What should I take to Adepticon this year?

[Seahawk]

So I'm on the fence and gathering opinions.

This year, I'll once again be attending the Adepticon Battlefleet Gothich Championships. You may remember when I won it last year by a mighty 19 points over the #2 player with my Ultramarines. People scoffed or were surprised that Space Marines, long considered a sub-par fleet, won a tournament.

Hence, it's decision time. Do I play the marines again, to show that it wasn't just a fluke? Or, do I take the chaos out and show that they can win tournaments too?

Keep in mind, my Ultramarines have as much lavish detail as I can put on them, which helped to better the score. My Chaos has...well it's seen better days. They'd have to be stripped down, cleaned up, fixed, and repainted, which would be a lot more effort. My time is crunchy at the moment, which leaves me hemmin' and hawin' over which to do. I have my lean, but wouldn't mind other opinions.

[Talos]

I think your SM fleet was powerful, as it was pretty much a min-max list for a 1500pt SM fleet. Not to say that it was bad, but on the contrary that it was so good I see little reason to go with something else.

Adepticon is with faq 2010 IIRC?

[afterimagedan]

Just take which one you want. Why let us decide?

[AndrewChristlieb]

Khorne bezerker fleet with a carrier focus. Or whatever its your toys .

[Mycen]

I was certainly hoping to get to go up against your Space Marines with my Tyranids last year, so I vote you bring them back for another round!

[Seahawk]

Haha, thanks for the votes. It's not that I'm having you fine folks tell me what to play, it's simply gathering opinions.

Mycen, hopefully we get paired together first round! Maybe we can convince the TO to set it up...

[lordgoober]

hehe.  Do you guys REALLY want me to be an evil bastard like that?  I've got some local friends doing some playtesting for the new scenario for this year (the other two will be slight tweaks on past scenarios) so things hsould be interesting.

[Seahawk]

It's not being evil is we both want it to happen.

Hopefully this time we don't have like 6 people drop because they overslept, left their fleet at home (how does one forget that??), or simply did not show.

[lordgoober]

true.  Do note that the "transports" will not be used AS transports in all the games so they need to be escort sized this year.  For one,  they will serve ANOTHER purpose <VBEG>

[Seahawk]

Works for me, I used all regular transports and escort carriers last year; I can do so again, huzzah.

Will the paint scoring change, or can I pretty much expect the same score as what I got last year (29 fleet, 12 transports), provided I do absolutely nothing to improve it?

[lordgoober]

should function about the same. I'm not going to penalize older fleets since GW has pretty much dumped the system though it does depend on the paint judges

[Mycen]

Speaking of scenarios, I heard someone refer to some of the scenarios as "line up and die" last year? Are there going to be any repeats of things like that this year, do you know?

[Seahawk]

Hmm, I don't quite think that was the case. I had plenty of tactical maneuvering in my games, but I guess in its own way there weren't any other missions other than "Get 'em!". Perhaps a mission where the transports mean everything would be interesting. An objectives games instead of a kill game, as it were.

[Seahawk]

Ooooohhh, NOW I know why I didn't use Thunderhawk Annihilators last year. Like a cool kid, I played all fluffy and used Ultramarines-themed ships and fleet list! The Dominion fleet list doesn't have the Annihilator but the Crusade fleet list does. Hmm, I think I know a change I'll make this year...

[lordgoober]

While standard victory points will always stay the primary victory conditions as doing attacker/defender missions are a bit problematic in a tournament format,  one of the scenarios from this year will put an interesting twist into things.  I'm also looking through the last few years worth of scenarios for the other two we'll be using this year.   There's a high chance that one of the other ones is going to be the scavenger hunt style one from I think 2010.