For the last 2 games of the campaign, I pretty much kept the same idea for my army, namely to focus it on my Chosen squads as my "troops" with just scoring Rhinos and of course my bikes. My next game I drew a Tau player, one of 2 players that were in the campaign. Its funny that the Tau codex is seen as one of weaker codex's at the moment yet in the end it was an actual Tau player that won the campaign. My opponent wasn't the one who won it(too bad as I really wanted to play that guy), none the less he was a pretty good player who made just a couple of mistakes. I think I took him by surprise when I told him that most of my army would be infiltrating. I won the roll off as he had some kroot with him and I infiltrated a squad of chosen 13 inches away from his pathfinders and his commanders and the other 13 inches away from 2 piranhas. First turn came and I ended up taking out his 2 piranhas, his pathfinders, and a squad of firewarriors. By turn 3 I had managed to take out all of his suits except for his 1 broadside and was claiming 3 of the 5 objectives. By turn 4, it was all over when my bikes finally came in from reserve and all of his scoring units were either in combat, dead, or running off the table. My opponent was a gracious "loser" and though he did make a couple of major mistakes, I still think that my dice are what ultimately beat him as until turn 3 I only had my havoc squad and 2 chosen squads on the field as I kept the rest in reserve and just couldnt make any of my turn 2 reserve rolls. My guys just wouldn't die after getting shot and shot, I was just making all of my armor and cover saves.
My last game I played yet another blood angels player who was running Dante and another captain who was his campaign champion. This opponent was a great guy but truth be told in 1250 I wouldn't be running Dante nor a storm raven. I heard that he tried running a pure sanguinary guard list which means a very low model count. For our game he actually dropped 2 sanguinary guard squads and took 3 assault squads in Rhinos which added almost 15 models more to his army. I decided to take only 1 chosen squad and 2 full 10 man troop squads as I felt that I would be fighting for my life to claim my objectives. By turn 4 I took out all but 1 assault squad in shooting, my opponent just wasn't making his feel no pain rolls. MVP of this game was definitely Dante, probably the best I have ever seen this guy do in a game against me or any other game I watched, he single-handily took out my chosen squad, a rhino, and a 10 man troop squad. His Sang guard unit actually wiffed anytime they got into combat, lucky for him that Dante picked up the slack. Even with me killing all but 1 scoring unit, we tied. He was smart to put the 3 objective in our game on top of a ruin and I just couldn't get up there in time. Due to the tie, the game went to the 2nd winning condition which was kill points and I won 7 to 3. All in all, the record of the Nightlords in this campaign was extremely good with a 5-1 record.
MVP's for my army was definitely the big chosen squads and the auto cannon havocs with my bikes sorry to say doing nothing really spectacular except to look good when killing Rhinos. The raptors who was never going to be a focus actually won a place in my list by taking out campaign champions and just being a real menace in all of my games. In terms of placing, I was tied for 4th or 5th out of 22 players, not bad for using a Chaos Bike focused list. So our next event will be a 1750pts tourney to close the month of March. The TO has given us the rules, basically no campaign champs can compete and we are welcomed to use any army. Who knows, at 1750pts, the Thousand Sons can definitely come out to play.
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