Still, there were a few vocal locals (heh!) who were disappointed, so the owner decided to push forward himself. I was asked to, "be available for rules questions, if it comes to that" since all the people who would have been asked ahead of me weren't available. Six people? No problem!
Suffice it to say, I learned the night before there was something like 16 registered players, almost all from out of town. A quick change of plans later and I'm bring 'Daemons Light' to fill in if there's an odd number of players, but otherwise I'm playing judge.
I can admit it now: I was nervous. I'm neither temperamentally nor scholastically suited for the job, and while I've got a strong grasp of the basic rules... it's fair to say those aren't the questions that come up, are they?
I was pleasantly surprised by the army lists; they were all at least decent for a Hard Boyz prep tournament, which this was, and at least half of them were optimized builds to a greater or lesser extent.
Interestingly, there were two Daemons players, not including me. (It should be noted there was a drop after Round 1 so I no longer had to play, leaving 7 tables.)
Stetson's Friend Matt runs what's widely considered the best build in the Daemons book, Fatecrusher... whereas I run the not-so-widely known other-other optimal build in the Daemons book... which I actually consider the best build in the Daemons book due to its consistency... uh, where was I?
Oh, yea! Fatecrusher: Stetson's Friend Matt runs the beatstick version of the list, which runs something like...
Fateweaver
Blood Thirster
Crushers x8 FC x2 Squads
Crushers x7 FC
Plaugebearers x5 x4 Squads
Daemon Prince of Slaanesh x2
Matt beat my Abaddabaddon & Friends Seal Stick with his 2K version of Fatecrusher a few years back, so I'm well aware of how tough it can be once it's rolling...
...and I like it. There, I said it! Even though I'm the loudest Blogosphere voice against the universal Fateweaver builds, it doesn't mean I don't appreciate it.
It means I don't think it's consistent enough for my strategies - and the reason happened in this very tournament!
But I've gone down that road before, so I'm sure you're not interested. (Are you? Huh? Huh?)
Moving on, the other Daemons player was a very cool guy who's been coming down from Lawton, Oklahoma lately - I just hadn't met him. Turns out he plays Daemons, and it turns out he's read this blog some. He told me at lunch it influenced his choice on Fiends, which naturally made me a happy dude!
END PART ONE
11 comments:
At least you didn't have to worry about the TECHNICAL (keeping score, positions and setting opponents and tables) side of handling the tournament..... but you didn't mention THAT in part one didja? :P
Hey I recognize that terrain! It wasn't really built to accommodate 40k but whatever.
suplegal-gangsta for "what's up lawyer man, and now can we go?" got to love word verification.
Ha ha... this story is obviously not true and those pics are clearly photoshop'd. There is a female in them. Oh Brent you crazy fool... always toying with us like that.
Girls do show up in stores sometimes and they are normally like this one...spouse to a gamer. I highly doubt she would step foot in a game store otherwise(and probably was not that hip about it that day).
As a side note...can we start a collection to get Tye some t-shirts that fit and don't make him look like a go-go dancer from a gay bar.
I don't know a 'Tye' - at Strictly Average, we refer to the individual in question as the Card Pimp in Question.
Or CPQ for short!
The Card Pimp in Question had a good showing, coming from behind even after a brutal pounding by Stetson's Friend in Round II.
You could see the agonized expression on CPQ's face as SFM rolled up his flanks...
What were we talking about again?
You know Wolf and my comments about Fateweaver :) Only bad players pick him :)
Who's the hot broad with the laptop? No boobs, but cute...
HACKSAW's wife (the gentleman getting models out of his case in the stage left foreground)
All these pictures and discussion of a tournament and the noticeable element is a lady. Sheesh. I've got my work cut out for me....
Using HACKSAW and gentleman in the same sentence is a bit of a misnomer.
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