Schools League: Final Preparations

So with the finals of Schools League less than a week away my friends and I have been furiously inventing imaginary lists to pit our current army lists against to try and iron out the kinks in them and so far it has been very productive!

Schools League T-Shirts and Update

Hey everyone,

I Have just received confirmation that the National Finals of Schools League is happening on the 29th of June! We have also all been given our official Schools League T-shirts which we must wear which are awesome as you can see. I have been working hard on my list too and have decided upon my Tyranid list with 2 Tervigons, 11 Devilgaunts and 2 Hive Guard. This my friends believe is unbeatable but we will see I hope.....

Schools League Regional Heat Results!

So I have now been to Warhammer World Nottingham and the Schools League National Finals! It was absolutely amazing and I loved everything about the place. The place was like a university campus with many separate buildings with connecting paths/walkways and there was a balcony and even a small garden!

Army ready for combat.

So a quick run-down: we arrived around 09:00 and got prepared, our armies out, our army lists checked and finally familiar with the amazing surroundings before we started at around 11:00. Round 1 was a Dawn of War, Capture and Control against a horde Ork player. His list was 2x30 orks with a power klaw, a warboss with a power klaw and 5 lootas. I basically split his two big units up and munched both by turn 2 with the combined firepower and close combat prowess of the many gaunts. A win for me.

Round 2 was against a Tyranid player I knew from The Tyranid Hive, Alta, who had a Tyrannofex w/ cannon, 10 gaunts and a prime with warriors in a pod. We started this game late due to a mix up so we had to rush but it was fun anyhow. It was a seize ground, spearhead battle and since I got first turn and 2/3 objectives I just sat back, pumped out gaunts and won the game by not moving. A win for me.

All my friends were laughing at me due to the fact that I recognised Alta from TTH and were saying 'remember what we were told in school, don't meet people on the internet.' It was funny and Alta was a great guy and it will be a hilarious story for my next 'internet safety' lesson at school.

Round 3 was a Pitched battle, killpoints game against a Tau player who had a Hammerhead, 6 fire warriors in devilfish, 20 kroot and 2 crisis suits with missile pods. This game went really slowly, I suspect my opponent was doing this deliberately, but by turn 5 I had just killed the crisis suits for 1 killpoint and had only lost 2 gaunts. A win for me again!

Here are some pics of the event that I took during the very long breaks.

So overall a great day, I won all my games and we got through to the International Finals with joint 2nd! Bring it on!

Schools League Developments

So as schools league closes the tension and decisions begin to rise. Having found recent use out of Devilgaunts I am tempted to include them as they are quite deceptive, especially if hidden amongst lots of normal gaunts. Also I cannot resist trying to use two Tervigons: the look on my opponents face will be priceless! Here is my current list:

HQ
Tervigon
- Toxin Sacs
- Adrenal Glands
= 180

Troops

Tervigon

- Toxin Sacs

- Adrenal Glands

= 180

12 Devilgaunts

= 120

Elites

2 Zoanthropes

= 120

= 600

My opponent will unlikely be able to kill either of the Tervigons in turn 1 so I will get about 20 gaunts in turn 1. This way I can quickly flood the field with plenty of bodies while still having every angle covered: heavy/light tanks, heavy/light infantry and MCs. 

What do you think?

*EDITED POINTS COSTS, (thanks SinSynn)*

Schools League National Heats!

My teacher got an e-mail on Monday saying that my friends and I are through to the next round of Schools League! Yay!

It is held in Warhammer World in Nottingham on the 4th of April but we have no idea how we are going to get there and such. Oh well, the 4th is a Monday so wee'll miss school to play Warhammer! How awesome is that!

So, now it is time to celebrate and devise new army lists. 

YAY!!!!!

Schools League Results!

So I'm knackered from the 2 hour car journey and the continuous moving of 60+ Gaunts but the Schools League  Regional Finals are finished! Here's how it went:

Aberdeen GW is amazing. We got there at 9:00 as the shop opened and were al in awe as we went into a huge shop with a dozen gaming tables, swords on the walls and a second floor. We went upstairs to the playing area which had about 8 tables (6x4) but bags of moving room and the walls were decked with Blood Angel banners and cool 8' hard-posters of Space Marines (of course). Awesome.

