Waking Dead

This Sunday sees the Marple Marauders host an independent 40K doubles tournament, and the Fighting Cocks will be fielding two teams at the event. Myself and my regular doubles partner Mark are taking Dark Angels and Tau in what’s mainly a mechanized assault force. My list is as follows:

HQ: Company Master; Power Fist

Troops: 10-man Tactical Squad; Flamer, Plasma Cannon, Power Weapon, Rhino

Fast Attack: 6-man Ravenwing Squad; Meltagun, Meltagun, Power Fist

Heavy Support: Vindicator

Mark is fielding mainly armour, something like two Hammerheads, two Devilfish and a Commander. The Devilfish both come with 6-man Firewarrior squads… and thassit. We’re very mobile, have a shit-ton of firepower, and some fast units to claim or contest. On paper it looks like we might struggle against the assault, but we played against an all-assault army in practice and came out on top.

The other Fighting Cocks team is the legendary doubles partnership of Johnny Lock and Terrence Load, aka Mike and Chris. They’re taking a last-minute, cobbled-together, ‘we’ve had no practice games with this list’ alliance of Blood Angels and Imperial Guard. Tanks and Assault Marines is the name of the game – looks fairly tasty on paper, but we’ll see how they fare on the tabletop.

General army construction has been slightly adjusted for this tournament as the rules pack has some very interesting scenarios, including the ability for Fast Attack and Elite choices to claim on two of the missions. There’s also a ‘wildcard’ each round that provides another additional victory condition on top of the base scenario. You get extra points for fulfilling your bonus objective and the scoring margins are nicely presented (it’s not ’3, 1, 0′ like most GW events).

You can find out more about the tournament on the WPS website. I’ll post up a report and some pictures from the event next week – wish us luck!

Note: if you’re still waiting for the GW 40K Doubles report I’ll try and post something up next weekend. I’ve not had chance to edit the video we recorded, and I’m having second thoughts about posting it up anyway.