Tits for Tournaments: The Green Tide Results at TSHFT

Well I just got back to Seattle and had a fantastic time at the TSHFT Open. As I posted last week I took a Green Tide Ork army, this is the third large event I have used it. The Green Tide is a fun army to play if you are quick with moving models, but the best part is everyone who faces it seems to enjoy fighting it, that is once they get past the initial shock of 100 Boyz. At the TSHFT Open, I was able to go 3-2 losing, my first and last game. I also took a configuration I had never tried before, settling on…

TSHFT Ork List Option 2

Thanks to everyone for all the emails and comments they really helped me choose this over the other options!

In this version of the Green Tide I had 15 Wartrakks for Outflanking to keep my opponents busy. The Wartrakks were also designed to take off Hull points from units like Knights or put wounds on Monstrous Creatures. In practice though the results were mixed. Part of the problem was my fault, I was just too damn aggressive with them and with TSHFT notorious lack of terrain had me picking up buggies left and right. If I was patient with them I am sure they would have performed much better.

My first lost was to Ben Cromwell in round 1 as he got revenge against me, beating me for first time with a heavy Wave Serpent Eldar list along with Webway portal Dark Eldar. I would have won the game if it ended on Turn 5, but for once Ben didn’t get cheated out of victory. On turn 6 he was able to use some crafty Eldar tricks to avoid a charge from the Tide which secured him the game.

The other loss for the Green Tide came at the hands of Flying Summoning Circus with a Screamer Star! I think I killed about 1500 points worth of summoned Daemons, the critical points though came when my Wartrakks failed to get first blood and the Screamer Star making a LD2 roll to resurrect itself! My opponent was a great player and he knew exactly how to work his army and took advantage of every mistake. As for my three wins it was against IG with a Knight, Mixed Nids, and White Scars with Draigo and Centurions.

With the ITC format the Green Tide does great in the Relic, Emperors Will, and Purge the Alien missions, but when it comes to multiple objective missions it seems to struggle, but that is to be expected. I plan to make another round of tweaking for the LVO next month, I am really REALLY tempted to take a Stompa, but it will require a major rework for the army.

Overall, I had a great time seeing old friends and make new ones, cannot wait for LVO next month!

I wasn’t able to take many pictures, so got permission from good 40k friend Jim Yeh and stole his from Dakkadakka.

ELDAR/TAU

NECRON/ORKS

TYRANIDS

Tyranids were by far the most represented army in the tournament. First of all, the most common Xenos super-heavy at the tournament, the Barbed Hierodule: