This is my first national
tournament for Conquest; I am hoping it will not be my last either. The tournament
saw 51 players enter and sadly due to this, the top cut was lowered from 16 to
8. I went with the Packmaster Kith deck that I took to the Lincoln regional
event, just with a few updates in the deck and I felt that these changes really
did help me get the record that I did. Noted changes to the deck were the
removal of the Bloodied Reavers for 3 copies of Murder of Razorwings and the
removal of Suffering for 3 copies of Thousand Cuts. I opted to go for a more
card choke variant of the deck instead my original resource choke variation.
Round 1. – Vs. Swarmlord
(Sorry cannot remember my opponents name)
This game started off so well
for me and then a couple of really stupid mistakes cost me the whole thing. I
used Archons Terror as a shield on a planet that I really didn’t need to win
and the I dropped a Warpstorm at the
same planet when I should have waited for his nearly dead Synapse creature to
return to HQ before playing it. My opponent had no cards in hand but enough
resources to keep powering up his Termagent Horde equipped with the Ymgarl
Factor to a point where I just couldn’t kill it and I opted to throw in the
towel at that point. This was a real shame because had I not thrown away my
Archons Terror so foolishly I probably would have won there.
Loss 0-1
Round 2. – Vs Subject Omega
(Sadly I cannot remember this chaps name either)
This game went much better for
me, I didn’t throw away my key events as shields in this game, I dominated the
command pretty early on and a key placed Warpstorm bloodied Subject Omega
himself and the Stalking Liktor Synapse creature too. My opponent had no hand
and a few resources but I didn’t allow my opponent to power up his Ymgarl
Factor.
Win 1-1
Round 3. Vs Epistolary Vezuel (Ben Davis)
Ben admitted after the end of this game that he
made a couple of very critical mistakes during the first turn and he was never
able to recover. I dominated the first two planets while hindering my opponent’s
resource economy and after bloodying Vezuel on the 2nd turn, Ben
decided to call it there. A very short game and sadly Vezuel never really got
going.
Win 2-1
Round 4. Vs Archon Salaine Morn (Shirin Hassan)
The Dark Eldar mirror matchis
horrific at best and I think the fact that we both played Archons Palace as our
opening moves didn’t help matters either. This match went to the very last
planet and sadly ended in my 2nd loss of the day. Was a very hard
match though, I had pretty much choked her of cards but sadly she choked me or
resources and due to having no resources I ended up on the losing side.
Loss 2-2
Round 5. Vs Talyesin Fharenal
(Mark Challenger)
Another game where the card
choke worked to perfection, I managed to win most of the command struggles and
I stopped him from drawing cards where I could. The double team of Syren
Zythlax and Solarite Avetys works really well. I managed to pretty much sweep
all the planets until I won my victory condition planet, I think it was turn 4.
My opponent was really cool though and I was good to play against another
warlord that only saw 1 entrant in the event, the other being Swarmlord.
Won 3-2
Round 6. Vs Nazdreg ( Dan Mossman)
This game really surprised me,
as soon as I saw Nazdreg across from me I figured that 3-3 was a respectable
record and boy was I shocked when my opponent played 2 units on his first turn.
I managed to pick up a lot of command and also win the first planet. The next
turn looked a lot tighter for me as my opponent had 2 big hitting elite units (Venemous
Fiend) out and they all but cleared planet 1 when they arrived. However a well
timed Archons Terror managed to really help and I managed to go for a 3 planet
sweep to pick up the win. I never really saw any choke in this game especially
with it being so short a game and him only having 2 army units out. This again
was another game that was really fun as my opponent was another cool guy. I was
just hoping this win would take me into the top 16.
Won 4-2
Sadly I placed 17 / 51 in this
event, a tad heartbreaking in the same manner I feel as the guy who came 9th,
just missing the top cut and I do feel I could have done better had I not made
the critical errors in the very first game. However it was a pleasant day and I
met some pretty cool people.
A few local events coming up and I am gonna move away
from Kith for a while as I feel like I have reached a peak with her. Got my
eyes on a couple of different builds moving forward and very excited to try
them out.
Thanks for reading. I’m Big Boss.... I’m Out.... Peace.
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