Sons back from Brighton

Thought I'd throw up a quick post about how we did as a team at Brighton, 5 of us survived the event, with some success and some disappointment.

First off we were all damn impressed with the quality of the games, not a single of my games was easy, in fact, 4 of 6 of mine were against guys that placed in the top 10 if I remember correctly - and I didn't even do well.

Unfortunately we had ALOT of sons vs sons match ups. Atreides and Killswitch both played each other, I played both Venerable and Bringer of Death.



So how did we get on?

For me I came something like 28th - 1 win 3 draws and 2 losses. I started off battering a Dark Eldar list and winning in 6 turns in two objectives. Next up I played the eventual tourney winner and managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of victory, highly fustrating. Followed up by a brutal draw in 5 turns against Venerable in our lovely Dawn of War Killpoints rematch. My forth game came up against what arguably is one of the largest nightmare match ups for me - Lash Chaos with tons and tons of plasma and AP2, followed up by some more horrible luck against a Coteaz list where I just couldn't catch a break. I finished the even with a draw against Bringer of Death in what was a fantastic game and had some brilliant moments, actually probably one of the best games I've played in, but I didn't enjoy it because the last 2 games had soured me.

Bringer of Death fared much the same as me, and edged me slightly on VP's - my 2 previous games had cost me.

Venerable followed up coming in 20th - winning once more rather than losing. He got unlucky, being denied a T7 in the final game which would have been a sure win against a deathwing list - but that was something that cost most of us at some stage I think.

Killswitch ... well drama follows this boy around and we love him for it. He was on table 1 for a few games I believe, but actually lost to *deleted*. Last game he was T1 and playing for the whole thing, against the BA player I'd drawn against in game 2. KS actually won the game, but a rules mix up saw them take the win and turn it into a draw post mortem. I think many felt that was a reasonable call in the grand scheme of things, but I think we could have done without the gentle snipes afterwards.The draw pushed him down to 5th - I think namely because of soft scores. Record was 4 wins 1 draw and 1 loss.

Atreides - well he came in 4th with a blinder. He had the same record, losing only to KS - and had an absolute boat load of VP's - enough to take out the guy that came 2nd if he had actually gotten his WYSIWYG scores.

Excellent job by both KS and Atreides represented us very very well.

For me it was a disappointment, 4 of my 5 final games I felt I really should have won. I am in a big dilemma. I really know fully the weakness of the army, and have a good idea of how to counter it, but I also feel like I want to move on from Deathwing, at least for the time being. I've written up another post explaining some of the weaknesses and how I feel you can get over them, and there's a few bits I want to add.

I am potentially going to Portsmouth in a couple of weeks - I might take GK's to that, or have one last hoorah for the Deathwing - I have a couple of theories, and there is that bite in the back of my mind that its worth testing out - and really the only time worth doing it is at tourneys, as locally this list just handles the armies I face way to handily.

We'll see. I am definitely working on some new stuff anyway - as I want some new painting projects.