'Ard Boyz Semi-Final Scenarios

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Games Workshop has finally posted the Semi-Finals Scenarios for this years 'Ard Boyz. They are ... interesting to say the least. Lets take a look at them shall we?

Round 1: I haz a Messige!

In this mission you nominate one of your non vehicle, non monstrous creature troop models as a "Messenger" and you are tasked to escort him into your enemies deployment zone by the end of turn 6 (no random game length here). This game is a Dawn of War set up so your deployments zones are table halves and you have to deal with annoying (or wonderful) night fight. Even more fun this is a Victory Point game Yay!... ugh ... I really had wished we wouldn't see any more of these this year for 'Ard Boyz. Victory Points are out dated and annoying to calculate.

Anyways, the bonus here is you get 500 victory points for getting your messenger into your enemies deployment zone. So an easy 500 points would be to place a troop choice right up next to that boarded and on turn 1 step across 2inchs, Yay! 500 free points in your first movement phase. Obviously this may not be the best tactic since some people may not want to get a single troop choice on his own that close to your enemies units. Then again maybe it isn't so bad of an idea since the scenario says nothing about the unit having to stay on that side of the board after he crosses the line, he just has to get there before turn 6. So deploy up next to some good terrain and move across then jet back to the safety of your own line of defense.

Other additional points for this game if you kill the enemy messenger, keeper your messenger alive the entire game, no enemy units in your deployment zone, and destroy enemy elite choices.

Overall not an exciting scenario... in fact a fairly stupid and annoying one.

Roud 2: Kaptur da Flag!

Simple straight forward scenario that will inevitably lead to a pig pile in the middle of the board. There is an objective marker in the exact center of the board, your goal is to get as many possible scoring units on it as you can while of course killing your enemy. Standard Pitch Battle, nothing new here. This will be a fun game for the assault heavy armies I can already see it. One giant CC fest right on the objective marker. It actually makes me giggle like a little school girl when I imagine it.

Additional points if your most expensive HQ is within 6" of the objective, if you have none of your own units in your deployment zone, if you kill an enemy HQ, and if you control more terrain than your opponent (scoring units within 3" of it)

This will be a fun little game with a huge cluster of dudes in the center. This could really be a bad scenario for scoring unit light armies as in order to get a massacre you need to have 5 more scoring units on the center objective then your opponent. I see the IG armies doing well on this one for some reason (6+ Chimeras loaded with Vets surrounding the objective anyone?).

Round 3: Armies That Go Bump in the Night!

This one is... unique, you actually have no objective until turn 3. Then you roll a D3 to determine if its Kill Points, Table Quarters, or Terrain Features (control Terrain pieces). You get at least a Spearhead deployment this time so it should be a little bit better for obtaining these goals. This could be a very painful scenario if your facing a slow blob army. Every time I fight a blob army it seems we barely get through turn 4 before time is up.

Additional points here for Killing enemy HQ, destroying all enemy dedicated transports, if your opponent has no units in your deployment zone, if you kill all your enemy Heavy Support choices.

This one will be ... something that's for sure. It could really toss things up in round 3 that's for sure.


Let me know what you guys think of these scenarios. Any good ideas out there?

[DarkLink]

I agree that mission 1 is kinda stupid, but it's really good for my army so whatever. I like mission 2, as it's not totally stupid and it also happens to be really good for my army.

Mission 3 is kinda odd, due to being totally random so who knows how anyone will do. Who knows, but I dislike missions like this with all the random stuff happening. It's needlessly complicated, and they could have just settled on one mission objective and stuck with it.




Not too bad, overall, and I actually like mission 2, but I'm not particularly excited for these missions. Complicating the matter is the fact that it's a 3 hour drive to the semis for me, and my engine checklight just came on which means I might just go to a local tournament that happens to be on the same day instead.

At least the missions settle the question of what units I want to take. I was on the wall about taking lots of power armor Gks or 20 Terminators, but it seems 20 Terminators is the way to go. Luckily, that means less painting for me.

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I was on the wall about taking lots of power armor Gks or 20 Terminators, but it seems 20 Terminators is the way to go. Luckily, that means less painting for me.

Okay A) It's 'Ard Boyz you don't need to paint them at all.

B) Really? Are you going to have enough scoring units for a massacre in mission 2? You need to have at least 6 scoring units for that alone imo.


Everyone I have talked to agree that mission 1 is just retarded to the extreme. I am interested by mission 3 as it may lead to some mad scrambles to grab table quarters and terrain. Mission 2 will be fun for me because I am doing IG with a wall of L.R. Squads to roll forward giving AV14 cover to all my Chimeras for scoring so it will be fun.

[newtoncain]

errata for semi scenaroes is up
[url]http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1960055a_Ard_Boyz_Semi-Final_Scenarios_09-06-2011[/url]

fix #1

[thecactusman17]

Dark eldar are going to have a field day with mission 1. Load a raider w/ aethersails, drop the unit into reserve, and laugh as he instantly scores the point on his first turn he sees play.

[Denied]

errata for semi scenaroes is up
[url]http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1960055a_Ard_Boyz_Semi-Final_Scenarios_09-06-2011[/url]

fix #1

I love how they effectively screw over the Daemon armies with this errata. I don't play Daemon, nor do I like them so I am okay with it lol, but yeah.

So the "Fix" Is Daemons get screwed because they now have to deep strike on turn 1 with the messenger unit into their own deployment zone then foot slog it. As for everyone else now its a pitched battle instead of dawn of war... GG I guess. So we wont see many armies getting the freebie 500pts it seems, but armies like both varieties of Eldar, Blood Angles, ... IG/ GK maybe? with their supper fast transports will zip across to claim it. Hmm well it could MORE challenging then that I guess. I see a lot of Space Wolves players taking Wolf Calvary now and that will suck... a lot!

Well I still hate Scenario one it is simply retarded in all its design and not only because it is a Victory Points game.

[gcsmith]

Not really screwd I guess. I mean annoying. But not that bad. I mean why Daemons cant DS but a marine in drop pod can?

[Denied]

Not really screwd I guess. I mean annoying. But not that bad. I mean why Daemons cant DS but a marine in drop pod can?

Because that would be logical, and this is GW. It's silly really, just silly.