The Zgames 2000 point 40K tournament was fun. I didn't do as well as I hoped to in the games, but ended coming in 3rd overall anyways and managed to take home Best Painted (which was really special, since it was a player's-choice award -- each participant voted for their favorite army).

The first game was one where we started with only 500 points of our force deployed, and the rest would come in on turn 3. I played against Mark Burkhart's (spelling?) Dark Angels, and things started out pretty well. I deployed in good spots, had some luck taking out his force.. unfortunately, I royally screwed myself on my turn-three deployment of my remaining 1500 points. Got myself stuck in a corner, and had to go through a nasty bottleneck to get out. I could have just stayed back and traded lascannon shots, but that would have been pretty boring.

The second game was against Roger's Imperial Guard, and it was the most one-sided game I've ever seen. Roger's luck was bad and my force was well suited to dealing with his army. The game was pretty much over by the end of the 3rd turn. We quit at the end of the 4th turn, with his force reduced to one Chimera. I lost half-a-dozen marines and one bike.

The third game was against Ryan's Orks. I couldn't do much of anything against them. I couldn't roll more than a 2 on my glance rolls, and his funky ork armor disregarded those. His humongous command squad slaughtered 3 tactical squads and my Devastators. He rolled a 6 on a glance of my Land Raider Crusader . The only brightspots were eventually blowing up his big warmachine/truck-thingie, and my Terminators and countercharging tacs taking out a big bunch of boyz.

# posted by Andy : 10:12 AM