Won a Tournament with da clowns!
I entered a small 18 person tournament and I decided to bring the clowns. I ended up securing the win, and I even won the single model painting competition by entering one of my players I painted. Overall, a great day for the clowns! Over the three rounds I scored 100/100/93. And now here’s your obligatory mini battle report. I didn’t take photos of the games so it’s just gonna be my hazy memory and I only have the Tabletop Battles game scores for two of the games, so this is not going to be fully comprehensive.
So there’s not really too much to say for the first game against the Votann. He was certainly a very fun match and my opponent was great! I don’t really have anything to say about his list. It seemed like a pretty bog standard dwarf list. Though it did have Uthar, which is pretty cool. It was really a simple as his army is very slow and can’t maneuver nearly as well as this army can. It always allowed me to strike first on him, and while that high toughness does get them pretty far on it at least melee wise, the Neuro disruptors and fusion pistols have no problem at all. I also forced him to sit back with his tanks pretty much all game and have very few good targets. The most standout moment was the solitaire slingshoting themselves turn one to get a marked for death, while also stealing his home objective. Then proceeded to be a pain in his ass for like three whole turns. I think it got to fight like four times over the course of the game thanks to revives and stuff, but only ended up killing 5 of the standard infantry and one character. It’s melee bounced a lot this game lol.
The second game I don’t have logged here with a photo, but I know it was 100 - 40. I was up against the imperial guard. His list was pretty standard I would say, with plenty of infantry, tanks, a little bit of artillery, and some secondary type stuff. The deployment was quite in my favor because I was able to use my infiltrate unit and put them behind a ruin and on the objective and they literally sat there all game untouched. Otherwise, he had a ton of overwatch threat with the tanks as a lot of them had flamers. However, thanks to some smart movement, baiting, and the good ol no overwatch token I was able to play around that. He also was very unlucky on his first secondary draws, which forced him to move his tanks to mid board. This allowed me to pick up two tanks with my fire dragons pretty much immediately. There really isn’t much more to say about this game, just a pretty simple case of me being able to play well around the threats.
The final game was definitely the most interesting. I was up against chaos Space Marines, and this army was very tough to play around. His list was pretty interesting with two land Raiders, full of legionnaires and a character. Then a giant ten man chosen brick with Abaddon. Then like a couple small units of secondary stuff and a overwatch threat with some thousand sons. I think the biggest swing in my favor during the whole game was him getting first turn and then choosing to not move any of his army. I could tell he was definitely unsure of how to approach my army, and he also seemed very afraid of the solitaire. He kind of psyched himself out mostly game it seemed. However, because he didn’t move anything and the game was terraform I was very quickly able to run away with primary and secondaries. He also kept his big chosen brick back for pretty much three turns because of the solitaire. They were a few other notable moments. Pretty much most of the game I had to play around this one stratagem of his where he can he can reactive move and walk into engagement of me if I end a move near him. My way around that was just to try and bait as much as possible. And the pistol keyword helped a lot in that scenario. The other notable moment involved that stratagem as well. There was a point where a starweaver full of some troupe were doing a terraform action. He ended up running the full legionnaire brick to it intending to kill the transport and then wipe the unit inside. However, the biggest statistical anomaly I’ve ever seen happened instead. He shot the full unit into the transport and the transport only ended up taking one damage. Then he charged and tried to kill the transport and it survived with two health left. The amount of saves I made were absolutely insane. This allowed me to keep the transport engaged on my turn as I moved up a bunch of dudes to that unit. Then I fell back the transport out of his reactive move range. This then allowed me to just lay waste into the unit and wipe it. Not much more to say about that game other than I ended up picking up the Abbadon brick turn three I wanna say. Overall, great game and a great opponent!
Now to talk about the list a little:
A little clowning around (1995 Points)
Aeldari Ghosts of the Webway Strike Force (2000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Eldrad Ulthran (110 Points) • Warlord • 1x Mind War • 1x Shuriken pistol • 1x The Staff of Ulthamar and witchblade
Shadowseer (75 Points) • 1x Flip Belt • 1x Miststave • 1x Neuro disruptor • Enhancements: Mistweave
Solitaire (115 Points) • 1x Flip Belt • 1x Solitaire weapons
Troupe Master (75 Points) • 1x Flip Belt • 1x Fusion pistol • 1x Troupe Master’s blade
Troupe Master (75 Points) • 1x Flip Belt • 1x Fusion pistol • 1x Troupe Master’s blade
BATTLELINE
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points) • 1x Lead Player ◦ 1x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 1x Power sword • 4x Player ◦ 4x Flip Belt ◦ 1x Fusion pistol ◦ 4x Harlequin’s special weapon ◦ 2x Neuro disruptor ◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
DEDICATED TRANSPORTS
Starweaver (80 Points) • 1x Close combat weapon • 2x Shuriken cannon
Starweaver (80 Points) • 1x Close combat weapon • 2x Shuriken cannon
Starweaver (80 Points) • 1x Close combat weapon • 2x Shuriken cannon
Wave Serpent (125 Points) • 1x Shuriken cannon • 1x Twin bright lance • 1x Wraithbone hull
OTHER DATASHEETS
Falcon (130 Points) • 1x Bright lance • 1x Pulse laser • 1x Shuriken cannon • 1x Wraithbone hull
Falcon (130 Points) • 1x Bright lance • 1x Pulse laser • 1x Shuriken cannon • 1x Wraithbone hull
Fire Dragons (110 Points) • 1x Aspect Shrine Token • 1x Fire Dragon Exarch ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Exarch’s Dragon fusion gun • 4x Fire Dragon ◦ 4x Close combat weapon ◦ 4x Dragon fusion gun
Fire Dragons (110 Points) • 1x Aspect Shrine Token • 1x Fire Dragon Exarch ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Exarch’s Dragon fusion gun • 4x Fire Dragon ◦ 4x Close combat weapon ◦ 4x Dragon fusion gun
Skyweavers (95 Points) • 2x Skyweaver ◦ 2x Close combat weapon ◦ 2x Shuriken cannon ◦ 2x Zephyrglaive
Skyweavers (95 Points) • 2x Skyweaver ◦ 2x Close combat weapon ◦ 2x Shuriken cannon ◦ 2x Zephyrglaive
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Some of you may recognize this list as a variation of the one made by exile wargaming. The major difference between them is that I replaced the death jester with Eldrad, and replaced a starweaver with a shadowseer with mistweave. I also swapped the bike weapons for shuriken cannons instead of the haywire guns. I can think of a few times where I wish I had the death jester, but Eldrad giving that extra command point every turn was just so important and so impactful. Also, I think the shadow seer with the enhancement is 100 times better than a starweaver. That infiltrate is so powerful and was key to winning pretty much every game. I don’t think I really have anything. I would change about the list and retrospect. This is kind of the perfect list in my eyes. The falcon with troupe master team combo is extremely potent and is kind of the army hammer if we had to assign one. The bikes were excellent, secondary monkeys and objective clearing unit. Eldrad was actually pretty useful several times with that +1 to wound thing he does. I don’t really have any interesting comments on anything else though. The fire dragons were fire dragons and just kind of killed any vehicle I was worried about. The wave serpent was a great thing to keep them safe until I need them. You won’t already know how efficient the troupe and starweavers are. The solitaire was amazing as always. I don’t really think there’s much else to comment about. If y’all have any questions, feel free to comment them and I’ll get around to them when I can!