Results from the RTT

The RTT had some really stiff competition there with a lot of the NJ big names showing up. I think there were about 22 players in attendance, and 4 of them (myself included) participated in the Nova Invitational.

I played the tyranid list which I posted earlier,

HQ
Swarmlord 280
Tyrant Guard- lash whips 65

Elites
2 Hive Guard 100
2 Hive Guard 100
8 Ymgarl Stealers 184

Troops
10 Gaunts 50
10 Gaunts 50
Tervigon- adrenal glands toxin sacs cluster spines catalyst 195
Tervigon- adrenal glands toxin sacs cluster spines catalyst 195

Heavy
Trygon- adrenal glands 210
Trygon- adrenal glands 210
Trygon- adrenal glands 210

The tournament was a little light on terrain which made my life difficult as a tyranid player but it was alright. It used standard book missions with a win/loss/draw format with no margin of victory, however there was up to 4 battle points you could get each round.

Round one I got paired up against a young guard player who wasn't very experienced but had a great attitude about the game. He was the definition of a casual player that just wanted to get better. He didn't have an optimized list or any idea how to properly use it but he was a great sport.

His list was a bunch of infantry squads, a few special weapon squads, a company command squad, yarrick, some ogryns, 3 leman russes, a few ratlings, and a banewolf.

The game was dawn of war capture and control. I won the roll for first and put swarmlord and 2 tervigons on the line as far up as possible. I also deep struck my trygons. He came on but he didnt really have the long range fire power to deal  with me so his shooting was ineffective. When my ymgarls came on they multi charged 7 (yes 7) different units and made them all run off the table. It was a pretty bloody tabling but he was a great sport and I tried to teach him tactics wherever I could to help make him better. He seemed to be having a blast at the event despite being so new, which is all one can reasonably hope for at a tournament.

I maxed out on that round and got paired up with necrons for the first time since the new book released. I'll go into more detail about the next 2 games.