A couple weekends ago I ran a small 8th edition tournament for a handful of my friends. I've been doing these once or twice a year for the last four or five years but this was the first event under the 8th edition rules.
Eight players came on the day to fight for supremacy. Previous years we had played 2000 points but this time around we decided to try something a little smaller and went for 1500 points. It certainly made a difference to the sort of armies that we normally saw.
On the day our eight generals were:
1. Jon Q - Aeldari (craftworld alaitoc).
2. Alex G - Space Marines (raven guard chapter tactics).
3. Thomas S - Space Marines (salamander chapter tactics).
4. Dan D - Drukhari (kabal of the black heart and prophets of flesh).
5. Ashleigh G - Astra Militarum (cadian regiment).
6. Ian T - Necrons (sautekh dynasty).
7. Jaime J - Space Marines (ultramarines chapter tactics) and Astra Militarum (mordian regiment).
8. Chris H - Adeptus Mechanicus (forge world stygia).
Table one. The Necron monolith was used as a little extra terrain.
Table 2. A nice simple battlefield.
Table 3. The three drop pods and crashed stormraven were used as terrain pieces.
Table 4. This table was set up so that the ground floor ruins had their windows covered to prevent line of sight.
Round 1 - Front-Line Warfare.
Round 2 - Ascension.
Round 3 - Kill Confirmed.
I used a small swiss tournament app on my phone to handle who played who, but ultimate victory was decided by total victory points over the course of the day. I prefer this method as it makes players play to the mission rather than go all out for the table win.
Round 1.
The first round went nicely and everyone got into the spirit of the day quickly. Good clean competitive fun without being a dick. Just the way a tournament should be played. Some solid victories although Chris and Dan timed out as a draw.
T1. Chris vs Dan - Draw.
T2. Jon vs Ian - victory for Jon.
T3. Alex vs Asheigh - victory for Alex.
T4. Jamie vs Thomas - victory for Jamie.
Round 2.
For some reason the second round seemed to overrun a little bit but I let it run for fairness and we were ahead on time for the day anyway. Dan did fantastically well achieving a victory that none of us expected but we could all tell that Alex was going to be the most likely winner for the day.
T1. Ian vs Thomas - victory for Ian.
T2. Jon vs Dan - victory for Dan.
T3. Chris vs Ashleigh - victory for Ashleigh.
T4. Alex vs Jamie - victory for Alex.
Round 3.
The final round of the day. Round three also seemed to overrun a little but we wanted to see the true outcome so we let it run. As expected Alex seized victory and with it the tournament.
T1. Jon vs Jamie - victory for Jon.
T2. Dan vs Alex - victory for Alex.
T3. Chris vs Thomas - victory for Chris.
T4. Ian vs Ashleigh - victory for Ian.
Final Standings.
Victory points were totaled over the day and that determines who wins the event. I prefer this method as it forces players to play to the mission rather than try to table wipe their opponent. Makes for a far more enjoyable play style.
63 : Alex G. - Victory!
57 : Ian T.
47 : Chris H.
37 : Dan D.
28 : Jon Q.
22 : Ashleigh G.
18 : Jamie J.
9 : Thomas S.
We had a great day with some fun 40K games and friendly banter. Congrats to Alex for his win. I'm hoping that I can try to organize another one later in the year and hopefully make it a bigger event with more players. The ultimate goal being to create an annual tournament for this corner of Cambridgeshire.
But until then here are a few samples of the photos taken during the day. Enjoy.
Necrons control the skies.
Guardsmen hiding from incoming fire.
Raven Guard (successors) commanding an impressive field of fire.
Roboute Guilliman leads his chapter into battle.
Only way to decide this... FIGHT!
War of the ancients.
The Mechanicus marches to war.
Mordians take to the battlefield.
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