The next direction for the Kabal

Whats that mess on the table?

Templecon 2012: Game 5

Game 5 I was playing Ben Mohile. Mission was to get 2 scoring units you had to choose before hand into your opponents deployment zone.

Ben's list can be found online Im sure. it had 2 command barges, 3 min units of scarabs, 3 units of spyders, and 4 units of immortals.

Ben spawned scarabs turn 1, and used one unit of 6 to get a first turn charge on my archon hoping to delay my ability to deploy the portal. Well suffice it to say that a +1 str archon with a huskblade laughs off that few scarabs.

Turn 1 I moved up with the bonus of a 5" consolidate after that aforementioned combat... and I placed the portal.... oh wait thats what I should have done.
I chose to charge some spyders instead for sport.
Basically the rest of the game came to just us playing for fun. I still pressed him as best I could and had some slim chances of drawing late but they dwindled as they should have.
Unmolested Ben did manage to spawn enough scarabs to exauhst the supply he had brought with him. And then in a late combat I broke his previous combat resolution record. I won a combat against scarabs by 38.

However I felt badly that I had given such a good player a lame duck game. To this day I can not say why I didnt put the portal out. As you can see in every other battle report involving this army turn 1 is pretty much a no thought process of moving up and placing that little 3" template, there is really no other choice turn 1 other than losing.

Templecon 2012: Game 4

So day two dawned bright and early. Found myself sitting still in second by a few scarce points over the third place person. And on table 1 with me was my friend Alex and his pink necrons.

Templecon 2012: Game 3

Shhh... there be orks about.

Templecon 2012: Game 2

So game 2 came and I was on table one. And surprise surprise so were Grey Knights. Now the tournament scene is all grumble grumble about the knights, but my Dark Eldar tend to like seeing them across the table. Talos's eat Dreadnoughts with no combat arms, I have a lot of cheap invulnerable saves in close combat, Drahzar and the Archon are I7 so go before Halberds. Lots of little things that tend to go in my favor. Now the fight is still tough because the Grey knight units are so strong, but Id rather play them then things like daemons or even orks.

Templecon 2012: Game 1

So game 1 of Templecon arrived bright and early Saturday morning. After saying hello to the people I knew I moved to check the pairings. I groaned when I saw my first round matchup would be Nick Nanavanti. Nick is a great player who I have had the pleasure of playing before, he groaned at having to play me as well, apparently he had gotten very little sleep the night before and hadn't expected to see myself or any other good players at the venue.

Templecon Here We Come!

Whats that in the distance... a peaceful Victorian home, it must be the Templecon convention.