So, I attended at Conquest Toronto on the weekend and played in the doubles tournament. It was my first large scale event (about 16 teams). We played 4 games over the course of the day.
We had to come up with 1000 pt army with restrictions that can be found at http://www.conquesttoronto.com/ . A big thanks to these guys for the awesome day. They put on a great event and I can't wait to play in the next tournament.
I played Space Wolves and my partner played Eldar. We completely lost our first two games and won/drew our last two games, so I'd say we were somewhere near the low end of the second third. As we're new, we were mostly learning and trying to get a sense of how far we had progressed since we started from scratch in April.
Game 1 (Grey Knights, Dark Eldar)
We played two awesome guys who were both mid twenties and had a good attitude. We may have been able to eke out a draw on objectives but "dice down" was called after top of T5 (we were going second). In retrospect, we should have ended the game after the end of T4. In the future, I'll try not to let this happen again, but we were new and didnt even know this was a possibility. I come from a background in gaming in Magic and thought that they would call "last turn" or something. Live and learn. We lost on objectives and KP. They played well and I think we gave them a good game, but we didnt get the advantage of going second.
Game 2 (Ork, Guard)
We were up against a hard Ork/Imperial Guard army that was just the rock to our scissors. We lost this one worst than the first. I played the objective wrong and my partner couldnt get the kills he needed. There was also a big line of sight blocker in the middle of the board and they had ordinance that didnt need line of sight. We couldnt get to where we needed to go, and I think we weren't being aggressive enough with their army.
We didnt have as much experience with Spearhead deployment. They gave us a good ass kicking and there isn't much more to say.
Game 3 (Space Wolves, Dark Eldar)
We come up against two gentlemen who said that they had been playing for years. Their list stank, their play stank, and we pretty much dominated the game. It was funny discussing the game with them afterwards as it really felt like they thought they had us on the run. We tied on Victory points, but we were beating them by 150 at the end of T4.
We made very few mistakes in this game, as once I saw their list I realized it would be a good opportunity to finally get some Ws. Protip- dont drop your 200 pt Venerable dreadnought next to a unit of fire dragons.
We got to turn four with this game, but had we had another turn, we'd have run them ragged.
Game 4 (Tau, Eldar)
We come up against two other individuals who were playing shitty lists again. We rolled over them as well. They were playing Tau/Eldar. We came out a bit slow because the Tau beat us up in the first two turns, but after that the momentum switched as we started moving up the board and forcing them off objectives. Not much to say other than Tau can lay it DOWN!
Summary
All in all, a pretty cool day of games. A team put us down as their best sportsmanship but we didn't win it, lol. I'd say success as at least we didn't come last in our first big tournament! I'll put the list up later.
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