Jan 6, 2012
We are at the half way mark for the 2011-2012 Throne of Skulls Tournament Circuit so lets catch up with the events, winners, and their lists from the past year.
Gateway Grand Tournament Chad Clay’s Dark Angels
Independence Day Massacre Jermey Yates’s Eldar
Astronomi-con Toronto James McBeath’s Space Marines (Army Builder Bugged Add Drop Pod and Rhino to each Tact Squad and Drop Pod to Sternguard)
EndlessCon Richard Jennens’s Space Wolves
Bugeater GT Tony Staub’s Chaos Space Marines
Boston Brawlcon Ben Molie’s Space Marines
Buckeye Battles Damon Jenkins’s Orks
The Big Show Joe Giulini’s Orks
Bolter Beach Lance Naumann’s Dark Eldar
Maul In the Mall Kevin Drury’s Dark Eldar
Montana 40kcon Chad Nelson’s Orks
Game Summit Skirmish Will Paul’s Imperial Guard
The Warmaster 40k Challenge Joathan Ho’s Space Wolves
NovaOpen Gabe Dobkin’s Imperial Guard
SoCal Smackdown Reece Robbins’s Space Wolves
Astronomic-Con Vancouver Micheal Rusca’s Space Marines
Battle at Blob’s Park Ken Johansen Grey Knights
Da Grand Waaagh Reece Robbins’s Space Wolves
Battle for Salvation Neil Gilstrap’s Grey Knights
Da Boyz GT Nick Rose’s Black Templars
MechaniCon Simon Leen’s Blood Angels
Feast of Blades Nick Rose’s Black Templars
Missing a few of the army lists from some of the events. If people have knowledge of those lists please comment below.
As you can see we have an interesting army breakdown from the first half of the circuit.
4 Space Wolves
3 Space Marines
3 Orks
2 Dark Eldar
2 Grey Knights
2 Black Templars
2 Imperial Guard
1 Chaos Space Marines
1 Blood Angel
1 Dark Angel
1 Eldar
Doesn’t look like much as changed in the current meta with Space Wolves still on top and Orks defying Internet expectations. Interesting to note the drop in Imperial Guard winners, maybe people are finally realizing how to beat them. Also I thought Grey Knights made the not worth playing…
The circuit picks up again next week with The Conflict GT and ends Alamo40kGT in May.
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Gutted that the only BA winner doesn’t have a list up. It’s ever the way!
Will try to pull Dobkin’s guard list out of storage files when I’m there later today.
Are you doing Best Overall or Best General. If Best General change Dobkin to Kopach. If Best Overall change BFS’s Gilstrap to Mike Brandt’s IG.
It’s good to see Orks continue to do well. Regardless of their problems they are still one of the best codices for squeaking out wins in knock down drag out fights. Good to see top players still giving them their due. More people playing Orks tends to be hobby positive too … conversions are so easy to pull off Orkstyle it helps encourage pure gamers to get more into the soft side (or did with me).
ugh simons in my club, he runs a descent of angels list with vanguard vets and jump pack assault squads…..but he uses sisters models…quite well might I add….
Also I love how everyone always dismisses vanilla space marines as uncompetitive when it almost always seems that book wins a lot of GT’s and if not is always placing high
I won the Beaky con Gt in tampa with GK
That Ork list is 2001 points, can we expect articles for the next two years about what a cheater he is?
Amazingly, the Space Wolves don’t look like what I’d generally expect. I mean, Bjorn was in it as a winner, defying a lot of ‘tactica’ out there that have stated he’s not worth the points. I’d love to find out how he faired in individual games. The Dark Eldar lists have some variance to them, but they still scream Venom or Raider spam… Sadly, this is what they (the Dark Eldar) excel at. The codex almost designs these lists for you. The other route is to go Webway portal, but that is not quite as reliable as rushing 12 vehicles at someone’s battle line.
And notice how many Tyranids are on that list…