The Road to Renegade: The Swine-venture Continues

Hello everyone! Welcome to part two of our adventure to the Renegade Open (part 1 is here for those of you interested). The Renegade Open 2019 Grand Tournament starts on Saturday, Nov 23rd, which means there’s just under a week before we will be enthralled in the heat of battle of another Major for the year. After looking around, I believe this is one of the last majors before the fabled Las Vegas Open (LVO). As you may remember from our last Road to Renegade write-up, Cyle and I were perfecting our lists and I had some hobby work to do still. So like any good gamer, instead of finishing my modeling work, I took my list to a local RTT this past Saturday just to confirm I wanted to take all of this anyway.

Progress Check!

So leading into this, something to know is that there is a hard list cut off for the GT. In my last write up, I was really going into my super tech unit – the Land Raider Achilles. It still needed some paint and when I had built it I missed some normal building steps when I didn’t file down any part of the model, leaving what I would call some generous gaps. While I was taking the time to prep for the event I just didn’t want to sit down and paint my life away, thankfully I had some spray paint and an RTT to go to! Maximum laziness mode engage.

So. As you can see, I need a little bit more work on this labor of love. Also, I found out that the things causing the gaps don’t even need to be on the model. Normal Land Raiders have assault launchers that do mortals when they charge in. The Achilles does not have that, so I may just have to break off this heavy armor to help the aesthetics of the model. That’s what I’ll be working on for the rest of this week. But for now… IT’S GAME TIME!!

The List: A Tough Angel to Crack

Dark Angels Battalion (+5 CP)

HQ

Ezekiel

Master in Gravis Armor (Shroud of Heroes)

TR

Scouts (Combat Knife)

Scouts (Combat Knife)

Scouts (Combat Knife)

EL

1x Company Champion

Dark Angels Spearhead (+1 CP)

HQ

LT in Phobos Armor

FA

3x Inceptors (plasma)

HS

Eliminator Squad

Land Raider Achilles (Still here. Still kicking butt.)

Relic Leviathan Dread (Storm Cannon Array x2 3x HK Missile)

Dark Angels Spearhead (+1 CP)

HQ

Techmarine (Full Harness, Power Axe)

HS

Eliminator Squad

Eliminator Squad

Relic Leviathan Dread (Storm Cannon Array x2 3x HK Missile)

The Two Rivers RTT – Proving Grounds

The Two Rivers chain of events is based in North Dakota as a traveling RTT. The man who runs it is a recent addition to the Hog herd, Sean Lengenfelder. Sean is a Knights player who has been trying to cultivate a competitive tournament chain throughout this tundra, going from towns that people have heard of like Fargo, to other smaller towns like Minot or Jamestown. This RTT was being held in the former of those locations, Fargo, ND, in a local game store called Little Big Wars. It’s always interesting playing in different locations because each LGS has a different gaming eco-system it seems. I’m sure you’ve noticed this yourself, some stores having a more card game based environment, or even a more casual even narrative game style when it comes to wargaming.

Little Big Wars is just down the road from what I call Hog Town, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and this store has a high count of hobbyists and card gamers. There are some great artists in the area and I always try and make an effort to see if there’s anything new in their show cabinets, or even see what those local artists are working on. Being only an hour away from us in Grand Forks, any event they hold suddenly gets swarmed by the competitive groups that are nearby, drawing people from Canada to 5 hours away from the Twin Cities of Minnesota. It makes for very Hog-filled waters, causing our RTTs to feel like day-two top tables, every game.

With such difficult waters ahead, I pressed forward with my Renegade list to lock down one more RTT score before crashing this list headlong into Renegades grueling trials. So we’re gonna look at two of my games, in different short-form ways.

Micro-Battle Report time!

The Field Test

So a little bit of an HMOC throwback here, my first game at this event was against Billy Payne. The last time I had faced Billy, we had a rockem-sockem drag-out game. He brought 180 Plaguebearers in our last game, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to run into right here. It ended up being… Well… Blood Angels…

Robots?