Gothic Games RTT 3-0 review!

Last Saturday and I attended the fools feast, a 60 man one day event down in Canterbury. Very well run event yet again by the organiser Danny.

List

Same list as last weekend at Manchester, really loving the resiliency and ludicrous damage output this list has and just having a blast with the mono Tzeentch!

Be'lakor 
-warlord trait: Shadow Lord, Pall of Despair, Shrouded Step 

.Fateskimmer
-staff of change, Bolt of Change, Infernal Gateway 

.Fluxmaster
-staff of change, Gaze of Fate, Endless Grimoire 

.10 Pink Horrors
.Exalted Flamer 
.Exalted Flamer
.6 Flamers 
.5 Flamers
.5 Flamers 
.5 Screamers 
.5 Screamers
.Burning Chariot
.Burning Chariot 
.Burning Chariot

Game 1 vs Iron Warrior

Game 1 was against an awesome Iron Warriors list that had the normal G'hollax Prince, chosen brick in a dreadclaw, Cultists, Terminators, a vindicator, hellbrute and a Brass Scorpion!!!
Turn 1 I teleported my screamers to each objective in no man's land with a unit flamers jumping to the mid objective to my left to pop a banners while my chariots jumped to the middle keeping hidden.
My opponent played quite passive here starting to move just out his deployment and popping a few shots off at Belly and the closest screamers while leaving his dreadclaw in reserves.
My turn 2 I went on the attack, screaming the dreadclaw out so it could only come in his back lines, while I picked up 5 Legionnaires and a hellbrute with a combination of psychic and shooting while my screamers killed 10 Cultists and 5 raptors in combat.
In return. The Terminators picked up 5 screamers while his chosen dropped down and killed 2 more with the mortal wound tendrils warpsmith killing the remaining. The scorpion and Vindicator chipped a few wounds off of Belly and a couple chariots with his prince finishing the Chariot in the centre.
Turn 3 my psychic and all my flamers killed the Scorpion with my chariots removing the termies and Belly smashing the Prince. I also chipped the vindi in combat with a chariot.
In the last couple turns I picked up the last Cultists, dark Apostle, warpsmith and chosen while Belly survived on one wound after being hit with bolters, plasmas and autoguns.
Overall a fairly straight foward game with my opponent playong abit to passive, I knew I had to swamp the board and the screamers proved why they are incredibly useful with their speed and shooting durability!

Game 2 vs World Eaters

Game 2 I played a pretty good World Eater player in Jack Beaman. Sporting the Eight bloody steps Lord, 20 Bezerkers, 
2x4 and 1x3 eightbound, 3 exalted eightbound, 2 rhinos, 20 Jakhals, 3x1 Spawn, Master of executions and 2 allied wardog executioners.
I replicated my screamer screen wall from Manchester here but ended up going first. I thre out a unit of screamers but for some reason didn't advance them to cover more ground, grabbing one of the objectives in his territory while attempting to screen while I teleported 5 flamers to the middle to kill his unit of 3 eightbound and the master of executions with an Exalted.
I lost a chariot from wardog fire, the 5 foward screamers died to buffed zerkers while 4 eightbound got around my poorly placed screen alongside the Lord to charge and maul my flamers with a Spawn running in first to stop me overwatching.
Belly in return removed the Lord after my flamers destroyed his 4 eightbound. I chipped some wounds on a wardog and killed his 5 bezerkers that ruined my screamers and piled onto one of my territorial objectives while my other screamers killed 5 bezerkers on an objective while killing them in return by fighting on death.
Belly got jumped by his exalted eightbound, last unit of standard eightbound and 5 more zerkers, picking up the 4 standard eightbound in an interruption after tanking the attacks from his exalted but losing a chunk of wounds from fights on death before being finished off by some super hot rolling buffed up zerkers.
In the meantime I had 5 more zerkers charge and kill my Horrors on the other objective outside my deployment while the wounded wardog obsecced the other objective leaving me on zero primary. I killed 10 zerkers, a Spawn, his 3 exalted and a wardog though which swung the game back in my favour. His turn 3 saw the other wardog steal my objective in a repeat but die in my following turn. I killed the Jakhals that came in and killed my last chariot with 6 flamers and then charge the rhino on his backfield to deny him primary while screaming it out aswell. Though I'd end up losing a flamer and a half due to the bloodtithe buffs in had which was insane to see rhino go nuts in combat.
Turn 5 was tense with me up on points and grabbing some last second banner points while also teleporting my fateskimmer to an empty objective in his table half to get end game scoring. With just 2 rhinos and a Spawn, Jack couldn't grab any points in the end due to my positioning and his lack of units.
I knew this would be hard match up as you'd expect with a super combat army going into a ranged focus list, and though I got tanked on scoring, I manage toget it by just pulling out all the tricks I had with Belly and Flamers pulling all the weight.

Game 3 vs Votann

I finally get to go against a super ranged list, a Kahl, einhyr Champion, Iron master, 10 warriors split between a Sagitaur, a second Sagitaur, 5 Beserks, 5 termies, 3 thunderkyn, 1x6 bikes, 1x3 bikes and a land fortress. I reserved Belly with 6 flamers and an Exalted since I wanted to get atleast one turn of Belly doing something.
We played the scouring and both objectives just outside our deployments were partly behind walls, I took this opportunity to get 8 despoiler points since I knew my opponent couldn't get angles turn 1. I flew both screamers to the centre objective and took advantage of the tight LoS angles only losing 1.
Turn 2 I flew them both foward popping the additional -1 leadership warpstorm so I could drop Belly 6" away from the thunderkyn in the centre of my opponents deployment. Flamers dropped behind his 3 bikes and 5 warriors wiping out the obsec and charging the bikes with the screamers to clear and claim the objective. I popped one sagitaur and the beserks with a combination of psychic and chariots.  My opponent pulled everything back to bring Belly down in one turn, but this left all my flamers and chariots free to do what they want. I had 5 termies drop in my backfield due to a slight error buy they only managed to kill 3 Horrors while 2 split.
Turn 3 I wiped all the bikes, termies, remaining warriors and Sagittarius leaving just the 3 characters and fortress.
I then had 2 turns of grabbing my remaining Warp Ritual and despoilers without having to really interact with my opponent grabbing me my first victory over the Votann!

Ended up finishing 5th out of 54 attending players overall with a 3-0.
Super happy with how the list played this weekend and how I managed to overcome the hard match up in world Eaters!



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