
HQ 1-3: Spiritseer (70) [70]
HQ 1-4: Spiritseer (70) [70]
HQ 1-5: Spiritseer (70) [70]

Elites1: 5 Fire Dragons (110) – Transport 1 [110]

Troops 1: 5 dire avengers (65) – Transport 2 [65]
Troops 2: 5 dire avengers (65) – Transport 3 [65]

FA1: 8 Warp Spiders (152) [152]

Transport 1: Wave serpent (115), scatter laser (5) [120]
Transport 2: Wave serpent (115), scatter laser (5) [120]
Transport 3: Wave serpent (115), scatter laser (5) [120]

Here we have 3 serpents to kill flyrants and invisible beaststar to kill immortals and also 5 psychic shreeks to kill Mawlocs. Nasty list for me but anyway I have some tricks to show too.

ETC 2014 - Round 4 - England - Pairings

After two victories and one draw we got 5 points and rised again to the very top of the hill and met team England!

One of the top team, team England. The leftmost guy on the photo is their coach! That is how a real coach must look like - big and bald:)

Let's look at our mostly red pairings estimation table:

ETC 2014 - Round 3 - Tyranids+Necrons vs Farsight+Tau

I got not an easy but interesting pairing for game 3. My opponent is Andy 'Imarco' Horvath from team Denmark.

Andy runs a Farsight+Tau army with two riptides, broadsides in a bastion and a boeing of crisis-drones with a commander. Here is his list:

ETC 2014 - Round 3 - Denmark - Pairings

After 1 win and 1 near win we got 3 points at the start of day 2. We met with team Denmark that had 4 points and, thus, 2 victories already. 

Denmark never was an easy opponent so we prepared for an uneasy battle. Let's look at pairings estimation table against Denmark:

ETC 2014 - Round 2 - Tyranids+Necrons vs Iyanden+Tau

Game 2 at ETC 2014 I fought with famous Ukrainian player Fedor "Dajnard" Simonenko.

He tailored smart and effective list (it's Dajnard's ability to create unusual lists that f..ck everything around).

Belarus at ETC 2014 - Intro

This year is my second showoff as a captain of team BELARUS at European Team Championship. The event took place in Novi Sad, Serbia in the same place as in year 2013. We started to prepare to the tourney right after the previous one, but all our plans were ruined with new edition of rules (7th edition came out 2 month before the ETC). We reorganized the team rapidly, generating new army lists but anyways there were still a lot of blind dots in the preparation process. Anyway, let me introduce the TEAM:

Yaroslav "Jarek" Dmitriev - our "heavy" veteran with a solid GK/AM anti-psyker list, ready to deal with any opponent.

Nikolai "Torf" Danilov - one of the most intellectual players of Russia with a solid AM/Inquisition army. The guy with the iron will and poker face:)

Yuri "Warpstone" Anufriev - The bombardier and topscorer of our team, the one who played on the top table in the final of ESC 2013, the winner of the russian 40k league. This year he gave up Necrons for Eldar/DE army with a beaststar.

Eugene "Ewgen" Ranchenko - a new belarusian guy in our team, the follower of Yuri, new Necron player of our team.

Fedor "Fredya" Fomin - our topscorer and the psychologist of our team with a Tau/Farsight bomb.

Gennady "Ghost" Babenko - a Kazakhstan player, who played in our team for years, one of the most universal players I know - he played for almost all the armies in 40k in a tourney environment. Experienced but young and agressive! This time he played Daemons army.

Alexander "Santan" Philippov - one more diamond from the russian 40k community. The one who generates weird lists and stomp opponents into static grass with ease. He generated an agressive CSM/Daemons fast and deadly close combat army.

And the Captain of the term - Alexander "Erle" Ivanov. Yep, It's me. I played Tyranids for years and experimented with different allies after the 7th ed came out. I tried daemons with little success and stopped at Necrons as the secondary detachment, inspired by Yuri's list from ETC 2013.

