The stormlord however managed to troll one of my key units very very massively. It's truly one of those moments where if you don't laugh about it, you cry!
I should add that I used to collect necrons, and the new codex didn't really interest me in comparison to the old one. Monoliths were rubbish now, and destroyers weren't quite as good as they used to be (with the exception of destroyer lords). Wraiths got a nice little boost mind you, but I never had many of those to carry over from 5th edition. I felt that the new necron fluff just wasn't original - it felt very much like "Tomb Kings in Space", as opposed to the cool enslavement story that happened to the original Necrontyr.
Anyways, enough rambling, here is the video!
As for the caledonian uprising tournament that I went to, let me first show you a picture from Rankings HQ:
Those gamers that know me know that I am not a hugely competitive player - I like to win games of course, but I don't think that any of my lists are completely filthy. Caledonian Uprising (or Caley as i'll refer to it from here on in) was extremely competitive. If you are familiar with the ETC (european team championships), they use a 20-0 scoring system. So essentially the margin of victory you have determines your score. The army I took (and you will see a variation of this in the blog series later on) was something like this:
Eldrad
Farseer
10 Wraithguard (3 units)
10 Harlequins w/Shadowseer
Not the most competitive army i'm sure you'll agree, but i've had some success with it in the past so I thought it would be worth a go.
At the time of the tournament (it's changed slightly), the first 2 games I had was against the 4th ranked player (Chris Dickinson) and 9th Ranked player (James Ramsey). Chris was using a pretty nasty Tyranid list - 2 flyrants, 2 tervigons, 2 trygons and a couple of units of Ymargl genestealers. As is so often the case with my army, I was outnumbered pretty heavily as the Tervigons did their thing. I lost (as expected) but I managed to keep the score down to 13-7, which I thought was respectable considering how highly ranked my opponent is.
The second game was against an alliance of Sisters and Imperial Guard. Jacobus in a 50 man blob squad (giving them Feel no pain and stubborn Ld10) is not fun. My harlequins managed to kill them though! 3 Exorcists and a manticore kept pounding my guys - and it really didnt help that the mission was the relic, and that he gt a scoring saint as his warlord trait :(. I lost 12-8 , which I thought wasn't too bad.
My weekend didn't really get much better after that, i won my 3rd game 13-7 against a blood angels list with 3 storm ravens, lost 12-8 to horde ork boys (who were using these crazy forge world one shot battlecannon things - 9 of them!), and got trashed 20-0 in the last game by Grey knights - who I do have to say used a really good move on me to get rid of my harlequins. He essentially shunted a dreadnight behind me, and using Kamarazov's ability to place a blast template on his own guy, forced a perils of the warp on my shadowseer, meaning my harlequins lost their nifty cover save.
So lesson learned - if I do go to such a competitive event in the future, I need to take a serious army. My Eldar, while probably my favourite army, just were in another league altogether here. I have another Tournament Next saturday in Glasgow, called stronghold. This one we have been deliberately asked to bring fun armies, so that's that im planning to do. I will be using... my GRETCHIN of win! 90 gretchin - for the win! I will post my results and army list on my next post.
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