We had arrived about an hour before the other group and one of their people was another half hour late so we didn't begin until 11:00. This was because all the other team were about 10 years old and had to write their army lists when they arrived. Not a great start.

It didn't get much better as my first game was spent teaching a Tau player how to play past the basic rules of move, shoot, get assaulted. He didn't even know his suits had an extra move in the assault phase. I did my best to have a fun game and help him but I won easily.

Next game against an Ultramarines (Smurf) marines player who had an army which later clocked in at 805 points in the car home (we checked the armies points and they were all over). It was a 600 points tournament and he also had several other illegal mistakes which included Bikers all with 6 attacks base and the non-sergeant with a 4 attack base powerfist. WTF! Anyway I won easily as he had no idea what the hell he was doing.

Last game was after lunch which we had to complete a quiz which was easily done when allowed access to our rulebooks (which the opponents didn't have). Only a 25 minute break but enough to discuss how bogus our opposition was. My friends games had all gone well apart from Ko'vash who had real bad luck against illegal army lists.

Final game was against a little ******* of a Blood Angels player with Gabriel Seth with Honour Guard all with Feel No Pain and 3 combat squads. He bragged how Seth was going to 'Powwnnn your all armyzzzz!' and was a general douche. It didn't help cool his ego when he passed every save for his death unit making 3+ and 4+ FnP counter over (no joke I counted) 50 wounds! 15 of which were AP3 from my Zoanthropes because he had grouped up for no reason! His luck eventually died when I charged with 44 Gaunts and killed 3 guys with 50 attacks, hitting on 4+s, wounding on 4+ reroll. That combat was started turn 5 and the game ended turn 5 so he continued to brag how Seth would have killed them all and the Tervigon behind them by the beginning of turn 6. I won as I had killed a bunched up combat squad with 2 Warp Blast hits.

So an overall

for me. 3/0!

Even better my team had done really well and we all won our third games (and my friend got Best Painted) so ended up with 7 Wins/ 2 Draws/ 2 Loses. We ended up scoring 50 points without counting the quiz points. We never go told the results but we calculated them and the max without the quiz was 60 so I really hope we get to the National Finals!

Game on!

Schools League Postponed!

I had all my units packaged neatly; all the rulebooks stowed; my army lists cleanly written; all the models freshly painted; my packed lunch packed and my hopes set high.

Then Schools League gets postponed two days before the event. 

I am not happy........

...... It has been postponed two weeks until the 29th. 

My rage lessens with laughter......

However I did get four games with my friends instead so I will get some pictures and reports up when I cool down. I learned a lot of things in those games so I will share my new knowledge later. 

Preparing for Schools League

 So I've finally decided on what to take to Schools League which is only 3 days away. It getting exciting. For my list, if there was any doubt, I am taking a swarmy tyranid list. So with that decided on Monday I then spent Tuesday night painting these:

Schools League Decisons

With only 1 week to go until Schools League I am still undecided on what to take.

On one hand I want to take my Eldar as they are fast, have a lot of S6 shooting and are my best painted army. I would take the following list for Eldar;

HQ - Farseer, Jetbike RoWit, Guide, Singing Spear - 118
Troops - 3 Jetbikes, Shuriken Cannon - 76
Troops - 4 Jetbikes, Shuriken Cannon - 98
Troops - 4 Jetbikes, Shuriken Cannon - 98
Fast Attack - 3 Vypers, Scatter Lasers, Shuriken Cannons - 210


Total = 600

The idea would be to just pummel the enemy with hundreds of S6 shots mainly from the Vypers being guided by the Farseer (21, S6. BS3. reroll to hit shots!). It is highly mobile but has no AP4 or less shooting and no gun higher than S6. I have also not won any of my practice games with this.

School League Army

Here's a list I have been turning over in my head for the last month or so for the League. It's 600 points and designed to be nasty and to win but it is limited with the rules. Only 1 Elites and a choice of either one Fast Attack or 1 Heavy Support. and the usual minimum of 1 HQ and 2 Troops.