I placed second at the liberty open playing leagues of Votann and was very happy with my performance and winning my ticket to NOVA!!

LIST: “Both Hit, Both Crit”

Iron master 4x5 warrior (hylas) 3 fort (Beamer) 2 sag (hylas) 3x5 berserks (hammer) 3x3 bikes 10 yaegirs 6 Gravkyn

Sag 1- 5 warrior Sag 2- 5 warrior Fort 1- 1x5 berserks Fort 2- 2x5 Berserks Fort 3- empty (reserved) 6 tkyn/IM (reserved)

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I will preface that I always start an empty land fort and 6 TKYN in reserves

Game 1: Sisters Hallowed Martyrs (Win: 92-70) TAKE AND HOLD

I focused on primary denial and pre-measuring everywhere Vahl and friends could go because they was biggest threat to my biggest assets. But my main focus was hold to objectives and harass their natural expansion because I had already enough threats near the center so they did not want to push in that direction. Bikes also played a huge role in this match up since they can pick up a five man of sister’s pretty reliably and they can hunt them down as well. Tkyn were dropped on their natural expansion on turn three because that was the direction that Vahl was going (which he has just reinforced with 2 castigators) which forced him to go to the center instead where I had 3×5 berserk and two forts waiting. (Lost 1 fort)

Game 2: GSC Host of Ascension (Win: 90-54) PURGE THE FOE

This was probably the most optimal mission for me to play against GSC because it was purge the foe, bikes also played a huge role in this game as well with tkyn picking up 2x20 hybrids, and forcing the third to shoot at them, they probably did the most. But the logic I used most was don’t shoot at something unless you were guaranteed to neuter it (because you don’t want units jumping around) and to pick up as many smaller units as you can first before engaging the bricks because it forces them to spend their points early on or lose the units forever before dedicating their points to a 20 man. (Lost 0 forts)

Game 3: Knights Noble Lance (Win: 87-82) LINCHPIN

I did my standard fixed secondaries and took bring it down/assassinate. (3 big and 3 little with 2 immolators + assassin) I think more times than not, It is the right way for us to play against knights of this split because we can effectively kill them since we can judge their big three and maybe an initial scoring piece for early game CP off the rip. But he played Cagey only slowly feeding me one knight per turn instead of forcing them all out there. So that allowed me to draw a Challenger card that gave me advance and charge with berserkers to close out the game. The tkyn played more of a threat than anything keeping him away from table edges and forcing himself to be more centralized. (Lost 0 Forts)

Game 4: Eldar Warhost (Win: 93-77) SCORCHED EARTH

This was the most uneventful game ever, we both were afraid of losing our most valuable assets (3 forts vs 2x10 Firedragons) so we caged up scoring 10 points a piece I was able to allocate more to his side of the board (me having more units) and push him off and bait him out more than he could to me. But the game came down to him, needing to push me off the objectives on turn 3 to secure himself more primary on the final turns to wrap me up And deny me an extra 5-15 points. But they failed 2 crucial charges which allowed me to drop tkyn near their home and force him to spend 2 turns dealing with that brick and berserks got a good charge off on a wave serpent, forcing fire dragons to footslog for the final turns. (Lost 1 fort)

Game 5: SW Saga of the Beastslayer (Win: 92-75) TERRAFORM

I think this was my most favorable matchup (including Knights) that I could have played the entire event because most points were put into five units that were four wounds apiece so between bikes and forts I was able to pick up tcav and Wolf guard terminators pretty effectively. I was also able to walk on Tkyn with a pocket secured by bikes the previous turn and pick up two Lancer‘s and a vindicator between the turn 2-4. (Lost 1 Fort)

5-0 AT LIBERTY OPEN GT