The final rankings were:
Dale- Hell's Horses gundam custom heavy arms
Bill- Comstar imperator
David- Rasalhague Dominion gladiator
Travis- ravenstar thunderfoot (imp)
Andrew- jefromvegas custom LAM
Roger - House Kurita Dragon
LA - RotS/Merc Rifleman
Jarius- Clan Wolf daishi
Alan- Wolf Hunter unseen longbow
John- House Liao huron warrior
Shannon (fellowship)-Jade Falcon Blood asp
Victor- Bannson's Raiders Highlander jjc
Wade- set of russian mechs primered
Matthew- Nova Cat hellhound
Leon Sea Fox ravenstar fox walker tank
Scott- RotS Mac Monster
Wished i had all the stats but the top left corner of the sheet was ripped out when i brought it over to announce the picking order. If i have something wrong, let me know. I know i missed the black lanner somewhere in there, probabl3 due to wade's russian mechs possibly being wrong.
My write up for the event.
This tournament had several special rules.
- Fancreated pieces from the fpu website were allowed
- an alternate army could be swapped out between round 2 and 3.
- if you qualified for the lower price on a faction pride, with no more than 300 pts of mercs or gunslingers, it was free.
Here was my army for the tournament:It's all Rasalhague Dominion for a total of 898
True grit (not free so it cost 30)
023 Wraith BA veteran x 5
024 Wraith BA elite x 3
FPu Elemental BA x 4
Sylph x 2
Thunderbird BA x 2
Dom005 Clan BA x 2
Van011 Clan BA x 6
'Requiem' Marauder IIC
- Shizuka Findlay (crescendo) RD recruited
- RD Camo
I knew i should have played Liao ATVs for this army instead of Sylphs, as they are much better for the role i had assigned for them, but i was trying to keep it faction pure cause that's how i roll.
It was nice to see alot of our fan created pieces from the falcon's prey upgrades as well as last year's champion mechs being played. I know more than half the armies featured them.
We all have our dice roll complaints for big tournaments. If you were around me at the end, you will know mine is that the Crescendo ability went off exactly 1 time the whole tournament, and thar was at the end. Even with it going off on 1 or 2, shooting the mech the way i did at multiple targets should have seen that ability a bit more. I damaged a headmaster atlas down to the last click before he hit his repair marker. Bill ran it back with his BR style army and healed it back to green. B'ah! ;-)
my first round was against John Pounders, who was playing a RotS dual malice army with arty and a coolant truck, as well as some infantry. This game was close. I got my mission, a new fpu mission called trial of possession. The mechs engaged but never took each other down. We killed support pieces, and i had a salvaged sylph on the field. At the end, john had vc 2, and i had vc 1,3, and 4.
Next was bill. Ah bill, my nemesis for the day. Played him twice and lost both times. He played a BR Style healing army, but played True Grit as well. He had a 2 point build advantage on me, and artillery to boot, so he let me get chewed up on the way in to him. I think bill took a special glee playing the card we had made of my svii champ prize back 5 years ago. Pretty much the short of it is i can prime 'marrow' wulfen and use the 'into the breech' ability. He had antipersonnel on it, which wouldn't have mattered much if i hadn't been getting occasional fire from the armor piercing arty. 'rquiem got hit solid on his first shot against it (i got cocky with my 26 defense.) Bill's win, but i got my 'flush 'em out mission card.
Next game was against Jarius, who played solitude, a rots malice, and jack 'nightstalker'. I played tornado, which got cancelled by a perfect day. We knew how this one would go, but had to play it out. I lost infantry, but had a buttload of vc3 and captured all the 'mechs.
Round 4 was against Wade, who was playingjade falcon with Black Rose and Aiden Pride in his madcat, 3 shamashes, a pair of artemis iv hadurs, a mantuffel, and a cba. I played subzero temperatures to try and lock up his vehicles some, and he played a mission he didn't get. My 'mech got popped a bit, but was able to eliminate all the shamashes before they could score vc3. I ended up capturing most of his army, though aiden pryde hurt alot of stuff before it was over. I was getting ready to retreat my mech when time was called.
Round 5 was Bill. He played more aggressively this round. His atv scored vc3. I got in a skirmish with his mechs at the middle of the board, but was having to push my infantry to make it to them. As mentioned i popped headmaster good, but to no longterm effect. I couldnt seem to get my infantry down there by the end of the game with the destraction of the midfield battle, and it was bill's win, with more manliness this time if i do say so.
Good time playing against good folks. Look forward to next year.