Try Hard Week 2 Fixtures and Predictions

We arrive at week two, some of us with dignity intact and Harry less so.

Time for me to summarise the mission and match ups as well as continue to give my unerring estimation of who will emerge victorious.

The mission this week is Crucible of Battle/Sites of Power/Vox Static.

Crucible is a diagonal deployment with the longest no man’s distance between deployment zones of any layout.

Sites of power is primary boosted with characters on them.

Vox Static is 2CP for re roll and mission redraw.

Obviously this favours lists that don’t need to close as quickly and with a good number of characters. Give a fuck about Vox Static – this man always keeps 2CP in the bank like a baller.

THE ROYYAALLLL RUMMMBLLLEEEEEE – Tony V Gary (Necrons v CK)

The the blue cornerrrrrr, hailing from Southsea, with a reach of nearly fifteeeeeen centremetres and packing 74 necrodermis shells on the board…Tonyyyyyyy Kirrrrrbbbyyyyyyyy.

The the red cornerrrrrrr, spawned in the underdark by two inbreeding monstrosities, with an IQ score disqualifying him from having children in 91 countries and running a list that suits that level of disability…Garrryyyyyyyy Fishhhhherrrrrr.

I actually have no idea if Tony is any good at 40k but he can put out a lot of Lethal hits and dart all over the place. I am not sure the killing power is there to dismantle the Wardogs but similarly I am not sure the Dogs are that efficient into boat loads of Necron bodies BUT Tony does have advantage on the primary mission here.

This would be a very fun game to watch.

Sam’s Prediction: 90-70 to Gary

Matchup 1 – Rob V Harry (Admech V Tsons)

Rob may moan his shooting is shit (it is) and Harry believe he can play 40k (he can’t) but someone must emerge the victor.

In fairness Rob’s shooting isn’t too bad into Tsons (Skitarii murdering a whole squad of Custodians anyone??) if he can keep the Breachers out of harms way. Harry also put in a good showing against a dirty Gary list so if anyone ever tells him that keeping Magnus alive until T4 is minimum standard to win with Tsons he might actually start scoring league points.Both armies don’t feel the need to close the gap to the opponent too fast and have plenty of characters for Sites of Power so I think this will be a high scoring game. Rob wins if he kills Magnus, Harry wins if Magnus is alive T4.

Sam’s Prediction: 90-70 to Rob.

Matchup 2 – Chris V Sam (Guard V Custodes)

The long no man’s land is far from ideal for Custodes but with the primary coming from characters sitting on objectives I think that is less relevant here.

4(Chris) v 5(Sam) Characters for each list makes this seem close for Sites but none of Chris’ wants to be sitting on central primaries (GG, Tank Commander, Engineer, Leontus), whereas four of mine do so that could have a big impact. The Banana Bois are happy to extend a formal invite to any of them to walk their way up to the central objectives.

The other end of the spectrum Chris has guns, lots of guns.

I only really want to kill two things – Sentinel and Gaunts Ghosts. Other than that I will be bravely hiding in foxholes for the duration. Also it would be nice if I manage to not get my Callidus killed within two turns for once.

Sam’s Prediction: 80-50 to meeeee.

Matchup 3 – Ben V Leo (GK V CSM)

Beating GK is about screening and not getting “Misted” at the worst possible moment – something I am an expert in failing at. However not much of Leo’s army really wants to get into combat so he can just focus on screening, and he has the model count to do it.

Ben has a whopping 6 characters to zip around all over the place and score primary compared to Leo’s 3 but do you know what can’t score points? Dead Grey Knights. A reminder that Leo is packing three Forgefiends and three units of Lascannon Havocs means he can pack a mighty punch from range (although watch the Paladin brick shrug that off and move on).

GK secondary scoring is up there with the best of them but Leo’s list is no slouch in that department either. If the FF roll hot on Dev wounds it could be a gut punch for the GK but if they don’t I think primary will be too hard to catch up on.

Sam’s Prediction: 90-40 to Ben.