A month on from the Bristol City Open, it’s finally time for me to hit the tournament tables again this weekend at the London Open. I haven’t been totally idle gaming-wise – I TOed an RTT for our local club, and also got in a playtest game this past weekend against our own Corrode, trying out the NOVA mission pack because TheChirurgeon has tricked me into writing him a personal guide to the missions (for an event I can’t make it to) by claiming that “it would make good content”.

TheChirurgeon’s Note: This isn’t about me. It’s about you, writing my mission guide, dammit!

So this seemed like a good chance to get my London Open list out, and the good news is that the army performed. Frustratingly, the NOVA pack hadn’t quite been finalised when we played our test game, but we still came away with some good lessons which you can look forward to reading about soon. We also captured peak 8th edition on camera for posterity. Elf haters look away now.

Normally when i have time before an event I write a tournament preview outlining my list and strategy, but honestly there’s not that much new to say. I’ve made a couple of small optimisations to the list I had at the end of the last report, but it’s largely unchanged, being as follows: