Warhammer 40,000 Conquest Midland Regional Championship 18th June 2016.

What a day, was really chuffed to see a 36 player turnout, and to have the current world champion be there was a little exciting also. After a lot of soul searching I decided to run the dreaded Packmaster Kith, I have been playing Kith on and off since I started playing Conquest and despite playing Ragnar quite successfully in recent tournaments, I decided to fall back to my original love for this rather large event.

This version of my Packmaster Kith deck had only played 1 game prior to the event, I had switched out the Eldar allies for Chaos allies and I was very unsure if they would work, but after discussing it on CardGameDB and with some of my friends, I made the commitment to choose Chaos as my ally for this build.

Round 1 – Vs Paul, playing Subject Omega

This was probably the most fun I had during the tournament, we had a bit of a laugh while playing and the guy was pretty cool. The thing I probably noted from this game was that I never saw 1 Chaos card during the whole game. I think I managed to get the victory here through planets as far as I remember.

Round 1 – Win – 1-0

Round 2 – Vs. Darren, playing Chaplin Mavros

I think this chap had used his bye to skip the first round, I had decided to not cash in my bye for this event, I figure I will save it for the next regional I plan on going to. I have had great success with Kith when playing Space Marines in previous games and so I wasn’t overly worried. I choked him of his economy, and then piled on to pick up the win and get me my 2^nd victory. Once again though, I must note that I never saw a single Chaos card during this game.

Round 2 – Win -2-0

Round 3 – Vs. Pehjmon, playing Anrakyr The Traveller
 

Ok, so I have not really played against Necrons properly yet, despite having a clue what this warlord could do, I have never actually seen what he can do and this was an intense match for me. However, I won a lot of command, stopped him gaining resources with my Archon’s Palace and then finally got to see my Chaos Allies put in some work after warpstorming his HQ to decimate his forces and with his warlord only having 1 HP left, he decided to call it GG there.

Round 3 – Win -3-0

We then had a spot of lunch, if you must know; I went to Burger King and had a Bacon Double Cheeseburger XL meal. It was lovely too. Not had BK in a few weeks. HA!

Round 4 – Vs. Sarah, playing as Ragnar Blackmane

This game did not last as long as I thought it would, I steamrolled command and never went anywhere near Ragnar with Kith. Sarah made a massive error by not activiating her Primal Howl, and once she realised her error, I think she had mentally threw in the towel and I didn’t take long before she conceded.

Round 4 – Win -4-0

Round 5 – Vs. Daniel, playing as Eldorath Starbane

Ok, so both of us are currently 4-0, I saw Starbane and thought “Well it was good while it lasted” however on my victory condition planet, my opponent decided to go to planet 2 in order to win his command and this was just silly, leaving his one major unit on planet 1 ready to be hit by a Klaviex Warleader and my Solarite finished the job. So after 5 rounds of swiss I managed to get a 5-0 record.

Round 5- Win -5-0

Top 8 game – Vs James, playing as Zarathur

Well this went pretty much as expected, I hit the command hard here and I bloodied Zarathur pretty quickly. Sadly my opponent had to get going but this did mean that I got a ticket into the semi-finals and secured me all buy the 1^st place prize.

Top 8 – Win -6-0

Semi Final Game – Stefan, playing as Archon Salaine Morn

Well, this was a boring game, I kind of knew how it would go also, I do think that Kith cannot get ahead of the economy of Morn and it showed in this game. I started out pretty strong but once Morn had her resources I was pretty much over for me and sadly I fell at this critical hurdle. But I must admit I had a great time and TBH if I had gotten into the final game I probably would have just fallen asleep, as I was really exhausted at this point and was ready for home.

Semi Final – Loss – 6-1

I would like to note that we were given additional prizes for being the best in faction, we were given some custom planet dials which were very nice and it was a bit of a shame that I had already purchased one from the same supplier prior to the event off eBay. Man down. However, still pretty stoked to get another little something for the effort I had gone to. Overall I was very happy with the whole day and I very much like my haul of goodies. All my opponents were pretty sound and it was a pleasure to compete against them.

The next stop in the road now is the regional event at Firestorm Games on the 9^th July 2016. I am not too sure who I intend on playing there but do think I will go with something a little more relaxed than Packmaster Kith.

So I will get this closed down now, thank you for reading.

I’m Big Boss...... I’m Out....... Peace!!