Jun 29, 2011
I have been remiss in providing coverage of all the events that provide free tickets to the Throne of Skulls Games Workshop held event. Anyway this week I am going to get caught up and provide a round-up of all the events that happened for the month of June.
Next we turn to the Independence Day Massacre which happen June 11th and 12th in lovely Fayetteville Arkansas. IDM had 24 players and a level of list secrecy I had no idea still existed….
The Overall Winner was Jeremy Yates which has won the event a few years in a row. Normally Jeremy takes Mech Imperial Guard, but it seems from what little information anyone could gather he took Eldar Duel Seer Council this time.
I tried to contact the tournament organizer about his list, but was given a stern WE DO NOT GIVE OUT LISTS. Like army lists rose to the State Secrets or your Facebook password level. I thought the notion of protecting ones army list identity died out with dinosaurs or at least since the last Mark Parker sightings. Well I guess it still lives in parts of the 40k universe… like creationism museums.
So it would be much appreciated for my scientific work if someone could find the missing list. With that said you can find all other important information about this event in a few places.
First off for photos this and the missions that were used you can check out…
Independence Day Massacre Pictures and Missions
As for the results here you go.
Here is the guesstimate of the Top Ten army lists
1. Eldar (Dual seer counsel)
2. Demons (fiend heavy list)
3. Demons (fiend heavy list)
4.Tyranids (dual tyrant and doom)
5. Eldar (mechdar)
6. Orks (Kan wall)
7. Chaos Marines (obit and two special characters)
8. Dark Angels (deathwing)
9. Grey Knights (dual raven with asn as troops)
10. Blood Angels??
Hard to believe no Imperial Guard or Space Wolves makes me think that maybe Jeremy might have taken his Imperial Guard and this list here is all a ruse to throw the Army List Police off his trail.
Anyway another day another free ticket for Throne of Skulls was given out!
As well if you want to check out upcoming events head on over to Blood of Kittens Event Site at…
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I haven’t played his list in a month or two, but here’s what I remember:
2 Seer Councils, 2 small units of bikes, 2 Fire Prisms, 2 small units of harlequins, and 2 units of rangers
I think that’s it. The 2nd and 3rd place finishers were both fiend-heavy daemon lists. The only significant difference was one ran a Bloodthirster, and the other ran a Lord of Change.
On the IG/SW front, last year Jeremy finished first with IG, and SW finished second. Jeremy switched to IG, and the SW player was the 2nd place Daemons list.
I really like it when players switch up armies and still prove they are good players and win events no matter what they take. Kudos to them!
Hey Tasty:
I’ll gladly share my list with you, no problem. I think I was as tired of playing my mech guard as everyone was of seeing them. Believe it or not, there were 0 guard lists at IDM. I was as surprised as anyone. Regardless, this year I chose to bring eldar.
I had 2 farseers, both with stones, doom and fortune on bikes. One had runes of warding.
I had two 7 man bike councils. Each had enhance, embolden and destructor x 2. One council had two singing spears.
I fielded a pair of five man Harlie squads, each with seer and veil of tears. All had kisses.
I fielded 3 naked fire prisms.
For troops I had 2 units of rangers and 2 units of guardian jetbikes.
I was fortunate, for the most part in my draws. I got to face a pair of mc heavy daemon lists (there were 3 at the tourney!). My harder fought games were a termie heavy deathwing list since witch blades struggle against 2+ and Also the grey knights list. The GK dropped psystrike missiles on my seers and almost neutered my list on turn one.
IDM is a fun and well run tourney. I recommend it to anyone who might be on the fence for next year.
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Thanks Jeremy I really appreciate it =) I figured on the Hogs forum it wasn’t posted because people much everyone there knew what everyone was running hehe. Anyway you going to WargamesCon? If so what you do you intend on bringing.
That is pretty amazing that no SW or IG were at the event must of made for a very different environment =)
Correction. Marc Parker did release his list on the WC website.
Yeah I know he did. Sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn’t. I think he has learned the Internet will tell the tale at some point and in major events you really cannot hide lists anymore.
Absolutely gonna be at wargamescon. I think there are 8 or 9 of us attending. I brought my nurgle guard last year. This year gonna try the eldar, again. Hope to see you there.
Sweet man! I will see you there. Maybe I get a little interview ask you some questions about your army and pimp the Hogs community =)
That shabby list of what everyone brought was my doing. I only really knew what the players I knew brought and the players that I played.
Thanks for the coverage and keep up the good work!
Sounds awesome. We’ll see you there.