Whiskey Challenge!

I got to play my friend Andrey Gonyo and his absolutely stunning grey knights. He painted most of his army in the past 2 weeks, and I must say, it was easioly IMO the best army in the invitational, and top 10 out of the open. Everything was converted, every single model, everything was magnetized, the bases were straight up green stuffed, it was amazing. I was also sharring a hotel room with him, and as soon as we got in we showed each other our armies, and my heart sank a little. I spent countless hours on my army and then I to see that I was out done that much by someone in 2 weeks! Thankfully, he really earned his appearance award, it's not that I suck, it's that he's the man!

So onto the game. Since there's 14 reports, to do I'm not going to go into crazy turn by turn detail but I will give you the jist of what happened in all of my games.

We decided to play round one of the invitational, not because it was the hardest mission for either of us, but because e both knew that if we won round one, our confidence would be good for the rest of the day. Start strong, finish srong.

he mission was objectives primary, kill points secondary, quarters tertiary. Deployment was pitched battle.

His list was a good list to take mine out, but less balanced in a tournament setting. We both used our invitational lists.

I played this

HQ
Coteaz 100

Elites
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons, demon hammer 145
Rhino- dozer blades 45
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons, demon hammer 145
Rhino 40
5 Purifiers- 2 psy cannons, demon hammer 145
Rhino 40

Troops
5 Strikes- psy cannon, demon hammer 120
razorback- psy bolts, dozer blades 55
5 Strikes- psy cannon, demon hammer 120
razorback- psy bolts 50
5 Strikes- psy cannon, demon hammer 120
razorback- psy bolts 50
5 Strikes- psy cannon, demon hammer 120
razorback- psy bolts 50

Heavy
Dreadnaught- 2 Twin linked auto cannnon, psy bolts 135
Dreadnaught- 2 Twin linked auto cannnon, psy bolts 135
Dreadnaught- 2 Twin linked auto cannnon, psy bolts 135

1750

He played something a little more interesting, and bland at teh same time.

HQ
Coteaz
Karamazov

Elites
Ven dread- AC MM
Ven dread- AC MM

Troops
5 acolytes- storm bolters
psyback
5 acolytes- storm bolters
psyback
5 acolytes- storm bolters
psyback
5 acolytes- storm bolters
psyback
5 acolytes- storm bolters
psyback
6 deathcults, 5 crusaders, 1 banisher with evicerater (This unit slogged around on foot ith coteaz and karamazov, and was quite the interesting deathstar)
psyback

Heavy
Psyflemen
Psyflemen
Psyflemen

So he won the roll for first and took it. He deployed spread out through his deployment zone, with the deathstar in the center, and his dreads behind terrain.

I cpunter deployed by keeping everythign in the center. This is my standard deployment, and I underestimated my opponent and assumed this would work lol. A good move would have been reserving or doing a refused flank behind a rock, but I got lazy, and all those required thought.

Needless to say he made me pay for my cockyness. He knocked hout all 2 rhinos, 2 razors, and a dread all on turn 1. He made half of my army footslogging in my deployment zone! I then moved up and tried to gaint a foothold. I shot ateverything at his weak flank, which happened to be my strong flank at this point and took it right from him. But after another few turns of shooting the game was more or less over.

I had a chance on turn 4 when he decided to be fun and play aggressively. He charged his deathstar into coteaz and a purifier squad. I was planning on casting sactuary and then cleansing flame and then strike first to kill his death star and take his foot hold in the center. It all fell apart though when I failed sactuary, and then only caused 4 wounds with cleansing flame. 2 went on coteaz and karamazov, 2 went on deathcults, but they roled a 5 and 6 (at this point all the crusaders and banishers were dead). My unit and coteaz were dismantled in short order. And then my attempts to counter charge were easily thwarted since in combat they struck first with dumb numbers of attack, that hit on 3's and wounded on 2's thanks to rad grenades and hammerhand.

In the end I lost pretty handily, but it was a good wake up call. I took the rest of the event seriously. (Or at least the invitational lol) In the end I'm actually happy I lost here. It taught me how to think again.