Russian Federation Team CUP – 2013. Game 1 – CSM (ROH)

I don’t actually understand how, but I became a captain of a 5-man team Minsk & Co for the team championship “Russian Federation Team CUP – 2013”. Our country, Belarus, was represented by 3 teams at the tourney:

Expendables – team composed entirely of our heavy veterans

Vitebsk united – team from Vitebsk, guided by Bubon. A young but ambitious team.

Minsk & Co – my team is a composition of talented newbies, guided by Jarek – one of the most experienced 40k players in our country. I played the role of pairing master and Jarek is our leader and adviser. Our composition is as follows:

Erle – Tyranids (wide attacker)

Jarek – DA+IG (tough platoon-defender)

F9SSS – GK (semi-defender)

Fredya – Tau+SM (mech attacker)

Paul – Necrons+GK (semi-defender)

So, I’m gonna tell you about my own games first of all. Let’s look at my army list.

[1850 report] Tyranids vs Tau/Eldar

I haven’t beeng writing to a blog for a long time. Nevertheless, I think that it’s never late to write another battlereport!

I found out recently that my friend Paul lives 150 meters from me and he has a nice table for 40k.

 

But the first time I got to his place I forgot to buy batteries for my camera, so no battlereport from that game. Just a few words – I faced Daemon and his Tau/Eldar list with Ethereal powered firewarriors, Shadowsun powered battlesuits and new awesome Skyray gunships:) I managed to pull a narrow draw 9-11 in favor of Tau, nevertheless it was an uphill battle for me.

The second time I came to Paul’s place and faced Paul’s Tau/Eldar list (by memory):

6th edition shenanigans - SYNAPSE?

Tyranid rule No.1 : keep everything in synapse!

But 6th edition changed the situation. The possibility to gain 2+ cover save behind the Aegis with Go To Ground, new Rage rules and Fearless rules forced me to look again at the tyranid rule No.1.

First of all I’m going to write some quotes from rulebook, codex and faqs wich I’m going to use in my discovery.

Mycetic Spores – scratch build from plastic ball

As I promised - I made a translation of a Mycetic Spore scratch build guide.

Minsk winter - 2013. Game 3 vs Golio (Eldar)

I got 27 points after 2 games and placed 5-th at the moment. Tourney table looked like this:

1 Fredya (Tau/Eldar)

2 Daemon, my 1st round opponent (Eldar/Tau)

3 Golio (Eldar)

4 [Proxybot] DarkTear (SM)

5 Erle (Tyranids)

6 Johnny (CSM)

Last game Mission is Purge The Alien on Hammer and Anvil!

“Oh, cool” – I said when I saw this table. CSM with double Helldrakes is an easy match for my nids! Golio has nothing to do agains a dual LR list in a KP game. Fredya and Daemon have similar lists, so they may end somewhere in a draw then I will win the tourney!

No so fast, silly tyranid, not so good… Proxybot goes to play with the bottom of the tourney table and I face Golio and his Eldars (Emmm… Golio won the previous tourney as far as I remember!)

Pavel "Golio" Suchkov

 

Minsk winter - 2013. Game 2 vs Hitter (Daemons)

I got 9 points in the first game and found myself below the middle of the tourney table. As a gift for my hungry hive-fleet was second pairing – Hitter with Daemons of Chaos with 5-th edition like army list:

Андрей "Hitter" Наркевич

Codex: Chaos Daemons

Minsk winter - 2013. Game 1 vs Daemon (Eldar+Tau)

I took part in a 1500 pts local tourney “Minsk Winter – 2013”. We had 16 players at the tourney, so only 8 tables with a lot of terrain – Ymgarls were pleased with that.

Here is my army list:

Hive Tyrant – 2 x TL Devourer, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Hive Commander = 285 pts.

Hive Tyrant - 2 x TL Devourer, Wings, Paroxysm, Leech Essence, Old Adversary = 285 pts.

Ymgarl Genestealer Brood (8) = 184 pts.

Tervigon - Stinger Salvo, AG, Toxin Sacs, Cat, Onslaught = 210 pts.

Tervigon - Stinger Salvo, Toxin Sacs, Cat = 185 pts.

Termagant (20) with Devourers in Mycetic Spore with TL Deathspitter = 250 pts.

Termagant Brood (10) with Devourers = 100 pts.

Total = 1499 pts.