All lists of all teams can be found here:

http://www.teambelgium.eu/TEAMSETC201440k.pdf

Командный Кубок России - 5 тур и итоги

Мой ростер, рапорт с игры первого тура и ссылку на ростера всех игроков вы можете найти тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/1.html
Рапорт с игры второго тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/2.html
Рапорт с игры третьего тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/3.html
Рапорт с игры четвёртого тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/4.html

Паринг последнего, пятого тура - команда "Deathwatch".

К моменту нашей встречи с Десвотчем, у них было 3 победы и 1 ничья. У нас – 3 победы и 1 поражение. Так что победитель этой игры вполне логично претендовал на первое место. Плохая новость заключалась в том, что после просчёта минимаксной стратегии по оценкам команды, наихудшее ожидание в команде оказалось именно для команды Десвотч – 53 очка. Т.е. даже в своих розовых мечтах (иначе не назовёшь оценки, которые мы ставим в табличку ожиданий) мы играем с Десвотчем в ничью с небольшим перевесом. Если же учесть общий скилл команды, то нам предстаяла суровая игра.

Командный Кубок России - 4 тур

Мой ростер, рапорт с игры первого тура и ссылку на ростера всех игроков вы можете найти тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/1.html
Рапорт с игры второго тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/2.html
Рапорт с игры третьего тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/3.html

Паринг четвёртого тура - команда "Конфедерация".

Если в игре с Минском я себя ощущал не очень, то теперь вся Питерская часть команды ощущала себя не очень – ведь по сути это игра Питера с Питером! С другой стороны лично я сам ощущал себя вполне комфортно и настроен был драться и выигрывать. Ожидания по парингам у нас были не самые радужные, впрочем. Взглянем на табличку:

Командный Кубок России - 3 тур

Мой ростер, рапорт с игры первого тура и ссылку на ростера всех игроков вы можете найти тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/1.html

Рапорт с игры второго тура тут:
http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/2.html

Паринг третьего тура - команда "Minsk & Co".

 Фоточку для затравочки:

Командный Кубок России - 2 тур

Рапорт с игры первого тура, мой ростер и ссылку на ростера всех игроков вы можете найти тут:

http://hive-fleet-hyenna.blogspot.com/2014/06/1.html

А я расскажу о том, как после победы в первом туре нам выпало играть с командой ZBS:)

Итак, паринг второго тура - команда "ZBS TEAM".

Взглянем на табличку ожиданий против этой команды:

Длям нас тут розыгрышь начинается очень просто – Торф берёт на себя первый деф и в зависимости от того, каких двух игроков разыграет оппонент мы выбираем во второй деф или тиранидов или Кнайтов. По ожиданиям мы должны распариться не меньше чем в 64 очка – посмотрим как лягут паринги.

[1250] Авитаминоз-2014. Игра 3 тура. Тираниды против Эльдар

Набрав максимум возможных очков во втором туре я лидирую в турнирной таблице. С отставанием в 2 очка за мной идёт Голио с байкконсилом эльдар:

Павел "Golio" Сучков

Primary: Eldar

HQ1: Farseer (100), singing spear(5), Runes of Warding(10), Spirit Stone of

Anath'lan (15), eldar jetbike (15) [145] {Warlord}

HQ2: Farseer (100), eldar jetbike (15) [115]

HQ3: 8 x warlock council (280), eldar jetbikes (120) [400]

Troops1: 5 x dire avengers [65] in Transport1

Troops2: 5 x dire avengers [65] in Transport2

Transport1: Wave serpent (115), TL scatter laser (5) [120] for Troops1

Transport2: Wave serpent (115), TL scatter laser (5) [120] for Troops2

Secondary: Dark Eldar

HQ1: Baron Sathonyx [105]

Troops1: 5 x kabalite warriors [45] in Transport1

Transport1: Venom(55), splinter cannon(10), grisly trophies(5) [70] for Troops1

[1250] Авитаминоз-2014. Игра 2 тура. Тираниды против Тёмных Ангелов

Итак, после игры первого тура я оказался пусть не на последнем месте, но близко к концу турнирной таблицы.

