DDM Constructed 200 points 06/24/2006

Here's a tournament report from a DDM Constructed 200 points tournament that we had on 06/24/2006. The original thread can be found here:

http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/aff/66/aft/447303/afv/topic/Default.aspx
We had our 200 point tourny this weekend and had 7 people show up. Almost as many as Syracuse did. I chose to go with SWarm as it's my new favorite army. I've been playing the 6 SW variant since the week after Utah. I felt that the Dwarf Artificer didn't add enough to the mix and I'd rather have that 6th SW there instead. It also allowed for a little better support so I went with the Warforged Scout as my other piece. My final band was:

Sword Archon
Sacred Watcher x 6
Warforged Scout
on Drow Outpost

First round, I got the bye. I watched the other first round matches. The other warbands were Ragnarok playing a Dual HGB band, Jim McKinney playing his CG variant band that went 7-1 at our qualifier, Ken playing a Triple Frenzy/no commander band, Troy playing a LE Quad, James running an all Warforged band, and William running Couatl/Dual Maruts. William was running the Ballista band but borrowed another Marut before the tourny. The Ballista band I can handle, but Dual Maruts are just a horrible matchup for SWarm as they just can't pile the damage on the maruts fast enough.

Second round I get to go against Jim. I played Jim at the Qualifier when I was running my Triple HH band and wondered how it would have went had I played SWarm. We roll for map and he got his map, Dragon Shrine, I got side and set up on the fire side. First 2 rounds we dance around with me trying to avoid his Frenzy and him not exposing too much. He got a few shots off with his Graycloaks and did about 10 damage to 2 SW. Finally I move up and we start to engage. He brings his Rikka up to get rid of my Scout. I then give him a free shot with the FB on a SW and he makes the Incorp. After she's exposed I pounce on her with all my SW and my SA to get her down to 10 damage. He brings up the rest of his army and takes out another SW. Next round I get rid of the FB and he takes out a few more SW. I also get in some shots on the Greenfang. I bring my SA around and use Melee reach to get the Wand Expert and take it out before it can hit anyone. Rikka charges in and hits the Sword Archon. Next round I pile some more damage on the Greenfang and then hit Rikka. Rikka hits the SA. The greenfang checks and makes Morale and I'm now down to 1 SW and the SA who has 30 hps left. I win the next init and hit Rikka, she checks and fails morale and runs off the board. I then bring the SA over to the Greenfang. Next round the Greenfang dies and that's game. A really good game that could have went either way as Jim missed some incorp rolls that would have taken down the SW earlier.

Final round I play against William and the Dual Maruts. I got my map so we played on Outpost rather than his map, King's Road. He marches up both Maruts and uses LUG on the SW. I pass 4 of the 6 SW checks amazingly. Next round I dogpile the Maruts and send over 2 Watchers to attack the Couatl. I try to keep the Archon as far back as I can. He misses several attacks on the SW due to incorp. I get the Couatl down to morale and it passes. At this point he start hitting incorp and kills some SW. I then bring the SA over to finish off the Couatl. The uphill battle I was waging took a bad turn and I see that I probably can't finish off both Maruts with my SA and 2 SW. Next round I crit the Couatl with my SA to finish it off. Both Maruts come over and finish off the SA. And that's game.

Finished in second with 2-1 with 1 win being a bye. Opened 2 boosters and pulled out a Marut and a Dragon Totem Hero.