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Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Weekend At Burnie's - It's Tournament Time!

It's all change for 2019 - I'm going out on the road and taking the Thousand Sons to their first tournament!

A tournament report from Weekend at Burnie's - an invitational event for Moarhammer patrons.


This tournament - Weekend at Burnie's (the organiser's name is Burn - my regular Dark Angel opponent) - is a 16-player invitational event, held at Bristol Independent Gaming, exclusive to Moarhammer patrons.

Its main selling point - aside from the opportunity to meet and throw dice with a bunch of hobby heroes - is that it is a narrative event. Which means strict restrictions to remove super-optimised lists (no named characters, no soup lists), and to help the dice tell the story, no Command Point re-rolls.

There was plenty of narrative build-up prior to the event (since the Moarhammer Discord is a busy place), and all entrants were required to submit something about their army.

I took the opportunity to add another spin to The Court of Miracles with my own submission: Tzeentch Laughs (999 words, naturally).

And this was the list I brought (nothing over the top, I thought - just a nice mix to show off the Thousand Sons to my opponents):
  • Daemon Prince with wings (HQ) (Warlord)
    2 x Malefic talons,
    Bolt of Change, Gaze of Fate
    Warlord Trait: Otherworldly Prescience
    Relic: Dark Matter Crystal
  • Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch (HQ)
    Two Power Swords, Inferno Bolt Pistol, Frag & Krak Grenades,
    Prescience, Warptime
    Relics of the Thousand Sons: Seer's Bane
  • Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (HQ)
    Force Stave, Inferno combi-bolter, Frag & Krak Grenades,
    Death Hex, Doombolt
  • 9 x Rubric Marines (Troop)
    Force Stave, Warpflamer Pistol, 7 x Inferno Bolters, 1 x Warpflamer
  • 12 x Tzaangor (Troop)
    Icon of Flame, Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
  • 12 x Tzaangor (Troop)
    Icon of Flame, Brayhorn, Tzaangor blades
  • Tzaangor Shaman (Elite)
    Force Stave, Weaver of Fates
  • Tzaangor Shaman (Elite)
    Force Stave, Glamour of Tzeentch
  • 4 x Tzaangor Enlightened (Fast)
    Fatecaster Greatbow
  • 4 x Tzaangor Enlightened (Fast)
    Fatecaster Greatbow
  • 4 x Chaos Spawn (Fast)
    Hideous mutations
  • Mutalith Vortex Beast (Heavy)
    Enormous Claws, Betentacled Maw
  • Mutalith Vortex Beast (Heavy)
    Enormous Claws, Betentacled Maw
  • + 25 reinforcement points

Points: 1500 | Battle-forged + Battalion + Outrider - Relic: 8 CPs

Tune in tomorrow to see how I fared!

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