The Conservative Zone

Well, I've done all I can do. I won my game of 40k tonight, but the 2nd place player had to bow out due to illness. He has until Wednesday if he wants and can get together with his opponent to play a make-up game for the tournament. He can tie me, which is a win for him due to tiebreaker points, but he has to win everything to do it, unlikely against this particular opponent.

So, who do I get for my efforts? Bragging rights, maybe a small trophy, and a small handful of cash. How much I'll know next week.

The levels of winning are Victory, Crushing Defeat and Victorious Slaughter. I managed to make it a Crushing Defeat and get two bonus points in the process. If I had kept one more model alive, I would have gotten a third bonus point and would have been untouchable.

My opponent basically defeated himself. I had two heavy weapons squads sitting out in the middle of the table, and he was so afraid of them that he crowded his entire army into one corner, and tried to push it up a bottleneck along one edge of the board. We had a large forest on my right flank, and only 8" from the board edge. He tried funneling his entire army up this small area, hoping to overload my flank. The problem was, he couldn't do it. Everything was in every other things way. Especially when I started killing vehicles and the wreckage really caused a choke point. It was easy at that point to hold him like Horatius at the Bridge. I managed to kill everything but two jetbikes, while I lost one Dreadnought, one Tactical squad and their APC transport, while another Tactical squad was reduced to just the Sergeant and my HQ squad was under half strength.

My opponent did the best he could. If he would have stayed in range of the heavy weapons squads, they would have torn him to bits. This way, both squads only fired once.

Anyway, I'm exhausted, mentally and physically from that tough game. I think I'm heading off now and I'll see you in the morning.