Sit Rep (40K); Tides of War (tournament)

Sit Rep (40K); Tides of War (tournament)
Another month another 40K event. This time up North at the tabletopnorth club. The plan was to bring the Sisters again. They have been doing well so far with a 1st, 2nd and 4th finish from their three tournament to date.

Round one:
Opponent James Jennings (space marines)
Mission- objective grab with five objective; arranged in a X shape one in the centre and one in each quadrant.
deployment- pitched battle
battlefield; The main table feature was a hedge which ran across the table splitting the deployment zones. The rest of the table was made up of hills, woods and for some reason one small rock which counted as difficult terrain.

Space marine right flank (two tac squads supported by a Vindicator).

Sister's right flank (Sisters squad support by two Exorcists).

The Canoness and celestians assault the stern guard on the hill screening the marine held objective.

The canonness gets some support from a nearby sisters squad to take the marine held objective.

In the centre the Celestians assault the Marine second tactical squad.
Sister rhino escorts the last marine of the table.

While a third celestains squad supported by Exorcists finally destroy the last marine vehicle.

Result; win sisters

Round Two:
Opponent Johnny Fisher (twin lash CSM)
Mission- objective grab with five objective; arranged in a X shape one in the centre and one in each quadrant.
deployment- Dawn of war
battlefield; A nice city fight table (which succeed in immobilising a third of the sisters vehicles during the game)

Sisters arrived in castle formation.

Most of CSM force awaited in the warp to be summoned.

CSM tried cover to avoid exorcist fire (anything in the open tended to die quickly).

Summoned reinforcements arrived, killed something then died, in counter fire.

Result; win sisters
Round three:
Opponent; Scott Nelson's Tau
Mission- objective grab with five objective; arranged in a + shape one in the centre and one in either deployment zone and one on either flank.
deployment- Spearhead
battlefield; A nice city fight table (which again succeeded in immobilising a third of the sisters vehicles during the game).

The Sisters opted to go first and rushed the Tau lines. Pathfinders were early casualties and without marker light support the tau tanks had a hard time damaging sisters vehicles.

Wading through the sewers the sister finally reached the tau lines

At last minute dash by the surviving tau contested the objectives by the end of the game on turn five.

Result; draw

The Aftermath;
After the armies were packed away and the dust had settle the Sisters had done enough damage to win their second event. Overall the tournament was worth a day trip the scenery was nice and the opponent were all good craic. below are sone of the photos from the event more can be found here

Scott Neilson's Tau stalk a Space Wolf Landraider

Johnny Fisher's summoon great deamon bites of a more then he can chew when an Avatar wades in to support embattled dire avengers.