Today I have a two-fer, an article on Grey Knights and Goat Boy all in one. MIND BLOWN!
Yup its true, Thomas placed third at Feast of Blades over the weekend (not second like I said on Monday). What do I know anyways, lol?
Jump below for his Army list and Pics!
After the event I went up to the top three winners and stole their army lists (for scientific purposes of course, lol). So this is the second in a series of Feast of Blades winning army lists, I hope to have Nick Rose’s Winning list up shortly as well.
Plus I have the open winner, Casey Christopher’s list as well (he just got back from Denver, and is playing out front as I type this).
So lots more on the way true believers!
~2000 Goat Boy’s Chaos “Counts As” Grey Knights
Cotaez
Draigo
Techmarine, Psychotroke, Rad Grernades
Paladins x10- Halberd x3, Hammer x2, Banner, Stave, Psycannon, x3
Warband- Henchman x3, Razorback Psybolts
Warband- Henchman x3, Razorback Psybolts
Warband- Henchman x3, Razorback Psybolts
Warband- Henchman x3, Razorback Psybolts
Grey Knights Interceptors x10- Psycannon x2
Psy Dreadnought
Psy Dreadnought
Here’s Thomas’s battle report shamelessly stolen from his blog, followed by army pics! -MBG
I got 3rd place at Feast losing out to a Daemons list. You might have seen it on the live game show for Feast. I failed a toughness test due to forgetting about Boon of Mutation from Fateweaver. It was to Kenny who is an awesome dude and a teammate from our winning ATC team. If I had to lose it was at least to him. Awesome player and just a great game. I stuck it out and “lost” to victory points after the primary to tertiary was tied. Woohoo! Still I kicked some butt and found the list to be pretty good eating through a Marine Army, Ork Army, Blood Angels, Space Wolves, IG, and Grey Knights. The list did really well and was a huge hammer for most opponents to deal with. In fact – I think the 10 Paladins is just a nice rock to hang your army on too. I think adding in the cheap troops with massed walls and firepower really helps it out.
Quick Rundown of matches.
Game 1 – Seeding round. Actual Battle points – Played a Vulkan list – Vulkan, 5 TH/SS termies, Crusader LR, Razorbacks, 2 Predators and some dudes. He set up for the Alpha strike and I just put Draigo hidden behind some hills. I came on and killed stuff. Paladins came on turn 4 with the +1 – but they came on and killed Vulken and friends. I had blown up the LRC with some inceptors that stayed still. Dakka Dakka. I won the Primary, tied the Secondary, and won the Tertiary. Woohoo!
Game 2 – Ghaz Orks – 2 Wagons, Ghaz, Meganobz, boyz in trukks, 1 batch of lootas, 1 set of Gretchin. Another Pitched Battle set up. I siezed the iniative like a jerk and killed Ghaz’s Battlewagon with a glance. Great guy to play and I just go lucky blowing that up. One wagon lived almost the entire game through butt and side shots of my entire army. I immbolized 3 of my Razorbacks on the same terrain. Win for the Goat as Draigo ran across the entire board punching things like a boss with 1 wound left.
Game 3 – Blood Angels – Meph, Corbulo, some razorbacks, 3 Baals, Dante, and some dudes. Pitched Battle set up as I just put the blob there to ensure some beat downs. I sat in the middle and Meph came out. He charged me – he only had one attack from Psychotroke grenades and it went downhill from there. Dante did almost take out Draigo but Superman did his job punching out the Masked dudesmen. Win for the Goatboy.
Game 4 – Damien who built all the terrain for the event with Logan Space Wolves. I have chatted with Damien for a long time. I see him at events all over the place and his terrain he made for the con was awesome. This guy fixes minis and just loves this game. Mission had spearhead deployment and I just set up the Wing to walk around causing problems as is the norm. He had a LoganWing in front of me but he didn’t come out to play (a good idea). We played and he stayed put in the back as I picked off pieces and won the game off of Kill Points. Nothing too crazy other then his inability to blow up my guys. I won this game too.
Game 5 – SirBiscuits roommate. First the missions were really good. I thought they had enough variety and I didn’t feel any one mission was junk. So good Job on there. Yes I don’t like W/L as I will say in one of my games – but as a whole the missions was good. Ted was playing IG and it was a Kill Points primary mission. Dawn of War and I set up with the power T for my paladins and started off waiting for the army to come on the board. I went first, moved back a bit and watched everything come in. I had put my Inceptors and 2 Razorback squads in reserve and they came in after he blazed on. Welp suffice to say I got ride of all 3 Vendettas (cover doesn’t help versus massed firepower) and then just pulled back and to the other side of the table where his army wasn’t set up. I picked off Chimeras and other bits with my long ranged firepower and won the Primary of Kill Points 7-0. Dropping the Vendettas shook Ted a bit and I knew that he would be playing catch up. If we had to win the majority of the Missions I would have pushed forward with my Paladins and gotten into the mix of things – punching people and doing what Paladins normally do – sometimes win games.
Game 6 – Versus Kenny and the Dream ends. It was Daemons, Crusher, Fateweaver and friends. I had an distinct advantage with Coteaz having Dark Exocommunication. I forgot Fateweaver had Boon of Mutation and I lost Coteaz when he jumped forward and gave him the bad touch. There isn’t much else to say other then I lost on about an inch and a d6. Kenny was rolling hot a I poured 40 wounds in Fateweaver after his initial drop and didn’t do a single wound. It was nuts I should have killed him and then had an unfun game with Kenny as the Paladins walked around punching Daemons in the dick. Still I stayed in it through nutty dice rolls and made Kenny beat me via Victory Points and not the missions. If one Paladin with the 2+ inv save had survived we would have almost tied as I was only down by like 400 points. Still awesome game and if I had to lose it was at least with my ATC boy Kenny or Nick (even though he knows my army is a foil for his).
Game 7 – CJ who I see all the time in other tournaments. Great guy with a Draigo wing list. He would combat squad his fat 10 man unit (a big no no as 5 guys are much easier to kill then 10). He had a custodias themed list with a Storm Raven, small batches of Purifiers, Libbie and friends. An all or nothing list. He forgot some stuff and just called it as we were both tired. I was about to punch out his Draigo and friends with a charge after dealing with the Libbie and assault Paladins without losing a bro. From there it was just a meat grinder.
About the Author: Rob Baer
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