Напомню, что на этом турнире я играл вот такой армией:

Александр "Erle" Иванов

Primary: Tyranids

HQ1: Hive Tyrant (165), 2 x TL devourers (2*15), Electroshock Grubs (10), Wings (35) [240] {warlord}
HQ2: Hive Tyrant (165), 2 x TL devourers (2*15), Electroshock Grubs (10), Wings (35) [240]
Elites1: Venomthrope [45]
Troops1: 20 x Genestealer Brood (20*14) [280]
Troops2: 5 x Genestealer Brood (5*14) [70]
FA1: Hive Crone [155]
FA2: Harpy (135), TL Stranglethorn Cannon (0), Stinger Salvo (10) [145]
Fortification: Imperial Bastion [75]

Total: [1250]

Мой противник второго тура:

Kraft

Primary: Dark Angels

[1250] Авитаминоз-2014. Игра 1 тура. Тираниды против ХСМ

Всем привет!

Я, наконец, смог выбраться поиграть тиранидами на сингловом турнире. На этот раз это оказался турнир на 1250 очков под кодовым названием "Авитаминоз 2014". Роман "DarkTear" Дашевич взял на себя всю работу по организации, позволив мне спокойно поиграть. И вот что я притащил на турнир:

Александр "Erle" Иванов

Primary: Tyranids

HQ1: Hive Tyrant (165), 2 x TL devourers (2*15), Electroshock Grubs (10), Wings (35) [240] {warlord}

HQ2: Hive Tyrant (165), 2 x TL devourers (2*15), Electroshock Grubs (10), Wings (35) [240]

Elites1: Venomthrope [45]

Troops1: 20 x Genestealer Brood (20*14) [280]

Troops2: 5 x Genestealer Brood (5*14) [70]

FA1: Hive Crone [155]

FA2: Harpy (135), TL Stranglethorn Cannon (0), Stinger Salvo (10) [145]

Fortification: Imperial Bastion [75]

Total: [1250]

Я очень хотел выгулять свой новый свежепокрашенный бастион и новых свежепокрашенных птичек. Так как по правилам турнира очки каждого игрока зависят только от количества выполненных миссий, то я решил не заботиться о живучести армии и взял генокрадов для большей агрессивности и убойного потенциала. Большой отряд удобнее обколдовывать на случай, если будет в наличие ФнП и проще растягивать к веномтропу, чтобы получить шраудинг.

Пара первого тура :

Ярослав "-Yaroslav-" Дмитриев

Primary: Chaos Space Marines

New nids - new love

I have nothing to add to the news floating over the internet. It looks like Tyranids is coming soon. And I wand just to write something about it.

Release date is rumored to be 11 of January 2014 - soon enough. Pre-order is rumored to start at January 4. Three weeks left:)

I found a possible codex cover:

Looks great! It must be a hardcover book, I think. I'll try to go through the codex, gathering all the last rumors together:
 

Belarus at ETC 2013. Game 6 - Tyranids vs SM+IG

The last game for the ETC-2013 is against Team Latvia. I played with Andrew 'Weran' Isaev. Andrew is a great guy – we laughed a lot along the game, besides the game was highly competitive itself!

His army is an interesting SM+IG built with a Kor’Sarro Khan in a platoon and a lot of flyers!

Belarus at ETC 2013. Game 6 - Latvia - Pairings

The last game we were paired with LATVIA, the russian-speaking team, ah, finally, It's so pleasant to speak russian instead of poor English:)

If we win this game, we'll place in top10. So, it was an important game for me, cause the best place Belarus ever took at ETC was 11! So, top10 was our goal for this tournament, actually.