Making lists for tournaments



 

During the past few months, I have taken part of a yearly Danish league called “The Imperator League” and it has been a joy. They have some simple rules such as, do not play against the same opponent twice, which has made me widen my circle of regular opponents a little. and i enjoyd that a lot. I also qualified for a tournament by ranking highest in points and 3ed highest in number of games.

You can find the score here: http://www.asgaard-games.eu/imperator-5/roster.htm

 The tournament one of the bigger in Denmark and since I did so well in the campaign I wanted to participate, which got me thinking on; what makes a good tournament army list? I found 4 important points. More are out there, but over the coming weeks I will try to find out which 2 lists I will bring using these 4 points as a part of reference as well as any other information I will obtain to give me an edge.

1)      A way to deal with terrain. Pathfinder units can do this for you but often a model that can give pathfinder (or better) to units that need it are a much better investment. Outside factions there are two models that come to mind who can do just that, the piper of Ord and Saxon Orrik. In Cryx we do not have access to the piper, but luckily we have some quite good casters with Ghost walk.

2)      A way to deal with big models. With Colossals being quite common in my local meta, I find that I need some way to deal with these big boys. This can be done by applying weapon masters, but I would always recommend bringing Gorman in at least one of your lists. As a Cryx player another way to deal with colossals are Satyxis Raiders with a Backlash caster. If I get the charge then they have the “theoretical” potential to deal 33 points of damage to the controlling enemy warcaster regardless of defensive stats.

3)      Bring dispel options. The some of the best combinations in the game rely on upkeeps, so removing those makes taking out that awful combination much easier. Some has it easy by being able to bring Eiryss but in cryx we do not have it as easy (with this part not in general). Withershadow combine can use unbinding, the blood witch UA has dispel on their weapons, and we have some casters with Hexblast.

4)      A way to deal with high DEF. Bile thralls are the best cryx option for this, but Dark guidance on Skarre1 can do it, and getting some AOE’s rolling can also be a solution. The nasty high DEF relies on buffs like iron flesh, and that can be resolved by bringing your dispel options, so if you have a DEF debuff, buff to MAT or just plain old gang going you have a fair chance of getting a hit as long as you got the dispel option handy.