Minigeddon - 2011

October 28th.
With short notice (only 2 weeks), we managed to put together a small Epic Minigeddon tournament. 8 players joined in the fun and played for the Minigeddon 2011 trophy. Minigeddon is a modified version of Epic Armageddon to allow games of 1000pts (about 1/3 of the normal size game).

The Armies.

■ Chris’ Codex Marines
TACTICAL DETACHMENT [275] - 6 Tactical Marines + 3 Rhinos (BTS)
DEVASTATOR DETACHMENT [250] - 4 Devastator Marines + 2 Rhinos
LAND SPEEDERS [200] – 5 Landspeeders
WARHOUND TITAN [275] (BTS)

■ Olly’s Codex Marines
TACTICAL DETACHMENT [275] – 6 Tactical Marines + 3 Rhinos (BTS)
DEVASTATOR DETACHMENT [250] – 4 Devastator Marines + 2 Rhinos
BIKE DETACHMENT [200] – 5 Bike Unit
WARHOUND TITAN [275] (BTS)

■ Alistair’s Steel Legion
MECHANISED INFANTRY COMPANY [400] – Commander, 12 Infantry, 7 Chimera (BTS)
SUPER-HEAVY TANK PLATOON [200] – Shadowsword
SENTINEL SQUADRON [100] – 4 Sentinels
WARHOUND TITAN [275]

■ Jason’s Biel-Tan Eldar
ASPECT WARRIOR WARHOST [325] - 4 Swooping Hawk, 4 Shining Spear, Exarch (BTS)
NIGHT SPINNER TROUPE [175] – 3 Night Spinners
ENGINE OF VAUL TROUPE [250] – Void Spinner
ENGINE OF VAUL TROUPE [250] – Void Spinner

■ Jack’s Necrons
INFANTRY PHALANX [225] – Necron Lord, 6 Warriors
MONOLITH MANIPLE [275] – 2 Monolith, 2 Obelisk
VENATOR MANIPLE [200] – 6 Flayed Ones
C`TAN [300] – Deceiver (BTS)

■ Simon’s Scions of Iron
HEAVY TACTICAL DETACHMENT [425] – 4 Tactical units, 3 Land Raiders(BTS)
TERMINATOR DETACHMENT [400] – 4 Terminator units, Chaplain
BIKE DETACHMENT [175] – 4 Bike Unit

■ Tyson’s Ulani Tank Legion
TANK COMPANY [390] – 6 Leman Russ (BTS)
TANK COMPANY [390] – 6 Leman Russ (BTS)
SCOUT PLATOON [200] – 6 Salamander Scout Tanks

■ My Tyranids (EpicUK)
NORMAL ASSAULT SWARM [320] – 2 Tyranid Warrior, 12 Termagant, 4 Hormaguant (BTS)
BRUTE SWARM [225] – 1 Hive Tyrant, 3 Carnifex
GENESTEALER SWARM [150] – 6 Genestealer
HEIROPHANT BIO-TITAN [300] – 1 Heirophant

Round 1
The 4 boards we used for the event.

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Round 1

Chris’ Marines Vs Olly’s Marines.
This game revolved around a huge Engagement. Chris managed to win the big fight and set up the victory!

A win to Chris – 4:0


Jason’s Biel-Tan vs Simon’s Scions of Iron.
Jason’s Disrupt artillery was a always going to be a tough army to play against.


A win to Jason – 3:0

Jack’s Necrons vs Alistair’s Steel Legion.
Facing an all-teleporting opponent was something new for Alistair.

A win to Jack – 2:1

Tyson’s Ulani Tanks vs my Tyranids.


Tyson's Leman Russ tanks take the high ground.


The high point of the day for the Heirophant Bio-titan as it killed all 6 Lemans (it was killed quickly in every other game on the day :lol: )

A win to Steve – 4:0

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Round 2.

Jack’s Necrons vs Chris’ Marines.

A win to Chris – 2:1

Simon’s Scions of Iron vs my Tyranids.


Simon’s Terminators were brilliant in this game. They killed the Heirophant without loss and managed to survive the rest of the Tyranid army trying to hammer them with minimal casualties.
A win to Simon – 2:0

Tyson’s Ulani vs Jason’s Eldar.


A win to Jason – 3:1

Olly’s Marines vs Alistair’s Steel Legion Guard.


Olly’s Bikes attack Alistair’s Warhound.


Alistair’s Infantry Company returns the favour and attacks Olly’s Warhound.

A win to Alistair – 1:0 (462 Victory Points to zero)

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Round 3.

Chris’ Marines vs Steve’s Tyranids.
Chris’ Marines carry on their merry way and smash the Tyranids!

A win to Chris – 4:0

Tyson’s Ulani tanks vs Jack’s Necrons.


How do deploy when facing an enemy with Disrupt - Barrage Weapons!


