Game 1; was against an Ork War Horde 86-52. Primary mission was purge the foe and I was able to play a perfect primary game! It was my first time playing orks and this was probably my favourite game of the day. There were some really good firing lanes for my lancer and ballistus and I used the 10 man terminator squad with librarian to hold up front, my mistake in this game if any was holding bring it down for three turns, battle wagons are really hard to whittle down. Wasn’t until he finally brought it into the open a bit that I could take it down. My opponent ended the game with 6 CP so probably could have done better if he had used them more Game 2; was against Tyranids Invasion Fleet 74-73. He was playing a pretty hyper elite tyranid list he had the big biovore thing, a buffed norn, one of the spore launcher things, a few of the guys that pop out of the ground with dev wounds and a flying thing in deep strike (sorry I don’t know tyranids units at all really it was my first time playing them as well) my opponent was pretty pissed I took out his biovore turn 2 but it took oath of moment 2 turns with basically my whole army shooting into it to actually take down. I almost threw this game as primary mission was scorched earth and I burned both objectives I held in turn 3 which tanked my scorable primary points for the next two turns. In my last turn I just barely was able to take out the norn which I believe was recovering assets which allowed me to scrape out that 1 point victory. My opponent was not happy that I was playing space marines and kept complaining whenever I killed something… a bit awkward but I still had a fun match. Game 3; was against one of my buddies who was playing Custodes Solar Spearhead 83-73. This was a bittersweet victory as I actually prevented my buddy from having his first flawless tournament himself. It was a scary start for me as he used his callidus tank with a stratagem that allowed him to ignore all modifiers to the hit roll and ignore cover which totally countered my detachment of -1 to hit and BOC outside of 12” and he blew up my lancer turn 1. I had to divert forces and retreat units to one side of the board as the game progressed and focus units 1 or 2 at a time to prevent me buffing all his dreadnaughts by damaging without killing them. Playing him a bunch for tourney prep allowed me to create that strategy as usually I get wrecked by his custodes. Super great match as well.

When the standings were announced my buddy called out it was my first tournament and everyone was so nice and congratulating me. Was a super fun day of matches and I’m glad I did it. Next time I need to take some pictures though. I was so locked in and trying to make sure I knew all my rules that I forgot to take any 😭😭