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Title: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 22, 2012, 07:02:08 PM
I'm currently at the Adepticon 2012 BFG tournament. There are 9 players an one stand in to make it even. Here are the basic lists :

Red IN,  Leland: IN, emperor, 2 vengeance,  2 Lunars with nova cannons,  2 endurances.

Green IN, Joe: emperor, mars, dominator, lunar, gothic, 4 cobras, 3 cobras.

Yellow Tyranids, : hive w/ 2 pyroacids and all side launch bays, hive w/ all fro bioplasma and 2 side bioplasma and 1 launch bay, 8 biodrones, 6 pyrodrones, 8 feeder vanguards, 6 claw kraken, 4 pyrokraken with 1 feeder kraken.

Orks, :space hulk, hammer, terror, kill cruiser, 2 roks,

Red/gold Chaos, :repulsive, 2 slaughter, carnage, devastation, Mark of slaanesh demonship devastation

Craftworld Eldar: flame, dragonship with wb and lb, 3 wraithship with lance and lb, 3 escorts wbs, 3 escorts lances.

Ultramarines: venerable BB, 3 strike cruisers w/ shield, 3 strike cruisers w/ shield and extra bombardment.

Green Chaos: desolator, repulsive, 2 murders, 2 devastations

Red/silver Chaos: despoiler, 2 devastation, acheron, 2 murder, 3 iconoclast

Grey IN, stand in: emperor, 2 gothic, lunar, 2 lance dauntless, 5 swords, 3 cobras

It is currently on the second game of the day. I will update more later. 
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: horizon on April 22, 2012, 08:20:16 PM
Nice, keep us updated!

Red, IN = the Vaaish Imperial fleet build aside of the Endurance. Vaaish uses Dauntless. Interesting to see how this one will fare.

Green, IN = almost classic build.

Orks are gimmickish. Meh on the fleet build style.

CWE: allround, would've had a cruiser instead of escorts

Ultramarines = curious again

Chaos green, red&silver : what is this Murder love? Carnages needed. ;)

Seriously missing a competitve Corsair Eldar and Tau list.

Keep us posted! thanks,

Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Plaxor on April 22, 2012, 08:22:31 PM
Good Luck! I look forward to reading your commentary.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: AndrewChristlieb on April 22, 2012, 11:07:10 PM
Yes its odd that there's no Tau or CE I'm surprised to not see any real power cheese, maybe that's a good thing tho as these all seem like they could be fluff driven fleets for the most part, even the Ork fleet is something that I would expect to be fluffy. It would be nice to see fleet pics along with their backstory.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Plaxor on April 22, 2012, 11:20:18 PM
The Ork fleet is.... odd. I don't really like the Kroozer/Rok mix personally. I prefer to use one or the other, and escorts with either. The Red/Gold chaos is a little competitive, otherwise nothing too bad.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 23, 2012, 12:55:11 AM
Just got home...it's all said and done with 10 players (including Ringer).

The Overall Champion this year is...my Ultramarines fleet! :D

I'll have a battle report coming soon, so stay tuned.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: AndrewChristlieb on April 23, 2012, 01:12:52 AM
Congrats man!
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 23, 2012, 02:36:16 AM
Nice to meet you in person, Seahawk.


Standings:
Red IN (Leland): W, W, L
Green IN (Joe): ?, L, D
Yellow Tyranids (Myles): W, D, L
Orks (Ted): L, D, D
Red/Gold Chaos (Dan): ?, L, D
CWE (Matt): W, W, L?
Ultramarines (Seahawk): W, W, W?
Green Chaos (Drew): W, L, W
Red/Silver Chaos (): L, D, W
Grey IN (standin fleet(): L, D, D
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 23, 2012, 03:19:40 AM
Yep. From what I can tell for order:

1. W, W, W - Ultramarines
2. W, L, W - Nurgle Chaos
2. W, D, L - Yellow Tyranids
2. L, D, W - Word Bearers Chaos
5. W, W, L - Red Imperial Navy
6. L, D, D - Orks
7. W, W, L - Craftworld Eldar
7. L, L, D - Red/Gold Chaos
9. L, L, D - Green Imperial Navy
10. L, D, D - IN (Ringer)
 
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 23, 2012, 03:23:26 AM
Red IN: Leland had two really good games in the beginning, so much so, I thought he may have been able to win it. I think his success was from clustering his fleet. He ended up engaging half fleets with his whole because his opponents would split them up a bunch. I am not sure what happened in the 3rd game vs Green Chaos (never caught his name) but he struggled. Seahawk, you played the Green Chaos player. Do you remember his name?
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 23, 2012, 03:53:20 AM
Andrew...something.

Pics!

1. Ultramarines (Overall Champion, me!)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4922.jpg)

2. Nurgle Chaos
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4940.jpg)

2. Tyranids (Best Transport Fleet because I had already won an award, otherwise I would have nabbed that one too ;))
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4933.jpg)

2. Word Bearers Chaos
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4947.jpg)

5. Imperial Navy (Best Sportsman)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4946.jpg)

6. Orks (Best Appearance)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4949.jpg)

7. Craftworld Eldar (Best Tactician)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4945.jpg)

7. Chaos
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4948.jpg)

9. Imperial Navy
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4952.jpg)

10. Imperial Navy (Ringer)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/veritas117/Adepticon%202012/100_4953.jpg)
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: lordgoober on April 23, 2012, 03:56:58 AM
Ok.  TO here.  I finally got home a couple hours ago and am a little more coherent. 

I apologize for the time confusion during the day.  That being said, I really wish that the Necromunda guys the night before hadn't been spread all over the room and making it impossible for me to completely do the early prep the night before.

That being said.  The Final Scores. 

Name:                            Battle Final           Sports Final                     Painting Final                       Overall                        Transport Flotilla
                                                                   Includes Fav Op votes    Includes Fav Fleet Votes                                         Only Judge points here.
David Bisplinghoff          30                         21                                    26                                       77                               8
Noble Diven                   33                         22                                    26                                        81                               10
Joe Freeland                  21                         21                                    22                                        64                              7
Leland Gross                  33                         23                                    23                                       79                              6
Andrew Karolus             50                          21                                   29                                        100 Best Overall        12
Myles Leggette              30                         23                                    28                                        81                               10 Best Flotilla
Andrew Raatz                32                         22                                   27                                         81                             8
Ted Rostkowski Jr.          29                        19                                   30   Best Painted                  78                             8
Matthew Shularick          41   Best Admiral  21                                  15                                          77                             0


Overall I hope you guys enjoyed the tournament.  A somewhat dead local group has curtailed my playtesting of the scenarios a bit.  Also I think we'll be doing some tweaking to the scoring for next year.  I will add Player's Choice votes to the transports for next year.  I also plan on trying to replace all the planets with some of those Core Sec Engineering planets I had the sample of today. 

Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: horizon on April 23, 2012, 04:28:14 AM
Thanks all. :)

That last list should've had the fleets added. ;)

Well done Seahawk.

Good to see Red IN (Vaaish build) hold up well.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 23, 2012, 04:46:28 AM
1. Marines
2. Chaos
2. Tyranids
2. Chaos
5. Imperial Navy
6. Orks
7. Craftworld Eldar
7. Chaos
9. Imperial Navy
10. Imperial Navy (Ringer)
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: AndrewChristlieb on April 23, 2012, 05:37:04 AM
There's some good looking fleets there, it's interesting to see almost no gw transports it actually looks like two people brought the same firestorm armada frigates as transports :P.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Jimmy Zimms on April 23, 2012, 06:36:47 AM
Yeah lots of sorylian love in there and why not? They're great little figures.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 23, 2012, 02:50:04 PM
I took tons of video footage (that's why I went, actually), and I will be working on a video to upload soon.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 23, 2012, 03:30:26 PM
I am very surprised that there was only 1 Carnage and 0 Dictators and 0 Retributions! Also, I am surprised there was no Corsair Eldar player.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: lordgoober on April 23, 2012, 11:48:34 PM
we did have 7 people deign to not show up (1 came and said he was sick and the other from that pair of brothers was too tired to come...) and I think one of the other noshows was stated to be Corsair Eldar.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: horizon on April 24, 2012, 04:03:22 AM
I am very surprised that there was only 1 Carnage and 0 Dictators and 0 Retributions! Also, I am surprised there was no Corsair Eldar player.
Retribution I can understand. Officially seen it cuts under.
And when you have an Emperor the Dictator comes less needed.

Now chaos never wins these tournaments. The Murder love is the reason why. ;) More CaRnAgE needed! heh


edit:
For the tournament all key factors are important. For us forum people the most interesting is fleet build, tactics and results. ;)
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 24, 2012, 08:36:38 AM
Maybe I'll take Chaos next time and win it, just to prove you wrong ;)
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: horizon on April 24, 2012, 08:44:41 AM
Desolator
2x Acheron
2x Carnage
2x Devestation
;)
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 24, 2012, 03:39:40 PM
...actually, that's the exact fleet I like using for Chaos...spooky! Though maybe take a third Devastation over an Acheron, but hey I have time to convert.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Vaaish on April 25, 2012, 06:21:10 AM
On seeing the pics of Lelands fleet, I wonder if he took NC on the lunars? I usually have those in my build and leave the torpedoes to the dauntless.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 25, 2012, 01:44:22 PM
He did. He did tons of damage to the green IN mars in game 2.
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: Seahawk on April 25, 2012, 08:33:04 PM
Official results are up (though we already know them) ;)

http://www.adepticon.org/?page_id=3537

Aww, it doesn't say who had what fleet. That's annoying!
Title: Re: Adepticon 2012
Post by: afterimagedan on April 28, 2012, 12:06:11 AM
Here is the BFG tournament pack if anyone is interested...

Adepticon BFG Tournament Pack 2012 (http://afterimagedan.blogspot.com/2012/04/adepticon-2012-scenario-pack.html)

Well done Lord Goober and Adepticon!