Leman Russes close in for the kill.

A win to Tyson – 2:1

Jason’s Eldar vs Olly’s Marines.


A win to Jason – 4:1

Simon’s Scions of Iron vs Alistair’s Steel Legion.


A win to Simon – 0:1 (375 Victory Points to 175)

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Round 4.

The Final round of the tourney was ranked based on number of previous games won and then by Victory Goals Achieved or conceeded.

The top place battle was between Jason and Chris. Both had a record of 3 wins and 10 Victory Goals (although Chris had only given away 1 Victory Goal whilst Jason has conceeded 2).

Chris’ Marines vs Jason’s Biel-Tan Eldar.


Chris’ Marines close in for the kill.

A win to Chris – 4:0

Jack’s Necrons vs Simon’s Scion of Iron.

A win to Jack – 4:0

Tyson’s Ulani Tanks vs Olly’s Marines.


A win to Olly – 4:0

Alistair’s Steel Legion vs my Tyranids.

Alistair’s Shadowsword made short work of the Heirophant and survived 2 rounds of fighting vs the Tyranid Assault Swarm (18 infantry units)!

A win to Alistar – 1:0 (450 victory Points to 100).


Final standings and points.

■ Champion - Chris with 4 wins, 14 Victory Goals acheived and only 1 Victory Goal conceeded.
■ Runner Up – Jason with 3 wins, 10 Victory Goals acheived and 6 Victory Goals conceeded.
■ Generalship award - Jack with 2 Wins, 8 Victory Goals Acheived and 5 Victory Goals conceeded.
■ The Emperor’s Blessing (good luck award) went to Olly in a roll-off.
■ The Curse of Chaos (award for bad luck) went to Tyson.

A BIG thanks to Tabletop Gamers Association for helping out with the Tournament – MUCH appreciated Adam, Cam and co!

A special thanks also to Chris, Jason, Tyson, Alistair, Simon, Jack and Olly for taking part in the event. You guys ROCK!
Chris put on a show for us today, well done mate. Brilliant stuff!
And Jason's first 3 rounds were just as good!
Every player won at least 1 game. Very cool.

There are a few more photos on my blog.

Cheers for now,
Steve.

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Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a great tournament

wow! some great looking armies and some lovely looking terrain there chaps

My guess (as I didn't see the game as I was playing a game myself) is that the Artillery was protected by the ZoC of the Aspect Warriors so no teleporting into the Eldar big guns there. The Aspects would also have been more than 5cm away from the artillery to avoid being intermingled.

Keeping the Tacticals in the Land Raiders seems obvious in this circumstance. It was Simon's first time using Marines so I'm not sure how he played it.

I know I learnt a lot about using Nids over the tourney. I'd never played them before. I think the EpicUK Heirophant could do with 4+ Reinforced Armour (instead of 5+) but I really enjoyed using them. They caused a lot of fear to begin with but players found ways to reduce the horde's strength. I'll be more competetive next time!

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Great, you guys got a fantastic group going. I've add these lists to the minigeddon site @ https://sites.google.com/site/epicarmag ... minigeddon

I wish minigeddon in London had this vitality!

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Sounds fun!

Are Australians normally ok playing against Epic-UK lists then? I assumed I was going to have to migrate those lists where I prefer the Epic-UK version to the Net-EA versions for use down under.

I wanted to use Nids and I like the simlicity of the EpicUK list. I found it great fun to play (just the ruddy Heirophant seemed to die too easily )
One of the benefits of running the tourney, I get to call the shots!

We also have a lot of guard players that wanted to use their tanks (there was one that had to pull out the day before) and the Ulani list works at these points levels. We'll stick with the Minervans at larger point games.

In general, we will be sticking with NetEA list for almost all our games (*Edit - except the EpicUK Nid list which I think we'll stick with... no one here likes spawning).

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thanks for sharing the pics and results

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Since I was the guy with the fantastically painted Eldar, I'll answer those questions.

I had set up the artillery bunched up, but surrounded by the aspect formation which included Swooping Hawks. Onyx is correct that I kept them more than 5cm from the war engines, but the 10cm scout ZoC from the SH meant that the Terminators couldn't teleport in. Or so I thought.

Simon was able to plop down four Terminators in a nice little area not covered by the ZoC, but took BM on the way in. He won the strategy roll, but rolled a 1 for the iniative test, so he unloaded with his Terminaotrs. Then, since they were nicely packed in, I dropped a few disrupt blasts to break them and then engaged with the Aspects, whose lance weapons messed up the terminators.

Simon did exactly what I would have done, it was just that '1' that screwed it all up for him. Simon also had the tacticals touching the LR to get the -1 to hit with the barrage, which all of my opponents did on the day. Personally I would have done as Hena suggested, by leaving them inside I should only be getting 2 models under the template and statistically only scoring 1 hit.